three. videos for your media project. to our chief john tom. the week's top stories on our t.v. the libyan capital good rocked by nato heaviest airstrikes since the beginning of the military operation with doesn't kill the new york times in anger or an intervention growing on the ground. moscow agrees to lift the ban on european vegetables if there are guarantees they are free from deadly e. coli bacteria came from president's visit during the rush to talks. also the e.u. prepares a new rescue package for bankrupt greece which sparked massive protests against further costs in the country and outrages people in germany who say it's time the tatars leave the euro zone. but as people here in moscow and nationwide celebrate

russia day we look back twenty years to when the country states its first free presidential election. a warm welcome to our weekly program this sunday here on r t i mean you saw no way the conflict in libya shows no sign of letting up rebels and government forces clashed in the western oil port city of zawiya some fifty kilometers from tripoli the libyan capital saw intense nato airstrikes this week with the heaviest bombing since the foreign intervention began back in march it off these 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 nato for killing four members of her family in april military strike archies marouf you know she spoke to

some residents of tripoli caught up in the violence. someone 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. to silence to kill me and go 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 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 raid yet there have been sixteen nato air strikes in just ten hours attacks against civilians must stop khadafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claim

success and the military operation is supposed to protect civilians but the libyan government has repeatedly protested that innocent civilians have been among. the claims have not been independently very while at birth in this clear since march nineteenth the law ordinarily paeans has changed forever son was mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death to this new life why don't talk to me before that she thought death is a good thing and i entered her room that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere could only see what happened i realized immediately was something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone he never said they were going to bonus he promised to protect his but instead they scare us talking about who they are after walker said of his father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato the second world war ended long ago and we try to live our lives we will need no storage 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 prolong its operation and leave it till september that means people here he's months more terror from the skies we're out of nato as opposed 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. this week a russian envoy began his mission in libya in the latest attempt to bring both sides of the conflict in the negotiating table because olmert a gale of visit been dancing for talks with the opposition says the coalition bombing campaign will not help resolve the turmoil we seriously think that airstrikes never solve the political problems and do we said it here very clearly

as long as the bloodshed continues the longer it continues the more difficult it will be to build a national reconciliation process after the civil war so we are very much in favor of building political bridges so to speak and we are ready to help. as more of the claims of civilian casualties emerged anger and doubt grows among libyans over the true goals of the alliance in the country the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen insists only military bases are attacked but in an exclusive interview i pressed him to clarify how nato defines a legitimate target actually the u.n. security council resolution goes beyond a no fly zone according 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 bombs they've seen

civilian buildings blown to pieces does that 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. military. targets. and of course common control centers can be used to the end of organized attacks against civilians show command and control centers are legitimate military targets. well to find out how nato the nato chief handled other challenging questions over there you can watch as full interview in just over twenty minutes time. this week so our continuing clashes between protesters and government forces in syria the country faced double pressure from the last britain and france approach the un 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's a peaceful facility tama gate i think demands more evidence and threatens sanctions so far from the arab lawyers association told r.t. that washington and allies are using the allegations as a tool to remove the current rulers in syria now the syrian regime is under fire this. trial has to be opened so that the international community of us gets the u.n. and b. . to accuse syria of violating international law so they can take the matter to the security council so that we can apply more pressure as yet again the use of international institutions for political whether it's the guy over there is this q. would you counsel this is what the u.s. is doing this is

a building which has been inspected by the way at the time and i'm out of bounds there now they want to have the look this is 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 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 them out of the disputed council. well as we've just heard the u.n. atomic watch start is examining claims and i'm declared nuclear site in syria but i'm laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation says another step another tactic to increase prosperity and 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 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 regret not having vetoed the resolution on libya which as we can all see it 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 or to get trapped if you like for a second time in the same way. here with artsy line from moscow still to come in the program money for nothing. illegal really except the worst trouble

you can see that we have what strings are attached to the three billion dollar loan me i have nothing is given to egypt. and three months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in japan we look at the continuing radiation crisis close call in recent days by many in fact means. first russia is ready to put european vegetables back on supermarket shelves as soon as the e.u. guarantees their produce is free from the deadly e. coli bacteria the move was just one of the outcomes of this week's russia e.u. talks. can be jumped we are ready to live on european edge doubles after we are provided with sufficient guarantee he's going to even say it in russian and the european health officials are finalizing this if it proves the safety of the supply projects this is a good result. well apart from vegetables the leaders also discussed russia's exceptions the world trade organization with the e.u.

commission manual but also saying it's possible by the end of this year i also agree that libyan leader colonel gadhafi has lost his legitimacy and should go this comes after names g eight summit in france where russia so great step in with cease fire mediation efforts in the north african country that you see 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 plan for conditional comments on the greek government to implement and really more cuts tens of thousands have taken to the streets of athens and protest against yet another round of austerity measures but there's also labor in germany where people are tired of their country paying for reckless neighbors. now reports. the euro's good long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he says the german government to stop.

paying cross neighbors you cannot save so you will by saying greece tell the country you have to get rid of greece greece is no longer worth and candidate gold i will go with that but of the european union the nations labeled in the region by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece and spain most of the currency now be fully dragged down of the members boards kober. since last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could early retirement of the countries believe the greek workers who work less. we'll bail you out a second time says chancellor merkel as 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 of

course if we are going to jail sixty seven it's not possible yeah why should sixty fifty nine which are certainly not responsible for the debts and deficits running portugal greece in the pit 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 n l suing merkel's government claiming it to keep facts about bailouts from the public people in germany i ask you 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

have our their structures. for money for high interest rate will use some of their money and then 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 not devaluing the currency or adjusting interest rates even greece's european commissioner says that the country's membership of the common currency is that 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 they're out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro and reorganize. and bring the single cause they dealt with don't you see linde. the i.m.f. has agreed to send egypt three billion dollars just four months after praising the

ousted mubarak dictatorship for its economic achievements but there are fears the money could end up in the pockets of the rich and it's true where many people live on just two dollars a day are just polls here 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 and 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 climbers 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 spend with only slightly different marketing these agreements are being made with priggish transitional government and these transitional governments have late become a primarily how to through leaders of the old regime they composed primarily

because from the regime for example samir radwan finance minister in egypt has been negotiating this loan was a mubarak appointee of our most promising cairo a billion dollars more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion in debt cancellation french president nicolas sarkozy is committed to g. eight to providing up to ten billion dollars in direct aid it's a commitment the west says it's making to help each actions get back on its feet the united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by revolutions v our. 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 to

a regime. unstable. 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 a. very. small anybody except the worst trouble . themselves their own country really loses its. rhetorical operation. but 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 will benefit from the loans the last time my unit 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 will probably sound fiscal management in egypt as far as libya went if the ultimate 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 that many say if the i.m.f. rates the country or closer the country is to having a revolution highlighting just how wrong the organization from the policy r.t. to love of. the i.m.f. loan may land in the park it's a great start to investigate how funds go astray later today we take a look at how the world's dictators and legally both their bank accounts. while gangs go mad their people suffer. how some take advantage of the power that was given to them. she could see

a big dirty money. on our going. to japan now it's been three months since the exactly earthquake and tsunami but there's still no end in sight 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 appel strictly fukushima nuclear plant will be staggering amounts of radiation into the surrounding area continued meanwhile tens of thousands of evacuees remain in temporary shelters because stigma of radiation exposure has caused local residents to suffer severe social exclusion according to dr robert j. cup from the first see my piece ones too. 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 possibly contaminated even the radiation is not transferable to other people but there are a lot of problems ahead if i can get one quick example in august there's a very important holiday into can call in which everyone returns to their hometown because their spirits of ancestors come to their burial places where their ashes are in turn and the family welcomes them these people need solutions and will not be able to observe this will they just holiday and welcome there the spirits of their ancestors who return and when people find that they're 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 exposure is in communities. create space explorers operates in international space to dance after blast off from the

baikonur cosmodrome are on friends that during a five month stay last thoughts will carry out over forty experiments including work on new cancer treatments and attempts to grow food on seasons and crafts lots . the three men have been together for nearly two years proper preparing for this trip and they've traveled all over the world preparing in different models of soyuz and getting ready for what is really this this final push into space in what they say feels almost a little bit like home as crappy as it may be the soyuz is is something they've practiced in for so long now that it feels a little bit light called the three men say they will be taking very special items into space with them albeit very few items pictures of loved ones and so on they'll also be able to talk with their families every day that we've talked to the back up team they're very excited to watch this they say that it's something it's an amazing emotional thing to watch let's check it out.

my life first just show tremendously you can really sense the power in that as as a car what experience tells us so now there you have a three man on their way into the heavens in what is now the world's only highway to the stars the baikonur cosmodrome. a look now at the world news and briefly in this tower top of the militants in somalia with the killing reportedly confirmed by d.n.a. tests go on mohammad was the most wanted man on the continent with a five million dollars bounty on his head is going for the one nine hundred ninety eight bombings of american embassies in kenya and tanzania over two hundred people died in the blast. voters across turkey are heading to the polls for parliamentary

elections on sunday two parties are battling for power the current prime minister. running against the secular republican people's party a good story for everyone's party would mean a third consecutive five year term in power. celebrates a holiday twenty one years ago twenty one years ago to the day russia declared independence from the soviet union and joining up its break up just one year later the country voted in the first free presidential election in its history. 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 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 u.s.s.r. provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow to leaders also competed against each other we held which i was the head of the soviet union the chosen by communist functionary boris yeltsin was in charge of 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 through the you can stand up to the communist system was right in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try and protest with this victory ensure that the soviet union can 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. his rallies attracted hundreds of thousands when the election night came we were hopeful with when 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 their father in a coup late out some of his popularity peak but over the next decade the. 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 things going great i don't have any emotions about it but i did vote for yeltsin and by i am far less political now the absolute truth 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 give 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 so don't even today it's democracy is not perfect and some inside the country so do 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 more personal and political freedoms. see moscow. a short break now here in r.t. and i'll be back with the headlines.

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a network of military bases all around the forms little empire that the united states is trying something that's 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 the world. we don't have foreign bases on 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 all five of the noises our northeast of those of all the us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for this field. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here should provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the

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