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we sob stories here on our team. there mourns the forty five victims of tuesday's plane crash in the northwest of the country with seven survivors still in a critical condition. the search in the number of civilian casualties from nato air strikes and tripoli and intensified crackdown on could obviously foreigners in benghazi forced manning to flee to safe parts of the country. and time to bury is if you own anger failed in the e.u. as its leaders agree on get another bailout for greece while the blogs demands to impose tougher budget cuts sparked mass protests in athens. watching our t.v. it's nine am here in moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program. russia was shocked this week by a plane crash that killed forty five people

a tuple with 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 critical condition r.t. says are still your 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 fate but wanted to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee. just one of the forty four killed monday night when i do believe one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow tibet 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 site 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 that 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 pulling bodies away from the plane. you get me was one of the first that the scene his house only metres 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. 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 cause 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. does are still your 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 in the online exclusive section to get instant access and that's all in our website r.t. dot com. well this week has seen

a number of reports of growing civilian casualties in libya and the latest nato bombing tripoli says fifteen people were killed in the eastern town of brag a claim denied by the airlines leaving officials say over eight hundred civilians have died since the operation began in march artie's might have an arsenal reports now on 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 one day people from the government and then 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. these keep has been long

and hard for the win and their family well i remember a lot of that occurred and 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 turner's here 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 sin son was 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. to kill 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 only legitimate representatives of libya very. very very new so the

west was then well you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just war. the refugees here say the 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. strike code until even government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killing 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 dog ground in these symmetries to crash while made to has already claimed to your peroration to protect civilians must go on with clashes continue and benghazi and nato intensify 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 when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here there won't be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western libya. professor lawrence davidson from west chester university in pennsylvania told r.t. that nato has understood from the very beginning that it's humanitarian operation would inevitably bring civilian deaths. what this calls into question is 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 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 thinking 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. just foreign intervention in libya that's claiming a growing number of civilian lives as we reveal later in the program. when the u.s. starts to hit people who are members alongside a new arabian peninsula then i think the real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al qaeda. the u.s. is under fire for the expansion of its drone attacks in pakistan and yemen we question whether the strategy is helping to fight terrorism in the region or

fostering. this week the unrest in syria continued with around twenty people reportedly killed in the latest outbreak of violence between security forces and demonstrators they are continuing to go out on the streets calling on president assad of asa to step down and this is despite his speech on monday in which he promised liberal reforms in return for a man to the violence and a three month long crackdown has reportedly left fourteen hundred people dead. landis director at the center for middle east studies told r.t. that the situation in the country might be a deadly stalemate. if europe wanted to starve syria they could do it in the same way that europe star iraq of course once you go down the road if the government doesn't crumble as it didn't do any iraq then you have to take military intervention because you can't just start people forever it's hard to read the future of syria the situation could bubble on the way it's going now for some time

that you think that things are going to reach a climax they're going to be regime change and there aren't we saw this in libya we saw is iraq we're seeing it in iran that you increase the pressure but things just grind along in a very unhappy situation and that that could be the future of syria for some time. e.u. leaders have agreed on a new bailout for greece but only after a strict budget cuts are imposed the vote on a proposed twenty billion euro austerity plan is expected on wednesday if approved it will also mean another tranche of last year's bailout will be handed over to greece the latest developments prompted immediate reaction from euro skeptics who held a voc funeral in brussels for ailing single currency they argue that attempts to bail out greece are too little too late and that 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 all in is going to go portugal and of course the big one the everyone is worried about is the state of supply and that is one of our banks like barclays have been reducing their liabilities in spain because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than the spanish government is telling people they say there's only been a drop of eighteen percent of 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 well as the greek crisis unravels public fuehrer continues to spill into the streets of athens another strike is planned to coincide with the austerity vote next week so to respond of yachties a lecture as the university of the d.n.c. as the return to a national currency could be the way out for greece. the problem is we cannot do it

we are giving twelve billion lifeline. the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay to repay previous did this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek people to have an immediate exit from the euro from the eurozone 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 crisis and in general to social crisis in greece so i think that going back to a national currency 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 the government is saying on the contrary it's going to be a very positive step the far right dutch politician cared welder's has been cleared

of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he faced five separate counts following a car versus speech she gave attacking islam and comparing it to knox's a court ruled his comments were offensive but didn't break the boundaries of legitimate debate well there is now on for his anti muslim stance and he is calling for a halt to the rain and a ban on the koran and salman gratian sentiment is on the rise in europe was a e.u. leaders agreeing on friday to tighten border patrol within the union member of the european parliament philip kleist says was multiculturalist politics failing at maybe time for more radical solutions. this is very important not just for you through this but for freedom of speech and it's so 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 contrary it 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 that is it balanced and free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shoot themselves through the local malls the local way of living as a romans do and this is very important multiculturalism you know in reality does not work in europe we are seeing big problems in major cities major capitals in western europe where we see parallel societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have through that 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 and you're watching aren't you live from moscow still have for you this hour japan's nuclear disaster under-estimated with the city where it's saved 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 best beauty spots to discovering some of its most sacred traditions with yourself and a picture of our new documentary channel and. it will now be easier for russian political parties to win seats in the lower house of parliament as a president has signed a bill lowering the threshold from seven percent to five percent of the votes speaking to the media before the decision to be trying to get it 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 a seven percent threshold was introduced in two thousand and seven by his predecessor put. well hoping to give that competition some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest man who has set his sights on politics has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in the sand with parliamentary elections it's calling for

a more liberal russia proverb himself didn't want to be an opposition party r.t. spoke exclusively to the billionaire who says he wants to be the prime minister. i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or plunge 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. and if you watch this interview in full in about an hour's time here on our team the u.s. has stepped up its drone attacks in pakistan the latest killing at least twelve on monday but a growing number of civilian deaths in the strikes to spark public anger with concerns the action is driving up the number of extremists recruits and now was record stats the u.s. plans to expand its drone war and yemeni territory criticism against a strategy stronger than ever our she's got and she reports. the u.s.

is looking to expand its war on terror but its methods are under fire well no matter down in pakistan cia drone strikes aim at terrorists but end up killing mostly civilians public outrage is growing hatred and anger foster more terror if you push them against the wall then if this militancy and goes in is going to increase this is not dissolution because if you're attacking them by drones and they're not part of the war they have the bombs on the other side who which might be they're going to join in pakistan in the one year the u.s. strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only five actual militant leaders many pakistanis are furious at their government for helping the americans kill their own people they accuse their leaders of doing that in exchange for billions of dollars from washington americans on the other hand are not too happy with what they get in return for their billions how and to support governments allied to us

when we say enough is enough most governments lie to each other and so a business gets done and made all the cheerleading about bin laden's killing the u.s. has stepped up drone strikes in pakistan. and pakistan in a number of civilian casualties that result because of the drone strikes are eyeing extremists like the taleban. and other groups in pakistan to recruit new numbers and they're doing that. washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous al qaida outpost and he's planning to step up drone attacks on the country establishing a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when bin nonce replacement i'm on also ari is not to be building obl kind has already significant presence in yemen. the u.s. had been cooperate ing with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida

but they've since left the field preoccupy. why it is that with the nationwide turmoil against the sollie regime that means the americans are likely to have a freer hand going it alone with the cia to take a central role because the agency is not subject to the accountability the u.s. military is legally under expect more bombs to fall on yemen when the u.s. starts to hit people who are members of the new arabian peninsula then i think the real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al qaeda there's fury in yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to tack there the american military presumably ming at an al qaida training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children in another strike a year ago a drone mistakenly killed a deputy governor in yemen his family and eight with the expansion of the drone war it seems to go once the seeking only a misnomer the fighting on might have analysts say some of them may be terrorism

this is all the base mark not having making down the voice of the nation that they're bombing and the lack of accountability when it comes to feel that the theory that adds more paradoxically one strategy may help to what the american his body and bomb story terror at the same time i am going to check our reporting. are . learning lessons from the japanese crisis that was the key point of a five day nuclear form that and it in vienna on friday but how do they or a findings match up to reality on thomas 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 counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned and or some of the i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now 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 evacuating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the day to 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 battleground is really really quite two nine a micro ring it's about thirty times what is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all in a moderate collection the regular quickly jumped up and 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 new except at 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 radiation quantum level standard the levels from one. minute. 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 the standard has changed 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 a simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do a pilot project and do d.d. contamination. by ourselves and we are not to using especially men we just use

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