which one fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything to nj mission to teach reason why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on. the death toll after a devastating floods in russia southern region off across the dark continues to rise reaching one hundred fifty water swept through thousands of homes in the worst disaster the area has ever seen. you on our way call the ounce as international peace conference in syria have so far failed and warns against placing the blame on russia for stalling the process. and joining us sandra mains of the safety of doors london embassy as the deadline for his extradition expires is wiki leaks website publishes files on syria down in the mask and the west.

one pm in the russian capital you're watching r.t. today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news flash floods in russia's cross nadar region struck unexpectedly a sow's woke up to a nightmare while they were asleep their lives and the people they loved were being washed away. by. the like you would. think that. devastating floods killed one hundred fifty people in the southern russian region of cross nadar over twelve thousand have been affected and the disaster caused by tarantula rains swamped thousands of houses and as artie's dennis velocity now reports emergency teams are continuing to search for survivors. we were told that

emergency ministry units just got a call from this neighborhood saying that people heard loud screaming during the floods and actually right now emergency ministry group with surge dogs they're trying to find the survivors as you can see right over there. rescue teams always do a thorough examination of every meter of the debris site and may still be oxygen under the debris so there is hope that there could still be survivors trapped underneath. that russian investigators say water discharge from the reservoir nearest to cram sc the sea worst hit by floods could not have caused the flooding and there were what are the scribe this automatic this charges but they were a team some had to jazz to the reservoir have been open on purpose to save other

cities but this theory has been discounted meanwhile almost three thousand people are staying in temporary shelters after fleeing their homes already still mark reports. you can see here behind me the river next to the town of crims all the deborah that's been flooded into that 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 states it pushed this carriage down with ease up against the side of the house the stripes that have been pushed out all this debt brick road into the front garden the fence has been pushed down but only around this town the first people are starting to come back to the house to try and assess some of the damage and some of the costs of all of this wolf so many of them really in a state of shock they may have survived on. but the cost to this town and all the

damage are immense but my cousin woke me up at around one am and told us to get out of this but we found ourselves kneedeep and will turn up with i jumped out of the window well my wife went back to get our papers she could not get out so i had to wrong to the back of the house by then jules of the room. pulled her out the water was all over the house but. 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 that rescue effort that now that cleanup operation the starting is really going to be humbugged 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 happened so fast and cost

so many lives. tom barden and also tom is staying in the region and will bring us the latest of the day well you know also follow him on twitter and see the scenes of devastation in the latest tweet follows the story from the worst affected area. now the disaster in russia south is already taking its toll on other regions as masses of tourists are heading to the area for their summer break the catastrophe as paralyzed much of the trial with at work in the affected region here's our current iraq. i'm here in moscow standing in front of one of the major transportation halts this train station behind me are where the trains depart to head into 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 cross 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 but 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 across the god 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 current or russia reporting there now for the first time in months anti-government protests are not the hottest topic in russia's blogosphere the scotian of the floods have taken over and beyond the usual

expressions of condolences and offers of help there's a whole variety of reaction artist yvonne would say looks at some of the most popular threads. 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 crimp the main story got in the flood has been that some people think that this flooding was actually manmade there's a reservoir between krinsky and the port town region at the bottom there the authorities have said that it's in tag the investigation 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 we just actually got a tweet earlier on from one of the opposition leaders saying that he's organizing a protest i gave the man made natural manmade disaster the other so that the syria

obviously bears no relevance whatsoever now away from all those other opinions and some of those tweets some people are saying let's be supportive of these disasters that happen all around the world we clean hurricane katrina back in new orleans what happened out the we've also seen japan's tsunami so these are natural disasters that happen around the world just next door to us in the u.k. rain has been pounding there too this is five months of rain that's just pounded this area for the last twenty four hours was very interesting there is to know that the blogosphere is as wild as the twitter pages it looks like russians are now looking for any kind of natural disaster that happens the government is to blame. and the timeline of the tragedy as well as all the latest news food rich and photos from the disaster zone are always available for you at r.t. dot com as we've also got stories of outstanding bravery and heroism from the flooded areas like the policeman who died rescuing local people he managed to say

to kids before his boat was overturned so log on to argue dot com for all the details. the u.n. special envoy to syria has admitted international peace efforts have not succeeded so far kofi annan also warned against blaney russia for stalling the process while ignoring the role of other powers who are sending weapons and money into the conflict zone are just more a financial 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 plans on hold to speak in holding this conflict and his sound that they have 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 a hampering peace process here in syria even threatening that that these two nations will pay a price kofi annan has said that iran could not be excluded of the 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. he's desperately trying to hammer on common vision on how to resolve pricing series here it is and will right now we've just returned from homes in the central part of the country that have been the epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army for months now here's my report from home. this part of homes maybe back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers a search a in 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 grace through and this room look human bones or 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 thousand we have no way of telling if these remains or others like them were even counted at all. bab 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 there's a badge of bomb running that is to have been the epicenter of the questions 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 meters away another. sometime 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 the buy another home state district as you can see also almost completely destroyed everything shops building schools even mosques we were told that this district was cleaned from terror months ago but as you can hear not far 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 they tell us the rebels woke up so when the. regional t.v. homs syria. iraq's foreign minister claimed this week there is solid information that al qaeda fighters are streaming over the border to syria to fight against the government that is the u.n. observer mission so violence had reached unprecedented levels neil clark a contributor from britain's guardian newspaper believes the west displaying with fire supporting al qaida backed rebels when president sat 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 the u.n. 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 initialise don't want the violence to stop that's the sad reality and i think we've 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 on the new constitution eighty seven percent of syrians voted for it we want to see a more pluralistic government in syria more pluralistic political system but that's that's 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 lay down your arms support peace and reconciliation. vote counting is underway in libya after its first free national action for more than forty years just as an egypt and tunisia as longas hope to rise to power in a country where they were long repressed under khadafi secular rule but journalists reso rick says the militias that contributed to get office overthrow will play a more important role than the new national sample of that is being elected in libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the stand there was organized opposition it was often led by this humorous 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 are paid to 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 a very do you feel that their revolution is being stolen western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe or are very interested in maintaining the moral suppliers from with. some of the countries that were pumping 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 the forces of so-called stability. you're watching are you live from moscow ahead

of the program around our over russian clashes on the streets of the ukrainian capital as a country passes a lot recognizing russian as an official language in some regions. scientists hope they found the so-called god particle and say its existence may anwar the mystery of how the universe was created. now the deadline for joining us on his extradition to sweden said by britain's highest court came and passed the saturday but the whistleblower remains in the u.k. he is still waiting for a door to decide on his request for political asylum before taking refuge in the embassy of the south american country assigned produced a much talked about interview show while the last edition aired on our t.v. this week or smith looks at the key moments of the series. i'm julian assange. it is through here where we expose the world secrets these documents belong the

united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this quote after quote. it promised an insight into the world to morrow 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 him on the mainstream media has ignored for six years what we called for in serious negotiations dialogue is that a reform at the level is going to be carried out because the alternative to that no one cause of the diversities over inside syria because it's sensitive to the situation in syria those are the types to which 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 been in the same room horowitz maintains europe is dead 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 plot i have had i have personal experience with a socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other party the global politics change also made wait for two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers 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 and bolivia mentioned a couple of times one of the most striking things that's happened there is the most

repressed part of the population of the hemisphere the indigenous population has moved into the political arena i want you 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 julian assange 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 and significantly represents stiff of the times i'll miss it the looking forward to season two of july in a stone 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 this guy would have 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 judy in our songs for the f.b.i. knowledge 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 still the 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 chiro welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. i think it is. has given us a glimpse into the future the shape of the world we live in while his own future

hangs precariously in the balance norris myth london well the spot is on just glide we can take 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 now the first batch of documents revealed how an italian company supply the syrian authorities with sophisticated communication in groups and equipment as recently as this family and there are more damning revelations to fall well there is apparently a hundred times more information down the previous leak of u.s. diplomatic cables just in radek from the government accountability project says the fact syrian files are making headlines despite the criticism against john the sun and we hear 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 by a weekly leaks as an organization especially at the time and i find all of this to be 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 and don't forget there is always plenty more on our website r.t. dot com online right now america looks set to use its 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 in new delhi set up their own fully functioning financial system offering the world's bankers a few lessons and in-depth report is that our. scientists are hopeful they are closer to solving life's greatest mysteries after discovering what's known as the got particle european center for nuclear research says it's the most anticipated find in a decade artist fear 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 that we have a planet which is populated by of course we have norm ourselves and we believe that we understand how the leave the basic laws but it doesn't sound to be real because there's hope to play it on her muscles and imagine that we have a theory which explain 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 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 if you know our entire interview with physicist and wriggle of in this coming up later on r.t. and he explains the scientific significance of the discovery here's a preview. the great achievement the whole field that due to many experiments it really became very pre-season field of science and i think one of our it went is a clear understanding call for the problems we think could be wrong with this clear in our brains twenty years ago or. so in a sense we know who is the problem. and this is the world and that's what makes all of us so exciting and that's why this. has been built.

a law any a crane to recognize russian as an official language in some regions seen hundreds take to the streets in kiev police fire tear gas angry crowds after the riot in parliament the rada approved a law presently on a card which says here consult experts before signing it off opponents of the legislation in the government are largely nationalists say the new status of russian threatens ukraine's sovereignty and as i say you're just in our forwards it would be a surprise to see politicians literally coming to blows on an issue like this. 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 for two regions deputy by the police and junker says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address lawmakers with the new one i had to finish my speech in order to

start the voting with five to six people attack to make sure i'm for 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 it was i received threats and had to move my family over there was no use going to he did debates have often ignited into all out rage inside the rada two years ago when parliament was due to ratify agreements with the 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. don't let him. 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 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. only have been a democratic stable of the it's not a fact but still it's a democratic. former deputy now political analyst to meet the chance to disagree he says deputies are weak and cannot bring any conclusion neither the law making process nor the fights and that is why he published on how. 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 or the hoop which is used to having one's back. and seriously injured each other maybe this would have paved the way for a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively i. find it's rather have to attracting impressive audiences they are usually televised

live on the paula mention channel and they all favorite t.v. show will certainly hit the screens nash and white again almost two years that have been relatively calm politically in this country and ukrainians have been deprived of televised fistfights 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 in ukraine back to our top stories for shortly stay with us.