the week's top stories here on our team dozens killed in libya's capital as nato embarks on its most intense bombing raids yet while there's been heavy fighting as rebels renew attacks on u.s. soil port city of zawiyah in syria tension is rising as the government continues its severe crackdown on the opposition. a u.s. naval vessel in the black sea sparked outrage from moscow and claims of prelude to the planned nato missile defense shield for europe. are giving others their deads proves too much for one german attorney who said to sue his government for handing out cash to failing euro zone economies while in the states that well in states

that have received cash bellow the prospect of further austerity measures has drawn protesters to the streets. simply. as even just to make his case in exchange to continue paying out money. to russia's been celebrating the country's declaration of sovereignty and its first free elections that marked the definitive end to the soviet union. to him in moscow i'm not treasured bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t fierce fighting is continuing in libya's port city of misrata where rebels using heavy artillery have ramped up and garment of cut off the troops pro-government forces responded with heavy shelling killing at least six and wounding sixteen others fighting comes amid insurgence fresh

attempts to retake zawiya another major oil port and earlier a battle at the port left thirty dead and shut down a key surprise to meanwhile in tripoli colonel gadhafi over a chess game with the president of the world chess federation declared he has no into. of stepping down or it is a very few notion of reports that it's in ordinary people who are bearing the brunt of the war. that saddam has been within their hasbro's 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 i'm going to do it myself. but who wants to cuba teenager summers native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night warms 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 raid yet there have been sixteen nato airstrikes in just hours attacks against civilians must start could ask the must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future as frequently claim success and the military operation is 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 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 only see what happened but i realized immediately was something terrible 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 but instead they scare us talking about who they are other walker said of his father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato and we try to live our lives we all need our storage wars and always into other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life has just prolonged its operation and leave it till september people hear these months more terror from the skies we have made says i'm 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 life of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will ever recover . tripoli. i mean the ever increasing claims of civilian casualties in libya many are now questioning the humanitarian goals of the alliance

in interview with the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen on thursday my colleague and he said now i asked him to clarify how the coalition defines what's a legitimate target. surely 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 holmes bombs they've seen civilian buildings blown to pieces there's. 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 hate libyan military. targets. and of course common control centers can be used to plan and

organize attacks against civilians show amount of control centers military targets . you can find out how responded to other challenging questions over libya in its full interview on r t just more than twenty minutes and you can watch it anytime by logging on to our team dot com. turning now to syria where forces loyal to president bashar assad stormed the rebel held town of cheers are all who are using tanks and helicopters the attack was meant to hope when is the town of armed rebel groups which killed at least one hundred twenty police officers last week meanwhile britain and france are still pushing for a un resolution condemning a brutal crackdown against anti-government activists in syria russia which openly which opposes any attempts to intervene in the conflict says it won't back to move arab world observers believe that some western nations may need pilate the un to attempt to benefit from the country's civil conflict. the united nations this.

is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its most powerful members notably the united states and sort of the west who will spend sort of also from so in other countries in the european union because just as they are appropriate considering cracking down on the syrian government they have not considered cracking down on the governments of bahrain or other or each of their points in time when there was also in sort of what is happening in syria is suddenly tediously in almost all countries in the middle east and in north africa. internal problems will countries have internal problems not know 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 from the united states and from britain and from france to take advantage of these internal problems. a u.s. warship sell to ukraine for

a joint military exercise in the black sea arrival of the u.s.s. monitor a has already raised concerns in moscow artie's alexei airships he has the details from here. 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 the 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. fact out of 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 of 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 more on 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 with the bomb between russia and nato so clearly the world war 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's 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 or. stay with us here on energy coming your way in a few minutes a woman's fight for her dead son's family all the controversy surrounding a grandmother's attempts to become the legal guardian of her dead son's children were born from surrogate mothers after he died it's all coming your way in a couple of minutes. but first as european officials ready the next slice of

greece's bailout the european central bank and the german government are arguing over how they could to oprah how to get private investors to contribute just a year after the first payment the next stage comes with conditions calling on athens to implement even stricter austerity measures or he sarah ferguson greece where protests against the cuts have not relented. faces pain the face the child of the debt crisis we seem to think of building a the last year they kill me with these tough conditions that they love like understudied really think that's coming out as me it is very likely the measures will have to be implemented if greece is going to get continue existing international bailout money now all this on the back of it is the belief club that this sixteen percent of the fleet what holds a tiny house to jump way ahead typists by you can see the name plants around me this is what people have been capturing and regulate it's

a craze has against the state of texas matches at which point at the moment by atlanta gates is an elected leader fancy heading right now these little states may just be. are they going to have any 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 source of disaster it's on a stereotype program i'm seen before a race which has only resulted in the south with a ration of living starters are unaccounted stream rising unemployment. and. other and a very deep recession and the new program the new middle term program they're proposing now are just going to it's going to make things worse because a privatization program which is not just privatization is completely new it's complete losing the 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

very first place leaving you 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 rational when you put countries with different activity levels different countries competitiveness levels in the same money michael. in finding out about the feeling in germany and that there are some people who think that make people out of the usa together. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's german government still. bankrupt neighbors you can all say so you were raised. in the country you have to get rid of this is no longer worth the candidate. of the 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. 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 jail sixty seven it's not possible to declare 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 german zero 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 take chance to say ok we get out we. solve our problems have our debt from structures. for 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 at 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 out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single currency down with the. r.t. in. now the story of a russian grandmother whose attempts to keep the memory of her late son alive have led her in a legal and moral controversy or his arse on a boy though. it was only at fifty seven that lamar understood the true meaning of having her hands full an accomplished scientist 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 because 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 march 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 the world. the march has been fluffed her scientific career was put on hold yet lamar says they're all trifles compared to be reviewed and brought about by her son's death. it's love which is fed by grief but it's love number less three years ago i couldn't imagine myself even smiling let alone laughing or singing songs for the little ones who had me out of this abyss of despair with her

large family support lamarr says she has no financial or parental concerns about raising her grandchildren a main problem now is the reluctance of the russian state to recognize her as the martyr of these children and her deceased son as their father. the lord believes the lord is in their side. according to russian law there are no limits on who can you connect hearing through the use of surrogate mother who of course cases like this one are still very unusual in russia as well as some restriction overseas or court officials may be confused and refuse to greatest are children but the law is clear from three in our favor that maher 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 or the share number of children involved her story a good many russians questioning the aphex of this kind of parenting that you would

. take sides employ mechanics ultimately lead to this very ambiguous situation we can really tell the difference between a son and a 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 become are 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 no age cap people are willing to adopt children the only cavite is that a potential parent could be a police sixteen years older than the child in law muskies these days difference is almost sixty years which doesn't sit easily in a country where most people become parents before they turned thirty they were raising even two kids in more than a handful of boycott artsy moscow. this week the united states made

a number of airstrikes including unmanned drone attacks in pakistan and yemen america insists the targets were militants but unofficial reports suggest there were many more civilian casualties than first admitted or he's done and she found out the morality behind the 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 not deal 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 in 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 room of reaching 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 the 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 droom development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go forward on aren't surveillance drones if you ask us 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 this fight public discontent there's a lot of concern that your space jones by the u.s. government has more to do with u.s. control over mexican territory x. will be going out to 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 us itself surely does he wants police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising 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 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 heard 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 new rats hear that with the rapid expansion of sky drones over their own territory they could one day wake up you know into my police state i'm going to check our reporting from washington. you can always check out our website r t v dot com for more perspectives including

one in this case by u.s. radio host alex jones who believes that the abuse of drone technology could be the beginning of what he calls a terminator style world ruled ruled by robots check out line if you dare also this unbreakable spirit check out one man's epic journey across russia in a motorized wheelchair plus. top brass and top secret we follow the clandestine gathering of the world power brokers and try to uncover was actually being cooked up yeah you will build a meeting yes and plenty more just a click away. as a fact festive atmosphere here in moscow and across russia as the country marks twenty one years since it eclair that sovereignty and impressive fireworks display lit up the night sky of the capital the day also marks the country's first free elections that resulted in victory for reformist president boris yeltsin back in one thousand nine hundred one truly after the soviet union officially collapsed or never ports and even today memories of the bumpy road to democracy are still fresh

in many minds. june twelve nineteen ninety one millions voted to make boris yeltsin russia's first president a watershed moment in the country's history but 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 up a lot of the years the saw provoking unrest and even conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other we killed god what year was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist functionary floresiensis 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 a. year with this victory in the election yeltsin through the you can stand up to the communist system was right in an open and public manner he did not cut back room deals or try on 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 a communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance to the hardline

a coup later that summer his popularity peak 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 if you remember any even fewer care. i don't have any emotions about it but i did vote for you all to nan but 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 do 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 on appreciated with only one in five saying to have a positive attitude towards him many outside of russia even the day at the ball kristie is not perfect and some inside the country said they still yearn for the soviet union but one thing is very hard to argue against as

a result of these changes twenty years ago russians. more personal and political freedoms you. see moscow. still ahead interview and sports but first our top stories stay with us here on r.t. .

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