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video for your media project free media r t v dot com. the week's top stories on our t.v. the libyan capital been rocked by nato heaviest airstrikes since the beginning of the military operation with dozens killed in the attacks in anger at foreign intervention a growing on the ground. moscow agrees to lift a ban on european vegetables if there are guarantees they are free from the deadly e. coli bacteria the assurance came from president visited during rush a new talks. also the e.u. prepares a new rescue package for bankrupt greece which sparked massive protests against further of costs in the country and outrages people in germany who say it's time the debtors leave the euro zone. but as people here in moscow in nationwide celebrate russian day we look back twenty years to when the country state's its first free presidential election.

a warm welcome to our weekly program this sunday here on r t a many say 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 intensified nato airstrikes this week with the heaviest bombing since the foreign intervention began back in. march gadhafi 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 r.t. is marouf a notion spoke to some residents of tripoli caught up in the violence. saddam has been weaving 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 to do it myself. but who wants to kill the teenager. some as they do c.t. tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night forms have been fooling around the city with a population of around a million no one can ever say when or where the next one would lie and. this week in the most intensive air idea that there have been sixteen 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 the innocent civilians have been among the dead

the claims have not been independently very high and with twice in his clear since march nineteenth the law of warden early prince has changed forever saddam was 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 see what happened but i realized immediately it was something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone they never sat they were going to bomb us he promised to protect his but instead they scare us talking about who they are of obamacare 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'll 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 oh

september that means people here face months more terror from the skies one 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. t. tripoli. this week a russian envoy began his mission in libya in the latest attempt to bring both sides of the conflict to the negotiating table we will meet a gale of who visited benghazi for talks with the opposition says the coalition bombing campaign will not help resolve the turmoil we seriously think that airstrikes never sold political problems and 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 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. as more claims of civilian casualties emerge 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 while 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 cording to the un 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 that three 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 command the control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians show amount of control centers are legitimate military targets. well to find out how the nato chief the nato chief handled other challenging questions over libya you can watch his full interview here on our t.v. in just over twenty minutes time. this week saw continuing clashes between protesters and government forces in syria as the country faced double pressure from the west 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 syrian system was a peaceful facility but the atomic agency demands more evidence and threatens sanctions. tarr from the arab lawyers association told r.t. that washington at the 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 them out there to this community council so that we can apply more pressure as yet again . on the international institutions for political whether it's a guy over there is this cute or do you counsel this is what the u.s. is doing this is a building which has been inspected by the. time and number of times but they are not they want to have. 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 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. well as we've just heard the u.n. atomic watchdog is examining claims over an undeclared nuclear site in syria but on laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation says the move is just another tactic to increase presser 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 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 they've 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. here with r t line from moscow still to come on the program money for nothing. illegal i believe the worst trouble. we have what strings are attached to the three billion dollar loan the i.m.f. is giving to egypt. three months after the devastating earthquake and

tsunami in japan we look at the continuing radiation crisis closely we've been paid by many in fact remains. but first russia is ready to put european vegetables back on supermarket shelves as soon as the e.u. guarantees to produce 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 guarantee is going to be that much of the russian and the european health officials are finalizing a significant breakthrough for the safety of the supply projects this is a good result. well apart from vegetables the leaders also discussed russia's accession to the world trade organization with the e.u. commission chief manual but also saying it's possible by the end of this year they also agree that libyan leader colonel gadhafi has lost his legitimacy and should go

this comes after news g. eight summit in france where russia agreed to step in with ceasefire mediation 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 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 linger in germany where people are tired of their country paying for reckless neighbors authorities daniel machelp now reports. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus curb book he's suing the german government to stop. bankrupt neighbors you can save the euro by saving greece on the country you have

to get rid of greece greece is no longer worth the candidate of gold i'll go with the number of the european union the nations labeled in the region by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece and spain most drop the currency now before they drag down all the members wards kerber. last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could early retirement of the country's 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 up 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 jail sixty seven it's not possible to declare why other people should go with six fifteen 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 to keep 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 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 would lose 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 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 weak states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single currency down with a bushel. the i.m.f. has agreed to loan to egypt three billion dollars just four months after praising the ousted mubarak dictator separates economic achievements but there are fears the money could end up in the pockets of the rich in the country where many people

there are 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 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 skin with only slightly different marketing these agreements are being made with tradition transitional governments and these transitional governments have. they coming primarily out of some figures of the old regime they composed primarily of figures from your regime for example samir road one the finance minister in egypt has been negotiating this loan was a mubarak appointee a bombers 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 each actions get back on the feet united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by the revolutions v.o.r. . considerable financial contributions gyptian 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. policies this a regime that is unstable. would could be considered there's 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 over leaders of egypt will be really treasury exactly like a real flow and the really except the worst trouble. syria a country literally loses its sovereignty to western bankers regular equilibration 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 rejections of living below just two dollars a day doubled in february this year the i.m.f. praised the mubarak regime sound fiscal management in egypt as far as libya went it did the ultra 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 the better the i.m.f. rates the country the closer that country is to having a revolution highlighting just how wrong the organization can 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 investigate how funds go astray later today we take a look at how the world's dictators and legally both their bank accounts. wild teens go mad there are people suffering. was caused some to going to vanish of power that was given to them. secret some big dirty money. on our team.

to japan now it's been three months since the deadly 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 nuclear power reactors apple sticky fukushima nuclear plant and probably staggering amounts of radiation into the surrounding area 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 to make up something here seem to. there are still people living in areas where there is 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 though radiation is not transferable to other people but there

are a lot of problems ahead if i can give 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 ashes are interned and the family welcomes them these people exclusions and will not be able to observe this will they just holiday and welcome there the spirits of their ancestors who return and obama 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 exposures in communities. three space explorers have reached the international space station two days after a spectacular blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome earlier on wednesday during their five month stay the astronauts will carry out over forty experiments including work on new cancer treatment and attempts to grow food in space arches

lindsey francis witness the last the three men have been together for nearly two years prep or 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 cramped as it may be the soyuz is is something they've practiced in for so long now that it feels a little bit like cold and 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 to also be able to talk with their families every day we've talked to the backup team they're very excited to watch this they say that it's something in a exit an amazing an emotional thing to watch let's check it out.

loud what it's like first just shock tremendously you can really sense the power in that as as it took off what an experience that was 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 a world news in briefly at this hour top ten militants and some with the killing reportedly confirmed by d.n.a. tests. the most wanted man on the continent with a five million dollars bounty on his head is way over the one thousand bombings of american embassies in kenya and tanzania where 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 with the current prime minister. running

against the secular republican people's party a victory for arabs wants a party with 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 broke 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 but 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 lecture 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 an even conflict in moscow two leaders also competed against each other we'll go but there was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist functionary boris yeltsin was in charge of new resolve and 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 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 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 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 the coup late that out some of his popularity peaked but over the next decade the support fields and 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 but it's been good i don't have any emotions about it but i did vote for you all to man but i am far less political now absolutely 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 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 it's democracy is not perfect and some inside the country said they still yearn for us. but one thing is very hard to argue against as a. of these changes twenty years ago russians all wealth of more personal and political freedoms. all see moscow. a short break now here in r.t. and i'll be back with the headline.

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 reference. to leave early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the former still evil empire that the united states is trying to build it'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 us. we don't have foreign 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 our bases of. the noises our north of those involved. because there were all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people a day since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions they have thing else you get everything you need in wealthy british style . and sometimes it's.