more than one hundred people killed in crowds of homes devastated as torrential rains triggered flash flooding in a popular southern russian resort area. libya's first election in half a century gets off to a turbulent starts with cheers in the capital contrasting sharply with boycotts and attacks across the country. and the deadline set for june in the songes extradition to sweden expires on saturday but the whistleblower remains in the safety of ecuador's london embassy waiting for an answer to his asylum plea on top stories. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t.

with you twenty four hours a day the continuously rising death toll from the massive flooding in russia's southern cross resort region has now reached one hundred four people the area was swamped by torrential rain over the past twenty four hours. and has more on the situation that. 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 rain forming in just a few hours upstream from some of these coastal resorts that meant that when the floodwaters arrived there was an awful lot of water that 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 some were electrocuted when the 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. noise of the rain was so loud there were two children only by a roof but we couldn't hear them we could only throw someone close to them. that was good but i will look into in a house including the paralyzed grandmother and a young woman with her three month old child last time got a call from them they thought the water level was almost reaching the ceiling and they didn't know how to get out we haven't heard from them for. 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 flood waters 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 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 the meteorological office though warns that more rain storms are on the way that could mean more flooding. in reporting there it's been a rocky start to libya's first elections in half a century armed gangs of stormed a polling station in the north will boycott shootings and abductions and affected voting across the country in benghazi where last year's uprising began protests as

this morning burned ballot papers and decried the vote in or more than one hundred polling stations failed to open over three thousand seven hundred candidates are vying for seats in parliament predicted to be dominated by islamists today less than a year since moamar gaddafi was executed by a crowd of revolutionaries it seems the country is more divided than ever from rebel commanders and tribal chiefs fight for power across libya with little hope. the elections will stop the violence. reports. 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. which why 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 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 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 allow. 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 of their own i don't know. how congress may give the gift. this is i think 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 any dictator but if history repeats itself we will. seek out of our t.v. . the general consensus so far is the islamist factions will pick up the lion's share of the vote as they did in post revolutionary tunisia and egypt. like journalist and contributor for the monthly magazine the progressive says it's not them he's concerned about but the foreign backed militias sabotaging the election. libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this going to us and they're trying to capitalize on that but it's

hardly an exercise in democracy because the militias still have the main control and what they do particularly the militias aligned with political parties those forces are not capable of winning elections fairly so they're disrupting the elections and as a response i think i get interviewing a lot of ordinary working people or people in the street during my visits people who are very very upset they think a new strongman is going to come to power which is not what they fought for made to feel that their revolution is being stolen and western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining the all supplies from. some of the countries that were something the loudest for military intervention are the ones who get their oil from libya and i think there is evidence that they're back in some of the more right wing islamist and military forces there as their forces are so close together. not here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come this hour in the program this cold in the heart of latin

america the ousting of paragliding president hits relations between nato and regional next but she has his own behind the story. because moscow's condemned the friends of syria meeting in paris describing it as one sided and immoral and one hundred nations taking part in the talks pledged to throw a lifeline to the syrian rebels and then edge u.n. action against damascus amman's repeat tougher sanctions and if necessary military intervention this undermines and also weeks geneva conference are called by serious special envoy kofi annan it's all the world's major powers united the idea that both sides of the syrian war behind the planet's nobody a writer at the center for research on globalization says so. just not interested in the peaceful syria. i think of his point these western powers are paying lip service to the the kofi annan plan and at the very same time undermining

that completely by letting weapons come into the country from all sides just a couple of weeks ago the new york times reported a bombshell article of the cia that 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. it's not only the diplomatic advantage which seems to be on the side of the syrian opposition but the media one as well and this auntie's going to church can explain such overwhelming backing echoes 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 us 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 hushing down the atrocities committed against the serbs with me here is jim the director of the american council for coffee 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 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 we 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 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 way. 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 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 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. russia and china have rebuffed washington's threats of consequences for what it sees as siding with the regime in syria the state hillary clinton said the countries must pay a price for their persistence of cool for the assad regime but i don't see a dog home we've been one of the reasons for such harsh rhetoric and this is the response we've got from the. majority believe the move points to the frustration of the west over that hump in the. dr nineteen percent think russia and china. and we can see there on screen that the rest is split between the two remaining options the clinton's words undermined the geneva peace accord preventing any progress and

that the rhetoric was aimed at boosting public support for president obama's reelection efforts well go on to r.t. dot com to express your point of view conservation be good to hear from. and you can find this in more on line including there's something else where. bright lights were spotted in the skies over parts of the u.s. in europe although similar tenuously find plenty more on the phenomena online right now. plus israel slams the door on the un banning officials from entering the country on a fact finding mission to inspect the west bank settlements all that online right now at r.t. dot com. the deadline set by the u.k.'s highest court for june in the sounders extradition to

sweden runs out 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 made sarah ferguson more now from outside a sound his place of refuge. it's been nearly two and a half weeks now that 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. 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

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 for the banners of support for about seventeen days on a daily vigil we're hearing solitary read a 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 sort 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 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 serious 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. for the week the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable gates all 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's still able to do what it does best despite the fact that today in a soldier's fist fight continues. coming up on the program 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 why it seems that these

teenagers from the streets of new delhi have the whole thing figured out. group of teenagers managing their own money matters inside the walls of a shelter for runaways. that's still to come but first venezuela has pulled its diplomatic staff from paraguayan after being accused by the government there of meddling in its internal affairs last month impeachment of president fernando lugo blame for a deadly crackdown on farmers has affected the country's toys with its neighbors political and this isn't so but she believes it's a sign of the u.s. 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 must be the fastest each month 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 americans overpowered wife who also limits 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 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 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. the u.s. prides itself on free speech but should that same right extend to social media the resident is in new york to find out if internet companies should be able to decide what is acceptable and what is not.

twitter is instituting a new policy of blocking posts it deems race that is it ok for social media websites to pick and choose what can and can't be bad but this week let's talk about that mission post a racial thing is 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 free over here in new york where 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 freedom you may not agree was raised as 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 know something about what if it was such that 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 providing free speech right there so i guess it's a toss up 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 say it 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. people would just be better citizens and doubt that. a group of teenagers in new delhi has decided to take their future into their own hands working together to manage their own mini economy it seems they could even teach the world's international bankers a thing or two. explains. 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 just 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 and secure 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 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 get out development or welfare advances 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

a 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 try i have through meetings and discussions over lunch the children have taught each other how to save and invest in their future. i think that if we don't put the money in the bank then we tend to spend it on unnecessary things 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 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 what is in this whole thing because they know how to save money they know how do you want allies money for the best because they want to privatized their needs which we as obvious actually don't. know 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 the coming up policemen i get. thank you for the future as i want to save money and do something useful with it when the time comes. 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. update now evolve top story for you one

hundred five people have now died in the massive flooding in the southern russian region dozens have been injured and thousands of homes devastated as five months worth of rain fell within twenty four hours rescuers are trying to evacuate survivors but the rain is upturned roads and seven communications making their efforts extremely difficult there is a popular seaside resort with thousands of russians flocking there during the holiday season we'll bring you more as soon as we get it here on. well up next an in-depth look inside the world's most scandal ridden prison that's all special report coming your way that will be after a recap of today's top stories and me in just a few minutes from now stay with us live this is out in moscow.

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