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see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was a child retreat. the week's top stories on r.t. nato launches its heaviest and most punishing airstrikes on the libyan capital killing thousands as the rebels complained alliance is ignoring the real from fly meanwhile the chorus of international condemnation over syria gets louder also. an american warship docked in. to take part in the two war games something the russian foreign ministry is completely not happy about. and good comes from the boiling greece says the government moves to make deep cuts in public spending in exchange for another e.u. bailout germany those footing the bill say they're getting tired of paying others debts now. and it's the day that marks the birth of modern russia celebrating the

country's declaration of sovereignty and its first free election which led to the historic for. welcome. 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. fifteen rebels have reportedly been killed in the fierce fighting there the offensive marks a breakthrough for the opposition which was swept out from the port tillery fire shelling from pro-government troops about three months ago the advance has prompted the closure of a key supply route from chin is here rebel leaders have complained that they too

are supporting their military efforts are focused too heavily on tripoli rather than on the front lines in misrata and zawiya and this is leading to even more civilian casualties as our reporters. saddam has been we know has 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 they 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 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 that innocent civilians have been among the dead the claims have not been independently verified but one thing is clear since march nineteenth the live would normally prince has changed forever saddam as mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death to this new life my girl told me before that she saw death as a good thing when i entered her room that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere could hardly see what happened but i realized immediately it was something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone he never said they were going to bomb us he promised to protect us 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 to september that means people here face months more terror from the skies one of nature's 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 it made 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 goodness and i asked him to clarify how the coalition defied as

a legitimate target 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 i just want to clarify for some of our viewers who have seen homes bombs are 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. i would like to stress that we are not targeting individuals we believe military. targets. and of course command and control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians come out of control centers are legitimate military targets. and you can find out how the nato chief handled other challenging

questions of libya in its full interview is shown on r.t. again it's all here in two hours time 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 sent to the city in order to quote claims it from armed rebel groups which killed at least a 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 from russia which opposes any attempt to intervene in the syrian conflict and setting back the move out of world observers believe some western nations are manipulating the u.n. now in an attempt to benefit from the country's civil conflict. the united nations . is is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its most powerful members notably the united states britain sort of the western

world is concerned also france or in other countries in the european union because just as they are considering cracking down on the syrian government they have not considered cracking down on the governments of bahrain or other or each of the point in time when there was also and for what is happening in syria and simultaneously in almost all countries in the middle east and in north africa. we flexed internal problems all countries have internal problems no doubt about it and there is a genuine desire on the part of many people in syria no doubt to get rid of its very fossilised 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 warship the u.s.s. monterey has sailed back into the black sea ready for war games of ukrainian navy but its presence so close to russia's southern borders drawn criticism from moscow

the vessel in question is an integral part of nato as proposed missile shield which moscow says creates more threats than addresses he selects years s.k. reports. this american warship the u.s.s. monterey carries a high tech and sophisticated and to marseille system called ages and indeed according to the plan of the pentagon worked out several years ago that ships of the u.s.s. monterey's 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 coast 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 docks in at the desa harbor to take part in the nato war games it is especially bewildering given the fact that all the previous seabreeze war games in order have seen only small u.s. u.s. ships take part in these war games of the russian foreign ministry says that this. the fact that the u.s.s. monterey is now in the black sea region is in fact a threat to the russian national security and in some way a violation of the agreements reached between washington in moscow and moscow over the new missile defense plan in a 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 what 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 wrong now we've heard furthermore plans of building radar locations stations in romania and turkey and in poland so all this. according to the russian foreign ministry is not something discussed between presidents with 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 accusation 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 what is a lecturer at your school reporting for us that are coming out for just a few minutes in the program one woman's fight for her dead son's family we've got the story of a grand to be the legal guardian of her late son's children who launched a crusade against russian lore and social attitudes she succeeds in or just

a couple of minutes. three months from the onset of the fukushima nuclear crisis in japan we look at how government efforts to play 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. believe surely she 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 restore shipments of vegetables from europe to russia we are ready to leave the barn and european vegetables after we are provided sufficient currencies by the e.u. . or that it was also words of the e.u. to speed up the decision on russia's entry to the world trade organization with the e.u. commission chief because their men were also saying accession is possible by the

end of the year the two sides also discuss the visa regime saying there could be agreement on the issue as soon as next month there'll be another russia e.u. summit in brussels in the winter was unusual. as european officials that ready the next slice of greece's bailout the european central bank and 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 to spain the place the child of the debt crisis we seem to think of building a the last year they deal with these tough conditions for that bailout money and the struggle really making sense of planning this new time that it's very likely the measures will have to be implemented if police is going to be able to continue existing international bailout money now all this on the back of because the police

last week said this sixteen percent of the week what pulls a company out of the job way ahead cutlass by you can see the main plant around me this is what people have been gathering and regulate it's a protest against the state a state smashing that we're joined at the moment by anthony gates in an electorate being in a frenzy heading away now these people statesmanship being. are they going to have any effect will be only effects are going to have this is they're 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 in the south that the ration of living standards are under an extreme rise in unemployment. and . they're on a very deep recession and the new program the new the middle term program they're proposing now are just going to it's going just to make things worse it is a privatization program which is not just privatization it's completely 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 christian of course leaving the u.s. able to get i think that greece being part of the euro zone these are contributing factors to the problems that the euro zone is like a financial monetary straight jacket it's completely rational when you put countries with different activity levels different going to competitiveness levels in the same money michael. this has been finding out about the feeling in germany and that there are some people who think they would be better out of the usa to get . the euros dead long live germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government to stop its bailing out bankrupt neighbors you cannot save the euro by saving greece on the country you have to get rid of

greece greece is no longer worth a candidate no longer we're 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 warms kerber. things last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could only 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 either 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 always six fifteen which are certainly not responsible for

the debts and the deficits run in portugal greece and the pick 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 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's fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries they should take the chance to say ok we get out we. solve our problems we would have our dept restructured those who gave money for

a 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 on this athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the. the i.m.f. greeks now agree with germans who say that it's 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. . to japan now where the stricken fukushima nuclear power plant continues to leak radiation while a different kind of fallout public anger is spilling out of the streets now huge crowds turned out across japan yesterday to the mother then to the country's use of

nuclear power the protests came on the heel of revelations of the true extent of the radioactive contamination following the fukushima disaster tens of thousands of people evacuated from the areas rather the plant is still in temporary shelters and instead of receiving the sympathy of that they visit. suffering discrimination even from their own government that's according to dr robert jacobs who spoke to us he's 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 ashes are in turn and the family want to miss them these people the exclusion zone will not be able to observe this religious holiday and welcome there the spirits of their ancestors who return and when people find that there are unable to carry out their familial obligations for decades because they can't return to these areas people tend to blame themselves even if there are structural reasons so there needs to be some work done to help people through not just the radiation exposure but the social breakdowns that follow radiation exposure is in communities. now to a story of russian grandmother whose attempts to keep the memory of her late son alive have landed her in a legal and moral controversy exotic boy got the details. it was only at fifty seven that lamar understood the true meaning of having her hands full an accomplished scientist a wife of three decades and also

a devoted mother none of these roles kept her as busy as she is now her tragedy she became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else to go soon though the death of my son created a hole in my life that i will never close but the birth of my grandchildren certainly provides some solace is god's gift to me the mar son died of cancer three years ago but before his first chemotherapy a session doctors conserved his sperm with the help of surrogate mothers two sets of twins were brought into the world. the maras husband left her her scientific career was put on hold yet lamar's says they're all trifles compared to bereavement brought about by her son's death. it's love which is fed by 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

despair. with her large family support lamar's says she has no financial parental concerns about raising her grandchildren her main problem now is the reluctance of the russian state to recognize her as the mother of these children and her deceased son as their father. lord believes the law is in their side. according to russian law there are no limits on who can become appearing through the use of surrogates motherhood's of course cases like this one are still very unusual in russia that's why some registration officers or court officials may be confused and refuse to register children but the law is definitely in our favor. that maher 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 share number of children involved her story

a good many russians questioning the affleck's of this kind of parenting work that you would. employ a mechanic so to 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 your genes no matter what. but lamar 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 no age cap for people who are willing to adopt children the only cabinet is that a potential parent should be at least sixteen years older than the child in law muskies this age difference is almost sixty years this doesn't sit 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 from the boy artsy moscow. quick mention about dot com our website they can always find many more of our reports as well as expert opinions blogs and a chance to have your say on the stories you feel strongly about or long tonight a veiled gathering of the world's movers and shakers we talked to activists who make a stand against the impenetrable blackout surrounding the annual bill to get some of those theories of just what the side of the wall of silence whether it's worth taxpayers having to fight a bit more about that online also. crowded space the skits three doubling the number of human family you know but the combined international group performed the research including attempts to fight a cancer. can also be expecting a farewell visit from nasa's atlantis to the last over flight of the current u.s. space shuttle program as it is. there's

a festive atmosphere 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 soviet 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 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 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 year ceasar provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other mikhail 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 communist establishment in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try arm 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 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 result became clear boris yeltsin defeated the communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance to the coup laid out some of 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 if you remember and even fewer. things been good i don't have any emotions about it i did vote for you all to man but i'm far less political now absolutely untrue 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 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 of all to see moscow. than just a few minutes tonight we 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 former colonies sports and to the south for you here on our team from moscow with me kevin zero in this sunday evening the twelfth of june.

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