where did it take the. body'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 political cleansing by rebels in benghazi a force many to search for safety outside the hotel. skeptics in brussels states the euro's funeral as leaders hash out yet another multibillion bailout for greece but you'll sturdy cut sparked anger in athens.

with a look back at the main stories of the past week and the latest developments this is the weekly here. 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 cannot matter from the runway the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives. sent this report from the crash site. but struggling to keep her composure to channel 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 bit by just one of the forty four

killed monday night when he took all of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow the burglar's avoids 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 this side of the craft has been cleaned up the roads have been reopened the wreckage of the quake completely removed but there are still clear marks evidence like this for us that reminds people of the progeny that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the rest it seems 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 or should he have 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 my ram to the side and we started by scaring people 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 would guy you know it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead. i think the airport itself is to plane family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those people lost. yes there is still your r t russia school your region. and you can find more details of the trickle of one three four crash on our website just go to what you got caught on the exclusive section to get instant access it

also for more on the other main news stories of the past week analysis and blogs as well all that authority. the number of civilian casualties in libya is reportedly rising grass tickly government says a nato air strike has killed at least fifteen people in the eastern town of brega in arms denies your accusation saying you've attacked buildings in an abandoned their legitimate military targets opposition leaders in benghazi say they expect to receive proposals from tripoli which could in the form of conflict but many in the country believe the rebel force is not interested in peace or democracy. promotion went to meet some of. these family hasn't had a war quiet and peaceful like this one for months they've escaped 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 a nightmare. imo 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 khadafi. these kids has been long and hard for they were in their family but i remember that god 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 were a sane son was a brother doctor suddenly a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he also. he finally left when he saw a killing. taken from a from or from i.c.u. killing him in front of i.c.u. her own good his but. 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 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 other venue there so you must be. there you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy just. 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 an airstrike called in to leave and government officials a barn landed on a private compound and flattened it killing thirteen people including three key aides this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to

happen anytime soon while major who has already claimed to be operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes continuing and when nato intensify in its own gardens of tripoli both eastern and western parts of the country are perilous to say and people are dying on go 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 li via. this week the u.k. government admitted the libyan war so far cost the country over four hundred million dollars british m.p. barry gardner says it's both unfair to give taxpayers money to the rebels and illegal to take sides in the 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 thousand seven hundred 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 much 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. coming up later in the program return of the kuantan a most scandal. i was forced to agree. and i was. five years of torture all for a phony confession one expert on television cheney tells us his story and paints

a bleak picture of the struggle to bring those he accuses of abuse to justice. also still to come this hour to investigate the real radiation situation in japan's fukushima nuclear plant to see international community tightens up atomic security levels. earlier 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 totally more than one hundred billion euros is expected on tuesday the proposals have cause an angry response from the greek public for the promise of more massive protests but the hope may be decisive not only for the fate of greece but also the ailing euro skeptics in brussels even stage a symbolic funeral for the currency so serious 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 do it we are giving twelve billion

lifeline to them by the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous bit 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 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. and shown going to the e.u.

referendum campaign in britain is also ahead how to iraq he says a currency is on its last legs and it's time to stop wasting billions trying to keep a failed concepts afloat. 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 ireland's going to go portugal and of course the big one everyone is worried about is the state of spain that is why some of our banks like paul are closed in our liabilities in spain because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than a spanish government is telling people they certainly been a drop of eighteen percent how the radio shows in spain people of losing seventy percent sixty percent in the fire you have their homes and their developments spain will be the next one to topple but why should we the u.k. taxpayer pay out into the german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek

government jungle in their five day nuclear form and the end of this week so widespread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march and r.t. sean thomas went to focus shimon 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 has scientists working in fukushima city concerned. i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking 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 safe area eighty kilometers from the danger point 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 ground is really quite chilly nine of my girl records. thirty times what is more of them except admirable but the problem here is that we're just for a while and a lot of the regular quickly. climbing earlier we got a really good night on an island. about a thousand times more than was an acceptable level of state. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safer 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 million per year to twenty times. the. standards before the x. . rays be. 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 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. broad europe. by also and we're not using our special equipment we just use normal. scoops. just. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in forgot she was city sean thomas r.t.

the u.k. is being accused of failing to protect its cheney's 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 cheering the iraq war papers released earlier this week brought to light the case of a twenty eight year old pakistani units from a killer 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 since despite the u.s. admitting he poses no risk from the reprieve charity fighting for them until his release told us his situation is a violation of international law. there are hundreds of prisoners in progress but what makes us special is that eunice 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 descendants of the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even though. it was 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 they never bothered to do so so we've had to sue them in the united kingdom courts in haiti as court press to tell them you have to get this prisoner back he never should have been sent out of iraq he was rendered on 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 that the u.s. appears to have a deal to detain terror suspects across the hundreds claims of being tortured and held without trial 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 true in 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 report instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death. or so those kind of torture. myself. because i will not sign. so i was forced to. and i as. the u.s. refused to even reveal they were holding his mother owns this lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in quantico corners it's really a shame for the united states what happened. is porter. national

war and it's simply impossible and the twenty first century. put some. extra. room. you have. 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 the classified memo gonzales did warn us goods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil ministers and 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. looked it on the promise to show. but he's even appealed us cool rulings which give detainees some royds two years on

prison still open for business but all it's the washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopaths. and so this is your plea for participating and supporting exactly executives from bush down no food going abroad of the foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world loses what america's doing said bush is advisor we will all be ashamed. braman. has been a series of international reports and hugo chavez the staunchly anti american president of venezuela is in a critical condition after undergoing surgery in cuba speculation is being stoked by conflicting statements from the government about his health something jumped on by the world's media when i'm now joined by eva got injured she's a lawyer and journalist based in the venezuelan capital of caracas to discuss

what's behind the hype thanks very much indeed for being with us here in our tastes i want to as well as their make of all the media frenzy surrounding chavez's health . well there are of course the private media here that are overwhelmingly anti job as it is for graduating the same rumors that are circulating in international media and also on the different social networks like twitter there are rumors even worse her are circulating about. state of health died i mean it's absolutely ridiculous because government officials people the foreign minister the vice president in china is himself who has been tweeting from his twitter account over the past few days have have said very clearly and transparently that he's how this fine he's been recovering from a surgery and a few weeks ago where he's in a critical condition and there's no alarm that sounding in any kind of official level here and even today the president of the national sam lee in the parliament

here minister came out and said and denied these some of these rumors that are going around saying that he has cancer all kinds of things that this is absolutely not true i mean they had but it. was the foreign minister you just quoted a little earlier he's actually said chavez is in a great battle for his health i mean that does give a message concerning the severity of his health was exactly say that he said that he's you know he's he's fighting to recover but he's going to recovery stride and you know he was sort of making a statement saying look we all need to support our president and he's been going to this situation i mean you have to put it into context as has been president now for twelve years a minister he's never once even taken a vacation he's never had sick days he's never had anything happen to him at all so the first time something happens of course it's shocking to most venezuelans are used to seeing him all the time and of course that anything that happens obviously is something that causes concern for everyone in the government and in the country

and so the fact that he did have an unexpected surgery as you know a cause for alarm for many by at the end of his exam. has been tweeting just yesterday that his grandchildren are there visiting and he's really having any is happy to see his family and have a support but there's no critical condition his mother was on t.v. today from going to his brother's hears father's day i mean if there is anything of this sort in his immediate family his parents would be with am so that it's just not true there's rumors. but let me just interject and say that of clearly the venezuelan government has reacted quite strongly to this reaction is actually accuse the u.s. and other countries of trying to the stabilize the situation in venezuela hinting that attempts to stage another coup i mean we saw one we've got a tent back in two thousand and two that that wouldn't succeed the government saying that this is not going to happen again do you really think that there could be such intentions from external powers to intervene and get some sort of

instability there and. oh absolutely i mean the u.s. government is looking for any chance they can get our so there's no question about that and of course they're riding on this rumor mill as much as they can and you know milking it for whatever is and in fact one of the main stories that span there put out the rumors in the first place of a so-called critical condition came from a u.s. publication which is the spanish language version of the miami herald. how would the u.s. manipulate that sort of regime change just briefly how would that happen what i mean by supporting opposition forces here who are also constantly looking for ways to undermine or over thirty stabilize the government so by supporting them and saying look if something did happen we would you know we would back here i mean why and again these types of rumors are are generally perpetuated when there are false about a president or a leader is challenged in order to discredit and and this head of state and remember minister we have elections presidential elections and she doesn't well

it's just really here way and so of course chavez is already like his candidacy so they're looking for ways also to decrease his popularity because concerns about you know could he last over the long term is that a good options or reelect him. things they got into and the source i just wanted to say that the miami herald. and not in this u.s. intelligence officials you know they're saying that china is in critical condition and that's absolutely not your i mean i can't i can't believe and deny the fact that china is in any kind of critical condition attached to the fact that he's doing great well must soon be back in the limelight very very soon. thanks very much for joining us live there from going as well and lauren journalists there in caracas thanks very much for time. and by the way all our stories are lined up for you at r.t. dot com along with blogs and expert opinion if you want to see that interview again you can see it right now on our t.v. . also there if you click on a couple of other stories playing around with a laser beam lands one man in southern russia behind bars he allegedly tried to blind the plane through despite flashing his red light at a local airport. and

a heartfelt apology and he kept an carlos receives an invitation to a borscht tasting from a russian football fan keen to say sorry for racism by the recent match. 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 on the new r t documentary channel which is not on thursday and artie's diary pushover takes a closer look at what's on offer. they travel through snow and rain and cross rivers they go hunting beyond their polar circle and take to the skies they talk to goose from 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 documentary is unique to our viewers who will not only have a chance to find out more about russian history and nature culture traditions our curiosities but also learn one of the most difficult languages on the planet are many serious a little bit of russian is an adventure in its own rights and that is also why we have a russian letter in our log and i rush and the four russian documentary will sit proudly on the cube traveling to the country's most grandest time corners to hear thousands of stories and find answers to myriads of questions. like what is behind your city in traditional big three cakes for a wedding and only two for a funeral what kind of a note in a personal diary could have doomed a soviet schoolgirl ten years in a gulag. question or they say and have answers at hand i myself have learned

a lot through our documentaries i never thought russia has so much beauty and interesting places but my favorite programs are those that look back at history of ukraine subject files meeting with nature faces of russia off track art lounge and acknowledge each other date are just some of the programs the channel will put up for the viewers judgement proud and excited and is happy with the result i would like our viewers to see. rush's not only natural beauty it's also a strong spirit is goals. been tested here in stories and i want them to i want to introduce the world. russian hearts the world aggression saw my name they've been collecting stories for over five years some have already received international recognition and awards others have never seen the light of

day but finally this unique collection goes worldwide this is the nerve center of any t.v. station from him anything that goes on air is broadcast and from now on the brand new channel documentary will take its permanent place on one of these screens hoping it will become a favorite of course the globe gary pushed over r.t. moscow. and you can actually watch that channel right now it's online few twenty four seven are t.v. dot com and also on world wide satellite about the recap our top stories in just a few minutes an exclusive interview with a russian businessman whose aim is to become prime minister here mr hadfield this hour so stay with us on our team.

culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money but maybe it would like to have a real tree a five year old in its meeting with destiny the greek government survives a vote of confidence as its crushing debt ordeal continues unabated. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.