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. the stream of water hit my car i lost control of the car turned over and he did tree i just managed to climb out of the back door and cling to the tree is that you did you know at the emergencies ministry here in moscow they are trying to get some control of the situation and coordinate efforts in an extremely difficult situation roads have been washed away and it is very difficult to get to the thousands of people who are struggling to escape from the floodwaters the rescue efforts are made more difficult and more dangerous by the region status as a famous holiday resort thousands of russians go down to the black sea coast every year there around seven thousand children that go to holiday camps there in the

summer it's the middle of 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 emergency ministry workers both local and flown in from moscow are trying to help people do that and to try and limit the damage to meteorological office though warns that more rain storms are on the way that could mean more flooding. reporting right now it has been a rocky start to libya's first elections and half a century of gangs stormed a polling station in the north boycotts shootings and abductions have affected voting all across the country in benghazi where last year's uprising began protesters this morning but the ballot papers decried the vote as a shadow over three thousand seven hundred vying for seats in parliament predicted

to be dominated by islamists but today in less than a year since he 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 across libya but with little hope that elections will ever stop the violence parties cuffing off as the story. but. 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 day who are in control red tag militias who answer only to their own commanders have grown more powerful than libya's police and army. we must put limits on these militias because they are dividing the country they are why 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 any fear that elections will do little to bring peace was the transitional council they said that they are going to protect this country and if gadhafi gone there is nothing left he 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 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 ends 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 for some that is precisely the problem this is because of their own i don't know disturbs. me to forgive them to their winners and just. say one thing because . millions of nk 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 unhappy with the result libya's armed groups now know what to do next. we are against i'm the dictator of history repeats itself. you see catherine of our t.v. . meanwhile there are fears that a son saif al islam could be used as bait to distract libyans and mold public opinion even officials from the hague tribunal say his trial won't be anything but a kangaroo court although political comment had a loop samuel says the international criminal court itself is 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 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. see how it's all 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 city state set up that we had in the nineteen fifties. it was an

r.t. still to come for you in this program that of discord in the heart of latin america and the ousting of paradise president hits relations between neighbors and one of regional experts shares his view on what lies behind the story. moscow has slammed the friends of syria meeting in paris describing it as one sided and immoral over one hundred nations taking part in the talks place to throw a lifeline to the syrian rebels and un action against damascus would include tougher sanctions and if necessary military intervention now this undermines the last week's geneva conference called by syria's special envoy kofi annan for the world's major powers unite over the idea that both sides of the syrian war are behind the violence and nile bowie right here at the center of research on globalization says 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 the completely by letting the come into the country from all sides just a couple of weeks ago the new york times reported a bombshell article that confirmed the american cia is operating in a bit in southern turkey and they're coordinating arm small going into into syria to to from the free syrian army and if we look at things like a cooler 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 is there not only the diplomatic advantage which seems to be on the side of the syrian opposition but the media one as well and as artie's guy nature can explains such overwhelming backing echoes yet 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 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 the director of the american council for casa paul 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 informing you that there are 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 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 and 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 smoldering fire you pour gasoline on it with words like genocide and so forth and then try to set. the stage for what you really want to 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 just 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 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 voice of democracy in egypt which is also the same force that stands to benefit in syria if foreign 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 check on. russia and china have rebuffed washington's threats of consequences for what it sees as siding with the regime in syria the secretary of state hillary clinton said the countries must pay a price for the system support of the assad regime at aussie dot com we've been asking one of the reasons for such rhetoric let's see how you voting with us from our website here than i thought a majority of you believing the move to the frustration. the west over its military

drive nineteen percent of the. point and russia china. split between the two options clinton's words undermined the geneva peace accord preventing any joint progress. securing more public support for president obama you still have time for yourself to vote. well you can always. more online including for example. in the sky right over the u.s. europe your photos were seen flying in the night sky people. almost similar. you can find out. the door on the un officials from entering the country on a fact finding mission to inspect the west bank settlements.

live from moscow this is artsy the deadline set by the u.k.'s highest court for julian extradition to sweden runs out saturday but it was a blow or says he won't leave the safety of the ecuadorian embassy in london and to live on his request for asylum in south america is made from just outside a 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. legal team have always said is that he would be then. 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 on 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 banners of the poor for about seventeen days on a daily vigil we're hearing solitary rashawn charge war resister an o.c.r. standing with the ecuadorian people in in a hard i might write you solution which is to offer the guards short of a real sense among sister of course is 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 phone tj's fist fight continues. for porting still to come through in the program here one on t.v. banking on a new financial system in the indian capital. 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 are to meet a group of teenagers managing their own money matters but inside the walls of a shelter for run away it's. just approaching twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow about as well as pooled its diplomatic staff from paraguayan after being accused by the government there of meddling in its a tunnel affairs last month's impeachment of president fernando lugo blamed for a deadly crackdown on farmers has affected the country's ties with its neighbors political analyst believes it's a sign of the us such really promoting its 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 was to be the fastest each month 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 bric countries brazil russia india china and south africa and the united states at the same time is again promoting after 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 wall against what they consider what the americans consider dangerous

brazilian expansion because of the fact that it is not just in the commom make 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's history now the us project self on the issue of free speech push about same right extend to social media one side is now looking at plans to block posts that they deem to be racist or offensive now the president 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 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. very thing all 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 freedom you may not agree with raised as them but do you agree that people should be able to say what they want not on a social networking site like i know why not is just trying to tell us that 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 us is the races 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 negativity and 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 go since it's their company. again they probably have to have an outside 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 is just going to process it's going to happen so we've changed it not enough yeah 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 stout being racist.

a group of teenagers in new delhi have decided to take their future into their own working together to manage their own mini economy it seems they could even teach the world's international bankers perhaps a thing or two. british reader experience. in this homeless shelter for runaway teens in new delhi a tiny cell starting democracy has sprouted up with it 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 an initiated city implemented it was a cubit by the kids themselves do you have and i go there are children who have a job i'm going to pose with their money. and even the children who go to school 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 and to invest in starting businesses or buying books first school . bonds 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 and they did it the kids have a monthly meeting where they were view 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. it out they hold everyone from account managers to clients accountable for their financial decisions . i think 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 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 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 big can be the super models 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 privatized their 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 policeman i get the human up what's going on thank you for the future as i want to save money and do something useful with it when the time comes. rightly 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. but i will be back with the headlines in just.

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around russia we've got the future covered. the headlines on r.t. with nearly one hundred people killed and thousands of homes devastated rains triggered a flash flooding in a popular southern russian of resort area. libya's first election in half a century gets off to a turbulent start cheers in the capital contrasting sharply with cross the country . another deadline set for julian assange extradition to sweden expires on saturday but the remains of the safety of acquittals in london embassy waiting for an answer to his plea of asylum. are up next here on r.t. is a multicultural society doomed to failure that's the question we ask in a special report named sharing.

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