twenty years ago its first president. in the midst of colossal change. setting a new direction for a new country. saluting the state on last.

week's top stories from our team you know to launches its heaviest and most publishing airstrikes on the libyan capital killing as the rebels complained of losses ignoring the real live meanwhile the chorus of international condemnation over syria gets ever allowed. also. an american warship docked in an address this hobby insolvent ukraine to take part in the the war games something the russian foreign ministry is completely not happy about. and to meet single point we as a new bank just all states he made his offer clayson in exchange for the continued bailout money. and it's the day that marks the birth of modern russia celebrating the country's declaration of sovereignty of the first free elections which led to the historic forum to solve.

this is a see it's nine pm now here in moscow my name's kevin owen with news review with a wink for you and first this hour libyan rebel fight. is on the mediterranean front line trying to retake the major oil port of zawiya not far from the capital tripoli at least one hundred members a good few 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 through about three months ago. the closure of a key supply route from choosier rebel leaders have complained that nato airstrikes though a good supporting their military efforts are focused too heavily on tripoli rather than on front lines in misrata around the way or amounts leading to even more civilian casualties as artie's riffle found out. saddam has been within

a hair's breadth of death but 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 idea that there have been sixteen nato airstrikes 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 lives of ordinary libyans 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 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 he 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 his but instead they scariest talking about who they are sort of his father is more precise in the world no longer needs nato the second world war ended long ago and we try to live our lives will 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 nato has just prolonged its operation and leave it all september that means people here face months more terror from the skies one of nature's supposed to target khadafi is 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. amid ever increasing claims of civilian casualties in libya many know question the humanitarian goals of the alliance in an interview with the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen earlier this week my colleague in this scenario asked him to clarify how the coalition defines the 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 bombs are they've seen civilian buildings blown to pieces does does he 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 hit. a 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. the nato chief handled over charging questions over libya in a full interview you gave to us on our t.v. showing it again. streaming on a website out dot com you can click on that whenever you like if you are. tensions

are also peaking in syria government troops have stormed the rebel northern border town of just sell sugar with tanks and military helicopters resented the city would require cleansing armed rebel groups which killed a police officer. made target britain and france is 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 nations are manipulating the u.n. and tend to benefit from the country's. nations. is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its most powerful members notably you know. sort of the worst of the world has been sort of also. from so and 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 egypt 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 not got 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. monterey's 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 vessel in question is an integral part of nato as proposed missile defense shield which moscow says creates more threats than addresses he said leg

series rescue 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 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 radio location stations in romania and turkey and in poland so

all this. according to the russian foreign ministry is not something discussed between presidents with an 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 correspondent bring yourself to date on that story coming up in a few minutes tonight when killing becomes a video game america ratchets up its unmanned attack drone program and with growth fears of a playstation mentality replacing morals when it comes to warfare interesting thought more about ahead. first russia will resume the import of european vegetables if the union guarantees the safety of its products ensuring the free

from the deadly e. coli bacteria you know this one came during this week's. and 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 to buy in and european vegetables after we are provided sufficient going by the e.u. that good value has also urged the you to speed up the decision on russia's entry to the world trade organization with the e.u. commission chief feels their money 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 russia you summit in brussels in the winter not 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 r.t. sara firth in greece for us where protests against the cuts not relented. place to spain the face to 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 carrying out this week that it's very likely the measures will have to be implemented if greece is going to be able to continue existing international bailout money now all of this on the back of because they've been released last week that said this sixteen percent of the week what pulls a company out of the jump away head cutlass by you can see the main plant around me this is what people have been gathering every kill a surprise has against the state all states imagine that we're joined at the moment by the negates this. election being a fancy heading point now these people state they should be. all they can have

any effect will be only effects they're going to have this is going to make matters worse for the past year greece is facing a social disaster it's honest there is a 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 medium term program they're proposing now are just going it's going just to make things worse it is a privatization program which is not just privatization risk 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 personal misleading you know if they don't 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 straitjacket it's completely irrational when you put countries with different activity levels different context competitiveness levels in the same money michael. in finding out about the feeling in germany and that there are some people who think they would be better out of the usa what together. the euros did long live germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government to stop it bailing out bankrupt neighbors you cannot save so you by saving greece on the contrary you have to get rid of greece greece is no longer worth a candidate no longer worth the number of the european union the nations labeled in delusion by some as the pigs of europe portugal ireland greece and spain must drop the currency now before they drag down other members warms kerber. things last year

raise the pension age to sixty five and could only 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 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 chose sixty seven it's not possible to yeah why other people should always sixty fifty nine 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 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 high interest rate with 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 that risk unless athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the i.m.f. greeks now agree with germans who say that bit's out of control the question is will week states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single currency down with the new bushel 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 out is going to be you can find the morality behind robotic attacks is being increasingly called into question now these days. so they went 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 the 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 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've opened up a new realm of warfare a new room of breaking breaching international and domestic law. using pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated that drone attacks kill fifty non targeted persons

for each intended 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 us government has more to do with u.s. control over mexican territory than 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 us itself surely does us 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 activities like free speech activities that are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe protesting the war or protesting some are governmental act and they'll be chilling free speech should your older be equipped with some sort of weapon so some people are saying lasers will be able to punish the students who are advocating against the government they've already been used in some instances in the united states and in two thousand and seven protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects floating overhead it looked like dragonflies turned out they were robo flies developed by the pentagon surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing any intelligence gathering in

pakistan people leave in fear that it may be time they could become a target in someone's deadly video game and maybe here in the last year that with their rapid expansion of spy drone some of their own territory they could one day wake up you know to my police state i'm going to check our reporting from our mark to. the strobe strikes in yemen come amid a people's uprising against the country's government which has long been an ally of the u.s. and the war activists sara flounders told the samaritans just sticking the label of militants on those opposing the regime. this is just another criminal illegal absolutely it's lawlessness on such a scale hypocrisy at the very time that the u.s. 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 for. health reasons and saudi arabia an effort to protect his regime potentially bring him back and it's being used against a people's movement or anyone that the u.s. 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 r.t. dot com for more opinions on the matter including one voiced by u.s. 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 activist trying to break through the wall of silence surrounding the annual builder meeting happening again and find out what might be being decided behind those closed doors and whether it's fair to ask taxpayers to go on. a report on that from us tonight also crowded space above our heads there i assess gets three new residents doubling the number of humans currently in orbit right now the combined international cruel perform unique research including attempt to project plan the cure for cancer and also be expecting a farewell visit from nasa as atlantis shuttle the last ever flight over the current u.s. space shuttle program. there's a festive atmosphere here 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 resulted in victory for the reformist president boris yeltsin shortly afterwards the soviet union collapsed as artie's ago or garden of

reports even today memories of the 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 to 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 a saw provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other we held god which i 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 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 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 communists candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance to a hardline

a coup that 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 and even fewer care but it's been good i don't have any emotions about it but i did vote for yeltsin then but i'm 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 no 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 have more personal and political freedoms you go over and see moscow. in a few minutes tonight it's the creature from the deep who 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 that's just for a recap of our main news stories tonight here on our team from moscow. in

one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph brin straight the university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. long on the main risk issues . that there is at ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are working for the produces side and only five percent are read genuinely independent. there's not a lot of science that says train genic fish is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there is a lot of good.