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to use it latest headlines and the top stories of the week. following monday's passenger plane crash in northwest russia it's bringing the number of victims so far forty. reports of civilian deaths across libya political rebels in benghazi and many safety outside. skeptics in brussels a stage of the euros. yet another billion euro bailout for greece new austerity measures. with stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly welcome to it . and

a teenage girl who among eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwestern russia have died in hospital to pull off one heading from moscow to russia's republic of crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway of the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives. this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to tiana is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend. 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 frayed the why did it have to happen. the russian premier league football referee vladimir bit just one of the forty four killed monday night when a duple of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to beggars avoids going north western russia crashed on this road missing the runway by 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 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 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 can't recall and people screaming and pulling bodies away from the plane. guinea was one of the first at the scene 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 doing people here we dragged away a man two women and the pilot but 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. 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. to us are silly r t russia's guerilla region and you can find out more details of the to pull off one three four crash on our website for footage from the scene just go to want to dot com that photo gallery in the online exclusive section to get instant access you also find more on the other main news stories of the week analysis and blogs all of that of course are dot com.

now 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 praeger the alliance denies the accusation saying it attacked buildings in an abandoned area deemed legitimate military targets opposition leaders in benghazi you say they expect to receive proposals from tripoli which could end of the drawn out conflict but many in the country believe the rebel force is not interested in peace for democracy parties more for national went to meet some of them first time. this family hasn't had a war quiet and peaceful like this one for months they've escaped to 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 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 the 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 they were 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 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 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 there is no other venue. so you will be. where you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is 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 while nato has already claimed there to your peroration to protect civilians must go on with clashes canteen and benghazi and

nato intensify in 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 their loss be enough people left to experience it. there is no r t reporting from western media. 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 gardiner 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 an effort to juice the 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 is regime in the government but we have been much less prepared to do that when the armaments and the and the fire has been coming from the rebels that's not an even handed in force of the cease fire and with nato intervention in libya a stalemate and civilian casualties mounting the u.s. is coming under fire on a different front washington unmanned drone strikes are being blasted for fostering not fighting global terror people grow tired of the ever increasing number of victims. and artie investigates the real radiation situation new 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 time but only if athens introduces savage new austerity measures the greek parliament a vote on the cuts totaling more than one hundred billion euro is expected on tuesday the proposals have caused an angry response from the greek public with the promise of more massive protests on the way with a 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 so tyrus a penalty others lecturer at the university of the aegean believes agree. 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 which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous debt 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 the debt crisis and in general to social crisis in greece so i think that going back to a national kerensky and the 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. meantime john go into the e.u. referendum campaign in britain has also hit out at the euro he says the currency is on his 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 why some of our banks like barclays have been 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 we the u.k. taxpayer pay any day of the german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government with our top stories of the week this is their weekly artsy five day nuclear forum in vienna this week saw widespread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis of course that happened in march artie's

shawna thomas went to fukushima just outside the twenty kilometer no go zone around the stricken plant to witness the deadly legacy of the disaster former self. the army nurse and constant ticking of geiger counters scientists working in fukushima city concerned. i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university when i was thinking their vacation 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 reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band a danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the ground is really pretty quiet

tonight micro ring it's about thirty times what it is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all and a lot of it collected the radiation quickly jumped out and it's still climbing earlier we got a reading of night and now i look at my car and it's 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 more the government deedes they change the. 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 house change 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. project and do d.d. contamination. by ourselves and we are not to using our special equipment we just use normal child both. scoops. you just. have to topsoil is a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r.t. . well i malcolm a grimstone formerly with the u.k. atomic energy authority is now a policy analyst for the chatham house think tank in london he 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 an 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 when that is the attitude. people are going to think they're all foreigners are sitting on the information of they 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 weekly 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 the reform aims to boost political competition and help to modernize the country however many 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. well hoping to give politics some fresh impetus says one of russia's richest men who is now set his sights on the parliament. has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december elections it stands for more liberal russia off himself didn't want to call it an opposition group he promised to make the right calls the 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 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 disposition. you 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 with some reports putting the death toll at sixty it comes amid heightened tension between coalition forces and. 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's leadership but afghan in a combat veteran turned antiwar 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 war unintentional consequences innocent people get killed 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 what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s and non-governmental institutions where the money actually hits the ground where the people are at where schools are being built and roads are being built by n.g.o.s if

we continue 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 his 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 boarding point and as a tease a gun if you can 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 net it only five actual militant leaders. in pakistan in the number of civilian casualties that result because of the drone strikes are showing this like the taleban you know. in other groups in pakistan to recruit new

members and they're doing that. next hour in case 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 how on do you support governments or large ones when do say enough is enough most governments lie to each other and so a business gets done washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous al qaida 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 iman also ari is thought to be building up all kind has already significant presence in yemen. the u.s. had been cooperate ing with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida

but they've since left the field preoccupied instead with their 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 members of all id new 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 is security. yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to attack there the american military presumably aiming at an al qaida 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 eight with the expansion of the wrong war its influence is seeking only in the south the abiding alkali it at an early stage

some of the main concerns that this is all the faces are not having taking down the fourth of the bombing and the lack of accountability when it comes to the city to be. more carried on the well rather well that america is fighting and fostering terror at the same time i am going to check out what. 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 naziism and called for a ban of the qur'an the court ruled his remarks were offensive but fell within the limits of a legitimate legitimate political debate the case came amid increasing immigration sentiment in europe on friday e.u. leaders agreed to tighten border control european parliament member philip klein says that with the multiculturalist politics railing it may be time for more radical solutions. we have 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 the balance the free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shoot up themselves to the local also local way of living as a romans to this is very important multiculturalism 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 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. here with

r.t. and this week marked seventy years since the first major battle between soviet and nazi forces out there but just fortress r.t. looks at the events in our latest special report. today children play war in the old keys me. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier from announcing troops on their way to moscow and. were dying one by one under c. c. . one. in the last shoulder and shoulder left a fusion both were. very well mother i'm dying but i'm not surrendering.

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