latest headlines in the week's top stories the death toll rises to forty seven after 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 libya conflict continue rising while rebel forces are accused of forcing civilians from their homes in benghazi. euro skeptics in brussels stage of funeral for the currency is greece faces public anger over deeper cuts and the country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy.

seven am in moscow i matras a good to have you with us as we bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week that was here on r t a mad at 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 heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed out a major road just a kilometer from the runway the disaster has now claimed forty seven lives or his tests are so your has more from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure. this week and the sudden death of a friend when you look i did not see the sound bite happened he was one of the best people have ever known i was not in the sounds he beats made to want to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee. just one of the kills monday night when he simply won three four this. two people from moscow the

birthplace of once the northwestern russia crashed on this road 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 chorus 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 him people screaming and asked pulling bodies away from the plate well should he have guinea was one of the first that seen his house only metres away from where the plane came down. and i heard the explosion and ran outside the lights went out my branch of the site and we started doing people here

we're trying to a man two women and the pilot he was dead while all the bodies have been recovered and relatives of the victims still have the tough task of identifying their loved ones investigators say all of 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 just will tell you 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 sui r t russia is clearly a 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 your license denies the accusations

saying it struck only legitimate military targets meanwhile opposition leaders in benghazi say they're ready for negotiations to draw the bloody conflict to an ad many believe in the country the rebel forces more interested in waging war than creating peace is arguably of the notion of reports. these family hasn't had a war while peaceful like this one for months previous keeps one 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 shots one day people from the government and when 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 he has been long and hard for the family but i remember that i couldn't i had

to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me then we knew there was a mass 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 let us send their son was a brother. a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life and he only finally left when he saw it healing. from from from your killing him in front of your own good his body on the world. the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body says are part of the revolution in libya started and then february its members are recognized by. in many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no i but then you knew so you must be. where you are again is. about freedom and

democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bury all the refugees here say the now finally feel safe 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 according to leave and government officials a bomb landed on a private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three key this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon while nato has already claimed three operations and protect civilians must go on with clashes continuing in benghazi and nato intensify in 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 front line really on the ground fear that when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they will not be

enough people left to experience it. notion or r.t. reporting from western libya. with nato intervention in libya stalemate and civilian casualties mounting the u.s. is coming under fire on a different front washington's unmanned drone strikes are being criticized for fostering not fighting global terrorism people seem to grow weary of increasing numbers of victims. argy also investigates the real radiation situation here japan's fukushima nuclear plant as the international community tightens up atomic security levels. first though 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 are thought to have been killed across syria since friday 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 and a three month long crackdown has reportedly left 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 if one syrian a showdown this 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 defections but nothing really important and this would sit in a sense that all of the opposition this. court if you're one 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 are he got a chance to speak with one of the delegates about their mission to the russian

capital. you came here to thank moscow for its efforts to stop the bloodshed and violence that's sweeping syria we would like to stress and we will continue to maintain friendly strategic relations with russia a 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 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 plea a basic rule in achieving peace and stability to outside. greece is expected to get another cash injection from the european union on the condition it imposes severe financial measures totaling some seventy eight billion euros the greek parliament 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. funeral for the currency according to a lecturer at university 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 day 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 bed 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 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. there's plenty more for you online log on to r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. by that why the promised land of israel doesn't seem so promising for many israelis as they're opting for passports of other countries. a celebration in the north caucasus turns no sorrow when dozens of wedding guests are injured in a freak accident. and we take a look at egypt's disgraced former finance minister who's about in safe haven of london despite the wanted by iraq 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 days the attacks followed president obama's announcement of a troop reduction 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 is a 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 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 u.s. military leaders but afghan combat veteran turned anti-war activist the libretto thinks the presence of foreign forces only helps the 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 big 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 sense of it grows so that's why we should leave 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 to support what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s and non-governmental institutions that where the money actually hits the ground where the people are at where 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 as the u.s. rinds down its presence in afghanistan is coming under fire from a different front in neighboring pakistan and anger over mounting civilian casualties from drone strikes is reaching a boiling point as our he's got a cheeky on reports new plans to expand your own used again and propping fears of

a terror surge. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but its methods are under fire in pakistan in the one year the cia drone strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only five actual militant leaders of germany in a case. in a number of civilian casualties that result because of that their own strengths are sharing this with the taleban in our qaeda and other groups in pakistan can recruit new members in their doing. 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 to support governments or large ones when we say enough is enough most governments lie to each

other and 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 establishing a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when the nonce replacement i'm on also laurie is not to be building our will quite as already significant presence in yemen as 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 along 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 all quiet in the arabian peninsula and then i think we'll 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 lot of taxpayer the american military presumably aiming at a known kind of training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children in another strike a year ago a drone mistakenly killed a deputy governor him and his family and eight with the expansion of the drone war it seems to go once the seeking only in this town the fighting on niger and they say some of them may be turned that this is no longer the case mark not having taking into account the worth of the mayhem that they're bombing and the lack of accountability money comes in the city believe that the areas that had not carried on in the last strategy let me ask where that america is finding and fostering terror at the same time i'm getting second reporting. more parties could soon be represented in russia's lower house of parliament after the president proposed a lowering of the threshold from seven to five percent of the vote that would be

the minimum level needed to take seats in the duma speaking before the decision president medvedev said it could be possible to lower that figure to three percent in the future the reform aims to boost political competition and help modernize the country but not better pointed out that the december parliamentary election will be held using current regulations the change in the threshold if implemented will take effect in two thousand and sixty. five a nuclear four in vienna this week so widespread agreement for increased safety measures following japan's atomic crisis in march or he's showing thomas travel to the exclusion zone around the stricken fukushima plant. i 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 of a creating. 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 not higher than normal. because to give you an idea of the consistency right now the bank account is really going to nine micro really it's about the only time what is more than accepted level but the problem here is that we're just slow and i'm not quite sure the regular quickly. but it's still climbing earlier we got a really good night will naturally. which is about a thousand times more than was really accepted. i'll put 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. they change the

quantum level and other 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. 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 their 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. timing issue. by ourselves and we are not using especially when we just use normal child both. scoops.

we just. saw it as a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in from kashima city shantaram as our team. malcolm grimston formerly with the u.k. atomic energy authority is now a policy analyst for chatham house think tank in london he says the holding back of that is leading to widespread public concern but i don't believe personally that we've seen a massive cover up of information coming from japan what we have seen though i think is a very slow response to questions an attitude which is very far to backward looking about this is what we think might have been happening to all four weeks ago instead of this is what we think might happen in two or four weeks time i'm i'm not is the answer to which. people are going to think he's also getting all the information of

they don't want to release so until they are more open about it of course people are going to think that way it's been a series of international reports that who go chavez the staunchly anti-american president of venezuela is in critical condition after surgery in cuba speculations been stoked by conflicting statements from the government about his health something that's been highlighted by the world's media eva golinger a lawyer and journalist based in caracas says the u.s. may be driving reports in an effort to destabilize the regime. the u.s. government is looking for any chance they can get to get travis out of our so there's no pressure no doubt and of course they're trying on this criminal as much as they can and you know milking it. for whatever it is and in fact one of the main stories that span that they're put out there are rumors in the first place that the so-called critical condition came from a u.s. publication which is the standard language version of the miami herald and the source i just trying to say that the miami herald cited was that an anonymous u.s.

intelligence official so they're looking for ways on such it decreases popularity cause concerns about you know could he last over the long term is it a good option to reelect him. now to some other stories making headlines across the globe eight year old girl has been killed in a bombing in a police checkpoint in central afghanistan she was reportedly ordered by insurgents to take a package containing homemade explosives to the police station militants are said to have detonated the device and she approached a vehicle in the facility no one else was hurt in the attack a taliban previously denied recruiting children and hasn't claimed responsibility this time 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 capital hanoi for a fourth consecutive weekend calling on china to stop entering the country's borders 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 to peaceful negotiation but escalated after both held independent naval exercises in the area believed to be rich in oil and gas. earlier this week far right dutch politician heard wilders was cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he was on trial for publicly comparing these alarms naziism and calling for the burning of the koran the court ruled his remarks were offensive but fell within the limits of legitimate political debate because came a. it increasing anti immigration sentiment in europe on friday e.u. leaders agreed to i mean border control european parliament member philip police says that with multiculturalist politics failing it may be time for a more radical solution. we've always been told that much of culturalism was going to be great and was going to solve a lot of problems on a country that has become a problem in itself and it's very important that everyone should be able to know to

put forward his own solutions to the problem and other the balanced and free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union and shoot it up themselves through the local roles the local way of living as the romans do and this is very important multiculturalism you know in reality it does not work in europe we are seeing big problems in major cities major capitals in western europe where we see the power of the societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have to adapt themselves to the way of living in the country they went to and so this has to change i think we need a much more restrictive immigration and integration policy traveling to the most breathtaking and remote regions of russia delving into history and getting to know asians radiation all this and more about a lackey r t documentary channel that launched on thursday archie's diary a place called it takes a look at what's in store. they travel through snow and rain and cross rivers

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