where to run from the flood the what you want and then she climbed up to loops and trees and wait for emergency workers to pick them up several people were electrocuted when the choir sailed into the water that covered the pavements to the local supermarkets who 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 walking many escape routes thirty two trains were either cancelled or stopped on their way to the black sea cruise this last year struck in the midst of the holiday season krasnodar is one of the most popular inaccessible teesside resorts among russians and thousands flock here every year to other towns that suffered badly you know what i see if can get in cheek are now packed with tourists on their way to disaster stricken area was sold dozens of cars from moscow with lichens waits 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 how this many summer camps

for children currently filled with over seven thousand kids an hour ago we passed one of them the chemicals a little knock and luckily from what we saw it has not been hit by the flooding. eyewitnesses and survivors were sharing their firsthand accounts of the disaster but by you know the stream of water hit my car i lost control of the car turned over and he did tree well i just managed to climb out of the back door and cling to the tree because i didn't 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. that was good but our relatives who were in the house including the paralyzed grandmother and a young woman with her three month old child last time we got a call from them they felt the wall to level was almost weak to the ceiling and they didn't know how to get out we haven't heard from many. bollen tears offering

to help the disaster stricken area with relief centers set up across the country to gather money and supplies meanwhile around ten thousand emergency workers have been deployed to the disaster zone artes to bang might say has more about the recovery efforts. emergency services have actually been focusing on rescue children as well as the elderly first and foremost so they 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 jury 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 why 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 prince now between crim and that port area arrived he 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 area right there but what happened is that then that flood water went up here emergency essaying images the service 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 with specially 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 you know 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 some other news we're covering 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 while boycotts shootings and of judge duction marred voting across the country in benghazi where last year's uprising started protesters burned ballads and decried the vote is a sham you know more than a hundred polling stations failed to open at all early reports put the turnout at some sixty percent one man is reported killed when militias protesting the

elections clashed with voters in the country's restive east today less than a year since moammar qaddafi was executed by a crowd of revolutionaries it seems libya is poor divided than ever parties lucy kavanagh 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 that 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 and that 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. whereas 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 this past week alone saw the deaths of nearly fifty people with hundreds wounded and when members of a local militia seized libya's biggest international airport in broad daylight last month security forces simply stood by and watched. they vary in size from gangs guarding neighborhoods to small de facto armies like the one ins in taiwan which still holds libya's most famous prisoner saif ali 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. i don't know. how congress need to forgive things the winners and. this is 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. seek out of our t.v. moscow. with polls now closed in libya and vote counting underway general consensus so far seems to be that islamist parties will gain the majority as they did in post-revolutionary tunisia and egypt journalist reece alaric says militias that contributed to khadafi his downfall will play a much more important role than the new national assembly. in libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this numerous 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 think a new strongman is going to come to power which does not work they fought for or made to feel that their revolution is being stolen western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining the oral supplies from with. 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 of so-called stability. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour. they changed but not announced yet so i think that's their way of preventing some pointed cyber bullying but it's not going to change anything the resident his the streets of the big apple to find out what people there think about the right to social media websites you control we're saying. but first the u.n.

special envoy to syria says international peace efforts have not succeeded partly as a result of divisions between world powers this a day after u.s. secretary of state clinton says russia and china will pay a price for allegedly supporting assad's regime in the country violence continues and has even spilled into neighboring lebanon stoking fears of a regional conflict five people killed by mortar rounds as the syrian military clash with the rebel units who had fled across the border patrick headings in a middle east analyst and editor at info wars dot com think syria could be 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 qatar or working to arm and back a rebel faction and multiple guerrilla 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. they're 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 the ball 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. it's not

only the diplomatic advantage that seems to be on the side of syria's opposition but the media one too artie's guy on explains that 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 outside document 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 the war make yugoslavia before nato went bombing former yugoslavia at the end of the one nine hundred ninety s. the media focused on crimes committed by the serbs completely washing down the atrocities committed against the serbs with me here is jim 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 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 stone. 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 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 a british 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 voice of democracy in egypt and which is also the same force that stands to benefit in syria if oracle 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 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 every buff washington's threats of consequences for what it sees a siding with the syrian regime secretary of state clinton said countries must pay a price for their persistent support of the assad government at r.t.

dot com or us being one of the reasons for such harsh rhetoric so far the majority think the move points to the frustration of the west over their efforts military drive twenty one percent think russia and china are staller the peace efforts the rest are split but. two options clinton's words undermining the geneva two peace accord preventing joint progress and that was aimed at boosting public support for president obama's reelection. more on this and other stories a click away at our meeting this there's something. wrong with the moving forms of light spotted nearly simultaneously in the skies over europe and the us more about the phenomenon. online. what's your be. thrill seekers take their chances with the bulls in the streets of. sorry bear with me folks in the streets of pamplona one of spain's biggest summer festivals check it out. and israel shuts the door on the un human rights council banning officials

from entering the country on a mission to inspect the west bank settlements. the deadline set by view case highest court for julian assange his extradition to sweden has expired the whistleblower says he won't leave the safety of ecuador's embassy in london to a decision on his request for asylum in the south american countries mate. it's been nearly two and a haul for weeks now the kenyan astonished has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy here in london after presenting himself ulman nineteen fifteen thinking if . now today is the deadline for his extradition to sweden to his appeal to the supreme court in the against

a sexual assault allegations 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. his legal team have always said is that he would be there. 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 gymnastics that 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 the poor for about seventeen days on a daily vigil we're hearing solitary with a saunters war resister a new star standing with the ecuadorian people in the heart that i might the right decision which is to offer the guy 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 in the sound is fighting his fierce battle against extradition we see wiki leaks once again coming into the spotlight and taking the headlines with edge of mastic revelations over a new big leak the syria files more than two point four million e-mails that they 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 couple of weeks the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable gates all the serious files even bigger than that eight times bigger in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data and already we're seeing some of the revelations are not being explored so wiki leaks once again showing relief that it's still able to do what it does best despite the fact that today in

a stone age is this fight continues social media platforms more popular than ever but do people have the right to use them to say whatever they like the resident takes to the streets of new york to house people 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 sad 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 will a 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 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 going to tell us a people should keep their own comments to themselves but that's the whole point of twitter is reading it out something way about what it was that's what it's not ok to use to say whatever you want now the internet you shouldn't just be able to say whatever you want no says 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 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. 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 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 just going to process it's going to happen they change 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 doubt being raised. updating you on our top story now more than one hundred forty people reported dead in a massive flood bedsit russia's southern region thousands of homes were devastated

when five months worth of rain fell within the space of just twenty four hours rescue efforts are underway but water swept away roads and severed communications making it tough to evacuate survivors the area is a popular seaside resort attracting thousands of russian holiday go throughout the year where we bring you the latest developments on the disaster as they happen here on our team a recap of our top stories in a couple of minutes stay with us. wealthy

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the death toll rising southern russian resorts devastated by flash floods on friday one hundred forty one people not reported to have lost their lives since five months worth of rain fell in the space of just twenty four hours. tension overshadows libya's first election in half a century with cheers in the capital contrasting sharply by boycotts and attacks across other parts of the country. the deadline set for julian assange and his extradition to sweden expires but the whistleblower remains in the safety of ecuador's embassy awaiting a decision on his asylum plea. next the secrets of america's most controversial

prison camp as we talk to a british lawyer who's but at the heart of some of the worst cases of abuse in guantanamo stay with us. today i'm joined by philip sounds professor international or university college london and author of torture team an investigation into what's going on behind the closed doors of one tunnel mowbray. thanks for speaking to r.t. so walk torture techniques or interrogation techniques have actually been used at one time well it's pretty well established now. what emerged they adopted in the autumn of two thousand and two in the u.s. department of defense a series of eighteen techniques of interrogation arranged in three groups and the first group was. shouting and screaming. the second group up to the.