it's a day of mourning in russia for more than one hundred seventy people who died after a flash floods hit the southern region of president it is the worst natural disaster the area has ever seen. as a job with those 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 thousands of those displaced after the tragedy a shortage of essential supplies of people all across the nation and joining efforts to provide much needed. russian president vladimir putin criticizes the west for interfering in arab conflicts saying promotion of democracy

is aimed only at maintaining influence. headlines today seriously to accuse the u.s. of fueling deadly violence in the country by partnering with the rebels as his army holds a military exercises on how to repel an attack from the outside. and in the business bulletin a billionaire like very hostile and his former partner battling in. high court all the details in about twenty minutes. it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm a rover sushi i live in moscow russia is mourning more than one hundred seventy lives lost in devastating floods in the southern resort region of krasnodar on friday night over five thousand houses were hit by a wave caused by torrential rain which some witnesses describe as being up to seven

meters high i reported on the aftermath tom bot. today is a day of grief and a day of mourning for the victims of flash floods in southern russia the search for bodies does continue as does the cleanup operation made more difficult by the lack of supplies of electricity gas and fresh water the water came into the town on friday night in the middle of the night with huge force and with no warning it flooded and destroyed houses and flipped cars over in the street many of the victims were elderly people unable to escape in time so rapid was the deluge. all across the town people tried to escape and get to help on roofs and on fences wherever they could find any shelter a criminal case has been opened into why so many people died and it's also been

found that a flood warning system did not work properly people here are very angry both at the lack of the warning and because they say the local reservoir and its dam caused the flooding by opening its sluice gates across the internet there's also been a lot of discussion with some people criticizing the hour for a tease and others using the internet to try and organize donations of clothes and supplies for people who have lost everything authorities deny that the cause the flooding saying that it had an automatic overflow system that came into effect but that didn't release enough water to cause flooding an investigation which is looking into the causes will try and find out what exactly happened on that night in friday when all the water arrived people across the town of crim scared today and also throughout the region are trying to start cleaning up and rebuilding their

houses and their communities but primarily today is a day for grieving for all those who lost their lives. after the flood a country mourns everywhere in the town of crims there is evidence of the force and speed of the waters of violence and it seems everyone here has their own personal drama to tell this used to be miller's living room this used to be her bedroom the house has been completely gutted from the inside by the water which came right up to the tops of the windows live miller managed to escape and sat all night on a neighbor's fence while her house collapsed she was perhaps a lucky one though his neighbors say just down the road a neighbor an old woman had her house collapsed on top of her all night perched on top of the neighbor's fence the flood surging around her. if the water had risen to

more than three meters i was sitting on the fence praying it wouldn't come higher because they knew 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. where looking through the rubble for our things wash them in this water and if their hours drive them the clothes that we're wearing now are actually all we have left as the wave struck we only thought about 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 nieces lost who

were standing outside the morgue all day yesterday but no news nothing many here are hungry and exhausted and have no homes to return to and need to start from scratch here i'm a veteran of the second world war all my medals are gone everything is gone i don't have anything anymore how do i live what should i do now but i thank god that i'm alive and with commemoration services being held across russia there are certain to be many more stories of personal tragedy and bravery tom barton r.t. . and this news just in here on r.t. the heads of the worst hit city of crimson and the region will now be stepping down from their posts that's been confirmed by the governor of the southern cross and our region a more on that as soon as we get it here on r.t. that's on volcano is also sending updates on the situation at the scene of the disaster at this his twitter feed as we can see here in one of his latest tweets he says that the bodies of flood victims are currently being kept in refrigerated

trucks used typically to move grocery goods this in order because basically there's a lack of space to store the bodies of the flood victims. the funerals will take place throughout monday while the number of dead could rise as emergency teams continue to search through the destruction over twenty four thousand people have been affected by the flash floods many are still in a state of shock. now 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 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 claims it up as a chat up with the 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 i got two emails he has today from people in brisbane and in chicago asking about the crims call 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 he's polaski reporting right there wolf a novel and his resorting to a whole range of modern communication to aid those affected by the floods. activists from all across russia have started drawing an online map to coordinate the efforts of all those who are willing to help anyone willing to donate food or clothes can find the nearest spot to do that or create a place of their own and let others know about it this resource it's especially useful when it comes to transportation as delivering aid to the flood stricken areas is now a major problem with the help though of this map people going to can inform others about their plans and take more aid or volunteers with them all those details for you right now a click away at r.t. dot com. also there are the latest footage and photos from the disaster zone as well as a timeline of the tragedy at r.t.

dot com you can discover the stories of outstanding bravery during rescues being made of course our correspondents will continue to provide the latest updates you log onto twitter dot com you can access the latest tweets from artie's tom barton in particular he's at the heart of the disaster. if you. download the official auntie application joy on the phone oh i pod touch from the top story. on the.

video on demand. and. now in the palm of your. question on the dot com it is not just talk of ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is a minute of silence in memory of those who died in the disaster in russia's south open president vladimir putin's meeting with the country's ambassador and boys today at the gathering a president put an ally in the country's foreign policy priorities artie's sean thomas i was following the address social and certainly a quite a number of aspects of various aspects to russia's foreign policy what did the president have to say can you break it down for us. we'll certainly rory this meeting is that with the rushers on basters and foreign ministers and it's the president's chance outline that russia's foreign policy agenda for the coming period in fact in there soon said that this is the group that needs to properly assess and forecast what is happening in the world and also actively promote

russia's agenda and he said international relations are getting up more complicated in the world and there is uncertainty and one of those areas of uncertainty is of course the arab spring in this address the president wasted no time in going after the west in criticizing. what he called their arab interference in fact the so-called humanitarian missions of the west and of america to go in and bomb and get their agenda promoted listen to what he had to say about this tactic. and we're going to end up with we see some of our foreign partners striving to maintain their influence so often our partners act unilaterally which goes against international law we see this ensue called human interior operations export of the asteroid democracy interference with internal conflicts what we do i see that the process of reforms in north africa and the middle east is controversial and unbalanced and many of us remember vividly the tragic events in libya these scenarios must not be

repeated in other countries such as syria. now it is interesting that this is what russia's foreign policy but he did turn to some u.s. things that are happening right now you did say that this is a pre-election period in the united states and that there have been hostile comments and rhetoric that are a throwback to the cold war era in fact he warned american politicians against trying to earn points by using harsh anti russian comments an ideological stereotypes which russia is trying to step away from now one area that russia and the united states have differed greatly is that of syria in fact america has been very harsh about russia's stance on syria russia is very up to the idea in fact what he said about that it is that syria on the topic he believes that we must do all we can to force the warring parties to sit down and promote a resolution through dialogue rather than a single unilateral intervention. yeah that's exactly why sean also saying that right on the tail of what you mentioned there president putin saying that the tools

of influence that russia will use must be pragmatic but at the same time simple thomas i brought us up the minister of foreign affairs thank you. well it's still a subject of syria the president says countries like the us saudi arabia qatar and turkey hindering peace in the country by supporting those that he calls terrorists but shot alongside accused washington of being partially responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians by partnering with the rebels the syrian army have started large scale drills simulating defense outside against attacks by some opposition leaders previously appealed to the west for foreign intervention against the regime so it is at his word if an officer reports from syria many in the country are fearing for their lives if indeed the rebel forces get what they want but of war but since the uprising in syria escalated the west has been consistently calling on assad and his government to step down effectively 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. so. 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 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. but this kind of justice only adds more anger to what has already been called a civil war. with a terrorist group or those murders i believe is necessary for any

citizen to leave rupees. 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. 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. they are top criminals these people top of criminality how do they have the right feel sad when

you find your country destroyed our country we've been building all our lives. the whole world wants to see a political transition from this illegitimate regime g.m. to actually see one that can take care of its people many here however fear that should such people force assad to leave scenes like these could become a familiar occurrence and have little faith in a western force democracy. where they target 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 why some states still continuing to call on assad to leave and support in his opponents fear is mounting in syria but this is the people who pay the ultimate price. r.t.

from damascus in syria. you can see the timeline of the turmoil in syria online twenty four seventh's we've got have the latest updates on the syrian files these are secret documents recently released by wiki leaks the so-called anonymous group says it's teamed up with a most famous whistle blowing web site and over two million e-mails on syria. public yeah over heated debate also the subject here syria location is jordan member of parliament starts a fight throws a shoe then pulls a gun during a live t.v. discussion. on official counts in libya suggest liberals have a lead in the country's first. nationwide election in nearly five decades the official results from saturday's poll maad by gunfire and violence are due to come out later this week. an eyewitness of the anti could after the uprising says libya is unlikely to have

a democratic future after this vote. democracies point you can watch libya now if you visit libya and see the weapons are over a country militia controlling the. country you can. look to freely in this atmosphere how can i go through the election knowing that there is a gun on my head telling me words to go and who i should elect you cannot kill your own people. in the name of democracy you cannot. be one and a half million live in egypt and tunisia and other parts of the world. and nearly thirty thousand of prisoners in. prison being tortured and being killed they call good dictator because if you break refused to receive that was before you get their feet you may get. be taken to brazil now if you glorify

a kid there if you will definitely be killed. of course the u.s. took an active part in nato military campaign in libya that helped to overthrow gadhafi his regime is now reportedly expanding its secret intelligence operations across africa in addition to washington's existing military presence on the continent just a bit later today here on r.t. people of ellen as guests on cross talk they'll be debating what could be behind the sudden surge of activity. the real question is. vile interest in some of these places and why they had her way 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 up on when it affects you and you don't come to their assistance when they want something now in the case of you going or you've got allies that we have that we have. we haven't you know i mean because we have you know you're the editor in an era in an hero drove to the white river him you know you have

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 done under the banner of terror a war on terror. that's a very insightful addition of course talk that's coming away in about ten minutes here on out of an hour six nato soldiers are dead after a roadside bomb exploded in eastern afghanistan i was a several countries including the u.s. and japan agreed to provide the nation with sixteen billion dollars in aid the caches aim to securing afghanistan's future once foreign troops begin to leave in two thousand and fourteen but antiwar activist medea benjamin believes there's a chance a very good chance that is the money will end up in the wrong hands but meaning afghanistan and me not me no 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 training that nato organized is so it keeps afghanistan within the nido orbit for many years to come i think in terms of the money that was pledged and it really is not different from the money that has been given to afghanistan in the past unfortunately it is much less then 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. and next hour here on our tio we'll be talking to a former national security agency executive in the u.s. who ultimately 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 they 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 i took an oath to defend and four times in my government career. before we join a tussle with a business that let's start off the artsy world update with saudi arabia where anti-government protests have erupted in an eastern shiite muslim area leaving at least two people dead at the demos were against the arrest of a prominent cleric and opposition activist. the shiite population of saudi arabia say that they are discriminated against by the leadership unable to get jobs or university places of course something the government did. greece's coalition government has won a confidence vote in parliament ending political uncertainty that led to the

national elections in may. all one hundred seventy nine deputies from the three parties are making up the government voted in favor. of the coalition after his conservative new democracy party came first in the elections three weeks ago however the hard work is still with the country's crippled economy set to shrink over six and a half percent this year is much worse than previously expected. south sudan is marking its first anniversary of independence day after police tear gassed student protesters there were demonstrating against austerity measures and good economic hardship in the country south sudan's economy has been struggling after the leadership halted oil production and following a dispute over where the money was going and a prominent opposition politician coming out has been arrested now over links to the. i. that's promised. business that's good to see you

though i understand two russian built. you know as a battling each other in london's high court it certainly sounds pretty ugly absolutely i like their posture and has four former partner meeting each other in london's high court on monday in what the media called ukase the largest ever commercial dispute all the details in just a minute but first let's move on to the equity markets we'll start with europe where it's a mixed bag of the dax is recovering some ground that's after german's exports rebounded made feeding analyst expectations but apparently that's not enough to change this sentiment altogether the russian markets are also mixed to the my sense is trading in the positive territory but it has shed the bulk of its the morning gains the r.t.s. is still in the bread now the biggest movers on the my six day include system up let's see the movers there. here they are system on their floor as you can see is doing quite well and el minium producer room sol has recovered some ground after

losing almost four for sam now this morning this all resolved through pasta is fighting a rival billionaire noise in london's high court chernoi claims to oscar was his business partner and now owns a thirteen percent stake in the salt worth around one billion dollars their boss could denies the charges claiming he was a victim of a racketeering. now continuing on and moving on to the currency market as you can see the euro is shedding value against the dollar therefore should ruble have drop below thirty three roubles to the dollar that level is very low it's psychologically important level and more on the year of the it's moving a step closer to creating a new body to monitor its major banks eurozone finance ministers are meeting later on monday to iron out all the details the e.u. leaders came up with the idea when they met in brussels in june this is now the new

regulator which many see as the first step to the bang. king union will report directly to the european central bank it will apparently supervise the top twenty five financial institutions and last but not least crude prices and they are also recovering after libyan supply concerns eased they resumed oil exports that stopped because of the protests and in norway the energy sector strike is still on they failed to resolve that over the weekend despite some talks norway's losing around few hundred fifty thousand barrels of daily output but apparently that's not enough to really be a humongous boost but we are seeing world prices recovering now thought the latest from the business desk here and i'll be back here in about fifteen minutes often about something always a pleasure natasha we will see you later. in just a moment i will do the headlines are backed up then though by another fahri edition of crosstalk this time for the gloves coming off.

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