stunts on t.v. don't come. more than one hundred forty people die as flash floods sweep through thousands of homes and russia's southern regions across the dark the worst disaster area has ever seen . other stories that happened earlier this week u.n. and when 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 julius on the maze of the safety of ecuador's london embassy as the deadline for his extradition expires is weak in weeks web side publishes files on syria damning damascus and the west.

welcome to r.t. the sunday morning and to a week for the top stories of the week as well as the latest news and we begin with the latest flash floods in russia's crust and our 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. well your mom which got by here but it was. you know that your bio was about the not going to be. there that would you. think i. think of. emergency teams are continuing to search for survivors after devastating floods killed over one hundred forty people in the southern russian region of cross in the dark over twelve thousand people have been affected the disaster caused by tarantula rain swamps thousands of houses and there are warnings the rain will continue throughout sunday artie's town barge has more on what's going on the fact

that areas right now. the floodwaters have receded from the streets but as they've receded they have revealed a scene of absolute devastation this is a town in 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 day we have to deeds as it's a real life so suddenly during the night but our. kids who know how no one can do a. child last time i got a call from them both to want to know who was who made and. we have to move from the food not just from europe and the quests that people see in the houses very some of the stronger buildings made of brick are still standing but most of the first four years have been ruined by the meter and

a heart of the so that swept through them for many weeks the wooden houses here it was too much and they collapsed under the weight of the with their cars in ditches that have been pushed up against each other and some others that have been flipped in the middle of the road is being strewn everywhere the roots of it came up out of the river and delivered into the streets it's a real mess over the then over the streets there and now the struggle begins to try and get this town back into some kind of working on 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't stay in those shelters forever though 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 none of those things to help them so this rescue effort is really going to have to take a long way 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 their town back together the climate here on the job 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 time has been far higher and they think a lot of people it was the timing it was the suddenness. of the derived clue there

was so much damage and step people being able to respond. president vladimir putin has flown to the region met with officials to try and coordinate i respect the start of this cleanup effort and to try and work with the people to try and first of all get over of a grief there were people. that 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 dumbarton reporting there now and he's down as velocity 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 metre high wave as the new year by a river 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 it was the park people came in under a lot of stress and have lost their houses their relatives and loved ones it was painful to look at the elderly which in 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 of the bus. we're standing at the traffic lights when the water it looked at it was up to here first and then it went higher and the bus stopped i backed up called the emergency services so they came in about ten minutes and started taking the children all of us through that window you can really put it through power lines have not been fixed yet the local authorities are 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 flood through the day here

on r.t. and you can also follow our correspondent on twitter to watch the scenes of devastation and tom barton street as he follows the story from the worst affected area. to other stories here on our team that we're following for you vote counting is underway in libya after its first free national action 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 but journalist resolver it says the militias that contributed to gadhafi is overthrow will play a much more important role than the new national sample. libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this illness 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 and made to feel that their revolution has been stolen western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining their oil 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 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. if you want to argue live from moscow i had in the program over russian clashes on the streets of the ukrainian capital as the country passes a wall recognizing russian as an official language and some breach of. the

un special envoy to syria has admitted international peace efforts have not succeeded so far kofi annan also warned against blaming russia forestalling the process while ignoring the role of other powers who are sending weapons and money into the conflict zone. reports from syria commenting on why the international peace offer is haven't succeeded so far u.n. and arab league special envoy to syria has retreated that success absolutely depends on the old politics being involved in this conflict and he has sent that they have a lot of talks about russia while little he said about nations still sending money and weapons to syria this friday friends of syria group accused russia and china of supporting the syrian regime hampering peace process here in syria even threatening that the these two nations will pay a price kofi annan has said that iran could not be excluded as a peace process and should be part of the doll okon syria something america has

been strongly opposed to iran is a very powerful player in this region and with huge influence on syria in central committee is desperately trying to hammer on common vision on how to resolve the crisis in series here it is in war right now we've just returned from homes in the central part of the country that have been the epicenter. of the questions between the rebels and the army for months now here's my report from home. this part of homs may be back on the syrian army control with it 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 or at least one person. who seems to have been burnt to death. and 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. you aniston ways around ten hours we have no way of telling if these remains or others like them were even counted. my brother 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 the city cemetery almost untouched actually while the rest of the city looks completely like a 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. is a real job omran if you could have been the epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army once it's been shelled heavily now so you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just misses the way. sometimes and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these raised strange but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would a hurry up. but what about another home state district as you can see also almost 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. from here questions still continue so we were actually told not to go any further as it's simply dangerous soldiers come to our location tell us the rebels will topple

so the. research team homs syria. iraq's foreign minister claimed this week that al qaida fighters are streaming over the border to carry out attacks in syria that has the u.n. observer mission said violence had reached unprecedented levels neil clark a contributor from britain's guardian newspaper believes the west is boosting unrest in syria by forming a virtual alliance with terrorist. when presidents at first came out and said it was foreign terrorist groups like al qaeda worst much of the violence in syria that was dismissed by the west but now we've got the iraqi government and secretary general saying this and that what's happening is of course we've got this kind of unofficial alliance between the west and its allies and radical islamic terror groups in the west and so i don't want the violence to stop that's the sad reality and i think we got to be very clear now there's no reason for anybody to be using violence in syria we had to vote back in february and it was

a nice all new constitution eighty seven percent of syrians voted for it we want to see a more pluralistic government in syria more pluralistic good system but that's not what we want but we're not going to have that what we've got a responsible forces who are backing violent groups and what we want is i said many times if we want the west and its allies to say to the rebels now your support peace reconciliation. well we want to hear your thoughts on this story so we're asking what you think about u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton slamming russia and china over the syrian crisis . so here's what the science vote has so far the majority believe the move points to the frustration of the west over there hampered the military drive as you can see eleven percent now 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 the words point russia and china are stalling the peace effort so log on

to argue to prompt to cast your vote. for that line for joining us on his extradition to sweden said by britain's highest court came and passed this saturday but the whistleblower remains in the u.k. is still waiting for ecuador to decide on his request for political asylum before taking refuge in the embassy of the south american country asuncion produced the much talked about interview show and the law. last edition aired on r t this week or smith looks and the key moments on the series. i'm julian assange. just. get us through where he will be expose the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn the said quote after quote the gulf war it promised an insight into the world tomorrow and in twelve episodes julie and i interviewed opinion formers and activists from across the political spectrum.

and with the first guest being hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah the program proved it wasn't going to hold back from the get go talking to a man the mainstream media has ignored for six years what we called for in serious negotiations dialogue is that the reform at the moment is going to be carried out because the alternative to that no one cause of the diversities i was inside syria because it's sensitive to the situation in syria also that just i was saying 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 been in the say you're a room. tamed europe is a dead a song agrees it was

a disastrous spirit europe europe is a cultural theme park in significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state that just took you out of the pot i have had personal experience with a socialist dream paradise or sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other party to the global politics change also made wait for two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers tarik alley and no chomsky only the. world protest movement showing modern politics are no longer fit for purpose to them the answer could lie in latin america. than from a couple of times one of the most striking things that's happened there is the most repressed part of the population of the indigenous population has moved into the. political arena i want you know i am not defending it 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 judy 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. highly engaged in one significantly representative of the times i'll miss it looking forward to season two of july in this town show but there's 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 have one 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 judean ourselves for westby a notch or worse given half a chance he's currently here at the ecuadorian embassy in london waiting to hear

whether he'll get asylum that 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 the interview and it ends on a friendly note as he. is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. thank you thank you to. us associates given us a glimpse into the future shape of the world we live in now while his own future hangs precariously in the balance norris myth london well the spot isn't just plight we can make sense back in the game the whistle blowing web site is publishing the so-called syrian files the green 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 supplied the syrian authorities with sophisticated communication and christian equipment as recently as this family and there are more damning revelations to follow so there is apparently a hundred times more information than the previous leak of u.s. diplomatic cables just erratic from the government accountability project says the fact syria files are making headlines despite the criticism against join the sangean with a lease proves the group significance. if 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 weekly leaks as an organization especially at this time and i find all of this very interesting because it shows number one we keep 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 there's syria at the front page of every major newspaper in the world right now. now don't forget there's always plenty more on our website r.t. dot com so online right now america looks set to use its airborne drones to massacre critics say that puts the privacy of u.s. citizens at risk also. their devil dive one hundred thirty three people in russia set the world record for a row and that doesn't mean skipping jumping off a bridge with god the footage in full online at our top of the checkout we have

cancer. now why ukraine to recognize russian as an official language and some regions seen hundreds take to the streets in kiev police fired tear gas and angry crowds after the ukrainian parliament the rada approved a law president got a call that says he'll consult experts before signing it off the opponents of the legislation of the government are largely nationalist to say the new status of russian threats ukrainian sovereignty and for it they wouldn't be surprised to see politicians literally coming to blows on an issue like this. was. another day another brawl while ukraine's parliament deliberated over a controversial language law deputies used their fists to let their feelings be known one of the central figures in another recent scandal haunts you region's deputy. says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address

lawmakers. i had to finish my speech in order to start 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 a bottle was thrown at me after these events i received threats and i want to move my family. and he's going to heated debates have often ignited into all out rage inside the raw. two years ago when parliament was due to ratify agreements with moscow on the stand that lees of russia's black sea naval base small bombs went off and the road a speaker had to hide. from a rain of rotten eggs thrown at him it may look like an anarchy but for some in ukraine's political circles it is in fact democracy in action and when you listen

to doing that. you would never see fights in the soviet army you'll never see fights in north korean political structures on the heels of a brawl as a last resort and delivering your point when the vocal methods don't work i'm going to only have been in a democratic state all of that is not a factor but still it's democratic. former deputy now political analyst to meet the chance to disagree he says deputies are weak and cannot bring anything to a logical conclusion neither the law making process nor the fights that is why he published a guide on how they should be a role. it depicts his table which is an endless source for improvisation counted at least eighteen things a different table which could be used in a fist fight with like the microphone. which is used to hang one's back they maim and seriously injured each other maybe this would have paved the way for a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively.

trying to have attracting impressive audiences they are usually televised live on the parliamentary 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. just how tall they are closer to solving lives greatest mysteries after discovering what's known as their god particle the european center for nuclear research says it's the most anticipated fine in a decade argue spirit all over tries to decipher the higgs bos'n scientists working at the large hadron collider have said that they've discovered a new particle which is consistent with the higgs bo's'n all the elusive god

particle now why that is so important is well if this proves to be the higgs bo's'n it proves right a whole lot of theory that scientists have been working with for the best part of fifty years now concerning the creation of the universe how it works and most importantly why things have muss up until now we've only been able to really theorize mass into equations concerning particle physics it's all very very complex science in fact some of those working at the large hadron collider of said that it's well probably easier to find the higgs boson than to explain it to the lay person imagine good we have a planet which is populated by of course we have no muscles and we believe that we understand how are they leave the base of course but that doesn't sound to be real because there's hope to play it on earth muscles and imagine that we have a theory which explain how it could go there muscles and this is done using the hugues was unwelcome just completed

a month difficult well it's already being heralded as potentially the discovery of the century certainly of recent time in science we are hearing from cern from the large hadron collider that it could take them around a year to definitely say whether this is the higgs bosun this particle that they've found but certainly it's very exciting time for the scientific community and all eyes will be focused on cern to see where this takes us in the future there are reporting there in a couple of minutes are we back with a reminder of our headlines today of this.

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