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economy cars report on. this week's top stories here in our t.v. believe in capitals been dropped by nato is heaviest air strikes since the beginning of a military operation with dozens killed in the attacks and anger of foreign intervention for a wing on the ground. moscow agrees to lift a ban on european vegetables if there are guarantees the are free from deadly e. coli bacteria the assurance came from president medvedev during the russia e.u. talks. also the e.u. prepares a new rescue package for bankrupt breeze which sparks massive protests against further cuts in the country and outrageous people in germany saying it's time to debtors leave the eurozone. and its people here in moscow and nationwide celebrate russia day will go back twenty years to when the country stays its first free

presidential election. you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow and josh 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 zawiya some fifty kilometers from tripoli the libyan capital saw intensified nato airstrikes this week with the heaviest bombing since the foreign. began back in march could obvious government claims more than thirty people have been killed in the attacks some of them civilians comes as the libyan leader's daughter filed a lawsuit against the french president nicolas sarkozy and nato for killing four members of her family in an april military strike maria maria for national spoke to

some residents of tripoli caught up in the violence saddam has been we've been there has breath 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 most native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months. 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 very high but one thing is clear since march nineteenth the lives of ordinary libyans has changed forever so most 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 scariest talking about who they are. sort 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 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 target khadafi us 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 down grows among libyans over the true goals of the alliance in the country our season he said now we 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

accidently 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 our admiral de 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 that three in a car on a phone or in 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 control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians show amount of control centers military. targets that's what i like to read a question to you that was written to us by one of our viewers on facebook. who is 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. identifying legitimate military targets. and to find out how the nato chief handled other challenging questions over libya you can watch the full interview in about an hour's time or do it right now by logging on to our website dot com. this week saw the 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 was a nuclear site syria insists it was a peaceful facility but the atomic agency demands more evidence and threaten

sanctions. star from the arab lawyers association told r.t. 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 u.n. 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 yet again abuse of the international institutions for political whether it's to die 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 number of times but there they want to have the last look at this it is out doing they told them a number of times that this is a military is the measure and this is nothing to do with the nuclear and the g. or power or

a reactor the saying since you're 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 them out there the security council. well as we've just heard the u.n. atomic why. watchdog is examining syria's alleged activities in the field claiming that the syllabi destroyed by israel in two thousand and seven was and on declared nuclear site john law and from the institute for democracy and cooperation says however the move is just another tactic to increase pressure on damascus i think what we're seeing are the western powers ratcheting up the pressure they're trying to increase their room for maneuver so in the draft resolution you have crimes against humanity you have a threat to international peace and security and in parallel you have this cranking up now of pressure from the international atomic energy authority so i think this is a way of increasing the number of cards that the west believes that it holds as far as russia is concerned i think that it's pretty obvious that russia or the russian

government greatly regrets not having vetoed the resolution on libya which as we can all see was immediately exploited. to go way beyond the terms laid down in the resolution i mean by that that the western powers immediately started to attack the libyan government launched a war whose goal is regime change whereas obviously regime change is not included in the terms of that resolution so i suspect that the russian government is as they say once bitten twice shy and i'm sure moscow is very reluctant now to get involved in to get trapped if you like for a second time in the same way. watching r.t. live from moscow still have for you 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'll look at why some people fear of the technology could be used on american soil. and three months after

a devastating earthquake and tsunami in japan a walkout 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 of products is free from the deadly e. coli bacteria the move was just one of the outcomes of this week's russia e.u. talks. we are ready to lift the ban on european vegetables after we are provided with sufficient guarantees by the e.u. . and the russian and the european health officials and for new laws and this is if it could be true for 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 with e.u. commission chief brazos 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 may's g. eight summit in france or russia agreed to step in with ceasefire mediation efforts in the north african country. the european union and the international monetary fund they 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 baby well comes with conditions calling for the greek governments to implement even more cuts tens of thousands of taking to the streets of athens in protest against yet another round of austerity measures but 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 good long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government to stop with the bankrupt neighbors you cannot 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 the number of the your people in korea you know the nations labeled in delusion by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece spain most drop the currency now before they drag down all the members wards kerber. things last year raise the pension age to sixty five and could early retirement of the countries believe that 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. 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 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 is revolting klaus pizza will she is fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries to take the chance to say ok we get out we. have our depth restructured those who gave money for high interest rate with some

of their money and they can qualify again for the 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 countries membership of the common currency is at risk unless athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the. greeks no agree with germans who say that bit's out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro reorganize. and bring the single currency down with the. creation of the euro was a mistake of the currency is heading for imminent collapse that's what french nationalist leader marine le pen says here's a preview of what's to come later today. but the boxes contain

a year's data to think it is just waiting to be signed or the like this means that they're used to build the currency wrong they have told us of a joke you say you're a little green grocer employment raising purchasing power really loving us to counterbalance the power of the dollar and the share story of the usa is the weakest in the world and to. bangkok to do all that said the year is going to die mark. this week u.s. armed drones and fighter 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 anti-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 un 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's 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-qaeda and it's an 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 where 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 the technology might soon be used to snoop a little closer to home than it did to counter reports. this so that when a u.s. drone hits 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 and domestic law. using pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated the drone attacks kill fifty non-target it persons for each intended target one of the things the united states kind of pretends is that we are morally superior we are better just 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 u.s. government has more to do with u.s. control over mexican territory than 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 are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe

protesting the war protesting some are governmental act and they'll be chilling free speech should your old will 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 and in two thousand and seven protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects floating overhead it looked like dragons well it turned out they were robo flies developed by the pentagon surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing any intelligence gathering in practice that people leave in fear that it may be time they could become a target in someone's deadly b.t.o. and maybe here in the last year that with the rapid expansion of spy 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 our our team check out the column section on our website american radio host alex jones explains why this technology could be the

beginning of a global skynet. to japan now it's been three months since the deadly earthquake and tsunami but there are still no and inside for 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. the stricken from nuclear plants have the least staggering amounts of radiation into the surrounding area and the leaks continue meanwhile of hands 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 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 in which everyone returns to their hometown because the spirits of ancestors come to their burial places where their actions are in turn 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 to no bone when people find that their own able 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 exposure is in communities. all it's not take a look at some of the stories from the world and top of african militant has been shot dead in somalia where the killing of reportedly confirmed five d.n.a.

test the hobbit was the most wanted man on the continent where the five million dollars bounty on his head is blamed for the nine hundred ninety eight bombings of american embassies in kenya and tanzania where over two hundred people died and the blast. voters across turkey are heading to the polls for parliamentary elections on sunday two parties are battling for power with current prime minister tayyip erdogan running against a 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 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 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 us a saw provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other michel gorbachev 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 communists establishment in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try armed 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 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 communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance to a hardline a coup late that at summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade. fields and among russians dwindled as the country went through difficult reforms surveys

showed that as the anniversary of the election approached few remember and even fewer care but it's been good i don't have any emotions about it i did vote for you all to nan but i'm far less political now the absolute 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 that while christie is not perfect and some inside the country sided 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 over and see moscow. well that brings us up to date here on our team and stay with us for an update on the week's top stories shortly. while the kings go man their people suffer.