what you want and then she climbs up to leave and trees and wait for emergency workers to pick them up several people were electrocuted when it's wire filled in for the water that covered the pavement to local supermarkets were completely destroyed getting out to dry land isn't easy either those highways and rain routes that they can have a hit from the elements blocking many escape routes thirty two trains were either canceled or stopped on their way to the black sea cruise missiles that are struck in the midst of the holiday season crossing guards one of the most popular inaccessible seaside resorts among russians and thousands flock here every year to other towns that suffered badly no what i see from getting cheek are now packed with tourists on our way to disaster stricken area was sold dozens of cars from moscow with lichens plates for inside bierria and russian far east many of those who could hold still instead just setting up a camp on the beach which makes them all the more difficult to find and breath due and one of the most warring factor is because the the region how this many summer

camps for children currently filled with over seven thousand kids an hour ago we passed one of them to cancel the little knock and luckily from what we saw that has not been hit by the flooding i went to survivors were sharing their firsthand accounts of the disaster was all follow you know the stream of water hit my car lost control of the car to endure and he's a tree i just managed to climb out of the back door and cling to the tree because i didn't want to do is you know eyes of the rain was so loud there were two children i mean by bruce but we couldn't hear them we could only throw someone close to them . on the step but i'm going to kill two in a house including the paralyzed from the young woman with three months own child not time just a cools and then they hit the wall so level was almost three thousand feet and and they didn't know how to harness we have to hold them and. volunteers are off her.

into the disaster stricken area with relief centers being set up across the country to gather money and supplies meanwhile around ten thousand emergency workers were deployed to the disaster zone artie's corresponded to bring about say has more about the rescue efforts. emergency services have actually been focusing on rescue children as well as the elderly first and foremost so that they obviously the people who are struggling to get out of such affected areas the next thing to remember is that right now a lot of people have lost their houses they've lost their belongings so one important thing that the emergency services is actually doing is making sure that everybody has a shelter that they have warm clothing and blankets as well as a food now there's been about thirteen thousand people affected by this this national disaster so authorities are making sure that all hands on board right now from psychologists who can talk to people who need to talk to because a lot of people have lost some of their loved ones and some of their belongings as

well as having medical services on board from doctors to nurses to nurture those who might need their help now earlier on president putin actually visited the area just giving out his support to the people of the region and just saying that the country is with you at this time and we're all thinking of you and we're obviously going to put as much effort and services in making sure that you get what she needs you know emergencies like this there's a lot of money that's going to go back into rebuilding these areas from all the flooded areas as you can see there around thirty million dollars is what they're thinking up until now is what they're going to need to actually put back that town together so we have to wait and see until the end of the next coming days what that actual number and figure will grow up to be when situations like this happen a lot of people. you know they need somebody to blame they need somebody to pinpoint why this actually happened to them. remember this happened overnight

people were sleeping there when not expecting to wake up to this so you know theories and sort of things that have been kind of throwing about people are saying that perhaps this is something that could be manmade i'm just going to pull up the map right now and just show you this area now as you can see the affected area that most of the rescue efforts right now is coming from is that area of crimps now between crim and that port area right the is the water reservoir and now this water reservoir a lot of the locals are saying that authorities could have actually opened the pipelines from that water reservoir and actually wanting it not to fall down to the first important part of this area obviously that port to right the but what happened is that then that flooded water went up here emergency a same images that is saying that is not true and that that reservoir is actually still locked up this is a natural disaster and you know theories like this shouldn't be running around especially when people are trying to do their best to rescue and obviously offer

some support to what's happening now when you think of this area you think is it a flood related area has this happened before in two thousand and two we actually saw. two hundred people actually die during a summer a summer. during the summer period with two hundred people die so one hundred over a hundred people now just in over twenty four hours it's a lot we'll see what happens and we'll keep everybody informed. during these other stories on our t.v. joy tension and violence all characterizing what was libya's first election for half a century or an gang storm polling stations in the north and east boycotts shootings and abductions marred votes across the country in benghazi where last year's our pricing started protesters burned ballots and decried the vote as a sham and all more than one hundred polling stations failed to open early reports put the voter turnout at sixty percent one man is reported killed when militias protesting the elections clashed with voters in the country's red. east today less

than a year since market off he was executed by a crowd of revolutionaries it seems libya could be more divided than ever as art has loosened capital for courts. this is the new libya political parties are now free to operate across the country. so too are countless armed groups they once fought to oust moammar gadhafi from power today it is they who are in control ragtag 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 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

but where is the transitional council they said that they are going to protect this country with gadhafi gong 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 coup for 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 time on 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 just how can this me give the good things now when you're convinced. this is i think this is not political you know millions of ng 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 but if history repeats itself we will. see catherine of our t.v. moscow with polls now closed in libya and vote counting underway the general consensus so far seems to be that islam is parties will gain the majority as they did in post-revolutionary tunisia and egypt but journalist rees elric thinks that militias can treat that contributed to khadafi is overthrow will play a much more important role than the new national assembly. libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this you know this 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 again interviewing a lot of ordinary working people or people in the street during my visits people

who are very very upset they came to new strongman is going to come to power which is not were they fought for and really do feel that their revolution is being stolen western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining the oil supplies from with. some of the countries that were pumping 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 to goal of the u.n. special envoy to syria says international peace efforts haven't succeeded partly as a result of divisions between world powers this a day after u.s. secretary of state clinton said russia and china will pay a price for allegedly supporting assad patrick headings in a middle east analyst and editor at infowars dot com think syria is being used by the u.s. it as a proxy to start a war with iran. both the west including the u.s.

and the u.k. and the gulf states like saudi arabia and qatar are working to arm and back a rebel faction and multiple guerilla armies within syria to overthrow the regime how could peace talks be ever carried out on any kind of bilateral basis when this is going on so it's not the international community's failure it's the failure of the un and the special envoys to recognize that they cannot take the side of the u.s. and the u.k. their funding and backing rebels in a proxy war it's absolutely ludicrous that kofi annan thinks that he could actually achieve anything the main aim from from a western geo political perspective is to first bring syrian government down so that it is no longer an ally of hizbollah then the next step is to bring neutralize hizbollah and possibly to confront them militarily and to dissolve hizbollah this

will be easier done by destabilizing lebanon through some kind of a conflict once isabel is eliminated the door is now open for israel and the us to unilaterally strike iran which they've been talking about on and off for the last six or seven years so i think this is a lot of this is rhetorical trying to create a narrative that the syrian regime is wrong and that the west or right it's not only the diplomatic advantage which has to be on the side of syria's opposition but the media one as well and as our he's got a cheeky unexplained 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 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 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 me thank you what are the similarities you see between what's going on in syria and what has been going on in yugoslavia inform you that there are 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 of 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 poor poor water on the fire to try to calm things down instead would you do if 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 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 that the fate of the christian population 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 a box christian serbs had to leave the province and thousands of them were killed by the liberators the army. i think that there are the i think there are a couple of 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 the voice of democracy in egypt and which is also the same force that stands to benefit in syria. policy 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 check out. more stories from around the world online on our web site r t v dot com including this something out there rapidly moving right orbs of light spotted nearly at the same time in the skies of europe and the u.s. more about the phenomenon online. israel shuts the door on the un human rights council banning officials from entering the country on a mission to inspect west bank settlements. the deadline set by the u.k.'s highest court for julian assange his extradition to sweden expires in less than an hour but the whistleblower says he won't leave the safety of ecuador's embassy in london until a decision to her on his request for asylum in the south american countries mate r.t. sarah for has more. 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. his legal team have always said is that he would be. 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 doing embassy banners of the poor for about seventeen days on a daily vigil we're hearing solitary rashawn change war resister no sharp standing

with the ecuadorian people in in the heart that i might write usage in which is to offer the guy started a real sense amongst his supporters that this decision and the handling of his legal case it was a real failure for the u.k. in terms of defending human rights well now at the same time that you're in a sound just fighting his fifth 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. the next couple of weeks the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable gates well 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 that today in a phone tj's fist fight continues. social media platforms more popular than ever but do people have the right to use them to say whatever they want the resident takes to the streets of new york to ask people if internet companies should police what you post. 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 bad but 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 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 to see is the issues 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 drama but you're also preventing free speech right there so i guess it's a toss up so is it ok for twitter to decide what stays and go since it's their company. again they probably have to have like an outside company that judges it because who are they to say what's 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 we've changed but 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.

a group of teenagers in new delhi have 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 parties preassure to reports. in this homeless shelter for runaway teens in new delhi a tiny cell starting democracy has sprouted up when 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 and initiated implemented i'm secure did by the kids themselves. and i go there are children who have a job with their money. and even the children who go to school save their money. so 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 help development or welfare advances to invest in starting businesses or buying books first school. i have taken in advance three times the first five hundred rupees to a boy a school uniform then at another one thousand rupees be. because my mother was sick and the third sign my 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 try i drive 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 but buying new clothes 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 they have none to privatized that leaves which we as adults have to be vulnerable. to 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. i'm thinking 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. recapping our top stories now more than one hundred forty people reported dead in a massive. being that southern russia is krasnodar region with a death toll rising by the hour thousands of homes were devastated when five months worth of rain fell in the space of just twenty four hours rescue efforts underway but water swept away roads and severed communications making it tough to evacuate survivors the area's a popular seaside resort attracting thousands of russian holiday makers throughout the year when we were in you the latest developments on the disaster as they happen

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his friends stance on t.v. dot com. the death toll rises further in the southern russian resort devastated by flash floods on friday pondered forty one people now reported to have lost their lives since five months worth of rain fell in just twenty four hours. tension overshadowing libya's first election for half a century with cheers in the capital contrasting sharply with boycotts and attacks across other parts of the country. the deadline set for julian assange his extradition to sweden expiring shortly the whistleblower remains in the relative safety of ecuador's embassy in london awaiting a decision on his asylum. up next is a multicultural society doomed to failure that's the question in our special report sharing the motherland.

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