latest headlines in the top stories from the week people including a teenage girl died in hospital following monday's passenger plane crash bringing the number of victims to. reports of civilian deaths across libya and political cleansing by rebels in benghazi forced many to search for safety outside. skeptics in brussels stacie. for greece. with a look back at the main stories of the past week and the latest developments this is the weekly. team 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 chief 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 the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives. cilia sent this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to 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 the why did it have to happen. the russian premier league football referee bloody me at that just one of the forty four killed monday night when he did live one through four carrying fifty two people from moscow to burglars of what's going north 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 career 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 kept calling people screaming and pulling forty's away from the plate. was one of the first that seen his house only meters away from where the plane came down. and i heard the explosion and ram outside the lights went out i ran to the site and we started rescuing people. 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 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 like family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those. tests are silly r.t. rushes to the region. and you can find more details of the triple of one three four crash on our website just go to war two dot com in the online exclusive section to get instant access to. the main news stories of the week analysis and blogs plenty for you. 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. saying it attacked buildings in the band in the 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 and. reflection 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. it's not safe sara anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gunshots 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 supports cadavers. these cave has been long

and hard for the win in their family but i remember i was in a cup 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 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 a brother as 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 from or from i.c.u. killing him in front of i.c.u. and paying good his body on the world of. the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body set up after the revolution lee was tossed in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the all legitimate representatives of libya there is no. venue there will be new. you

must be with them oh you are against that they took about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bury the refugees here so he now finally feel safe and it's not that safe from the sound of the frontline neither. of these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in the airstrike he called into the government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and threatened the. people including three kids this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon a while me too 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. well international 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 and 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 eighty 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 regime and the government but we have been months or 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 for some of the cease fire. syrian forces have opened far funerals for the victims of a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters near the capital damascus and these 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 one and three month long crackdown has reportedly left fourteen hundred people dead joshua landis director of the center for middle east on these totality of the situation could become a deadly stand. well if one syrian or 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 to nothing really important and this is going to sit in a sense the ball in the opposition's. court if you're wanted 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. coming up later in the program for you return of the most scandal. five years of torture a phony confession takes on time attained he tells us his story and paints

a bleak picture of the struggle to bring those he chooses of a piece to justice. not investigates the real radiation situation in japan's fukushima nuclear plant and the international community tightens up atomic security levels. there 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's vote on the cuts totaling more than one hundred billion euros is expected on choose any proposals of course an angry response from the greek public with a promise of more massive protests and the vote may be decisive not only the fate of greece but also the ailing skeptics in brussels even stage a symbolic funeral for the concert the terrorists wanted justice and lecture at 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 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 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 to social crisis in greece so i think that going back to our national kerensky regain. 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. european parliament member david campbell bannerman believes the euro is a political prison for greece and salvation lies in

a return to its national currency the drachma the question now is are 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've seen in greece there's real trouble over 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 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 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 in vienna this week saw widespread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crises in march thomas went to focus 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 on the one that 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 evacuated. 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 really pretty quite to nine micro ring it's about thirty times what it 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 got a reading of nigel nile. which is about a thousand times more than a widely 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. standard 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 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 simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do a pilot project do the decontamination work by ourselves and we are not using our special we just use normal child bulls. scoops.

we just. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas. all of our stories by the way lined up for you. dot com in addition to what you see here on screen along with blogs an expert opinion has what can be found there right now. playing around with a laser beam. he allegedly tried to blind plane crew despite flashing his red light. and a heartfelt apology. received an invitation to a bush tasting from a russian football fan sorry for racism other recent.

more parties could soon be represented in russia's lower house of parliament 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 lower that figure to three percent in the future with reform aims to boost political competition and help modernize the country however it is pointed out that the december parliamentary election will be held using the current regulations the change in the threshold if implemented would apply to elections in twenty sixteen. or hoping to give politics some fresh impetus here is one of russia's richest men who has set his sights on the parliament. has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december's elections stands for more liberal russia but. didn't want to call it an opposition group to make the right course party of the second largest united russia and said he would like to become prime minister one day exclusive interview with the billionaire is coming up

in the next but here's a brief piece which. i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or plunge into allusions we have particular goals to get into russia's lower house of parliament with the maximum. number one 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 it handed over to secret u.s. prisons for torture it's and that's 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 they're being held there ever since despite the u.s. admitting he poses no risk. from the reprieve charity he's fighting for some of

those released told us his situation is a violation of international law. there are hundreds of prisoners there but what makes you 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 grave 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 and although there was an ammo 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 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 to iraq he was rendered lawfully in violation

of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your prisoner. 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 being tortured and held without trial what is 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 suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling tool sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to calls quote simulated drowning rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of closure on myself electroshocks because i will not sign.

i was forced to agree. and i was not the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother this lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr korn as it's really a shame for the net it states what happened. concerning the national law and it's simply impossible that twenty first century. put someone in extra. room. saying you have no right 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 to guantanamo but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business lot all washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopath. europe for participating these actions executives from bush down no fear going abroad to foreigners fold law suits over to. win the world lose will to america's doing said bush's advisor we

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debate people from outside of europe to come to any country in the european union and adapt themselves to the local roles 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. traveling to the most breathtaking and remote regions of russia delving into history and getting to know ancient traditions all that is available to you all the new documentary channel which was launched on thursday auntie's diapers cover takes a closer look at what's on offer. they travel through snow and rain and cross river

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