in the. forty's latest headlines in the top stories from the week to more people including a teenage girl died in hospital following monday's passenger plane crash in northwest russia bringing the number of victims to forty seven. reports of mounting civilian deaths across libya and political cleansing by rebels in benghazi forced many to search for safety outside their home town. skeptics in brussels states the euro's funeral as leaders hash out yet another multibillion bailout for greece you'll start he cuts anger in athens.

with a look back at the main stories of the past week and the latest developments this is the weekly here on. a man in the teenage girl who are among eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwestern russia have died in hospital a triple of one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea a crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway disaster is now claimed forty seven rise. cilia sent this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure that john isn't just the sudden death of the friend. you know. i do not understand why the happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's right to want to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee

or the music i just want the forty four killed monday night we need to pull one through for kerry fifty two people from moscow to represent what's the mood western russia crash on this road missing the runway by kilometer. it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes of this airport 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 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 horrific scenes they say that those memories are unlikely to go away. get away i didn't sleep for two days i couldn't even fall asleep i can't recall him people screaming and i was pulling bodies away from the plate which are you getting was one of the first that you see his house only metres away from where the plane going down. and i heard the explosion and ran

outside the lights went out i branch of the site and we started by string people are we trying to win man two women and 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 suggestion that didn't sit well with some locals just look good i knew it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead. i think the airport itself is to blame like a million friends are waiting for answers but all we can do now is remember there was. just recently r.t.

rushes to really reach. and you can find more details of the trouble of one three four crash on our website just go to war two dot com in the online exclusive section to get instant access that those are far more be used tours of the week analysis and blogs plenty for you there. the number of civilian casualties in libya reportedly rising drastically the government says a nato air strike has killed at least fifteen people in the eastern town of brega the noisy accusation saying it attacked buildings in the band in the area 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. river most went to meet some of. these 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. imo it's not safe area anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and got shots one day people from the government in the now you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me until we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she supports gadhafi. these keep has been long and hard for the when they family when i remember was that a cousin 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 gaza to tennessee and the bus with the rebels for their purposes we sure got busted our faces covered and everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and they let us send this. brother has started reading 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 a killing. take him from from or from i.c.u. killing him in front of i.c.u.

and handed his body on the world. the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body set up after the revolution leaders started in the meantime february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no i've been you then you knew. you were big. well you are against. that freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to pull all the refugees here say they now finally feel safe that's not that's a friendly sound of the frontline. because these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in one thousand airstrike he couldn't leave and government officials at bar landed in the private compound and threatened. people

including three kenyans this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon as well nato has already claimed her three operations to protect civilians must go on with clashes canteen 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's when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here there won't be enough people left to experience it. 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 and 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 this so far has cost us a quarter of a million pounds the role that was set out by the united nations resolution one nine hundred seventy three was very clear it was that there should be a an effort to induce a ceasefire in libya and to enforce that ceasefire 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 not to less prepared to do that when the armaments and the and the fire has been coming from the rebels and that's not an even handed in for some of the cease fire. syrian forces have opened far to funerals for the victims of a brutal crackdown on and protest is near 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 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 fourteen hundred people dead joshua landis director of the center for middle east and these totality of the situation could become a deadly stampede. well it's on syria to show you this 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 but so far the military has stood firm behind the regime there been a few defections to nothing really important and this could sit in a sense the ball in the opposition's. court if you're one wanted to starve syria and they could do it in the same way that europe starve iraq of course once you go down the road if the government doesn't crumble as it didn't do any iraq then you have to take military intervention. coming up later in the program for you hear

return of the kuantan m o's scandal. i was forced to agree that i'm the member of parliament. and i was a marxist. five years of torture all for a phony confession one takes control of attorney tells us his story and paints a bleak picture of the struggle to bring those the accusers of abuse to justice. and not investigate the real radiation situation in japan's fukushima nuclear plant as the international community tightens up atomic security levels. well in the week the european union 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 euros is expected on choose day proposals of course an angry response from the greek public with the promise of more massive protests and the vote may be decisive not only for the fate of greece

but also the ailing euro skeptics in brussels even stage some call it funeral for the council serious on a judge's electorate the university of the aegean believes greece can only move forward by abandoning what he calls the absurdity of the euro. the problem is we cannot we are getting twelve billion lifeline. the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous dates this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek people to have an immediate exit from the euro from the euro zone think you're zero 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 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 for european parliament member david campbell bannerman believes the euro is a political present for greece and salvation lies in a return to its national currency the draft. the question now is are we throwing good money after bad money. 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 but there's trouble in spain and all and particularly i think it's in major trouble the euro and as a 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 the euro 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 in on their feet i think they should go back to the 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 plan b. 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. a five day nuclear form and the end of this week's all widespread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march thomas went to focus shima 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 taking of geiger counters

has scientists working in fukushima city concerned. similar i'm in charge of a group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking very protocol and process set up by the japanese government is not enough and myself i think i should evacuate from this area because of my job at the university i can't my family and my friends family 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 battleground is really quite chilly night my growing it's about thirty times what it is more than accepted level but the problem here is we're just we're all in the mud but the regular quickly but it's still climbing earlier we got a really good night denial of my career which is about a thousand times more than what is going to accept that level of state really going

for. but in order to claim it is truly safe from leaking really usually the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers more the government. is de change the revolution council level standard the levels from one. to twenty. five 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 affect. to try and mitigate the circumstances to some degree a group of scientists have teamed up to find simple ways to reduce the radiation

level. we're just trying to do a pilot project to the decontamination work by ourselves and we are not using our specially equipped men we just use normal child both. scoops. we just. bought. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in from pushing a city charm thomas r.t. . all of our stories by the way lined up for you at r.t. dot com in addition to what you see here on screen along with blogs an expert opinion here's what can be found there right now is should you log on playing around with a laser beam run that in southern russia behind bars he allegedly tried to blind plane crew despite flashing his red light at the local airport. and a heartfelt apology and captain rebutted comments received an invitation to

a bush tasty from a russian football fan to say sorry for racism and a recent match. more parties could soon be represented in russia's lower house of parliament after the president this week 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 the decision dimitri medvedev said it could be possible to learn that they get to three percent in the future with reform aims to boost political competition and help modernize the country however admitted pointed out that the december parliamentary election will be held using the current regulations and changing the threshold if implemented for the price of actions in twenty eight sixteen. are hoping to get politics and fresh impetus here is one of

russia's richest men who has set his sights on the parliament we call pocket of his being elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december elections it stands for more liberal russia but. didn't want to call it an opposition group promised to make the right calls madea's the second largest on to united russia and said he would like to become prime minister one day the exclusive interview with the billionaire is coming up in the next book so here's a brief piece which. i'm not the kind of person who would chance a dream or plunges into allusions particularly. 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. 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 or 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 he's fighting for from a to his release told us his situation is a violation of international law. there are hundreds of prisoners about 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 it to the united states in march in april there were discussions between the u.s. and the u.k. because the u.s. wanted to send the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even though abu ghraib 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 an arrow 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 bother 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 bluffly in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your president. and it's not just with britain that the us appears to have a deal to detain terror suspects across the e.u. hundreds claim to be imported and held without trial daniel bushell follows one such case. as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo for torture after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given no explanation all said story couldn't as is george bush's lawyer alberto gonzales for sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to

cause quote simulated drowning and rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those sort of survive. on myself. because i was not sorry. i was forced to agree that i'm a member of. the us refused to even reveal who will hold income earners his mother owns these lawyers to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with the corners it's really a shame for the united states what happened. what concerned the national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century. put someone in extra. room. saying you

have no right bush feat 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 would be an effective billet the classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil and 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. obama was elected on the promise to show up one time tomorrow but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open

for business but all. street guilty of. crimes against humanity so is the. street and so's europe for participating and what exactly. it is for bush down no fear going abroad after foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world learns will to america's doing said bush's advisor we would all be ashamed don't you bush you r.t. braman. earlier this week the far right dutch politicians politician builders was cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he went on trial for publicly comparing islam to nuts ism and calling for a ban of the qur'an because his remarks with pensive within the limits of the just much political debate the case came amid increasing anti immigration sentiment in europe and friday leaders agreed to tighten border control their member of the. philippine crisis says with multiculturalist politics failing it may be time for

more radical sinatra. we've always been told that multiculturalism in 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 another balanced and free debate people from outside of europe to come to any country in the european union. that themselves through the local roles the local way of living as the 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 our societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have to adapt themselves to their way of living in the country they went to and so this has to change i think we need

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