starts on t.v. don't come. more than one hundred forty people die as flash floods sweep through thousands of homes in russia southern region of krasnodar the worst disaster in the area has ever seen . you an hour kofi annan says international peace efforts in syria have so far failed and warns against placing the blame on russia for stalling the process. and julian assange remains in the safe if that were the words london embassy as the deadline for his extradition expires his weekly's website publishes files on syria downing damascus and the west.

in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie flash floods in russia's cross nadar region struck unexpectedly as thousands woke up to a nightmare while they were asleep their lives and the people they loved were being washed away. your mom which got by here was the. emergency teams are continuing to search for survivors after a devastating floods killed over one hundred forty people in the southern russian region of cross in the dark the disaster caused by to wrench will rain swamp thousands of houses and there are warnings the rain will continue throughout sunday only now cross live teleport spawning tom barton for more on what's going on in the areas right now tom so tell us how are people coping of this point.

while at the moment marina the flood waters have receded from the streets but as they've receded they have revealed a scene of absolute devastation this is a town and a real mess we've seen in the streets today the first people are starting tentatively to try to return to count the cost of. that but then we have to do it as it's arrived so suddenly during the night. the numbers the quests that people see him hours is very some of the stronger buildings made of brick are still standing but most of the first first being ruined by the meter and a powerful through there so that's what threw them for many weeks the wooden houses here it was too much to make collapsed under the weight of the with their cars in ditches that had been pushed up against each other and some of those that have been flipped they were in the middle of the road is being strewn everywhere the roots of

it came up out of the river and flowed into the streets it's a real mess over the the over the streets there and now the struggle begins to try and get this town back into some kind of. working in the emergency services have set up refuge centers and there are still many people in those centers getting some much needed rest and some food and drink they can stay in those shelters forever they're going to have to come back to their houses some point and that's when the real difficulties that have been left by this flood can really start to be found there's very few shops open here it's hard to get food and basic supplies there's no electricity there's no landline telephone service people are having to try and sift through the wreckage of their homes with none of those things to help them so this rescue effort is really going to have to take

a lot of work from people who bit strong group together in those terrifying hours to try and save each other's lives and they are going to have to come together to get in to try and put the town back together well indeed tom as you were saying the footage that we've seen the pictures are quite dramatic and sort of speak for themselves but you know floods are not rare and these areas these resort areas i should say so compared to other calamities how severe is this disaster compared to what the region has already seen before. indeed the not really the climate here on the jungle feet i mean the floods people are used to some flooding every year but this one really took them by surprise and really has caused a lot of shock there were major floods in two thousand and two as well they affected a large coast this particular area but the death toll in this time has been far higher and they think a lot of people it was the timing it was the suddenness of the that well that's

a that's a rife as close to so much damage and step people being able to respond properly president vladimir putin has flown to the region met with officials to try and. tonight i was spends the start of this cleanup effort and to try and work with the people to try and first of a get over very grief they were people but were less but couldn't escape in time unless their lives and there are so now to try and stop putting this town back into some kind of working order. all right tom thanks very much for bringing us the very latest from the disaster struck area tom barton reporting there for. now it is that is a lot to get reports on how the events unfolded from friday night when the disaster hit people are still in shock in an instant their homes their cars and their gardens were swept away by a five meter high wave as the new year by

a river of the go home turned into a roaring nightmare almost everyone was called 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 if you push them but 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 the 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 at the border we were standing at the traffic lights when the water it was up to here at first and then it went higher and the bus stopped i backed up called the emergency services they came in about ten minutes and started taking the children off the bus through that window even though power lines have not been fixed yet local authorities as certain that they will be able to restore the grid in the couple of days rescue operation continues

and emergency workers are still hoping to fly in and help more survivors. well we'll continue our coverage on russia's floods throughout the day here on our t.v. and you can also follow our correspondents on twitter and watch the scenes of devastation in tom bargains tweet as he follows the story we're back to area. let's now turn to other stories that we're following for here on are the u.n. special envoy to syria has admitted international peace efforts have not succeeded so far kofi annan also warned against blaming russia for stalling the process while ignoring the role of other powers who are sending weapons and money into the conflict zone while we get more on this from our correspondent who is here for us. now violence shows no sign of abating where you are now at this point but did kofi annan explain why he thinks they are national efforts are failing there. well

commented on why the international peace efforts haven't succeeded so far the u.n. and arab league special envoy to syria has retreated that success absolutely depends on the old participated in holding this conflict and the syrian crisis should be and could only be resolved through dialogue and that the geneva peace initiative just like other international peace plans is a team work and it is it is absolutely unacceptable and not at all constructive to blame on only one side he has sounded they have been a lot of talks about russia while little is said about nations still sending money and weapons to the syrian rebels kofi annan has mostly been talking about friends of syria group that this friday condemned russia and china accused russia and china of supporting the syrian regime and of help or in peace process here if you've been threatening that the these two nations will pay a price. and it also these groups unilaterally condemned the syrian regime for

violence and violations in the country and the resolution with a similar conclusion is good unless really really let's really condemning the syrian regime for all bad things happening now in syria was proposed the same game friday i do un human rights council well coffee and has said that it is it's absolutely impossible to to implement double standards in this situation because all the sides should admit that this is really the responsibility of all both sides in the conflict to stop the violence and to lay down but it is interesting and worth to point out that this happened just days after the geneva meeting where eighty percent of the participants are at the same time members of this friends of syria group and days after u.n. security council where it was agreed by world powers that both sides of the conflict here in syria recall the responsible for violations and violence and where it was also agreed that weapons supplied to both sides. on the rebels and to the

syrian regime are fueling a recall the fuel in the conflict and should be stopped at the same time kofi annan continuing the idea of teamwork has said that iran could not be excluded off the peace process and and should be part of the dialogue on the. own syria iran is a very powerful player in this region and with huge influence on syria so it's absolutely not wise not to use this influence and not to. and not to listen to iran not to invite him to live in iran to talk on syria something i'm erica has been strongly opposed to it will strengthen the to withdraw peace process if iran also takes part but the bad news and the worst news is that while the international community is desperately trying to hammer out. a common vision on how to resolve price in syria syria is in war right now we've just returned from homes in the

central part of the country in the areas that have have been the epicenter of the questions between the rebels and the army for months now and this is really sad picture what we saw here's my report from homes. in this part of honey may be back on to syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers but that's not what they usually find. some people in their homes became their grades too and this room look human bones but at least one person. who seems to have been burnt to death. in the next house we find three more charred skulls. activists claim up to eight hundred thousand people have been killed since the uprising began sixteen months ago the u.n.

estimates around ten pounds and we have no way of telling if these remains or others like them were even counted at. baba amr used to be home to one hundred thousand people now we're driving through ghost area people have left military almost the only human beings left in this area this is he can see behind me this is a cemetery almost untouched actually while the rest of the city looks completely like the cemetery buildings schools mosques all in ruins and no sign of life while many signs of this is one of the tallest buildings in the area and we can see from this balcony two completely different pictures two completely different realities look there beautiful pictures peaceful city while over there well we can see war homes the opposition hotbed has always been at the heart of the uprising against president assad. doesn't viejo baumrind if you could have been the

epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army since it's been shelled heavily now so you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just meters away another big. company here and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these razed strange rice quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would hurry up. but what about another home safe district as you can see also most completely destroyed everything shops buildings schools even mosques we were told that this district was cleaned from terror months ago but as you can hear it's not far from here questions still continue so we were actually told not to go any further as it simply then soldiers come to our location and tell us the rebels woke up so when the. regional team homs syria. more than one hundred nations supporting the syrian opposition have urged tougher

a u.n. action against president bashar asad including a resolution that could enact the use of force at friday's meeting in paris u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said russia and china must pay a price for what she sees as support for this here in need or both moscow and beijing ribot of the criticism saying they aren't backing any side of the conflict rochelle so accuse washington of deviating from international agreements to push for a political settlement in syria but if the allies three crowds of believes clinton has crossed a diplomatic line in her remarks against and she's hardly an impartial actor in this of course actively engaged in the first of all for the government the syria what she said because of the note of intimidation the ramp is a marker that into the strike that represents a new. era responsible statesman like the eight years something to be honest with you i don't remember ever hearing during the very most difficult period of the cold war i should hope that this is a point at which one seriously else to draw

a line there is no unilateral lawless reckless behavior by the united states and its allies over the past twelve years the war against iraq libya and all the actions against syria this is perhaps the last stand for defending genuine international law and the sovereignty of nations. well here on r t we want to hear your thoughts on this story so we're asking you what you think about us or glory of state hillary clinton slamming russia and china over this year in crisis let's take a look at the site loads that we are conducting today as you can see so far the majority believe the move points to the frustration of the west over thier hampered military drive about eleven percent and are sure it undermines the geneva peace accord preventing any joint progress while fourteen percent think the harsh rhetoric was aimed at securing more public support for president obama and more

than twenty percent of you think we're at a point russia and china are stalling the peace effort so do us now what do you think by logging onto our t.v. dot com. now vote counting is underway in leave after its first free national election for more than forty years the general consensus so far seems to be that the islamic parties will gain a majority as they did in post revolutionary tunisia and egypt a journalist reso rick says the militias that contributed to get off these overthrow will play a much more important role in 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 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 get an interview 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 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 moral supplies from libya and some of the countries that were funding the loudest for military intervention are the ones who get their all from libya and i think there are there's evidence that they're back in some of the more right wing islamist and military forces there as their forces of so-called stability. you are with r t live from moscow i have a program around our overall russian clashes on the streets of the ukrainian capital of the country passing the law are recognizing russian as an official language in some regions. the deadline for joining us on his extradition to sweden

said by britain's highest court came and passed this saturday but it was a low we're remains in the u.k. is still waiting for ecuador to decide on his request for political asylum well before taking refuge in the embassy of the south american country songe produced a much talked about interview show last edition aired on our t.v. this week laura smith looks at the key moments of the series. i'm truly innocent. it's true we've exposed the world secrets these jackets belong united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn this question quite a lot it promised an insight into the world to morrow and did twelve episodes judy and i saw an interview to opinion formers and activists from across the political spectrum. and with the

first guest being has. the program proved it wasn't going to hold back from the get go talking to about the mainstream media has ignored for six years what we call for in serious negotiations dialogue is that the right format for them is going to be carried out because the alternative story that the no one cause of the diversity is about inside syria because it's sensitive to the situation in syria to alternatives to the us they need to civil war and this is exactly what america and israel want for syria elsewhere the joined up europe project came under fire from david horowitz in a show that pitted the outspoken right winger against radical leftists. with the age old ideological fight threatened to turn physical had. they've been in the same room horowitz maintains europe is dead a song agrees oh it was a disastrous spirit europe europe is a cultural theme park it's significant that's what happened that's what your

welfare state that just took you out of the pot i have had personally i have personal experience with a socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other guys in the global politics change also made wait for two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers the tarik alley and. the world protest movement showing modern politics are no longer fit for purpose to them the answer could lie in latin america in bolivia and mentioned a couple of times one of the most striking things that's happened there is that the most repressed part of the population of the hemisphere is the indigenous population has moved into the political arena i want you to know i am not defending him i think he is a dirtbag i think he is a dirtbag he obviously has no problem using his fifteen minutes of fame to sleep with anyone who is crawling dividing media opinion but getting real people talking

today in a soldier's show hit the ground running and the public on the twitter sphere have an appetite for more nothing short of groundbreaking revolutionary costing highly engaged and significantly represent stiff of the times i'll miss at the looking forward to season two of julian assange show. but there is no guarantee season two can happen and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a guy would dive well forcing for me and nobody would know who is a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life the feeling is mounting that the us would indeed prosecute julian our songs for espionage or worse given half a chance he's currently here at the ecuadorian embassy in london waiting to hear whether he'll get asylum it's thought that prospect was first raised off mike

during his interview with the ecuadorian president for the show broadcast on r.t. mutual admiration is clear in that interview and it ends on a friendly chilling note as he. is being a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. thank you to sing. a song has given us a glimpse into the future shape of the world we live in while his own future hangs precariously in the balance laura smith london. well despite a sound just ply this back in the game the whistle blowing web site is publishing the so-called syrian files the group promised millions of emails will be released over the next few weeks exposing the west's hypocrisy in dealing with damascus the first batch of documents revealed how an italian company supply of the syrian

authorities with sophisticated communication and corruption of women as recently as this family were a and their war of damning revelations to fall there is apparently a hundred times more information than the previous leak of u.s. diplomatic cables just one radek from the government accountability project says the fact syrian files are making headlines despite the criticism against join the sun week elise proves the group's significance to these leaks were meaningless fluff or not in the public interest in knowing cared no one would report on them and they would see julian assange djoser crackpot and no one would pay any attention to it the fact that they're being reported on inherently shows their worth despite the fact that credit card companies that choked off financial support to wiki leaks and that he is holed up in the embassy this organization is continuing to function which is a testament to the by wiki leaks as an organization especially at this time and i

find all of this very interesting because it shows number one the leaks is alive and well despite the best efforts of so many countries to shut it down and number two that as much as the mainstream media wants to distance itself from wiki leaks the syria files are at the front page of every major newspaper in the world right now. now don't forget there is always plenty more of our website r t dot com so online right now america looks drones domestically critics say that puts the privacy of u.s. citizens at risk also a daredevil died one hundred thirty three people in russia at the world record for road jumping and that doesn't mean skipping jumping off a bridge all the food isn't forms available at our team dot com.

now a law in ukraine to recognize russian as an official language and some regions saw hundreds hit the streets of kiev police fired tear gas and angry crowds after the rain parliament's the rada approved a law the president will consult experts before signing it off opponents of the religious lation are largely nationalists and as reports ukraine's politicians get physical and their disputes. another day another brawl while ukraine's parliament deliberated all the controversial language deputies used their fists to let their feelings be known one of the central figures in another recent scandal i want you regions deputy but you can use the junker says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address lawmakers. i want to finish my speech in order to stop the voting five to six people attacked me i'm from the weightlifter and could provide a strong physical reply but i didn't want to because then everyone would have said

i was a thug but it was hard to restrain myself especially. after these events i received threats and i want to move my family. and he's going to a good heated debates have often ignited into all out rage inside the rada two years ago when parliament was due to ratify agreements with the most go on the stand that lees of russia's black sea. naval base small bombs went off and there were a lot of speaker had to hide. from a rain of rotten eggs thrown at him. and. it is in fact democracy in action when you know. you would never see fights in the parliament you'll never see fights in north korean political structures on the because of a brawl as a last resort and delivering your point when the. only happen in a democratic state is not a factor but still it's democratic. former deputy political analyst to me the

chance to disagree he says deputies weak and cannot bring any conclusion neither the law making process nor the fights that is why he published. it depicts his table is an endless source for improvisation counted at least eighteen things that ever table which could be used in a fist fight with like the microphone or the hoop which is used to having one's been maimed and seriously injured each other maybe this would have paved the way for a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively i. don't have to press it he insists they are usually televised live on the paula mentioned channel and the old favorite t.v. show will certainly hit the screens nash and white again almost two years it had

been relatively calm politically in this country and ukrainians had been deprived of televised fist fights within the parliament but now with a parliamentary election looming this fall deputies are expected to intensify their fight for the right to work inside this building. reporting from kiev in ukraine while this brings us up to date i'll be back shortly with an update of our top stories stay with us here on r.t. .

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