from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule today. day of mourning in russia for more than one hundred seventy people who died after flash floods hit the southern region of the cross in a dark it's the worst natural disaster the area has seen. the job of the shit out of what i read people's pleas for help on an internet forum and we rushed here my son and i as soon as we could to at least bring some much needed food but as thousands of those displaced after the tragedy suffer a shortage of essential supplies people across the nation join efforts to provide a much needed help. and in other headlines today syria's leader accuses the u.s. of fueling deadly violence in a country by partnering with rebels and his army holds military exercises on how to

repel an attack from the outside. and in the business bulletin the russian equity markets started monday's trading session mixed the r.t.s. is losing value this hour extending friday's a losses of more than two percent all the details twenty minutes. this is r.t. coming to life from moscow russia's morning more than one hundred seventy lives lost in devastating floods in the southern resort region of cross nadar over five thousand houses were hit twenty seven meter wave caused by to rental rains hit the area on friday night many of them swept away and spoke to some of those who kept their lives but lost everything else. after the flood

a country mourns. everywhere in the town of crims there is evidence of the force and speed of the waters of bombs and it seems everyone here has their own personal drama to tell this has to be this 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 mannish 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 the 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 boat came 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 washed them in this water and of their hours dried them the clothes that we are where we now are actually all would have left as the wave struck we only thought of our children and our lives since 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 were 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 sure i'm

a veteran of the second most war. everything is gone i don't have anything anymore how do i live what should i do now but i thank god on the life and with commemoration services being held across russia there are certain to be many more stories of personal tragedy and bravery. and. while the investigation into the tragedy continues russia's emergency services says the flood warning system didn't work properly funerals will take place through monday while the number of dad could rise as emergency teams continue to search through the destruction over twenty four thousand people have been affected by the flash floods and many are still in shock part is that is a lot of the reports on how they are 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 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 yesterday 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 and or who brought several trucks of supplies and 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 and just a couple of weeks christina is expecting their second child still she decided to help her husband find their lost belongings. 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 do you have to go out. and give in the last big to an old woman take coffee and this. give it to your mommy. local volunteers bring fresh supplies throughout the day you know as a child out of what i read people's pleas for help on an internet forum and we rushed here my son and i as soon as we could to at least bring some much needed

food to me 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 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 of dorothy'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 forest the hills in the mountains along that feed the water down to the coastal plain there and 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 is 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 preventive. slowing down and becoming saturated much more quickly and that exacerbates the potential for.

flashlights which is what we. seeing now so i think it's planning in that respect i think also if you can create over large areas with houses parking lots roads etc then you take away from the soyuz ability to hold in all kinds of weights both in the mountains and on the plains. how respondents have the scene of the disaster are keeping you updated on what's going on via their twitter feeds and one of his latest updates says that bodies of flood victims are being kept in a refrigerated supermarket borys due to a lack of space and mortuaries follow his tweets underscore r t. u.

b official. from the. video. syria's president has countries like the us saudi arabia qatar and turkey are hindering peace in his country by supporting those he calls terrorists but shot a lawsuit accuse washington of being partially responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians by partnering with the rebels the syrian army have started large scale roads in the way the fans against outside. opposition leaders bring is the

appeal to the west for foreign intervention against the regime but as more than a little boards from syria manning a country are fearing for their lives if they were aboard. they want. since the uprising in syria escalated the west has been consistently calling on assad and his govern. and to step down you know defectively want to give in to the demands of the armed opposition but it seems so far there is no clear understanding of who exactly they are. these fighters of the syrian opposition they're brave determined full of pride they took their 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 he helped the syrian regime and was killing the rebels they say i am. on behalf of all friends 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. with the terrorists criminals murderers i believe 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 video 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. i found much in this video of the voice 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 type 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 i seem to actually see one that can take care of its people many here however fear that should such people force assad to leave since like these could become a familiar occurrence and have little faith in a western force democracy. where they're 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 continuing 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. my final show from damascus in syria. and you can see the timeline of the turmoil in syria online available twenty four seventh's we've got the latest updates on this here in files secret documents recently released by wiki leaks the so-called and imus group says it's time to up with most famous was the blowing website and hacked over two million e-mails on syria. was and over heated debate on syria during the number of parliament starts

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no one can live without it's in one of the largest blood banks in the world. blood of nigeria. on our t.v. . watching r.t. unofficial council 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 doing later this week. and i witness on the end to cut 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. to

freely in this atmosphere how can i go through the election knowing that there's a gun on my head telling me 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. nearly thirty thousand prisoners in. prison and tortured and killed they call good dictator because if you break refused to receive that was before you get there if you you may get. be taken to brazil now if you glorify a kid that if you will definitely be killed the u.s. that took an active part in nato military campaign in libya that helped overthrow gadhafi regime is now reportedly expanding its secret intelligence operations across africa that's in addition to washington's existing military presence on the continent next hour peter one of our and in fact this hour work people around his

gas cross start debate what could be behind this activity. the real question is. vial interest in some of these places and why the heck are we there right why not get out 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 gun or you've got a life that we have that we have. we had you know i mean because we have. been here the other dream is in an era in and here on a draw doing what we have and you know you have a bar of a bomb goes off there now they're probably not yes it's about oil you know for the united states yes it's about containing china in this is done under the banner of terror the war on terror.

six nato soldiers are dead after a roadside bomb exploded in the east room of ghana stand 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 of gas stands future ones foreign troops leave and twenty fourteen but anti-war activists medea benjamin believes there is a chance the money will and up in the wrong hands meaning afghanistan and me not nato ally could sit in the category with israel in japan which allows afghanistan to have special preferences when it comes to buying military equipment and being involved in trainings that nato organizes 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 amounts of money that have been spent

on the military and given the corruption that exists in afghanistan is no guarantee that this money will be well spent later today on r.t. we talk with a former national security agency executive in the u.s. who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrongdoings inside the n.s.a. here's a preview. it raises the specter of you're automatically 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 not they can create one because what happens if i don't like you what happens you speak ill will against a government what happens if you say something they consider disloyal when that's not the country that i took an oath to defend and four times in my government career. average for

gad some other stories from around the world greece is cold the government has one confidence vote in parliament and then political uncertainty that led to two national elections in may and june all one hundred seventy nine devotees from three parties making out the government voted in favor premier on top of some r.'s formed a coalition after his conservative new democracy party came first in elections three weeks ago thought the hard work is still had by the country's crippled the kadhimiya said to shrink over six and a hammer sam this year worse them previously expected. to. sell them is marking its first anniversary of independence just a day off from police here student protesters the word demonstrating against austerity measures made a konami hardship in the country south sudan's economy has been struggling after of the leadership for the for oil production following his feud over where the money was going and prominent opposition politician cum l m r has been arrested over alleged links to rebel forces. rebels in 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 the former tutsi rebels who had been incorporated into the country's army defected in april. and switching gears now going straight to the world of business were natasha is controlling the process there so how do you or is moving a step closer to the banking union what more can you tell us absolutely the finances. ministers are meeting later in the day to try and iron out all the details i'll bring you more on the story in just a minute but first let's check out the equity markets and we'll start with europe where trade started about twenty minutes ago and as you can see at the moment it looks like they are trading mixed at the footsie is flat to negative although it has already dipped and to read just

a few minutes ago and here in russia what we're seeing is. come while we're seeing a pretty positive picture out of this hour the r.t.s. managed to recover after posting losses in the first hour of trade and that's after a losing around two percent on friday and moving on over to asia where the markets are about to and they're trading sessions and what we're seeing there is a sea of red the main reasons are all the same concerns about the prospects of global economic recovery fueled by we jobs data in the states that came out on friday traders were a bit relieved to see chinese inflation figures a few hours ago inflation in june was at a twenty nine month old low giving the government green light to step up the economic stimuli to meet the group target of seven and a half percent for the year and now moving on to the currency markets

the ruble is losing ground against both major currencies and what we're seeing for the euro at the moment is that it's actually a losing against the u.s. dollar more on the euro it is moving a step closer to creating a new body to monitor its banks eurozone finance ministers are meeting a later in the day on monday to iron out all the details the e.u. leaders came up with the idea when they met in brussels in june the new regulator which many see as the first step to the banking union will report to the european central bank and will supervise the top twenty five financial. now crude is showing some strength on monday after libyan supply concerns reports their resume crude export that's stopped because of the protests but the situation

the norway is not improving the energy sector check to strike there is still on despite some efforts over the weekend to try and resolve norway's output slumped around two hundred fifty thousand barrels a day as a result of this strike and last but not least to the battlefield for a major stake in the world's top element and produce a room sol is now moving to a lot and the russian oligarch collector of pasta is facing a rival billionaire. in the end london's high court made claims there pasco was his business partner and thus owes them a thirteen percent stake in salt worth around one billion dollars their boss could denies the charges claiming he was the victim of a racketeering. and vessel the latest from the business desk this hour you're all up to date now i'll see you in about fifteen minutes all right thanks very much indeed sounds great we'll see the next hour and in the meantime i'll bring you

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