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this week's top stories here on our t.v. the leaving capitals been brought by nato is heaviest air strikes since the beginning of the 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 they are free from deadly e. coli bacteria assurance came from president medvedev during the russian talks. also the e.u. prepares a new rescue package for bankrupt greece which sparks massive protests against further progress in the country and outrages people in germany who say it's time the debtors leave the eurozone. and as people here in moscow prepare to celebrate russia day we look back twenty years to when the country stays that's first free presidential election.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t. with me arena joshie welcome to the program the conflict in libya shows no signs of letting up 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 offers government claims more than thirty people have been killed in the attacks some of them civilians it comes as the libyan leader's daughter filed a lawsuit against the french president nicolas sarkozy and the for killing four members of her family in an april military strike. spoke to some residents of tripoli caught up in the violence. son of a husband who they know has bred. the doctors have performed any

a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took a mother to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me and bill to do myself. but who wants to kill the teenager so most 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 sixty nato air strikes 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 lives of ordinary libyans has changed forever saddam is 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 it 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 his but instead they scariest talking about who they are. 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 need 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 till september that means

people here face months more terror from the skies one of nature's supposed to targets khadafi its 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 as more claims of civilian casualties emerge anger and doubt grows among libyans over the true goal. the lines in the country are we who spoke exclusively to the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen asked him what triggered the intervention let's look at the lack of an entry strategy into libya it could be said that you were dragged into this rushing to regime change have you accidentally gone to war in libya definitely not on the contrary we considered this very

carefully we laid out certain conditions that should be fulfilled before we took action and the decisive factor was that the united nations correct me if i'm wrong but obviously the u.n. resolution was laid out for a no fly zone and lots of people would consider what's happening in libya to be much more than a no fly zone 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 all the necessary measures if i might speak of what admiral pollo has legitimize strikes on any command center in libya 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 in a hospital on a phone constitute

a command center for your purposes when you say any. i would like to stress that we are not targeting individuals we hate. military. targets. and of course control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians show amount of control centers military targets that's what i'd like to read a question to you that was written to us by one of our viewers on facebook. the who's from paris france wants to know why nato is bombing metropolitan areas in libya civilians are being killed what do you say to. we do all we can to avoid civilian casualties we are in libya to protect civilians against attacks and this is the reason why all commandos are very very careful. to frying legitimate military targets to find out how the

nato chief handled other challenging questions over libya you can watch the full interview later today or you can watch it any time by logging on to our web site r t v dot com. and this week saw continuing clashes between protesters and government forces in syria as a country faced double pressure from the west britain and 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 it was a nuclear site syria insists it was a peaceful facility by the atomic agency demands more evidence and threatened sanctions. from the arab lawyers association told our team that 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 un and the way to accuse syria of violating international law so they can take the matter to this community council so that we can apply more pressure just yet again. on the international institutions for political objectives 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. time and amount of diamonds but they're not they want to have the lands well this it is out doing they told them a number of times that this is a military installation and this is nothing to do with a nuclear energy or power or a reactor the i.a.e.a. saying since you are not telling us what else you are 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 arab world observers and to serious troubles are an internal problem and

its people must find their own way british journalist has written extensively on the arab spring warning against former colonial powers three asserting their influence. it's a very very dangerous move by britain and france to interfere in the syrian revolution because both countries have a very long history in this region palestine lebanon and syria itself and i think it will be seen very much as western interference in the internal affairs of syria we have to remember the revolution the revolutionary process that is taking place in the middle east is one in which ordinary people are taken time to take control of their societies so this is an internal struggle if you like for the future direction of syria and they feel there's a sense now that from president sarkozy of france is moving like a demon to try and. place france back in the position of power inside the middle

east and i have to repeat we have to remember that france had control over syria in from the end of the first world war and there was a very very long struggle of syria to get rid of the french for independence and so the idea that this is somehow some kind of benevolent force coming in to help the syrian population i think that's very little ice so i think it's a very unwise move by the west to interfere. and you're watching live from moscow still lamprey this hour the dangers of drones to open up a new realm of warfare a new realm of breaking international and domestic law as the u.s. plans to expand the use of its deadly weapons we look at why some people fear the technology could be used on american soil. three months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in japan we'll look at the continuing radiation crisis and social exclusion faced by many evacuees. russia is ready to put european

vegetables back on supermarket shelves as soon as the e.u. guarantees the products is free from the deadly e. coli bacteria the move was just one of the outcomes of this week's russia talks. we are ready to live on european vegetables after we are provided with sufficient guarantees by the e.u. . and the russian and the european health officials of the new laws in this to prove the safety of the supply products this is a good result. apart from vegetables the leaders also discussed russia's accession to the world trade organization and with e.u. commission. saying it's possible by the end of this year we also agreed that libyan leader colonel gadhafi has lost his legitimacy and should go this comes after a maze 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 more people are tired of the earth country paying for reckless neighbors as artie's daniel bushell now reports. the euro's dead long live germany says top lawyer markus kerber he's suing the german government to stop its bailing out bankrupt neighbors you cannot save. greece. the country you have to get rid of greece greece is no longer with a candidate no longer with a number of the european union the nation's labeled in delusion by some as the pigs of europe portugal ireland greece and spain must drop the currency now before they

drag down other members warms kerber although athens last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could only retirement other countries believe that greek workers work less will bail you out a second time says chancellor merkel but if you want cash in future you must work longer the statements caused greece but they're not happy in the e.u. capital frankfurt either believing the greeks have had it too easy because if we are going to sixty seven it's not possible to declare why their people should always sixty fifty which are certainly not responsible for the debts and the deficits run in portugal greece in the pic states raise the age when when the greek people retire. sorry all three people what we have to work along as well germans or

wrote boiling point anger which could spill out onto the streets 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's revolting close pizza will she's fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the. eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries they should take the chance to say ok we get out we. solve our problems we will have our dept restructured those who gave money for high interest rate will use 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 greece's european commissioner says that the country's membership of the common currency is at risk unless athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the i.m.f. greeks now agree with germans who say that out of control the question is will week states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single currency down with them down your bushel r.t. in. creation of the euro was a mistake of the currencies heading for imminent collapse and that's what french nationalist leader mario lopez and says here's a preview of what's to come next hour here in r.t. . to make the most of the years data to think it is just waiting to be signs old reluctance means that they're used to build the currency wrong that they have to say you're a little green growth employment raising. really loving us to counterbalance the

power of the dollar and the share story the reason is the weakest in the world and to. do all that said the year is going to die most. this week u.s. armed drones and fire jets hit a number of suspected militant targets it comes as the yemeni government washington's ally claims on to power in the face of an uprising and say war activist sara flounders says america is not being honest about its motives. this is just another criminal illegal absolutely it's lawlessness on such a scale of hypocrisy at the very time that the u.s. is using the u.n. security council the international criminal court to bring charges against other countries for terrorism and it is clearly exposed in international terrorism itself

in yemen and of course in sabotage teams in syria and in bombing of libya not to mention the devastating wars in iraq and afghanistan in yemen it is to protect a complete thirty three year dictatorship of salo who is now for. health reasons and saudi arabia an effort to protect his regime potentially bring him back and it's being used against a people's movement or anyone that the u.s. fears is a threat to them is now being labeled as al qaida and it's open season in terms of attacks and and bombs and drone attacks on any number of different resistance organizations u.s. drones have also been used in pakistan or its latest strike killed at least eighteen people while official reports claim the casualties were militants some witnesses name civilians among the victims and as drones have become one of washington's most favored weapons americans fear that acknowledge you might soon be

used to snoop a little closer to home that if you count reports. when a u.s. drone hit the house of this young man in pakistan he lost an eye both legs and three family members. these people are demanding the cia be held responsible for the deaths of their loved ones but to no avail with the use of drones comes a lack of accountability those are being operated by somebody at a command center in langley virginia they're watching it on video on a video screen they're pressing the button they're deciding who lives and who dies and then they go off for a weekend where they have barbecues in their suburban virginia and suburban maryland homes and who pays the price the people who are the victims of the attack is there accountability none whatsoever drones have become the symbol of america's undeclared wars wars that seem to have no state all legal boundaries we've opened up a new realm of warfare a new room of breaking breaching international in domestic law. used in

pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated that drone attacks kill fifty non targeted persons for each intended target one of the things the united states kind of pretends is that we are morally superior we are better judge able to judge what is good for other people and therefore we are entitled to inflict our judgement on them and that we presume they will be grateful to us for it but that is not what happens ever and it's not what's happening in yemen it's not what's happening in pakistan they are furiously enraged with us washington is looking to increase the funding for drone development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go towards an armed surveillance drones the u.s. has for years been using them in another of its undeclared wars against drug

traffickers in mexico the mexican government allows you. u.s. spy planes despite public discontent there's a lot of concern that the use of these drones by the us government has more to do with u.s. control over mexican territory actually going out to the drug lords and winning the drug war while issues of international law and sovereignty trigger little interest among americans the prospect of having surveillance drones spying all across the us itself surely does us police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising the alarm among those who think that could be the end of american freedoms especially when you look at constitutional activities like free speech activities that are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe protesting the war or protesting some are governmental act and they'll be chilling free speech should roll be equipped with some sort of weapon so some people are saying lasers will be able to punish the students who are advocating against the government they've already been used in some instances in the united states when in

two thousand and seven protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects floating overhead it looked like dragons turned out they were robo flies developed by the pentagon now surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing and intelligence gathering in pakistan people leave in fear that it may be time they could become a target of the most deadly videogame and maybe here in the last year that with their rapid expansion of supply drones over their own territory they could one day wake up you know to my police state i'm going to check our reporting from watching our team check out the column section on our web site american radio host alex jones explains why this technology could be the beginning of a global skynet. and to japan now it's been three months since the deadly earthquake and tsunami but there is still no an inside of the country's radioactive crisis crowds took to the streets of tokyo yesterday to protest against the country's continued use of nuclear power reactors at the stricken fukushima.

nuclear plants have released staggering amounts of radiation into the surrounding area and the leaks continue meanwhile tens of thousands of evacuees remain in temporary shelters the stigma of radiation exposure has caused local residents to suffer severe social exclusion according to dr robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace institute. there are still people living in areas where there's high radiation and there's children going to school in areas where there's high radiation and so there's been a reluctance to move as quickly as possible and a lot of people from the fukushima area who even people who were born there but who live in tokyo are experiencing discrimination in japan by people who consider them toss of the contaminated even the radiation is not transferable to other people but there are a lot of problems ahead if i can give you one quick example in august there's a very important holiday in japan called oborne in which everyone returns to their hometown because the spirits of ancestors come to their burial places where their

nationals are interned and the family welcomes them these people exclusion zone will not be able to observe this will they just holiday and welcome there the spirits of their ancestors who return no bones when people find that there are unable to carry out their familial obligations for decades because they can't return to these areas people tend to blame themselves even if there are structural reasons so there needs to be some work done to help people through not just the radiation exposure but the social breakdowns that follow radiation exposures and communities time now for more international headlines top african militant has been shot dead a value with a killing reportedly confirmed by d.n.a. tests fossil adama han it was the most wanted man on the continent with a five million dollars bounty on his head is blamed for the one nine hundred ninety eight bombings of american embassies in kenya and tanzania where over two hundred people died in the blasts. voters across turkey are heading to the polls for

parliamentary elections on sunday two parties are battling for power was current prime minister tayyip article on running against the secular republican people's party a victory for heir to hans party would mean a third consecutive five year term in power. russia celebrates a holiday twenty one years ago to the day russia declared independence from the soviet union beginning its break up just one year later the country voted in the first free presidential election in its history. of has more on russia day. 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 election 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 us a saw provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other michel gabacho was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist 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 communist 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 up 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 hardline a coup late that at summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade the support fields and among russians. when the old as the country went through difficult reforms surveys showed that as the anniversary of the election approached few remember and even fewer but it's been good i don't have any emotions about it i did vote for you all to man but i'm far less political now the absolute truth i voted but i can tell you these are all just politicians games that 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 now 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 its democracy 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 you go over and see moscow. our brains have to hear in our t.l.b. back with an obvious have that top stories shortly stay with us. it

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