the death toll rises further in the southern russian resort devastated by flash floods on friday one hundred forty people now reported to have lost their lives since five months worth of rain fell in just twenty four hours. tension overage. has made tension overshadows libya's first election in half a century with cheers in the capital contrasting sharply with boycotts and attacks across the country. and a deadline set for julian assange his extradition to sweden expires at the whistleblower remains in the safety of ecuador is a london embassy awaiting a decision on his asylum plea.

six am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia's interior ministry now reporting that more than one hundred forty people have died after flash floods devastated the southern russian resort region of krasnodar torrential rains of batter the area for more than twenty four hours dennis polaski is in the city of crimps which has been hit hardest. the streets of chremes got deserted hours after devastating floods hit this house us people are still in shock in an instant their homes their cars and their gardens were swept away by a five metre high wave as the nearby river other game turned into a roaring nightmare almost everyone was caught by surprise the town's emergency ward was hit two out of six ambulances were destroyed in an instant doctors and drivers managed to get other vehicles out of the garage it was the price people came in under

a lot of stress they have lost their houses their relatives and loved ones it was painful to look at the elderly july is the time of school holidays and russia and here in the south thousands of kids take excursions out of town this school bus was caught in the deadly stream but the driver managed to call the emergency crews and help to get children out of the bus much of it we were standing at the traffic lights are going to want to hit it was up to here at first and a vanity went at this bus stopped i backed up called the emergency services they came in about ten minutes and started taking the children of the bus through that window. even though power lines have not been fixed yet the local authorities are certain that they will be able to restore the grid in a couple of days meanwhile dozens of volunteers are given away free food water and clothes all survivors of being registered at the mayor's office they will be given compensation for their houses and their lost belongings of course rescue operation

continues and emergency workers are still hoping to fly in and help more survivors eyewitnesses and survivors have been sharing their firsthand accounts of the tragedy. well you know the stream of water hit my car i lost control of the car turned over and he did tree i just managed to climb out of the back door and cling to the tree because i couldn't even hear the voice you know as 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 our relatives who were in the house including a paralyzed 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 flew in. volunteers are 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 buying might say has more . 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 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 early 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 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 that town together so why have to wait and see until the end of the next coming days what that actual number and figure will grow up to be. you can find the latest updates from our correspondents in the disaster stricken region on our twitter feed that r t underscore ariel also get up to the minute news from artie's tom part is right now tweeting that electricity and telephone services still down hampering rescue efforts this is the rain continues coming down dennis polaski who's in the town

worst hit by the flooding that some. houses are almost completely destroyed and volunteers are working around the clock to distribute food and clothing among the victims and remember you can hide all the latest updates from our correspondents tom hartman and dennis polaski via their twitter feeds. train out of the day's other top stories joy tension and violence all characterizing what was libya's first election a half a century armed gangs storm polling stations in the north and east while boycotts shootings and abductions marred voting across other parts of the country in benghazi where last year's uprising 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 about sixty percent one man's reported killed when militias protesting elections clashed with voters in the country's restive east today less than a year since market off he was executed by

a crowd of revolutionaries it seems libya is more divided than ever as artie's lucy coughing off report. 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 day who are in control ragtag militias who answer only to their own commanders have grown more powerful than libya's police and army. which is why we must put limits on these militias because they are dividing the country they are why libya's falling into decay almost one year after a nato backed uprising ended get off his 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 to good players dictions issue accounts so they said that they are going to protect

this country with gadhafi gone there is nothing. after 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 tahn which still holds libya's most famous prisoner saif. when international criminal court staffers tried to visit gadhafi son they too were seized and held captive for nearly four weeks justice militia proved 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 islamised 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. so i think. millions of ink 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. r.t.

moscow. with polls now closed in libya and vote counting underway the general consensus so far seems to be that islam as parties will gain the majority as they didn't post-revolutionary tunisia and egypt journalist reseller excess militias that contributed to khadafi downfall 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 the work they do particularly the militias aligned with political parties those forces are not capable of winning elections fairly so they are disrupting the elections and as a response i think i get an interview a lot of ordinary working people or people in the street during my visits people

who are very very upset they can get a new strongman is going to come to power which does not work they fought for him to feel that their revolution is being strong and western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining the moral 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 there's evidence that they're back in some of the more right wing islamists and military forces there and forces that are close together we will stay with us here on r t still to come this hour. they changed but not enough yet so i think that's their way of preventing some form of cyber bullying but it's not going to change anything the resident hits the streets of new york to find out what people there think about the right of social media websites to control what we're saying. but first the u.n. special envoy to syria says international peace efforts have been succeeded partly

as a result of divisions between world powers this a day after the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said russia and china will pay a price for allegedly supporting the assad government in the country of violence continues and is even spilled is neighboring lebanon stoking fears of a regional conflict five people were killed by a mortar round as the syrian military clash with rebel units who fled across the border patrick henning's in a min. at least analyst and editor at info wars dot com think syria is being used by the west 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 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 recognise that they cannot take the side of the us in 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 would 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 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 diplomatic advantage which seems to be on the side of syria's opposition but

the media as well and i was are he's got a shaky on explain such as 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 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 the former 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 had 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 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 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 cause why a british army. i think that there are i think there are a couple of different explanations for it i think one is our cozy relationship with saudi arabia the gulf states that we want to show we're on the side of our friends

who are so important to us when it comes to frankly money and international commerce i think by the way that even in a less dramatic form we're making a similar mistake when it comes to egypt and basically adopting the muslim brotherhood is our chosen voice of democracy in egypt which is also the same force that stands to benefit in syria if foreign policy is successful thank you mr texas we heard it many times the first casualty of war is the truth and we see it happening time and time again 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 have rebuff washington's threats of consequences for what it sees as siding with the syrian regime secretary of state clinton says countries must pay a price for their personal support of the assad government at r.t. dot com we're asking what are the reasons for the harsh rhetoric so far the

majority think the move points to the frustration of the west over their hampered military drive twenty one percent second biggest chunk thinks russia and china are stalling the peace effort the rest is split between the two remaining options clinton's words undermining the geneva peace accord preventing progress and the harsh rhetoric aimed at boosting public support for obama's reelection efforts log in and have us. plenty more online for you right now including this something out there rapidly moving orbs of light spotted nearly simultaneously over the skies of europe and the u.s. more on the phenomenon. what's your beef secrets take their chances with the bulls in the pamplona streets in one of spain's big summer festivals. and israel closing the door to human rights council at the u.n. 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 a sonders extradition to sweden has expired the whistleblower says he won't leave the safety of ecuador's london embassy until decision on his request for asylum in the south american countries reached. has more from london. 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 all 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. his legal team have always said

is that he would be then. gets in very strict free trial detention conditions and the overriding fear is that it would make it much easier for him to be extradited 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 the poor for about seventy days on a daily vigil we're hearing solitary read a chartreuse war resister no sharp standing with the ecuadorian people in the heart that i might the right decision which is drive the car short of a real sense among 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 battle against extradition we see wiki leaks once again

coming into the spotlight and taking the headlines with 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 over the next. for the week the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable gates well the syria files even bigger than that eight times bigger in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data and already we think some of the revelations are 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 stone ages 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 or of new york people of 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 said this week let's talk about that. very thing all right but some people still do. but that's the world we live in so should it be out there for people to see or should twitter take it down twitter should take it down so we're free over here in new york where we live free but doesn't the racist person live free to post whatever they want 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 yeah you might not agree with raised this 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 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 are 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 preventing free speech right there so i guess it's a tossup 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 our is a. 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. dating our top story again more than one hundred forty people now reported dead in massive flooding that's hit russia's southern cross to the region thousands of homes devastated when five months worth of rain fell in the space of twenty four hours rescue efforts underway but water has swept away roads and severed

communications making it tough to evacuate survivors the area is a popular seaside resort attracting thousands of russian holiday gore's throughout the year we'll bring you the latest developments on the disaster as they happen here on r.t. . keyser report coming up but first a recap of the headlines stay with us. how

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