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continued bailout money. and it's the day that marks the birth of modern russia celebrating the country's declaration of sovereignty in its first free elections which led to the storage fall of the soviet union. welcome you're watching r t it's eleven pm now you're in moscow now in pretty you are news review of the week and first libyan rebel fighters on the mediterranean front line of trying to retake the rage oil 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 fierce fighting the offensive marks a breakthrough for the opposition which was swept out from the four by artillery shelling pro-government troops about three months ago now. the closure of

a key supply route from chile is here rebel leaders have complained that nato airstrikes supporting the military efforts are focused too heavily well on tripoli rather than on the front lines in misrata rooms or you're about saluting to even more civilian casualties as an artist for national founder. saddam has been within the has breath 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 going to do 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 where radio ad there have been sixteen nato air strike in just

hours attacks against civilians must start daffyd must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future make as frequently claim success and the military operation supposed to protect civilians if the libyan government has repeatedly protested the innocent civilians have been among the dad the claims have not been independently verified and with both in this clear since march nineteenth the life wouldn't really be ins has changed forever son was not there 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 was something charitable this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone they never said they were going to bonus he promised to protect his put instead they scare us talking about who they are of

a particular sort of his father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato and we try to live our lives well knew no storage wars and always in the region 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 where of nato is 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. tripoli. well of it ever increasing claims of civilian casualties in libya many no question the humanitarian goals of the alliance said in an interview with the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen earlier this week. the no 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 in a car on a phone or in a hospital on a phone constitute a command center for your purposes when you say any means. i would like to stress that we are not targeting individuals we live illegitimate military. targets. and of course control centers can be used to plan and organize acts against civilians show the amount of control centers are legitimate

military targets. well you can find out how the nato chief handled on the challenging questions over libya in a full interview he gave to us and say it's trending on our website dot com whenever you'd like to check it. tensions are also peaking in syria right now government troops there have stormed the rebel northern border town of just see it all so good with tanks and military helicopters now the army has entered the city in order to quote cleanse it of armed rebel groups which killed at least one hundred police officers here last week there says britain and france are still pushing for a un resolution condemning the brutal crackdown against anti-government activists and russia for its part which opposes any attempts to intervene in the syrian conflict is said in. our world observers believe some western nations and their pilates in the tent could benefit from the. united nations. is is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its

most powerful members notably the united states britain and the west through all this concerned also france or in other countries in the european union because just as they are considering cracking down on the syrian government not considered cracking down on the governments of bahrain or other or egypt and didn't sign when there was also in. what is happening in syria is simultaneously in almost all countries in the middle east and in north africa. we flexed internal problems all countries have internal problems not about it 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. an american guided missile was ship the u.s.s.

monterey 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 it addresses. the 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 work 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 the 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 and someway 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 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 would be different obama between russia and nato so clearly the world works 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 so that the concerns raised by the statement and the direct accusation 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 what is correspondent reporting for us now coming up in a few minutes on r.t. when killing becomes a video game america rap sheet. and type program and with it pro fears

of a play station mentality placing morals when it comes to interesting thought more on that ahead. and three months on from the start 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 they are free from the deadly e. coli bacteria 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 vine and european vegetables after we are provided live sufficient currencies by the e.u. with that and revet it was also words of the e.u. to speed up the decision about russia's entry to the world trade organization with

the e.u. commission chief but also say accession is possible by the end of the year two sides of also discussed the easing of visa regime saying there could be agreement on that as soon as next month will be another russia e.u. summit in brussels for you to tell me. as european officials 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 to its one year after the first payment the next stage comes with conditions calling on athens to implement even stricter austerity measures r.t. sarah ferguson in greece for us where protests against the cuts have not relented. place this being the case the child of the cat fights that we see in the act of building a for the last year they killed me with these conditions that their love money and the struggle really making sense kathleen listening to this very likely theme i think we'll have to be implemented it really is going to be able to continue

existing international bailout money now all this on the back of it is the release last week that said sixteen percent of the week what i currently have to jump way ahead i can't miss by you can see the making fans around me this is why people have been gathering and regulate suppliers has again the state of state's imagine that we're trying to deny it by as planned against this heat and electricity in fact the heading right now these people states they should be. are they going to have an effect will be only a fix 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 on scene before in greece which has only resulted in the south of the ration of living startups are on an extreme rise in unemployment. and. they're on a very deep recession and the new program the new commitment the program they're

proposing now at this point is going to make things worse because a privatization program which is not just private is risk completely new it's completely new single 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 in thirty first infamously in the year 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 content competitiveness two levels in the same money michael. has been finding out about the feeling in germany and that there are some people who think they think would be better out of the usa to get. the euros did long live germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's german government still. bankrupt neighbors you cannot save.

greece on the contrary you have to get rid of these it's no longer. of the european union the nations labeled in delusion by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece and spain most drop the currency now before they drag down other members once cobra. last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could only retirements other countries believe that greek workers work less. will 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. capital frankfurt either believing the greeks have had it too easy because if we

are going to kill sixty seven it's not possible to get yeah why other people should always sixty fifty nine which is certainly not responsible for the deaths and the deficits run in portugal greece and the big states raise the age when when the greek people retire. story or treat 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's fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries should take the chance to say ok we get out we. solve our problems we

have our structures. for money for high interest rate with some 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 a risk on this athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine described 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 weak states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single currency belt with a new bushel. this week the u.s. made a number of strikes including unmanned drone attacks in pakistan and yemen america

insists the targets were militants but i'll official report suggests there were many more civilian casualties and admitted a lot is going to teach you can found the morality behind robotic attacks and be increasingly called into question. this surveillance 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 the gold boundaries we've opened up a new realm of warfare a new rule more of breaking international and domestic law. used in pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated the drone attacks killed fifty non targeted persons for each intended target one of the things the united states kind of crittenden's 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 would be grateful to us for it but that is not what happens ever and that'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 food room development by seven times over the next ten years

a large part of that will go from worst on our 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 axle the drug lords and winning the drug war while issues of international law and sovereignty trigger little interest among americans the prospect of having surveillance drones spying all across the u.s. itself surely do not see 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 especially 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 action they'll be chilling

free speech should roll 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 dragon plot turned out they were robo flies developed by the pentagon now surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing at intelligence gathering in pakistan people leave in fear that it may be time they could become a target of the most deadly videogame and maybe hearing the last year that with the rapid expansion of supply drones over their own territory they could one day break up even on too many police state i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. check out our website our team go to come 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 of a terminator star world ruled by robots does he have

a point for the war line also there is a secret a gathering of the world's movers and shakers he told the activists trying to break through all of silence surrounding the annual bill may think they're out of the gate and. find out what might be being decided behind those closed doors or whether it's fair the types of players to go on and be a bit of a story was published and i thought. this might interest you too crowded space up there the i assessed three new residents don't remember a few months probably and all that combined international crew performed unique research including attempts to fight the cancer cure but also expecting a farewell visit pulled from masses atlanta shut the last rebel flight of the current u.s. shuttle program. focusing on japan with the stricken fukushima nuclear power plant continues to leak radiation and while a different kind of fallout public anger is spilling onto the streets to huge crowds turned out across japan yes there is

a round of end to the country's use of nuclear power the protests came on the heels of revelations that the government is how about up the true extent of the radioactive contamination after the fukushima disaster tens of thousands of people evacuated from the areas surrounding your plant are still in temporary shelters and the step receiving the sympathy of aid as many of them are suffering discrimination even from their own government that's according to dr robert take from him she repeats institutes but. 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 toss up be 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 interned in the family welcomes them these people exclusions and will not be able to observe this one they just follow day and welcome their spear. their ancestors who return. 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 breakdown as the radiation exposure is in communities. next there's a festive atmosphere of moscow right now and indeed around russia today as the country marks twenty one years since it declared its sovereignty just one year later and held its first free elections which resulted in victory for the reformist president boris yeltsin shortly afterwards the soviet union collapsed and these are things you go grodner of reports next came today memories of the pump the 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 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 us the saw provoking unrest and even armed conflict in moscow two leaders also competed against each other we held which i was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist functionary for a c.l. so 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 through the you can stand up to the communists establishment in an open and public manner he did not cut back and deals or try and protest with his 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 the lowering stump speeches at factories and town squares. his rallies attracted hundreds of thousands while 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 a communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance there following a coup like about summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade. fields

among russians dwindled as the country went through difficult reforms surveys showed that as the anniversary of the election approached to remember and even fewer care things are going to get i don't have any emotions about it but i did vote for yeltsin and graham far less political now. from these 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 that while christie is not perfect and some inside the country side of a 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. could have surpassed eleven pm here in moscow coming up in a few minutes on the program a special report for you about the surprising places the riches and some dictators come from its travailing that soften up at the top stories of her past eleven yeah with me kevin zero in just a bit. wild

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