for instance on t.v. don't come. to the. parties latest headlines of the top stories from the week two 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 mountain civilian deaths across libya political cleansing by rebels in benghazi forced many to search for safety outside their hometown. skeptics in brussels states the euro's funeral as leaders hash out yet another multibillion bailout for greece with new austerity cuts anger in athens.

the look back at the main stories of the past week and the latest developments this is the weekly here on. a man in a teenage girl who are among eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwestern russia have died in hospital but three for heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway a disaster has now claimed forty seven lives bodies to syria sent this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to china 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 to die just one of the killed monday night we need to believe one three four carrying fifty two people from

moscow the purpose of violence in northwestern russia crashed on this road missing the runway by kilometer. it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had led a plane to this airport many times it's very personal to me the sight of the crash has been cleaned up the roads have been reopened the wreckage of the quake and where they were moved but there are still clear marks evidence like this for a forest that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday right as for those who had 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 him people screaming and asked pulling bodies away from the plane what should he have danny was one of the first that seen 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 were 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 these are just 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 but i knew that 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 lost tessa recently r t russia's karelia region 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 the accusation saying it attacked buildings in an abandoned area deemed legitimate military targets opposition leaders in benghazi say they expect to receive proposals from tripoli which could be drawn out conflict but many in the country believe the rebel force is not interested in peace or democracy. but 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 west of the country after a life in their native town became a night. it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and can't show it's one day people from the government in the garci 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 they were in the 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 near zero the bus with the gravels for their purposes we did that dance 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 doctor sorry 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 were from from or from you killing him in front of you. on the world. 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 they are legitimate representatives of leave here but there is no. there will be new so. there you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or

democracy there is just. 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 killed in one thousand airstrike a cordon to leave and government officials a bomb landed on a 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 any time soon while nato has already claimed the operation to protect civilians 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. and bayside on the frontline many on the ground here that when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they'll not be enough

people left to experience it. out see reporting from western libya. investigative journalist michelle cullen says that nato won't be deflected by concern for civilians as its ultimate aim is to control libya's natural resources and financial reserves. 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 to rio de these to achieve the economical strategical interest off there of the rest of us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya are i remind that the us is a bankrupt country and also all preventing that would be a sort of eternal peace to the i.m.f. some buy in for african development revisits the people in the hospitals and we saw

victims and the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with miniature and war. and with his intervention in libya stalemate and civilian casualties mounting the u.s. is coming under fire on a different front fortunes in sunland drone strikes of the last or for fostering not fighting global terror people grow tired of the ever increasing number of victims. and also investigates the real radiation situation in japan's fukushima nuclear plant as the international community tightens up atomic security levels. in the week the european union agreed to beno greece one more time but only in thousands introduces savage new austerity measures the greek parliament vote on a constantly 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 and

a vote may be decisive not only for the fate of greece but also the ailing euro skeptics in brussels even staged a symbolic funeral for the council to respond to justice electret university of the aegean praise 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 did 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 closely 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 the 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. 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 and the question now is are we throwing good money after bad money. how many billions can you throw at this you know the tolerance of the people for carts for extra taxes as we see in greece is real trouble lever there's trouble in spain and ireland particularly i think it's in major trouble the euro and as i've been saying for some time i do believe it will collapse either implausible totally. and probably quite shortly now but to be honest i think if 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 the valuation 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 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 until you're 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. 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 the latest attack in a hospital in eastern afghanistan left at least thirty five dead and some reports putting the death toll at sixty 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 can it be met with hostility among u.s. military leadership but afghan combat veteran antiwar activist police the presence of foreign forces only helps greed 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 big 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 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 it what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s non-governmental

institutions where the money actually hits the ground where the people are more schools are being built and roads are being built by n.g.o.s if we can to do that it will 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 in neighboring pakistan public anger over mounting civilian casualties from u.s. drone strikes is that boiling point and the saudis going to church can 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 nothing under fire in pakistan in the one year that cia drone strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only five actual militant leaders. in pakistan in a number of doing karaoke that result because of their own strengths. straightness

like the taliban and al qaeda and other groups in pakistan can recruit new members when they're doing their. salary 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 the large ones when do say enough is enough for most governments lie to each other that's the way business gets done washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous outpost and he's planning to step up drone attacks on the country as stablish ing a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when bin nonce replacement i'm on also ari is not to be building up will quite as already significant presence in yemen. the us had been cooperate ing with yemeni

counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupied instead with their 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 members of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and then i think the real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al-qaeda there's security in. yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to attack there the american military presumably aiming at an al qaida 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 draw for

its influence is speaking only of itself to the fighting al qaida analysts say some of the main features of this new war the faces are not having to take a look down the fourth or fifth in their mommy and the lack of accountability when it comes to the city of their beakers that had not carried out the abstract illegality of what the america is fighting and fostering terror at the same codlin getting check out the 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 probably the minimum level needed to take up a seat in the duma and speaking before the decision dmitri medvedev said it could be possible to lower that figure to three percent in the future which is the full names to produce political competition and help modernize the country however it would have pointed out that the december parliamentary election will be held using the current regulations the change in the threshold if implemented apply to elections in twenty eight sixteen. well we have plenty of other stories we online

just log on to our website r.t. dot com here's what's available for you right now should you log on we find out why the promised land of the jews israel doesn't seem so promising for many israelis as they are for passports of other countries. also celebration turns to sorrow when dozens of wedding guests are injured in a freak accident. and check out our investigation into egypt's disgraced former finance minister who's found safe haven in london despite being wanted by caro this is a much more. dot com. a five day nuclear forum in vienna this week saw a widespread agreement for increased safety measures probably in japan's atomic

crisis in march and sean thomas went to africa shimon just outside the twenty kilometer no go zone around the stricken plant to witness the deadly legacy of the disaster himself. i the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned similar 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 family. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the daiichi plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the banda danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. because to give you an idea of the consistency right now the ground is really really quite chilly night at. about one time what is

more of them except admirable but if you come down here to we're just saw a lot of the redneck really quickly. but it's still climbing earlier we got a really good night in iowa. which is about a thousand times more than was the accepted level of. 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. task under the levels from one. to twenty. 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 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. you're just trying to do. a project. by also and we are not using especially when we just use normal troubles. coming to. a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas. welcome grimston formerly with the u.k. tomic 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 and what we have seen though i think is a very slow response to questions and attitude which is we are 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 and one that is the attitude which undoubtedly people are going to think of the operators 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. 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 well earlier i spoke to agent so gucci is an author research who believes that the u.s. is driving the media frenzy in an effort to destabilize chavez's regime. 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 iran that's where they are now terror are going to be in syria as it is. now then as well has very close ties with iran a growing movement a very strong movement within the united states and a card level to nuclear and classified in israel as a quote unquote terrorist state or have officially asked state department states secretary of state hillary clinton to be clear in israel a terrorist state i believe and i'm speaking honestly from latin america from argentina to be exact that what we are seeing the generalized regina change promoted by the united states britain france and even israel behind the scenes in north africa and in the middle east says that it has a whole will now be coming very likely to latin america so i would not be surprised to see a wave of us promoted rejean change in various countries in latin america from

their point of view the logical country to start to begin to as well or further afield ecuador. and even argentina might be also be mark earmarked for this. earlier this week the far right dutch politician hit builders was cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he went on trial for publicly comparing the nuts isn't calling for a ban of a koran in court ruled his remarks were offensive but fell within the limits of legitimate political debate the case came amid increasing anti immigration sentiment in europe on friday leaders agreed to tighten border control parliament member phillip rice says with multiculturalist politics failing it may be time for more radical solutions. we've always been told that multiculturalism 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 you know to put forward his own solutions to the problem and the balanced and free

debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shewed that themselves to the local laws the local way of living as a romans do and this is very important multiculturalism you know 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. travelling to the most breathtaking and remote regions of russia delving into history and getting to know each and traditions all that is available to you on the new r t documentary channel which was launched on thursday in our theatre takes a closer look at what's on offer. they travel through snow and rain and cross

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seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead. from fields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. if we are. by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course

is the very most appropriate city signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra with julian cooper story on our t.v. . hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. wealthy british sayyaf site. last night.