artie'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 die in the hospital one of them a teenage girl. casualties in libya conflict continue to rise while rebel forces are accused of forcing civilians from their homes in benghazi. skeptics in brussels stage of a funeral for the euro as greece faces public anger over deeper cuts and the country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy.

six am in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t a man and its teenage girl who are among the eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwestern russia had died in the hospital to pull off one three four one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway and disaster has now claimed forty seven lives artie's tests are cilia as more from the crash site. but struggling to keep her composure that john is in disbelief that the sudden death of a friend when you're bored. i did not in the sound bite happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's fate but want to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee vladimir putin i just want to be killed monday night we need to pull one three four carrying fifty two people

from moscow to because of what's going 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 break completely removed but there are still clear marks evidence like this where porous that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the rhetoric 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 can't recall him people screaming and asked pulling bodies away from the plane or should he have guinea was one of the first at the scene his house only meters away from where the plane came down. and i heard the explosion and ran outside the lights went out i ran to the site and we started rescuing people here we're trying to

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 the suggestion that didn't sit well with some will is just will die but it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead . i think the airport itself is to blame for family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now is remember those people lost just very soon r.t. russia is going to reach a. 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 that mr in town of greater your audience denies the

accusation saying it struck only legitimate military targets and even while authorization leaders in bengalis say they're ready for negotiations but rather bloody conflict to an end but many in the country believe the rebel forces more interested in waging war than creating peace or he's already you know from the reports. these family hasn't had the wall was 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 member it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and got shots one day people from the government and 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 cave has been long and hard for they were in the family but i remember one of the good 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 turn is 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 their son was a brother of 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 from you killing him in front of. her 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 set up after the revolution in libya started in the lead february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no i've got very. well you i get this. about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy

they just want to blow up 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 one thousand airstrike he called them to leave and government officials a bomb landed on a private compound and flattened they would kill him fifteen people including three key this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon while naidu has already claimed three operations to protect civilians on those clashes canteen and benghazi and nato intensifying its bombardment of tripoli both eastern and western parts of the country are perilous to stay in and people are dying on both sides of the front line many on the ground fear that's when the democracy there were talks about will finally come here

they'll not be enough people left to experience it. you know see it pulls in from the west only via his weekly u.k. government admitted the libyan war has so far cost the country more than four hundred million dollars british m.p. barry gardner says it's both unfair to give taxpayers money to the 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 worry is in the u.k. that we've seen that this so far has cost us a quarter of a million pounds the rule that was set up by the united nations resolution one nine hundred seventy three was very clear it was that there should be a 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 and stop the armaments that are coming from gadhafi regime and the government but we have been not to 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 still ahead this hour five years behind bars or false confession. i was forced to agree with them or other and i was. one former guantanamo bay detainees tells us how he suffered and u.s. authorities and how he continues to struggle for justice. and our he travels to the fukushima exclusion zone to find out the true radiation levels of the leaking reactor. but for a syrian forces have opened fire at funerals for the victims of a brutal crackdown on anti-reform crow tester's near the capital damascus at least two people died more than twenty people are thought to have been killed across

syria since friday so latest wave of protests 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 the former british ambassador to syria basil eastwood says people are divided over president assad amid strong desire for a political process. and there were 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 we should done relatively well with his economic liberalization. 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 at least are sticking firmly to their insistence that those should be. no violence on the part of the activists and they're also saying they do not want any outside intervention. and they are starting to talk about the need for. a political process weber's of syria's external opposition have arrived in moscow for high level talks with russian officials r.t. got a chance to speak with one of the delegates about their mission to the russian capital . to talk most go for its efforts to stop the bloodshed and violence that's sweeping syria we would like straights and we will continue to maintain friendly cities relations with russia a mother who is going to be impaired in syria we as well as all the other political forces in syria we affirm are friendly relations with moscow and call in the russian authorities to denounce violence in syria at the un security council all

position forces inside and they say 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 programs we are also convinced that russia and the world community must plea of basal rule in achieving peace and stability now greece is expected to get another cash injection from the european union on can do. and impose your financial measures totaling some seventy eight billion euros the greek parliament's expected to vote tuesday proposals caused an eruption of anger in the capital with protesters claiming there was a new rescuing galan euro skeptics in brussels even staged a symbolic funeral for the currency koreans us a terrorist how do you how to select or at university be a g.m. the only way out of the mess is by splitting from making you the problem is we cannot do it we are giving been a lifeline. the biggest part of which is going to be us to repay the debt

to repay previous dates this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek people to hop on the media to exit from the euro from the euro zone the euro is a monetary absurdity in a way it's a totally irrational in finance and a monetary outta picture that is also a contributing factor to the crisis unintended of the social crisis in greece so i think that it's going back to a national kerensky 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 the government is saying on the contrary it's going to be a very positive step. john gone from the e.u. referendum campaign and 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 supply and that is why some of our banks like baucus have been reducing our liabilities and spying because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than the spanish government is telling people places and even a drop of eighteen percent of 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 u.k. taxpayer pay anything the german taxpayer paid for the inec should choose of the greek government. plenty of other stories for you online check out our t. dot com for the latest here's what's a click away right now. i know why the promised land of israel doesn't seem so

promising for many israelis as they're opting for passports of other countries plus the. celebration turns to sorrow when dozens of wedding guests are injured or for an accident in the north caucasus. and check out our investigation to egypt's disgraced former finance minister who's proud and safe haven in london despite been delighted by cairo all this and more. and u.k. is facing accusations that failed to protect terror suspects it handed to us authorities allegedly there was even an unofficial agreement between the two one treatment of prisoners during the iraq war papers released earlier this week bring to light the case of a twenty year old pakistani man yunus rahmatullah who was seized in iraq by british

troops seven years ago and handed over to the u.s. that it tension facility he's been there ever since despite u.s. had fish holes admitting he poses no risk corey kreider from the reprieve charity even is fighting for his release says the two countries are turning a blind eye to international war. there are hundreds of prisoners in bagram but what makes you notice special is that eunice is actually picked up by the united kingdom in iraq in february two thousand and four the u.k. and it 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 bottom in the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even the grade 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 to bob graham and although there was and though 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 you never should have been sent out of iraq and he was rendered on the awfully in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your prisoner. it's not only britain and the u.s. that have to deal detaining terror suspects hundreds claim to have been tortured and held without trial throughout the e.u. or he's done your bushel not one of the alleged victims. and more and couldn't as 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 his doing 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 and rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who

survived those kind of closure on myself. because i will not sign. that i was forced to agree that i am the member of. the us refused to even reveal who will hold income earners his mother owns these lawyers 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. concerned national law and it's simply impossible and the twenty first century. put someone in extra. room. saying you have no right bush feat 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 the classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on full room soil does 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. bormann was elected on the promise to short term memory but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainee some royds two years on the prison still open for business law is the washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity so is the. street and solace in europe. for participating and

supporting the exact executives from bush down and they'll figure going abroad after foreigners ford lawsuits over. when the world loans will to america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed don't you bushell r.t. braman. a nuclear foreign indiana this week's are widespread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march but he is shy and thomas travel to the no go zone after stricken plant. 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 very 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 of a creating. officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the going to plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band 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 really quite chilling nine hundred about thirty times what is more than accepted rubble but if you come down here to where you are slower or a lot quieter the regulars quickly gunther out a little climbing earlier we got a really good night in iowa. which is about a thousand times more than it was going acceptable level of really need. 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 the day change the gravitational quantum level standard the levels from one.

to twenty million per year for twenty times. the air 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 simple ways to reduce the radiation levels we're just trying to. profit. by all serves and we are not to using our special men we just use normal child both . scoops. just the.

opposite a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r t there been a series of international reports that who go shadows the star julianne's the american president of venezuela is in critical condition after surgery in cuba speculation has been stirred by conflicting statements from the government about his health something jumped on by the world's media eva golinger a lawyer and journalist based in venezuelan capital caracas says the u.s. is driving the reports he stabilize the chavez regime. the u.s. government is looking for any chance they can get to get out without power so there's no question about that and of course they're riding on this rumor mill as much as they can and you know milking it. for whatever it is and in fact one of the main stories that's been there put out the rumors in the first place of the so-called critical condition came from a u.s. publication which is the spanish language version of the miami herald and the

source i just want to say that the miami herald site it wasn't an anonymous u.s. intelligence official so they're looking for ways to decrease its popularity cause concerns about you know could he last over the long term is that a good options or to reelect him. turning out to 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 reportedly ordered by insurgents to take a package containing homemade explosives to the police station militants are said to have detonated the device as she approached a vehicle of the facility no one else was hurt in the attack the taliban has previously denied recruiting children and hasn't claimed responsibility this time the attack comes i day after a one in a hospital that killed at least thirty eight people in the east of the country. protesters have marched vietnamese capital hanoi for a fourth consecutive weekend calling on china to stop entering the country's waters

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