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this week's top stories here on our t.v. the libyan capital's been rocked by nato's heaviest air strikes in the beginning since the beginning of a military operation with dozens killed in the attacks and anger at foreign intervention growing on the ground. moscow agrees to lift a ban on european vegetables if there are guarantees the are free from deadly e. coli bacteria surance came from president medvedev during russia e.u. talks. also the e.u. prepares a new rescue package for a bankrupt greece which sparks massive protest against further cuts in the country and outrages people in germany who say it's time that debtors leave the eurozone. and as people here in moscow prepare to celebrate russia day we'll look back twenty years to when the country staged its first free presidential elections.

it is am of the russian capital you're watching r t was marina joshie welcome to the program the conflict in libya shows no signs of letting up as rebels and government forces clash in the western oil port city of zawiyah some fifty kilometers from tripoli the libyan capital saw intensified nato airstrikes this week with the heaviest bombing since the foreign intervention began back in march that obvious government claims more than thirty people have been killed in the attacks some of them civilians it comes as the levy leaders daughter filed a lawsuit against the french president nicolas sarkozy and. nato for killing four members of a family in an april military strike argues maria for national spoke to some of the citizens of tripoli caught up in the violence. saddam has been within

a hair's breadth of death the doctors have performed any a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took her mother's pills to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me and bill to do it myself. but who wants to kill the teenager so much native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night forms have been falling on the city with a population of around a million no one can ever say when or where the next one would land. this week in the most intensive air idea that there have been sixteen nato airstrikes in just ten hours attacks against civilians must stop gadhafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claimed success and the military operation is supposed to protect civilians but the libyan

government has repeatedly protested that innocent civilians have been among the dead the claims have not been independently verified but one thing is clear since march nineteenth the live wouldn't really prince has changed forever so much mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death to this new life my girl told me before that she saw death as a good thing when i entered her room that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere could hardly see what happened but i realized immediately he was something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone he never said they were going to bomb us he promised to protect us but instead they scare us talking about who they are of a walker said of his father is more precise in the world no longer needs nato the second world war ended long ago and we try to live our lives will mean our starts wars and always intervenes in other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life has just prolonged its operation

and leave it all september that means people here face months more terror from the skies what of nato is supposed to targets gadhafi his military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's compound but it's almost damaged the lives of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will ever recover. tripoli. now this week a russian envoy began his mission in libya and the latest attempt to bring both sides of the conflict to the negotiating table they held the gal for the visit of benghazi for talks with the opposition says the coalition bombing campaign will not help resolve the turmoil we seriously think that. never saw political problems and do we said it here very clearly that as long as the bloodshed continues the longer it continues the more difficult it will be to build

a national reconciliation process off to the civil war so we are very much in favor of building political bridges so to speak and we are ready to help. the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen insist only military bases are attacked in libya and he said now we spoke to him exclusively pressed him to clarify what nato considered a legitimate target actually the u.n. security council resolution goes beyond a no fly zone cording to the u.n. security council resolution we are mandated to protect the civilian population in libya taking all necessary measures and that's exactly what we're doing right now i just want to clarify for some of our viewers who have seen homes bombed they've seen civilian buildings blown to pieces does daffy in a car on a phone or at a hospital on a phone constitute a command center for your purposes when you say any means. i would like to stress

that we are not targeting individuals we hate. military. targets. and of course common control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians show amount of control centers military targets professor mark almond of oxford university says there are serious divisions on the league in strategy within the u.s. congress and inside nato. part of his obviously under pressure is also being bombed by nato but he also. put in the us congress a resolution was passed highly critical of what president obama has done since the bombing started so he begins to sound so i think there is division in washington well perhaps in the west in general inside nature it's very difficult paul the u.s. and its major allies britain harms to accept any kind of ceasefire with colonel gadhafi because they have repeatedly said that any such one can only hold who is

leaving office leaving power on the other hand we have signs that in fact there are five channels between gadhafi and the rebels some of the rebel leaders who were in discussions with the voter leaders last week also talked with them still. have a problem but. is in charge of the bombing of the politics on the ground in the country will be decided by libya not necessarily as the nato leaders would like this week's are clashes between for tasks or as and government forces in syria continue as a country faced double pressure from the west britain france have approached the u.n. security council with a draft resolution against syria both china and russia have said they won't back it in addition the international nuclear watchdog has raised questions over whether an installation destroyed four years ago by israeli warplanes was a nuclear site syrian sis it was a peaceful facility but the atomic agency demands more evidence threatening

sanctions. from the arab lawyers association told r.t. the washington and its allies are using the allegations as a tool to remove the current rulers in syria. now that the syrian regime is under fire this. trial has to be opened so that the international community the u.s. gets the u.n. and the way to accuse syria of violating international law so they can take the matter to this good. to cancel so that we can have more precious yet again the use of the international institutions for a political object is whether it's a guy or whether it's this curative council this is what the u.s. is doing this is a building which has been inspected by the other time and number of times but there they want to have the last look this it is out doing they told them a number of times though this is a military installation and this is nothing to do with a nuclear energy or power or

a reactor the saying since you are not telling us what else you're going to use it therefore it must be a nuclear facility and that's why we're going to take the matter to the security council. on the program here in our team mine for nothing. but. the worst trouble. we ask what strings are attached to the three billion dollar loan the i.m.f. is giving to egypt. the russian woman had to drastic measures to continue the legacy of her late son that's ten minutes away here on our t.v. . before that russia is ready to put european vegetables back on supermarket shelves as soon as the e.u. guarantees a prognosis free from the deadly e. coli bacteria the move was just one of the outcomes of this week's russia even talks. we are ready to lift the ban on european vegetables after we are provided

with sufficient guarantees by the e.u. that much is certain the russian and the european health officials are finalizing a certificate that proves the safety of the supply products this is a good result. apart from vegetables leaders also discussed russia's accession to the world trade organization e.u. commission cheve chose a model garozzo saying it's possible by the end of this year they also agreed that libyan leader colonel gadhafi has lost his legitimacy and should go this comes after may's g. eight summit in france where russia agreed to step in with ceasefire mediation efforts in the north african country. the european union and the international monetary fund are preparing a second rescue package for greece which according to some estimates may total as much as one hundred twenty billion euros just one year after the previous rescue package the new bailout comes with conditions calling for the greek government to implement even more cuts tens of thousands of taking to the streets of athens in

protest against yet another round of austerity measures there is also anger in germany where people are tired of their country paying for reckless neighbors as artie's daniel bushell now reports. the euro's did long leave germany says top lawyer because he's suing the german government to stop with. neighbors you can save so you are by saving greece told the country you have to get rid of greece greece is no longer with the candidate no longer with a number of the european union the nations label didn't delusion as the pigs of europe portugal and greece and spain most of the currency now before they drag over members wards kober all those things last year raised the pension age to sixty five and early retirement of the country's believe the greek workers work less.

we'll bail you out a second time says chancellor merkel but if you want cash in future you must work longer the statements caused through ring greece but they're not happy in the e.u.'s cash capital frankfurt either believing the greeks have had it too easy because if we are going to chill sixty seven it's not possible to declare why other people should go with sixty five which are certainly not responsible for the debts and the deficits run in portugal greece and the pick states raise the age when when the greek people retire. sorry all three people well we have to work along as well germans or wrote boiling point anger which could spill out onto the streets say some experts if the problems with the euro become more bigger and bigger higher and higher then it is also not excluded that german people go on the

street because their say ok we don't want to pay any more the powerful greens are now suing merkel's government claiming it hid facts about bailouts from the public people in germany i ask you do we have to pay these so we have to give answers and the answers we don't get from our government even the ruling party is revolting klaus pizza will she's fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries should take the chance to say ok we get out we. solve our problems we will have our depth restructured those who gave money for high interest rate with some of their money and they can qualify again for the euro maybe after ten fifteen years greece protests the euro's a straight jacket which blocks traditional ways to boost your economy like devaluing the currency or adjusting interest rates even. says european commissioner

says that the country's membership of the common currency is that risk on this athens takes the painful coast cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the only american greeks now agree with germans who say the bits out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single currency down with the new bush you'll see. the i.m.f. has agreed to land egypt three billion dollars just four months after praising galston mubarak dictatorship for its economic achievements but there are fears the money could end up in the pockets of the rich in a country where many people live in just two dollars a day r.t. is policy has been following the story. as if the international monetary fund doesn't have enough on its plate it's agreed to loan three billion dollars to cairo a move critics say is absurd but i think this is a bribe that the west is trying to give to the regime lest the new one lest it

turns against the west but cairo is insisting the money will help stabilize the country's finances especially now with mubarak gone and the country going through a transitional period but observers say it's the same spin with only slightly different marketing these ukrainians are being made with tradition transitional governments and these transitional governments have. become a primarily out of leaders of the old regime they composed primarily because from your regime for example samir road one the finance minister in egypt has been negotiating this loan was a mubarak appointee obama's promise in cairo a billion dollars more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion in debt cancellation while french president nicolas sarkozy has committed the g eight to providing up to ten billion dollars in direct aid it's a commitment the west says it's making to help egypt get back on their feet the united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by the

revolutions very are. considerable financial contributions. economy and the perfect ways through the i.m.f. which is heavily influenced by the united states for. many many years the i.m.f. has been considered as an orm of american foreign economic policies this. is unstable or. would could be considered is a waste of money on something that is very shaky what's more it comes with particular strings attached. and that the deal could in fact spell trouble i believe is egypt will already treasury is exactly right a little slow and the really except the worst trouble or some sort of syria

a country. that is a certainty to the west bank is a rhetorical orations the regime no way. country what most egyptians fear is that the money will get used up long before it reaches the pockets believing it's likely to be only a small elite as well as international banks who benefit from the loans the last time the i.m.f. injected a large amount of money into egypt was twenty years ago but since then the number of egyptians living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year the i.m.f. praised the mubarak regime to sound fiscal management in egypt as far as libya went it fit the role for the economy remains stable but just days later mubarak was ousted and tripoli was engulfed in anti gadhafi demonstrations so it's no surprise of many say yes or the i.m.f. waits the country the closer that country is to having a revolution highlighting just how wrong the organization to be policy r

t tel aviv. and while egyptians fear the i.m.f. loan may land in the pockets of the rich are to investigates how funds go astray we are in the day we take a look at how the world's dictators illegally boost their bank accounts. while gangs go mad their people suffer. some take advantage of power that was given to them. secrets of big dirty money. on our team. well there is nothing more natural than a grandmother's law but for one russian woman her attempts to keep the memory of her late son alive have landed her in a legal and moral controversy boyko explains. it was only at fifty seven that lamar understood the true meaning of having her hands full and

accomplished scientist a wife of three decades and also a devoted mother none of these roles capture as busy as she is now her tragedy she became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else would you just you know the death of my son created a hole in my life that will never close but the birth of my grandchildren certainly provide some solace is god's gift to me lamar son died of cancer three years ago but before his first chemotherapy session doctors conserved his sperm with the help of surrogate mothers two sets of twins were brought into the world. the mars has been left her her scientific career was put on hold yet lamar's says they're all trifles compared to do bereavement brought about by her son's death. it's love which is fed by a grief but it's love number less three years ago i couldn't imagine myself even

smiling let alone laughing or singing songs but the little ones pulled me out of this abyss of despair. with her large family support lamar says she has no financial or parental concerns about raising her grandchildren her main problem now is the reluctance of the russian state to recognize her as the mother of these children and her deceased son as their father. m.r. has taken the issue to court with a ruling expected on wednesday hill or believes the law is in their side. a few according to russian law there are no limits on who can become appearing through the use of surrogates motherhood's of course cases like this one are still very unusual in russia that's why some registration offices or court officials may be confused and refuse to register children but the law is definitely in our favor. that mara is the third woman in russia who use the sperm of her deceased son to

continue the family's lineage yet whether it is due to her age or the share number of children involved her story a good many russians questioning the affleck's of this kind of parenting that you would all these exercises in by a mechanics ultimately lead to this very ambiguous situation we can really tell the difference between a son and a grandson there are so many orphans in russia so she wanted to be a mother she could have easily realized her maternal instincts i think ultimately it's a very selfish drive to pass your genes no matter what. but the american didn't care less about societal attitudes too much suffering for the loss of here only some persuaded her that there is no such thing as too many grandchildren russian law has no age cap for people who are willing to adopt children the only cabbage is that a potential parent should be at least sixteen years older than the child in the muskies the age difference is almost sixty years because it doesn't sit easily in

a country where most people become parents before they turn thirty and to raise the even two kids is often seen more than a handful for the boy artsy moscow. on more international headlines here in r t in pakistan at least thirty four people have been killed and more than one hundred injured in two bombings in the northwestern city of peshawar an initial blast attracted emergency services and onlookers to the side before a second more powerful explosion was detonated police have been quoted as saying it was carried out by a suicide bomber the double attack comes as afghan president hamid karzai and cia director leon panetta meet and the pakistani capital islamabad for reconciliation efforts where the taliban. voters across turkey are heading to the polls for parliamentary elections on sunday two parties are battling for power with the current prime minister tayyip erdogan running against the secular republican

people's party a victory for our dance party would mean a third consecutive five year term in power. russia celebrates a holiday today twenty one years ago to the day russia declared independence from the sovereignty union beginning its break up just one year later the country voted in the first free presidential election in its history. and it has more on russia today. june twelve nineteen ninety one millions voted to make boris yeltsin russia's first president a watershed moment in the country's history. this was the first free election ever in russia the day after we left behind a totalitarian state and had a new job of building a democratic society that respected the rights of its people by the time the lection took place the soviet union had less than a year to live but no one knew how it would disintegrate its fifteen republics

began to declare sovereignty one by one while staying a part of the year ceasar provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other michel god which i was the head of the soviet union chosen by communists functionaries boris yeltsin was in charge of a new sovereign russia and promised reform but calling for an open election yeltsin challenged the authority of the communist party over russia. with this victory in the election yeltsin prove that you can stand up to the communists establishment in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try and protest with this victory ensured that the soviet union could break out without armed conflict. unlike former soviet leaders yeltsin campaign like a democratic politician meeting their electorate and delivering stump speeches at factories and in town squares what at his rallies attracted hundreds of thousands

when the election night came we were hopeful would win but we still weren't sure after all it was the communist party that counted the votes but soon enough the results became clear boris yeltsin defeated the communists candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance to a hardline a coup that at summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade to support fealty. among russians dwindled as the country went through difficult reforms surveys showed that as the anniversary of the election approached if you remember and even fewer care it's been good i don't have any emotions about it but i did vote for yeltsin then but i'm far less political now absolutely neutral i voted but i can tell you these are all just politicians games they have nothing to do with me . it's not surprising that those who lived through the difficult times did not want to celebrate this occasion but hopefully the next generation will truly appreciate

the historic significance of this moment and of yeltsin as of no russia's first president himself remains unappreciated with only one in five saying to have a positive attitude towards him many outside of russia said at the even today it's the world is not perfect and some inside the country said they still yearn for the soviet union but one thing is very hard to argue against as a result of these changes twenty years ago russians are wealthier of more personal and political freedoms eager i'd never see moscow. be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments don't go away. to

a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is an approaching a whole different. in the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the world forms to believe. that the united states is trying to get its astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have fallen bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in bases of. the noises i went off of those of all the us at all because they were all bases.