libya holds its first post. in a country that still being torn apart by tribal tensions. the deadline for. extradition from the u.k. to sweden. the whistleblower still remains in the sanctuary of ecuador's embassy still awaiting a decision on his asylum plea. as the u.s. and its allies call for a u.n. resolution to allow military intervention against the syrian government will look at a striking pattern of nato. conflicts. and up to seventy people have now been killed in floods after. through southern russia taking local residents by surprise.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at. libyans are heading to the polls in the first national election since he was forced out and killed for the lead up to the vote has been marred with tribal clashes and fighting between rival groups and. reports there are fears the elections will do nothing to stop the violence. this is the new libya political parties are now free to operate across the country. so to a countless armed groups they once fought to oust moammar gadhafi from power today it is they who are in control that tag militias who answer only to their own

commanders have grown more powerful than libya's police and army militia which mark we must put limits on these militias because they are dividing the country there while libya is 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 transitional council which they said that they are going to protect this country and if 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 of been gauzy polling station last sunday setting voting lists and ballots ablaze renewed tribal clashes broke out in libya's city of coup from 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 taunton which still holds libya's most famous prisoner saif ali. 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 aligned with various political parties. a dangerous trend 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 doing for sun that is precisely the problem this is because of their own i don't know. how can this me give the good teams new winners and just. says i think this is not logical you millions of in stained fingers will mark libya's first

experiment with free elections but as the 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 but if history repeats itself we will. be careful of our teeth. as we reported libya's top prisoner khadafi son saif al islam is still awaiting trial and international criminal court lawyer who was part of a group detained for alleged spying and later released this week believes there's no chance that saif will get a fair trial in his home country but political commentator luke samuel says that the i.c.c. is actually part of the reason why libya is still 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 runs out saturday but the whistleblower says he still won't leave the safety of the ecuadorian embassy in london until it assertion on his request for asylum in south america has made artie's 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 june 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 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. 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 an all star standing with the ecuadorian people in the heart that i might the right decision which is to offer 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 is 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 think some of the revelations are 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. to surface reporting right there you always are to use good to have you on the program still ahead for you in this hour and inside in the paraguayans plight the impact of the country's president being ousted from power earlier this month spreads all across latin america or bringing the opinion of a regional. player 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 a successful model of a far reaching banking system in a very unlikely place an indian shelter for runaway teenagers. tempah still here in the russian capital more than a hundred nations supporting the syrian opposition have now urged tougher action by the un and against president 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 and as a guy nature can explains the west's 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 government 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 trysts the director of the american council for costco so i thank you very much for joining us thank you what are the similarities you see between what's going on in syria and what having going on in yugoslavia inform you that there are similarities 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 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 pour water on the fire to try to calm things down instead would you do as you find a small group far you pour gasoline with words like genocide and so forth and then try to set. the stage for what you really want which is a 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 is to elements engaging in terrorism with the predictable results for the christian population as we saw in kosovo when half the christian population with a box christian serbs had to flee the province and thousands of them were killed by the liberators the cause why in rishon army. i think that there are i think there

are a couple different explanations for it i think one is our cozy relationship with saudi arabia and 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 our chosen 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 that 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. russia has rebuffed us criticism of what it calls moscow's support of the syrian regime

saying washington simply lacks basic understanding of the situation moscow assists it doesn't back any party in the ongoing conflict it's off to the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said russia and china must pay a price for blocking the push for regime change in syria political analyst rick rose off bullies. clinton has again today promised a diplomatic line in her remarks mary she's hardly an impartial actor in the us of course actively engaged in efforts to topple the government the syria what she said because of the and that a note of intimidation and rant is a marker that into the story. represents a new belt of irresponsible statement like the a.v. or 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 us to draw a line there has been 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. well there are too you know where you are always eager to get your take on the stories we're covering out today we're asking what you think about the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton slamming russia and china over the syrian crisis bringing up the numbers now from r.t. dot com here's how you're voting so far the majority believing the move points to the frustration of the west over its hump and military drive fifteen percent for this hour sure that it undermines the geneva peace accord preventing any joint progress and are just on the fourteen percent thinking the harsh rhetoric was aimed at securing more public support for president obama and now down to less than a tenth a view of the opinion that the words have a point they think russia and china could well be stalling the peace effort you can still log on to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. quarter past the hour here in moscow almost eighty

people the now being killed after severe flooding a tarantula rains ahead russia's southern cross nadar region dozens have been injured with wide spread structural destruction across the popular resort area the latest details now to artie's arena go to school. we'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 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 are 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 are we are getting reports that bodies of people are actually being found alongside the freeways as state of emergency has been declared in parts of the region we do know 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. oh he's a really good oscar right there will be always much more to find r t v dot com for example online right now. slaughter an american pilot provides his rendition of a popular hit the latest act of questionable conduct by u.s. forces in afghanistan. and then scrapped. bands a massive rally disappointing over a thousand doctors who are expected to take to the streets those details also on

our website. just a moment on the world update but for now venezuela has pulled its diplomatic staff after being accused by paraguayan of meddling in its internal affairs since former president ford under lugo was impeached last month blamed for a deadly crackdown on farmers paraguayans neighbors have since then distanced themselves but political analyst adrian believes that is actually america's influence in the region negatively affecting latin america. paraguayans suffered a a coup d'etat literally on the first twenty first of june when it's the 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 us aid the united states agency for international development and it all has a lot of other aspects that spillover outside of paraguay he was paralyzed 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 income amik 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 us history. why let's go straight to western mexico now to kick off the r.t.

world update us where a fundamentalist catholic community ransacked and burned gould in the western part of the country claims children should be educated by the church and sees schools as a work of the devil hundreds to part in setting the building ablaze last august the colony demanded their children be allowed to wear religious robes instead of the out of school uniforms. romanian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach president try and sue the prime minister and ruling coalition accused him of breaching the constitution and overstepping his or thirty. fell out of favor with the public after passing passing several rounds of austerity cuts he was close to being impeached back in two thousand and seven but managed to survive a public vote he faces the next referendum on his removal in three weeks time. social media website of wants to censor your posts blocking what it believes are

racist and offensive updates but will compromise the public's freedom of speech the president 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 that but 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 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 bases 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 are 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 tossup so is it ok for twitter to decide what stays and goes and says 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. this is now a group of kids in a shelter for homeless children. a few lessons for the world international bankers saving for a brighter future using their own financial system the story. in

this homeless shelter for runaway teens in new delhi a tiny self starting democracy has sprouted up with it when they will 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 an 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. and even the children who can save their money. says these kumar's peers elected him to be a bank manager of this branch of the children's development because sign up for treasure that serves around nine thousand street children across southeast 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. funds

that would have taken in advance 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 half 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 on unnecessary things and weeks 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 to me 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 civil war 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 leaves which we as obvious act of evil know. who how many shows 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 of becoming a police man. was gone thank you for the future as i want to save money and do something useful with it when the time comes. but right 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. and i'll be back with the headlines in just.

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