margie's latest headlines in the week's top stories the death toll rises to forty seven following monday's passenger plane crash in northwest russia as two more people die in the hospital one of them a teenage girl. casualties in the libya conflict continue to rise while rebel forces are accused of forcing civilians from their homes in benghazi. the skeptics in brussels staged the euro's funeral as greece faces public anger over deeper cuts and the country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy.

two am in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t a man and a teenage girl who are among the eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwest russia have died in the hospital the tuple of one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster has so far claimed forty seven lives artie's tests are cilia filed this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to china is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend and. i do not understand why it happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not in the stand maybe it's frayed the why did it have to happen. the russian premier league football referee vladimir bit by just one of the killed monday night when he did pull of one three four carry fifty two people from

moscow the purpose 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 planes of 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 plane completely removed but there are still clear marks evidence like this word for us that remind people of the tragedy that struck on monday right and for those who have been here to witness the risks 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 which you have guinea was one of the first seen his house only meters 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 questioning people who were trying to

where a man two women and the pilot but he was dead while all the bodies are 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 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 go right 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 boost to seriously r.t. russia is clearly a region civilian casualties in the libyan conflict continue rising with the government blaming nato for killing at least fifteen in a recent air strike on the eastern town of breda the alliance denies the

accusations saying it strikes only legitimate military targets meanwhile opposition leaders in benghazi say they're ready for negotiations to draw the bloody conflict to an end but many in the country believe the rebel force is more interested in waging war than creating peace artie's maria you know she has more. this family hasn't had the wall quiet and peaceful like this one for months they've escaped from the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to hide in this refugee camp in the west of the country after a life in their native town became a nightmare. it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gunshots one day people from the government in the 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 cave has been long and hard for they 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 tennessee and 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 in son was brother doctors a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he only finally left when he saw a killing. taken were from the from or from you killing him in front of i see you. on the world because the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body said arc after the revolution in libya started in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the alus intimate representatives of libya very. very. so. there you are again it's.

about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just want to go 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. strike me cold and government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killed fifteen people including three kids this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon while native has already claimed to be operation to protect civilians must go on with closures continue and benghazi and nato intensify in 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 will not be enough people left to experience it. original r.t. reporting from western libya professor lawrence davidson from westminster university in pennsylvania says nato used humanitarian intentions as an excuse to justify intervention in libya. what this calls 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 intervene anywhere with this level of munitions and not kill civilians and there but the type of munitions that they're using where there are these are you know piloted aircraft where drones like in the afghanistan i mean you cannot avoid it you can't these are not smart weapons whatever they might say they are and if you're going to attack

a building and an urban environment you don't know you know there's a margin for error it's a large and you're going to kill civilians there it's just they know that they know that and they've only admitted to one but you know that there has to be more. syrian forces have opened fire at funerals for the victims of a brutal crackdown on anti regime protesters near the capital damascus at least two people died more than twenty people are thought to have been killed across syria since friday the latest wave of protests against president bashar assad's ruled pain despite a speech on monday in which he promised liberal reforms in return for an end to the violence a three month long crackdown has reportedly left some fourteen hundred people dead joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies tells r t the situation could become a deadly stalemate. well it puts syria the showdown is a very stark line in the sand and that we're seen as asking people to trust him and

to side with him and the opposition are going to ask people to side with them. so far the military has stood firm behind the regime there been a few distractions and nothing really important and this is going to sit in a sense the ball in the opposition's. court if you're who wanted to starve syria and they could do it in the same way that you're starved iraq of course once you go down that road if that government doesn't crumble as it didn't do any iraq then you have to take military intervention. still ahead this hour five years behind bars for a false confession. i was forced to agree that i may be a member of probably one of the. most one former guantanamo bay detainees tells r.t. how he suffered at the hands of u.s. authorities and how he continues to struggle for justice. and we take you to the fukushima exclusion zone to find out the true radiation levels of the leaking

reactors. but first greece is expected to get another cash injection from the european union on condition it imposes severe financial measures totaling some seventy eight billion euros the greek parliament is expected to vote tuesday proposals caused an eruption of anger in the capital with protesters claiming the move was aimed at rescuing the ailing euro skeptics in brussels even staged this symbolic funeral for the currency according to one lecturer at the university of the aegean the only way out of the mess is nice splitting from the e.u. . the problem is we cannot do it we are giving twelve billion lifeline the limit the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous dates 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 to social crisis in greece so i think that going back to a national kerensky an 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 john got from the e.u. referendum campaign in britain doesn't mince words when it comes to 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 afloat. if we just keep pumping money into greece it's only putting off the death of their economy they already bankrupt we have to wake up and smell the coffee and say enough is enough greece is going to go all in is going to

go portugal and of course the big one everyone is worried about is the state of spying that is want to see no ballparks like poetry's juicy no liability reasons why because clearly the property slump in supply is much bigger than the spanish government is telling people they say they're going to be in a drop of eighteen percent how do radio shows and by people losing seventeen percent sixty percent and defy you with the how's and the developments spain will be the next one to talk but why should we the u.k. taxpayer pay any german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government. the u.k. is facing accusations it failed to protect terror suspects it had over to the us allegedly there was even an unofficial agreement between the two on the treatment of prisoners during the iraq war papers released earlier this week brought to life the case of a twenty eight year old pakistani man yunus rahmatullah who was seized in iraq by british troops seven years ago later handed over to u.s.

detention facility he's been held there ever since despite the u.s. admitting he poses no risk kreider from the rip he were preparing he who is fighting for his release says the two countries are turning a blind eye toward international. there are hundreds of prisoners about but what makes you know 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 them to the united states in march and april there were discussions between the u.s. and the u.k. because the u.s. one of the sentiments about the u.k. didn't have jack 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 a background and although there is 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 and never bothered to do so so we've had to sue them in

the united kingdom courts in haiti's corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner back he never should have been sent out of iraq he was rendered in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your prisoner. apparently it's not only britain and the u.s. that may have a deal on detaining terror suspects hundreds claim to have been tortured and held without trial you are his daniel bushell met one of the alleged victims. was a wristed on the streets and subsequent. to five years of who released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given explanation all said story. george bush's law alberto gonzalez for ruling tool sure is legal interrogators from the law of the free are free to call simulated drowning instrumentality impairment of bodily function. and even this i was wrong of course who saw why it was kind of pressure

on myself. because i was. actually i was forced to agree that member of. and. the us refused to even reveal the will hold income earners his mother his lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr corners it's a shame for the united states what happened in this plot concerning the national war and it's simply impossible and the twenty first century to put someone in the text for the. room. saying you have no right moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating

prisoners that our people think will be an effective billet the classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil ministers in the european union would learn 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 caught know for sure. barack obama was elected on the promise to show. that he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on a prison still open for business. is the washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity so is your biggest ration and so is your plea for participating and support exactly executives from bush down and their fear going

abroad of the foreigners fuld lawsuits over torture when the world learns what america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed and you will shortie braman. study more stories for you online log on to our website r t doubt it was available right now. we find out why the promised land of israel doesn't seem so promising for many israelis as they are for passports from other countries but it's . celebration turns to sorrow when dozens of wedding guests are injured in a freak accident also. our investigation into egypt's disgraced former finance minister of oil found safe haven in london despite being wanted by cairo it's all this and much more put away at artesia.

a five day nuclear forum in vienna this week so widespread agreement for in qui increase safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march or he's trying to harness travel to the no go zone at the stricken from a planned i'll be ominous and a constant ticking of geiger counters scientists working in fukushima city concerned some of the time in charge of the group of radiation detection and serving from fukushima university where now the thinking there is a 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 he kilometers from the going to plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the bends danger zone but still radiation levels

here are much higher than normal just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the bag of three point two nine a. about thirty times what it is more of them except admirable but the problem here until we're through it all and the market collapse of the regular quickly jumped up . it is still climbing earlier we got a reading of night in iowa. which is about a thousand times more than what is needed. 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. they change the british o. . levels from one. to twenty million per year for up to twenty times. the. standards before the x. . rays 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 a city would be simply impractical given the huge numbers of people affected to try and mitigate the circumstances to some degree a group of scientists have teamed up to find simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do a pilot project and do the. work by ourselves and we are not to using especially if we just use normal charles. scoops. we just. saw a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r.t. . there's been a series of international reports that who go sharp as the star nationally

anti-american president of venezuela is in critical condition after undergoing surgery in cuba speculation has been stirred by conflicting statements from the government about his health something highlighted by the world's media rothera researcher adrian subu she thinks the us is driving the media reports in an effort to destabilize the chavez regime the entire process that we are 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 around that's where they are now terror syria as it is. on what they too are now known as little has very close ties with iran a growing movement a very strong move the blue united states at the top level to do clear and classify in israel as a quote unquote terrorist state for how officially asked state department states and senator of state hillary clinton to be clear in israel a terrorist state i believe and answer honestly even 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 the middle east as that 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 various countries in latin america from their point of view the logical country to start would be going to further afield ecuador bolivia and even argentina might be also be marking your mark for this. turned out as some other stories making headlines across the globe an eight year old girl has been killed in a bomb attack on a police checkpoint in central afghanistan she was reportedly ordered by insurgents to take a package containing homemade explosives to the police station militants were then said to have detonated the device as she approached a vehicle in the facility no one else was injured in the attack the taliban has previously denied recruiting children but hasn't claimed response and hasn't claimed responsibility this time this comes a day after an attack on

a hospital but killed at least thirty eight people in the east of the country. protesters have marched through the vietnamese capital high noise for a fourth consecutive weekend calling on china to stop entering the country's waters in the south china sea the two communist nations have been accusing each other of violating maritime borders for years recently they pledged to resolve the territorial dispute dispute through peaceful negotiation but a dispute escalated after both held independent naval exercises in the area believed to be rich in oil and gas. travelling to the most breathtaking and remote regions of russia delving into history and getting to know ancient tradition that's all part of our new r t documentary channel launched thursday by a special guest. we want to get out of the president if you could get at him to r.t. headquarters in central moscow to get the show on the road to travel broadcasts in english round the clock seven days a week it explores history culture and nature of science but largest and one of the

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