breaking news this hour. at least eighty seven people killed and thousands of homes devastating. flooding in a popular resort. libya's first election. to a. cheers inside the capital contrasting sharply with. the country. and the deadline for julian extradition to sweden expires on saturday for the whistleblower remains in the safety of ecuador's london embassy still waiting for an answer to his.

worldwide news live from moscow this is with me rule re sushi welcome to the program and breaking news for you this hour continuously rising death toll from the massive flooding in russia's southern region has now reached eighty seven people the area was swamped by torrential rain just over the past twenty four hours let's get the latest now from. joining us live just epic amounts of rain here one of the conditions right now in the flooded areas. something unimaginable those are the words of the regional governor as he flew over just one of the regions hit by enormous flash flooding in the south of russia the rains came at night. over a month's rain falling in just a few hours up stream from some of these coastal resorts that meant that when the floodwaters arrived there was an awful lot of water it came very fast and it came

without warning the result was chaos people were drowned in their houses or trying to escape from the vehicles or the floodwaters somewhere electrocuted when a transformer fell into the water people reported traffic lights and pavements ripped up by the force of the water thousands of people have been clambering on anything they can to get some height to try and escape from the floodwaters. but for follow your stream of water hit my car lost control of the car turned over and he did tree he just managed to climb out of the back door and cling to the tree which is a good idea you know we've been watching some are just dramatic footage of why you've been speaking out showing the floods and showing that the victims of the floods are struggling to get by in this heavy heavy downpours here the current rescue efforts now what what's being done now after the disaster.

well here are the emergencies ministry in moscow they're trying to coordinate efforts to try and get some kind of control of the situation some of the roads have been simply washed away by the sudden deluge of water local porters had to suspend its shipping and the rescue efforts are made more difficult and more dangerous by the region's status as a famous holiday resort thousands of russians go down to the black sea coast every year there are around seven thousand children that go to holiday camps there in the summer it's the middle of the holiday season many people go on registered and just go to camp there which means a lot harder to try and keep track of people hundreds of homes have been flooded and people have been trying to get to refuge centers around a thousand and merge and see ministry workers both local and flown in from moscow are trying to help people do that and to try and limit the damage the meterological

office though warns that more rain storms are on the way that could mean more flooding. so more bad weather on the way there are the latest on the. thank you. this is r t it has been a rocky start to libya's first elections in a half a century. stormed a polling station in the north while boycotts shootings and abductions have affected voting all across the country in benghazi where last year's uprising began protesters this morning papers decried the vote as a shadow over three thousand seven hundred vying for seats in parliament are predicted to be dominated by islamists today less than a year since more michael duffy was executed by a crowd of revolutionaries it seems the country is more divided than ever former rebel commanders and tribal chiefs fight for power all across the libya with little hope that elections will stop the violence as artie's lucy catherine for quotes.

this is the new libya political parties are now free to operate across the country . so too are countless armed groups they one spot 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 the biggest police and army militia which martin we must put limits on these militias because they are dividing the country and they are why libya is going to decay almost one year after a meal uprising ended gadhafi is rule libyans are taking to the polls for the first time in decades with tripoli's transitional national council too weak to quell ongoing violence any fear that elections will do little to bring peace was the conditional count so they said that they are going to protect this country and of

gadhafi gone there is nothing left he said that leave you will have national unity where is it the here is what libyan style democracy looks like armed groups calling for more autonomy stormed a benghazi polling station. sunday setting voting lists and ballots ablaze with new tribal clashes broke out in libya 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 aligned with various political parties a dangerous trend that could deep 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 for some that is precisely the problem this is because of their own i don't know. how congress may give the gift. this is i think. millions of and 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 i'm a dictator of history repeats itself we will. see calculus on t.v.

last night i. mean all their affairs they could offer his son saif al islam will be used as bait to destruct libyans and mold public opinion even officials from the hague tribunal say his trial would be anything but a kind of court well the police. will come and had a look samuel says the international criminal court is actually part of the reason why libya remains locked in violence the disunity that we're seeing in libya really has come around as a result of 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. see how it's all forty on the ground bolstered by these indictments 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 city state set up that we had in the nineteen fifties. now we're ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is our teeth still to come for you in this program discord in the heart of latin america the ousting of power vice president hits relations between neighbors a regional expert shares his views on what lies behind the story.

now moscow has slammed at the friends of syria meeting in paris describing it as one sided and immoral over one hundred nations taking part in the talks pledged to throw a lifeline to the syrian rebels and urged u.n. action against them out here so the demands would include tougher sanctions and if necessary military intervention this undermines last week's geneva conference call by syria's special envoy kofi annan it's all the world's major powers united over the idea that both sides of the syrian war are behind the violence now i read it right here at the center for social globalization said some powers are just not interested in a peaceful syria. i think at this point these western powers are paying lip service to the kofi annan plan and at the very same time undermining it completely by letting weapons come into the country from all sides just a couple of weeks ago the new york times reported on

a bombshell article that the cia confirmed the american cia is operating in a base in southern turkey and they're coordinating arms smuggling into into syria to the from the free syrian army and if we look at things like the houla massacre and the kinds of bombing tactics suicide bombing roadside bombing that we see going on in syria now this is not characteristic of syria or lebanon this is characteristic of al-qaeda in iraq now i saw not only the diplomatic advantage which seems to be on the side of the syrian opposition but the media one as well and that is guy nature can explain such overwhelming backing echoes yet another conflict in mind. 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 assad 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 went 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 jeffords 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 what has been 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 rule 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 poor 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 on 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 just elements engaging in terrorism with the predictable results for the christian population as we saw in kosovo when half the christian population with iraq's 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 of different explanations for it i think one is our cozy relationship with saudi arabia 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 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 its agenda becomes a weapon in itself a weapon which creates victims of its own in washington i'm going to second. well you can find out more on this online also some other stories including a look at what's above your head fahri orbs spotted in the sky overhead for us europe u.f.o.'s are seen flying in the night sky people on two continents almost simultaneously plenty more on that on line that are to dot com. bust israel slams the door on the un banning officials from entering the country on a fact finding mission they were supposed to inspect settlements in the west bank.

thank you for joining us here on our to today to deadline set by the u.k.'s highest court for julian assange his extradition to sweden runs out saturday but the whistleblower says he won't leave the safety of the ecuadorian embassy in london into a decision on his request for asylum is made. more from just outside of songes current place of refuge it's been nearly two and a half weeks now that unionist on 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 his appeal to the supreme court in the against the 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. legal team have always said is that he would be. gets 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. to seek asylum and you can see here today a number of his supporters still keeping vigil outside the ecuadorian embassy banners of the poor for about seventeen 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 guy short of a real sense among 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're 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 couple of weeks the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable gates all the serious 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 the to the innocent is this fight continues. still to come on the program here are banking on a new financial system in the indian. and it's

a time when many people would argue that the global financial system is on the brink of collapse and that fundamentally. these streets and. inside the walls of a shelter for run away. just only twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital venezuela has pulled its diplomatic staff. after being accused by the government meddling in its internal affairs last month impeachment of president blame for a deadly crackdown on farmers has affected the country's ties with its neighbor political analyst. believes it's a sign of the u.s. promoting its own interests in the region. paraguayans suffered a coup d'etat literally on the first twenty first of june when its democratically elected president for number 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 of paraguay because paraguayans considered together with bolivia the geo political heart in the south america so american control over power of wife will also limit brazil's exit towards the pacific as a bric countries brazil russia india china and south africa and the united states at the same time as again promoting asked that we american free trade association with its traditional allies in our region mexico panama colombia peru and chile so we would serve as a pacific war against what they consider what the americans consider dangerous brazilian expansion because of the fact that it is not just in the commom within the bric countries but very much so even to a certain extent a political or a potential political ally of russia and china is. now with us prides itself on

free speech or should the same right extend to that of social media one side is now looking at plans to block posts they deem to be racist and offensive other resident is in new york to find out if internet companies should be able to decide what's acceptable and what's not. twitter is instituting a new policy of blocking posts it deems race that if you don't pay for social media websites to pick and choose what can and can't be that this week let's talk about that mission pouffe a racial thing all right but some people still do. well 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 live free over here in new york we live free but doesn't the racist person live free to post whatever they want but 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 tell 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 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 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 it's 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 stop being racist. it's good to have you with us are a nazi today a group of teenagers in new delhi decided to take the future into their own hands i

welcome together to manage their own mini economy seems they could even teach the world's international bankers a thing or two so it is pretty shrewd explains. in this homeless shelter for runaway teens in new delhi a tiny self starting democracy has sprouted up when they took me in and i started going to school which i enjoyed very much some of. the residents like twelve year old mohammad shah have created an unlikely society where everything from health care to banking has been an initiator it's implemented i've succeeded by the kids themselves. and i go there are children. i'm going to need their money. and even the children who need to see them in any language. so 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 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 first school or did they get funds that would have taken in advance three times the first five hundred rupees to buy 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. streets of new delhi have the whole thing figured out they hold everyone from account managers to clients accountable for their financial decisions

. i mean yeah through meetings and discussions over lunch the children have taught each other how to save and invest in their future. i think if we don't put the money in the bank then we tend to spend on a mission to make things and we see the money so when we save the money it can be used to do fortune things make me come up. buying you've got a new 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 supermodel's 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 the launch of privatized that leaves which we as actively don't. know how much shah is 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 i get to limit of what's gone on 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. or and i just love it here on the cars report questions why america is often oversensitive markets ignoring britain's growing banking scandal i'll be off for a brief recap of today's top stories.

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