death toll after a devastating floods in russia southern a region of cross nadar continues to rise reaching one hundred fifty water swept through a sow's of homes in the worst disaster the area has ever seen. you want out of way kofi annan says international peace average in syria have so far failed and warns against placing the blame on russia forestalling the process. and join us on the remains in the safety of a quick doors london embassy as the deadline for his extradition expires and his weekly leaks web side publishes files on syria downing damascus and the west.

this is r.t. coming to life from moscow today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news and flash floods in russia's crescent are 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 but if you look at the other thing here that you might have was about the likelihood is it would go. oh. thank. you kings are continuing to search for survivors after devastating floods killed one hundred fifty people in the southern russian region of cross and are over twelve thousand have been affected and the disaster caused by tarantula rains swamp thousands of houses and there are warnings the rain will continue throughout sunday artie's town barton has more on what's going on in the affected areas right now. you can see here behind me the river next

to the town of crims all the deborah that's been flooded into there by that deluge of water that came into the night and here we can see just a little part of the damage that that immense amount of water did this small house close to the river one of the worst hit one of the first state it pushed this carriage down with ease up against the side of the house the straps there have been pushed out all this dead brick road into the front garden the fences been pushed down and only around this town the first people are starting to come back to the houses to try and assess some of the damage and some of the costs of all of this water many of them really in a state of shock they may have survived that night but the cost to this town and all the damage are immense but i don't know but my cousin woke me up at around one am until just to get out but we found ourselves kneedeep in will turn up with i jumped out of the window while my wife went back to get our papers she could not

get a chance so i had to wrong to the back of the house you know by then jewels of the room will blow so i broke the window and pulled her out the water was all over the house. there's no electricity at the moment. there's no landline telephone service it's very hard to find any food or water outside the refuge senses that many people are still in and not rescue effort but now that cleanup operation is starting it's really going to be prompted by old president vladimir putin has flown in to talk to some of the people here and some of the administrators who are trying to coordinate those efforts and also to find out why people were given no warning and why this flood so fast and cost so many lives. are just how martin is staying in the region and will bring us the latest on the day when we can also follow him on twitter see the scenes of devastation in

a way the latest tweets as tom follows the story from the worst affected area. well russian investigators say water discharge from the reservoir nearest to krinsky the city worst hit by floods could not have caused flooding there were a what are described as atomic automatic residues charges but they were teen some have suggested the reservoir have been opened on purpose to save other cities but this theory has been discounted it argues that as well as your 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 nearby river other go to turned into a roaring nightmare i was kept out on the open i wanted kids who are in a house think leading a paralyzed grandmother and younger men like a three month old child last time i got a call from them they said the water level was almost reaching new zealand and they

didn't know how to get out we haven't heard from them since from europe and almost everyone was caught by surprise the downs 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 party 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 but not sick of it we're standing at the traffic lights when the water it was up to here first and then it went higher and a bus stopped i backed up called the emergency services they came in about ten minutes and started taking the children off the bus i mean through that window you could be really even though power lines have not been fixed yet local authorities a certain that they will be able to restore the grid in

a couple of days rescue operation continues and emergency workers are still hoping to fly in and help more survivors. now the disaster in russia's south is already taking its toll in other regions as massive tour is heading to the area for their summer break for catastrophe has paralyzed much of the trial the network in the affected region let's now talk to a current erasures following this for. a car and tell us about the knock on effect this catastrophe is having on other parts of the country. that's right it certainly is affecting this tragedy many people throughout russia here in moscow are sending out one of the train stations that leads into chaos not god and we've been seeing cancellations and delays but more importantly it's the families who are suffering families of those people who are still stranded in krasnodar and they can't even reach them let alone not by train but even by telephone a lot of the electricity is still out over there and so you really can't make any sort of phone calls to find out what's going on there on the ground so

a lot of fear a lot of concern we have people here at the train station very angry at the fact that they can't reach their loved ones now would you ever ports that some trains have been put back into service but they will be rerouted into a different area where the water levels aren't as high you also have children in summer camps it's a very popular spot for children to relax throughout the summer and for the most part they have been evacuated but they are still making efforts to get all those children out keep in mind now cross the thought that is right by all right on the black sea and the main port is also dealing with the runoff of houses and dead bodies as well as even a sewage leak so on top of the catastrophe that's going on you have people in the area who can't even get fresh water or food so a very major situation going on right now and it's affecting not only the people there but people throughout russia as well. all right indian current thanks very

much indeed for bringing us the very latest correspondent heard her watching there . now for the first time in months. anti-government protests are not the hottest topic in russia was fear discussion of the floods have taken over and beyond the usual expressions of condolences and offers of help there is a whole variety of reaction. is to say joins us now live from our news room with more. well marina it's amazing what a hundred forty characters can do to instigate a display now twenty four hours later the blogosphere social media has just been buzzing about what exactly happened out the in a criminal now i just want to tell you the first we're going to talk about is a conspiracy theory that you mentioned earlier on that everybody has been talking about now on twitter it's been a topic of discussion today the main story we got in the floods has been that some people think that this flooding was actually manmade now want to pull up

a map and so i can show you why people say that now there's a reservoir between crimps and the port town region at the bottom there as you can see that reservoir has nothing to do with what just happened in that region in fact the authorities have said that it's in tag they showed images of a satellite image is that everything is ok then vesta gaging committee has come out and said everything is fine with that reservoir it has nothing to do with the natural catastrophe that just happened people are using social media to try to push some of their political agendas they even asking the governor of the region to actually step down the governor has come out and said we need to stop this because we instigating and was spreading fear around the region we need to concentrate on what's important here is that people's lives have been lost and we need to start the emergency services going now you know the other so that the syria obviously bears no relevance whatsoever now moving away from that let's just look

a look at some other what other people are saying on the twitter we're getting a lot of tweets sort of targeting president putin now i want you to tell you a little bit more about some of the things that people are saying they're comparing twelve years ago when he was president when he was in office to an incident that happened back then it was a submarine incident that happened now he's in it is an office at the moment and this incident of this catastrophe happens while he's in office. people are comparing those two incidences to the catastrophe now they have two different instances they have nothing to do with each other once again pushing their political agenda we just actually got a tweet from one of the opposition leaders saying that he's organizing a protest i gave the man made natural man made does that step now you know away from all those other opinions and some of those tweets some people are saying let's be supportive these are disasters that happen all around the world we've seen how we can katrina back if you would leave what happened out the we've also seen

japan's tsunami so these are natural disasters that happen around the world just next to us in the u.k. rain has been pounding that too this is five months of rain that's just how did this area for the last twenty four hours was very interesting there is to know that the blogs as well the point of pages it looks like russians are now looking for any kind of that will disaster that happened the government is to blame. all right terry thanks very much indeed for gauging their reaction for hours there and the timeline of the tragedy as well as all the latest news footage and photos from the disaster zone are always available for you at our t dot com and we've also got stories of outstanding bravery and heroism from a flooded areas like the policeman who died rescuing local people who managed to save two kids before his boat was overturned so long on georgia dot com for all the

latest. the stories that we're following for you here today now 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 and to the conflict zone i just worry for national reports from syria. commenting on why the international peace efforts haven't succeeded so far u.n. and arab league special envoy to syria has retreated that success absolute of the hands on the only participate in holding this conflict and he has signed that they have been a lot of talks about russia while little is 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 and hampering peace process here in syria even threatening that the these two nations will pay a price often and has said that iran could not be excluded of the peace process and and should be part of the dialogue on syria something america has been strongly

opposed to iran is a very powerful player in this region and with huge influence on syria. is desperately trying to hammer old common vision on how to resolve price in syria syria is in war right now we've just returned from the 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 homes. at least part of hunger may be back on the 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. you honest in ways around ten hours we have no way of telling you 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 area people have left military almost the only human beings left in this area this is you 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 are that 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 bad job omran if you could have been be a percent 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 away another big. company here and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these rays strange rice quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would a hurry up. but what about another holmes the district as you can see also most completely destroyed everything shops buildings schools even mosques we were told that this district was cleaned from turkey months ago but as you can hear. from here questions still continue so we were actually told not to go any further as it simply then soldiers come to our location tell us the rebels. so when the.

homs syria. iraq's foreign minister claimed this week there is solid information that al qaida fighters are streaming over the border to syria to fight against the government that as the u.n. observer mission said violence had reached on president levels neil clark a contributor from britain's guardian newspaper believes the west is playing with fire supporting al qaida backed rebels. when presidents i first came out and said it was foreign terrorist groups like al qaeda were much of the violence in syria that was dismissed by the west but now we've got iraqi government and secretary general saying this and that what's happening is of course we've got this kind of unofficial alliance between western 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 see people 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 only 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 you've got your support peace and reconciliation. i want to hear your thoughts on the story we're asking what do you think about u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton slamming russia and china over the syrian crisis well so far the majority believe the move points to the frustration of the west over there hampered military drive eleven for san 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 twenty two percent of you think the words have a point russia and china are styling the peace effort so long gone to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. vote counting is under way in maybe

after its first free national election for more than forty years just as in egypt and tunisia and islam is hope to rise to power in a country where they were a long repressed secular rule but journalists threes over it says the militias that contributed to cut off his overthrow will play a more important role down the new national sample speaking elected. libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this in the us 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 there is not what 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 their all supplies from within the and 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. what you are to live from moscow is still ahead on the program discovery of the decade scientists find a so-called god particle and say its existence made unlock the mystery of how the universe was created. the deadline for a joint to salinger's extradition to sweden said by britain's highest court came and passed the saturday but the whistleblower remains in the u.k. is still waiting for a good order to decide on his request for political asylum before taking refuge in

the embassy of a south american country song produced a much talked about interview show well the last edition aired on our team this week and laura smith looks add the key moments of the series. i'm drawing a song. get it through. is the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this quote after quote the law it promised an insight into the world tomorrow and in twelve episodes julie and i saw an interview to 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 call for in serious negotiations dialogue is that the reform at the moment is going to be carried out

because the alternative to that run away because 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. the age old ideological fight threatened to to turn. physical had they been in the same room horowitz maintains europe is dead agrees 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 plot i have had personally i have personal experience with the socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other party the global politics change also made waves but

two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers tarik alley and no chomsky the world protest movement showing modern politics are no longer fit for purpose to them the answer could lie in latin america and 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 the indigenous population has moved into the political arena i want to 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 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 broadcasting

highly engaged in one significantly representative of the times i'll miss it looking forward to season two of july in a stone 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 want to do it illegally shoot the son of a guy would dive when forcing for him and nobody would know who is a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life the feeling is mounting that the u.s. would indeed prosecute julian as 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 the interview and it ends on a friendly but chilling note as who would be the pleasure to meet you julian least

in this way and welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. thank you to. a source 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 the spot of sound just plied wiki leaks is 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 in dealing with damascus but the first batch of documents revealed how and it's high in company supplying the syrian authorities with sophisticated communication and corruption equipment as recently as this fabulous and there are more damning revelations to follow 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 syria files are making headlines despite the criticism against you and the sun and if we can leaks proves the group's 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 viability of weekly leaks as an organisation especially at this time and i find all of this very interesting because it shows a 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 the front page of every major newspaper in the world right now. well don't forget it's there is always plenty more on our website r.t. dot com so online right now america looks set to use it airborne drones domestically critics say that puts the privacy of u.s. citizens at risk also. a group of kids in a shelter for homeless kids and new delhi's set up their own a fully functioning financial system offering the world bankers a few lessons and in-depth report is our cue dot com. scientists are hopeful they are closer to solving lives greatest mysteries after discovering what's known as the god particle european center for nuclear research says it's the most anticipated find in a decade sphere all over tries to decipher the higgs boston. 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 norm ourselves and we believe there but we understand how they leave the base of course but that doesn't sound to be real because there's hope to play on her muscles and imagine that we have a theory which explains how to get their muscles and this is done using the hugues

was unwelcome just completely month difficult well it's already being heralded as potentially the discovery of the century certainly of recent times 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 i'm just a few hours i'll be back with your mind of our top story with us.

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