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stories from the week the 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 bengazi. euro skeptics in brussels stage a funeral for their currency as greece faces public anger over deeper cuts and the country teeters on the breakup bankruptcy. three am in moscow i mattress i bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t met at 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 crashed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives artie's tests are so your reports from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure to john is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend. i do not understand why it happened she was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's fate the why did it have to happen. the russian premier league football referee vladimir but i just one of the killed monday night when a duple of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to better is avoid skin north western russia crashed on this road missing the runway by kilometer. it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes at this airport many times it's very personal to me 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 bird for us that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have 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 and people screaming and pulling bodies away from the plane. you 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 i ran to the site and we started rescuing people and we dragged away a man two women and the pilot but he was dead while all the bodies had 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 bad weather and pilot error

appear to be the likely causes of the crash a suggestion that didn't sit well with some locals. 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 silly r.t. russia is going to tell your 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 brega the alliance to rise the accusation saying it struck only with a little bit military targets meanwhile opposition leaders in benghazi say they're celebrating go she would rather bloody conflict to a close but many of the country believe the rebel forces more interested in waging war than creating peace or his worry if a notion that. this family hasn't had the 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. 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 the when the family well i remember was that a couple 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 subquery his surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he only finally left when he saw

a killing. taken from from or from i.c.u. killing him in front of i.c.u. paying gig 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 the only legitimate representatives of libya. it is no. very new. so you must be with them or you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bear all 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 air strike code until even government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened they had killed fifteen people

including three kids this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon well made too has already claimed that the operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes continue and benghazi and nato intensify 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 there west talks about will finally come here there won't be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western libya. it is with you 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 and illegal to take sides in a 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 worries 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 thousand nine hundred ninety three was very clear it was that there should be a an effort to induce a cease fire in libya and to enforce that cease fire 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 force of the cease fire. your attention in libya stalemate and 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 fighting global terror as people grow weary of a rising number of victims. and are investigating the real radiation situation near japan's fukushima 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 a victims of a brutal crackdown an 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 is

a very stark line in the sand and they were 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 but nothing really important and this is going to sit in a sense the ball in the opposition's. court if europe 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 r.t. got a chance to speak with one of the delegates about their mission to the russian capital . i think we came here to find moscow for its efforts to stop the bloodshed and violence that's sweeping syria we would like to stress that we will continue to maintain friendly strategic relations with russia the 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 to denounce violence in syria at the un security council all of position forces both inside and outside the country or against foreign intervention in syria we are united in only one thing only the city in people have the right to resolve the country's domestic problems we are also convinced that russia and the world community must plea a vital role in achieving peace and stability now greece is expected to get another cash injection from the european union on condition it impose severe financial measures totaling some seventy eight billion euros the greek parliament so expect it 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 a symbolic funeral for the currency according to a lecturer at the university of the aegean the only way out of the mess is by splitting from the e.u. . the problem is we cannot do it we are giving twelve billion lifeline.

the biggest part of weights is going to be used to repay 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 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 and the regaining public control in a way national control of monetary paul. see this is a very necessary step to be taking it is not a road to disaster 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 team 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 all purpose ports from other countries plus celebration turns to sorrow when 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 by being 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 dead with some reports putting the death toll at sixty 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 u.s. military leadership but afghan combat very veteran turned anti-war activist jake deliberate oh thinks the presence of foreign forces only helps breed insurgency. the longer that the us 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 having troops there doesn't allow the insurgency. 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

by 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 at 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 where karzai and his cronies will steal it now as the u.s. winds down its presence in afghanistan it's coming under fire on a different front in neighboring pakistan anger over the mounting civilian casualties from u.s. drone strikes have reached a boiling point as artie's guy 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 its methods are under fire in pakistan in the one year that cia drone strikes killed seven hundred civilians but made it

only five actual militant leaders. in a number of civilian casualties that result because of the drone strikes are treating this like the taliban and al qaeda and other groups in pakistan to recruit new numbers and they're doing that. so many pakistanis are furious at their government for helping the americans kill their own people the 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 how often do support governments allied to us when do we say enough is it. most governments lie to each other that's the way business gets done washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous all kind of 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 been

an audience replacement i am and also ari is not to be building obl quite as already significant presence in yemen as the. the us had been cooperate in 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 the new arabian peninsula 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 in yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to tack there the american military presumably ming 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 eight with the expansion of the drone war it seems the u.s. is seeking only in itself to fighting on the lighter and only say some of the main features of this new all the face mark not having to put on the force of the face and that their mommy and the lack of accountability when it comes to feel that the area that had more carried on the website in minneapolis where the american is fighting and offering terror at the same time i am going to check out with forty. or. more parties consumer represented in russia's lower house of parliament after the president proposed a lowering of a threshold for. seven to five per cent of the vote this will be the minimum level needed to take up a seat in the duma speaking before the decision to be true medvedev said it could be possible to lower that figure to three per cent in the future or form aims to boost political competition and help modernize the country but medvedev pointed out

the december parliamentary election will be held using current regulations that change in the threshold if of limited will apply to elections in two thousand and sixteen. well hoping to give politics some fresh impetus one of russia's richest man has his sights set on parliament because progress has been elected leader of the right cause party that plans to run in december elections it stands for a more liberal russia but progress himself didn't want to call it an opposition group he promised to make the right calls party second largest after of 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 preview. of the not the kind of person who turns the dreamer plunges into illusions we have particular goals 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 successful i would fight for disposition of the . five day nuclear forum

in vienna this week so widespread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march argues sean thomas traveled to the exclusion zone at the stricken fukushima plant. the armis and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned. i am in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their vacation 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 put my family and my friends' families or of a. officially fukushima city is in a safer area eighty kilometers from the day to plant a reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the banda danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right

now the battleground is really quite chilling nine out micro ringgits which is about thirty times what is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all and the market collected the regular quickly jumped up and it's still climbing earlier we got a reading of night in iowa my crying it which is about a thousand times more than what is new except at that level of really going. 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 did they change the redish a quantum level standard the levels from one. to twenty million. 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 house change 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. we're just trying to do a pilot project and do d.d. contamination. by ourselves and we are not to using our special equipment we just use normal charles. scoops. we just. have to topsoil is 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 chavez the star actually 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 bucci thinks the u.s. is driving the reports in an effort to destabilize the chavez regime. 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 iran that's where they are now terror target being syria as it is. now known as little has very close ties with iran a growing movement a very strong movement blue united states and a cop level to do clear and classified in israel as a quote unquote terrorist state for have officially asked state department state senator of state hillary clinton to be clear of an israel and a terrorist state i believe and i'm 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 the middle east 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 as well and further afield ecuador . and even argentina might be also be mark earmarked for this. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe an eight year old girl has been killed in a bomb attack at a police checkpoint in central afghanistan she was reportedly ordered by insurgents to take a package containing homemade explosives to the police station the militants have been said to have detonated the device as she approached the vehicle in the facility no one else was hurt in the 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 to the vietnamese capital hanoi 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 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 available now on the new r t documentary channel that launched thursday our area push cova takes a closer look at what's in store. they travel through snow and rain and cross rivers they go hunting beyond their polar circle and take to the skies they talk to ghost through shamans and study dusty archives they are the team of documentary

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