put it we had been circling and circling for a long time. but. in other words the boat was driven not by a specialist that's true. so the passenger had been trained but not the crew where the scary thought was that was right and i'd like to ask this the british and italian press reported develop to the edge of the terms by a rich person just like in the movie titanic seats in the lifeboats and in particular rich russian man you have just. as i have a point here could you confirm and enjoy this more super did you see something of the kind you have with them i pondered a lot about that as for us we did not see that what is more from the point of common sense is hardly possible at all it is possible in the concrete to explain why such rumors appear so when. the situation was very stressful not only for us but for the inhabitants of their own the jugular some may have seen something maybe

some old stories got added and the legend was created one should bear in mind that this cruise was mostly for economy class best interests there were no particular reach russians on this ship the. same as no italian or english it was all rather middle class. yes there were families with children nothing like a man with five mistresses nothing of the kind nobody went on a spending spree i could not see any lady in the evening dress i had seen all the russians one after the other their most fancy dress was a black cocktail dress. no rolex watches nearly nobody had cash actually and there was no need for it only cards were used right. which i feel it is even if there was a possibility of bribing someone it would have created quite a problem just imagine i thousand passengers on the deck. several shops five to

six crew how do you imagine paying a bribe. how would you reach a person elbowing your way through. the very wish to save oneself even for money is quite understandable why not save oneself one's wife and children the other thing is that it was technically impossible actually i think it's impossible. to tell you we would have just been trampled the last people i know all behaved quite decently in our own group three girls and one japanese gentleman as we call him between us. what we observed was quite the opposite of what i do. believe is this one of them confessed in the whisper she could not swim at all. on me they let those people they thought needed in vacation first of all forward before them. the elderly people children. there

was a pregnant woman and when they told me that they let the pregnant woman go first i stopped being aware of the event and it took me several seconds to ponder as to why it had not occurred to me that i was not as good as a should being as it turned out it did not occur to me. as a room and your instincts mind to be stronger than your thoughts it happens and it's generally correct me being well we took care of an elderly couple aged about eighty from germany i think a very charming couple they were sitting and embracing each other very quietly and modestly and they went through this trouble bravely and the elderly couple holding each other while facing the catastrophe this also reminds me of a scene from titanic and it's what you what they were really very few was similarities this time it was very different i'm not sure if this would help you sleep better but they say these two catastrophes were so. much alike that had to

have been further away from the shore and in colder waters the consequences would be much worse than the titanic did you know that i'm inclined to believe that the water was warm into the nature of the rupture and other factors were very similar well regarding the saw as can the quarter was more than twenty times larger than titanic and the rescue wasn't organized at all whereas on titanic it was from what i know as you've mentioned you've left all your belongings behind in your cabin the other passengers trying to recover the things we saw one individual managed to bring his small willy back to the lifeboat by the at that point i couldn't even think about it. as my head was taking by other issues but you're not actually allowed to do this all russian tourists were left with absolutely no belongings at all we had no cash no ideas and so is this forbidding to take your luggage when being rescued are all people incapable of thinking about it in these situations did

you think about running back to get your luggage. there weren't any instructions given at all passengers were completely unaware of the real state of affairs like how dangerous it was all when they have occasion would start i think passengers demonstrated a lot of sensibility when they got out to the deck. even if they wanted to go back and get their belongings or i.d.'s my husband suggested that maybe we should run quickly and get our stuff money and so on but i was totally against it. so you left without any i.d.'s our i.d.'s were taken away from us immediately and they can italy no understand when we got aboard oh so they took away your passports to give them back at the end of your cruise yes there is an unspoken rule regarding tourists from former soviet republics to take away international passports when they board cruise liners which i actually find quite humiliating. why do they do it

perhaps the europeans are afraid of a large inflow of russian tourists but they aren't afraid of all durance for instance as you've already made there what else what if we decided to state somewhere with our passports in hand only see they wanted to ensure you didn't get off the boat somewhere so this way you could only get off with a migration card in hand so no you're waiting to get your postpones back from the telly in company now we don't we went to the consulate where they issued us special papers so that we could return from there on our passports became invalid so they can just keep them now we are using our passports waste means having to pay a lot of money and all of running around getting different papers together it's a complicated process in our country it's. a right. in your view among the passengers spend several hours in this listing boat where there's some people who are doomed to die or do you thing that everybody could have been rescued irregular speaking. i don't understand how they could not have rescued

everyone considering the liner saying no further than half a kilometer from land in the warm weather and it didn't seem completely in the heart of europe there must have been enough lifeboats for everyone had the rescue operation been a twist somewhat organized or some instructions this way i believe we would not have lost anyone in this as a former sailor what do you think most of happened to those who died. well you know firstly. when they began reporting about some failures over the intercom. they only said they had some generator related problems. we should means the ship was on the control. secondly there were

electric failures after the crash. of some of the microscope. and cabin safes and doors were blocked automatically. not all cabins had two windows or balconies by the way. and some cabins located on the inside part. had doors only. so when the doors were locked these people got trapped in the well you know some probably couldn't open their doors. also life then can be tricky they can save your life or cause death. and in many cases you have to dive down under them in order to get out.

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free. free bird video for your media project free video gogarty dot com. russia slams the new u.n. draft resolution on syria as unacceptable saying it's targeting regime change and paves the way for possible foreign intervention. protesters in poland vowed to continue fighting the international and he web piracy act that they say brings internet censorship under the guise of protecting copyright. and yet another blow to the struggling euro zone as the credit ratings of five nations are caught the spy price is tackling optimism at the world economic forum in davos.

watching our show you live from moscow where it's four pm on me so now away with our top story this hour the russians have no two a new u.n. resolution on syria drafted by the e.u. and arab states that warns of quote further action if damascus fails to comply with the document but moscow says that's unacceptable but it's ready to continue talks on ending the syrian crisis has been following the latest round at the u.n. security council how european arab draft resolution was circulated to the u.n. security council members in which it calls for the syrian president bashar al assad to transfer power to his deputy while a unity government is formed as prepared for a new election. cording to reports this draft text calls for a political transition in syria it also says the security council could quote

adopt further measures if syria does not comply with the terms of the resolution we do know that the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin expressed. deep disappointment with the draft indicating that he does not believe that the international community should impose an outside solution on syria in terms of the conflict taking place there and he also rejected the idea of an arms embargo or the use of force speaking imposed on syria because we should keep in mind that if this text includes that the security council could adopt further measures if syria does not comply with what the security council wants we don't know what those further measures could be you have countries such as russia china india brazil that believe that there is

a conflict that two sides are involved in syria and both of those parties should be addressed now russia has drafted resolution on syria but according to reports and according to what members told me it does not include the cohesive or punitive measures against syria that western countries are looking for and that's where you have a difference of opinions but this story will continue next week because from what we're told the security council will meet to discuss the text of this draft resolution. well antiwar activist don de bar says it's nato behavior in libya that makes countries like russia and china block any resolution on syria that implies using military force. we saw how far they would go with libya they carried on a seven month massive bombing campaign that reduced the infrastructure of that country to rubble practically which had been built up only in the last forty years and they installed

a group of thugs that are so greedy that they're killing each other now that the government has been swept out of the way there by nato the thing that the western powers want to see in this region is dischord they obviously cannot occupy these territories after they conquer them if you look to iraq and afghanistan you can see that that's the case but as long as the people on the ground are busy killing each other the united states can secure oil or in the case of syria for example the port at sardis which would keep russia out of the mediterranean and whatever other objectives they have. but more than one hundred people are thought to have been killed in clashes between syrian security forces and opposition groups in the past two days artists are further has been to an area near damascus which was recently taken over by rebel fighters and she reports although the opposition is united against the regime there polls apart on their methods a clear message from the protestors this damascus as

a funeral takes place. we don't want killing we don't want to. see. children killing we don't read them we don't know what we will do you. live. here with this and this is going to all come to us so now they feel safety is being provided by the free syrian army the guerilla body made up of mainly army defectors who say its presence here has enabled protests like these to go ahead. ever shape the military cannot come in anymore because the free syrian army is protecting us we support the free syrian army and we support. the former army colonel heads the f.s.a. from the brute he's been steadfast from the start and his calls the foreign military intervention of his safe are voided partnerships with any other opposition elements he sees defense significant inside the country and the national khuda

nation council were at the leading opposition groups remains adamant that foreign military intervention would make an already to tear erasing situation even worse while the security position has caused some areas to get out of control and it seems that there is a war between two groups outside the country and it's the syrian national council pitching itself as the main opposition but it too has failed to unify the many different opposition factions and this lack of unity has hampered the quote includes the direct u.n. involvement. russia and china remain firmly opposed to a resolution that would leave the door open to foreign military intervention and in a far cry from previous coups that dialogue qatar and saudi arabia now talk to the opposition and leave this to cost even more lives to say many nice things to find rebel groups who have to work with the other side working with the other side uses

them to. the f.s.a. say they have little choice but to use weaponry to protect civilians. who have this main square here in tone with the people who come out and protest. for the security forces trying to come in but we protect them but this is what's happening here but it remains a precarious situation in a moment of confusion the crowd gets nervous and starts to run at one point gunshots still says where they come from or from who i know you could see a lot of confusion here on the face even if you're reading in a different direction not exactly sure what's going on that really you know as safe situations very right now and all of this happening just fifteen minutes from the city center is just a day before it's egypt where government demonstrations so position can show continues to gain ground the divisions within the country have never been clearer

oh. my god. oh my god yeah. starr is keeping her blog updated at r.t. dot com where she's posting extensively on the situation in syria and there you're also find images from various parts of the country that haven't made it to air we have the latest pictures but so people rallying in new york to mask. down the official to have location. pulled talk from the top story. the job. life on the. video on demand. says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. in other news polish protesters are refusing to give up the fight over the

anti web piracy pact their countries signed up to more demos are planned against act the multinational deal force in secrecy that activists say allows firms to censor the internet and e.u. official resigned over the treaty which was signed by twenty two european countries this week and let's say you're sensitive reports from warsaw. a passer by from england confused seems on friday in central warsaw with the filming of a sequel for the hollywood movie before. judging from the number of masked men and cameras such resemblance was tangible the film character forceful revolution these people are also standing for change to stop the anti-cancer free trade agreement act from becoming law in poland minus fifteen degrees centigrade is definitely not an excuse for thousands who gathered in central warsaw friday protests culminates a week of numerous mass rallies across the world with people protesting against the internet censorship act it may have a positive aim to protect intellectual property but these protesters fear it will

be used to police the web and take harmless websites offline. engineer martin says he's working under threat because of actors obscurity with the international backed worked out in complete secrecy issues with. first of all. the. possibility of illegally censoring information the government. is very unclear the negotiations have lost since two thousand and four and nobody's been told anything unlike the week's massive anti active protests in poland friday's showdown had clear political overtones while the majority of the crowd was voicing no to the treaty a large chunk was directing their anger at the government experts saying the scale of public dissent. managed to make war so nervous the government was promoting

itself as being modern as. people probably internet and people trying to keep them accountable so when they discovered that the government is supporting something like that it was purely political no we don't believe this but this considers the harm government's steadily. point of view. and the and know that they might not ratify and they will have a second fault so after a week of ignorance i think suddenly they realize that the protests are much deeper much broader and. to become law in poland needs the approval of the polish and european parliament nobody knows for sure how long this might take but protesters say they will continue piling the pressure on the authorities to stop this happening i think it came as a complete shock nobody expected nobody expected. there would be a lot of. prime

minister has been adamant warsaw would not give in to blackmail in the streets but what was initially a quiet social protest has become politically broader with every rally. in both the numbers present and the level of aggression lexy russia. reporting from warsaw in poland. now european liberty campaign. believes that the polish government should have listened to the public because they're the web's real stakeholders. the way it is. it's my right leg the basic freedom and your word that. you were there without really touching the goodbye elaine of the internet and though the

internet providers there are companies which are taking advantage of. the internet and the first thing we should be aware of the. people are feeling that they were keep that by the government and that something is wrong that there were no contemplation and there was no possibility of good debate before. for the signature of the document there were many other counties in the region. man who have the internet and every time people have the impression that the government is taking that without the banks and without. you there now and the internet users here with are to just have how even the winter chills don't stop global warming getting people hot under the collar. they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally and the world we live in the resident ass people

in new york what they would sacrifice to save the planet. and we scared out of her so she has the far scares but the slow through their paces for the first time before they welcome the winter olympics find us in three years time. the ratings firms keep raining the blows on the beleaguered euro zone now six has downgraded five countries they include spain and italy which are the big worries because of their size if they fall ill leaders in case financier's are struggling to find a remedy to the debt crisis that the annual world economic forum or leicester has more from davos. we're going in today for davos at the world economic forum and today we'll hear from a number of economists and kind of thinkers about where the global economy is headed we'll have to see how much attention the eurozone captures though because it really has overshadowed a lot of other things that happened on the official and unofficial agenda here at davos we heard from a number of euro zone finance ministers and e.u.

officials speaking with a lot of optimism about the euro zone solution saying they believe the fiscal compact will be reached with tighter fiscal discipline in that this will really help the debt crisis that the eurozone is dealing with they also said that greek bond holders will come to an agreement on haircuts for greek debt by this weekend to hopefully presumably avoid default which is definitely not a certain thing at all and that d.-day for greece is march twentieth after that optimism which was kind of the headline coming out of that we hasn't seen fitch the credit ratings agency downgrade by e.u. nations this includes italy and spain which are two of the economies that are very much of the biggest concern when you're talking about the eurozone debt crisis because they are much larger economies than greece they're both dealing with problems of their debt and of the funding of their debt which we've seen a lot of discussion here at davos over what is the best way to deal with we know george soros has his own plan i don't know if european union leaders are calling him now to take another look at it after these downgrades that something will have to watch for today when the chief economic or respondent from the british newspaper

the independent believes greece has already some come to default in reality. i don't think you have to be a whiz at math to figure out that it's not just the indebtedness of some countries but also the euro the common currency is a single currency for an area where some countries need a devaluation i don't know whether technically greece is going to be in default or not but if you'll read. thirty or forty cents in the euro your day and the write down is going to something like that could be for you to say forty if you're lucky thirty if you're unlucky kid any rational six b. is the country defaulting on its debts and whether technically that is or whether it take it seems to me to be not that relevant because once you deal with greece ok

you try and have to put a far wall behind that but people may say look if i'm not going to get my money back on greece why should i learn to portugal why should i learn to spell why should i learn to italy. next hour max and say see take a swipe at the politicians and bankers who are doing enough to reassure the markets and the people that recovery is around the corner. the governor of the bank of england urged against despair because all crises come to an and eventually he says he looks pretty miserable doesn't think he should talk like usually very telling people don't despair you don't look like you're about to top yourself you tried to have a smile and butter like clown nose on really like a burner he's usually got the clown those are always delivering that economic numbers verve and kangas got that british guy in the bag have blitzed general luck which is not fooling anybody and of course the u.k. economy is contracting why because that.