type the full point and i would tell the splined hotel in touch with. both the photo and kooragang how an international house. hotel. two weeks top stories on our team nato launches its heaviest the most punishing of the strikes on the libyan capital killing gazans as the rebels complain reliance is ignoring the real frontline meanwhile the chorus of international condemnation of a series gets louder also. an american warship docked in in a in southern ukraine to take part in the two war games something the russian foreign ministry is completely not happy about. seeing. we have the events austerity measures are placed in exchange for continued bailout

money. and it was the day that mark the birth of modern russia celebrating the country's declaration of sovereignty in its first free elections which led to the historic fall of the soviet you. mrs r t it's just after midnight now here in moscow my name's kevin irwin with our news review of the week for you and first this hour libyan rebels on the mediterranean front line a forward with things forces in an attempt to retake the major or port of we're not far from the capital tripoli an opposition spokesman of the time said thirteen rebel fighters were and civilians were killed in the battle early offensives prompted the closure of a key supply route from. scuse me about three months ago rebel forces were swept out from the port by artillery firing tents in shelling from pro-government troops

rebel leaders have complained that nato airstrikes aimed at supporting the military efforts are focused too heavily on tripoli rather than on frontlines in misrata and somewhere and that's leading to even more civilian casualties as artie's real. friend. 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 i'd better do myself. but who wants to kill the teenager so most native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months they almost 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 raging out there have been sixty later airstrikes in just ten hours attacks against civilians must start daffyd must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claimed success in the military operations supposed to protect civilians but the libyan government has repeatedly protested because innocent civilians have been among the dead the claims have not been independently verified but one thing is clear since march nineteenth the life wouldn't really be ins has changed forever so much 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 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 he never said they were going to do almost he promised to protect us

but instead they scare us talking about who they are working or saddam his father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato and we try to live our lives from starts wars and always intervenes and 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 all september that means people here face months more terror from the skies where 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. r t tripoli. well amid ever 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 on thursday

a colleague innocent asked him to clarify how the coalition defines a legitimate target. actually the u.n. security council resolution goes beyond. 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 those that three in a car on a phone or in a hospital. 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 little military. targets. and of course command and control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians show amount of

control centers are legitimate military targets. where you find out how the nato chief challenging questions over libya in a full interview he gave to us. on our website whatever you like check it out. meantime tensions are also peaking in syria government troops stormed the rebel northern border turned of just with tanks and military helicopters the army has entered the city in order to quote cleanse it of armed rebel groups which killed at least one hundred twenty police officers last meanwhile 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 and said. the arab world observers believe that some western nations manipulating the u.n. in an attempt to benefit from the country's civil conflict. is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its most

powerful members know that we you know it's. also from so in other countries and europe. in union because just as they are appropriate considering cracking down on the syrian government did not consider cracking down on the government of bahrain or other or each of the one time when there was also and for what is happening in syria is simultaneously in almost all countries in the middle east and in north africa. 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. in other news an american guided missile warship 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 borders 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 out his legs here if you ask a report. 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 us has monterrey 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 east ship the u.s.s. monterey docks at the desa harbor to take part in the nato war games it is especially if you will during given the fact that all the previous seabreeze war games in i 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. monterrey is now in the black sea region is in fact the 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 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 not 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 who did 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 about 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 in ukraine bring us up to date on the big story tonight coming up in a few minutes one woman's fight for her dead sons finally a grandmother admittedly the legal guardian of

a late some children launches of crusade against russia and social attitudes we find out if she succeeds a bit later in the program. next as european officials go to the next slice of greece's bailout the european central bank and the german government are arguing over how to try to get private investors to contribute to just one year after the first payment the next stage comes with conditions calling on athens to implement even stricter austerity measures. in greece for us where protests against the cuts will not relent. place to stain the face the child of the christ is the seen and the building and if the last year they killed him with these conditions that their love money and the struggle really think that's a good thing as he fired the phrase like he will have to be implemented it places gangs be able to continue existing international bailout money now all this on the back of it is the police last week it said sixteen percent of the fleet what pulls

a county out to jump way ahead at that misplacing feet making fans around me this is why people have been capturing and killing a surprise has again this take all states imagine that we're joined at the moment by atlanta gates and he's an elected leader be heading way now these people states measures being. are they going to have any effect will be only if if they're going to have this is the bridge makes matters worse for the past year greece is facing a source of disaster it's almost there in the program and seen before in greece which has only resulted in the south at the ration of living standards are having an extreme rise in unemployment. and. they're on a very deep recession and the new program the new commitment the program they're forcing out of course is going to make things worse is a privatization program which is not just private is risk completely new 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 the direction of living standards it's very fierce in the face leaving years later and 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 countries competitiveness levels in the same money michael. has been finding out about the feeling in germany and that there are some people who think that thanks to the usa to get. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government to stop it bankrupt neighbors you cannot save. greece all the country you have to get rid of. is no longer worth the candidate.

of the european union the nation's 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 wards kerber although athens last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could 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 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 cheer sixty seven it's not particularly good it clear why there should always six fifteen which are certainly not responsible for the debts and

deficits running portugal greece in the pic states raise the age when when the greek people retire. sorry all the people what we have to work along as well germans are a 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 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's revolting close pizza will she is fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries to take the chance to say ok we get out we. have our structures. for money for high interest rate with some of the money and.

qualifying for the baby 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 prescribed by the e.u. and the. if greeks now agree with germans who see a good bit out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro and reorganize. and bring the single currency down with the new bush will see in the next story of a russian grandmother whose attempts to keep the memory of her late son alive have landed her in a legal and moral controversy artie's exam the boy here is the details. it was only after fifty seven that the amar understood the true meaning of having her

hands full and accomplished scientists 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. you know the death of my son created a hole in my life that i will never close but the birth of my grandchildren certainly provide some solace is god's gift to me the mar son died of cancer three years ago but before his first chemotherapy session doctors conserved his sperm with the help of surrogate mothers two sets of twins were brought into their world. the march has meant laughter his scientific career was put on hold yet lamar says they're all trifles compared to bereavement brought about by her son's death you should perish . it's love which is for grief but it's love nonetheless three years ago i couldn't

imagine myself even smiling let alone laughing or singing songs but the little ones pulled me out of this abyss of despair. with her large family support lamar says she has no financial parental concerns about raising her grandchildren the main problem now is the reluctance of the russian state to recognize her as the modern of these children and her deceased son as their father. the lord believes the law is in their side. according to russian law there are no limits on who can become a parent through the use of surrogate mother whose of course cases like this one are still very unusual in russia that's why some registration offices or courts officials may be confused and refuse to greatest are children but the law is definitely an hour a favor. the mara is the third woman in russia who use the sperm of her deceased

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

a country where most people become parents before they train three raising even two kids is often seen more than a handful some are going to artsy moscow. 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 that official reports suggest there were many more civilian casualties and admitted a lot he's got a kinship term found out the war reality behind robotic attacks is becoming increasingly called into question two. this was when he 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 are created 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 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 legal boundaries we've opened up a new realm of warfare a new rumor of breaching 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 there drone attacks kill fifty non targeted persons for each intended target and 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 will 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 for droom development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go through the 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 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 do not see you as police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising alarm among those who think that could be the end of american freedoms especially when you look at constitutional activities like free speech activities are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe protesting the war protesting some are governmental action the be chilling free speech should roll be equipped with some sort of weapons chairman some people are saying lasers will be able to only show 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 falling over here that look like rag and turned out they were robo flies developed by the clearly gone now surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing an intelligence gathering in pakistan people leave in fear that it may be time they could become a target of the most deadly videogame i mean here in the last year that with the

rapid expansion of spy drones over their own territory they could one day wake up you know internet police state i'm going to check our reporting from our hearts. as a first about miss fear of moscow and around russia 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 it's not easy go grognard reports now even today memories of the bumpy road to democracy are still fresh in 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 u.s.s.r. provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other god which i was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist functionaries porus ielts and 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 room deals or try and protest with this victory ensured that the soviet union could break out without armed conflict. unlike former soviet leaders yeltsin campaign like a democratic politician meeting their electorate and delivering stump speeches at

factories and town squares. his rallies attracted hundreds of thousands when the election night came we were hopeful 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 their father in a coup late in a summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade. among russians dwindled as the country went through difficult reforms surveys show that as the anniversary of the election approached to remember and even fewer care. i don't have any emotions about it i did vote for yeltsin then bam far less political now. i voted but i can tell you these are all just politicians games they have nothing to do with me. it's not surprising that those who lived through the difficult times did not want to

celebrate this occasion but hopefully the next generation will truly appreciate the historic significance of this moment and of yeltsin as of now russia's first president himself remains unappreciated with only one in five saying to have a positive attitude towards him many outside of russia even today it's the more procedures not perfect and some inside the country side are 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 never see moscow. looking ahead feel just a few minutes tonight we talked for a possible candidate for next year's french presidential elections and a woman who believes that france is in danger of being colonized by its own former colonies but the sport ahead for you to this hour here on our team from moscow with me kevin oh in this early monday morning the thirteenth of june as.

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