the move to the joint be the children's home of villas the gateway to the grand imperial college to talk to school until you can a little closer to civility to go and. read this and the colonel was her child as a retreat. top stories on our nato launches its heaviest and most publishing airstrikes on the libyan capital killing thousands as the rebels complained your lies is ignoring the real from flight meanwhile the chorus of international condemnation over syria gets ever louder also. an american warship docked in the just south of ukraine to take part in the two board games something the russian foreign ministry is completely not happy about. and good comes from the boiling grease says the government moves to make deep cuts in public spending in exchange for another

e.u. . germany those photographs will say they're getting tired of paying others debts now. and it's the day that marks the birth of modern russia celebrate from the country's declaration of sovereignty and its first free election which led to the historic for you to. welcome mrs arty is a. kevin owen and i've got our news review of the week for you and first tonight libyan rebel fighters on the mediterranean frontline are trying to retake the major old port of zawiya not far from the capital tripoli at least one hundred members of gadhafi forces and fifteen rebels have reportedly been killed in the fierce fighting there in france of marks a breakthrough for the opposition which was swept out from the paul pillar a fire. shelly from pro-government troops about three months ago the advances

prompted the closure of a key supply route from chile as here rebel leaders have complained the data supporting their military efforts are focused too heavily on tripoli rather than on the front lines in misrata and we're and this is leading to even more civilian casualties as that is griffin national reporters. certainly has been within a hair's breadth of death 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 some as 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 could ask they must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future major has frequently claimed success in the military operations 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 verified but one thing is clear since march nineteenth the life wouldn't really be ins has changed forever son was mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death to this new life my girl told 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 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 i never said they were going to go almost he promised to protect his

good instead they scare us talking about who they are are bulkier saddam is 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 all need our storage wars and always into really other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life nato has just prolonged its operation and leave it all september that means people here face months more terror from the skies we had of nato is supposed to targets gadhafi his military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's compound but it's almost damaged the lives of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will ever recover. tripoli. well a bit over increasing claims of civilian casualties in libya many no question the

humanitarian goals of the alliance in an interview with the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen earlier this week mccauley going to ask him to clarify how the coalition defied was 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 are they've seen civilian buildings blown to pieces. in a car on a phone or in a hospital. 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 command and control centers can be used to plan and

organize against civilians come under control centers are you commit military targets. and you can find out how the nato chief handled other challenging questions of libya and its full interview is shown on r.t. again it's all the time i would watch it now if you'd like it's on our website streaming whatever you want to see it at r.t. dot com. tensions are also peaking in syria right now government troops have stormed the rebel northern border town of just with tanks and military helicopters the army says the city in order to quote close it from armed rebel groups which killed at least one hundred twenty police officers last week meanwhile britain and france are still pushing for a un resolution condemning the brutal crackdown against anti-government activists and russia which opposes any attempts to intervene in the syrian conflict and sent one back to move out of world observers believe that some western nations are manipulating the u.n. now in an attempt to benefit from the country's civil conflict. the united nations

. is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its most powerful members notably the united states britain and i thought it was through all this concern also france and in other countries in the european union because just as they are considering cracking down on the syrian government did not consider cracking down on the government of bahrain or other or each of the incident thailand when there was also and for what is happening in syria is simultaneously in almost all countries in the middle east and in north africa. internal problems all countries have internal problems not going well and there is a genuine desire on the part of many people in syria no doubt to get rid of its very fossilized government but there is also external interference notably from the united states and from britain and from france to take advantage of these internal problems. that american and. the u.s.'s monterey has sailed back into the black sea

ready for war games of ukrainian navy but its presence so close the russian southern border has drawn criticism from moscow the vessel in question is an integral part of nato as proposed missile shield which says creates more threats than addresses that is unless you're a jet ski reports. this american warship the u.s.s. monterey carries a high tech and sophisticated and to my style system called ages and indeed according to the plan of the pentagon worked out several years ago that ships of the u.s.s. monitor race class could be moved to the black sea coast in case of an escalating conflict we understand that the u.s.s. monterey was moved from the american calls to the mediterranean as part of the new missile defense shield in europe worked out by the obama administration in two thousand and nine but the question which raises eyebrows in the russian foreign ministry and that was published in the statement earlier on sunday that there is as

long as there is no violent conflict in the black sea region why is the ship the u.s.s. monterey glocks in the harbor to take part in the nato war games it is especially bewildering given the fact that all the previous seabreeze war games in odessa have seen only small u.s. u.s. ships take part in these war games but the russian foreign ministry says that this . fact out of the u.s.s. monterey is now in the black sea region is in fact a threat to the russian national security and unsound way a violation of the agreement reached between washington in moscow and moscow over the new missile defense plan in europe the initial plan of the george w. bush administration of missile defense shield in europe was scrapped by the obama administration in two thousand and nine and you plan was proposed and agreed between russia and nato but what we've seen so far which we've been seeing recently

described by the russian foreign ministry and many experts as a situation when words do not match actions now first we've had american patriot missiles dispatched in the polish town off more on now we've heard furthermore plans of building radio locations stations in romania and turkey and in poland so all this. according to the russian foreign ministry is not something discussed between presidents refuted and obama between russia and nato so clearly the war of words continues and it is interesting to see whether there will be any reaction on the latest statement by the russian foreign ministry published on sunday that the concerns raised by the statement and the direct accusations of washington of not keeping its promise and trying to build a collective security system in europe together and doing it only in one way order . it is a lecturer at your school reporting for us there coming up through just a few minutes in the program one woman's fight for her dead son's family we've got

the story of a grandmother i mean to be the legal guardian of the late son children who launched a crusade against russian law and social attitudes she succeeds of not just a couple of minutes. and three months from the onset of the fukushima nuclear crisis in japan we look at how government efforts to downplay radioactive contamination provoked a massive display of public rage. first russia will resume the import of european vegetables if the union guarantees the safety of its products ensuring their free from the deadly e. coli bacteria that announcement came during this week's meeting. you surely as you would know we had vegetables today and yesterday i don't know where they came from i suppose we'll have to wait and see and we were discussing ways to restart shipments of vegetables from europe to russia we are ready to leave the planet and european vegetables after we are provided live sufficient currencies bloody e.u. . over but it was also words leave to speed up the decision on russia's entry to

the world trade organization with the new commission chief because their man would also say accession is possible by the end of the year the two sides of also discussed the visa regimes thing there could be agreement on the next one will be another russia the e.u. summit in brussels at the winter. as european officials are ready the next slice of greece's bailout the european central bank of the german government are arguing over how to get private investors to contribute just one year after the first payment the next stage comes with conditions calling on athens to implement even stricter austerity measures firth's in greece where protests against the cuts of not relented. place this being the case the child of the dead guy said we seem to hang a building and the last year they killed me with these conditions that i spell out money and the study really thinks that's planning this he fired but it's very

likely the measures will have to be implemented if places gangs able to continue i think international bailout money now all this on the back of because the police love that thinks the defense of the weak what pulls a tiny half the jump away head cutlass by you can see the main plant around me this is what people have been capturing and killing a protest against the state all states imagine that we're joined at the moment by atlanta gates is an elected leader and the heading right now these little states may just be. all they can have and if it will be only fixed they're going to have this is going to make matters worse for the past year greece is facing a source of disaster it's on a stereotype program and seen before in greece which has only resulted now south of the ration of living starters are on a comic stream rising unemployment. and. other and

a very deep recession and the new program the new commitment there program they're proposing now that's going to disappoint us to make things worse because a privatization program which is not just privatization is completely real it's complete losing of public companies utilities and assets and the only thing we're going to see is even more employment and even more to ration of living standards very personal misleading you're a single guy things out greece being part of the euro zone these are contributing factor to the problems that the euro zone is like a financier on monetary straitjacket it's completely rational when you put countries with different productivities levels different countries competitiveness levels in the same money michael. in finding out about the feeling in germany and there are some people you think think we might be got out of the usa. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's german government still.

bankrupt neighbors you can all say thank you greece all the country you have to get rid of greece is no longer worth candidate. number of the european union the nations labeled in the region by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece and spain must drop the currency now before they drag down other members wards kober. things last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could early retirement of the country's believe the greek workers work less. we'll bail you out a second time says chancellor merkel but if you want cash in future you must work longer the statement caused 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 or likely yeah why other people should go with sixty fifty nine which are certainly not responsible for the debts and deficits running portugal greece in the pic states raise the age when when the greek people retire. sorry all three people well we have to work along as well germans or wrote boiling point anger which could spill out onto the streets the powerful greens n l suing merkel's government claiming it hid 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's revolting close pizza will she is fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries ok chance to say ok we get

out we solve our problems we have kept the structures. of money for high interest rate and with some of their money and they can qualify again for the euro maybe after ten fifteen years greece protests the euro's a straight jacket which blocks traditional ways to boost your economy like devaluing the currency or adjusting interest rates even greece's european commissioner says that the country's membership of the common currency is a risk unless athens takes a 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 or stay and bring the single currency down with them down your bushel r.t. in. to japan now where the stricken fukushima nuclear power plant continues to make

radiation while a different part of public anger is spinning out of the streets now huge crowds turned out across japan yesterday to demand an end to the country's use of. protest or maybe live revelations of the true extent of radioactive contamination following the. tens of thousands of people evacuated from the area rather than the still in temporary shelters and instead of receiving the same thing that they visit with suffering discrimination even from their own government that's according to the to robert jacobson spoke to us and 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 we 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 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 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 you know 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 community. now to a story of russian grandmother whose attempts to keep the memory of her late son alive of landed her in a legal and moral controversy not exam a boy who got the details. it was only after fifty seven that lamar understood

the true meaning of having her hands full and accomplished scientist a wife of three decades and also a devoted mother none of these roles capture as busy as she is now her tragedy she became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else would you assume the death of my son created a hole in my life that i will never close but the birth of my grandchildren certainly provide some solace is god's gift to me the mar son died of cancer three years ago before his first chemotherapy session doctors conserve his sperm but the help of surrogate mothers she sets of twins are brought into the world. the march has meant left her scientific career was put on hold yet lamar says they're all trifles compared to the revenge granted bowed by her son's death you should perish

. it's love which is for grief but it's love nonetheless three years ago i couldn't imagine myself even smiling let alone laughing or singing songs but the little ones pulled me out of this abyss of just they are. but her large family supported lamar so she has no financial or parental concerns about raising her grandchildren the main problem now is the reluctance of the russian state to recognize her as the modern of these children and her deceased son as their father. laura believes the law is in their side and. according to russian law there are no limits on who can become a parent through the use of surrogate mother hoots of course cases like this one are still very unusual in russia that's why some religious tradition offices or court officials me be confused and refuse to greatest are children but the law is definitely in our favor. summer is this third woman in russia who used the sperm of

her deceased son to continue the family's lineage yet whether it is due to her age or the sheer number of children involved her story a good many russians questioning the affix of these kind of parenting. sides employ comics ultimately lead to this very ambiguous situation we can really tell the difference between a son and a grandson there are so many orphans in russia so she wanted to be a mother she could have easily realized her maternal instincts i think ultimately it's a very selfish drive to pass through genes no matter what you couldn't care less about societal attitudes too much suffering for the loss of your only son persuaded her that there is no such thing as too many grandchildren russian law has not age caps for people willing to adopt children the only cavite is that a potential parent could be at least sixteen years older than the child in law muskies this age difference is almost sixty years is doesn't say easily in

a country where most people become parents before they turned thirty they were raising even two kids is often seen more than a handful. artsy. quick mention about to go out com our website they can always find many more of our reports as well as expert opinions blogs in the terms of your story if you feel strongly about online tonight a veiled gathering of the world's movers and shakers we talked to activists who make a stand against the impenetrable. me to get some of those theories to. the wall of silence whether it's worth taxpayers having to fund this. also. space the. rest of doubling the number of you know with the combined international. research including into. fighting cancer can also be expecting

a farewell visit from nasa's atlantis to the last of a flight of the current u.s. space shuttle program as it is. there's a first about this fear in moscow and around russia today as the country marks twenty one years since it declared its sovereignty just one year later it held its first free elections which then resulted in victory for the reformist president boris yeltsin shortly afterwards the soffit union collapsed as it is a go go robin of reports even today memories of the bumpy road to democracy is still fresh in many people's minds. 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 and 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 asar provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow to leaders also competed against each other we held guard which i was the head of the soviet union chosen by communists functionaries 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 stand up to the communists establishment in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try and protest with this victory ensured that the soviet union could break out without armed conflict. unlike former soviet leaders yeltsin campaign like a democratic politician meeting their electorate and delivering stump speeches at

factories and 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 later some of his popularity peaked but over the next decade. fields and among russians going bold 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 are going to get i don't have any emotions about it but i did go for a while to man but i am far less political now. 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 the well kristie 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 have more personal and political freedoms eager and see moscow. now just a few minutes and i will talk to a possible candidate for next year's french presidential elections and the woman who believes that france is in danger of being colonized by its own former colonies sport said to the south for you here on our team from moscow with me kevin oh in the summer evening the twelfth of june.

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. really early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the forms of the empire that the united states is trying to build 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. we don't have power 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 cross our bases are five of the noise is our north as it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for the speech. since the in the world war two d. spaces have been.