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artes 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 the 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 matras are bring you today's top stories in 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 northwestern russia have died in the hospital to pull off one three one three four

heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash. major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives are. more 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 he 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 just one of the killed monday night when he deployed one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to there's a vote'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 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 for us that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who have been here to witness the rest it seems 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 that seen his house only metres 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 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 people lost. tessa recently 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 that used in town of brega the alliance denies the accusation saying it struck only legitimate military targets meanwhile opposition leaders in bengali say they're ready. for the rather bloody conflict to an end but many in the country believe the rebel forces more interested in waging war than creating these artes various you know from the reports. 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 night. 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 and then 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 gadhafi. these caves has been long and hard for the when the family well i remember was it a cup 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 lot of sin son was a brother. and 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 from or from your killing him in front of your. 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 mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no other venue there will be in your. new west be. where you are again as. they took about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to barrow 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 air strike code until even 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 that the operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes continue 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 there west talks about will finally come here there must be enough people left to experience it the region ocean or r.t. reporting from western libya is with the 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 role that was set out by the united nations resolution one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 for some of the cease fire. still ahead this hour five years behind bars for false confession. i was forced to agree that. i was going to

and i was. one of former guantanamo bay detainees tells us how he suffered at the hands of u.s. authorities and how he continues to struggle for justice. and are to travel to the fukushima exclusion zone to find out the true radiation levels at the leaking reactor. but for a 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 it's the 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. 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 which have done relatively well with 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 at least firmly to their insistence that they should be. no violence on the part of the activists and they're also saying they don't want any side intervention. and they are starting to

talk about the lead fall. a political process. members 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 . 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 empowered in syria 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 inside and they say 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 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 and impose severe financial measures totaling some seventy eight billion euros the greek parliament's 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 staged a symbolic funeral for the currency according to a terrorist kind of yatta selector 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 which is going to be used to repay their. 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 that crisis and in general the social crisis. in greece so i think that it's going back to a national currency 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 the government is saying on the contrary it's going to be a very positive step john godyn 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 juicing

our liabilities and buying because clearly the property slump in spain is much bigger than the spanish government is telling people they say they're going to be in a drop of eighteen percent how the radio shows in spain people are losing seventy percent sixty percent in the fire you of 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. we have plenty of other stories for you online check out r t dot com for the latest 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'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 found safe haven in london despite. all

this and more. the u.k. is facing accusations that failed to protect terror suspects it handed to u.s. authorities allegedly there was even an unofficial agreement between the two on 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. at attention facility he's been there ever since despite u.s. had fishbowls admitting he poses no risk corey kreider from the reprieve charity who's fighting for his release says the two countries are turning a blind eye to international law. there are hundreds of prisoners but what makes

you know special is that eunice 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 the aboud grade 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 no 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. and it's not only britain and the u.s. that have

a deal detaining terror suspects hundreds claimed to have been tortured and held without trial throughout the e.u. or he's daniel bushell met one of the alleged victims. murat kurnaz 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 torture is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning rape instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of closure on myself electroshocks because i was not science. i was forced to agree that i am the. other and i was not 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. concerning that national law and it's simply impossible twenty first century. to put someone in extra. room. saying you have no right bush 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 up to guantanamo but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business. all washington street guilty of criminal. crimes against humanity so is the obama administration and so is your plea for participating in support of these actions executives from bush down no fear going abroad of the foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world will to america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush will r.t. braman. a five day nuclear forum in vienna this weeks are widespread agreement for

increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march thomas travel to the no go zone after stricken plant. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters has scientists working in fukushima city concerned one or some of the 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 on a much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the dagger count is really three point two nine

a micro ring it's about thirty times what is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where the soil 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 one of the accepted level of state relations. 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. change the. standard the levels from one. 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 especially men we just use normal child both. scoops. you just. have to. 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 chavez this. staunchly anti american president of venezuela is in critical condition after surgery in cuba speculation

has been stoked by conflicting statements from the government about his health something jumped on by the world's media eva goal and you're a lawyer and journalist based in venezuelan capital caracas says the u.s. is driving the reports to destabilize the chavez regime. the u.s. government is looking for any chance you can get our 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 as if for whatever it is and in fact one of the main stories that's been that the put out the rumors in the first place of a 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 wanted to say that the miami herald site if i sent an anonymous u.s. intelligence official so they're looking for ways to decrease popularity cause concerns about you know could he last over the long term is it a good option to reelect him. to turn him out of 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 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 the attack comes a day after it won in a hospital that killed at least thirty eight people in the east of the country. protesters have marched in the means 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 spot 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

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