the week's top stories here on. forty six victims of monday's

a plane crash in the northwest of the country with six survivors still in critical condition. in the number of civilian casualties. and intensified a crackdown on supporters in benghazi forced many to flee. the country. in the e.u. as its leaders agree on yet another bailout for greece. to impose. mass protests in athens. and a perfect way to learn more about russia visiting its best beauty spots to discovering some of its most sacred traditions. new documentary.

as we highlight the week's stories that made headlines welcome to the program. of monday's plane crash in northwestern russia has died in hospital that brings the death toll now to forty six at this point. three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from his final destination six people who survived the crash remain in a critical condition. reports. struggling to keep her composure that is in disbelief at the sudden death of her friend william boyd. 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 but why did it have to happen. the russian premier league football referee. just one of the forty four killed monday night to pull everyone 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 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 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 pulling bodies away from the plane. you have get me was one of the first that 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. 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. 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 by doing so on our web site snapshots

from the spot are out there just go to photo galleries in the online exclusive section to get instant access or you can also find more of the other main news stories of the week that's all available twenty four seventh's artsy dot com. well this week has seen a number of reports of growing civilian casualties in libya in the latest nato bombing tripoli says fifteen people were killed in the eastern town of brega that's a claim denied by the alliance libyan officials say over eight hundred civilians have died since the operation began in march artie's more information and our reports 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 they're going to feel i'm not imo it's not safe there anymore it's

become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gun shots one day people from the government in the you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me in told me we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she supports gadhafi. these cave has been long and hard for the win in their family but i remember 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 tennessee or 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. take him from or from or from i.c.u. killing him in front of i.c.u. her 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 your legitimate representatives of libya very. very very new so you will be. where you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bury 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 called in to leave and government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened they had killed fifteen people including three kids this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon. ground in these symmetries still fresh while nato

has already claimed there to your peroration to protect civilians to go on those clashes containing in 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 front line many on the ground fear that when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here their loss be enough people left to experience it. were if you know she now r t reporting from western libya. meantime investigative journalist michel call on says that nato won't be deflected by concern for civilians and its ultimate aim to control libya's resources they have killed the mall civilians that the losses from the initials problems there feels more civilians the nato bombings so the real i.d.'s not protect civilians. he's to achieve the economic and strategic goal interest off there of the west us

in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya are i remind that the us is a bankrupt country and also preventing that kind of fear would be a sort of turn of to do i.m.f. some buying for african development the old idea is to make the public international opinion accept the idea that nato is a cup of the world or that that nato has the right to make wars where they want to revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in its air and war. with r.t. live from moscow and still ahead for you this hour fighting terror with torture. i was forced to agree that member of probably one.

prisoner who fell victim to unlawful treatment and ask why a european citizen has spent several years in the notorious camp without trial. plus japan's nuclear disaster under estimated we visit fukushima city declared safe by the authorities we find radiation levels that are one thousand times the norm. e.u. leaders have agreed on a new bailout for greece but only after strict budget cuts are imposed the vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro austerity plan is expected on a wednesday if approved it will also mean another tranche of last year's bailed out will be handed over to greece 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 that the crisis will help to bring about the downfall of the euro zone. if we just keep pumping money into

greece it's only putting 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 ireland's going to go portugal and of course the big one that everyone is worried about is the state of supply and that is what some of our banks like barclays jewson our 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 how do radio shows in spain people are losing seventy percent sixty percent in the fire you have their homes and their developments spain will be the next one to topple but why should we the u.k. taxpayer pay i mean do you the german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government. well as the greek crisis on rebels public fury continues to spill onto the streets of athens another strike is planned to coincide with the austerity vote next week so serious apparently autists

a lecturer at the university of the me says that 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 debt to repay previous dates this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek people to have an immediate exit from the europe 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 it's going back to a national kerensky 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. and in other news that we cover here here are see this week the far right dutch politician builders has been cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination builders went on trial for comments on islam that he made in a public debate he compared the religion to knotts ism and called for a ban on the qur'an the court ruled that the remarks were offensive but didn't break any law and immigration sentiment is on the rise in europe with e.u. leaders agreeing on friday to tighten the metals within the union is a member of the european parliament philip klein says with multiculturalist politics failing it may be time for more radical solutions. 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 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 it is balanced and free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union should. adapt 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 parallel 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. and you can always find more pinions on that story and other stories on our website www dot com let's have a quick look at what else is available for you online right now a russian gymnastics champion. named one of the world's sexiest politicians by an

american newspaper see who else made the list. and maybe it's summer time in russia but it seems a winter fun is always welcome find out why moscow's famous to gorky park is offering. this weekend. the official. from the. video. feed in the palm of your. home and a quarter past the hour now here in moscow it could soon become easier for russian political parties to win seats in the lower house of parliament as the president has submitted a bill that would lower 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 the seven percent threshold was introduced in two thousand and seven by his predecessor putin . well hoping to give the competition some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest men who's now sights set on politics. has been elected leader of the right course party which plans to run in december as parliamentary elections it's calling for a more liberal russia but himself doesn't want to call it an opposition party spoke exclusively to the billionaire he says he wants to be the next prime. mr. in the i'm not the kind of person who turns the dreamer plunges into illusion 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 you can watch that interview in full in about fifteen minutes time right here on ars hey. well 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 they released papers it brought to light the case of a twenty eight year old pakistani unit i'm a teller he was seized in iraq by british troops seven years ago and then secretly transferred to a u.s. detention camp in afghanistan he's been held there ever since despite the u.s. admitting he poses no risk. from the reprieve charity who's fighting a legal battle for release has told us he has had over it was illegal in the first place. there are hundreds of prisoners but what makes you special is that you know

it 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 the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even the 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 was and though 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 to sue them in the united kingdom courts in haiti as corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner back he never should have been sent out of iraq he was rendered on lawfully in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your prisoner and i mean all those 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 this vision of battling terra and since then hundreds have gone through torture and without trial on your bushel has been following one such story. as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo bay 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 tool sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to calls quote simulated drowning rape boil instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of closure on myself electroshocks because i was not science. i was forced to agree. 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. court concerning the national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put someone in the 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 show. but he's even appealed us cool rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business law all washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopath this region still is in europe for participating and supporting these actions executives from bush down no fear going abroad of the foreigners filed lawsuits over torture when the world will to america's doing said bush is advise and we will all be ashamed don't

you bush you r.t. braman you are watching the weekly here on our team now learning lessons from the japanese crisis that was the key point of a five day nuclear forum that ended in vienna on friday but how do their findings match up to reality john thomas went to a city just outside the twenty kilometer no go zone to witness a deadly disaster of the legacy for himself. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned and or similar i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their 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 families are evacuating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the day to plant a 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 pretty quiet tonight 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 and i'm not about collecting the regular quickly jumped up but it's 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 really accepted 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 but the government needs a change the redish a quantum level standard the levels from one. minute. to twenty minutes even 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 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 our special equipment we just use normal child both. groups. we just. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r.t.

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