really you believe this in signs and signals from. the future of. the week's top stories here on r.t. russia mourns the forty six victims of monday's plane crash in the northwest part of the country with six survivors still in a critical condition. this surge in the number of civilian casualties from a nato those airstrikes on tripoli and intensified crackdowns on khadafi supporters in benghazi forcing many to flee to save the parts of the country and the. time it's a bury the anger builds in the e.u. as its leaders agree on yet another bailout for greece while the clocks demand to impose tougher budget cuts sparked massive protests in athens. and

a perfect way to learn more about russia from visiting its best beauty spots to discovering some of its most sacred traditions on our season newly launched documentary channel. we are highlighting the week's top headlines here on our team welcome to the weekly and one more survivor of a plane crash in northwestern russia has died in hospital now the total sits at forty six that if you pull off one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of carly out crash landed on a major road just eight kilometers from its final destination six people who survived the crash remain in a critical condition but these tests are still reports of this. struggling to keep

her composure tiana is in disbelief at the sudden death of her friend when you're bored at work 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 a girl why did it have to happen. the russian premier league football referee. just one of the forty four killed monday night when he did call every one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to bet as a void in 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 when 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

chorus that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday right and for those who have been here to witness the risks these things say that those memories are unlikely to go away. you know 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. 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 doing people here were trying to a man 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 just look good on you 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. pets are still here r t russia scale your region. and you can also take a closer look if you like at the crash site in northwest russia go on to our website snapshots from the spot are out there go to photo galleries and the online exclusive section instead access you can also find more on the other main and you stories of the week that's all of our website part. well this we can see a number of reports of a growing civilian casualties in libya in the latest nato bombing tripoli says fifteen people were killed in the eastern town of praeger that's a quaint denied by the alliance libyan officials say over eight hundred civilians

of guidance since the operation in large parties were not in and i reports on how many libyans are desperate to flee the city to safety. this family hasn't had a war choirs and peaceful like this one for months this keeps on 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. i'm no 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 in going to go see 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 cave has been long and hard for the real and the family but i remember that i couldn't 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 a lot of same son was a brother of 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. taken were from the from from you killing him in front of you 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 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 though i've got very you so you must be. where you are again it's. about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just. 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 a cord to leave and government officials a bomb landed on a private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three key this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon then you would our ground in this cemetery is still fresh well may do has already claimed three operations to protect civilians last go on with clashes continuing 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 really 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. we're not see it pulls in from westerly via.

professor lawrence or davidson from the west chester university of pennsylvania told us here at r.t. that nato has understood from the very beginning that it's humanitarian operation would inevitably bring around civilian deaths. well it's 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 we think type of munitions that cannot avoid killing civilians and i'm thinking 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 want to end up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in libya and they were projected media stories to cover it. and it's not just foreign intervention in libya that's claiming a growing number of civilian lives as we were feel a little bit later in the program. when the u.s. starts to hit people who are members alongside a new regime and as such then i think the real worry is that he would spend this war to the point where certainly he will join up with al qaeda the u.s. that is under fire for the use of a drone attacks in pakistan and yemen we question whether that strategy is helping to fight terrorism in the region or to foster. japan's a nuclear disaster under estimated we visit fukushima a city declared safe by the authorities to find

a radiation levels there one thousand times the normal. two people have reportedly been killed in syria after security forces opened fire at the funerals of protestors comes as demister. agents continue on the streets calling on president bashar al assad to step down that's despite his speech on monday in which he promised a liberal reforms and rift in return for an end to the violence and a three month long a crackdown has reportedly left fourteen hundred people dead joshua landis director of 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 starved iraq of course once you go down the road if the government doesn't crumble as it didn't do when you rock but then you have to take military intervention because you can't just our people forever it's hard to read the future of syria the situation could go along the way it's going now for some time if you

think that things are going to reach a climax are going to be regime change and there aren't we saw this a libya we saw as iraq we're seeing it in iran that you increase the pressure but things just grind along in a very unhappy situation and that could be the future of syria for some time. we are to live from moscow and we are playing you the weekly top stories of the week e.u. leaders have agreed on a new bailout for greece but only after strict budget cuts are imposed a vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro austerity plan is expected on wednesday if approved would also mean another tranche of last year's bailout will be handed over to greece the latest developments prompted immediate reaction from euro skeptics mark funeral in brussels and the ailing single currency they argue that attempts to bail out greece are too little too late and the crisis will help bring about the downfall of the entire eurozone. 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 everyone is worried about is the state of supply and that is what some of our banks like portrays have been reducing our liabilities in spain because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than a spanish government is telling people places and even a drop of eighteen percent i do radio shows in spain people are losing seventy percent sixty percent in the value of their homes in their developments spain will be the next one to topple but why should we the u.k. taxpayer pay adding to the german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government. well as the greek crisis and rebels public a fury continues to spill onto the streets of athens and strike its plans coincide

with the austerity vote next week so tourists apology office a lecture at the university of your g. and says 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 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 that crisis and in general to social crisis in greece so i think that 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. some of the other headlines we featured this week here on r.t. include the far right us politician heard hilda's he was cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination fielder's went on trial for comments on islam to be made in a public debate he compared the religion to knott's ism and call for a ban on the koran the court ruled the remarks were offensive but didn't break any law and the immigration sentiment is on the rise in europe with e.u. leaders agreeing on friday the same time its own border controls within a union member of the european parliament a philip klein says with multiculturalism politics failing it may be time for more radical solutions. we've always been told that nurture culturalism was going to be great and was going to solve a lot of problems on the contrary it has become a problem and itself and it's very important that everyone should be able to know

from put forward his own solutions to the problem and other talents and free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the euro. in 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 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 a country they went through and so this has to change i think we need a much more restrictive immigration and integration policy. well you can find more opinions on that story on our website at our team thought right now and see what else is waiting for you a russian gymnastics champion too much deputy is named one of the world's sexiest

politicians by an american newspaper to see who else made the cut. maybe some of time here in russia but it seems that winter fun is always a welcome find out why moscow's famous gorky park is offering unseasonal activities this weekend. the official cation. i pod touch from the. life on the good. video on demand. she's my old girls. feet now in the palm of your. comb. without the light from moscow now 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 can be treatment we have said it could also be possible to lower that figure to three percent the president said this is needed to boost political competition and help to modernize the country the seven percent threshold was introduced in two thousand and seven by his predecessor . well hoping to give that competition some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest men who has his sights set on politics or profit off has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december's parliamentary elections is calling for a more liberal russia but part of himself didn't want to call it an opposition party parties spoke exclusively to the billionaire who says that he wants to be the next prime minister. blair not the kind of person who'll chance a dream or plunge into allusions we have particular goals or 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 there you can watch that interview in full in just about one hour's time here on earth say. well 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 strike so it's not public anger with concerns the action is driving up the number of extremist recruits and now with reports the u.s. plans to expand its drone war on yemeni territory criticism against the strategy is stronger than ever he's going to check and has more or less. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but its methods are under fire. in pakistan cia drone strikes aim of terrorists but ends up killing mostly civilians public outrage is growing hatred and anger foster more terror if you push them appears the

wall then this militancy and goes in is going to increase this is no more dissolution because if you're attacking them by drones and they're not part of the war there on the other side who which party 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 when washington americans on the other hand are not too happy with what they get in return for their billions to support governments allied to us when we say enough is enough most governments lie to each other that's the way business gets done any to all the cheerleading about bin laden's killing the us has stepped up drone strikes in pakistan. in a number of civilian casualties that result because of that their own strengths.

like the taleban in our qaeda and other groups in pakistan to recruit new members and they're doing. so very washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous all kind of 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 hons replacement iman also laurie is not to be building up all kind has already significant presence in yemen. the u.s. had been cooperated with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupy. why 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 us military is legally under expect more bombs to fall on yemen when the us starts to

hit people who are numbers along the new arabian peninsula then i think the real worry is that it expands to scorch the point where so many people join up with al qaeda their security yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to tack they are the american military presumably aiming at an all kreider 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 aides with the expansion of the wrong war it seems that was the seeking only in the south in the fighting on the lighter and only say some of them made the turns and this is all the pages are not happy making for now the fourth symphony and their money and the like out of the living wake of the city in their returns that had more paradoxically the west strategy to really ask whether america is fighting and fostering terror at the same time i am going to check our morning. watching the weekly here on our team is good to have you with us

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 the findings match up to reality parties john thomas went to a city just outside the twenty kilometer no go zone to witness the deadly legacy of the disaster for himself. i the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned and some of the i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their education 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 my family and my friends families. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the danger 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 pretty quiet tonight micro records with about thirty times what is more of them except rubble but you probably are going to we're just in the mud but the regular quickly. that it still climbing earlier we got a reading of no i don't know i know. twenty years about a thousand times more than was an acceptable level of state. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers model government. they change the. time standard the levels from one. to twenty million per year to 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 impractical given the huge numbers of people of fact. 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. by ourselves and we are not using a special we just use normal show both. school scoops. just . a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in from khushi was city sean thomas. just turning

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