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at latest headlines on the top stories from the week to more people including a teenage girl die in hospital following monday's passenger plane crash in northwest russia it now brings the number of victims to forty seven. reports of a mounting civilian deaths across libya and the political cleansing by rebels in benghazi that's forcing many to search for safety outside their hometown. skeptics in brussels a stage at the uro's funeral as leaders hash out yet another multibillion euro bailout for greece but new austerity cuts sparked anger in athens. well with the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly welcome to it a man and a teenage girl. all who were among eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in

northwestern russia have died in hospital a to pull off one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of car crash landed on a major road just a kilometer shy of the runway that is disaster has now claimed at least forty seven lives. sent this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to tiana is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend and me aboard. 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 but why did it have to happen. the russian premier league football referee vladimir bit by just one of the forty four killed monday night when a duple of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to bettors 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 bird for us that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the resurrect say 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 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 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. 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. yes there is silly r t russia's karelia region. and you can find out more details on the article off one three four crash on our website just go to r.t. dot com and the on line exclusive possession to get instant access you'll also find more on the other main news stories of the week blogs all of that artsy 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 brega the alliance denies the accusation saying it attacked buildings in an abandoned area deemed legitimate military targets opposition leaders in benghazi say they expect to receive proposals from tripoli which could end the drawn out conflict but many in the country believe the rebel force is not interested in peace or democracy parties where if a national went to meet something. 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 you're going to feel 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 you call them 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 cave has been long and hard for they were in their family well i remember a lot of 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 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 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. taken from 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 only legitimate

representatives of libya there is no. venue there will be in you so you will be. where you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they 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 the two your peroration to protect civilians must go on with closures containing 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 will be enough people left to experience it. rich notion of r.t. reporting from western libya. well nato knew from the very beginning that its humanitarian operation would cause civilian deaths so as professor lawrence davidson from the west chester university in pennsylvania. what this cause 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 domestic consumption you cannot intervene. anywhere with this level of munitions and not kill civilians and there but that type of munitions that they're using where there are these are are you know piloted

aircraft or drones like in afghanistan i mean you cannot avoid it you can't these are not smart weapons whatever they might say they are and if you're going away attack a building in a urban environment you don't know you know there's a margin for error it's a large and you're going to kill civilians there it's just they know that they know that and they've only admitted to one but you know that there has to be more. they're watching the weekly here on r.t. and turning our attention now to syria where syrian forces have opened fire at funerals for the victims of a brutal crackdown on anti regime protesters in the capital damascus at least two people died more than twenty are thought to have been killed across syria since friday now 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 and a three month long crackdown has reportedly left and fourteen hundred people dead for my petition bastable to syria basil eastwood says the people there are divided over president assad amid a strong desire for a political process. level great hopes that he'll. it leads to a better future he still retains some of that popularity particularly with the urban populations in damascus and aleppo the second big city which have done relatively well out of his economic liberalization. but in the countryside and amongst the intelligentsia i think there are now no hopes that he can bring about reforms there is a long tradition in that part of the world of vengeance but so far the opposition activists at least are sticking firmly to their

insistence that there should be. no violence on the part of the activists and they're also saying they do not want any inside outside intervention. and they are starting to talk about the need for. a political process. it's now or ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you without coming up but later in the program return of the guantanamo scandal. i was forced to agree. and i was. five years of torture all for a phony confession one detainee tells us his story and paints a bleak picture of the struggle to bring those he accuses of abuse to justice. and r.t. investigates the real the radiation situation in the japan's fukushima nuclear plant 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 vote on the cuts totaling more than one hundred billion a year is expected on tuesday the proposals of course an angry response from the greek public with the promise of more massive protests to come but the photo 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 sotiris apology office a lecturer at the university of the aegean believes 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 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 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 the debt crisis and in general the social crisis in greece . 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 and a 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 track with. the question now is are we throwing good money after bad money you know how many billions can you throw at

this you know the tolerance of the people for carts for extra taxes as we see it in greece there's real trouble there where 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 or totally and probably quite shortly now but to be honest i think you leave your is a political prison for for countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from their 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 and 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 until you're 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. it is a quarter past the hour here in moscow you're watching the weekly five 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 or i'm sorry. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counter sound scientists working in fukushima city concerned. i am 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 friends families are . officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the daiichi 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 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 but it's still climbing earlier we got a really good night and now i look at my career where tears are about a thousand times more than what is really acceptable level of really meaningful. 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 redish a quantum level standard the levels from one. minute. 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 has 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 a 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 bulls. scoops. we 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.

. this is r.t. live from moscow now more party. 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 will be the minimum level needed to take up a seat in the duma speaking before making the decision dmitri medvedev said it could be possible to lower that figure to three percent in the future which is the reform aims to boost political competition and help to modernize the country however medvedev pointed out that the december parliamentary election will be held that using the current regulations the change in the threshold if implemented will apply to elections in two thousand and sixteen. while hoping to give politics some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest men who now has his sights set on parliament procket off has been elected leader of course party which plans to run in december elections it stands for more liberal russia but profit off himself

didn't want to call it an opposition group he promised to make the right course party the second largest after united russia and said he would like to one day become prime minister an exclusive interview with the billionaire is coming your way next hour here's a preview. although i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or 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 this position. this is the weekly on r.t. the u.k. is being accused of failing to protect detainees it 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 unison rahmatullah 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 rahmatullah is released told us his situation is a violation of international law. there are hundreds of prisoners about what makes us 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. handed him to the united states in march and april there were discussions between the u.s. and the 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 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 you kind of

deal between the u.s. and the u.k. that permits the u.k. to get him out of custody it never bothered to do so so we've had them in the united kingdom courts in haiti as corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner back you never should have been sent out of iraq he was rendered unlawfully 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 parties or down a bushel follows one such case. as was a wristed on the streets and sent to guantanamo for torture after five years america released him without charge to this the u.s. has given explanation or said sorry couldn't as he's suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the law of the free free calls quote simulated drowning rape instrumentality impairment of bodily

function organ failure and even death i was one of the. so to survive those kind of closure on myself they used electroshocks because i will not sign papers. i was forced to agree that i am the number of taliban. and i was not the us refused to even reveal they were holding his mother owns these lawyers to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr korn i think it's really a shame for the united states what happened. is. concerned international law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put someone in the extra. room.

you have no right bush for moves 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 show it's going to turn him over but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business. all washington street guilty of. crimes

against humanity sociopath ministration and still is your plea for participating and supporting these that executives from bush down no fear going abroad after foreigners filed lawsuits over tool when the world learns what america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush will r.t. braman. all right and among other news it made headlines this week of course we have the story earlier this week the far right dutch politician hurt builders' has been cleared rather of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he went on trial for publicly comparing islam to naziism and called for a ban of the koran the court ruled his remarks were offensive but fell within the limits of the legitimate political debate the case came amid increasing immigration sentiment in europe on friday e.u. leaders agreed to tighten border control of european parliament member phillip applies he says with multiculturalist politics failing it may be time for more

radical solutions. we've always been through all 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 you know to put forward his own solutions to the problem and the balanced and free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shoot themselves to 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 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. you with our two you

know let's check out some other stories making headlines across the globe today there's been a powerful explosion outside the un compound in gaza the blast made a two metre wide hole in the wall surrounding the building palestinian security officials say no one was injured and the cause is still unknown the israeli military has denied any responsibility for the blast. protesters have marched through the vietnamese capital hanoi 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 around escalated after both held independent naval exercises in the area believed to be rich in oil and gas. while traveling to the most breathtaking and remote regions of russia delving into

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