evolves from phones to freshen things. he's fluid starts on t.v. don't come. damn morning in russia for more than one hundred seventy people died after flash floods hit the southern region of the cross and our it's the worst natural disaster in the area has seen. it up as a child out of wood i read people's pleas for help on the internet forums and we rushed here my son and i as soon as we could to at least bring some much needed food but he stopped and took those displaced after the tragedy suffer a shortage of essential supplies people across the nation joint efforts to provide much needed help. and in other headlines today syria's leader accuses the u.s. of fueling deadly violence in the country by partnering with rebels that he's army holds military exercises on how to with palin attack from the outside.

and euro zone's finance ministers are meeting later on monday to try an hour iron out all the details of creating a new body that will oversee the blocs biggest banks moving closer to what many call a banking union all the details in twenty minutes because it's. nine am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshing. russia's morning more than one hundred seventy lives lost in devastating floods in the southern resort region of crust and adar over five thousand houses were hit on a seven meter wave caused by torrential rains hit the area on friday night many of them swept away artist on board and spoke to some of those who kept their lives but

lost everything else. after the floods a country mourns. everywhere in the town of crims there is evidence of the force of the waters of bombs and it seems everyone here has their own personal drama to tell this news 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. his neighbor say just down the road a neighbor and i room and had her house collapse on top of her all night perched on top of the neighbor's fence the flood surging around. the water has risen to more than three metres i was sitting on the fence praying it wouldn't come higher

because i you i would have drowned. most of those who died were elderly too frail to escape the deluge those who did manage to make it to safety say they will never forget what happened i grabbed the curtain and pushed my feet through the window this can save my life the helicopter did not see me at first but i started to wave my cane and it came back it couldn't land so it didn't pick me up after that a poker game and i started to shout they save me for those left behind the basic necessities must now take priority well looking through the rubble for all things one of them on this watch and if their hours dried them the clothes that we are wearing now are actually only have left as the wave struck we only thought about our children and our lives to the beginning of this tragedy the death toll has climbed steadily and even now not everyone has been accounted for our ten year old niece is lost we're standing next to the morgue all day yesterday and no news nothing. many here are hungry and exhausted and have no homes to return to and need

to start from scratch are we sure i'm a veteran of the second world war in one that was a everything is gone i don't have anything anymore how do i live more you know should i do now but i thank god on the line and with commemoration services being held across russia there are certain to be many more stories of personal tragedy and bravery tomasson. funerals will continue throughout monday while the number of deaths could rise as emergency teams continue to search through the destruction over twenty four thousand people have been affected by the flash floods and the mannie are still in shock artist as watson reports on how they're coping. the flood affected almost every family and every household sold and crims just this morning with all groups of people talking about the damage still trying to find their neighbors and loved ones there was a sign on one of the houses we passed this morning that read i'm alive i'm at my

brother's place there is a lack of local information since there is still no electricity in most neighborhoods with no radio or t.v. in town people share news by word of mouth we saw dozens of relatives visiting the town's morgue where they did the identification of bodies is still taking place those who were lucky to survive now face tough challenges this scale of destruction is enormous and people are taking matters into their own hands by starting to rebuild homes and apartments the russian emergency ministry deployed thousands of rescue workers but there is so much more besides government help there is a strong feeling of support coming from russia in a broad social networks twitter and facebook in particular are buzzing with information about donations for the victims of the current flood i got two emails he has today from people in brisbane and in chicago asking about the crims claude's calls for help go beyond traditional charities as volunteers among them private

individuals from other cities travel to koreans bringing food water and clothes yesterday were met calls explained cross lawyer who brought several trucks of supplies i spent a few hours driving around to see how this small community is coping with the aftermath and here's the story. and christina i'm moving to the relatives in just a couple of weeks christina is expecting their second child still she decided to help her husband find their lost belongings. you are packing all the children's clothes we're expecting girl our second she might need them a couple of blocks away other survivors of the groom's claude are receiving humanitarian aid local volunteers bring fresh supplies throughout the day up as a child out of with them i read people's pleas for help on internet an. forum and we rushed here my son and i as soon as we could to at least bring some much needed food that spread the news as water supplies have not been fully restored authorities have also started distributing bottled water firefighters have joined

other rescue services they are also helping pump water out of people's yards and basements meanwhile thousands of collection centers have been set up across russia with people donating money clothes and food emergency ministry crews from all over the country are working in the cream's now a right behind me you can see their camp there providing support with specialist equipment but as thousands of households are affected in the city alone they are under pressure to reach everyone while the government has pledged millions of dollars in financial aid as well as to rebuild the destroyed houses before winter many have already started cleaning up and fixing things themselves throughout the town doherty's are also deploying mobile generators to help people return to normal life as soon as possible even though the town has been badly hit it looks like the people of chremes have not lost hope and against all odds they're staying and helping each other to rebuild their homes and their lives. cross and our region.

chris williams from new york's pace university says the flooding could be a consequence of a lack of planning when developing mountain areas if you have a month's worth of rain falling in a few hours and then on top of that you do forest hills in the mountains along that feed the water down into the coastal plain then you make a disaster of this type more or less inevitable at some point i mean i think the you need a lot more planning and thought put into what was going on in the mountains above the coastal plains particularly with deforestation because trees in particular we know hold the hold in the soil and prevented. flooding down becoming saturated much more quickly and that exacerbates the potential for. flash floods which is what we. seeing now so i think in its planning in that respect i think also if you concrete over large areas with houses parking lots roads etc

then you take away from the stores ability to hold in all kinds of ways both in the mountains and on the plains. now our correspondents at the scene of the disaster are keeping you updated on what's going on by their twitter feeds telmarc in one of the latest updates says that bodies of flood victims are being kept in a refrigerated supermarket lorries due to a lack of space and mortuaries to follow his tweets apps tell barden underscore are . you.

the official. your only phone on paltalk from the. one. on the. video on demand. an r.s.s. feed now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. syria's president says countries like the us saudi arabia qatar and turkey are hindering peace and his country by supporting those he calls terrorists a shot at us and accuse washington of being partially responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians by partnering with the rebels the syrian army have started a large scale drills simulating the fans against outside of tabs some opposition leaders bring the asli appealed to the west for foreign intervention against the regime but as more of an ocean are reports from syria many of the country are

fearing for their lives if the rebel forces get what they want to be more though at the most. since the uprising in syria escalated the west has been consistently. lean on assad and his government to step down you know defectively want to give in to the demands of the armed opposition but it seems too far there is no clear understanding of who exactly they are. these fighters of the syrian opposition they're brave determined and full of pride they took the fate in their hands. but for some taken control of their destiny meant taken up arms in this amateur video posted on you tube which cannot be independently verified gunmen calling themselves members of the opposition militia from it live explain why this man was hanged and which really helped the syrian regime and was killing the rebels they say can i mean. on behalf of all france

let me express my admiration by their bravery over the norm but this kind of justice only adds more anger to what has already been called a civil war. the terrorists are criminals murderers and i believe kill them is necessary for any citizen to leave these. we cannot ask the opposition to unilaterally give up their struggle for justice dignity and self-determination in other media whose origin is hard to establish these men say they captured the syrian air force officer then they dispense even more rough justice. the united states will continue providing non-lethal assistance to help those inside syria who are carrying the fight to organize and better

communicate. trying to march in this video of the noise behind the camera says the fight must go on it warns this will happen to anyone who cooperates with the assad government and. they are top criminals these people are top of criminality how do they have the rape feel sad when you find your country destroyed our country we've been building our lives. the whole world wants to see a political transition from this illegitimate regime seem to actually see one that can take care of its people many however fear that should such people force assad to leave since like these could become a familiar occurrence and have little faith in western force democracy. why are they talking about democracy in the gulf or in other countries we are syrian people we should decide these things ourselves. this mantra that the syrian people alone

should determine their country's future has been repeated by many nations and has finally been recognized by major world powers but was some states continue to call on assad to leave and supporting his opponents fears mountie in syria that it's the people that will pay the ultimate price. narration option r.t. from damascus in syria. well you can see the timeline of the turmoil in syria online available twenty four seventh's by we've got the latest updates on the so-called syrian files secret documents recently been released by wiki leaks so close and honest group says it's teamed up with a most famous whistle blowing web site and had no word two million e-mails on its syria. plots and over heated debate on syria and jordan member of parliament starts implied throwing a shoe and them holding a gun all during a live feed of caution.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture. nearly a billion people in the world are going hungry every day. in the united states even

our trash cans are filled with food you just have to go get it with all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just threw them all away about and she was from the german oh you clearly like the upper crust. from the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill the cake is made from and one dozen dumpster. delicious breakfast for the families eggs and toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of food.

on official counts in libya suggests liberals have a lead in the country's first nationwide election in nearly five decades the official results from saturday's poll marred by gunfire and violence are due way or this week. eyewitness and i got off the uprising says libya is unlikely to have a democratic future following the vote. democracy. you can watch libya now if you visit libya and see the weapons are over a country militia controlling the. country you five will. look to freely in this atmosphere how can i go through the election knowing that there's a gun on my head telling me words to go. elected you cannot kill your own people. in the name of democracy you cannot. leave you one and a half million lives. egypt tunisia and other parts of the world.

and nearly thirty thousand prisoners in prison being tortured and being killed they call good dictator because if you break refuse to receive that was before you get duffy you may. be taken to prison now if you glorify kid that you will definitely be killed the u.s. took an active part in nato as military campaign in libya that helped overthrow gadhafi regime is now reportedly expanding its secret intelligence operations across africa now that's in addition to washington's existing military presence on the continent later on monday peter lavelle and his cast uncrossed are debate what could be behind the security. the real question is. vial interest in some of these places and why the heck are we there right why not

get out peter you want to react to that. when you have so many people a preterist here first. of all he i think i think i would miss is the bigger point the bigger point is you can't have allies who you only call upon when it affects you and you don't come to their assistance when they want something now in the case of you god or you've got allies that we have that we have. now you need. because we have. been here the other three in an era in here on a growing river him you know you have a bar of a bomb goes off there now they're probably not you know since about oil you for the united states yes it's about containing china in this is on to the banner of terror in the war on terror. six nato soldiers are dead after a roadside bomb exploded in eastern afghanistan hours earlier several countries including the u.s. and japan agreed to provide the nation with sixteen billion dollars in aid the cash

is aimed at securing afghanistan's future once foreign troops leave in two thousand and fourteen but anti-war activists media benjamin believes there is a chance the money will and up in the wrong hands but naming afghanistan and major nato ally puts it in a category with israel in japan which allows afghanistan to have special preferences when it comes to buying military equipment and being involved in training that nato or in their eyes that is so it keeps afghanistan within the nato orbit for many years to come i think in terms of the money that was pledged it really is not different from the money that has been given to afghanistan in the past unfortunately it is much less than the amount of money that has been spent on the military and given the corruption that exists in afghanistan is no guarantee that this money will be well spent well later today on our team we talk

with a former national security agency executive in the u.s. who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on the wrongdoings and side the n.s.a. here's a preview. raises the specter of your automatic suspicious until we prove that you're not. it raises the specter of a universal quality universal wiretap a persistent universal wiretap on every single person or if it not they can create one because what happens if they don't like you what happens you speak ill will against a government what happens if you say something they consider disloyal i mean that's not the country that i took an oath to defend four times in my government career i . now a brief look at some other news stories making headlines across the globe greece coalition government has won a confidence vote in parliament and being political uncertainty that led to

national elections in may and june all one hundred seventy nine deputies from the three parties making out the government voted in favor premier antonymous and maurice formed the coalition after his conservative new democracy party came first in elections three weeks ago but the hard work is still ahead with the country's crippled economy sector shrink over six and a half percent this year you worse them previously expected. south sudan is marking its first anniversary of a panic yesterday after a police tear gas student protesters they were demonstrating against hysteria measures and made a canonic hardship in the country south sudan's economy has been struggling after the leadership role that oil production is following in dispute a world where the money was going and prominent opposition politicians come alomar has been arrested over alleged lines to rebel forces. rebels and the

democratic republic of congo have taken a strategic eastern town from fleeing government forces that's after insurgencies an important mineral transit hub two days ago congo's two year peace was broken when former took the rebels who have been corporators into the country's army defected in april. well coming up we'll look at the end of the workings of oil companies drilling off nigeria's coast and the effect it has on local communities a blot of nigeria today on r.t. . as you desperately needed to survive. the storm there is a ton of money to be on the lookout. on building the see show and this addresses the pros. writes with the truth for. those who don't get their share of the change. good bye do you guys do or die forty point today's

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story in just a minute but first let's check out the equity markets and let's start with asia where the and the seas are halfway through their trading sessions and what we're seeing there is that. it's pretty much a sea of red the reasons are all pretty much the same concerns about the prospects of the global economic recovery mainly fueled by weak jobs data that came out on friday shows that the u.s. jobs are not created as fast that some would lie and traders are a bit relieved that the chinese inflation figures came out a couple of hours ago and pollution in june was at a twenty nine month old low of course that gives the chinese government green light to boost the economic stimuli that would help it meet its. growth target of seven and a half percent for the year now moving on here last go the trading session will kick

off in about an hour and you see friday's closing figures major losses especially for the r.t.s. more than two percent of wall street close in the red on friday mainly on those disappointing u.s. labor force yahoo and facebook announced a partnership after the close on friday so there might be an investor reaction there as well something to watch and alcoa is reporting q two results on monday they could also be some moves on the stock on friday the russian move will let's see those here they are the figures it was trading lower against the euro and the dollar and today the bureau's trading pretty much wants against the greenback now. let's see. if the e.u. officials move a step closer to setting up a banking union that would. that would that would monitor major banks eurozone finance ministers are meeting later on monday to try

and iron out the details they came up with the idea when they met in brussels in june the new regulator which may see the first steps to a banking union a little report to the european central bank and will supervise the top twenty five financial institutions i will bring you more details as soon as we get them later in the day now why last but not least of course is crude and what we're seeing there right now is that it's trading higher meanly thanks to a libyan a supply concerns that easing reports there resumed crude exports although the strike situation in norway is still a not result apparently it's not reason enough for the prices to move a lower and that's await us from the business desk this hour i'll be back with all the latest in about fifteen minutes but for now you're all up to date are excellent

as things are much indeed and also don't forget the next hour we'll have the russian market opening so there are other figures there as well and we'll take a look at the outlook there all right next on our t.v. we recap the top story so stay with us for that. well. it's technology innovation all the moves developments

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