the hunt is still on going for any possible survivors the count but the emergencies ministry has set up behind me next to the ball go on a small beach here small boats keep coming to and from this site and they're part of the largest search effort this is screening the area where the ball carrier pleasure cruise sank to try and find any people still in the water although that looks looking increasingly unlikely now or scattered on some of the small islands around where the boat sank we heard from one of their spokesman earlier about what they found when they reached the scene of the sunken pleasure cruise a. lot of the boats whole we could for an answer but unfortunately there was not the flashlights and the cargo holds and the restrooms. there. the scene that unfolded yesterday was one of a quiet sunday afternoon river cruise along the volga many many people do this is very popular among tourists in the summer to travel along the volga in pleasure cruises upstream with its final destination there were many children on board the ship it seems maybe a third of the passengers. on board

emergencies ministry wants to see a report on his desk as soon as possible from from his stuff on the investigative committee here in russia of looking into what caused this terrible tragedy now it's very early stages and it's in its very early stages this investigation as you can imagine but they're saying that from their preliminary. viewpoint task it seems that a technical problem could have been the cause of this however they aren't ruling anything out just yet. an investigation into the tragedy is underway all possibilities are being examined but it has been determined that the ship was already listing to the right when it left the port of cars on the station it's possible technical failure could have caused the accident but i'd like to stress other versions are also being looked at paperwork from the company that operated the ship is also being examined with which what they're going to do. well one of those of the options that is being looked on is the it's over crowding on board edge led to this disaster the ship itself was registered to carry one hundred twenty people believe

when you know the emergencies ministry has created a special office to investigate the reasons behind the incident the rescue mission is underway and will continue throughout the night rebalanced which people may have been able to swing too far from where the bullets wind. currents are making the situation increasingly difficult because people may have been swept several kilometers away with them but. just to recap on the events of the last few hours we had led to the place some kind of on t.p.m. mosque a tight end of the emergencies ministry dispatched a rescue team helicopters into is to get to the saying they managed to take the seventy seven people one person beside the contented and they were put on to. play which as we heard has now arrived in his son as they had managed to reach a state people we can head the latest on the emergencies ministry. rescue teams left for the scene as soon as reports came in all those who were immediately rescued were taken to another ship that was standing close by writing because some people. managed to swim towards nearby islands who are now searc

of the emergencies ministry of the moment is focusing on trying to find people and and if he has to say to them unfortunately there is very little we can say we're just going to have to try and find these people and we'll let you know when we know so as you said carry a very traumatic experience for them but to find out what's happened to these people what's happened to the boat itself and to the fate of many people's loved ones unfortunately a lot of people here are just a. i have to wait. kate on live at the sea thank you for that. of course i will keep you updated on the rescue operation throughout the day here at r.t. business news that is next. thanks gary hello and welcome to business starting thanks for joining us international raceway just if it says it could downgrade a number of russian state companies after privatization in the still affects only the ones where the state share will go below fifty percent and held out in front of me to be careful so says the possible downgrade will not change investor sentiment towards privatization investors are dealing with russia

when you know the emergency ministry has created a special office to investigate the reasons behind the incident of the rescue mission is underway and will continue throughout the night. to which people may have been able to swim too far from where the bullets went down but soon currents are making to search mission increasingly difficult because people may have been swept several kilometers away with the. other has been one confirmed dead and we said the seventy six people who survived they've all been picked up by the rescue operation that was dispatched when the dates they were put on to possibly this has continued on take a sign of those the original destination of the bulgaria possum just ship that sank and we can hear from the emergencies ministry about that. curfew when your rescue teams left for the scene as soon as reports came in from all those who were immediately rescued were taken to another ship that was standing close by but it's not the right thing because on some people managed to swim towards nearby islands who are now searching for the other one woman has died another

because there were so many of those children in one place very few of them were able to get out emergencies ministry says probably one of them. there's also been allegations that have swirled around this it's difficult to corroborate these at the moment some people some survivors witnesses have said that the emergency exits were blocked on the ship and one staff member on the ship who wanted to remain anonymous has said that they informed because it's in of the ship that one of its engines wasn't working when it set off the start of the of his journey and that it was leaning slightly to the right and he decided that wasn't a real threat and pushed on with the journey so there are various allegations swirling around sad to say that none of those are going to do anything to help the grief and the trauma of these people waiting for any news of their loved ones. from a summer dream to a nightmare in a matter of minutes. our child remained on that boat. it was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruiser area run into difficulties on the volga catastrophe came swiftly as you think of it didn't peopl

but we've just heard from the emergencies ministry and they've updated us on the latest information now the figures of the passengers a hundred eighty eight passengers were on board that ship when it sank we know that seventy seven including the one person who saw the confirmed dead were rescued by the initial rescue team sent up by the emergency ministry and they were put on to a posse who then took them on to the destination of the sunk ship of kids and now they've now landed that but of course more than one hundred people still in the water as the divers desperately attend to locate them and we've heard the actually searching the boat itself because there's some possibility that perhaps there are areas of that boat were enough i would have managed to be contained for them to still have survived down there so we can hear the latest information that the emergencies ministry gave us now.

a lot of conflicting reports on the numbers involved in the latest figures we have in the emergencies ministry of that there were one hundred eighty eight passengers on board that flight increase and the early numbers of people to that we know as you said one person has been burns to died and number of people have been injured they've managed to pull more than eighty people out from the most of the emergencies ministry his still more than one hundred of those passengers unaccounted for and of course the rescue operation ongoing at the neighborhood we know that there was a posse that managed to pick up a lot of days initial passing just the women he was content that was said to pull it initially when that they ran into trouble and a helicopter rescue base will say dispatched along with divers now the emergencies ministry has just i dispatched another plane with another large number of rescues to head down to that state because i want very concerned to find those missing people establish exactly what happened and get them out. this is a boat of course that knew those waters well isn't it one of

the country's emergencies ministry even forcing more and more deaths by the hour it seems that there is a great chance at this point if aid that more people will be saved i guess in prisons also ordered to check up on all boats served vessels of such finds to make sure this situation does not repeat itself and he names is one of the. reasons for the ship to sing was because it was really old again see this sailing in nine hundred fifty five that means over fifty five years old sailing without corporate check ups in the days following and tell you what investigators considering in finding out how this disaster happened. both. the main reason being the ship was really old but it's a combination of things that could have legs for the ship to sink and some reports are saying that the vessel didn't have a license to transport passengers in the first place other reports are saying that all the capacity of picasso's was only one hundred and twenty feet well if this was carrying over two hundred or. so some of the same that one the whole bit engines over the ship was broken and even though t

was supposed to hold one hundred forty as eighty of those have been rescued we spoke to the emergencies ministry earlier which is coordinating efforts here but they said the prospect of finding other people survivors is no plea. as a sweep in the bottom of the ripper both been searched my symptoms and extra exam have closer but there is merit badge as ability the waves are quite high and this is also making the one of the difficult part in toss specialist there is almost no chance of finding any more survivors still both banks and the ship will be trapped divers have been working around the clock in shifts on a special platform above where the ship lays on the riverbed to try to explore the ship and to extract the bodies from there are now approaching one particular room in the ship the play room where lots of children went to play and indeed between thirty and fifty children were thought to be there just minutes before the the boat began to sink they're going to try and possibly raise the ship as well i think you about bringing special craft from involved grass for this to the process of raisin

this world the accident and the number of victims is increasing by the hour as the russian emergencies ministry for its there is less and less chance or if there's any just see those people who are on the boat. i want the prosecutor general's office to check the compliance with the political transport regulations by the owners of that vessel and state officials that certified it is suitable for cruising and generally everyone related to the organization of this cruise especially considering the fact there was so many children on board the ship the results of that investigation should be summed up and not only in relation to this specific catastrophe but in relation to all vessels of this class and other classes as well a number of decrypted barges cruising along our waterways is enormous and the fact that we were lucky before yesterday doesn't mean anything like that could have happened it did happen and with the most grave consequences. russian president dmitry medvedev believes that one of the main reasons that could have caused this incident was the fact that the boat was really always and o

so they had managed to achieve these people we can hit the lakes from the emergencies ministry. rescue teams left for the scene as soon as reports came over those who were immediately rescued were taken to another ship that was standing close by but it's now arrived to because. some people managed to swim towards nearby island who are now searching for the other one woman has died another man is in hospital with injuries so we do seven people have been saved we're going to. know if i actually heard the likelihood of people being able to swim to the shore tool say is island is thinking less and less probable is very strong currents in the area of the volga and it would be a long distance to swim now the beta stuff was headed friend a ton of both to the people who survived being taken it was a two day trip it was going to have a turning focus and the focus of an incredibly popular area this time of year the tourist to take these kind of boats and we've heard from present day that the investigation has been launched the emergencies ministry has set up a special department to look i

for sinking the ship in twenty meter deep water the emergencies ministry's special investigations center into the incident double deck a ship called the bow garia was built in one hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia well these are the first images of the rescue which we're getting here at r.t. itself and in little to see the boat itself after it sank in the deep water i just mentioned has to say since we get more details we will keep you posted. the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering with rubber and it's a massacre is likely to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague marriage angrily disrupted his second hearing berating judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but many serbs feel the notorious general's trial will not bring full justice artie's catarina as it ever explains more. the quiet little town of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina looks it till it you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and a church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixteen years ago the en

people have been rescued quite a large numbers that are attacked out here more details from the emergencies ministry officials can tell us more on the subject. eighty three people one person has died and to include missing. which i can assure them into where people might be found helicopters of the rescue workers drivers and fun of. going to a party. well we do know that there are a large number of people that hop invested quite a large number have been rescued because another vessel was passing by during the incident and they have managed to save most of the people who were on board at that point but like we mentioned earlier still a lot of people are unaccounted for and there have been conflicting reports about the exact number of people on board and the exact number of people who have been rescued at work or still missing at this point we do know that about ninety are still unaccounted for how we also know that the ship is a two passenger ferry which sank on the cold river while transferring passages from one stuff from one town on the river to another apparently there has been a thunderstorm and

well the arena we've been talking to some of the recovery authorities the emergencies ministry divers that have been going out hour after hour to a platform above the the sunken bowl daria three kilometers out from the bank in the volga river and they say and the emergencies ministry say that they're going to try and finish the recovery of bodies by the end of today that's obviously a very tricky process it's taken them a long time so far divers have had to be going inside the rooms inside the boat they've had to be working steadily through those in teams some divers going ahead to try and clear any wreckage tables and things that have fallen over as the boats as the boats sunk in any damage that may have happened and other divers then going in and extracting the bodies and bringing them to the surface so a very difficult process and also a very harrowing one for the relatives and survivors that have remained on the banks i'm sure you can see but behind me all the flower.

we are hearing though from the emergencies ministry that they say that it's very unlikely that any survivors any more survivors will be found the time being as she is speedy which the ship went down no doubt lead to the first so many people were trapped on board just three minutes we're hearing from when they they first realized they had a problem too to the ship making its way to the bottom of the fold and not enough time for people to go to lower my fault a lot of the time people put life jackets on. the all these things coming together leading to this really have to strike at a stop loss of life. away or are we reestablished our connection with tom barton live at the search scene here in tatarstan good to have you with us so twenty four hours later i guess safe to say now that this is a recovery rather than a rescue operation tell us more about. it is now more of a recovery operation done a rescue operation we've been talking to the emergencies ministry officials here at their base camp on the bank of the volga the closest point to where the boat sank and they have shown videos that have

the emergencies ministry are telling us now that the the chances of finding any more survivors. very very slim. although with one hundred divers have been sweeping the bottom there with us throughout the night although there is very bad visibility where the ship sank on the night that she was being searched my sister's index to examine closely what it was land on this right side the waves are quite high and this is also making the world difficult just because i'm tossing nationalist there's almost no chance of finding an imposter pointless with him still both france and the ship will be transferred to a. tragedy of this scale of course raises questions at the the highest levels of government president dmitri made. for a call for a full investigation to determine what went on the emergency minister here in russia who is demanding reports on his desk as soon as possible to find out what happened but the interim head of the region where this occurred the interim head of the republic of todd to stun has said that even though chances are slim of finding anybody still alive they are a

hundred fifty people on board vessel have been rescued but the fate of the others remain unknown emergencies ministry has deployed teams to the scene and effort to save those who are missing and it's not known how the vessel got into trouble and sank and of course we'll bring you more information when we get it. the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering the. likely to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague russia cannot it shankly disrupted his second hearing erasing judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but many said to fill the notorious general's trial will not bring forward just as . explaining. liquid little town of slippery meets in bosnia and herzegovina looks a delicate you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and a church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixty years ago the entire region was twenty part by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war and seventy became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces

some of the thirty children are believed to have been locked before the ship went down in emergencies ministry says there is now little hope of finding any other survivors tuesday has been declared a day of national mourning the president made about it has ordered an investigation into why the ship sank saying that decrepit vessels shouldn't still be cruising the country's waterways at all investigative committee believes a technical critical technical failure is to blame for the disaster are to is following developments as they unfold we'll keep you updated throughout the day and of course you can also find updates throughout the day on our comprehensive coverage of the volga river tragedy at our tea dot com outline you can find with many children on board our report on the lucky escape for some but also those who didn't stand a chance after being pulled and trapped underwater within minutes plus. our video reports and footage from the rescue and recovery also online on our you tube channel. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. of. the day. we'll keep you up

remain out of reach more than one hundred bodies many of them children remain trapped inside emergencies ministry says there is now little hope of finding anyone else alive whose day has been declared a national day of mourning president medvedev has ordered an investigation into why the ship sank saying that the credit vessels shouldn't be still cruising the country's waterways at all investigative committee believes a critical technical failure is to blame for the catastrophe r.t. is following developments as they unfold and we'll keep you fully informed as they develop. turning now to the other main news on r t trouble brewing for italy as the country edges closer to becoming the fourth european nation in need of a battle out its debt is surging past earnings raising fears over whether italian banks can pass the e.u. stress test that's forcing a borrowing costs senior officials will talk later on monday but since italy's one of the bigger players on the continent saving it won't come cheap for more on this hundred by johan van overtveldt in brussels he's the editor in chief of belgium's leadin

fluctuating quite slow we do know that it's around one hundred eighty people the numbers from the emergencies ministry around one hundred eighty eight on the boats . are still yet to be absolutely confirmed as he says it's like a one hundred people still in this ward says the fogel river itself an incredibly popular tourist area for people to travel in these type of basis is a two day trip from the town of boulder. i was going there and but what it sank it still around fifty miles from now there was some people helping that perhaps some of these people who ended up in the water could have perhaps wanted to show some to nearby islands that we have heard that the currents are extremely strong and that water still meet conditions today a local correspondents been told to stay to give us more information. the rescue mission is underway and will continue throughout the night. to which people may have been able to swim too far from where the bullets went down currents are making to search mission increasingly difficult because people may have been swept several kilometers away with a. does the rescue operat

we are hearing though from the emergencies ministry they say that it's very unlikely that any survivors any more survivors will be found at the time being of the sea speedy which the ship went down to the front so many people were trapped on board just three minutes we're hearing from when they they first realized they had a problem too to the ship making its way to the bottom all the time for people to my folks not of the time people but life jackets on and mrs levy all these things coming together in meetings he was really catastrophic kind of stuff of loss of life. and with tom barton live at the search scene here in tatarstan good to have you with us so twenty four hours later if. this is a recovery rather than a rescue operation tell us more about. it is now more of a recovery operation than a rescue operation we've been talking to the emergencies ministry officials here at that base camp on the bank of the volga. point to where the boat sank and they have shown a video taken by their teams of divers that have been going down to the boat very graphic videos showing those divers exp

president the data saying that an investigation of law and the emergencies ministry is does that others that a department to do with that now the plates operated picked up we can hear from them in a second but we have heard that the basis with the capacity to date is eight hundred forty people the high capacity full as we've heard is sort of one hundred eighty eight passengers on board so that's certainly something that's going to be that's out. right now that'll sank into two minutes the crew that was working in timely notice water coming in through the region was a tragic case when john quickly we were surveying the area where the crews are sank couldn't find any survivors it was only it will have to see i like to say that over . and should have been properly maintained. now the boat is self was actually very very recently checked haven given the go ahead to be able to stay on the water so that they get is going to be something that's going to need to give first aid to a large number of the passengers on board as he said with a one hundred still missing children. of course people are

what we've just heard from the emergencies ministry and they've updated us on the latest and they should now the biggest of the passengers hundred eighty eight passengers were on board that ship when it sank we know that seventy staff including the one person who saw the confirmed dead were rescued by the initial rescue team sent out by the emergency ministry and they were put on to a passing base they then took them on to the destination of the sunk ship of kids that now they've now landed but of course more than a hundred people still in the water as the divers. kate and we've heard they're actually searching the boat itself because there's some possibility that perhaps there are areas of that but were not that would have managed to be contained i think then to still have survived on that we can hear the latest information the images these ministry gave us now. rescue teams left for the scene as soon as reports came over those who were immediately rescued were taken to another ship that was standing close by but it's no right to cosign some people managed to swim towards nearby island

vessel but at least one woman is dead and that leaves three people unaccounted for and the emergency is ministry has deployed teams to the scene in the effort to save those who are missing at the moment and it's not yet known how the vessel got into trouble before sinking in twenty meter deep water so the double decker ship called the area was built in one nine hundred fifty five inches. on to some more of today's world news in brief now there has been violence in bangladesh show but trying to constitution to make the predominantly muslim regional secular police use tear gas to disperse angry islamist protesters at least fifty or forty injured. remains the fish the government has removed a colonel stating absolute faith and trust and. an israeli airstrike has destroyed a palestinian concrete fine tree in neighborhood east of gaza apparently in retaliation for a cross border target in true ports are scarce but it's thought one person may have been killed witnesses say planes that still circling about causing residents to panic and voice from the middle east diplomatic corps turned off to meet on

from the vessel but at least one woman has died has died and three others are missing the emergencies ministry has deployed teams to the scene an effort to save those who are missing and it's not yet know how the vessel got into trouble before same thing in twenty meter deep water the double deckers ship called the bulgaria it was built in one thousand nine hundred fifty five and truck . the former general accused of ordering the sure bring it so much like it to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague. angrily disrupted his second hearing the rating of judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present that many serbs feel the notorious general's trial will not bring forward trust is. explaining. liquid little plan of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina looks at village you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixty years ago the entire region was trying to partly ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war and seventy became infamous when the united nation

and lengthy process is going to be needed we were told just recently by a spokesman from the emergencies ministry it's going to take many days before they can begin to even raising start.

of the sinking we also know that at this point the rescue mission still continues russia's ministry of emergencies it is sending a special plane with divers and all their equipment on board in order to help by the to understand the public in searching for those people missing and possibly recovering bodies. all right many thanks indeed arena and of course we'll come back to some more developments later. in georgia was three high profile photographers have been charged with spying for moscow to release a claim that has video confessions to prove their guilt but skeptics say hail cycle me is on which hunt to score political points off he's tom daschle reports now on what's being seen as anti russian hype. georgia is on a spying roll and not for the first time this time the spotlight being shined on those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was that supposed it must but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia into the moscow has accused georgia of power kn

the emergency ministry has created a special office to investigate the reasons behind the incident the rescue mission is underway and will continue throughout the night. to which people may have been able to swim too far from where the bullets went down but soon currents are making to search mission increasingly difficult.

moment there's fifty three bodies that's have been recovered from the ship we spoke to the emergencies ministry earlier which is coordinating efforts here but they said the prospect of finding other people survivors is now bleak. just from all. of the divers a sweep in the bottom of the river the boats been searched by sectors and decks to examine is closer but there is very bad visibility the waves are quite high and this is also making the world difficult according to our special is there is almost no chance of finding any more survivors so both banks and the ship will be checked . divers have been working around the clock in shifts on a special platform above where the ship lays on the riverbed to try to explore the ship.

spokesman from the emergencies ministry it's going to take many days before they can begin to even start raising the ship that's going to come as a blow to all the investigators who were hoping for answers to come from the raising of the ship and all the relatives and survivors waiting on the bank for some news of the remaining fifteen bodies a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played with they the flowers and candles are testament to the children among those who drowned when the pleasure boat to bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. we study together for a year she never had arguments with anyone 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. is that people were basically buried alive in giant metal 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 los