in the lower decks of this pleasure cruiser that was going through the tatarstan section of the volga river. now that rescue effort is continuing this still is hope that they they will find some people alive though if you are listening to tom's report you may have heard there are many islands around this area of the volga river and rescuers are hoping that some people who were able to escape the sinking ship where able to seek refuge on those islands. but as it stands at the moment the rescue efforts and the rest of the efforts of investigators are being harm could be to bad weather divers that are in are looking into the lower deck solve the the ship that is now at the bottom of the volga river facing difficulties to two high winds strong currents and the fact that the ship is is leaking fuel which makes it incredibly difficult for them to get on with with their job but rescuers say that they haven't given up hope yet finding anybody else still alive. that rescue operations are being carried out. divers started at first light while police are operating twenty four hours a day there is as y

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 would

are trying to answer but it's a bit of the journey that this boat took it was sailing along the volga river popular river cruise location lots of lots of people on there are no tears on their holidays as someone like to go along that when the boat got very rapidly into trouble and when i say very rapidly the whole thing got under water in under three minutes this is what gave rise to such a terrible death toll the fact that people didn't even have time to put on their life jackets or to organize a proper kind of evacuation before the water was on them or they had to jump into the water one of the relatives of victims on the boat earlier spoke about the ordeal that she has been through the baldwins 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 list now i'm waiting to see photos well our upon our past

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

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

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 find s

about to our top story now a hundred people are feared dead after a pleasure boat sank on the volga river in russia's republic of tatarstan number of fatalities has now risen to eight let's go back to tom barton who's on the scene. as we understand it rescuers have reached the bottom of the river do we know if they have found any survivors. well kerry they reached the sunken ship some hours ago well it was while it was still dark now that the sun has risen the search is really intensified to try and find one hundred people who are suspected to be out there who knows whether they are alive or whether they are unfortunately drowned because the wreck sank three kilometers from the nearest bank of the volga in the bank behind me you can see some of the efforts that the emergencies ministry is making sabina arriving at this small beach behind me they have one of a lot of boats out there searching for other people when they did arrive some survivors were found they have been taken to hospitals to be treated first and the trauma that they may have experienced the number of dead has now written r

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 but i f

from moscow we'll have more developments on the latest about the volga river tragedy in about fifteen minutes time when the news is back in full with me kevin know it now though the sport with you know. thanks for joining us this is what's today plenty ahead over the next ten minutes including. quarterfinal bolland colombia defeat bolivia and america good day to make the playoffs meaning prevent favorites argentina must defeat costa rica to join them. in the mix of stuff apollo wins the one hundred meters of the latest diamond league meets the u.s. ensuring next month's world championships will be a hotly contested effort. and not under siege but on the inspection action film star steven seagal cost says i over one of the biggest martial arts events on the russian column. let's get going with football and sotha murray can biggest competition in the capa america colombia making it through to the quarterfinals after beating bolivia in their final group a fixture both goals coming from. in the first half the newly signed chelsea man registering number one in the fifteenth minute beating

as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number of victims after the pleasure cruises sinking on sunday has risen to one hundred thirteen the vessels captain was also among the dead his body reportedly found on the bridge meanwhile more details emerge of procedural violations that could have contributed to the tragedy his crew reportedly understated the passengers on board to obtain permission from river controllers to set sail claiming the number to be just twenty instead of two hundred russia's prime minister putin has visited and paid tribute to the rescue operation and said that those whose negligence greed led to the disaster must be punished what is taught in reports on how the investigation is proceeding. the first arrests have been made and this is starting to move beyond just a disaster recovery operation for two people that have been arrested so far. she is the owner of the company that rented double daria for what would be its final voyage also yakov. he is a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the boat daria was fit to sail

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 have now

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 possible surv

like the vast majority of vessels on the river volga this one was built on solving the tides and in the last twenty years that's been through the house. as each one of whom has used it to lead closely most passenger ships additional operate at a loss vessel service in remote areas are subsidised tickets costing as little as fifty cents apiece but tourist craft have to get city funding too there is no money for placements in the us because you're sick we are just a small company who could never afford to build our own ships i think with good care the existing ships can be used for another fifty years. the owners and says these ships have passed the latest technical inspections but so too did the bulgaria and that ships had to created emergency alarm was partly blamed for the high death toll. some are calling for stricter regulations including bearing the subletting of all ships to small operators but you've got make up on a large respectable company sees that a ship is getting too expensive to repair instead of writing it off they pass it on to a smaller operator and these smaller outfit

yesterday about two pm in the afternoon it was sailing along the volga river cruise location lots of lots of people on the weekends on the holidays and some a light to go along that when the boat got very rapidly into trouble and when i say very rapidly the whole thing had gone underwater in under three minutes this is what gave rise to such a terrible death toll the fact that people didn't even have time to port on their life jackets or to organize a proper kind of evacuation before the water was on them or they had to jump into the water families were torn asunder and the fact that all these children remain in this room is testament to that some personal stories that we have heard from the few people who have been willing to talk one five year old boy who was rescued i think the only child that was actually rescued had lost his mother and his grandmother in the water he was in the water himself and was sure he was going to drown he saw a hand reach down. took it it was that of a man he didn't know a man who rescued him and brought him to safety but a man who lost his own pregnant w

one hundred people are now officially confirmed dead after a russian cruiser sank in the volga river in the country's worst boating disaster divers have been pulling the bodies of victims including many children from the vassals path gamer. washington's missile shield over europe chips away our relations with moscow as the u.s. stands accused of taking advantage of an meant to secure future bases your. world's most famous whistleblower julian assange continues his bid at the high court in london to fight extradition to sweden he's one of there for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fears sweden will be only a staging post to the u.s. . we have sports next with the under state with us. thanks for watching the sports good to have you company and this is what is coming up a bit in the. euro why beat mexico one the oldest set up a quarter final with argentina the cup america. but the law is all marking royston twenty two year old goes for his second gold in a ride. from moscow to sochi with the latest on the longest rally in russia. but first at the copper ame

i'm kevin zero in on the main story today a harrowing development indeed even this hour in the volga river tragedy divers now say they've seen the bodies of forty children in the musical of the sunken pleasure cruiser two hundred seven people roam boarded my boat got into trouble more than half of them died parties time gardens near the rescue operation h.q. in tatarstan these been hearing of a traumatic ordeal of survivors and relatives. a few have spoken out since the sinking of the bulgarian and their stories shine a light into what may have happened yesterday on the river at around two pm the the ship the bulgaria a river pleasure cruise liner was going along the volga as many ships do at this time of year very popular among tourists when it ran into trouble now what happened next was really because of most of the major problems the ship sank within the remit says giving very little time for anyone to even put life jackets on or to organize any kind of evacuation and what we hear from eyewitness are reports are horrifying tales of families torn apart in a matter of a few minutes. in th

it was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruiser bold garia run into difficulties on the volga catastrophe came swiftly if you didn't people were basically buried alive and trying metal coffin he managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue han she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone. the ball garia now lies at the bottom of. the vessel sink in listen three minutes it flipped to the right then i swerved and went down and we were literally thrown out and that's how we survived our whole family was on that ship we lost my wife and my grandchildren to vessels pass by and didn't even care to stop and reach out a helping hand we spent around two hours in the water before we were rescued i said . i'm around searching for survivors and couldn't find anybody i thought there were a lot of children on the ship they were all in me going through it was impossible for me to get out of that my grandson would be five years old tomorrow he went on the ship to celebrate his birthday many of the passeng

the captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river has been talking to r.t. will bring you his account of what happened in about twenty minutes down. there and he's been following the intense search and recovery operation over the past seven days he can stay in touch with what's happening by this ng our saddam or our need to challenge we're also posting developments on our twitter stream and a facebook page. britain's government is denying it was too close to rupert murdoch's media empire as it scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's mired in phone hacking claims but records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings with murder executives in the past year murdoch has spent the past forty eight hours apologizing with full page ads in british newspapers and meeting the family of a young murder victim whose voicemail was intercepted the media mogul's now deployed p.r. gore's to rescue news corp's reputation before facing scrutiny from m.p.'s about his papers on ethical methods there was a gap on britain's news shelves thi

investigation into sunday's pleasure cruise a disaster is divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river with the death toll now standing at one hundred thirty. and in business we took a look at how debt problems in europe and the u.s. are good news for precious metals more on that in twenty minutes. with a rapid change of heart sorry this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital with the word twenty four hours a day top story this hour with a rapid change of heart rupert murdoch and his son james have now reportedly confirmed they will give evidence to a parliamentary committee investigating the u.k.'s phone hacking scandal this comes hot on the heels of earlier reports that they declined the summons it's alleged that several of murdoch's newspapers were engaged in rampant voicemail hacking and bribed senior officials and authorities and the reports the media mogul's red top rise over the decades was littered with red flags warning of what was to come. rupert murdoch's push to expand in british media has come to a halt popular political rage overthrown hacking the sports news

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

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

recovery crews start the summer task of lifting the ship that rapidly went down in the volga river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives. the operation to raise the sunken bowl gary has begun hopefully providing arms to the grieving relatives and investigators will bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. this story saga of the tycoon publicly. to save his stricken empire is loyal allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing battles but winning the war leading rebels earth foreign recognition and axes to cut off yes it's but their fire struggle to get to grips on the ground. plus the west and the wallet as american and the eurozone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit scores. this is our team going to live from moscow to a.t.m. here i'm marina joshing welcome to the program within the next few hours the operation will begin to lift the cruiser which sank last sunday in the volga river it's still unclear why the boat went down quickly dragging half of those on board t

as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number confirmed dead after the pleasure cruise the sinking on sunday has risen to one hundred thirteen including the vessels captain meanwhile yet more details emerge of procedural violations that could have contributed to the tragedy he will carry his crew reportedly understated the number of the passengers on board to permission from river controllers to set sail claiming the number on board to be just twenty instead of two hundred ortiz tom barton brings us the latest from the disaster site . the first arrests have been made and this is starting to move beyond just a disaster recovery operation the two people that have been arrested so far. she is the owner of the company that rented the ball daria for what would be its final voyage also. he is a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the area was fit to sail and so perhaps was negligent in that decision divers are still working in teams in our in our out in a on a platform out in the river over the sunken bulgaria it's now estimated there

top stories from artsy and recovery crews to start the task of lifting the ship went down in the volga river last sunday taking a leave one hundred and thirty flights. as the operation to raise the sunken bowl garia gets underway both investigators and. bringing all the details from the recovery sites in just a moment. rupert murdoch's sorry saga tycoon a publicly eat humble pie to save his stricken empire his loyal allies leave from the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing battles but winning the war the libyan rebels the foreign a recognition and access to khadafi assets and the struggle to get to grips on the ground. glass of the west's empty wallet as america and the eurozone race to save the collapsing economy in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit score. we are highlighting the stories that made headlines this week welcome to the weekly the operation to lift the cruiser which sank last sunday in the volga river is about to start and still unclear why the boat went down quickly dropping half of those on board to their deaths. following developments on the ban

rescuers are preparing to lift the russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nine. relatives and investigators all looking for answers as to why the ship sunk so we'll bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. another skulk london's police commissioner quits is the focus of the fury of the phone hacking scandal switches to the police. news international c.e.o. rebecca brooks is arrested earlier in the day. banking on change libyan rebels in full diplomatic recognition from washington and with its access to freeze assets frozen in the u.s. . continental cash crunch is america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro. you're watching the weekly with the main headlines of the past week and the latest developments it's being described as the biggest boat. disaster in russia's modern history in the space of just three minutes a pleasure cruiser with two hundred eight people on board went down in the volga river taking over half of its

half of those on board to their deaths so martin is following developments on the banks of the volga river nearby. we're in the initial stages of quite a complex operation to try and raise the sunken dog 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 the 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 to 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 bowl 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 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 it could be bodies trapped underneath the left side of that ship it's

hour the bodies of over one hundred people including many children have been recovered from the volga river the side of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruise that rescuers continue the search for more is around thirty remain missing. up to seventeen people believed explosions hit the indian city of mumbai the blasts hit the business district in a crowded marketplace and islamic group called the indian mujahideen has reportedly claimed responsibility for the american missile shield over europe remains the main obstacle in russia u.s. relations as moscow wants legal guarantees it won't be targeted the statement came from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov on a visit to the united states. and the euro zone economic crisis deepens as a downgrade to junk fueling fears the country may need a second bailout this come shortly after some of the predictions were made about portugal italy also tipped to be at risk. temperance update for the moment i'll be back with more news for us and fifteen minutes from now the meantime sport is next with kate. thank you for joining me for the latest sports an

thirteen bodies have now been recovered from the water something pleasure cruiser disaster on the volga river while divers that continue efforts to find around twenty still missing. a very warm welcome to you this is on the line from moscow i'm rob reception a former executive of the disgraced news of the world has reportedly been arrested over the u.k.'s a phone hacking scandal british m.p.'s meantime pressing rupert murdoch to face questioning of a continuing allegations that several of his newspapers were engaged in a voicemail hacking and bribed senior officials result he's a lawyer and reports the media mogul's read rise over the decades was littered with red flags warning of what was to come. rupert murdoch's push to expand in british media has come to a halt public and political rage overthrown hacking the sports news corp to drop its bid to buy satellite broadcaster b. sky b. but some say he's already killed the british press and they were saying it's far back as one thousand nine hundred eighty one that's when he went on a media spending spree and bought amongst others the world reno

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 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 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 over there's also another feeling growing here was well as of grief and that's of anger and questions increasingly growing out of the revelations that keep emerging about the ship just earlier here at the river port a former captain off that ship the bulgaria came

as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number of victims after the pleasure cruises sinking on sunday has now risen to one hundred thirteen the vessels captain was also among the dead his body reportedly found on the bridge meanwhile authorities are drafting up plans to lift the vessel off the river bet all the necessary equipment is being delivered from other regions in russia and the mission could start as soon as in the next five days on thursday russia's prime minister putin has visited and paid tribute to the rescue operation and said that those whose negligence and greed led to the disaster must be punished . reports on how the investigation is proceeding. the first arrests have been made and this is starting to move beyond just a disaster recovery operation the two people that have been arrested so far are in new york in a she is the owner of the company that rented the ball daria for what would be its final voyage also. he is a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the area was fit to sail and so perhaps was negligent in that d

mourning in russia in 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 they believe it was a technical fault a problem with the boat that led to this to that date to this the sinking of the ship on the eve on the volga river however at the moment they say they can't rule anything out that they're looking at all possibilities well we have heard they will present a dead it was told today that the ship was overloaded with passengers it was only licensed to tell you one hundred twenty people far more than once on board also. the company running this to a license to have passengers on that ship these are all things that are going to be looked into in the coming days and weeks of the first occasion into what happened continues. and what's the current situation of the operation on the river. well we've been hearing that that divers are in the process of recovering

the week from our team rescuers are preparing to lift the russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river where it sank in a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nights it took the operation will provide answers as to why the catastrophe happened. rupert murdoch's former c.e.o. in the u.k. is arrested as part of investigations into phone hacking and police bribery the news of the world the media mogul has repeated his apologies for unethical practices by the newspaper in an effort to save his empire is crumbling reputation . libyan rebels now have full diplomatic recognition from washington and where they have access to come look at africa's assets frozen in the u.s. meanwhile nato has intensified attacks on the capital tripoli in an effort to oust the libyan leader who was never to leave. class international cash crunch america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro the u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid financial disaster while italy is on the verge of needing a bailout. back o

recovery crews start the somber task of lifting the ship that rapidly went down in the volga river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives relatives and investigators hope raising the vessel will help establish why the disaster occurred . only to save his stricken empire as loyal allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic but news corp mobile faces a grilling by british m.p.'s and allegations of hacking the phones of nine eleven victims. losing battles but winning the war the libyan rebels earn foreign recognition and access to be assets and their fighters struggle to get to grips on the ground. plus the west's amping wallet as america the eurozone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit scores the u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default while italy is on the verge of needing a bailout. is here with the latest action from the world sports. a lot of lives for susan margie thanks for joining us this hour the headlines carol service mrs is proud to shout a lot here of why posts argen

task of recovery rescuers are preparing to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river where it sank in a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nine. relatives and investigators are all looking for answers as to why the ship sunk so fast i'll bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. the apologies keep coming and so do the arrests rupert murdoch once again says sorry for the phone hacking by one of his british papers as his former c.e.o. in the u.k. is detained by police. banking on change libyan rebels now have full diplomatic recognition from washington and with access to colonel gadhafi has assets frozen in the u.s. . and intercontinental cash crunch as america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro. you're watching the weekly on r.t. with the main headlines of the past week and the latest developments it's been described as the biggest disaster in russia's modern history in the space of just three minutes a pleasure cruiser with two hundred eight people

from the bottom of the volga river managed to finally bring the vessel up right now but they say the operation to raise it may take several more days to play a crucial role in why the ship went down in just three minutes meanwhile police arrested the captain of a vessel that sailed past the pleasure cruiser as it was sinking without stopping to help earlier the director of the firm that rented the boat and the ship's registrar also arrested the area saying russia's volga river nine days ago killed one hundred people many became one of russia's worst she's trying to coax. support since i was here including news of a penalty kick almost cause an international incident we got news about that in twenty minutes time choose the live business next they were to me tree. loadable welcome to the business of seeing the shadow of debts now extends from washington to tokyo covers the capitals of europe markets are not panicking yet but a steady group drip of bad news is taking its toll politicians are playing a part as leaders quarrel over greece and u.s. lawmakers are in stalemate over the debt

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 and this is something as we mentioned by the emergencies minister. long as your main goal is to survey the shuras designed them into sectors and it's limited to a reasonable sort of or even eighty or. the islands and i see a sign read through with conclusion listeners and his were found there if you think you'll get it all in is really didn't. to continue the search generation on your binoculars and. so emphasizing there this really puts a lot of hope of finding more survivors and these islands located near the volga river that goes on there still hoping they can find more survivors before this and . parties object of groups reporting there thank you for keeping us up to date of course will come back as more information becomes available. egypt's prime minister is of value to sack any member of the security forces accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled former president hosni mubarak the statement comes after thousand