saluting the state. of the. week for stories from our teammates a launches its heaviest and most publishing airstrikes on the libyan capital killing just as the rebels complain the advance is ignoring the real frontline meanwhile the chorus of the national condemnation over syria gets ever allowed the pulse of. american warship docked in an address is hard but it sounded great to take part in the two war games something the russian foreign ministry is completely not happy about. that event just images are placed in exchange for continued money. and it's the date of march the

birth of modern russia celebrating the country's declaration of sovereignty of the first free election which led to the historic fall of the salt. welcome this is a see it's nine pm now here in moscow my name's kevin owen with news review of the week for you and first this hour libyan rebel fighters on the mediterranean frontline are trying to retake the major oil port of zawiya north far from the capital tripoli at least one hundred members of gadhafi forces and fifteen rebels have reportedly been killed in fierce fighting the offensive marks a breakthrough for the opposition which was swept out from the port by artillery fire an intensive shelling pro-government troops about three months ago. the closure of a key supply route from. rebel leaders have complained that nato airstrikes though

a supporting their military efforts are focused too heavily on tripoli rather than on frontlines in misrata runs away or amounts leading to even more civilian casualties artie's riff and found out. solomon has been within a hair's breath of their 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 myself. but who wants to kill the teenager summers the age of city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night always 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 verres yet there have been sixteen nato airstrikes in just ten hours attacks against civilians must start khadafi 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 with the libyan government has repeatedly protested the innocent civilians have been among the dad claims have not been independently very high but one thing is clear since march nineteenth the lives of ordinary libyans has changed forever some 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 kit thing and i entered her room 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 they never said they were going to go almost a promise to protect us but instead they scare us talking about who they are are the work of saddam 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 storage wars and always into other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life has just prolonged its operation and leave it till september people here face months more terror from the skies one of nature's supposed to target 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. r t tripoli. the mood ever increasing claims of civilian casualties in libya really no question the humanitarian goals of the alliance in an interview with the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen earlier this week were colleague mr know i asked him to clarify how the coalition 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 are they've seen civilian buildings blown to pieces does that see in a car on a phone or in a hospital. constitutes a command center for your purposes when you say any. i would like to stress that we are not targeting individuals we hit legitimity military. targets. and of course command and control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians show command and control centers are legitimate military targets. and you can find out how the nato chief handled overcharging

questions of bolivia and a full interview you gave to us on our t.v. show going to get. streaming on a web site. and click on whenever you like you are calling. tensions are also peaking in syria government troops have stormed the rebel northern border. with tanks and military helicopters into the city of cleansing armed rebel groups and killed a police officer. retired britain and france are still pushing for a un resolution condemning the brutal crackdown against anti-government activists in syria russia which opposes any attempts to intervene in the syrian conflict has said it won't back the moon. observers believe some western most of the manipulating the un and benefit from the country's. nations. is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its most powerful members notably you know. and sort of also. from so

in other countries in the european union because just as they are appropriate 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 simultaneously in almost all countries of the middle east and in north africa. we flexed internal problems while 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. and american guided missile warship the u.s.s. want to race sailed into the black sea ready for war games with the ukrainian navy but its presence so close to russia's southern border has drawn criticism from

moscow the person in question is an integral part of nato as proposed missile defense shield which moscow says creates more threats than addresses he said next series rescue. this 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 adox in the adesa hard 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 at 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 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 pressure

and 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 between it 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. cern's raised by the statement and the direct accusations of washington of not keeping its promise and not trying to build a collective security system in europe together and doing it only in one way order . that is correspondent you bring in something there on that story coming up in a few minutes tonight on our t.v. when killing becomes a video game america ratchets up its unmanned attack drone program and with the growth fears of a playstation mentality replacing normal when it comes to warfare interesting

thought. first that russia will resume the import of european vegetables if the union guarantees the safety of its products ensuring we are free from the polar bacteria you know as we came during this week. for you surely she would know we had vegetables today and yesterday i don't know where they came from us appraise will have to wait and see and we were discussing ways to restart shipments of vegetables from europe to russia we are ready to leave good bye and in europe in vegetables are so we are provided sufficient going seized by the e.u. preventives also urged the to speed up the decision on russia's entry for the world trade organization with the e.u. commission chief said man well but also say accession is possible by the end of the year the two sides are also discussed the easing of these regimes saying there could be agreement on the issue as soon as next month will be another russian you summit in brussels in the winter but usually only. as european officials are 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 r.t. sara firth in greece for us where protests against the cuts of not relented. place just paint the face the child of the dead i set the scene and the building and the last year they killed me with these conditions the balcony understudied really thinks that's catalina as he fired at israel like a penis will have the implementation if thinks it's going to be able to continue i think international bailout money now all this on the back because the police love that sixteen percent think what pulls a tiny house to chill way head typist but you can see the main hand around me this is why people have been capturing and regulate take place has against the state all

states imagine that we're joined at the night by atlanta gates and he'd like to be heading right now these people say they should 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 social disaster it's on a stereotype program i'm seeing before in greece which has only resulted in the south of the ration of living start of our own an extreme rise in unemployment. and . they're on a very deep recession and the new program the new medium term program they're proposing now are just going to going just make things worse because a privatization program which is not just privatization is completely new it's a complete losing of public companies utilities and assets and the only thing we're going to see is even more employment and even more direction of living standards

very christian misleading you think i think that greece being part of the euro zone these are contributing factor to the problems that the euro zone is like a financial monetary straitjacket it's completely rational when you put countries with different activity levels different countries competitiveness levels in the same money michael. in finding out about the feeling in germany and there are some people who think that meat might be better out of the usa. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's german government to stop it paying crop neighbors you cannot save. the country you have to get rid of these reasons no longer works and candidate. of the european union the nations labeled in the region as the peaks of europe

portugal ireland greece and spain most of the currency now before they drag down other members wards kerber. last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could early retirement other 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 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 go into sixty seven it's not possible to yeah why should a sixty fifth you know 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 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 parties revolting close pizza will she's fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries. chance to say ok we get i would. solve our problems we have restructured those who gave money for a high interest rate with some money. and. 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 a common currency is a 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 week states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single currency down with a. r.t. . this week the u.s. made a number of strikes including unmanned drone attacks in pakistan and yemen and america insists the targets were militants but unofficial reports suggest there were many more civilian casualties in the method and that is currently you can find the morality behind robotic attacks is being increasingly called into question now these days. when a u.s. drone hit the house of this young man in pakistan he lost an eye both legs and

three family members. these people are demanding the cia be held responsible for the deaths of their loved ones but to no avail with the use of drones comes a lack of accountability those are being operated by somebody at a command center in langley virginia they're watching it on video on a video screen they're pressing a button they're deciding who lives and who dies and then they go off for a weekend where they have barbecues in their suburban virginia and suburban maryland homes and who pays the price the people who are the victims of the attack is there accountability none whatsoever drones have become the symbol of america's undeclared wars wars that seem to have no state all legal boundaries we go over and over new realm of warfare a new room of reaching international and domestic law. using pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief

counterinsurgency strategist with the u.s. state department has estimated their drone attacks kill fifty non targeted persons for each in candide target one of the things the united states kind of pretends is that we are morally superior we are better judge able to judge what is good for other people and therefore we are entitled to inflict our judgement on them and that we presume they will be grateful to us for it but that is not what happens ever and it's not what's happening in yemen it's not what's happening in pakistan they are furiously enraged with us washington is looking to increase the funding for drone development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go towards an armed surveillance drones the u.s. has for years been using them in another of its undeclared wars against drug traffickers in mexico the mexican government allows you. u.s. spy planes despite public discontent there's

a lot of concern that the use of these drones by the u.s. government has more to do with u.s. control over mexican territory actually going out to the drug lords and winning the drug war while issues of international law and sovereignty trigger a little interest among americans the prospect of having surveillance drones spying all across the u.s. itself surely doubts you as police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising the alarm among those who think that could be the end of american freedoms and specially when you look at constitutional active music free speech activities are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe protesting the war protests and some are governmental act and they'll be chilling free speech should roll will be some sort of weapon so some people are saying lasers will be able to punish innocent who are advocating against the government they've already been used in some instances in the united states alone two thousand servant protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects floating overhead it looked like dragonflies turned out they

were robo flies and got it by the pentagon surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing any intelligence gathering in pakistan people leaving the fear that it needs time they could become a target of the most deadly videogame and meet here in the last year that with their rapid expansion of spider also with their own territory they could one day wake up you know to me we say i'm going to check our reporting from our hearts. the strikes in yemen come amid the people's uprising against the country's government which has long been an ally of the us i think what activists are flounders told the americans just sticking the label of militants on those opposing the regime. this is just another criminal illegal absolutely and it's lawlessness on such a scale. pocker see that the very time that the us is using the un security

council the international criminal court to bring charges against other countries for terrorism and it is clearly exposed in international terrorism itself in yemen and of course in sabotage teams in syria and bombing of libya not to mention the devastating wars in iraq and afghanistan in yemen it is to protect a complete thirty three year dictatorship of salo who is now her. health reasons and saudi arabia and efforts to protect his regime potentially bring him back and it's been used against of people's movement anyone that the us fears is a threat to them is now being labeled as al qaeda and it's open season in terms of attacks and and bombs and drone attacks on any number of different resistance organizations. check out our website out see dot com for more opinions on the matter including one voice point us radio host alex jones that the abuse of drone

technology could be the beginning he thinks of a terminator style world ruled by robots so online this is too secretive gathering of the world's movers and shakers we talked to the activists trying to break through the wall of silence surrounding the un will build a meeting again find out what might be being decided behind those closed doors and whether it's fair to ask perhaps to go on and. report on that from us tonight also a crowded space above our heads the i assess gets three new residents doubling the number of humans currently in orbit right now the combined international group will form a unique research including attempt for the find the cure for cancer and also be expecting a farewell visit from nasa as atlanta shuttle the last ever flight over the current u.s. space shuttle program. there's a first about this fear of 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 resulted in victory for the reformist president boris yeltsin shortly afterwards the soviet union collapsed as artie's ago or gordon of reports even today memories of that bumpy road to democracy are 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 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 three clear sovereignty one by one while staying a part of the us a saw provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow to

leaders also competed against each other we held gold which i was the head of the soviet union chosen by communists functionaries boris yeltsin was in charge of a new sovereign russia and promised reform but calling for an open election yeltsin challenged the authority of the communist party over russia. with this victory in the election yeltsin prove that you can stand up to the communists establishment in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try and protest with this victory ensure that the soviet union can 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 result became

clear dorothy elton defeated a communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance to her father in a coup late at summer his popularity peaked 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 any even fewer care thanks i don't have any emotions about it i did vote for you all to man but i am far less political now absolutely true 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 there 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 either i'd never see moscow. in a few minutes tonight it's the craig show from the deep threatens every one of us we're not talking about jaws amazingly we're talking about the humble salmon find out why it could take a big bite out of mankind's future we bring you variety on this program for a recap of our major new stories tonight here on our team from us.

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