i think in the world. of self-sacrifice comparison with those who understand fully that you have to live a. real life stories from. the truth nine hundred forty five going to. the week's top stories on our team russia mourns the forty five victims of tuesday's plane crash in the northwest of the country with seven survivors still in critical condition. the surge in the number of civilian casualties from nato airstrikes on tripoli and intensified crackdown on khadafi supporters in benghazi forced many to flee to safer parts of the country. and the e.u. demands for greece to impose tougher budget cuts to secure a fresh bailout sparked massive protests at home and outrage at yet another rescue plan within the block and it predictions that if you're always on the brink of

collapse. which you know if you live from moscow armory and joshua welcome to the program russia was shocked this week by a plane crash that killed forty five people the temple of one three four heading from moscow to russia's northwestern republic of korea crash landed on a busy major road just a kilometer from its destination seven people who survived the crash remain in a critical condition r.t. says are cilia reports. struggling to keep her composure that yana is in disbelief at the sudden death of her friend when you're bored at work i do not understand why it happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's frayed the wanted to have to happen. the russian premier league football

referee. just one of the forty four killed monday night when he took will have won three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to bettors avoids going northwest to russia crushed on this road missing the runway by a kilometer twenty four hours later the crash claimed another victim when one of the survivors a young boy died in hospital. when i heard the little boy in the hospital died i was shocked it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes at this era poured many times it's very personal to me . the site of the crash has been cleaned up the roads have been reopened the wreckage of the plane completely removed but there are still clear marks evidence like this bird chorus that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday right and for those who had been here to witness the horrific scenes they say that those memories are unlikely to go away. i didn't sleep for two days i couldn't even fall asleep i can't recall and people screaming and i was pulling forty's away from

the plane and shoot you have get me was one of the first that the scene his house only metres away from where the plane came down and. i heard the explosion and ran outside the lights went out i ran into the science and we started doing people who were trying to win man two women and the pilot he was dead while all the bodies have been recovered the relatives of the victims still have the tough task of identifying their loved ones investigators say all possible scenarios are being looked into but initial reports suggest bad weather and pilot error are the likely causes of the crash a suggestion that didn't sit well with some locals just would kill you it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead i think the airport itself is to playing family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those they've lost does are still your artsy russia's karelia region.

and you can take a closer look at the crash site in northwest russia with a series of photos on our website well you can also find snapshots from the other main news stories of the week there just go to photo galleries l.-i an exclusive section to get instant access and that's on our website r.t. dot com. this week has seen a number of reports of growing civilian casualties in libya in the latest nato bombing tripoli fifteen people were killed in the eastern town of bragg claimed denied by the alliance between officials say over eight hundred civilians have died since the operation began in march are reports now and how many libyans are desperate to flee to safety. this family hasn't had the war quiet and peaceful like this one for months they've escaped from the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to

hide in this refugee camp in the west of the country after a life in their native town became a nightmare. it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gunshots people from the government didn't you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she supports gadhafi. the scheme has been long and hard for they were in their family well i'm. happy that i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me then we knew there was a bus coming from benghazi to nazir the bus with the gravels for their purposes we took that bus with our faces covered and everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and the lot of soon we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there quieten as we were sent here. son was a brother. a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on

his life but he only finally left when he saw a killing. take him from from from. killing him in front of. her own good but the. letter of the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body that are part of the revolution in libya started in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is. very new so the west. well you are again this. about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just war. the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not. that say from the side of the frontline. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in the air strike according to

libyan government officials a bomb landed on a private compound and flattened they would kill in fifteen people including three kids this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon then you could argue around in these symmetries still fresh well made too has already claimed the three operation to protect civilians was go on with clashes continue and benghazi and nato intensifying its bombardment of tripoli both eastern and western parts of the country are perilous to say and people are dying on both sides of the frontline many on the ground fear that's when the democracy there were talks about who finally can hear their last be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western leader professor lawrence davidson from westchester university in pennsylvania told r.t. that nato has understood from the very beginning that it's humanitarian operation

what inevitably bring civilian deaths. what is causing to question is the original just the pick a shoe in for american intervention which was humanitarian my own personal opinion is that that was always a just a media story for our domestic consumption you cannot enter being anywhere with this level of munitions and not kill civilians so ok you're going to protect civilians by intervening with the type of munitions that cannot avoid killing civilians and think that nato and its commanders and the president and the politicians who followed in this are beyond the point of no return or so they simply cannot stop paying in terms of their own mind what they've invested in this and therefore they will end up doing whatever is necessary to secure

victory in libya and they will project media stories to cover. and there's more on nato and u.s. foreign interventions to come this hour here in r t a look at a triple up against him now five rock with bombs and a string of terror attacks in the country that followed. elitists have agreed on a new bailout for greece but only after a strict budget cuts are imposed a vote on a proposed twenty billion euro stary plan is expected on wednesday if approved it will also mean another tranche of last year's bailout will be handed over to greeks the latest developments prompted immediate reaction from you're a skeptic so album art funeral in brussels for the ailing single currency they argue that it's against the bailout of greece are too little too late and of the crisis will help bring about the downfall of the eurozone. if we just keep pumping money into greece is only put off the death of their economy they are already

bankrupt we have to wake up and smell the coffee and say enough is enough greece is going to go aren't going to go portugal and of course the big one everyone is worried about is the state of supply investment banks like portaloos are pretty juicy now a lot of villages in spain because clearly the property slump in spain is not bigger than a spanish government is telling people places and it being a drop of eighteen percent on the radio shows people are losing seventeen percent sixty percent in the value of their homes and their developments spain will be the next one chapal but why should really u.k. taxpayer pay anything the german taxpayer paid for the ineptitude of the greek government. as the greek crisis unravels public fewer continues to spill into the streets of athens another strike is planned to coincide with the hysterically vote next week so here is a selector at the university of. the return to

a national currency could be the way out for greece. the problem is we cannot do it we are getting twelve billion lifeline in the limit the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous periods this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek people to have an immediate exit from the euro from the euro zone the euro is a monetary absurdity in a way it's a totally irrational financial and monetary architecture that's there is also a contributing factor to the debt crisis and in general to social crisis in greece so i think that going back to a national kerensky and regaining public control in a way national control of monetary policy is a very necessary step to be taking it is not a road to disaster as the government is saying on the contrary it's going to be

a very positive step. the far right that politician geert wilders has been cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he faced five separate counts following a controversial speech he gave attacking islam and comparing it to nazis it's like a court ruled his comments fell within the boundaries of legitimate political debate wilders is known for his anti muslim stance and has called for a hold so now that i mean religion and for the koran to be banned member of the european parliament philip slice says the verdict shows that immigration policy has to change. things were different for this is very important not to forget through this but for freedom of speech in itself you know we've always been told that marching culturalism was going to be great and was going to solve a lot of problems on the contrary it has become a problem in itself and it's very important that everyone should be able to know to put forward his own solutions to the problem and that the balanced and free debate

people from outside of europe who come through any country in the european union shoot themselves through the local laws the local way of living as a romans do and this is very important multiculturalism in reality does not work in europe we are seeing big problems in major cities major capitals in western europe where we see our societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have to adapt themselves to the way of living in the country they went through and so this has to change i think we need a much more restrictive immigration and integration policy. well you're watching our three live from moscow still have for you this hour japan's nuclear disaster under-estimated we visit with the sheema city player and save by the authorities to find radiation levels there are one thousand times the norm. plus a perfect way to learn more about russia from visiting its most beautiful places to

discovering some of its most ambitious innovations find out all about our new documentary cho in a few minutes. well i will now be easier for russian political parties to win seats in the lower house of parliament as the president has signed a bill lowering the threshold from seven percent to five percent of the votes speaking to the media before the decision dmitri medvedev said it could also be possible to lower that figure to three percent the president said that this is needed to boost political competition and help modernize the country seven percent threshold was introduced in two thousand and seven by his predecessor of lattimore putin. and hoping to give that competition some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest men who has set his sights on politics may help progress as an elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december parliamentary elections it's calling for him or a liberal russia

a problem or of himself didn't want to call it an opposition party and he spoke exclusively to the billionaire who says he wants to be the prime minister. although i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or plunge into illusions where particular goals to get into russia's lower house of parliament with the maximum number of votes what i also understand is that i could be a good prime minister if the party successful i would fight for disposition. the u.k. has failed to track details about the handover of its detainees to the us of protect them from possible torture in america's foreign prisons that's been revealed as a secret agreement between the two states on the treatment of prisoners during the iraq war surfaced this week the release papers brought to light the case of a twenty eight year old pakistani you just rocked much of on he was seized in iraq by british troops seven years ago and then secretly transferred to a u.s.

detention camp in afghanistan has been held there ever since the spied the u.s. admitting he poses no risk corey kreider from their reprieve charity is finding a legal battle for ahmed to last release stolar team he's handed over was illegal in the first place. hundreds of prisoners and but what makes you notice special is that eunice was actually picked up by the united kingdom in iraq in february two thousand and four the u.k. handed him to the united states in march and april there were discussions between the u.s. and the u.k. because the u.s. won a descendant of barbarism in the u.k. didn't them jacked despite the fact that at this time even the grave photos broke making it absolutely clear to anyone who had any doubt what was happening to prisoners in u.s. detention the u.k. says that it learned quote unquote in june of that year june two thousand and four that my client had been sent to bob graham and although there was an ammo you kind

of deal between the u.s. and the u.k. that permits the u.k. to get him out of custody they never bothered to do so so we've had to sue them in the united kingdom courts in haiti as corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner back you never should have been sent out of iraq he was rendered on the awfully in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your prisoner. quite prior there now meanwhile a similar scandal has engulfed the european union back in two thousand and one e.u. leaders gave america the green light to go ahead with its vision of battling terror and since then hundreds have gone through torture without trial argues daniel bushell has been following one such story. as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo for tool show after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given no explanation all said story couldn't as is suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the learned of the

free are free to cause quote simulated drowning and rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of closure on myself. because i want sorry. that i was forced to agree that i'm the number. and i was not the us refused to even reveal the will hold income earners his mother owns these lawyers to find her son and it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr corners it's a shame for the united states what happened. concerning that national war and it's simply impossible and the twenty first century. put someone in the extra. room. you

have no right. to the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners that our people think would be ineffective in the classified memo gonzales did warn us goods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil ministers and the european union were glad to oblige you agreed to help the rest and transport people to countries where they could be tortured in a meeting here at nato headquarters in two thousand and one detainees may or may not have been guilty since they never received a real trial we just called know for sure. barack obama was elected on the promise to show. that he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give me some royds two years on the prison still open for business law all is the washington street guilty of. crimes against

humanity sociopathic ministration status. for participating and what exactly executives from bush down there figure going abroad to foreigners food lawsuits over. when the world will to america's doing said bush is advisor we will all be ashamed. braman. dozens of people have been killed in afghanistan in separate bombings over the past two days the attacks fall the announcement by president obama of his troop withdrawal strategy the latest attack on a hospital in eastern afghanistan left at least thirty five dead with some reports putting the death toll at sixty and in another part of the country a bomb exploded at a market killing ten of one thing over twenty eight on wednesday president obama announced the withdrawal of a third of u.s. troops by the end of next year some military commanders are willing us say the plan

is risky and are advising a much smaller reduction afghan war veteran turned peace activist gigs or berto believes the presence of foreign forces all helps bring insurgency. the longer that the us stays and nato stays inside of afghanistan the more enemies we create because what happens in war unintentional consequences innocent people get killed more people join the insurgency that normally wouldn't not have the troops there doesn't allow the insurgency to grow we've seen every year the longer troops day the insurgency grows and anti-american anti western anti european sentiment grows so that's why we should leave more importantly than not the money we've invested has largely gone to waste and it will continue going to waste by any nation that continues supporting what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s and non-governmental institutions where the money actually hits the ground

where that people are where schools are being built and roads are being built by n.g.o.s if we can to do that it would be good for the afghans if we continue to give money to the central bank in kabul that's bad because that's work karzai and his cronies will steal it learning lessons from the japanese crisis that was a key point of a five day nuclear formed it and it is. but how does their findings match up to reality artie's john thomas went to a city just outside a twenty kilometer zone to witness the deadly legacy of the disaster for himself. i the ominous and a constant ticking of geiger counter scientists working in fukushima city concerned similar i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking there is a creation protocol and process set up by the japanese government is not enough and myself i think i should evacuate from this area but because of my job at the

university i can't my family and my friends family are of a creating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the danger plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band's danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the battleground is really three point two nine. with about thirty times what is more than acceptable but here i think we're just in the moderate collect of the regular quickly. and it's still climbing earlier we got a reading of no i don't know i love my career here quickly as about a thousand times more than one of the accepted level of critical. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers but the government the. change

the. standard the levels from one. to twenty million syrians per year twenty times. the. standards before the accident and now. they raise the. standard so that they can say it's safe but actually the standard has changed the new higher levels mean that fukushima can be closed as being outside of the exclusion zone some say that evacuating the city would be simply incredible given the huge numbers of people affected. to try and mitigate the circumstances to some degree a group of scientists have teamed up to find simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. you're just trying to do a pilot project do the. work by also and we are not using a special we just use normal. scoops. just

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