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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 could off the 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 the euro is on the brink of collapse . which is not to live from moscow i'm joshua welcome to the program russia was shocked this week by a plane crash that killed forty five people

a tuple 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 are just as are sillier reports. struggling to keep her composure that is in disbelief at the sudden death of her friend. i do not understand why it happened she was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's for the want to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee led by just one of the forty four killed monday night with a tuple of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to bet as a vodka northwestern russia crashed 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 airport many times it's very personal to me the sight of the crash has been cleaned up the roads have been reopened the wreckage of the plane completely removed but there are still career marks evidence like this for us that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have 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 pulling bodies away from the plane. you have guinea was one of the first at the scene his house only meters away from where the plane came down. i heard the explosion and ran outside the lights went out i ran to the site and we started rescuing people trying to win two women and the pilot that 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. it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead i think the airport itself is to blame family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those they've lost deaths are still you r t russia your 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 exclusive section to get instant access and that's on our website r.t.e.

dot com. this week has seen a number of reports of growing civilian casualties in libya and the latest nato bombing tripoli fifteen people were killed in the eastern town of bragg claimed denied by the alliance libyan officials say over eight hundred civilians have died since the operation began in march artie's marina for our reports now on how many libyans are desperate to flee to safety these family hasn't had the war quiet and peaceful like this one for months they've escaped to the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to hide in this refugee camp in the west of the country off to 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 gun show one day people from the government and been 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 khadafi. these cave has been long

and hard for the win in their family what i remember was that a couple of men have it it was i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me and then we knew there was a bus coming from benghazi to near zero the bus with the rebels 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 they lot of soon we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there via tennessee and we were sent here. to sodomize brother dr sabri 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 or from your killing him in front of ice your own good his body on the world that. the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body set up after the revolution in libya started in the mid february its members are

recognized by many countries throughout the world as the all legitimate representatives of libya there is no other then you knew. you would be with them oh you are against. they took about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bury all the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not that safe from the side of the frontline either . these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in the air strike in cold and to leave and 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 the new drug ground in this symmetry is still fresh while nato has already claimed that the operation to protect civilians must go on. with

clashes containing and benghazi and nato intensifying its bombardment of tripoli but is eastern and western parts of the country a perilous to say and people are dying on both sides of the frontline many on the ground fear that when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they'll last me enough people left to experience it. were even. with putin for a western libya professor lawrence davidson from west to chester university in pennsylvania told r.t. that nato has understood from the very beginning that its humanitarian operation what inevitably bring civilian deaths what this calls into question the original justification 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 i think that nato and its commanders and the president and the politicians involved in this are beyond a point of no return so they simply cannot stop 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 calm the sour here in r t a look at a triple up for ghana stan announce five drop of bombers and a string of bloody terror attacks in a country that followed. either leaders have agreed on

a new bailout for greece but only after a strict budget cuts are imposed a vote on a proposed twenty billion euros tera the 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 euro skeptics who held a mock funeral in brussels for the ailing single currency they argue that attempts to bail out 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 it's 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 all in is going to go portugal and of course the big one that everyone is worried about is the state of spying that is what some of our banks like barclays have been reducing their buying because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than

a spanish government is telling people they say there's only been a drop of eighteen percent on the radio shows in spain people losing seventy percent sixty percent in the value of their homes in their developments sprain will be the next one to topple but why should we the u.k. taxpayer pay and you the german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government was a greek crisis unravels public fewer continues to spill into the streets of athens another strike is planned to coincide with the austerity vote next week so to respond to lecture at the university of the as 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. the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous debts 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 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 dutch 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 halt so that's their main ration and for the koran to be banned member of the european parliament philip slice says the verdict shows that immigration policy has to change. this is very important not just for here through this but for freedom of speech in itself you know we've always been told that multiculturalism and was going to be great and was going to solve a lot of problems on the country that has become a problem in itself and it's very important that everyone should be able to you know to put forward his own solutions to the problem and other it balanced and free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shoot themselves to 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 power 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 to and so this has to change i think we need a much more restrictive immigration and integration policy. well you're watching r.t. live from moscow still have for you this hour japan's nuclear disaster underestimated we visit 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 a needed to boost political competition and health modernize the country seven percent threshold was introduced in two thousand and seven by his predecessor vladimir putin. and hoping to give that competition some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest man who has set his sights on politics may help roger of has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december parliamentary elections it's calling for more a liberal russia but proper 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. but i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or plunges into illusions we have 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 and 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 eunice rama he was seized in iraq by british troops seven years ago and then secretly transferred to u.s. detention camp in afghanistan has been held there ever since despite the u.s. admitting he poses no risk corey kreider from their brief charity who is finding it legal battle for ahmed to last release as toller team he's handed over was illegal in the first place there are hundreds of prisoners and what makes you 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. wanted to send him to bob graham in the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even the aboud ghraib 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 is and you kind of deal between the u.s. and the u.k. that permits the u.k. to get him out of custody it never bothered to do so so we've had 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 unlawfully in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your prisoner. kory pryor 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. was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo for torture after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given no explanation all said story couldn't as he's suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling tool sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of torture. myself electroshocks because i will not sign papers.

i was forced to agree that i am the number of taliban. and i was not the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother owns this lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr corners it's really a shame for the united states what happened in. port concerning the national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put someone in extra. room. saying you have no right bush for moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners that our people think will be ineffective in a de classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform

torture on foreign soil ministers in the european union were glad to oblige the e.u. agreed to help arrest 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 can't know for sure. barack obama was elected on the promise to short term memory but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business. all washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopath is treason and so is your plea for participating and support these that executives from bush down no fear going abroad after foreigners fold lawsuits over torture when the world learns what's america's doing

said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush will r.t. braman. dozens of people have been killed in afghanistan in separate bombings over the past two days the attacks followed the announcement by president obama of his troop withdrawal strategy the latest attack on a hospital in eastern afghanistan laught 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 tan of one thing over twenty on wednesday president obama announced the withdrawal of a third of u.s. troops by the end of next year some military commanders within the u.s. say the plan is risky and are advising a much smaller reduction afghan war veteran turned peace activists deliberate over believes the presence of foreign forces only helps breed insurgency. the longer that the u.s. 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 troops there doesn't allow the insurgency to grow we've seen every year the longer troops stay the insurgency grows and anti-american anti western anti european sentiment grows so that's why we should leave and more importantly the not the money we've invested has largely gone to waste and it will continue going to waste by any nation that continues its support of what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s non-governmental institutions that where the money actually hits the ground where the people are at 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 where karzai and his cronies will steal it. learning lessons from the japanese crisis that was

a key point of a five day nuclear form that ended in vienna on friday but how does their findings match up to reality artie's shontelle this went to a city just outside the twenty kilometer no go zone to witness the deadly legacy of the disaster for himself. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counter sound scientists working in fukushima city concerned. that i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university when i was thinking their vacation 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' families are of. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the daiichi plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right

now the dagger count is really quite two nine a micro ring it's about thirty times what it is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all and a lot of it collected the regular quickly jumped out but it still climbing earlier we got a really good night and now i look at my career which is about a thousand times more than what is going to accept that level of state regulation. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers of the government did they change the redish a quantum level standard the levels from one. to twenty minutes even twenty times. the. standards before the accident and now. they raise the. the standard so that they can

say it's safe but actually it's a standard house change the new higher levels mean that fukushima can be classed as being outside of the exclusion zone some say that evacuating the city would be simply impractical 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. we're just trying to do a pilot project. on time initial. by ourselves and we are not to using a specially equipped man we just use normal child. scoops. we just. come into. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r.t. . breathtaking journeys across the world's largest country along with spellbinding

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