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margie's latest headlines and top stories from the week 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 libyan conflict continue to rise while rebel forces are accused of forcing civilians from their homes in benghazi. skeptics in brussels stage a euro funeral as greece faces public anger over deeper cuts at the country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. for 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 mad and a teenage girl who are among the eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwest russia have died in the hospital

a tuple of one three four headed 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 claim forty seven lives artes tests are reports on the crash site. struggling to keep her composure 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 why did you have to happen. the russian premier league football referee vladimir putin just one of the killed monday night when he didn't believe one thing before. carrying fifty two people from moscow to beggars of what's good northwestern 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 the site 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 poorest that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the horrific scenes 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 forty's away from the plane . 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 doing people trying to weigh a man two women and the pilot 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 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 the region. civilian casualties in the libyan conflict continue to rise with the government blaming nato for killing more than a dozen people in a recent airstrike in the eastern town of brega the alliance denies the accusation saying it struck only legitimate military targets meanwhile opposition leaders in benghazi say they're ready for negotiation of a bloody conflict to an end but many in the country believe the rebel force is more interested in waging war than creating peace or team or if an ocean of ripples.

these 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 off to 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 gun show one day people from the government and then you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me we have to arrest you don't know because we know that she supports gadhafi. these cave has been long and hard for the win in their family but i remember was it a coven 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 lot of sin son was a brother doctor sabri 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. take him from or from or from i.c.u. killing him in front of i.c.u. her and give 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 there is no. venue there will be in you. you would be. where you are again as. they took about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bury 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 the

airstrike called in to leave and government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three kids this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon while nato has already claimed there to your peroration to protect civilians must go on with clashes cantina 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 on both sides of the frontline many on the ground fear that when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here there won't be enough people left to experience it. we're even. reporting from western libya. investigative journalist michelle collins says nato won't be deflected by concern for civilians as its ultimate aim is to control libya's resources and financial reserves they have killed mall civilians that the

losses from the initials problems their fields most civilians the nato bombings so the real id is not protect civilians the rio de is to achieve the economic and strategic interests off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya i remind that the us is a bankrupt country and all slow preventing that kind of fear would be a sort of turn to used to do i.m.f. some buying for african development revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in a chair and will. still ahead this hour five years behind bars for false confession . i was forced to agree that i may be

a member of parliament and. one former guantanamo bay detainees tells r t how he suffered at the hands of authorities and how he continues to struggle for justice. plus we travel to the fukushima exclusion zone to find out the true radiation levels at the weekend yeah. first though 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 were killed more than twenty people are thought to have been killed across syria since friday the latest wave of protest against president bashar al assad's rule came 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 former british ambassador to syria basically eastwood says people there are divided over president assad made strong desire for a political process. that would great hopes that he would lead to

a better future he still retains some of that popularity particularly with the urban populations in damascus and aleppo the second big city which have done relatively well because of his economic liberalization is. but in the countryside and amongst the intelligentsia i think there are now no hopes that he can bring about reforms there is a long tradition in that part of the world of vengeance but so far the opposition activists least firmly to their insistence that there should be. no violence on the part of the activists and they're also saying they do not want any side intervention. and they are starting to talk about the deed fall. a political process. members of syria's external

opposition have arrived in moscow to hold talks with russian officials r.t. got the chance to speak with one of the delegates about their mission to the russian capital. and i think you came here to think most school for its efforts to stop the bloodshed and violence that's sweeping syria we would like straights and 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 the city. are friendly relations with moscow and cold in the russian authorities denounce violence in syria at the un security council all of position forces both inside and outside the country are 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 programs we are also convinced that russia and the world community must plea a vital rule in achieving peace and stability now greece is expected to get another cash injection from the european union out of condition it impose your financial

measures measures totaling seventy eight billion euros the greek parliament is expected to vote tuesday the 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 to stage a symbolic funeral for the currency according to such here as part of the ata selection to 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 we are giving twelve billion lifeline. 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 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 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 john goddard 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 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 that everyone is worried about is the state

of spying that is what some of our banks like barclays have been reducing our liabilities in spain because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than the spanish government is telling people they say there's only been a drop of a two percent how the radio shows in spain people 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 an engine of the german taxpayer pay for the ineptitude of the greek government. you know playing other stories for you online log on to our website r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. and find out why the promised land of israel doesn't seem so promising for many israelis as they're increasingly opting for passports in other countries. so abrasion turns to a sorrow when dozens of wedding guests are injured in a freak accident also. check out our investigation to egypt's disgraced former

finance minister who is found safe haven in london despite being wanted by all this and much more a click away right now. the u.k. is facing accusations that failed to protect terror suspects it handed over to u.s. authorities allegedly there was even an unofficial agreement between the two on the treatment of prisoners during the iraq war papers released earlier this week bring to light the case of a twenty eight year old pakistani man you know who was seized in iraq by british troops seven years ago and handed over to a u.s. detention facility he's been held there since despite the u.s. admitting he poses no risk corey kreider from the reprieve charity who's fighting for rahman talos release says the countries are turning a blind eye to international law. there are hundreds of prisoners in bagram 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 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 to send him to the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even though aboud grave 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. that year june two thousand and four that my client had been sent to bob graham and although there was an ammo 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 as corpus 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. apparently not only a burden in the u.s.

that have a deal on detaining terror suspects hundreds claim to have been tortured and held without trial throughout the e.u. are he's daniel bushell that one of the alleged victims. 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 suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling tool sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived. electroshocks because i will not science. i was forced to agree that i am the number of. the us refused to even reveal

they were holding current as his mother owns this lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr corners it's really a shame for the united states what happened. is. concerned national law and it's simply impossible twenty first century to put someone in extra. 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 ineffective in a de classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil ministers in 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. barack obama was elected on the promise to show. but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business law all washington street guilty of criminal. crimes against humanity sociopath street and so is your plea for participating and support these actions executives from bush down no fear going abroad of the foreigners fold lawsuits over torture when the world will to america's doing said bush is advise and we will all be ashamed the new bush will r.t.

braman a five day nuclear forum in vienna this week so widespread agreement over increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march or his shan thomas travelled to the no go zone at the stricken fukushima plant. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned and or 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' families are evacuated. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the day to plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band danger zone but still radiation levels here are no much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency

right now the background is really quite to nine 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 a lot of it collected the radiation will quickly jumped out and it's still climbing earlier we got a reading of night and now i look at my career which is about a thousand times more than a widely accepted level of religion. 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 ease day change the. standard the levels from one. minute. to twenty minutes even twenty times. the standards before the accident and now. they raise the. the standard so that they can say it's safe

but actually the standard house 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 simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do a pilot project do d.d. contamination. by ourselves and we are not to using a specially equipped man we just use normal child both. scoops. just the. 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. . there's been a series of international reports that who go. chavez the stylishly 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 author and researcher adrian she thinks the u.s. is driving the reports of 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 there's another has very close ties with iran a growing movement a very strong move the united states at the top level to do clear and classified in israel as a quote unquote terrorist state who are have officially asked state department states secretary of state hillary clinton to be clear of an israel and a terrorist state i believe and i'm sorry i'm speaking 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 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 us promoted regime change in various countries in latin america from their point of view the logical country to start with you going to and further afield ecuador bolivia and even argentina might be also be mark earmarked for this . turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe and 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 station the militants are said to have detonated the device as she approached a 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 him during 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 your peaceful negotiations but the spat escalated after both held independent naval exercises in the area believed to be rich in oil and guy. traveling to the most breathtaking and remote regions of russia delving into history and getting to know ancient traditions all that coming your way in our new r.t. documentary channel that launched on thursday by a rather special guest president dmitri medvedev came to our headquarters in central moscow to get the show started broadcasting in english around the clock seven days a week explores history culture science nature and the largest and most diverse countries on earth already available to millions via satellite around the globe it can also be seen at r t d r t dot com daria pushover takes a look at

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