the death toll of the devastating floods in russia. continues to rise to one hundred and fifty. three of thousands of homes in the worst disaster area has. u.n. envoy kofi annan says international peace efforts in syria have so far failed and warns against placing the blame for stalling the process. remains on the safety of ecuador's london embassy but the deadline for extradition expires and here's the wiki leaks website publishers files on syria. and the west.

with the top stories of the week and today this is the weekly with me will receive the. region is reeling from deadly flash floods that took houses and cars some people woke up in a panic to find their loved ones had been washed away. oh yeah i'm out much got by here he was. saying here that you might. feel. one hundred and fifty five people have been confirmed dead so far over twelve thousand others have been affected the disaster caused by torrential rains forced people to seek refuge from their homes russian investigators are denied claims it was a manmade disaster. polaski reports on this. 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 there trying to find the survivors. as you can see right over there. rescue teams always do a thorough examination of every metre of the debris site and may still be oxygen under the debris so there is hope that they 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. because of the mystery 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 then i called up and over the railing and got inside the house and then i just climbed the ladder all the search for survivors here and claims continues and there's still hope that more lives will be saved. now russian investigators say water discharged from the reservoir nearest to the city worst hit by the disaster could not have caused the flooding that had been some theories put forward that the disaster could have been manmade but authorities say there are no sluice gate to the reservoir facility able to former surgeon water instead any overflow was automatically dispersed through a shaft that would prevent dangerous levels of water making it too high population areas now almost three thousand people are staying in temporary shelters after fleeing their homes. 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 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 hit it pushed this carriage down with ease up against the side of the house the struts there have been pushed out all this debris road into the front garden the fences 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 peepers 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 is no landline telephone service it's very hard to find any food or water outside the refuge centers that many people are still in and the 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. he's told botan reporting right there and he is staying in the region who bring us the latest all throughout the day here on our team but you can also follow him on twitter you can see the scenes of devastation in his tweets as

tom follows the story from the devastated areas in his latest update he describes a huge food queue just outside a school in flood hit crims. now the disaster in russia's south is already taking its toll on other regions as masses of tourists head to the area for their summer break the catastrophe has paralyzed much of the travel network in the affected region this report now two artes karen tara. 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 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 very major situation going on right now and it's affecting not only the people there but people throughout russia as well. but now for the first time in months government protests are not the whole topic in russia's blogosphere have a discussion about the floods has taken over and beyond the usual expressions of condolences on offers of help there's a whole variety of correction. 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 are social media has just been buzzing about what exactly happened out the in a crimp the main story got in the slots has been that some people think that this flooding was actually manmade there's a reservoir in between krinsky and the port town region at the bottom there the authorities have said that is intact 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 against the man made natural manmade disaster the others are so that the syria obviously bears no relevance whatsoever 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 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 the two 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 blogs 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. so the timeline of the tragedy as well as all the latest news footage and photos from the disaster zone are always available for you just a click away thought come wolves are photos of our stories of outstanding bravery and heroism from the flooded areas like the policeman who died rescuing locals he managed managed to save two kids before his boat was overturned dot com for all

those details. it is a right now turning ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital 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 were sending weapons and money all into the conflict zone from syria with this reporter's artie's more if an. commenting on why the international peace efforts haven't succeeded so far u.n. and arab league special envoy to syria has retreated but six hours absent of the plans on hold hard to speed involved in this conflict and he has signed 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 of 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

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. to he's desperately trying to hammer out a common vision on how to resolve crisis in syria and syria 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 homes in. these parts of hundreds maybe back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers a search chain 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 burned

to death. in the next house we find three more charred skulls. activists claim up to eight hundred thousand people have been killed since the uprising began sixteen months ago the u.n. estimates around ten pounds we have no way of telling if these remains or others like them were even counted at. baba amr used to be home to one hundred thousand people now we're driving through 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 bad joke 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 sometimes 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. but the barn other homes the district as you can see also almost 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 it's not far from here questions still continue so we were actually told not to go any

further i just simply dangerous soldiers come to our location and tell us the rebels woke up so we leave. homs syria. live from moscow this is our t.v. and 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 they were longer pressed under kentucky's secular rule but journalist to resell work says the militias that contributed to khadafi is overthrow i will play a more important role than even the new national assembly that is currently being elected. libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this going to 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 are 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 are very very upset they think a new strongman is going to come to power which does not work they fought for him to feel that their revolution to be installed western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining the oral supplies from with. 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. so good to have you with us today this is still ahead for you in the program about a. russian classes on the streets of the ukrainian capital of the country possible recognizing russian as an official language and regions. and scientists hope they

found the so-called god particle and say its existence my own look at the mystery of how universe was created. the deadline for julian assange and his extradition to sweden set by britain's highest court came past saturday but the whistleblower does still remain 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 this south american country produced a much talked about interview show exclusively here on our. last edition ed just this week laura smith not upset. the key moments of the series. i'm julian assange . it is true of wiki leaks where they expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn this quote after quote the long promised an insight

into the world tomorrow and in twelve episodes judy 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 but we call for serious negotiations dialogue and he said that reform at their own is going to carry on because the alternative to that no one cause of the me first i see somebody inside syria because it's sensitive to the situation in syria also that just i was there just about what i know 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 zone a song agrees oh it was a disastrous spirit europe but europe is a cultural theme park it's significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state just took out of the pot i have had personal experience with a socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like you have a passing. the global politics sea 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 in bolivia you 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 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 broadcasting highly engaged in one significantly represents to five the times i'll miss it looking forward to season two of julian assange show. but there is no guarantee season two can happen and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of 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 u.s.

would indeed prosecute judean us on spillway 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 he would be the pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and cheer up welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. take a. close associates given us a glimpse into the future shape of the world we live in while his own future hangs precariously in the balance laura smith london well despite her songes plight wiki leaks is back in the game there was

a point website has publishing the so-called syrian files of the group promised millions of emails will be released over the next few weeks exposing the west's scene in dealing with damascus the first batch of documents revealed how an italian company supplied the syrian author of peace with sophisticated a communication encryption equipment as recently as this february there are more damning revelations to follow there was apparently one hundred times more information than the previous leak of u.s. diplomatic cables. well there was a plenty more on our website. see what's waiting for you there right now. airborne drones domestically critics say that puts the privacy of u.s. citizens at risk also. a group of. kids in new delhi set up their own fully functioning financial system offering the world a few lessons. most artists

are hopeful they've become closer now 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 in a generation. tries to decipher the 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 that we have a planet which is populated by because we have nor masses and we believe we understand how they leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because this sort of laid on her muscles and imagine that we have a theory which explains how to get their muscles and this is done using the higgs 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 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 put all of his entire interview with persist under a cotton is coming up later here on our t.v.

he explains so significant scientific discovery here for now a preview. of the great the whole field that due to many experiments it really became very precision field of science and i think one of our it's human is a clear understanding of all the problems we think could be wrong when. in our brains 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 why this. will. fly from moscow this is our city a law in ukraine to recognize russian as an official language in some regions has seen hundreds take to the streets in kiev police fired tear gas at angry crowds are

of ukrainian parliament the rada approved the law the president will still consult experts before signing it off opponents of the largest lation large made nationalists as r.t. is the chef he reports ukraine's politicians could get physical in their dispute with. 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 by the police he says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address lawmakers. when you were i had to finish my speech in order to start voting five to six people attacked me i'm a former weight lifter in 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 had to move my family. is 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 leaves of russia's black sea naval base small bombs went off and the rada speaker had to hide under an 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 when you listen to given that. you would never see fights in the soviet parliament you'll never see fights in north korean political structures brawl as a last resort of delivering your point when the vocal methods don't work and can only happen in a democratic state it's not effective but still it's democratic. former deputy now political analyst to meet that if it 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 with. 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 the way for a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively. the years flights have been extracting impressive audience they are usually televised live on the parliamentary channel and they all favorite t.v. show will certainly hit the screens nash and white again for 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. reporting from in ukraine. all right and now just a minute or so here on r t a recap of the top stories of the weekend off today followed by a special team documentary. formula .

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