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with a look back at the main stories of the past week and the latest developments this is the weekly here on our team a man and a 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 and crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives artie's tesler sent this report from the crash site. but struggling to keep her composure to john is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend on your board. i do not understand why it happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand he beats fried dough why did it have to happen to. the russian premier league football referee vladimir but i just want to before you for killed monday. night when he did pull of one three for kerry fifty

two people from moscow the burglar's of once in northwestern russia crashed on this road missing the runway by kilometer. it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed the plane to 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 the revised people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the horrific scene 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 i was pulling bodies away from the plane once you. get any was one of the first on 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 rescuing people here we're trying

to a man two women and the pilot he was dead while all the bodies have been recovered and 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 the suggestion didn't sit well with some locals just would guy you know 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. tesori syria r t russia is clearly a region and you can find more details of the triple zero one three four crash on our website just go to r.t. dot com and the online exclusive section to get instant access is also far more on

the other main news stories of the past week analysis and blogs plenty there for you at our t 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 yet as a show and saying it attacked buildings and abandoned area the legitimacy military targets opposition leaders in benghazi say they expect to receive proposals from tripoli which could end the drawn out conflict of many in the country believe the rebel force is not interested in peace or democracy it is more of a notion i went to meet some of them. 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 worst 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 people from the government and didn't 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 khadafi. these kids has been long and hard for the we were in their family well 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 the lot of sane son was brother look the 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 from you killing him in front of your. own good the world that. 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 in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya the very. very well being you so you were. there you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy we've just gone through. the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not that safe from the side of the frontline either. of these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those. in one thousand airstrike he couldn't believe in government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three. this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon while nato has already claimed your operation to

protect civilians and must go on with closures 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 when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they'll not be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western libya. nato knew from the very beginning that its humanitarian operation would cause civilian deaths says professor lawrence they got some from west chester university in pennsylvania when his 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 our domestic consumption and you cannot enter being

anywhere with this level of munitions and not kill civilians and there are but the type of munitions that they're using whether these are armor you know piloted aircraft or drones like in the afghanistan i mean you cannot avoid it you can't these are not smart weapons whatever they might say there and if you're going to attack a building and it in a in a urban environment you don't know you know there's a margin for error if it's a large and you're going to kill civilians it's just they know that they know that and they've only admitted to one but you know that they're asked to be more. and with nato intervention in libya stalemate and civilian casualties mounting u.s. is coming under fire in a different front washington's unmanned drone strikes have been blasted for fostering not fighting global terror people grow tired of the ever increasing number of victims. but not investigates the real radiation situation in japan's

fukushima nuclear plant as the international community tightens up atomic security levels. a story still to come first earlier in the week the european union agreed to bail out greece one more time but only if athens introduces savage new austerity measures they vote on the cuts totally more than one hundred billion euros is expected on choose day their proposals would cause an angry response from the greek public with a promise of more massive protests and the vote may be decisive not only for the fed to greece but also the ailing skeptics in brussels even space but some funeral for the currency so this electorate the university of the aegean believes greece can only move forward by a bad thing what he calls the absurdity of these. the problem is we cannot we are giving twelve billion lifeline. the biggest part of which is going to be used to

repay debt to repay previous periods 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 crisis and in general to social crisis in greece so i think that going back to a national currency gaming 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 john golems of the e.u. referendum campaign in britain is also his house at 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 flints 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 arlen's going to go portugal and of course the big one everyone is worried about is the state of spying that is what some of our banks like portrush have been juicing our liabilities in spain because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than the spanish government is telling people places and even a drop of eighteen percent how the radio shows in spain people losing seventy percent sixty percent in the fire you without homes and their developments spain will be the next one to topple but why should we tax payer. the german taxpayer pay for the and actually choose of the greek government. john galt there a five day nuclear form in vienna this week so widespread agreement for increased

safety measures for the atomic crisis in march thomas went to function with 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 a constant ticking of geiger counters and scientists working in fukushima city concerned. in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking very 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 or my friends' families or of a creating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the danger plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the banda 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 nine. thirty times what is

more of them except rubble but. for all of them are because of the radiation in quickly. piling earlier we got a really good night. my career which is about a thousand times more than one of them accepted level of. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking when you should the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers not a government. change the. time standard the levels from one. to twenty. to twenty times. the. standards before the x. . rays be. the standard so that they can say it's safe. 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 a simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying. to do the. work by ourselves and we are not using our special equipment we just use normal charles. scoops. to. the small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city charm thomas r.t. and malcolm grimston formerly with the u.k. energy authority is now a policy analyst for the chatham house think tank in london and he says the holding

back of data is leading to widespread 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 would be 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 which undoubtedly people are going to think of the author of his 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. just remind you all of our stories are lined up for you at r.t. dot com along with blogs and expert opinion here's what can be found there right now if you should love playing around with a laser beam one man in southern russia behind bars you know to try to blind a plane cruised by flashing his red light at the local airport. and

a heartfelt apology angie captain robot carlos received an invitation to a bosch tasting from the russian football fan came to say sorry for racism at a recent match. dozens of people have been killed in afghanistan in separate bombings over the past two days the attacks followed president obama's announcement of his troop withdrawal strategy and his attack on a hospital in eastern afghanistan left at least thirty five dead but some reports putting the death toll at sixty it comes amid heightened tension between coalition forces and the afghan army after a number of nato soldiers were killed by taliban infiltrators in uniform on wednesday president obama announced the withdrawal of a third of u.s. troops by the end of next year than has been met with hostility among u.s. military leadership but afghan combat veteran antiwar activist jake deliberate or

believes the presence of foreign troops only helps breed insurgency. the longer that the u.s. stays 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 have the 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 i continue to support what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s and non-governmental institutions that 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 can 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 america winds down its presence in afghanistan is coming under fire in a different front and maybe in pakistan public anger mounting civilian casualties from u.s. drone strikes is that boiling point as if he's going to switch reports new plans to expand drone use to yemen prompting fears of a surge in terrorism. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but it's not the czar under fire in pakistan in the one year that cia drone strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only five actual militant leaders. in a number of civilian casualties that result because of the drone strikes are extremists like the taliban and al qaeda and other groups in pakistan to recruit new members

and they're doing their own salary base 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 to say enough is enough most governments lie to each other that's the way business gets done 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 that whooshing a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when bin laden's replacement iman also worry is that to be building up will kiters already significant presence in. the us had been who operating with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupied instead

with the 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 numbers a little quiet and you arabian peninsula and then i think we'll worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al qaeda their security. yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in one attack near the american military presumably aiming at an al qaeda 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 aides with the expansion of the throng for its influence and seeking only in the south of the fighting al qaida analysts say some of them a theory that this is a war the fates are not having to take

a look down the fourth that they can get their money and that lack of accountability becomes the city of their beakers that more paradoxically the abstract illegality where the american lives and three care at the same limb get a check our police 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 now that would be the minimum level needed to take up a seat in the duma speaking before the decision to move it so it could be possible to lower that figure to three percent in the future reform aims to boost political competition and help modernize the country and the video pointed out that the december parliamentary election will be held using the current regulations a change in the threshold if implemented will apply to elections in twenty sixteen . open to give politics some fresh impetus here is one of russia's richest men who

has set his sights on parliament because the pocket of his being elected leader of the right calls party which plans to run in december as elections stands for a more liberal russia but proud of himself didn't want to call it an opposition group and promise to make the right calls part of the second largest after the united russia and said he would like to become prime minister one day and it squares an interview with the billionaire is coming up in fifteen minutes from now but here's a preview. i'm not the kind of person who turns a dream or plunge into allusions where particle. goals to get into russia's lower house of parliament with the maximum number of votes also interesting is that i could be a good prime minister if the party successful i would fight for this position. and as i say that interview coming up very shortly here on r.t. well earlier this week before right dutch politician hit builders was cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination went on trial for publicly comparing

islam to nuts ism and calling for a ban of the qur'an the court ruled his remarks were offensive to fell within the limits of legitimate political debate the case came amid increasing immigration sentiment in europe and friday evening it is agreed to tighten border control of european parliament member fifth place says with multiculturalist politics failing it may be time for more radical solutions. we've always been through all that much a culture of them and was presumed to be great and was going to solve a lot of problems on a country that 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 have a balanced and free to bring people from outside of europe to come to any country in the european union shewed that themselves through 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 power societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have to that themselves to the way of living in a country they went to and so this i think change i think we need a much more restrictive immigration and integration policy. traveling to the most breathtaking and remote regions of russia building into history and getting to know ancient traditions all that is available to you on the new documentary channel that was launched on thursday of last week and a lot is there a push over takes a closer look at what's on offer there. they travel through snow and rain and cross rivers they go hunting beyond their polar circle and take to the skies they talk to do through the shamans and study dusty archives they are the team of documentary a new channel made by those who want to share their discoveries of russia. are to

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