flowers and candles a testament to the children among those who drowned when the pleasure boat to bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. the most we study together for a year she never had arguments with a new one she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror didn't talk is that people were basically buried alive in anti-matter coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son in the strong current oil slick had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the deejay for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds. i survived because

a snap to cable has forced rescuers to restart their complicated operation to lift the massive bulgaria cruiser that sank a week ago claiming one hundred twenty nine lives. from the murdoch media scandal claims another scalp that has britain's top cop quits over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking the former news international chief executive and the news of the world editor rebecca brooks has also found herself once again dealing with police behind closed doors but this time under arrest before being released on bail. libyan rebels have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority in the country by the u.s. and thirty other countries but colonel gadhafi remains defiant in val's never to leave libya as nato airstrikes continue. and a transatlantic cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in a time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency . broadcasting live direct from moscow russia's capital this is archie and sean thomas glad to have you with us. russian emergency crews are to

over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made it out meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from a sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up. the divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question the cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an aging dangerous

much for this interview their ship was the first to come to the rescue of the sinking cruise ship bulgaria how did you get to know about the tragedy. yes we were the first to help we were sailing in the same direction as the bulgarian and we picked up on the radio just bits of conversations between some ships we couldn't make out what the ships were we heard them talk of seeing people overboard and speculating that it looked like a boat or a small ship had capsized once we heard that we put on more speed to get there faster and we did arrive at the tragedy site we saw terrible things and only when we realized that it was the pleasure garia that it sunk to the true scope of the disaster strike us. how long did it take it to get the same. i would say about five to ten minutes fifteen at most from the moment we heard the radio talk but it all happened very quickly as we were nearing the site we began to figure out how many people there were in the water although that was hard to do because there was a lot of rubble floating around as well it was very hard to pick out individual people from am

the bulgarian and i to be at nozzle of in the center of the main deck if he had worked with the bulgaria from the very beginning well back in the times when she was called ukraine he was the captain of the ukraine but old age prevented him from remaining in charge because it is an exhausting post the captain works very hard and it's too tiring for an old man but he realized this and decided to step down into the maze position because it is easier and better for the older man he did not want to leave the bulgaria ukraine his mother ship and i approached him and we chatted a bit we shook hands and i asked him mr nozzle are you tired of sailing at your age and he told me with this sadness you know that he's got nothing to do at home his wife had passed away a few years ago and all that was left for him as a consolation was his job but the most memorable thing he told me one that stuck in my mind was when he said he didn't want to sail this year was i don't know he just didn't feel like sailing this season and then this thing. happened and seen from the way you're attacking this story is no

snapped cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to live through the massive bulgaria cruiser ship that sank a week ago claiming one hundred twenty nine lives. the murdoch media phone hacking scandal claims another v.i.p. scalp as britain's top cop quits over police connections to journalists suspected of criminal behavior former news international chief executive and the news of the world editor rebecca brooks was arrested in the day in london. and libyan rebels have been recognized as a legitimate governing authority by the country by the u.s. and thirty other countries but perle khadafi remains defiant in val's never to leave libya as nato airstrikes continue. and a transatlantic a cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency . and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us russian emergency crews are to restart efforts to lift the wreck of a sunken cruiser which went down in the river volga last we

the bulgaria pleasure boat sank in just three minutes on sunday now some people are saying it should never be on the volga at all that they will stay out of the bog area plasters two hours before clocked in an awful condition that they have done a preview a chair going to show before etc i would never have been allowed to sail in the growing evidence seems to point to gross mismanagement on the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked in the n.c.a.a. exists. to work on it it was called the ukrainians more and more people complained so they just changed the name to the bulgaria the crew themselves always praise god for saving them every time they got off that ship. the vessel was first built in one nine hundred fifty five and as recently as last month was given official playrooms to sail. despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the truth of it was not worth my time they know this water coming in through the region was it such a pace the boat went down very quickly now president medvedev has ordered wide ranging checks saying there are many m

the slow process of raising the bulgaria has no start it up with it will come the potential for. but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ships plane or a group of children were gathered when the ship stopped. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shipping disasters. already. in an exclusive interview with r.t. the captain of the ship who helped to rescue most of the survivors from the bulgaria has described the horrific scene you can watch as dramatic account in twenty minutes here on our t.v. or on our website dot com. britain's most senior police officer has resigned the latest high profile casualty caught up in the news of the world phone hacking scandal which continues to escalate sir paul stephenson quit as metropolitan police commissioner following revelations he hired a former deputy editor of the paper who had been arrested by his own officers investigating illegal accessing of mobile phones and of corruption the former news of the world editor rebekah brooks was arrested and questioned for twe

the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential. but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ships plane or a group of children when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shipping disasters. did help to rescue seventy seven people. has been describing the horrific disaster so you. see you can see. right now at our website. reports on the intense search and recovery operation since the tragedy happened you can keep up to date. check out our you tube videos on the salvage mission. is he. you're watching the weekly here on artsy the former chief executive all british newspaper has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking bribery rebecca brooks is the tenth person to be detained in connection with the scandal that's in. the now defunct news of the world it comes as prime minister david cameron admits he's held more than twenty meetings with murdoch executives in the past year murdoch is now desperately trying to rescue new

a slow process of raising the bulgaria has now stopped it up with it will come the potential for sins but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's plane or a group of children who got it when the ship sank. just some of the young victims and what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shipping disasters on boston. i will bring you our full interview with a captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river and that's around time this time here on r.t. . it's also online are teed off palm where we've got updates on all the news we're covering as well as video reports and analysis and you can also follow us on our you tube channel as was facebook and twitter. it. is easy to see you. in the. britain's government is denying it was too close to or murdoch's media empire as it scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's mired in phone hacking claims records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings with murder executives in the past year verdict has fanned the past forty eight hours apologi

a slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place or a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go. was one of russia's worst and most affordable shipping disasters on bottom part. the captain of a ship who helped rescue seventy seven people from the sinking of the area has been describing the roof it disaster scene in an interview with r.t. and you can see it in full in just over an hour from now or find it online right now on our website or to come there we have all the latest reports of the intense search and recovery operations since the tragedy happened and you can keep up to date there and while you're online remember to check out our you choose channel or videos of the solve each mission. is. the. former c.e.o. of rupert murdoch's british newspaper operation has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and bribery rebecca brooks is the tenth person to be detained in connecti

before sunday's disaster over a hundred people are now officially confirmed from died after the bulgaria went down in just a matter of minutes in russia's republic of tatarstan twenty three of the bodies recovered so far but children at least one has the latest from the scene of russia's worst boating accident in decades and you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. at the moment the two hundred divers are working out in the volga three kilometers from the bank in shifts searching room by room inside the sunken belgariad pleasure cruiser and behind me the river ports the number of flowers and cuddly toys and candles that are piling up against the walls of the river port here continues to grow however there's also another feeling going here was well as of grief and that's of anger and questions increasingly growing as to the revelations that keep an emerging about the ship just earlier here at the river port a former captain off that ship the bulgaria came and reveals some alarming details about the ship's life before its last voyage. i became captain of the vessel in two

as tom barton reports the bulgaria is still under the water at the moment behind me you can probably see the tops of two enormous cranes that have been brought up from further downstream and they're attached to them or is it an enormous cable that goes down and is threaded underneath the ship and that cable is going to be used first of all at the moment divers and the crane teams are in the process of trying to write to the vulgare it was leaned on its left side and then once they'd write it they'll be able to start to lift it up a lot of the complications that divers are facing are do to the way under speeds that the ship sank. firstly the fact that it's on its left side will mean that divers will have to go under that left side as it's righted first of all to check that the ship is structurally sound to be rich to be raised and also to try and look for some of the fifteen bodies which are still to be accounted for which still haven't been found then once they start to raise the ship divers are going to have to first of all try and find essentially the hole that let in all the water

tell you how critical it was to the ship of what we did you happen to talk with the crew of the bulgaria before the boat sailed what were they thinking they consider the possibility that something might happen to the town you bought it that's unless they affected us with when the arabella dr bull got in with it was one of the plans stops but we occupied the second birth while the bulgaria was tied to the first one they were leaving at eleven o'clock and we stayed till took thirteen hundred hours when they were sailing off we had to maneuver in order to let the boat out and continue its cruise when we berth in the morning i went ashore and spotted the former captain of the boat and the current second mate of the bulgarian and i to me it was a little of in the center of the main deck he had worked with the bulgaria from the very beginning well back in the times when she was called ukraine he was the captain of the ukraine but old age prevented him from remaining in charge because it is an exhausting post the captain works very hard and it's too tiring for an old man but he realized this an