the death toll from devastating floods in the south of russia has now reached one hundred and fifty five thousands of homes were swamped and many people injured in the resort regions at worst ever disaster. a clash of words while syria burns the u.s. lashes out of russia over the drawn out crisis while the chief international envoy to syria tries to draw attention to other countries he says of boosting the conflict with arms and cash. and suspense at the ecuadorian embassy in london julian assange extradition deadline passes by while his wiki leaks website prepares to release millions of damaging files on those cashing in on the war in syria.

with the stories that made headlines this week and today this is the weekly on r.t. with me wrong research showing. across that our region is coming to terms with the sheer scale of devastation inflicted after flash floods struck overnight on friday and many people were woken into a nightmare with their loved ones simply washed away into the darkness now this point at least one hundred fifty five people have died in the deluge thousands of houses were swamped affecting over twelve thousand residents potties told barton is in the worst hit town he did speak to some of the survivors. you can see here behind me the river next to the town of crims all the devry 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 garrett . down with ease up against the side of the house the straps there have been pushed out all this brick 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. my cousin woke me up at around one am and told us 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. i go to the house in come to the thing so the stream wouldn't wash me away then too late mayne came up and helped me on to an emergency truck and a senior so i got up there i saw my neighbors very. basic human like you should this used to be living room this used to be a bedroom the house has been completely gutted from the inside by the router which came right up to the tops of the windows with the managed to escape and sat right on a neighbor's fence where house collapsed she was perhaps know his neighbors say just down the road a neighbor on a room and had her house collapse on top of. his top are reporting right there one of the deadly floods in southern russia have sent reverberations all across the country and the region is a massive tourist hub with thousands of holiday makers heading there each and every

summer but with travel and communications now paralyzed news about friends and loved ones caught up in the disaster are limited his artie's character. i'm here in moscow standing in front of one of the major transportation halts this train station behind me are where the trains a 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 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 that god that is right by all the 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 leaks 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. for the first time in months until the government protests on not the hottest topic in russia. discussion of the floods no government. looks a look at some of the comments that appear to be resonating in the blogosphere. the blogs for years have been buzzing obviously giving support and also reiterating the shock of this disaster more importantly sharing some of the witness accounts and just sending support to the people who have been affected by this you know social

media is a place where people can share their thoughts they can you know debate about things that is important to them but what i really want to share with you is some of the tweets and some of the messages that really shocked me and i want to start off with this tweet that we got now it says those did should blame themselves they voted for this stability now as any human being with any hard do you think how callous can somebody why that and tweeted to the rest of the world it's a this is a tragedy that's happening we should be supporting these people who have been affected by such they've lost their livelihoods some have lost their you know their families they need support now i just want to go to another tweet here this is some of the political jabs that some people have been using twitter and some other one social media is. you know politicizing it goes the most important thing now is to make sure putin doesn't fly a fire extinguishing a craft as he normally does and discharge more water on the city now seriously i

mean this is a time when people should be coming together it's not time for politics it's time for people to rally and go help those people thirteen thousand of those people are going to be displaced after this tragedy it's really just a political jab now last week which i think is the most important this is what people should really and this is what people have been pushing towards is this tweet that goes flying all of two crimps guy urge everyone to forget about the political views and help the people that's really what's important now. mr pearce coburn founder of the weather action foundation someone who also specializes in such abnormal weather events could be more to come. i would describe water out of a launch due to huge amount to writing for laying in a war idea or over a short toilet and then it becoming concentrated in coming down the mountain. in terms of short range could. possibly they could if they had a lot more nitro but i would say there's

a risk of this targeting ferry norm definitely can say the risk of a repeat of the things he's still around and people need to well you know. be able to move quickly all be on the ground i mean i suspect one of the problems is a lot of people have been building properties quite near to the water courses and that has resulted in this as in a lot of a lot parts of the world an artist in his polaski actually joined some of the rescue teams in the desperate search for survivors amid the devastation here he gave us this report we were told that emergency ministry units just got a call from this neighborhood seeing. people heard loud screaming during the floods and actually right now emergency ministry would search dogs there 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 through me right into the corner over there luckily i managed to grab a front that was tied down i crawled 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 terentia will 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 them are intact and they were functioning properly . in this particular case. the flooding during the rains which accumulated a huge amount of water any kind of deliberate or to discharge is technically impossible as an overflow pipe to release excess water in safe quantities. so the search for survivors here and groups continues and there is still hope that more lives will be say. they're also both in the region they'll continue to bring us the latest throughout the day here on our team you can also follow our correspondents covering the story on twitter you can see the scenes of devastation read the stories of survivors and get the latest reaction on our twitter channels. now the timeline of the tragedy as well as all the latest news footage and photos from the disaster zone also available on our website r c dot com now we also have

the stories of outstanding bravery from the flooded areas and one policeman in particular he died rescuing some locals he did manage to save two children before his boat was overturned r.t. dot com has overstayed his. life for moscow this is r.t. diplomatic peace efforts in syria although unsuccessful so far will continue its according to special envoy to the country kofi annan he also warned against blaming russia for the crisis deadlock saying the role of other powers who send weapons and money into the conflict zone is being downplayed with more from syria maria phenomena. 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 all parties been involved in this conflict and the syrian crisis should be and could only be resolved through doll the end of the geneva peace initiative just

like other international peace plans is teamwork and it is it is absolutely unacceptable and not at all constructive to blame only one side here sound that there have been a lot of talks about russia while little is said about nations still sending money and weapons to the syrian rebels kofi annan has mostly been talking about friends of syria group that accuse 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 kofi annan has said that iran could not be excluded of the peace process and should be part of the dialogue something america has been strongly opposed to syria is in war right now we've just returned from the homes in the central part of the country and this is a really sad picture of what we saw here's my report from homes. at least parts of hundreds maybe back on the syrian army control with 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 charges call's. 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 ghost area people have left military almost the only human beings left in this area this is hugh 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 is a weirdo bomb that if you could have been the epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army since it's been shelled heavily now you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just meters away another. 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. 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 simply dangerous soldiers come to our location they tell us the rebels woke up so we leave. our t. homs syria. the u.n. observer mission concluded earlier this week that violence in syria had reached president of levels while iraq claim the conflict is being stoked by an influx of al-qaeda neil clark a contributor from britain's guardian newspaper says some key international players are inspiring but terrified actions when presidents and first came out and said it was foreign terrorist groups like al qaeda worst forms 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 down of course in the western allies 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 in favor of think it was a nice on a new constitution eighty seven percent of syrians voted for it we want to see a more pluralistic government in syria more clear a list of political system 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 of we want the west and its allies to say to the rebels now lay down your arms support peace and reconciliation. he watching on c is good to have you with us today a top in a national election yesterday marred by violence and boycotts a vote counting is now underway in libya so father the country's that liberals are claiming an over old lead contradicting predictions that islamist parties will sweep the poll but political columnist and author ted rall has his concerns just of

how much weight the final result will carry in the end at this stage here in a post revolutionary or post counter-revolutionary depending on your point of view situation at this point law and order is really the top priority of running post gadhafi in libya under the previous regime tripoli in the west were dominant now what's going on is that the big us the base rebels feel that they have they believe they have won now and they're either going to try to dominate the west the way that they were dominated during the gadhafi era or they're going to break away entirely and follow the model of south sudan and to try to declare independence and we've already seen that with this because he has some of the drape things of a protest state kind of like an iraqi kurdistan with its own flag and so on what you would fact italy is a civil war that's carried out at the ballot box where different sects and tribes

are running candidates against one another and trying to dominate the countrymen that way that's not a recipe for democracy there's just not ready. this is r.t. the deadline for julian assange extradition to sweden as ordered by britain's highest court expired this saturday there was a blow out remains at the ecuadorian embassy in london where british police have no jurisdiction is currently awaiting a decision on his asylum request to the south american country but shortly before he sought refuge there sandra produced his latest and much talked about interview show exclusively on our see the latest episode aired on our on our channel that was just last week now so our teaser laura smith now takes us through the highlights of the series. i'm julian assange. it is true when he wakes expose the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn

this question because. it promised an insight into the world tomorrow judy and i saw an interview to opinion formers and activists from across the political spectrum. and 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 that reform at the moment is going to carry on because the alternative to that no one cause of the me first i see somebody inside syria because the sensitivity of the situation in syria they also have to stop 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 in significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state just took out of the pie i have had 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 waves but two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers tariq ali 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 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 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 casting highly engaged and then significantly represents to five the times i'll miss it the looking forward to season two of june the 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 one forcing for me then nobody would know. he was a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life the feeling is mounting

that the us would indeed prosecute judean ourselves for westby a 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 we welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. take care. don't get as sick. as stars have 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 its editor's

plight wiki leaks remains undaunted but the whistle blowing web site publishing the so-called syrian files the organization promises millions of e-mails exposing international companies interests and dealings in syria as well as the government's workings the initial wires released show that an italian company supplied assad's government with cutting edge communication equipment as recently as february the online group promised even more damning revelations to come by the amount of information is expected to dwarf that of wiki leaks infamous u.s. diplomatic cables leak just learned rhetoric from the government accountability project says the fact the syrian files are making headlines despite the criticism against the wiki 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 organisation is continuing to function which is a testament to the viability of weekly leaks as an organization especially at this time and i find all of this is very interesting because it shows a number one week 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. live from moscow this is artsy scientists believe they might be one step closer to discovering just how the universe began they say they found be elusive god particle it's believed to be the higgs bo's'n

the particle that makes up the very fabric of our existence. gets to grips with one of the most anticipated finds of a generation. 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 nor masses and we believe there

but we understand how the leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because and sort of played on mars and imagine that we have a theory which explains how it goes on mars 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 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 are his people reporting right there coming up next hour you can see peter all of us full interview with a physicist or what when where he explains the scientific significance of the discovery. the great acumen of our field that due

to many experiments it really became very precision field of science and i think one of our it is a clear understanding call for all the problems we think today we don't win this clear in our brains a twenty years ago sue in a sense we know though is the problem to be understood and that's what makes all of us so exciting why is this large hadron collider has been built. already not just a few minutes or an r.t. will continue our discussion about the so-called surge or possibly the finding of the god particle that will be after a recap of the week's top stories just a moment here on our.

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