in the. aussies the latest headlines on the top stories from the week two more people including a teenage girl died in hospital following monday's passenger plane crash in north western russia it's bringing the number of victims now to forty seven. reports of mounting civilian deaths across libya and political cleansing by rebels in benghazi it's forcing a many to search for safety outside their hometowns. skeptics in brussels stage of the eurozone funeral as leaders hash out yet another multi billion euro bailout for greece new austerity cuts talk anger in athens.

you're watching the weekly here on r.t. it's where we highlight the top stories of the week i'm a recent showing a man and a teenage girl who were among eight survivors of monday's plane crash in north western russia have died in hospital as you pull off one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway at the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives. sent this report from the crash site. but struggling to keep her composure that john is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend on the board. i do not have the sound bite happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not from the stands maybe it's fiber wanting to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee ready made

a point i just want of a forty four killed monday night we need to pull everyone through for kerry fifty two people from moscow to prison what's the northwestern russia crash on this road missing the runway by kilometer. it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes at this airport and many times it's very personal to me the start 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 great forest 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 form a stable i kept calling people screaming and i was pulling forty's away from the plate motion you get he was one of the first on the scene his house only metres away from where the plane came down. and i heard the explosion of brown metal site

the lights went out i ran to the site and we started our string people over there we're trying to a man two women and the pilot was dead while all the bodies have been recovered and relatives of the victims still have the tough task of identifying their loved ones investigators say all the equipment were functioning properly at the time of the crash and they've also refuted initial reports that the navigator had high levels of alcohol in his blood for now they suggest bad weather and pilot error appear to be the likely causes of the crash suggestion that didn't sit well with some locals just would cry new it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead. i think the airport itself is typically family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those august. tests or so we are to rushes to really reach. you can find out more details of you to pull off one of three for crash on

our website for footage from the scene go to water dot com that's a photo galleries in the online exclusive section to get instant access but you'll also find more on the other main news stories of the week analysis and blogs all of that at art c dot com. the number of civilian casualties in libya is reportedly rising drastically the government says a nato air strike has killed at least fifteen people in the eastern town of i got the lions denies the accusation saying it attacked the buildings in an abandoned area deemed legitimate military targets opposition leaders in benghazi say spec to receive proposals from tripoli which could end the drawn out conflict but many in the country believe that rebel force is not interested in peace all democracy are real i went to meet. this family hasn't had a war quiet and peaceful like this one from 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 an. it's not safe area anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and got shot so one day people from the government in the go see you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me little boy we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she said. these caves has been long and hard for the win and the family well that number was it good and i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me then we knew there was a mass coming from benghazi to tennis here the bus with the rebels for their purposes we took that glass in our faces covered. everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and they let us send this son was a brother of some three his surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he only finally left when he saw it hearing. take

him from from from i.c.u. killing him in front of i.c.u. and handed his body on the world. because 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 lead very its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is though i bought a new venue there will be a new. you must be. better you i get is. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to follow the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not that safe from the sound of the front i need. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in nato airstrike he called them to leave and government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people

including three key aides this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon well maybe too has already claimed her to your ration to protect civilians must go on with 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 here on the ground fear that's when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they'll not be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western libya. meantime an investigative journalist michelle kohn on nato won't be deflected by concern for civilians as its ultimate aim is to control libya's natural resources and financial reserves they have killed more civilians that the losses from the initials problems there feels more civilians the nato

bombings so the real idea is not protect civilians. he's to achieve the economical strategy called interest off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya remind that the us is a bankrupt country and also or preventing that would be a sort of turn of the i.m.f. some buying for african development revisits a people in hospitals we saw victims and indeed the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear that it has nothing to do with him in a chair and walk. now it's running out tensions out of syria where syrian forces have opened fire at the funerals for the victims of a brutal crackdown on the regime protesters in the capital damascus at least two people died more than twenty people are thought to have been killed across syria

since friday the latest wave of protests against president bashar al assad's rule came despite a speech on monday in which he promised liberal reforms in return for an end to the violence with a three month long crackdown has reportedly been a few forty one hundred eighty people dead joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies told r.t. that the situation could become a deadly stalemate. well about syria the showdown is a very stark line in the sand and they were seen as asking able to trust him and to side with him and the opposition are going to ask the side with them. so far the military has stood firm behind the regime there been a few defections so nothing really important and this could sit in a sense the ball in the opposition's. court if you're wanted to starve syria they could do it in the same way that europe starved iraq and of course once you go down that road if the government doesn't crumble as it didn't do any iraq then you have to take military intervention. you're watching the weekly here on our still to

come in the program here return of the guantanamo scandal. i was forced to agree. and i was. five years of torture all for a phony confession the next one kind of a detainee tells us his story paints a bleak picture of the struggle to bring those he accuses of abuse to justice. and aussie investigates the real radiation situation in the japan's fukushima nuclear plant as the international community tightens up atomic security. the european union has agreed to bail out greece one more time but only if athens introduces savage new austerity measures the greek parliament survives on the cuts totaling more than one hundred billion dollars as expected on tuesday proposals have caused an angry response from the greek public with a promise of yet more massive protests but the vote may be decisive not only for

the fate of greece but also for the ailing you're right skeptics in brussels even staged a symbolic funeral for the currency so serious apology office a lecturer at the university of the aegean believes that greece can only move forward by abandoning what he calls the absurdity of the year. the problem is we cannot do it we are giving twelve billion lifeline. the biggest part of the way it is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous day this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek people to have an immediate exit from the euro from the euro as a big euro is a monetary absurdity in a way it's a closely irrational financial and monetary architecture that is also a contributing factor to the debt crisis and in general the social crisis in greece so i think that going back to our national character. 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 and the european parliament member david campbell bannerman believes that the euro is a political prison for greece and salvation lies in a return to his national currency the track of. the question now is are we throwing good money after bad money know how many billions can you throw at this you know the tolerance all the people for carts for extra taxes as we see in greece is real trouble lever there's trouble in spain and ireland particularly i think it's in major trouble the euro and i have been saying for some time i do believe it will collapse either in part hastily and probably quite shortly now but to be honest i

think you leave your is a political prism for countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from that prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and they'll get back in on their feet i think they should go back to the drachma i think they need to get out the euro it is a prison for them and to recreate the drachma i know there are no plans at present to do that but of course they can't sort of plan for found me until you are actually fails i think that is the salvation for greece and that's the way it really should go but obviously that's a matter for the greek people. we're running down the top stories of the week here on out say now a five day nuclear forum in vienna this week saw widespread agreement for increased safety measures of course following japan's atomic crisis in march sean thomas went to fukushima just outside the twenty kilometer no go zone around the stricken plant to witness the deadly legacy of the disaster from south. i the ominous

and constant teaching of geiger counters and 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 a 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 a creative. 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 bank account is really pretty quite. a record which is about thirty times what is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw a lot of collected the redneck and quickly jumped out and it's still climbing

earlier we got a reading of night in iowa my growing it which is about a thousand times more than a widely accepted level of radiation. 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 did they change the revolution quantum level graduates are stunned at the levels from one. to twenty million students per year for up 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 classed as being outside 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. you're just trying to do a pilot project do d.d. contamination on work by ourselves and we are not using especially great men we just use normal child both. score scoops. we just. had to pop soul is a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r.t. . and r.t. is coming to you live from moscow and what parties could soon be represented in that russia's lower house of parliament after the president proposed a lowering of the threshold from seven to five percent of the vote that's the minimum level needed to take up a seat in the duma speaking before the decision dmitri medvedev said it could be

possible to lower that figure to three percent in the future and reform a political competition and help to modernize the country however it may be a different point out that the december parliamentary election will be held using the current regulations the change in the threshold of implementing rule applied to elections in two thousand and sixteen. well hoping to give up politics some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest men who has set his sights now on the parliament of profit off has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december elections it stands for a more liberal russia but crocker from self didn't want to call it in the opposition groups he promised to make the right course party the second largest after united russia and said he would like to become prime minister one day an exclusive interview with the billionaire is coming up next hour here on r.t. but here's a preview. of the not the kind of person who turns a dream or plunges into allusions we have particular goals to get into russia's

lower house of parliament with the maximum number of votes where i also understand is that i could be a good prime minister if the party successful i would fight for this position. the u.k. is being accused of failing to protect detainees that handed over to secret u.s. prisons for torture it's alleged the two nations also made a back room deal on the treatment of prisoners jury in the iraq war papers released earlier this week brought to light the case of a twenty eight year old pakistani. seven years ago he was seized in iraq by british troops and handed over to a u.s. detention facility he's been held there ever since despite the u.s. admitting he poses no risk. from the reprieve charity who's fighting for his release told us his situation is a violation of international there are hundreds of prisoners about graham but what makes you know 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.

and get him to the united states in march and april there were discussions between the u.s. and u.k. because the u.s. wanted to send it to bob graham in the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even the abu 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 and oh you kind of deal between the u.s. and the u.k. that permits the u.k. to get him out of custody and never bothered to do so so we've had to sue them in the united kingdom courts in haiti is corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner back you never should've been sent problem he was rendered on lawfully in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to your prisoner france not just with britain but the us appears to have a deal to detain terror suspects across the e.u.

hundred scream to been tortured and held without trial. follows one such case. as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo for tool jump 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 gonzales for ruling sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cool school simulated drowning and rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even this i was one of those who survived. on myself. because i was not signed. i was force a. member of either and i was. the us refused to even reveal we were holding on as his mother all states lawyer to find her son

and it took several years when there was no chance to get in contact with the sec or nothing it's a shame for the united states what happened in. this plot concerning that national law and it's simply impossible and that twenty first century. put someone in extra. room. you have no right. 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 the classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil just as 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 guantanamo but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years old prison still open for business but all. guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopath. and so's europe. for participating exactly executives from bush down no fear going abroad to foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world looms what's america's doing since bush is advisor we will all be ashamed don't you bushell r.t. braman. you would r.t. as we run down the top stories of the week here and in the news was that of the far

right dutch politician heard of hilda's being cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination went on trial for publicly comparing islam to nazis and and for calling for a ban on the qur'an the court ruled that his remarks were offensive but fell within the limits of a judgment political debate the case came of it increasing and integration sentiment in europe friday e.u. leaders many reasonable times and. european parliament member philip. with the multiculturalist politics fading it may be time for more radical solutions. we've always been told that multiculturalism 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 it is balanced and free to take people from outside of europe to come to any country in the european union and shoot it up themselves through the local laws the local way of living as

a romans do and this is very important because 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 in a 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. so let's take a quick boards in the weekly and check out some other stories making headlines around the globe today and militants have a type a police station in northwest pakistan killing at least ten officers according to local authorities investigators said there were two was three attackers one of which was a woman the standoff lasted for five hours with the gun battles being fought before the militants blew themselves up the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for the act saying it was partly in revenge for the killing of al qaeda leader

osama bin laden. protesters have marched through the vietnamese capital one hour for a fourth consecutive weekend calling on china to stop entering the country's waters in the south china sea each communist nation has been accusing the other of intruding in its maritime territory for years recently they pledged to resolve the territorial dispute through peaceful negotiations but the route escalated after both held independent naval exercises in the area believed to be rich in oil and gas. well are traveling to the most aggressive taking and remote regions of russia delving into rich history and getting to know ancient traditions all that is available to you on the new documentary channel which was just launched on thursday daria push cobra now takes a closer look at what's on offer for you. they travel through snow and rain and cross river as they go hunting beyond their polar so go and take to the skies they

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