would be so much brighter if you move the sun from violence to christian. news for instance on t.v. don't come. artie's latest headlines in the top stories from the week death toll rises to forty seven after monday's passenger plane crash in northwest russia as two more died in the hospital one of them a teenage girl. casualties in the libyan conflict continue rising while rebel forces are accused of forcing civilians from their homes and that ghazi. euro skeptics in brussels stage of the funeral for the currency as greece faces public anger over deeper cuts and the country teeters on the breakup bankruptcy.

period in moscow i'm not treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t mad at a teenage girl who are among the eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwest russia have died in a hospital that simple of one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crashed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives archies tests are so your reports from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to john is in disbelief and the sudden death of a friend. i do not see the soundbite happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not in the stands maybe it's right the wanted to have to happen. the russian kind of your league football referee vladimir but guy just one of the killed on monday night when he simply had one three for kerry fifty two. people

from moscow think that there is a void skin northwestern russia crashed on this road and missing the runway by kilometer. it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes or this airport many times it's very personal to me this side of the cross 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 bird for us the revised people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for they also 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 kept were calling people screaming and i was pulling bodies away from the plane which should have been any was one of the first at the scene his house only meters away from where the plane going down before. 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 that 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 blame family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those they've lost tesser so we r t russia is clearly a region. civilian casualties of the libyan conflict continue to rise with the government blaming nato for killing more than a dozen people in a recent airstrike on the eastern town of greater their lives to rise the

accusation saying it struck only legitimate military targets meanwhile authorization leaders in benghazi say there said pretty go she brought a bloody conflict to a close but many of the country believe the rebel forces more interested in waging war even creating peace or he's wary of a notion that. these family hasn't had a walk wasn't 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. it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gun shots one day people from the government in the guards the 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 kate has been long and hard for they were in the family. 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 gaza to tears here 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 want to send son was brother doctor subquery his surgeon has also liver city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he only finally left when he saw a killing. taken from from 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 in libya started in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as they are legitimate representatives of libya the village is. being very. big. well you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no

freedom or democracy there is just war for. 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 the air strike he called in to leave and government officials had bar landed on a private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three kids but this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon while naidu has already claimed that the operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes continuing in benghazi and nato intensifying its own gardens of tripoli both eastern and western parts of the country are perilous to say and people are dying. and both sides of the frontline really on the ground fear that's when the democracy they were talks about will finally come here their

loss be enough people left to experience it. r t reporting from a western leader this week the u.k. government admitted the libyan war has so far cost the country more than four hundred million dollars british m.p. gerry gardiner says it's both unfair to give taxpayers' money to rebels in illegal to take sides in a civil war. i think the gadhafi regime does look streamlet 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 that this so far has cost us a quarter of a million pounds the role that was set out by the united nations resolution one nine hundred seventy three was very clear it was that there should be 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 stop the armaments that are coming from gadhafi regime and 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. in libya a stalemate in civilian casualties mounting the u.s. is coming under fire on a different front washington's un men drone strikes are being criticized for fostering and not writing global terror as people grow weary of a rising number of victims. and r.t. vesa gave the real radiation situation near depends who push him a nuclear plant as the international community tightens up atomic security levels. but before we get to that syrian forces have opened fire at funerals for victims of a brutal crackdown on anti regime protesters near the capital damascus at least two people died more than twenty people thought to have been killed across the country since friday the latest wave of protest against syrian president bashar al assad's

rule has come despite a speech 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 could syrian a showdown this is a very stark line in the sand and the regime is 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 but nothing really important and this considered a sense that all of the opposition this. court if you're who wanted to starve syria they could do it in the same way that europe starved iraq of course once you go down the road if the government doesn't crumble as it didn't do any iraq then you have to take military intervention. members of syria's external opposition have

arrived in moscow to hold talks with russian officials or he got a chance to speak with one of the delegates about their mission to the russian capital. i think we came here to find most school for its efforts to stop the bloodshed and violence that's sweeping syria we would like straights that will continue to maintain friendly strategic relations with russia a mother who is going to be in power in syria we as well as all the other political forces in syria reaffirm our friendly relations with moscow and coal in the russian authorities violence in syria at the un security council all of position forces inside and outside the country are against foreign intervention in syria we are united in only one thing only the syrian people have the right to resolve the country's domestic problems we are also convinced that russia and the world community must flee a vital role in achieving peace and stability now greece is expected to get another cash injection from european union on condition it impose severe financial measures totaling some seventy eight billion euros the greek parliament is expected to vote

tuesday proposals caused an eruption of anger of a capital with protesters claiming the move was aimed at rescuing the ailing euro skeptics in brussels even staged a symbolic funeral for the currency poured into a lecture at the university of the a.g.m. the only way out of the mess is by splitting from the e.u. . the problem is we cannot do it and we are giving you a 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 the greek people to have an immediate exit from the euro from the eurozone 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 it's going back to a national kerensky

a new 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 the zoster as the government is saying on the contrary it's going to be a very positive step. we've got plenty other stories for you online log on to our t dot com here's what's a click away right now. find out why the promised land of israel doesn't seem so promising for many israelis as they operate passports from other countries plus celebration turns to sorrow and dozens of wedding guests are injured in a freak accident also. check our investigation into egypt's disgraced former finance minister who was found safe harbor in london this might be wanted by cairo all this and much more at r.t. dot com.

dozens of people have been killed in afghanistan in separate bombings over the past two weeks the attacks come after president obama's announcement of his troop withdrawal strategy the latest attack on a hospital in eastern afghanistan left at least thirty five. said with some reports putting the death toll at sixteen this comes i made 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 the plan has been met with hostility among some members of the us military leadership but afghan combat very veteran turned anti-war activist jake the libretto thinks the presence of foreign forces only helps breed insurgency. the longer that the u.s. stays in 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 like any nation that continues in support of what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s and non-governmental institutions where the money actually hits the ground where the people are who are 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 work karzai and his cronies will steal it as the u.s. winds down its presence in afghanistan it's coming under fire on a different front and neighboring pakistan anger over the mounting civilian

casualties from u.s. drone strikes i've reached a boiling point as our he's going to reports new plans to expand drone use in yemen are prompting fears of a surge in terrorism. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but it's nothing under fire. to send in the one year that cia drone strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only five actual militant leaders. in pakistan in the number of civilian casualties that result because of that their own strengths are oh i need to string this like the taliban in our right or in other groups in pakistan can recruit new members and they're doing that. so very 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

and do some poor governments a large was when to say enough is enough most governments lie to each other that's the way business gets done in washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous outpost and he's climbing to step up drone attacks on the country as a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when the nonce replacement i'm on also laurie is about to leave building up will quite as already significant presence in the. the us had been cooperate ing with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupied is that 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 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 their security yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in one attack they are the american military presume. leaning and in the entire training camp any doubt killing dozens of women and children in another strike a year ago a drone mistakenly killed a deputy governor in yemen his family indicates with the expansion of the drone war its influence is sleeping on me in the south of the fighting on the night i can only say some of them a theory that this is the all the face of the art not having to make it work on the fourth of the state. and the lack of accountability when it comes to believe that. that more paradox the abstractedly castle where the american a mighty and fostering terror at the same time i'm getting second our reporting.

more parties could soon be represented in russia's lower house of parliament after the president proposed a lowering of a threshold from seven to five percent of the vote this will be the minimum level needed to take up a seat in the duma speaking before the decision dimitri medvedev said it could be possible to lower that figure to three per cent in the future there are four main aims to boost political competition and help modernize the country but made better have pointed out the december parliamentary election will be held using current regulations a change in the threshold if a bloated or fido actions in two thousand and sixteen. well hoping to give politics some fresh impetus one of russia's richest men has his sights set on parliament but our progress has been elected leader of the right cause party that plans to run in december elections and stands for a more liberal russia but progress himself didn't want to call it an opposition group he promised to make the right cause party second largest after the ruling united russia party said it would be he would like to become prime minister one day

exclusive interview with the billionaire coming up next hour here's a pretty. well i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or plunges into illusions we have particular goals or to get into russia's lower house of parliament with the maximum number of votes what i also understand is that i could be a good prime minister if the party success. i would fight for disposition of the. five day nuclear forum in vienna this week saw guide spread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march or he's shown thomas travelled to the exclusion zone at the stricken fukushima plant. i be ominous and the constant ticking of geiger counters and scientists working in fukushima city concerned. i am in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking there is a 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 see my family and my friends' families are of a creating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the day she planned 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 pretty chilly nine of my girl records with about thirty times what is more of them accepted level but the problem here is that we're just full of a lot of the radio equipment quickly. climbing earlier we got a really good night in iowa. which is about a thousand times more than was really accepted. 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

redish on quantum level. the levels from one. to twenty. five twenty times. the. standards before the x. . rays 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. by ourselves and we are not the using especially when 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 it's been a series of international reports that who go sharp as the star flee anti-american president of venezuela is in critical condition after undergoing surgery in cuba speculations and stoked by conflicting statements from the government about his health something highlighted by the world's media author and researcher adrian so good she thinks the u.s. is driving the reports in an effort to stabilize the shot is searching. 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 iran that's where they are now terror target in syria as it is. now known as well has very close ties with iran a growing movement

a very strong move the blue united states at the top level to do clearly in classified in israel as a quote unquote terrorist state for how officially asked state department states and so little of state hillary clinton to be clear of a terrorist state how do you leave and answer honestly can 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 in 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 u.s. promoted rejean change in various countries in latin america from their point of view the logical country to start would be going to and further afield ecuador. and even argentina might be also be mark earmarked for the turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe a year old girl has been killed in a bar that's hack at a police checkpoint in central afghanistan she was reportedly ordered by insurgents

to take a package containing homemade explosives to the police station and militants event said to have detonated the device as she approached the vehicle in the facility no one else was hurt any attack the taliban has previously denied recruiting children and hasn't claimed responsibility this time this comes a day after an attack on a hospital that killed at least thirty eight people in the east of the country. protesters have marched through the vietnamese capital hanoi for a fourth consecutive weekend calling on china to stop entering the country's waters in the south china sea to communist nations have been accusing each other of violating maritime borders for years recently they pledged to resolve the territorial dispute through peaceful negotiations but a spat 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 traditions it's all

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