finance scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on r.t. . in the. week's top stories from our team mates who launches its heaviest and most punishing is strikes on the libyan capital killing dozens as the rebels complain the alliance is ignoring the real from live meanwhile the chorus of international condemnation over syria yes and i'm. also. an american warship docked in an address harbor in southern ukraine to take part in the war games something the russian foreign ministry is completely not happy about. the reach simply. means that even just the austerity measures are placed in exchange for continued

bailout money. and it was the day that marked the birth of modern russia celebrating the country's restoration of sovereignty and its first free elections it's led me to start for you. welcome you watching r t it's just after one am here in moscow my name's kevin. muse of you of the week and first this hour libyan rebels on the mediterranean front line fought with gadhafi forces in an attempt to retake the major oil port of zawiya not far from the capital tripoli an opposition spokesman in the town said thirteen rebel fighters and civilians have been killed in the battle your friend said this from to the closure of a key supply route from tunis here about three months ago rebel forces and swept

out from the port by artillery fire and intensive shelling from pro-government troops rebel leaders are complaining that nato airstrikes a good supporting their military efforts are focused too heavily on tripoli rather than on frontlines in misrata and zoya and that's leading to even more civilian casualties in southeast griffon i found. solomon has been within a hair's breath of death the doctors have performed any a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took her mother's pills to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me and me to 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 day and night forms have been forming 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 raid yet there have been sixteen nato airstrikes in just ten hours checks against civilians most stark contrast he must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claim success in the military operations supposed to protect civilians but the libyan government has repeatedly protested the innocent civilians have been among the dad the claims have not been independently verified by the thinnest clear since march nineteenth the life would normally prince 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 that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere could hardly see what happened but i realized immediately wrists something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone in a sack they were going to bonus a promise to protect was put in step they scariest talking about who they are of

a barker said of his father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato and we try to live our lives we'll need all starts wars and always intervenes in other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life has just prolonged its operation and leave it 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. but ever increasing claims of civilian casualties in libya will you know question the humanitarian goals of the alliance and in an interview with the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen on thursday my colleague mr lowy asked 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 they've seen civilian buildings blown to pieces there's a daffy in a car on a throne or in a hospital on a constitute a command center for your purposes when you say any means. i would like to stress that we are not targeting individuals we hate. military. targets. and of course common control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians show amount of control centers are legitimate

military targets. and you can find out how the nato chief handled other challenging questions about libya in a full interview that he gave us to our streaming on our web site if you'd like to check it out at r.t. dot com. teachers are also picking the time in syria government troops there stormed the rebel northern border town of syria girl with tanks and military helicopters the army sent to the city in order to quote cleanse it of armed rebel groups which killed at least one hundred twenty police officers last week this is britain and france is still pushing for a un resolution condemning the brutal crackdown against anti-government activists in syria russia for its part which opposes any attempts to intervene of the syrian conflict and said it won't back the move and our world observers believe some western nations have been repeating the u.n. in an attempt to benefit from the country's civil conflict. nations. is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its

most powerful members notably united states britain and i thought was the worst of all this concern also from so in other countries in the european union because just as they are considering cracking down on the syrian government they have not considered cracking down on the governments of bahrain or other or each of the one time when there was also and for all stories what is happening in syria is simultaneously in almost all countries in the middle east and in north africa. internal problems all countries have internal problems not love 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. next 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 and addresses these alerts he rejects curable. this american warship the u.s.s. monterey carries a high tech and sophisticated and to muscle system called ages and indeed according to the plan of the pentagon worked out several years ago that ships of the u.s.s. monterey's class could be moved to the black sea coast in case of an escalating conflict we understand that the u.s.s. monterey was moved from the american coast to the mediterranean as part of the new missile defense shield in europe worked out by the obama administration in two thousand and nine but the question which raises eyebrows in the russian foreign ministry and that was published in the statement earlier on sunday that there is as long as there is no violent conflict in the black sea region why is the ship the

u.s.s. monterey docks in that the guests are 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 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 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 patriot

missiles dispatched in the polish town off more wrong now we've heard furthermore plans of building radar locations stations in romania and turkey and in poland so all this. according to the russian foreign ministry is not something discussed between president 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 accusations of washington of not keeping its promise and moats trying to build a collective security system in europe together and doing it only in one way order parties correspondent in ukraine election jeff ski there bring us up to date coming up in a few minutes when killing becomes a video game america ratchets up the drone program and with it goes for years the play station mentality of

a place of morals when it comes to interesting point coming up also three months on from the start of the fukushima nuclear crisis in japan we look at how government efforts to downplay radioactive contamination provoked a massive display public break. 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 as we came during this week's russian meeting. are you sure 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 barn and european vegetables after we are provided sufficient currencies like the e.u. with the. value of also words and he would speed up the decision about russia's entry to the world trade organization with the e.u. commission chief. but also say look accession is possible by the end of the year

two sides also discuss the easing a visa regime saying there could be agreement about the issues through this next month will be another russian summit in brussels in the winter. 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 a year after the first payment the next stage comes now with conditions calling on athens to implement even stricter austerity measures sarah ferguson greece for us where protests against the cuts have not relented. place to spain the face the child of the day by day we seemed kind of building the last year they killed me with these tough conditions that they love money and the study really looking for that campaign was he fired for the phrase like a theme of his will have to be implemented it really is going to be able to continue existing international bailout money now all this on the back of because

the police last week it said sixteen percent of the fleet what pulls a county out that still way ahead that misplacing see coming fans around me this is why people have been gathering every kill a surprise has against this take all states imagine that we're trying to deny that i have any cases. i'd like to leave the heading way now these people states measures being. how they can have an effect will be only if if they're going to have this is the bridge make matters worse for the past year greece is facing a source of disaster it's an austerity program and seen before in greece which has only resulted in the south at a ratio of living standards are unaccounted stream rising unemployment. and. other and a very deep recession and the new program the new commitment program they're proposing now at this point is going to make things worse it is a privatization program which is not just private is risk completely new it's

complete using a 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 a question of misleading you think again 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. this has been finding out about the feeling in germany and that there are some people who think that people out of the usa want to get. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government still not paying crop neighbors you cannot say thank you.

to all the country you have two. groups it's no longer worth the candidate. of the european union the nations labeled in the region 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 early retirement 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 up through 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 possible to do it yeah why

are there people should always sixty fifty nine which are certainly not responsible for the deaths and the deficits run in portugal greece in the kit states raise the age when when the greek people retire. story all the people what 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's revolting close pizza will she's 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'll get out. of our problems have our structures. of money for high interest rate with some of their money

and. 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 out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single cause the bell with a new bushel. this week the u.s. where a number of air strikes including unmanned drone attacks in pakistan and yemen american sister targets were militants but unofficial reports suggest there were many more civilian casualties and admitted

a lot is gonna teach you can found the morality behind robotic attacks is being increasingly called into question. 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 there pressing them right now 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 well legal boundaries of a new realm of warfare a new room of breaching international and

a mystical or. 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 intended target and 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 don't 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 and 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 act and they'll be chilling free speech should roll be a career with some sort of weapon so some people saying lasers will be able to punish should listen to you 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 or your head it looked like rag and 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 in fear that it needed time they could become a target it's almost every video game and media hearing be the last year that with the rapid expansion of sky drones over their own territory they could one day wake up you know to a police state i'm going to check our reporting from watching our team. check out our website our team dot com for more opinions on that very matter including one voice indeed by u.s. radio host alex jones that the abuse of growth in technology could be the beginning of the season of a terminator style rule by robots interested in the online for you and i both just perfect the way this unbreakable spirit. journey across russia on

a motorized wheelchair. some sacred roof of a plant gallery home of how a broken thought on what i can put up with. just a few thoughts of my about to go. folks in japan now where the stricken from shimon nuclear plant continues to make radiation while a different part of for public anger and spilling onto the streets huge crowds turned out across japan yesterday with a man event of a company's use of nuclear power a protest came on the heels of revelations that got to the public up through extensive writing right. after the secrecy of the design tens of thousands of people evacuated from the area surrounding the found the still in temporary shelters instead of receiving the simply they do not even miss something discrimination even from their own government support dr robert jacobson spoke to the scenes from the hiv ashima institute. there are still people living in areas

where there's high radiation and there's children going to school in areas where there's high radiation and so there's been a reluctance to move as quickly as possible and a lot of people from the shia area who even people who were born there but we live in tokyo are experiencing discrimination in japan by people who consider them toss of the contaminated even the radiation is not transferable to other people but there are a lot of problems ahead if i can give you one quick example in august there's a very important holiday into can call in which everyone returns to their hometown because the spirits of ancestors come to their burial places where their ashes are interned and the family welcomes them these people exclusion zone will not be able to observe this will they just holiday and welcome there the spirits of their ancestors who return and when people find that there are unable to carry out their familial obligations for decades because they can't return to these areas people tend to blame themselves even if there are structural reasons so there needs to be

some work done to help people through not just the radiation exposure but the social breakdown. is that all the radiation exposure is in communities and also making news around the world in the wake of the fukushima crisis italy's holding a referendum on whether the country should revise its atomic energy and patients plans to restart the country's nuclear program by twenty forty cherie because of safety concerns after the japanese incident germany recently took the decision to phase out nuclear power completely whereby twenty twenty two would switzerland opted for a similar route. because both counted the country's general election turkey's prime minister and seems to have won a third term in office is really justice and development party claimed victory fifty point two percent of the folk but fell short of getting enough seats to call a referendum on a new constitution the main opposition the republican people's party took twenty six percent of the ballot to an earlier pledged changes to the constitution to improve basic rights and freedoms. it's

a first about this fear here in moscow and around russia as the country marks twenty years since it declared its sovereignty an impressive fireworks display lit the night sky in the capital barely or it marks the country's first free elections which resulted in victory for the reformist president boris yeltsin shortly after the soviet union collapsed and as a live report today memories of. democracy is still fresh in many people's. 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 lection 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 which i was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist functionary 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 through the 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 electorate and delivering stump speeches at factories and in town squares. his rallies attracted hundreds of thousands. well 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 communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance their father in a coup lake and summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade the support fields and among russians dwindled as the country went through difficult reforms surveys showed that as the anniversary of the election approached you remember and even fewer care because i don't have emotions about it i did vote for yeltsin and i am 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 if yeltsin as of no brussels 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 welker speak 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. but he had a program succumbed to special report for a very short period but america's broadcasting industry in the to create influences public opinion but the program come up a couple of minutes and five here on our team.

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