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a look back at the main stories of the past week and the latest developments this is the weekly here in r.t. a man and a teenage girl who are among eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwestern russia have died in hospital. one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway that disaster has now claimed forty seven lives artist has a silver sent this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure 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 fate the wanted to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee vladimir brick by just one of the forty four killed monday night when he did pull of one three four carrying thirty two

people from moscow the burglar's avoids going north western russia crashed on this route 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 this side 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 word for us that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the rest see 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 him people screaming and i was pulling bodies away from the plane which he had 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 my ram to the side and we started by scaring people we're

trying to where 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 a 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 walked by you 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 people lost tesori so we are r t russia is clearly a region and you can for more details of the trip log on three for crash on our website just go to r.t. dot com in the online exclusive section to get instant access you also far more

than the other main news stories of the week. and the blogs as well all that. 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 lance denies the accusation saying it attacked buildings and abandon the area deemed legitimate military targets it was usually does in benghazi save expect to receive proposals for police which could end the drawn out conflict but many in the country believe the rebel force is not interested in peace or democracy parties more of a notion but to meet some of. these family hasn't had a war quiet and peaceful like this one for months it was key 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. well known 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 and 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 the family well and was it good and i had to hide for some time from them because they've been searching for me then we knew there was a bus coming from benghazi to tennessee or 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 let us send some his brother doctors 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. taken from the from or from you killing him in front of your 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 that

are part of the revolution libya started and that means february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the yalu legitimate representatives of libya the very is. very new so you will be. well you i get this. about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just war. the refugees here say the 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 one thousand airstrike according to leave and government officials bar landed on a private compound and flattened it killing 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 three operation 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. and both sides of the frontline many on the ground fear that when the democracy they were talks about will finally come here there will be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western media and investigative journalist me show causes that nato won't be deflected by concern for civilians as its ultimate aim is to control libya's natural resources and financial reserves. they are skills that mall civilians that the losses from the initials problems there are few small civilians the little bombings so the real i.d.'s not protect civilians. these to achieve the economical structures you call interest off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya i

remind that the us c. is a bankrupt country and also preventing that caffie would be a sort of turnips used to the i.m.f. some buying for african development revisits the people in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with minutes here and war. but here in the week the european union agreed to bail out greece one more time but only if athens introduces savage new austerity measures the great parliament's vote on the cuts totaling more than one hundred billion euros is expected on tuesday the proposals of course an angry response from the greek public with a promise of more massive protests in the fight may be decisive not only for the face of greece but also the painting itself sceptics in brussels even staged a symbolic funeral for the currency soteris justice a lecturer at the university of the aegean believes greece can only move forward by

banning 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 to repay. this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek people to have an immediate exit from the europe from the euro zone big 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 the social crisis in greece so 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 for. european parliament and the david camm abandonment he 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 into how many billions can you throw at this you know the tolerance of the people for carts for extra taxes as we've seen in greece the real trouble with this trouble in spain and ireland particularly i think it's in major trouble the euro and i as a been saying for some time i do believe it will collapse either in heart or socially and probably quite shortly now but to be honest i think if the euro 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 the valuation 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 found me until he or 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. coming up later in the program return of the guantanamo scandal. i was forced to agree that i'm. five years of torture all for a phony confession one ex-con autonomy the taney tells us his story and paints a bleak picture of the struggle to bring those he accuses of abuse to justice but also still to come this hour to investigate the real radiation situation in japan's fukushima nuclear plant as the international community tightens up atomic security

levels. and stories to become the first there's been a series of international reports that hugo chavez the staunchly anti american president of venezuela is in a critical condition after undergoing surgery in cuba speculation has been stoked by conflicting statements from the government about his health something jumped on by the world's media i'm not joined by agents which he's an author and researcher in one of ours in argentina to tell us what he thinks behind the hype thanks very much indeed for joining us here on our team now traverses condition is causing concern in venezuela and throughout latin america but as i just said the government has come up with conflicting messages but also accuses the western media of unwarranted speculation so who should we believe. well it's very difficult for another nonprofessional to give information as to a person's health situation so we don't really know if mr hugo chavez president of

venezuela or those have a health issue what we would need to know officially from proper professionals what their health issue is officially that he is concerned that he suffered a pillbug abscess which has been operated upon but there are also some reports that might be some milder form of cancer no doubt however the western media especially american media are very keen to try to aggravate quote unquote his whole situation because from point of view of the united states there are many people who would love to see hugh charges go so there are a lot of their wishes and no doubt within the united states and within europe and even within the united kingdom who would love to see hugo chavez go because of the fact that he has taken not so much use to wantonly anti-american stance by the storm truly independent stand strong the point of his country and his further afield from a point of view shared by many other countries throughout latin america american prisoner of can him perhaps has forced him to become

a loop more vehement in the way he expresses his americanism but as i say a lot of people would like to see him go although we could balance the whole idea of how to and must be said that ninety four percent of it as well as exports are all and thirty percent of the oil goes to the united states of america and the united states of america imports eleven percent of its oil from them so we have to see a more balanced view on that putting aside the trade issue between the states are going as well of a political issue that it has been the united states may actually classify venezuela as a terrorist state for its dealings with iran could you tell us more about that will perhaps perhaps this media attention could be maybe showing that there's an agenda behind all of this concerning the iranian relationship. no there are about of the entire process that we're seeing we've been seeing for the last months in north africa and in the middle east has a final target which they would love to be in iran that's where they are and i'll

tell you in syria as it could is. now all the israel has very close ties with iran they have maintained. a growing movement a very strong move the united states at the top level in classifying in israel as a quote unquote terrorist state as a matter of fact there are a series of senators led by john ensign republican from nevada and georgia republican from florida who are now officially asked. to partner states and secretary of state hillary clinton to be cleared in israel a terrorist state on the other hand the foreign relations committee for the western hemisphere led by one republican republican representative call colleen mack is also asking for money as well to be clear a terrorist state mr what does that mean that declaring a terrorist state in what way then what we see the u.s. taking action on this where it tried to manipulate a great change there in venezuela. well i believe and i'm seeking from latin

america from argentina to be exact that what we are seeing the generalized rejean change promoted by the united states britain france and even israel behind the scenes in north africa and then dilute leads as it is as a whole will now be coming very likely to latin america so i would not be surprised to see a wave of us promoted regime change in the earliest countries in latin america from their point of view the logical country to start to begin to swell up and further afield ecuador. and even argentina might be also be marking your mark for this because apparently the global power elite operating from the united states and from britain is said on global rejean change as they move i believe closer and closer to a more formal world government where later their agents are virtually author and research a joining us live in what is or is thanks very much indeed for your thoughts. by the way all of our stories are lined up for you at r.t. dot com indeed if you want to see that interview again you can by simply logging on

to our web site also we've got blogs and expert opinion there for you here's what you found it right there if you playing around with a laser beam lands one man in southern russia behind bars he allegedly tried to blind plane crews by flashing his red light at a local airport with. a heartfelt apology and she kept him. receives an invitation to a borscht tasting from a russian football fan him to say sorry for racism at a recent match those stories in arctic. a five day nuclear form in vienna this week saw widespread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march but is short thomas want 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. the

armistice and a constant ticking of geiger counters scientists working in fukushima city concerned and or some of the i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking a very key asian 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 family. officially fukushima city is in a safer 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 through tonight. thirty times what is more of them except admirable but the problem here i think we're just we're all in the right but the regular quickly got. earlier we got

a really good night in iowa. which is about a thousand times more than was an acceptable level of going for. 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. changed the. standard levels from one. to twenty. to twenty times. the. standards before the x. . rays the. t.v. stand so that they can say it's safe. 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. project and do the. work by ourselves and we are not using especially when we just use normal charles. scoops. just. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in for she was city shantaram as are today. u.k. is being accused of failing to protect detainees and handed over to secret u.s. prisons for torture it's an it's the two nations also made a back room deal on the treatment of prisoners jury in the iraq war papers released earlier this week brought to light because of a twenty eight year old pakistani yunus rahmatullah seven years ago he was seized

in iraq by british troops and handed over to u.s. to tension facility he's been held there ever since despite the u.s. admitting he poses no risk crowd of probably pretty charity who is fighting for his release so to speak 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. the u.k. because the u.s. wanted to send him to bagram and 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 about ground and although there was then 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 in haiti is corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner back you never should have been sent out of iraq he was rendered lawfully in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your prisoner. and it's not just with britain and the u.s. appears to have a deal to detain terror suspects across the e.u. hundreds claims have been tortured and held without trial of these daniel bushell follows one such case. morad cohen 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 gonzales for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning point instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death. one of those who survived those kind

of torture. myself. because i will not sign. so i was forced to agree that. the us refused to even reveal they were holding his mother or his lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in quantico corners it's a shame for the united states what happened in. this plot concerning the international war and it's simply impossible and the twenty first century. put. extra. room. i'm saying you have. pushed 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 would be ineffective in the 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 perak obama was elected on the promise to shots. but he's even appealed us cool rulings which give detainees some royds two years on prison still open for business. is the gotcha inspiration guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopathic ministration and so's your

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