from stupid. stunts on t.v. dot com. the week's top stories on our team dozens killed in the libyan capital as nato steps up its most intense bombing raids so far there's been heavy fighting as rebels are new attacks on the oil port city of zawiya and syria meanwhile tension is rising as the government continues a severe crackdown on the opposition. a u.s. navy ship in the black sea sparks outrage from moscow in claims it's a prelude to the planned nato missile defense shield for europe. and forgiving others their debts proves too much for one german lawyer who said to sue his government for handing out cash to failing eurozone economies well in states that have received a cash bail out the prospect of further austerity measures has drawn protesters to the streets blank of each including. that's just

a start it's the most it's place in exchange they can take money. and russia's been celebrating the country's declaration of sovereignty and its first free elections that marked the definitive the end of the soviet union. in moscow i mattress to bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t fierce fighting is continuing in the libyan port city of misrata where rebels using heavy artillery have ramped up on bartman of khadafi troops pro-government forces responded with heavy shelling killing at least six and wounding sixteen others the fighting comes amid insurgents fresh attempts to retake so we're another major oil port and earlier a battle in the port left thirty dead and shut down and he supplier tunisia

meanwhile in the capital tripoli colonel khadafi over a chess game with the president of the world chess federation declared he had no intention of stepping down as artie's mary if the notion of reports it's the ordinary people who are bearing the brunt of the war. saddam has been we know has growth of death but doctors have performed any a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took a mother to kill herself and. if someone wants to kill me and they do it myself. but who wants to kill the teenager. son was made to c.t. tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night have been fooling around the city with a population of around a million no one can ever say when on where the next one would lie and. this week in the most intensive air raid yet there have been sixty. nato airstrikes in just

ten hours attacks against civilians must stop gadhafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claimed success and the military operation is supposed to protect civilians but the libyan government has repeatedly protested the innocent civilians have been among the dead the claims have not been independently very high and with one thing this clear since march nineteenth the live ordinarily paeans has changed forever saddam was mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death to this new life my girl told me before that she thought death was a good thing and i ran to her room that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere could see what happened but i realized immediately it was something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone they never said they were going to bomb us he promised to protect his but instead they scariest talking about who they are of obamacare said of his

father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato and we try to live our lives will know 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 all september that means people here face months more terror from the skies one of nato is supposed to target khadafi its military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's compound but it's almost damaged the lives of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will ever recover. tripoli. amid increasing claims of civilian casualties in libya many now question the humanitarian goals of the alliance in an interview with nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen on thursday and my colleague and he said now way 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 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 bombed they've seen civilian buildings blown to pieces does daffy 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 believe 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 the answers to the other questions asked of the nato chief

coming up in a full interview he gave with r.t. by logging on to our web site r t v dot com. turning now to syria where forces loyal to president bashar assad have reportedly gain control over the rebel held town of jurors are all sure the attack was meant to put plans the town of armed rebel groups which are killed at least one hundred twenty police officers last week meanwhile the u.k. and france are still pushing for a un resolution condemning the crackdown against the government anti-government activists in syria but russia which opposes any attempts to intervene in the syrian conflict says it won't back and move arab world observers believe that some countries may manipulate the u.n. and attempt to benefit from the country's civil conflict. 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 sort of the western world is concerned also from so in other countries and the european union because

just as they are considering cracking down on the syrian government they have most considerate cracking down on the governments of battery or other or each of the point in time when there was a hole so it was for what is happening in syria and simultaneously in almost all countries of the middle east and 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 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. the u.s. warship has sell to ukraine for a joint military exercise in the black sea of the u.s.s. monterey has already raised concerns though when moscow artie's like sarah chefs he has the details from kiev. 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 desa harbor to take part in the nato war games it is especially bewildering given the fact that all the previous seabreeze war games in have seen only small u.s. u.s. ships take part in these war games of the russian foreign ministry says that this.

the fact that the u.s.s. monterey is now in the black sea region is in fact a threat to the russian national security and in some way a violation of the agreements reached between washington in moscow and moscow over the new missile defense plan in 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 of moore on now we've heard furthermore plans of building radio location stations in romania and turkey and in poland so all this. according to the russian foreign ministry is not something discussed

between presidents with 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 so that the concerns raised by the statement and the direct accusations 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 . stay with us here on r t coming your way in a few minutes when killing it looks like a video game america ratchets up its unmanned drone program and with growth fears of a play station mentality possibly replacing more when it comes to warfare. three months on from the start of the fukushima nuclear crisis in japan we look at how government efforts to downplay radioactive contamination have provoked a massive display of public outcry. but first as european officials are close to

giving a second rescue package deeply indebted greece the european central bank and the german government are seeking ways to involve private investors in the bell out in an attempt to handle the crisis the greek government has revealed a series of deep cuts triggering demonstrations across the country r.t. sorry for more from. police this being the case to child of the day. we seem to get building a the last good they do with these tough conditions for that bailout money and this time they are really looking for any know this new but it's very likely the measures will have to be implemented if greece is going to be able to continue this thing international bailout money now all of this on the back of the belief. that sixteen percent of the week what pulls a company out of the way. you can see the main towns around the this is what people have been gathering. to test against the state. that we're joined at the moment by

kind of gates is. going. to be. all they going to have any effect will be only a fix they're going to do so they're going to make matters worse for the past year greece is facing a social disaster it's almost there if the program i'm seen before in greece which doesn't own designs you know south of the ration of living standards are an extreme . rising unemployment and. they're on a very deep recession and the new program and the new commitment there program they're proposing now are just going to it's going just to make things worse it is a private a patient program which is not just private interests complete deal it's a complete losing of public companies getting to this and assets and the only thing we're going to see is even more unemployment and even more the direction of living standards in the place leaving the united states again i think that greece being

part of the euro zone these are contributing factors to the problems that they euro zone it's like a financial monetary straight jacket it's completely rational when you put countries with different activity levels different context competitiveness levels in the same money my colleague daniel fish has been finding out about the feeling in germany and that started there are some people who think that meat would be better out of the usa together. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government to stop its bailing out bankrupt neighbors you cannot save so you know by saving grace to all the country you have to get rid of please greece is no longer worth a candidate no longer with numbers of the european union the nations labeled in the region by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece and spain must drop

the currency now before they drag down other members ones coba. things last year raised the pension age to sixty five and cooked early retirement of the country's 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 up 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 ask going to jail sixty seven it's not possible to declare why people should go with six 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 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 is revolting klaus pizza will she's fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries they should take the chance to say ok we get out we. solve our problems we would have our dept restructured those who gave money for a high interest rate would lose 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 on this 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 them down your bushel linde. this week the u.s. 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 reported or he's got a cheeky on found out the morality behind the robotic attacks is increasingly being called into question. this so that when a u.s. drone hits the house of this young man in pakistan he lost an eye both legs and three family members. these people are demanding the cia be held responsible for

the deaths of their loved ones but to no avail with the use of drones comes a lack of accountability those are being operated by somebody at a command center in langley virginia they're watching it on video on a video screen they're pressing the button they're deciding who lives and who dies and then they go off for a weekend where they have barbecues in their suburban virginia 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 legal boundaries we've opened up a new realm of warfare a new room of breaking 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 that drone attacks kill fifty non targeted persons

for each intended target one of the things the united states kind of pretends is that we are morally superior we are better judge able to judge what is good for other people and therefore we are entitled to inflict our judgement on them and that we presume they will be grateful to us for it but that is not what happens ever and it's not what's happening in yemen it's not what's happening in pakistan they are furiously enraged with us washington is looking to increase the funding for drone development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go towards an armed surveillance drones the u.s. has for years been using them in another of its undeclared wars against drug traffickers in mexico the mexican government allows you. u.s. spy planes despite public discontent there's a lot of concern that the use of these jones by the us 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 little interest among americans the prospect of having surveillance drones spying all across the us itself surely does us police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising the alarm among those who think that could be the end of american freedoms and specially when you look at constitutional activities like free speech activities that are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe protesting the war or protesting some are governmental act and they'll be chilling free speech should your old will be equipped with some sort of weapon so can and some people are saying lasers will be able to punish the students who are advocating against the government they've already been used in some instances in the united states and in two thousand and seven protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects floating overhead it looked like dragonflies turned out they were robo flies developed by the pentagon now surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing any intelligence gathering

in pakistan people leave in fear that it may be time they could become a target in someone's deadly didio game and maybe hearing but you last hear that with the rapid expansion of spy drones over their own territory they could one day wake up you know to my police state i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. you can check out our website r.t. dot com for more perspectives including one from u.s. radio host alex jones who thinks the abuse of drone technology could be the beginning of terminator style warfare ruled by robots check that out on the line also this crowded space the international space station gets three new residents doubling the number of humans in orbit complied international through before unique research including attempts to find a cure for cancer also be expected. farewell visit from nasa atlantis shuttle a lot every flight of the current u.s. space shuttle program plus. the top brass the top secret we follow the clandestine

gathering of the world's power brokers and try to uncover what's actually going on behind closed doors at the annual builder birthday all this seven hundred more a click away. turning eastward now to japan where the stricken fukushima nuclear plant continues to leak radiation while a different kind of fallout public anger is spilling onto the streets huge crowds turned out across japan yesterday demanding an end to view country's use of nuclear power the protests come on the heels of revelations that the government had covered up the true extent of the contamination following the fukushima disaster tens of thousands of people evacuated from the area surrounding the plant still live in temporary shelters instead of getting sympathy that they deserve many of them find their suffering discrimination even from their own government that's according to robert shakeups director of the hiroshima peace 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 fukushima area who even people who were born there but who 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 in japan called old bones 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 exclusions and will not be able to observe this religious holiday and welcome their spirits of their ancestors who return in no bone when people find that their own able to carry out their familial obligations for decades because they can't return. into 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 breakdowns that follow radiation exposures in communities tearing

out of some other stories making headlines across the globe. in the wake of the fukushima crisis italy is holding a referendum on whether the country should revive its atomic energy ambitions plans to restart the country's nuclear program by two thousand and fourteen or shell due to can safely concerns following the incident in japan germany recently took the decision to phase out nuclear power completely by two thousand and twenty two switzerland has opted for a similar route. with most of the votes in the country's general election tear he's prime minister tie a paragon seems to have won a third term in office his ruling justice and development party claimed victory with fifty point two percent of the vote but fell short of gaining 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 aragon earlier pledge changes to the constitution aimed at improving basic rights and freedoms. as a festival atmosphere here in moscow and across russia as the country is marking

twenty one years since it declared its sovereignty and impressive fireworks display lit up the night sky in the capital they also marks the country's first free elections that resulted in a victory of reformist president boris yeltsin in one thousand nine hundred one trophy afterward the soviet union collapsed as r.t.c. were overawed never ports and even today memories of the bumpy road to democracy are still fresh in many minds. june twelve nineteen. millions voted to make boris yeltsin russia's first president to shouldn't movement in the country's history but that this was the first free election 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 year ceasar provoking unrest and even armed conflict and moscow two leaders also competed against each other mikhail gorbachev was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist functionaries boris yeltsin was in charge of a new sovereign russia and promised reform but calling for an open election yeltsin challenged the authority of the communist party over russia. with this victory in the election yeltsin 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 in town squares what at his rallies attracted hundreds of thousands when the election night came we were hopeful would win but we still weren't sure

after all it was the communist party that counted the votes but soon enough the results became clear boris yeltsin defeated the communist candidate handily with more than half of the votes. when he led the resistance to a hardline a coup that at summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade the 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 and even fewer care. i don't have any emotions about it but i did vote for yeltsin and by i am far less political now absolutely. i voted but i can tell you these are all just politicians games they have nothing to do with me. it's not surprising that those who lived through the difficult times did not want to celebrate this occasion but hopefully the next generation will truly appreciate the historic

significance of this moment and of yeltsin as of 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 said it 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 all wealth of more personal and political freedoms. see moscow. stay with us here on our team in a few minutes we'll take a look at the u.s. broadcasting industry a documentary about first we back with a recap of our top stories.

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