margetts why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. reviewing the week's top stories on our t.v. dozens killed in libya's capital as nato embarks on its most intense bombing raid yet but there's been heavy fighting as rebels renew attacks on the oil port city of zawiya in syria tensions rise as the government continues its severe crackdown on the opposition. a u.s. naval vessel in the black sea sparks outrage from moscow in flames and supreme leader the planned nato missile defense shield for europe. for giving others their dead it's too much for one german lawyer who said to sue his government for handing out cash to failing euro zone economies in countries that have received the cash

now of the prospect of further austerity measures measures has drawn protesters to the streets. and to be seen. as even just. plays in exchange to continue paying out money. russia celebrating the country's declaration of sovereignty and its first free elections that marked the definitive end of the soviet union. five am in moscow i'm not treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t fierce fighting is continuing in libya in the libyan port city of misrata where rebels using heavy artillery ramped up their bombardment of gadhafi troops pro-government forces responded with heavy

shelling killing at least six and wounding sixteen others the fighting comes amid insurgence fresh attempts to retake zawiya another major oil for an earlier battle in the port left thirty people dead and shut down and he supply route to tunisia he while in tripoli colonel gadhafi. or a chess game with the president of the world chess federation but clearly had no intention of stepping down as r.t. is worried if an ocean reports it's the ordinary people think we're bearing the brunt of the cardboard. saddam has been within a hair's breath of death but doctors have performed any a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took her mother's pills to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me and myself. but who wants to kill the teenager summer's native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night 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 with land. this week in the most intensive area yet there have been sixteen nato airstrikes in just ten hours attacks against civilians must start the must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claim success and the military operation is supposed to protect civilians with the libyan government has repeatedly protested the innocent civilians have been among the dead the claims have not been independently verified by the thin is clear since march nineteenth the lives of ordinary libyans has changed forever some as mother will never forget the day when her daughter who for a death to this new life my girl told me before that she saw 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 was

something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone they never said they were going to almost a promise to protect us but instead they scare us talking about who they are. sort of his father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato and we try to live our lives from all new 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 leave it till september people here face months more terror from the skies when of nato is supposed to target gadhafi his military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's compound but it's almost damaged the lives of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will ever recover.

tripoli. turning now to syria where forces loyal to president bashar assad have reportedly gain control over the rebel held town of just sure the attack was meant to plains the town of armed rebel groups that 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 brutal crackdown against anti-government activists in syria but russia which opposes any attempts to intervene in the syrian conflict says it won't back the move arab world observers believe that some countries might try to manipulate the u.n. in an attempt to benefit from the conflict. nations this. is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its most powerful members notably the united states britain and a source that was the world is concerned also from so in other countries in the european union because just as they are considering cracking down on the syrian government behind not considered cracking down on the governments of better

arrangement or other or each of the point in time when there was also and. what is happening in syria is suddenly tediously in almost all countries in 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. amid ever increasing claims of civilian casualties in libya many are questioning the humanitarian goals of the alliance it interview with nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen on thursday my colleague and he said now way i asked him to clarify how the whole issue defines a what's 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 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. i would like to stress that we are not targeting individuals we. believe military. targets. and of course control centers can be used to plan and organize attacks against civilians show amount of control centers military targets you can find out how the nato chief responded to other questions over libya in his full interview with our teeth coming your way in a little more than an hour or any time on r.t. dot com. a u.s.

warship has sailed in ukraine for a joint military exercise in the black sea but arrival of the u.s.s. monterey has already raised eyebrows in moscow or he's like sarah shouts the reports from. this american warship the u.s.s. monterey carries a high tech and sophisticated and 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 there so 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 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 or more 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 would be different 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's the concerns raised by the statement and the direct accusation of washington of not keeping its promise and knots trying to build a collective security system in europe together and doing it only in one way or. coming your way in a few minutes when killing looks like a video game the u.s. ratchets up the attack drone programs and with it grow fears of a playstation mentality replacing the morals of what it comes to warfare. plus

three months from the start of the fukushima nuclear crisis in japan we look at how government efforts to downplay the contamination have provoked a massive display of the public rage. but first as european officials are close to giving a second rescue package to deeply indebted greece the european central bank and the german government are seeking ways to involve private investors and 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 sarah ferguson more from. when hale and since titan is there you can see how many people. in the fray can call them in building a first began. to be paid by the government. and people who. sang has been building for years they've already been. very. they say that the government has anything by and save. a lot of pensions

on the street. and they can raise some by raising that. people simply didn't think that that. might be the case. that calculus thank you measures will have to be implemented his response to continue i think the international bailout money now this comes on the back began to really love this eighty six percent of the bulls are out in the field and stepping forty feet offensive fifteen twenty four year old what he's begun to some of the younger people here they say i've heard plenty of misery like. them. but the people of this doesn't stop doing things. but look on the game and that's why we can see he told them the.

thing is that when that price is. right. i know right. meanwhile in germany the source of much of the bailout cash there is growing anger at what's seen as paying off other people's that's walter paul lawsuits have been launched against the government won by a powerful green party who claimed chancellor merkel concealed information about the bailout this comes as one of the country's top lawyers file suit so start the bundestag from doling out any more cash or he's daniel bushell has more from berlin . 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 say that so you say the greeks tell the country you have to get rid

of groups greece is no longer worth a candidate. of the union the nation's labeled in the region by some as the pigs of europe portugal ireland greece and spain most drop the currency now before they drag down all the members wants 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 through ring greece but they're not happy in the e.u. cash capital frankfurt either believing the greeks have had it too easy because if we are going to chill sixty stand then it's not particularly clear why

other people should go with sixty five which are certainly not responsible for the deaths and the deficits running portugal greece and the pick states raise the age when when the greek people retire. story all the people we have to work along as well germans or wrote boiling point anger which could spill out onto the streets the powerful greens n l suing merkel's government claiming it hid facts about bailouts from the public people in germany i ask you we have to play it is 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 they should take chance to say ok we'll get out. of our problems have our structures. pay for 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 at risk on this athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the. if greeks no agree with. it's out of control. states. don't you see. me 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 then first admitted he's got a cheeky on found out about the morality of a higher about attacks is being increasingly called into question. this was going to u.s. drone hit the house of this young man in pakistan he lost than i both legs and three family members. these people are demanding the cia be held responsible for the deaths of their loved ones but to no avail with the use of drones comes a lack of accountability those are being operated by somebody at a command center in langley virginia they're watching it on video on a video screen they're pressing a button they're deciding who lives and who dies and then they go off for a weekend where they have barbecues in their suburban virginia and suburban maryland homes and who pays the price the people who are the victims of the attack is there accountability none whatsoever drones have become the symbol of america's undeclared wars wars that seem to have no state all the gold boundaries we've all

been over new realm of warfare a new room of. international and domestic law. used in pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategy of the u.s. state department has estimated the 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 that's not what's happening in yemen it's not what's happening in pakistan they are furiously and raged 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 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 little interest among americans the prospect of having surveillance drones spying all across the u.s. itself surely do you as police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising the alarm among those who think that could be the end of american freedoms 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 action they'll be chilling free speech the girls will be equipped with some sort of weapons cannon some people

are saying lasers will be able to punish the students who are advocating against the government believe already been used in some instances in the united states in two thousand and seven protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects floating overhead it looked like writings well turned out they were robo flies and all about a fairly gone 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 if someone's deadly video game and maybe hearing being the last year that with their rapid expansion of sky drones over their own territory they could one day wake up you know to me police state i'm going to check our reporting from our our team. check out our website r.t. dot com for more perspectives including one from u.s. radio host alex jones who apparently thinks abuse of drone technology could be the start of a terminator style of warfare one waged by robots or about online including this

crowded space the i.s.a.'s gets three new residents doubling the number of humans out of the international space station a combined crew will perform unique research including attempts to find an answer here. probably expect also be expecting a farewell visit from that's the travel of atlantis a lot of our flight of the current u.s. space shuttle program. top brass and top secret to follow the clandestine gathering of the world's power brokers and try to uncover what's actually going on behind closed doors and you'll build a bird brains all of a sudden more a click away. turning now to japan where the stricken fukushima nuclear plant continues leaking radiation while a different kind of fallout public anger spills onto the streets huge crowds turned out across japan yesterday demanding an end to the country's use of nuclear power protests come on a heels of revelations that the government had covered up the true extent of the radioactive contamination following the fukushima catastrophe tens of thousands of

that we had from the area surrounding the plant still live in temporary shelters and instead of getting the same people the sympathy they deserve many are suffering from discrimination even from their own government according to dr robert jacobs from 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 live in tokyo are experiencing discrimination in japan by people who consider them constantly contaminated even though radiation is not transferable to other people but there are a lot of problems ahead if i can give you one quick example in august there's a very important holiday in japan called in which everyone returns to their hometown because the spirits of ancestors come to their burial places where their actions are in turn and the family welcomes them these people exclusions and will

not be able to observe this religious holiday and won't in their spirits of their ancestors return and when people find that they're only able to carry out their familial obligations for decades because they can. 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 breakdowns that radiation exposures and communities turned 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 program plans to restart the country's nuclear program by twenty fourteen were shelved due to safety concerns following the fukushima incident germany recently took the decision to phase out nuclear power completely by two thousand and twenty two switzerland has opted for a similar route. here as clashes broke in southern turkey on sunday after results showed a kurdish independence party had won seats in the country's general election celebrations

turned violent and police water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowds turkey's prime minister tayyip erdogan was returned to power for a third term getting more than fifty percent of the vote his ruling justice and development party fell short of painting enough seats to call for a referendum on a new constitution. there is a festive atmosphere here in moscow and across russia as the country marks twenty one years since it declared its sovereignty and impressive fireworks display lit up the night sky above the capitol the day also marks the country's first real actions by resulted in victory for reform escape president boris yeltsin back in one thousand nine hundred one truly afterward the soviet union collapsed as art he never reports and even today memories of the bumpy road to democracy are still fresh in many people's minds. june twelve nineteen. millions voted to make boris yeltsin russia's first president should movement and become trees history with this was the first free election. 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 we held which i was the head of the soviet union chosen by communist functionary boris yeltsin was in charge of new a 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 could 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 can break up with 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 lection 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 for far learn a coup late in a summer his popularity peaked but over the next decade the support fields and 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 emotions about it 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 no gracias 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 about perceived as not perfect and some inside the country said are they still here and for a start but one thing is very hard to argue against as a result of these changes twenty years ago russians are wealthier more personal and political freedoms eager. to see moscow. back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes stay with us here on our.

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