from steve. santagati dot com. the death toll devastating floods in the southern region of continues to rise now reaching one hundred fifty three thousands of homes in the worst disaster area has ever seen. u.n. envoy kofi annan says international peace efforts in syria have failed and warns against placing the blame on russia for allegedly stalling the. remains in the safety of the london embassy as the deadline for his extradition expires. publishing files on syria. and the west.

you're watching at the weekly here on our t.v. with me wrong show you know we are highlighting the top stories of the week and of today. region is reeling from deadly flash floods. cars away some people woke up in a panic to find their loved ones had been entirely washed away. but you. say here that you might have. at this point a one hundred and fifty people have been confirmed dead so far twelve thousand others have been affected the disaster caused by torrential rains forced people to

seek refuge from their homes but russian investigators have denied claims it was a manmade disaster with this report artie's denise backi. 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 search 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. sadly emergency workers did not find any survivors this time but they went on with their work we spoke to the couple who called them and they are

still in shock at what was happening to them. that's where the water level was at its peak at first the waist high flood threw me right into the corner over there luckily i managed to grab only one that was tied down i called up and over the railing and got inside the house and then i just climbed the ladder. there are many theories and rumors surrounding the krims disaster some people doubt that the flood was caused by severe tarantula rain alone they claim that it could have been water discharged from the nearby reservoir but russian investigators working at the scene deny those claims they say all surrounding dams are intact and they were functioning properly so the search for survivors here and claims continues and there is still hope that more lives will be saved. well we have a report now that almost three thousand people are staying in temporary shelters after fleeing their homes artie's now reports from one of the worst hit areas you can see here behind me the river next to the town of crims all the dead body that's

been floated 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 hit it pushed this carriage down with ease up against the side of the house the straps there have been pushed out all this debris thrown into the front garden the fence has been pushed down and all around this town the first people are starting to come back to their 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 my cousin woke me up at around one am until this to get out we found ourselves kneedeep in water i jumped out of the window while my wife went back to get our papers she could not get out so i had to run to the back

of the house by then the doors of the room will blocked 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 refugee centers that many people are still in rescue effort that now that cleanup operation that starting is really going to be hampered by all but 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. not his top reporting right there and he is staying in the region he'll be bringing us the latest throughout the day here on our t.v. you can also follow him on twitter see the scenes of devastation in his tweets tom

follows the story from that worst affected area and in his latest update he describes a huge food q. just outside of school in flood hit cribs. now the disaster in russia's south is already taking its toll on other regions as masses of tourists heading to the area for their summer break the catastrophe has paralyzed much of the travel network in the affected region as artie's current reports. 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 while most of the children in these camps have been evacuated still many are unaccounted for and parents here telling me today that they just want to find out if everything is alright keep in mind now cross the thought that is right by all right on the black sea and the name 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. reporting now for the first time in months government protests are not the hottest topic in russia's blogosphere a discussion of the floods taken from beyond the usual expressions of condolences

on the force of hope there's a whole variety of reaction. looks at some of the most popular threats. it's amazing what a hundred forty characters can do to instigate a debate now twenty four hours later the blocks years social media has just been buzzing about what exactly happened out the in a crimp the main story got in the floods has been that some people think that this flooding was actually manmade there's a reservoir in between crimps 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 protests i gave the man made natural manmade disaster the others are 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 these are disasters that happen all around the world we clean hurricane katrina back in new orleans what happened out there 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 day two this is five months of rain that's just pounded this area for the last twenty four hours was very interesting there is you know that blocks the ads as well as the twitter pages it looks like russians are now looking for any kind of natural disaster that happens the government is to blame. well the timeline of the tragedy as well as all the latest news footage and photos from the disaster zone are always available for you are just a click away twenty four hours a day dot com we've also got stories of outstanding bravery and heroism from the flooded areas like the police man who died rescuing locals he managed to save two

kids before his boat was overturned you know log on to our team dot com all those details for you just a click away. ten past the hour here in moscow the un's special envoy to syria has admitted that 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 current conflict from syria with this report are to use maria for national commented 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 only parties being involved in this conflict and has sound that this has 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 these two nations will pay a price often and has said that iran could not be excluded of the peace process and should be part of the dialogue own 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 crisis in syria here it is in 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 under syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers a search ain 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. 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. by bomb or 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 you can see behind me the city 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 they're beautiful calm 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 weirdo bomb that if you could have been the epicenter of the questions 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 district some time here and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these rays strange rays quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would a hurry up. that was a bar another home state district as you can see also most completely destroyed everything shops building schools even mosques we were told that this district was cleaned from turkey months ago but as you can hear not far from here questions

still continue so we were actually told not to go any further i would simply dangerous soldiers come to our location they tell us the rebels woke up so we leave . our t. . homs syria. and our art is coming to you live from the heart of moscow a vote counting is underway in libya after its first free national election for more than forty years just as in egypt and tunisia islamists hope to rise to power in a country where there were long repressed under khadafi secular rule but journalist resell rick says the militias that contributed to could def is overthrow will play a more important role than the new national assembly that's currently being elected . libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this interests 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 can get a new strongman is going to come to power which does not work they fought for him to feel that their revolution is being strong western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining the moral supplies from. some of the countries that were something the loudest for military intervention are the ones who get their oil from libya and i think there is evidence that they're back in some of the more right wing islamist and military forces there as their forces are so close together. you're watching on t.v. it's good to have your company today still ahead for you in this program raul over russian matters on the streets of the ukrainian capital as the country pastas of

old recognizing russian as an official language in sudden regions. and i thought it's hope they found the so-called god particle and say its existence may at some point on the mystery of how the entire universe was created. by the deadline by julian assad his extradition to sweden set by britain's highest court came to this saturday but the whistleblower remains in the u.k. he's still waiting for ecuador 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 program in the last edition and on this week now laura smith looks at the key moments of the series. i'm julian assange. it is true for theory where we expose the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strong we can

down this question why do people want 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 called for in serious negotiations dialogue and he said the reform act was going to be carried out because the alternative to that the no one cause of the me first i see somebody was inside syria because of the sensitivity of 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 wing against radical leftists. with the age

old ideological fight threatened to turn physical had they been in the same room horowitz maintains europe is a dead agrees it was a disastrous spirit europe but europe is a cultural theme park significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state just took out of the pie i have had personal experience with the socialist green 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 i think is. only the world protest movement showing modern politics are no longer fit for purpose to them so the answer could lie in latin america 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. 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 casting highly engaged in and significantly represent stiff of the times i'll miss it. looking forward to season two of june a sound 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 i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a guy would have won forcing. the nobody would know. he was

a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life the feeling is mounting that the u.s. would indeed prosecute judean asos for westby a knowledge or worse given half a chance he's currently here at the ecuadorian embassy inducted 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 chilling note as he. is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and cheer up we welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. take care. thank you. i still have given us a glimpse into the future shape of the world we live in while his own future hangs

precariously in the balance norris myth london. despite a soldier's plight wiki leaks is back in the game to whistle blowing web site now publishing the so-called syrian files of the group promised millions of e-mails will be released over the next few weeks exposing the west's apocryphally and dealing with damascus by the first batch of documents revealed how an italian company supplied the syrian authorities with sophisticated communication encryption equipment as recently as this february and there are more damning revelations to follow there's apparently a hundred times more information than the previous leak of u.s. diplomatic cables i just live from the government accountability project says the fact syrian files are making headlines despite the criticism against julian assange and wiki leaks proves the group's significance if these leaks were meaningless falafel 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 is very interesting because it shows number one weekly 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 i don't forget there's always plenty more on our website r.t. dot com online for you right now america looks set to use its airborne drones

domestically critics say that puts the previously of u.s. citizens groups also. a group of children in a shelter for homeless kids in new delhi to set up their own fully functioning financial system offering the world bank has a few lessons and in-depth report at r.t. dot com is standing by. it's good to have you with us or an r.t. today scientists are hopeful they are closer to solving life's greatest mysteries after discovering what's known as the god particle the european center for nuclear research says it's the most anticipated find of the decade. of a tries to decipher the so-called higgs boson. 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 because we have norm ourselves and we believe we understand how the leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because this sort of played on mars and imagine that we have a theory which explains how to get them ourselves and this is done using the higgs was unwelcome just completely 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 boson 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 and i put all of his entire interview with physicist and draggled when there's a coming up or just a bit later here on r.t. explains the scientific significance of the discovery in our quick preview of the great achievement the whole field that due to many experiments it really became very precision healt of signed and i think one of our. it's when it is a clear understanding of those problems we think that they we don't win this clear pattern in our brains they twenty years ago or so in a sense we know though is the problem to be understood and that's what makes all of us so exciting and if that's why this letter don't call it has been built.

you're watching r.t. a law in ukraine to recognize russian as an official language in some regions as seen hundreds take to the streets in kiev the police fired tear gas at angry crowds after the ukrainian parliament the round approved the law president got a covert churchill consult experts before signing it off at the opponents of a legislation in the government are largely nationalists who say the new status of russia threatens ukrainian sovereignty and as artists are like the other stuff you're a porter wouldn't be a surprise to see politicians literally coming to blows on an issue like this it's just. another day another brawl while ukraine's parliament deliberated over a controversial language law deputies used their fists to let their feelings be know one of the central figures in another recent scandal party of regions deputy

i.g.p. police and says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address lawmakers. when you or i had to finish my speech in order to start voting five to six people attacked me i'm a former weight lifter 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 not to move my family. is going to heated debates have often ignited into all out rage inside the rada two years ago when part of. it was due to ratify agreements with the most sco on the stand that lees of russia's black sea naval base small bombs went off and the rada speaker had to hide on down umbrella from a rain of rotten eggs thrown at him it may look like chaos and anarchy but for some in ukraine's political circles it is in fact democracy in action and when you

listen to that all of that i could go through you would never see fights in the soviet parliament you'll never see fights in north korean political structures of rule as a last resort of delivering your point when the vocal methods don't work but can only happen in a democratic state it's not effective but still it's democratic. former deputy now political analyst the media every day intends 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 roll over. a dip in just table is an endless source for improvisation i've counted at least eighteen things that ever table which could be used in a fist fight like the microphone or the hook which is used to hang one's back if they maim and seriously injured each other maybe this would have paved way for

a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively. the years finds rather have to extract incompressibility and since they are usually televised live on the pollination channel and the old favorite t.v. show will certainly hit the screens national white again almost two years it had been relatively calm politically in this country and ukrainians had 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 let's hear a. reporting from kiev and ukraine all right on the back with a recap of our top stories and just.