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stories from the. crash. victims. reports of civilian deaths across libya political. skeptics in brussels stage. as. you're watching the weekly. top stories of the week. teenage girl. who among eight survivors of monday's plane crash in northwestern

russia have died in hospital one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway but the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives. sent this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure john is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend. 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 the why did it have to happen. the russian premier league football referee bloody me up with just one of the forty four killed monday night when he did live one through four carrying fifty two people from moscow to burglars aborts to move western russia crashed on this road missing the runway by a kilometer. 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 clear it 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 rest see as they say that those memories are unlikely to go away. i didn't sleep for two days i couldn't even fall asleep i kept calling people screaming and pulling forty's away from the plate. getting was one of the first that has seen his house only metres away from where the plane came down. and i heard the explosion that was signed the lights went out i ran to the site and we started doing people. two women and. 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 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 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 only like family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those. tests are silly r t russia is going to reach. and you can find out more details of the to pull off one of three for crash on our website for footage from the scene so if you want to dot com that's a photo galleries in the online exclusive section to get instant access you'll also find more on the other main news stories of the week analysis and blogs all of that at all at sea 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 but i got the alliance denies the accusation saying it attacked the buildings in abandoned area deemed legitimate military targets opposition leaders in benghazi say it's back 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 or democracy. i went to meet. this family hasn't had a 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 we got show 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 you don't know because we know that she said. these caves has been long and hard for the women they family but i remember was that a couple i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me and then we knew there was a mass coming from. the bus with the rebels for their purposes we took that bus with our faces covered. everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and they let us send. rather doctors sort of read 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 from i.c.u. killing him in front of i.c.u. paying gig his body on the world that was because the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body said all 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 no. venue there will be in you. you must be. oh you are against them they took about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to parallel the refugees here say they now finally feel safe and 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 code into the government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened there killing fifteen people including three kids this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon while need to has already claimed that the operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes cantina and 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 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 region ocean or r.t. reporting from western libya. meantime an investigative journalist michelle columnist says 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 the rio de is to achieve the economic and strategic goal interest of their of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya i remind that the us is

a bankrupt country and also all preventing that would be a sort of china to the i.m.f. some buying for african development 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 a chair and war. now it's running our tensions out of syria where syrian forces have opened fire at funerals for the victims of a brutal crackdown on and see regime protest as 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 reported enough to forty and one hundred people dead joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies told r.t. that the situation could become a deadly stalemate. well if one syrian

a showdown is a very stark line in the sand and they were seen as asking people to trust him and to side with him and the opposition are going to ask people to side with them. so far the military has stood firm behind the regime there been a few defections but nothing really important and this one sit in a sense the ball in the opposition's. court if europe will want it to starve syria they could do it in the same way that europe starved iraq of course once you go down that road if that 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 still to come in the program here return of the scandal. i was forced to. five years of torture all for a phony confession one detainee tells us his story paints

a bleak picture of the struggle to bring those he accuses of abuse to justice. and also investigates the real radiation situation in egypt 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 new austerity measures the greek parliament's vote on the cuts totaling more than one hundred billion dollars as expected on tuesday the 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 euro skeptics in brussels even staged a symbolic funeral for the currency. at the university of the aegean it believes that greece can only move forward by abandoning what he calls the absurdity of the year. the problem is we cannot do we are giving twelve billion lifeline.

the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt 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 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 the social crisis in greece so i think that going back to our national care and see. gaming 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 european parliament member david campbell bannerman

believes that the euro is a political prison for greece and salvation lies in a return to its national currency the tracker. the question now is all 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 it in greece there's real trouble there's trouble in spain and all and particularly i think it's in major trouble the euro and i have been saying for some time i do believe it will collapse i didn't thought hastily and probably quite shortly now but to be honest i think you leave your is a political prism for 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 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 to be until you are actually 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 are running down the top stories of the week. now a five day nuclear forum in vienna this week saw a 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 for himself. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned one or some of the 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 much 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 and much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the dagger count is a really pretty point 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 the soil and a lot of it collected the radiation will quickly jumped out and it's still climbing earlier we've got to really have nigel now i look at my career which is about a thousand times more than what is really accepted 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 did ease day

change the redish on quantum level 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 the standard house 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 simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do the. project do the decontamination work by ourselves and we are not using a special 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. and r.t. is coming to you live from moscow more parties could soon be represented in 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 form a political competition and help to modernize the country however pointed out that the december parliamentary election will be held using the current regulations the change in the threshold implemented will apply to elections in two thousand and sixteen. well hoping to give politics some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest

men who has set his sights now on the parliament. off has been elected leader of the right course party which plans to run in december elections it stands for a more liberal russia but of himself didn't want to call it in the opposition 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. i'm not the kind of person who turns a dreamer plunges into a loser 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. is being accused of failing to protect detainees had handed over to secret u.s. prisons for torture it's alleged the two nations also made

a backroom deal on the treatment of prisoners during 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 posts. is 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 but what makes you no 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 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 grade 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 and never bothered to do so so we've had to sue them in the united kingdom courts and maybe it's corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner back you 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 it's not just with britain the u.s. appears to have a deal to detain terror suspects across the e.u. hundreds claim to have been tortured and held without trial daniel bushell follows one such case. 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 torture 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. because i was. i was forced to agree. and i was. the us refused to even reveal they were holding as his mother owns this lawyer to find her son why it took several years when there was no chance to get in contact with mr corn and it's really a shame for the united states what happened. is. concerning the international law and it's simply impossible and twenty first century to put

someone in extra. room. and saying 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 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 to move but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open

for business. guilty of. crimes against humanity so is the obama administration still is in europe for participating these actions executives from bush down no fear going abroad to foreigners food lawsuits over tool when the world loans will to america's doing said bush is advise and we will all be ashamed the new bush will r.t. braman. with r.t. as we run down the top stories of the week here in the news was that of the far right dutch politician a herd of elders being cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he went on trial for publicly comparing islam to not says him and for calling for a ban on the qur'an the court ruled that his remarks were offensive but fell within the limits of legitimate political debate the case came ahead increasing

immigration sentiment in europe from friday e.u. leaders men radio. controlled european parliament member philip. ice says that with the multiculturalist politics fading 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 contrary 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 that 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 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. our let's take a quick poor woods in the weekly and check out some other stories making headlines around the globe today and militants have attacked a police station in northwest pakistan killing at least ten offices according to local authorities investigators said there were two or three attackers one of which was a woman the standoff lasted for five hours with 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 or fourth consecutive weekend calling on china to stop entering the country waters in the south china sea each communist nation has been accusing the other intruding in its maritime territory for years recently they pledged to resolve the territorial

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