lolol. libya holds its first post gadhafi election. in a country still being torn apart by chaos and tribal tensions. the deadline for julian extradition from the u.k. to sweden expires saturday but the whistleblower for now still remains in the sanctuary of ecuador's embassy awaiting a decision on his asylum claim. that the u.s. and its allies call for a u.n. resolution to allow military intervention against the syrian government but we take a look at a striking pattern of nato tactics in foreign civil conflicts. more than fifty people have been killed in floods off the torrential rains swept through southern russia taking locals by surprise.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today. show live in moscow libyans are heading to the polls in the first national election since more market after he was forced out and killed however the lead up to the vote has been mobbed with tribal clashes and fighting between rival groups and as i reports there are fears the elections will do nothing to stop the on going violence. this is the new libya political parties are now free to operate across the country . so too are countless armed groups they one spark to oust moammar gadhafi from power today it is day who are in control now tag militias who answer only to their own

commanders have grown more powerful than the biggest police an army unit. which mark we must put limits on these militias because they are dividing the country there while libya's falling into decay almost one year after a nato backed uprising ended gadhafi is rule libyans are taking to the polls for the first time in decades but with tripoli's transitional national council too weak to quell ongoing violence many fear that elections will do little to bring peace want to go towards the conditional they said that they are going to protect this country with gadhafi gone there is nothing left they said that libya will have national unity where is it. here is what libyan style democracy looks like armed groups calling for more autonomy stormed a polling station last sunday setting voting lists and ballots ablaze renewed tribal clashes broke out in libya's city of this past week alone saw the deaths of nearly fifty people with hundreds wounded and when members of a local militia seized libya's biggest international airport in broad daylight last

month security forces simply stood by and watched. they vary in size from gangs guarding neighborhoods to small de facto armies like the one ins in taiwan which still holds libya's most famous prisoner saif al islam when international criminal court staffers tried to visit gadhafi son they too were seized and held captive for nearly four weeks justice militia style may prove to be the biggest obstacle to whatever government libyans elect some groups are boycotting saturday's vote while others align with various political parties a dangerous trend that could deep in existing divisions secularists islamicists even former members of al qaida are among the nearly four thousand people vying for a seat in the country's national congress the choice of candidates is the will during. that is precisely the problem this is because. i don't know. how congress need to forgive the winners and just. says i think. millions of ink stained

fingers will mark libya's first experiment with free elections but as a. cases of iraq and afghanistan have shown voting booths alone do not equal a democracy and in the example of libya the line between freedom and anarchy is growing dangerously blurred whatever the outcome one thing is certain if i'm happy with the result libya's armed groups now know what to do next. we are against any dictator of history repeats itself we will wage a war. and as libya holds elections or the country's top person as you just heard in that report could effie's son saif al islam awaits trial an international criminal court lawyer who was part of a group detained for alleged spying and later released this week believes there's just no chance that saif will get a fair trial in his home country but political commentator luke samuel says the that the i.c.c. ultimately that's part of the reason that libya continues to be locked in violence

. the disunity that we're seeing in libya really has come around as a result of the western intervention in the uprising of which the i.c.c. was very much a part of the i.c.c. prosecutions are by their very nature political you know the i.c.c. is used as a mechanism for trying those individuals which may lend some political authority to the interventions of the west and that's why the i.c.c. is so often used in these interventions in order to bolster the earth already of western institutions and it's also the fact that the n t c had its authority on the ground bolstered by these indictments the indictments issued against the gadhafi family lent artificial cohesion to the rebellion on the ground a rebellion which has always been characterized by a very disparate set of material concerns on the ground and what the i.c.c. effectively did was artificially give that rebellion a sense of unification an artificial sense of political purpose and that in the end

is proved extremely destabilizing because as we've seen now libya is anything but unified in fact it looks as though it may revert i mean it's in danger of reverting to the kind of a city state set up that we had in the nineteen fifties. you're watching r t now the deadline set by the u.k. is highest court for julian assange extradition to sweden that runs out on saturday but the whistleblower says he won't leave the safety of the ecuadorian embassy in london until a decision on his request for asylum in south america has been made surface more from just outside a songes current place of refuge. it's been nearly two and a half weeks now the julian assange has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy here in london after presenting himself on the nineteenth of seeking asylum now today is the deadline for his extradition to sweden of his appeal to the supreme

court in the against a sexual assault allegations failed so it would have been the day we could have seen julian assange is put on a plane and sent to sweden and of course the big. his legal team have always said is that he would be done. in very strict free trial detention conditions and the overriding fear is that it would make it much easier for him to be extradited to the u.s. but of course that's not going to happen today because julian assange took that dramatic step to seek asylum and you can see here today a number of his supporters still keeping vigil outside the ecuadorian embassy for the banners of the poor for about seventy days on a daily vigil we're hearing solidarity with the chartreuse war resister i know sorry standing with the ecuadorian people in the heart that i might be right decision which is draw for the car short of a real sense amongst his supporters that this decision and the handling of his

legal case it was a real failure for the u.k. in terms of defending human rights well now at the same time that you're in a sound just fighting his fierce battle against extradition we see wiki leaks once again coming into the spotlight and taking the headlines with a dramatic revelations over a new big leak the syria files more than two point four million e-mails that the group say that they have that they going and have already indeed started releasing and that the inner workings of not just the syrian government but also western countries and western companies as well and that's going to be released in stages over the next. because of weeks the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable gates well the syria files even bigger than that eight times bigger in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data and already we're seeing some of the revelations from not being explored so wiki leaks once again showing really that it

is still able to do what it does best despite the fact that today in a stone ages. continue. sara for putting right what is good to have you with us here on the program still ahead for you in this hour an insight into paraguayans plight of the impact of the country's president being ousted from power earlier this month spreads all of latin america that we bring you the opinion of a regional expert. at a time when many people would argue that the global financial system is on the brink of collapse and that it might be fundamentally flawed it seems that these teenagers from the streets of new delhi have the whole thing figured out and we explore successful model of reaching banking system in a very unlikely place an indian a shelter for runaway teenagers. past the hour here in moscow more than one hundred nations supporting the syrian opposition have urged tough action up by the

u.n. against president bashar assad at a meeting in paris the u.s. and its allies called for chapter seven of the u.n. charter to be enacted allowing economic sanctions and if necessary military intervention in syria as artie's guy nature can explains the west's the backing of the syrian rebels has echoes of another conflict. syrian rebels have rejected the peace plan that was put forward by the international community they made it clear that violence would continue so far the coverage of the conflict in syria has been so one sided that it seems the rebels could get away with anything the media in the us and in the west in general have focused only on what the outside document has been doing almost entirely leaving out the atrocities act of terror committed by the rebels presenting a completely black and white picture but a conflict like the one in syria is never black and white and never simple the slanting of the coverage reminded some of former yugoslavia before nato when bombing former yugoslavia at the end of the one nine hundred ninety s.

the media focused on crimes committed by the serbs completely washing down the atrocities committed against the serbs with me here is jim the director of the american council so i thank you very much for joining me thank you what are the similarities you see between what's going on in syria and what has been going on in yugoslavia inform you that there are similar is i would say on all three crucial levels as we look at syria one has to do with the international system the rule of law the role of the security council another one has to do with the status of sovereign states and how you treat a sovereign state that has an insurgency within its borders and the third thing is what we might call on the ground when you take a complex historical circumstance with communities historic grievances and as you said in your introduction atrocities and violence of that are committed on both sides in conflicts like this and attribute only to one side what you do is you to you you come up with the concept of do you fit the facts into the concept you don't

take a step back in good faith look at what's really going on look at the suffering of people on both sides and how in good faith can you who are poor water on the fire to try to calm things down instead would you do as you find a small group are you pour gasoline with words like genocide and so forth and then try to set. the stage for what you really want which is the victory for one side the side you've chosen and the utter destruction of the other side you know and one of the side lights of this in both kosovo and syria is something that's important to me is the fate of the christian population and why is it that in the name of fighting terrorism and promoting democracy and all this other nonsense the united states always seems to find itself on the side of jihad as to elements engaging in terrorism with the predictable results for the christian population as we saw in kosovo when half the christian population was a box christian serbs had to flee the province and thousands of them were killed by the liberators the cooperation i mean. i think that there are i think there are

a couple different explanations for it i think what is our cozy relationship with saudi arabia in the gulf states that we want to show we're on the side of our friends who are so important to us when it comes to frankly money and international commerce i think by the way that even in a less dramatic form we're making a similar mistake when it comes to egypt and basically adopting the muslim brotherhood is i was chosen the voice of democracy in egypt which is also the same force that stands to benefit in syria if if our policy is successful. thank you mr texas we heard it many times the first casualty of war is the truth and we see it happening time and time again the media urge to simplify matters and to eventually push a certain agenda becomes a weapon in itself a weapon which creates victims of its own in washington i'm going to second. well meantime russia has rebuffed u.s. criticism of what it calls moscow's support of the syrian regime saying washington

lacks basic understanding of the situation moscow insists it doesn't back any party in the conflict while this is all off the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said russia and china must pay a price for blocking the push for regime change in the syria political analyst rick ross off believe. ultimately passed a diplomatic lying in her remarks. i hardly impartial actor in this of course actively engaged. with the government the syria what she said because of the note of intimidation on ramp is a record that into the story represents a new. irresponsible statement like the eight years something to be honest with you i don't remember ever hearing during the very most difficult period of the cold war i should hope that this is a point at which one seriously yes that there are a lot there is no unilateral lawless reckless behavior by the united states and its

allies over the past twelve years the war against iraq libya and all the actions against syria this is perhaps the last stand for defending genuine international law and the sovereignty of nations. love it when you get over the stories here i would like to know what your take on this story in particular today we're asking what you think about u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton slamming russia and china over the syrian crisis that's bring up the numbers now and see how you are voting for this so far the majority of you believing the move points to the frustration of the west over its hampered military drive by now to fifteen percent sure it's undermining the geneva peace accord preventing any joint progress to fourteen percent thinking the house restaurant was a mistake hearing more public support for president obama now just down to a less than a tenth of you are of the opinion that the. had a point i think russia and china. are still time for you to get your vote in local

and. now more than sixty people have been killed after severe flooding caused by torrential rains hit russia southern cross region dozens have been injured with widespread structural destruction all across the popular resort area with the latest details on this is a really good. they're looking at a staggering number of people especially if you consider that all of these victims have actually appeared overnight you had several months worth of rainfall happening just overnight and of course you have to keep in mind that we're talking about one of the most popular holiday resorts in the whole of the regions in russia so a lot of people flock to the cross and our region a lot of campers are camping out on the seaside and that is part of the reason why they have been so many deaths there have been reports that some of the campers have actually been washed off into the sea by the flash floods of course there also have been reports of people being electrocuted again you have to remember nobody was

prepared for the events to take such a dramatic turn also there there we are getting reports that bodies of people are actually being found alongside the freeways as state of emergency has been declared in some parts of the region and we do know that of tens of thousands of people are being left without electricity at the moment if it rains are still continuing and of course we'll be bringing you more as we get it. he's a really good reporting there well i do remember there's always a much more of our t. dot com for example online right now. seeing and slaughter an american pilot provides his rendition of a popular hit the latest act of questionable conduct by u.s. forces in afghanistan. then scrapped bands a massive gay rally disappointing over a thousand activists who are expected to take to the streets discover those details

on our website. live from moscow this is r.t. just a moment on the world update for now though venezuela has pulled its diplomatic staff after being accused by a pair of y. of meddling in its internal affairs since former president ford and then the lugo was impeached last month blamed for a deadly crackdown on farmers neighbors have distanced themselves but political analyst adrian believes it's america's influence in the region that's negatively affecting latin america. paraguayans suffered a a coup d'etat literally on the first twenty first of june when its democratically elected president for number new goal was ousted in a twenty four hour impeachment trial it must be the fastest impeachment in modern

history there are such agencies as usaid the united states agency for international development and it all has a lot of other aspects that spillover outside the paraguay because paraguayans considered together with bolivia the geo political hard in the south america so american control over power of wife who also limited brazil's exit towards the pacific as a brick country busy all russia india china and south africa and the united states at the same time is again promoting after the american free trade association with its traditional allies in our region mexico panama colombia peru and chile so we would serve as a pacific wall against what they consider what the americans consider dangerous brazilian expansion because of the fact that it is not just in commom ally within the bric countries but very much so even to a certain extent a political or a potential political ally of russia and china are supposed to. all right as promised time for the r.t.

world out there will start with western mexico with fundamentalist catholics ransacked and burned a school it claims children should be educated by the church and sees schools as the work of the devil one hundred seven building a blaze just last august the common demanded children be allowed to wear religious robes instead of school uniforms. romania lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach president try on the process of prime minister and ruling coalition accuse him of breaching the constitution and overstepping his or thora he fell out of favor with the public after passing several rounds of austerity cuts he was close to being impeached back in two thousand and seven but survived a public vote he faces the next referendum on his removal in three weeks time. now a social media website wants to send so your posts it's aimed at blocking what it believes are racist and offensive updates but will it compromise the public's

freedom of speech for the rest of it is in new york to find out the opinions of people that. twitter is instituting a new policy of blocking posts it deems racist is it ok for social media websites to pick and choose what can and can't be said this week let's talk about that. right but some people still do. but that's the world we live in so should it be out there for people to see or should twitter take it down twitter should take it down so we're free over here in new york where we live free but doesn't the racist person live free to post whatever they want do you have kids do you worry about them being exposed to racist comments. well that's not good yeah but you can express whatever you want to anyway you should be able to express your

freedom you might not agree with raised this them but do you agree that people should be able to say what they want not in a social networking site like i know why not this is just going to take us a people should keep their own comments to themselves but that's the whole point of twitter is reading it out something way about what it was that's what it's not ok to use to say whatever you want now the internet you shouldn't just be able to say whatever you want no the rest is the phrases though if you write something it doesn't have to be racist even though that the words are sometimes you can write some things that all racist but but the words are not so it depends on the human side how you interpreted it you block the negative in the drama but you're also preventing free speech right there so i guess it's a toss up so is it ok for twitter to decide what stays and goes since it's their company. again they probably have to have a canal it's a company that judges it because who are they to say what their website true true

but who are they say what's racist and what's not there do you think twitter hiding that kind of. racist content is going to make a difference and help people not be racist or is it racist is just going to process it's going to happen we've changed it not enough yes i think that's their way of preventing some form of cyber bullying but it's not going to change anything whether or not you think it's right for social media companies to censor content on their sites the bottom line is this wouldn't be an issue if people would just be better citizens and stout being raised the. it's good to have you with. a group of kids in a shelter for homeless children in new delhi a few lessons for the world's international bankers saving for a brighter future using their very own financial system.

in this homeless shelter for runaway teens in new delhi a tiny cell starting democracy has sprouted up when they double so they took me in and i started going to school which i enjoyed very much. the residents like twelve year old mohammad shah have created and unlikely society where everything from health care to banking has been initiated implemented sick you did by the kids themselves do you have when i go there are children who have a job i'm going to pose with their money in our bank and even the children who need to screw save their money. says these kumar's peers elected him to be bank manager of this branch of the children's development because son or treasure that serves around nine thousand street children across south asia and has seventy seven branches in the region many of the runaway teens now have a place to safe keep their money safe for the future and to take out development or welfare advances to invest in starting businesses or buying books for school if you

. have taken an advanced three times the first time a five hundred rupees to boy a school uniform then at zouk another one thousand rupees because my mother was sick and the third saima borrowed some money to help my father open the shop. the kids have a monthly meeting where they review applications for those who wish in advance and then based on their track record of saving and earning they decide who to grant the advances to and how quickly they need to pay it back at a time when many people would argue that the global financial system is on the brink of collapse and that it might be fundamentally flawed it seems that these teenagers from the streets of new delhi have the whole thing figured out they hold everyone from account managers to clients accountable for their financial decisions i pass right through meetings and discussions over lunch the children have taught each other how to save and invest in their future. i think it's if we don't put the

money in the bank then we tend to spend it on unnecessary things and we see the money so when we save the money it can be used to do important things that may come up in the future like buying new clothes but it's a sense of responsibility and survival that has shocked the supervisors of the shelters and one that they say leaders around the world might want to take a look at it can be the supermodels in this whole thing because they know how to save money they know how do you want to live as money for the best because they want to privatized their needs which we as an act of evil no. know how many shots hoping that he can save the money he makes selling bottles of water at night to put towards his education so he can one day accomplish his goal becoming a policeman i get to thank you for the future as i want to save money and do something useful with it when the time comes. but i believe from the streets of india's capital this runaway teen believes that saving and determination can allow

him to achieve his dreams preassure either r t new delhi india. well it is good to have you with us here on our to today just a moment the headlines are to be followed up by a special documentary on sharing the.

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