breaking news on r t r t obtains disturbing images of divers recovering bodies from the bottom of the volga river where a pleasure cruise sank on sunday. rescuers have almost given up hope of finding anyone alive join us here at the scene of the rescue operations in just a few minutes. but even with those close to her mind. this. is the relatives are devastated fearing they may never see their loved ones again. but russia's president orders those responsible for the tragedy to be punished saying the terrible disaster down to ancient and coves crews for the last. two pm in moscow i match reza you're watching breaking news here on r t divers have started bringing bodies to the surface of those killed when a pleasure cruise sank on the volga river sunday earlier they reported finding more than one hundred corpses trapped inside the ship party's town garden it's like with us at the search site hello tom so it's been twenty four hours now since the boat went down at this point can we say to the rescue operation that the operation has moved from a rescue effort to a recovery effort. i think that

the volga bank central russia. well investigators are now discovering why the aging boat was allowed to sail into water in seemingly poor condition and the search for the truth by the tragedy begins at the highest level artie's nataly north of kabul reports. this news reaction to this has been media to visit was outrage at those behind the desk all those innocent people first of all of course he's expressed his condolences to the family members of those who never left. those he's also held up an emergency meeting during this tragedy the order to set up a special state investigative committee that's going to look into what could have caused this tragedy and he's appointed the heads of the ministry of transportation of russia to be the house of this investigation it's a huge i want the prosecutor general's office to check for compliance with the political transport regulations by the owners of that vessel the state officials that certified it as suitable for cruising and generally everyone related to the organization

the volga bank central russia. and the telling of a cause in moscow for us the tally of the discovery of these young victims will now of course what it makes for poignancy to tomorrow's day of mourning and jealousy as well to find out what went so badly wrong here. first person this news reaction to this has been an immediate one to visit was outraged at those behind the desk there was innocent people first of all of course he's expressed his condolences to family members of those on the left. though he's also held up emergency meeting during this tragedy ordered to set up a special state investigative committee that's going to look into. this tragedy and he's appointed the heads of the ministry of transportation of russia to beat this investigation it's a. huge issue i want the prosecutor general's office to check the compliance with the clickable transport regulations by the owners of the vessel and state officials that certified it is suitable for cruising and generally everyone related to the organization of th

the volga bank central russia. when investigators discover why the aging boat was allowed to sail into open water in seemingly poor weather and the search for the truth behind the tragedy begins at the very highest level as that is no telling of a cover in moscow explains. russian president meets me they held the special meeting regarding this incident and he's met with the country's emergencies ministers to detroit police ordered to set up a special status committee to investigate into this case and the question transport minister is going to be there how the committee. i want the prosecutor general's office to check for compliance with a political transport regulations by the owners of the vessel the state officials that certified it is suitable for cruising and generally everyone related to the organization of this cruise especially considering the fact there were so many children on board the ship the results of an investigation should be summed up and not only in relation to this specific catastrophe but in re

of which the ship sunk was three kilometers from the nearest bank and the river the river there the volga is immensely why does around ten kilometers wide at that point so anyone in the water would have an awful job trying to get to the bank some of them may have sheltered on the small islands around the ship and waited there and the search is still ongoing for them but it's fear that many of the people especially children who got into the water may have drowned in the rivers strong currents soon after the this ship sank a lot of the people in the water were very dismayed to see two ships pass by them or not pick up anyone it's not quite known why that was yet but the third ship did arrive and did start to pick people up we can hear from someone who was on board but shit now. we were passing by and heard the loam man overboard we mediately started to lower the rescue boat onto the water to bulgaria saying so quickly it couldn't lower its own boat so we picked everybody up in the water it's a lucky coincidence who following the vulgarian because two other ships didn't even stop to help. us

the volga bank central russia. r.t. has been speaking with a director of mass transport here explain what might have caused the bug to sink so fast. it's hard to name the reasons for this sinking of the cruise and before we speak to all the witnesses i think there were a number of factors human error weather conditions we know there was a storm and other factors but i would rule out overcrowding because also of this time can carry up to four hundred fifty people and it doesn't matter whether there were one hundred fifty or two hundred on board the thing that is very striking is that the boat went down so quickly we haven't had events like this in the past fifty years at least so the fact that there was a storm and eliminator windows were probably open and led to eat possibly filling up with what are quite quickly especially when he leaned to one site the illuminatus would have been closed before it entered it is a war. there have been here are the main points so far over the boat tragedy divers have now recovered fifty

where the ship sank in middle of the volga volga very wide at the point that the ship sank is also a search ongoing for why the ship may have sunk and sunk so fast for those that have been rescued they've been taken to nearby hospitals where they are being treated by psychologists for any trauma they may have experienced before the moment the search is on for any survivors that have survived the sinking of this river cruise ship artie's martin reporting there from khazan and for more details on the search operation and of the latest from the russian emergencies ministry we go to our correspondent jacob greaves who is in moscow. officials are actually still looking for asses here a number of theories have already been put forward stress none of them of really be confirmed just yet prominent one is the fact that this. overloaded official capacity was one hundred forty people were. confirmed one hundred eighty five people were on board of the time of its sinking also the age of this vessel was fifty five years old and there are questions being raised whether or not it should have been u

breaking news here on r t rescuers reach a pleasure boat which sank in a matter of minutes in the volga river. to start one hundred people are feared dead divers report seeing many bodies trapped inside. distraught relatives and friends have gathered desperate for information about their loved ones traumatic accounts aren't given by survivors of reported many children being trapped inside the city or say. any theories are being investigated both went down the such terrible consequences of overcrowding outdated equipment or the recklessness of crude considered. of course more details on our top story in around fifteen minutes time now the sports news in the trash. i'll come here watching this worth of data on r t coming up in the program call by a qualifier for the copilot rekha playoffs off the beach in bolivia while lauzon see the miles costa rica's to secure the second spot in that group. ferarri deny red bull in the british grand prix allowing for nandrolone so to claim he is and the team's best with all the season at silverstone. and some major changes in the tour de france titles b

certainly glad to have you with us let's get right to our top story a cruise ship has sunk on the river volga in central russia leaving at least three people dead and more than one hundred others unaccounted for eight hundred eighty five people were on board many of them children when the ship foundered survivors were plucked from the water by a passing ship and taken to the republic's capital cazan for treatment our correspondent tom barton has more details. now tom what are the chances of finding people alive at this point. well sean the place on the river where the private banks downstream from the regional capital. it's very very remote. i think very wide stretch the river with strong currents and that's what we're heading along yesterday afternoon when it ran into difficulties and those difficulties became a catastrophe very very far just three minutes in fact it's not yet known why the very fast. and survivors that a reporter proposed bring her while it make it right from the rich we've been on the side of. programming strong currents for rescuers and. of course many people to drown i o

people are feared dead as rescuers reach a pleasure boat which sank in a matter of minutes in the volga river in the republic of tons of stuff. distressed relatives and friends are desperate for information about their loved ones i survived this give traumatic accounts of children trapped inside the sinking ship. overcrowding outdated equipment all recklessness of the crew all theories being investigated find out why the boat went down with such terrible consequences. broadcasting live from moscow you're watching r.t. one hundred people are missing feared dead after a pleasure boat sank on the volga river in russia's republic of tatarstan eighty people have so far been rescued six including a child have been confirmed dead rescuers are currently working at the scene tom barton is monitoring the situation and joins us live on the line now tom as we understand it the ship is lying at the bottom of the river do we know that rescuers have reached yet. maybe. next. ship went down from i was going. through it right. that record i have saved from my looking at the chart and find it to try and

the volga bank central russia. russia's investigative committee is now saying that mechanical failure could have caused the tragedy because of the efforts are underway at the site of disaster for the progress of the operation cost correspondent peter all of. this hope is fading real finding anyone else. well following me grisly discovery of those people who died while still trapped on the stricken bessel the process of removing their bodies from the bottom of the volga is underway however divers taking part in the operation struggling against strong winds strong currents and also the fact that the the vessel itself is leaking fuel all of these things making their job much harder. the emergencies ministry are telling us now though that the the chances of finding any more survivors is very very slim. absolutely. although with one hundred divers have been sweeping the bottom of the rivers throughout the night there is very bad visibility where the ship sank both been searched myself as an index to examine close. in on

going to end like rescue service by they don't accidentally it's fair that strong currents in the volga in a very remote region downstream from meant that so many people are fit to have drowned at the moment the search is ongoing has been for some hours now and will be ongoing to try and find any survivors it's thought that some of them may have made it to safety in islands around the ship sank in the middle of the volga volga very wide at the point that the ship sank was also a search on going for why the ship may have sunk and sunk so fast for those that have been rescued they've been taken to nearby hospitals where they have being treated by psychologists for any trauma they may have experienced before the moment the search is on for any survivors that have survived the sinking of this river cruise ship. tom barton reporting there from cazan and for more details on the search operation and of the latest from the russian emergencies ministry we go to our correspondent jacob greaves who's in moscow. officials are actually still looking for asses here a number of theories have already b

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 vulgar in pleasure cruises upstream was its final destination and then around two pm the ship got into difficulties and whatever happened of the ship actually sank within three minutes it was such a fast sinking that the chaos that ensued on board caused much of the problems that we see now. there were many children on board the ship it seems maybe a third of the passengers. on board the ship were children just hours just before the ship began to sank sink a group of about thirty children had gathered on one of the upper decks in the play room to hold either a party or gathered to play together in the play room a lot of eyewitnesses reported that those children because there were so many of them in various parts of the ship they struggled to get out and some of the eyewitnesses accounts have been extremely harrowing of families torn apart in the struggle to try and escape into the water not even time

is still really in full swing because there are many people missing now this is focusing along the volga river but also on those are islands nearby as well this is something as we mentioned by the emergencies minister. the main goal is to survey the sures divide them into sectors with people responsible for each other all the island should be checked for survivors and i want to see a final report only once we know for certain there's no one there to search likely to continue for some time now as scores still remain missing and of course the hope they can find more survivors. well that we can give you some more details about the ship itself the area was a double decker pleasure boat built in the former czechoslovakia in one hundred fifty five the ship was used for day trips along the volga river popular with tourists in the summer months attention to the age of the vessel with speculation it played a role in the tragedy of the ship gone in the dating for more than fifty years russia's transport ministry confirmed it had undergone routine checks in the june was deemed to be safe the engine

decades as the bodies of over one hundred people including many children have been recovered from the volga river rescues continue the search formal. the american missile shield over europe remains the main obstacle in russian u.s. relations since russia's foreign minister who's on a visit to washington will bring you live coverage as he and hillary clinton speak to the media a little later this hour. in the euro zone economic crisis deepens as debt is downgraded to junk status fueling fears the country needed a second bailout. but news and comment from around the world this is r.t. live in moscow twenty four hours a day. revelations keep coming about the ill fated voyage of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river as a former captain says it was technically dead long before sunday's disaster ever hundred people are now officially confirmed to have died after the bulgarian went down in just a matter of minutes in russia's republic of terror stan twenty three of the bodies recovered so far are children artie's tom barton has the latest from the scene and you may find some of the images

the volga bank central russia. investigators are working into whether safety regulations were seriously violated that led by a lead that then led to the tragedy on the volga artesian tell you know of aqaba has more on this from moscow he joins us live and i tell you the president quickly mobilized an investigation into this was to be made better of been saying. russian president need to be held a special meeting regarding this tragedy he was outraged he said that those responsible. the deaths of all those people the death toll is rising by the hour they will be found and punished he set up a special states commission to investigate into the case and the russian transport ministry is going to be heading that commission let's listen to what the best. i want the prosecutor general's office to check for compliance with the political transport regulations by the owners of the vessel the state officials that certified it as suitable for cruising and generally everyone related to the organization of this cruise especially

the volga bank central russia. now words come out that the pleasure boat was not licensed to carry passengers with russia's emergencies minister now saying that there were two hundred eight people aboard for more details on all those we go live to our people are standing by here in moscow so peter do we know anything about what could have caused this tragedy. while the investigation is underway to try and determine what resulted in this in this catastrophic loss of life on the follicle river. well president dmitri medvedev has been very vocal on the subject the tragedy of course of this scale reaching the highest levels of russian politics the president saying that. the companies that run these kind of pleasure cruises have a duty of care to their passengers to make sure that the boats in which they travel on all in good working order too old to dell suggestions that this boat which had actually been in the water since one thousand nine hundred fifty five may have been the that may have been one of the reasons that

the volga bank central russia. meanwhile its claim that two vessels passed a cruise ship as it was sinking did nothing to help a criminal case has now been launched against the ship's captain and that's also why for the coverage of this story and our website of course r.t. dot com we have an interview with the divers working up the scene giving a harrowing account of the underwater search for dozens of bodies and paul as opposed to. of course further news and analysis at r.t. dot com. the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home initial report so just after he was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards the taliban has claimed responsibility and described it as one of its biggest achievements yet because i headed the kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan he was often accused in the media reports of having links to afghanistan's massive illegal drugs trade. a political analyst from kabul says the killing is a blow to the u.s. . past couple of years

revelations keep coming about the ill fated voyage of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river as a former captain says it was technically dead long before sunday's disaster over a hundred people are now officially confirmed to have died after the bulgaria went down in just a matter of minutes in russia's republican twenty three of the bodies recovered so far are children. as the latest from the scene and you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. at the moment two hundred divers are working out in the volga three kilometers from the bank in shifts searching room by room inside the sunken bug area pleasure cruiser and behind me the river port the number of flowers and cuddly toys and candles that are piling up against the walls or the river port here continues to grow however there's also another feeling going here as well as of grief and that sort of anger and questions increasingly growing as to the revelations that keep emerging about the ship just earlier here at the river port of former captain of that ship the bulgaria came and revealed some alarming detai

comprehensive coverage of our updates on the volga river tragedy is also a click away at r.t. dot com with many children aboard we report on the lucky escape but also those who didn't stand a chance after being pulled and trapped underwater within minutes. and our report our video reports and footage from the rescue and recovery also online you click over to our tease you tube channel for more on that. an update on developments in tartarus done in a few minutes we'll turn next to the business news with dimitri stay with us. thanks not a lot of woman to the business news on alex he present a bit of his meeting with top business men to brainstorm ways to improve russia's investment climate to get the details let's cross now to business are things money in the course of money hopefully you are with us yes there you are well million dollar question how do you improve the investment climate in the country. well according to president meeting with the if it's all about making better conditions for international specialists he wants the government to make it easier for them to come a

decades as the bodies of over one hundred people including many children have been recovered from the volga river rescues continue the search for. russia has more in common with the u.s. on the conflict in libya than with many european nations so says foreign minister sergei lavrov following talks with hillary clinton in washington. and the eurozone economic crisis deepens as our debt is downgraded to junk status fueling fears the country mainly had a second bailout. with news and comments from around the world this is r.t. live here in moscow twenty four hours a day when the nations keep coming about the ill fated voyage of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river as a former captain says it was technically dead long 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

following developments on the banks of the volga nearby. we're in the initial stages of quite a complex operation to try and raise the sunken bug area which will hopefully help to reveal where the remaining bodies that haven't been found yet are and hopefully provide the answer as to why this ship sank and sank so fast at the moment a dive platform a few kilometers into the river behind me boats keep ferrying for a foot from the base camp here taking divers and crews out so that platform where two huge cranes have been brought up from volgograd further downstream down the river and those cranes have now been used to attach cables to enormous cables around the bottom of the sunken gold garia now the complications that there are with lifting the ship are all pretty much due to things that happened in those few disastrous minutes last sunday and the first is that the ship when it when it sank and then fell to the bottom it fell on to its left side which mean it means that there could be bodies trapped underneath the left side of that ship and

day of national mourning memory of those who lost their lives on this this tragic accident on the volga river the investigative committee here in russia have opened their investigation to trying to determine what caused this disaster they're saying this off their preliminary view of what went on that it was a technical fault a problem with the boat that led to the sinking however at the moment they say they can't rule anything out that they're looking at all possibilities well we have heard. was told today that the ship was overloaded with passengers it was only a license to carry one hundred twenty people far more than once on board also. the company running. to have passengers on that ship these are all things that are going to be looked into in the coming days and weeks first occasion into what happened continues what we've been hearing that divers are in the process of recovering the bodies of those who were trapped in the boat as it sunk to the bottom of the of the river now they have had some problems due to to the high currents and winds in the in the area also the fact that the

the volga bank central russia. a relative of one of the survivors have been has been giving a whoring account of their ordeal when you know you only have good old leans a bit there are three of them in the cabin my son my daughter in law and my grandson my son said he tried to open the cabin door holding his child when the wave crashed into them and he lost a group of my grandson he says you swim towards the light and made it out alive but i can't find my grandson or daughter in law they're not on the new lists now i'm waiting to see photos. investigators must now discover why the agent was allowed to sail into seemingly open water in such poor weather and the search for the truth of the tragedy begins at the highest level as artie's an italian overcover reports from moscow. president held a special meeting regarding this tragedy he's met up with the country's emergencies minister sergey shari who and he's set up a special states commission to investigate into the case and find those responsible he's made the had o

but the moment two hundred divers are working out in the volga three kilometers from the bank in shifts searching room by room inside the sunken bulger area pleasure to cruiser they are searching for the bodies of everyone that still left inside the ship and they have indeed reached the play room on one of the upper decks of the sunken ship where it's was thoughts by eyewitnesses there were many as forty to fifty children playing when the ship sank so fast it's now been found by the divers but there are significantly less children in that room in a few days time two special ships are coming up from further down the volga and they will in some days time try to lift the ship out of the water and then they'll be able to do a full inspection as to what caused it to sink and to sink so fast all of this comes back on to land as the bodies are brought back onto land and behind me because riverport the number of flowers and cuddly toys and candles that are piling up against the walls of the river port here continues to grow as do the hundreds of people filing by looking at the lists of the dead

this hour and one news story dominating on our coverage tonight the harrowing developments in the volga river tragedy earlier this afternoon divers say they've seen the bodies of up to forty children trapped in a room on the sunken pleasure cruise it two hundred seven people wrong boarding the boat got into trouble around half of them have perished. is near the rescue operation h.q. in tatarstan. the people here have been waiting hour upon hour with their heads down they haven't wanted to talk to was the media and this is exactly what they were fearing most some of them may be related to these young victims some of them to other victims on board the boat some of them may still not have heard about the people they love but this is certainly a great blow and puts a lot of confirmation to the fears of rescuers and their like but none of those children inside that room managed to escape the the people looking inside the boat have tried to piece together what may have happened and people have been asking questions about what may have happened if we try and glance back at the journey that thi

pleasure boat which sank in just minutes on russia's volga river recovery efforts are underway. distraught relatives and friends have gathered desperate for information about their loved ones multiple accounts given by survivors who reported many children trapped inside the ship as a plane. many theories are being investigated as to why the boat sank with such terrible consequences overcrowding and thank you it meant recklessness of the crew considered. well next to people of l. and his guests to debate when the shrimp in its massacre sixteen years ago is being used today as a political tool cross-talk is next. if you can. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as the world remembers the tragic events the divel separate needs a dutch court rules that peacekeepers task to protect civilians during the bosnian conflict failed in their duties sixteen years on do we have a fair and balanced interpretation of this war and we have a proper memory for all victims. to cross not the bosnian conflict i'm joined by mohammed shock will be he's a former bosnian ambassador to the u

on r t one hundred people are feared dead after a pleasure boat sank in a matter of minutes in the volga river republic of tatarstan divers have now reached the ship. distraught relatives and friends are desperate for information about their loved ones survivors give traumatic accounts of what happened. witnesses report children trapped inside the sinking ship join us from the scene of the rescue operation in just a moment. overcrowding outdated equipment on a recklessness of the crew all theories are being investigated to find out why the boat went down such terrible consequences. you're watching r.t. live from moscow well straight to our top story now one hundred people are missing feared dead after a pleasure boat sank in the volga river russians were part of qatar to start eighty people have so far been rescued eight including a child have been confirmed dead and search has been continuing throughout the night and is still ongoing. monitoring the rescue efforts and joins us now live by rescuers managed to find anyone else alive. so far carrie the hunt is still ongoing for any possibl

barton reporting from cazan which was to be the final destination of the ship which has sunk on the volga now for more details on the search operation and the latest from the russian emergencies ministry we can go live to our correspondent jacob greaves who is in moscow. now jacob we hear that this cruise ship has safely worked this route for years now is there any information on why tragedy should strike at this point. or officials are actually still looking for asses here a number of theories have already been put forward stress none of them of really being a firm just yet a prominent one is the fact that this seems to have been overloaded official capacity was one hundred forty people. confirmed one hundred eighty five people were on board of the time of its sinking also the age of this vessel was fifty five years old and there are questions being raised to whether or not it should have been used as a tourist boat on the revolver in the in the first place some is being stunned by reports of claims made by a crew member saying that had engine difficulties just before making this two day

at the moment two hundred divers are working out in the volga three kilometers from the bank in shifts searching room by room inside the sunken bug area pleasure cruiser and behind me the river port 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 as well as of grief and that's of anger and questions increasingly growing as to the revelations that keep in mind about the ship just earlier here at the river port a former captain of that ship the bulgaria came and revealed some alarming details about the ship's life before its last voyage. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship hadn't even been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them these debates will continue as to what caused this tragic sinking but it doesn't do anything to relieve the grief here on the banks of the volga. this is the happy scene that s

breaking news a frantic search for survivors is a pleasure cruise along the river volga sinks with nearly two hundred on board in russia's republic of. the base sank in just three minutes leading days on very little time to react with a hundred still missing many of them children will be bringing you the latest developments on that story. telling top stories that made the headlines for us in the week a spy hunting georgia as it charges high profile photographers with snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's an anti russian image produced by president saakashvili. it's demo deja vu for angry gyptian says they returned to tahrir square to vent against the interim leaders who they say stole revolution. and behold the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls out for the very last time as rupert murdoch sacrifices the title while phone hacking claims a reporter arrests intensify. for good morning from moscow is what i am here now you're watching r t with me kevin zero in on the main story tragedy in central russia has more than one hundred people who are on a river cruise a fear. of

decades as the bodies of over one hundred people including many children have been recovered from the volga river was continue the search for. the american resolve shield over europe remains the main up obstacle in russia u.s. relations as moscow wants legal entities that it won't be talking to. and that the eurozone economic crisis deepens as ireland's debt is downgraded to junk. the country may need a second bailout. plus in business now as they score points and i put the market but it's a break we have more on that in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow on the reception revelations keep coming in about the ill fated avoidance of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river as a former captain says it was technically dead long before sunday's disaster over one hundred people are now officially confirmed dead after that went down in just a matter of minutes in the republic of tatarstan. and has the latest from the scene we warn you may find some of the images in his report disturbing. at the moment two hundred divers are working out in the volga three

but the scene that unfolded yesterday was one of a 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 was its final destination and then around two pm the ship got into difficulties and whatever happened this ship actually sank within three minutes it was such a fast sinking that the chaos that ensued on board caused much of the problems that we see now. there were many children on board the ship it seems maybe a third of the passengers.

decades as the bodies of over one hundred people including many children have been recovered from the volga river rescue is continue the search for. the american missile shield over europe remains the main obstacle in the russia u.s. relationship that moscow wants legal guarantees that one guitar. band of the eurozone economic crisis deepens as islands that is downgraded to junk food fueling fears the country may need a second bailout from the. worldwide news a live from moscow this is r t m n roll recent show revelations keep coming in about the ill fated voyage of a sunken pleasure cruise on the volga river as a former captain says it was technically dead long before sunday's disaster over one hundred people are now officially confirmed dead about bull gary it went down in just a matter of minutes in the republic of tatarstan parties tom watson has the latest from the scene of the one you may find some of the images in his report is startling. at the moment two hundred divers are working out in the volga three kilometers from the plank in shifts searching room by room inside the sunken bu

take a look at your top stories a cruise ship sank on the river volga and central russia leaving five people dead and one hundred others still unaccounted for one hundred eighty five people were on board many of them children when the ship foundered survivors were plucked from the water by a passing ship and taken to the republic's capital for treatment our correspondent tom barton has more details. it is known that they were the conditions that time were difficult but whatever happened the ship sank within three minutes which meant that a lot of the people didn't even have time to put on their life jackets before getting into the water as people are basically buried alive as if in a metal sickle for this and managed to get three different things there was my ten year old daughter i couldn't risk and here she swallowed too much more than when i was pulled out a realised my child was absent we still don't know where to look for survivors there were a lot of children on board even more than ellis my only came running to me and my husband to three minutes before the sheets and told us pl

with hopes of finding survivors dwindling the search is still on the bodies beneath the volga. russian presidents need to be thinking says those responsible for this tragedy will be balanced and so will be found and punished as he believes that this ship was pulled that will cause the same. goals post reminded him that it would be more than one hundred fear and yet drowned shocked relatives struggle to accept how their loved ones were dragged to their deaths when the boat sank within minutes. seven pm in moscow continuing our breaking news coverage of the tragedy on the volga river divers in the river are now undertaking the grim task of retrieving those killed when the pleasure cruiser sank sunday in central russia sixty five are confirmed dead but recovery teams report seeing more than one hundred bodies trapped inside the sunken bowl garia artie's correspondents are following developments was near the rescue operation headquarters in tatarstan an italian novick of the joins us live from moscow first to you tom you've been speaking with some of those affected by this ordeal t

held in russia as the country mourns the victims of sunday's pleasure of cruising a sinking on the volga river over nineteen deaths have been come for the search for dozens of bodies trapped underwater continues. as the french parliament voted to extend the military campaign in libya analysts highlighting consistencies and paris's frantic attempts to find ways out of the deadlock. also wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting a decision by a british court to extradited to sweden over sex crime allegations which is supporters just a pretext to hand it over to the u.s. . and russia wants to take the customs union with than one step further prime minister putin wants to create a free trade zone between union and europe more on that in business in twenty minutes time. hello there thanks for joining us it's nine pm here in moscow you're watching the r.t.e. international news channel with me kevin oh in and rescue is a searching through a playroom in the sunken volga river cruise ship is the bodies of dozens of children could be among those still trapped under water over ninety people hav

a testament to the children among those who drowned in the pleasure boat the bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. 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 and even focused is that people were basically buried alive in time 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 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 d.j. for the disc. go on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw a window and the se

operations continue here from the volga bank south of khazan with divers and other teams going out to try. recover more bodies from the sunken river pleasure cruiser the volga area meanwhile on itself today is a day of mourning huge crowds fountains of people gathered on the pier next to the river boat station in to show their respects to those that died in the sinking of the ship as a mark of respect ships were sailing the volga participated in a blowing of their horns and a minute's silence followed to try and show respect for the dead. we went amongst the crowds and asked some of the people there what they were feeling about the aftermath of this tragic attack strophe. their ambulance workers a colleague was in that ship she wants a cruise together was her family husband five year old son and also she was pregnant or was to deliver her second baby noticed she's not found yet only husband to survive she into sunday night. meanwhile back here at the site of a sinking divers have reached the room inside the ship where around forty children were trapped as the boat began to sink they w

pleasure cruise it was nearly two hundred aboard a sunk on the river volga entire to start in central russia one woman has died. more than a hundred people remain missing out that rescue operation continues between all the latest developments in the ongoing story. a record breaking our top news stories of the week spire hunting georgia as its judges high profile photographers with snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's an anti russian image posted by president saakashvili. it's demo deja vu for angry egyptians as they return to tahrir square to vent against the interim leaders of a say stole their revolution. and behold the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls over the last time as rupert murdoch sacrifices the title while phone hacking claims and reporter arrests intensified. welcome to watching r.t. and run of the week's top stories with me kevin oh in breaking news to start this hour a desperate search is underway off for a pleasure cruiser carrying nearly two hundred people aboard sank on the river volga this afternoon at least one woman is reported to have died th

your recovery crews start a somber task of lifting the ship that gravelly went down in the volga river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives. as the operation which will raise the song some bold area get some the way both investigates. awaits you from sears bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. rupert murdoch's sorry saga tycoon publicly it sound why the save his stricken empire is more oil allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing battles but winning the war and even rebels earn foreign recognition and access to khadafi assets but they are fighters struggle to get to grips on the ground. plus the west and the wallet as america and the eurozone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit scores. eleven am in the russian capital you watching our tionne marina joshie the operation to lift the cruiser which sank less sunday in a volga river is about to start it's still unclear why the boat went down quickly dragging half of those on board to their deaths tabards followi