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with stories that made headlines this week you're watching their weekly welcome to it a man and a teenage girl who were among eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwestern russia have died in hospital but you pull off one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives. this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to john is in disbelief at the sudden death of her 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 vladimir putin i just one of the forty four killed monday night willing to pull a one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to burglars avoids the north west or russia crash 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 sight of the crash has been cleaned up the roads have been reopened the wreckage of the plane completely removed but there are still clear marks evidence like this were poorest that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the rhetoric say as they say that those memories are unlikely to go away. i didn't sleep for two days i couldn't even form a sleep i can't recall even people screaming and i was pulling bodies away from the plane which if you have guinea was one of the first that seen 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 by screwing people here we drank where man 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 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 just walked by you it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead. i think the air pretty itself is to blame for family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those they've lost just very silly r t russia's korea region. and you

can find out more details of the year to pull off one three four crash on our website for footage from the scene just go to dot com their photo gallery and the online exclusive section to get instant access and also find more on the other main news stories of the week and analysis and blogs all of that of course are dot com. but 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 brega the alliance that denies the accusation saying it attacked buildings in an abandoned area theme but legitimate military targets opposition leaders and when guards you say they expect to receive proposals from tripoli which could end with a drawn out conflict but many in the country believe the rebel force is not interested in peace for democracy that is for you from washington to meet some of the first time. 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 in the garci you call the 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 has been long and hard for the win and the family well and 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 bus coming from benghazi to nazir 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 were a same son was a brother of 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. from from from you all killing him in front of your own good the world was good 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 libya started. and the very its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no other being new and very new. so you must be. there you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just all. 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 the air strike you couldn't believe in government officials a bomb landed on

a private compound and flatten the road kill in fifteen people including three key this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon while nato has already claimed the operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes continue 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 their worst talks about will finally come here there will be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western libya. this week the u.k. government admitted the libyan war has so far cost the country over four hundred million dollars british m.p. barry gardner says it's both unfair to give taxpayers money to the rebels and

illegal to take sides in a civil war. i think the gadhafi regime does look extremely shaky and much of it because of the pounding that it's received of course from british and french and american support. but my worry is in the u.k. that we've seen that this so far has cost us a quarter of a million pounds the role that was set out by the united nations resolution one thousand nine hundred ninety three was very clear it was that there should be a an effort to induce a cease fire in libya and to enforce that cease fire now it seems that we've been very keen to try and and stop the armaments that are coming from gadhafi his regime and the government but we have been not true less prepared to do that when the armaments and the fire has been coming from the rebels that's not an even handed in force of a cease fire and with nato intervention in libya a stalemate and civilian casualties mounting the u.s.

is coming under fire on a different from washington unmanned drone strikes are being lost of course during not fighting global terror as people grow tired of the ever increasing in number of victims. and artie investigates the real radiation situation japan's fukushima nuclear plant as the international community tightens up atomic security levels. the european union has agreed to bail out greece one more side but only if nothing's introduces savage new austerity measures the greek parliament a vote on the cuts totaling more than one hundred billion euro expected on choose their own proposals of course an angry response from the greek public and the promise of more massive protests on the way of the vote may be decisive not only for the fate of greece but also the ailing euro skeptics in brussels even staged a symbolic funeral for the currency tyrus apology office lecturer at the university

of new jersey and police in greece. can only move forward by abandoning what he calls the absurdity of the. problem is we cannot do it we are giving twelve billion lifeline. the biggest part of weights 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 europe 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 that that crisis and in general to social crisis in greece so i think that going back to a national kerensky and regaining public control in a way national control of monetary policy is a very desperate step to be taking it is not our road to disaster as the government

is saying on the contrary it's going to be a very positive step. i mean time john go into the e.u. referendum campaign in britain has also hit out of the euro he says the currency is on its last legs and it's time to stop wasting billions trying to keep a failed concept to flight. 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 spain that is what some of our banks a large part closed up in reducing our liabilities in spain because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than a spanish government is telling people they say there's only been a drop of eighteen percent i 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 really u.k. taxpayer pay and give the german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government. with our top stories of the week this is the weekly artsy a five day nuclear forum in vienna this week saw widespread agreement for increased safety measures following to pounce atomic crisis of course that happened in march artie's short timer swenson fukushima just outside the twenty kilometer no go zone around the stricken plant 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. i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking there is a 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 of a creating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the day to plant reactor one in a full sixty kilometers outside the banda danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. because to give you an idea of the consistency right now the ground is really pretty chilly night michael really it's about time what is more than an accepted level but the problem here too we're just so well and a lot of the radiation quickly dumped out and it's still climbing earlier we got a really good night in iowa. which is about a thousand times more than was an acceptable level of really need. 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. they change the. level of the levels from one.

to twenty. twenty times. the. standards before the accident and now. they raise the. standard so that they can say it's safe before 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 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. for audio. work by ourselves and we're not using our special you men we just use normal child both. groups. people

can come here to. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in from a city sean thomas. markham a grimston formerly with the u.k. atomic energy authority is now a policy analyst for the chatham house think tank in london and says there should be no holding back of data because it just causes public concern but i don't believe personally that we've seen a massive cover up of information coming from japan what we have seen though i think is a very slow response to questions and attitude which has been far too backward looking about this is what we think might have been happening two or four weeks ago instead of this is what we think might happen in two or four weeks time and when that is the attitude. people are going to think that the author of these are sitting on the information of a don't want to release so until they are more open about it of course people are

going to think that way. it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow you're watching the week play now out more parties could soon be represented in russia's lower house of parliament after the president proposed a lowering of the threshold from seventy five percent of the vote that's the minimum level needed to take a seat in the duma speaking before the decision not to be treatment be a terrific said it could be possible to lower that figure to three percent in the future reforms to boost political competition and help to modernize the country however if you have pointed out that the december parliamentary election will be held using the current regulations the change in the threshold if implemented will apply to elections in two thousand and sixteen ok well i hope to give politics some fresh impetus since one of russia's richest men who is now it's his sights on the parliament. has been elected leader of the right because party which plans to run in december elections it stands for a more liberal russia himself i didn't want to call it an opposition group

a promise to make what it calls a party the second largest after the united russia and said he would like to become prime minister one day an exclusive interview with the billionaire is coming up in fifteen minutes time but for now here's a preview. of the i'm not the kind of person who turns the dreamer plunges into allusions 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 this position. it with r.t. now dozens of people have been killed in afghanistan in separate bombings over the past two days the attacks follow president obama's announcement of his troop withdrawal strategy the latest attack on a hospital in eastern afghanistan left at least thirty five dead some reports putting the death toll at sixteen it comes amid heightened tension between

coalition forces. the afghan army after a number of nato soldiers were killed by taliban infiltrators in uniform on wednesday president obama announced that withdrawal of a third of u.s. troops by the end of next year the plan has been mostly met with hostility among u.s. military leadership but that's going to combat veterans turned and see what activist jake believes that the presence of foreign a force is only helps to breed the insurgency. the longer that the us stays in and nato stays inside of afghanistan the more enemies we create because what happens in a war unintentional consequences innocent people get killed and more people join the insurgency that normally wouldn't not having troops there doesn't allow the insurgency to grow we've seen every year the longer troops stay the insurgency grows and anti-american anti western anti european sentiment grows so that's why we should leave and more importantly the not the money we've invested has largely gone

to waste and it will continue going to waste by any nation that continues to support it what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s non-governmental institutions where the money actually hits the ground where that people are out where schools are being built and roads are being built by n.g.o.s if we could to do that it would be good for the afghans if we continue to give money to the central bank in kabul that's bad because that's where karzai and his cronies will steal it and as the u.s. begins to wind down its presence in afghanistan it's coming under fire on a different front in neighboring pakistan public anger over mounting civilian casualties from u.s. drone strikes is that a warning point in his eyes he is a guy in a church kind reports new plans to expand u.s. drone strikes into yemen prompting fears of a surge in terrorism. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but its methods are under fire in pakistan

in the one year that cia drone strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only five actual militant leaders. in pakistan in a number of civilian casualties that result because of the drone strikes. stringless like the taliban and al qaeda and other groups in pakistan can recruit new members and they're doing that. so very 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 to support governments or large ones when we say enough is enough most governments lie to each other that's the way business gets done in washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous all kind of outpost and he's planning to step up drone attacks on the

country as stablish ing 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 up will quite as already significant presence in yemen. the us had been cooperated with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupied with their nationwide turmoil against the sollie regime that means the americans are likely to have a freer hand calling it along 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 get people who are members of al qaeda in the 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 security. yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in one attack near the american military presumably aiming at an

all clear either training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children in another strike a year ago a drone mistakenly killed the deputy governor in yemen his family and aides with the expansion of the wrong war it seems that once the seeking only in the south of the fighting on lighter analysts say some of the main theories that it's all the case are not helping make it more than the worth of the bombing and the lack of knowledge bill in wake of the steve there peter is that more carried out the last friday after what the american is finding and baffling here at the same time i am getting sick our reporting. you are watching the weekly as we highlight the top stories of the week and among them was that of the far right dutch politician her builders' being cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he went on trial for publicly comparing islam to knott's isn't a call for

a ban of the koran the court ruled his remarks were offensive but fell within the limits of a legitimate legitimate political debate the case came amid increasing anti immigration sentiment in europe on friday e.u. leaders agreed to tighten border control european parliament member phillip points says that with the multiculturalist politics railing 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 know to put forward his own solutions to the problem and that the balance the free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shoot it up themselves to the local laws the local way of living as the romans do and this is very important to cultures and 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 our societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have to do 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. with r.t. and this week marks seventy years since the first major battle between a soviet and not seen forces of the protest fortress party looks at the events in our latest special report. today children play war in the old keys me. nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barriers in announcing troops on their way to moscow the. rest were dying one moment one under siege. one.

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