the death toll from devastating floods in the south of russia is now at one hundred fifty three thousands of homes many people injured in the resort region's worst 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 up boosting the conflict with cash. and suspense of the ecuadoran embassy in london is joining the sounders extradition deadline passes by these wiki leaks web site prepares to release millions of damaging files on those cashing in on the war in syria.

with a look back at the top stories from the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. russia's across nadar region is coming to terms with the sheer scale of the devastation inflicted after a flash flood struck overnight on friday many people woke up to a nightmare with their loved ones simply washed away into the darkness at least one hundred fifty three people died in the deluge thousands of houses were swamped affecting over twelve thousand residents. in the worst hit town he spoke to some of the survivors of the tragedy. you can see here behind me the river next to the town of crims all the devry 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 this. it's there have been pushed out all this brick road 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 hope for this town and all the damage are immense but i still and my cousin woke me up at around one am and told us to get out we found ourselves kneedeep in water but 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. goes out of the

house and come to the thing so the stream wouldn't wash me away then to lakewood men came up and helped me on to an emergency truck and to seniors i got up there i saw my neighbors we. proceed to make your ship 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 miller managed to escape and sat right on a neighbor's fence where house collapsed she was perhaps you will know his neighbors say just down the road a neighbor i know room and had her house collapse on top of. the deadly floods in southern russia sent reverberations across the country the region is a massive tourist tub with thousands of holidaymakers heading there every summer with traveling communications now paralyzed news about friends and loved ones

caught up in the disaster area is limited his art is current arace. 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 crossing 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 no question about 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 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. for the first time in months anti-government protests the hottest topic and russia's bloggers fear discussion of the floods dominating chats and. looks at some of the controversial comments. the blogs 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 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 careless can somebody why that and tweeted to the rest of the world 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 social medias to politicize things it goes the most important thing now is to make sure putin doesn't fly a fire extinguishing aircraft 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 lost what 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 urge everyone to forget about the political views and help the people that's really what's important now. is called in front of the weather action foundation and someone who specializes in such normal events says the could be more to come. i would describe water out of a long stew to huge amounts to writing for lying in a war idea over a short time and then it becoming concentrated and coming down the mountain. in terms of short range could. possibly they could if they had a lot more need for a full moon so there's a risk if there's targeting norm definitely the risk of a repeat of the things they're 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 other parts of the world. and auntie's despite not ski join some of the rescue teams in the desperate search for survivors amidst the devastation 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 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 of 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 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 them are intact and they were functioning properly . in this particular case. the flooding during the rains that accumulated a huge amount of water or 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 saved. because can anyone who's an engineer of hydropower systems says dams are usually constructed so that discharge waters pose no threat to nearby residential areas. certainly it was clear to the dish judge will not cause any damages to the city is the law as it will flow. only persuaded you to make such kind of discharge or for the eve for it to come always at the opposite it's wrong or close. or photos from totally accident throughout the course of the conditions of. the condition. in any case it's going to be because the birthday. party is denise.

are in the region and will continue to bring us the latest throughout the day but you can also follow our correspondents covering the story on twitter see the scenes of devastation read the stories of survivors and get the latest reaction on twitter check. all the timeline of the tragedy as well as all the latest news footage and photos from the disaster zone are always available for you at parting dot com. we have stories of outstanding bravery and heroism from the flooded areas a policeman has died rescuing local people there he managed to save two children before his boat was overturned on to r.t. dot com all that if. you want to know weekly live here in moscow we're with you twenty four hours a day a special envoy to syria has arrived in damascus for consultations with the country's leadership finance diplomatic mission continues despite his earlier comments international peace efforts have not achieved anything it. has more than

that. commenting on why the international peace efforts haven't succeeded so far u.n. and arab league special envoy to syria has retreated six hours absolute of the hands on the only artist being involved in this conflict and the syrian crisis should be and could only be resolved through dol 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 on only one side because signs of 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 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 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 what we saw here's my report from homes. in this part of honey may be back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers but that's not what they usually find. some people in their homes became their graves 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 charts call's. activists claim up to eight hundred thousand people have been killed since the uprising began sixty. you honest in ways around ten pounds 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 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. doesn't viejo bomb 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 big. sometimes and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these raised strange rice quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area too this is why would a hurry up. but with brian other homes the 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 tell us the rebels woke up so when the. regional party homs syria. the u.n. observer mission concluded early this week the violence in syria had reached unprecedented levels while iraq claimed the conflict is being stoked by an influx

of al-qaeda neil clark a contributor to britain's guardian newspaper says some key international players are inspiring tera factions when presidents i first came out and said it was foreign terrorist groups like al qaeda were sponsor much of the violence in syria that was dismissed by the west but now we've got the iraqi government the un 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 and of course in the west and its 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 back in february think it was a nice on the new constitution eighty seven percent of syrians voted for it we want to see a more clearly stick government in syria more clearly the system that's that's what we want but we're not going to have that what we've got the responsible forces who are backing violent groups and what we want is i said many times if we want the west and it's our lives to say to the rebels now let go of your arms support peace

and reconciliation. after a turbulent national election yesterday by vonn and some boycotts the vote counting is now underway in libya so far the country's liberals are claiming an overall lead contradicting predictions that islam is parties will sweep the polls that political columnist and author ted rowlands has his concerns really all over how much weight the final result will carry 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 close to gadhafi in libya under the previous regime tripoli in the west were dominant now what's going on is that the benghazi based 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 khadafi 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 kroto state kind of like an iraqi kurdistan with its own flag and so on what you would practically 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 their countrymen that way that's not a recipe for democracy if they're she just not ready. the deadline for june in the sand his extradition to sweden as ordered by britain's highest court expired this saturday the whistleblower remains at the ecuadorian embassy in london where british police have no jurisdiction he's currently awaiting a decision on his asylum request to the south american country but surely before he sought refuge there sanj completed his on t.v. interview series has been looking back at the highlights. from 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 condemned 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 call for in serious negotiations dialogue is that reform actually there was always going to be carried out because the alternative to that no one cause of the first things i was inside syria because the sensitivity of the situation in syria the alternatives to i was there into 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 an outspoken right winger against radical leftists. 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 and europe is a cultural theme park in significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state just took out of the plight i have had. personal experience with the socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other guys in the global politics change also made wait for two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers. in the world protest movement showing modern politics are no longer fit for purpose to them the answer could lie in latin america and bolivia and eventually 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 judy 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 and significantly represents stiff of the times i'll miss it the looking forward to season two of julian assange 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 and want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. well forcing problem for me then nobody would know who is

a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life the feeling is mounting that the u.s. would indeed prosecute julian asked on spillway all worst 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 their interview and it ends on a friendly chilling note as who would be the pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. a source has given us a glimpse into the future shape of the world we live in while his own future hangs precariously in the balance laura smith london. despite his head his

plight wiki leaks remains on daunted with 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 one of the governments in the workings initial was released showed that in the talon company supplied assad's government with cutting edge communication equipment as recently as february the online group promised even more damning revelations to come the amount of information is expected to dwarf that of we can infamous u.s. diplomatic cables leak just when ruddock from the government accountability project says the fact the syrian files are making headlines despite the criticism against julian assange and wiki leaks proves the group 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. 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 wiki leaks as an organization especially at this time and i find all of this to be very interesting because it shows 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 there's syria at the front page of every major newspaper in the world right now. tom now for a look at some other stories making headlines around the world in our world update this egypt's new president mohamed morsi is one of the country's parliament to reconvene just one month after it was dissolved he's reversed the original decision made by the then ruling military based on

a court judgement over alleged faults in the election process is also called for parliamentary elections to be held within sixty days of a new constitution being approved expected later this year the ministry handed part of. june. thousands streaming towards pakistan's capital in a march protesting against the government's decision to reopen nato supply routes it was shot last november after a u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani troops there were reopened last week after america eventually apologized for the incident the first time he's crossed into afghanistan today. so i just believe they might be one step closer to discovering how the universe began after finding the elusive god particle it's believed to be the higgs boson particle that makes up the fabric of our very existence of a gets to grips with one of the most anticipated fines 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 that we have a planet which is populated by because we have no muscles and we believe that we understand how they leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because there's hope to play longer 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 completed a month a 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. well more on that coming up in just a few minutes we will be just after a recap of our top stories you're watching the weekly here on r t nine in moscow.

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