the death toll rises further in the southern russian resort devastated by flash flooding friday one hundred forty people now reported killed since five months worth of rain fell in the space of just twenty four hour. attention overshadows libya's first election in half a century with cheers in the capital contrasting sharply with boycotts and attacks in other stations across the country. the deadline set for julian assange and his extradition to sweden has expired but the whistleblower remains in the relative safety of ecuador's london embassy awaiting a decision on his asylum. good

to have you with us here on r t our top story russia's interior ministry now says that more than one hundred forty people have died after flash floods devastated the southern russian resort region of krasnodar torrential rains battered the area for more than a day artie's dennis blocks he has more. we're trying to get through the flood stricken area which isn't easy with all the reality that destroyed by the water all jammed with clean cars five months worth of rainfall within twenty four hours turned to beautiful feet side resorts into emergency aereo fateful danger throughout the day the number of victims kept growing by the our bodies were being found along flooded and after in groups many never managed to get out of their vehicles and flee the alamance many were called by surprise when rising water filled the ground force of houses trapping people inside getting screwed predominantly rule community there are almost no multi-story buildings so there is a literally nowhere to run from the flood the lot you want to manage supply

involves two loops and trees and wait for emergency workers to pick them off several people were electrocuted when the choir failed into the water that covered the pavements to local supermarkets who were completely destroyed getting out to dry land isn't easy either the highways and rain routes that they can have a hit from the elements walking many escape routes thirty two trains were either councils are stopped on their way to the black sea cruise this last or struck in the midst of the holiday season krasnodar is one of the most popular inaccessible seaside resorts among russians and thousands flock here every year to other towns that suffered badly you know what i see fans get in 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 can hold still instead just setting up a camp on the beach which makes them all the more difficult to find and rescue and one of the most warring factories because the the region has this many summer camps

for children currently filled with over seven thousand kids an hour ago would pass one of them the camp told a little knock and luckily from what we saw it has not been hit by the flooding eyewitnesses survivors were sharing their firsthand accounts of the trash. but you know the stream of water hit my car lost control of the car turned over and he to tree i just managed to climb out of the back door and cling to the tree just like you could even hear the voice you know as of the rain was so loud there were two children on a nearby roof but we couldn't hear them we could only throw someone close to them to ask about our relatives who were in a house including a power lies grandmother and a young woman with her three month old child last time we got a call from them they said the water level was almost reaching the ceiling and they didn't know how to get out we haven't heard from them for. volunteers are offering

to help the disaster stricken area with relief centers set up across the country to gather money and goods meanwhile around ten thousand emergency workers were deployed to the disaster zone artie's correspondent to bang might say has more. emergency services have actually been focusing on rescue children as well as the elderly first and foremost 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 are 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 others who might need their help now earlier on president putin actually visited the area 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 you need 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 their town together so we have to wait and see until the end of the next coming days what that actual number in 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 were 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 effort 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 write the but what happened is that then that flooded water went up here emergency as a images of it 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 ironic 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. in 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. turning to the day's other news here on r t joy tension and violence all characterizing what was libya's first election in half a century armed gangs storm polling stations in the north and east boycotts shootings and even abductions marred voting across the country in benghazi where last year's our pricing started protesters burned ballots and decried the vote as a sham you know more than one hundred polling stations failed to open early reports put the voter turnout at sixty percent one man is thought to have been killed when militias protesting the elections clashed with voters in the country's restive east

today less than a year since market aki was executed by a crowd of revolutionaries it seems libya is more divided than ever parties lucy cavanagh reports. 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 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. 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

was the transitional council 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 ins in time on which still holds libya's most famous prisoner. 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 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 need to forgive terms and winners and just. so i think because. 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 unhappy with the result libya's armed groups now know what to do next. we are against i'm a dictator but if history repeats itself we will. see catherine of r t

moscow ted rall a political cartoonist and author of things libya isn't ready yet for democracy. libya is a country that needs to settle out into an idea of a post gadhafi unified idea of a libyan nation state that all libyans regardless of their sect to their sectarian tendencies and tribal affiliations can get behind until they can do that there's not any point holding an election even if you didn't have nine months what you would effectively is a civil war that's carried out at the ballot box where different sects and tribes are turning that are running candidates against one another and trying to dominate their countrymen that way that's not a recipe for democracy if there's just not ready at this point law and order is really the top priority of running post gadhafi in libya so whether it's a strongman or

a governing council which i would recommend that is composed of both of the political figures from throughout throughout the country what you really need is police forces on the street ready to me tame law and order in the service of a libyan state and right now yes the transitional government is obviously finished but they just can't go from the transitional regime into a democracy at this stage they're just it's just not going to work it's going to add to the instability and prolong the crisis rather than bring in a quicker conclusion to it i think libya should have waited years before it got ready for its first elections 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 hillary clinton said russia and china will pay a price for allegedly supporting assad patrick headings in a mideast analyst and editor at info wars dot com think syria is being used by the

us 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 a neutralize hizbollah and possibly to confront them militarily and to dissolve

hizbollah this would 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 u.s. 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 now it's not only the diplomatic advantage that seems to be on the side of the syrian opposition but the media one as well archie'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 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 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 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 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 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 a box christian serbs had to flee the province and thousands of them were killed by the liberators the cause why a british army. i think that there are that i think there are a couple different explanations for it i think what is our cozy relationship with saudi arabia in 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 our goal in 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 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 second. russia and china for a buff washington's threats of consequences for what it sees as siding with the regime in syria secretary of state hillary clinton said the countries must pay a price for their persistent support for the assad regime. we've been asking one of the reasons for such harsh rhetoric so far the majority think the move points to the frustration of the west over their hampered military drive twenty one percent think russia and china are stalling the peace effort the rest are split between two remaining options clinton's words undermining the geneva peace accord preventing joint progress and the harsh rhetoric was aimed at boosting public support for president obama's reelection effort. you can find more on this and other stories on our website including there is something out there rapidly moving right orbs of

light spotted nearly at the same time in the skies of europe and the us find out more about the phenomenon online. and what's your beat thrill seekers take their chances with the bulls on the streets of pamplona one of spain's biggest summer festivals. and israel shuts the door on the un human rights council banning officials from entering the country on a mission to inspect west bank settlements find out more online. the deadline set by the u.k.'s highest court for julian assange his extradition to sweden has expired but the whistleblower says he won't leave the relative safety of ecuador's london embassy until a decision on his request for asylum in the south american country is made. 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 it would have been the day we could have seen julian assange put on a plane and sent to sweden and of course the big. legal team have always said is that he would be done. in very strict pretrial 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 seventy days on a daily vigil we're hearing solidarity with the saunters 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 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. of weeks the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable days 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 relief that it is still able to do what it does best despite the fact that today in a soldier's fist fight continues social media platforms more popular than ever but two 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 this week let's talk about that.

right but some people still do. but that's the world we live in so should it be out there for people to see or should twitter take it down twitter should take it down so we're live in new york 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 yeah you might not agree with raised this them but do you agree that people should be able to say what they want not in a social networking site like i know why not this is just going to take us a people to keep their own comments to themselves but that's the whole point of twitter is reading it out not knowing something 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. regime. no if you write something yeah 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 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 goes since it's their company but 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 racism what's not there do you think twitter 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 they change but not enough yet so i think that's their way of preventing some form of cyberbullying 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 doubt being raised. recapping our top story more than a hundred forty people reported dead in massive flooding that's hit russia southern cross into the region thousands of homes were devastated when five months worth of rain fell in the space of just twenty four hours rescue efforts are underway but waters swept away roads and severed communications making it tough to evacuate survivors the area is a popular seaside resort attracting thousands of russian holiday makers throughout the year we'll be bringing you the latest on this disaster as we get these facts here on r t. up next kaiser report questions why the u.s. often over sensitive markets are ignoring outright britain's are going out right

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