about someone from fund stupid. stunts on t.v. dot com. russia mourns the victims of a devastating flash floods in the krasnodar region which is killed over one hundred seventy affected almost thirty five thousand becoming the area's worst ever natural disaster. bravery in the face of cholera we have the stories of those who miraculously escaped the better you're one of the people who rushed to provide aid and help would be rescued it's. also reporting the international envoy kofi annan sells peace to the syrian leadership while damascus points fingers of what it calls america's devastating role in the civil conflict all top stories this hour.

on screen online international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow this is r.t. a day of mourning has been declared in russia for more than one hundred seventeen lives lost in the flooding in the southern resort region. on friday night thousands of houses were hit by what locals describe as a tsunami like caused by torrential rains. is in the region. 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 gates across the internet there's also been a lot of discussion with some people criticizing the off or at least and others using the internet to try and organize donations of clothes and supplies for people who have lost everything authorities deny that the dam 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 people across the town of crims 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 bands and it seems everyone here has their own personal drama to tell this used to be a 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 mcmillan 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 collapse on top of her all night perched on top of the neighbor's fence the flood surging around. but the water had risen to more than three meeting a i was sitting on the bench bring 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 have their hours dry 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 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 or should i do now but i thank god i'm alive and with commemoration services being held across russia there are certain to be many more stories of personal tragedy and bravery. r.t. . thousands of emergency workers are in the affected areas searching for survivors and helping locals clear the debris people are being put up in temperature provided with food warm clothes and psychological support however panic hasn't subsided yet

rumors of a possible new wave of flooding sent hundreds of locals running to higher ground in the agency officials try to assure everybody that the worst has now passed but denise reports from the spot it has done little to dispel the fears. we are on top of the mountain right next to the city as you can see there are hundreds of people and hundreds of cars here people gathered here and fear and panic of the second wave of the floods first there was just a few people then a dozen months later a crowd of several hundred grammes presidents rushed to higher ground fearing that the new disaster is approaching the rumors of a bizarre people were saying that the water in downtown area is rising again but as we were standing very high with our own eyes we sold that it's just not true the city was quiet however everyone preferred to believe strangers in the street rather than official point of view the official warning what are you talking about there wasn't one not the first time not now. people on our street got into their cars and

drive shouting for everyone to get away because a new wave is coming. we were following two days of mourning after trying to clean up their homes from the flood people were so stressed out they refused to listen after an hour and a half it was announced officially that the rumors are false and everyone should return to their homes. there's been no damage to the dam water levels haven't increased. that was just another day including a town shaking by disaster and now experiencing panic attacks and emotional aftershocks. across the region. and go to our website to read more on the region floods locals are lashing out at the authorities saying the flood warning wasn't issued properly crims district heads have already been sacked and now the regional governor has come under fire the people say he couldn't have done much more to avert disaster instead of leaving that all to junior staff

members yet they claim there was no way of spreading the sooner you know if you don't call me call the latest footage and photos from the disaster zone as well as a timeline of the tragedy and you can follow our correspondents twitter feeds to get more of. orders from the heart of the disaster. but it's not just emergency officials providing aid to flood hit locals hundreds of volunteers have been using the internet to coordinate their efforts and help the victims an online map has been created where you can find the nearest spot to donate supplies or set one up and tell others about it the website also helps with transportation which is a major problem now with the aid of the map people get together in order to take food clothes and medication to the spot as well as go there personally to lend a helping hand and you can find out all the details on this at r.t. dot com. the massacres agreed to move ahead with implementing a peace plan proposed by kofi annan despite failures and international skepticism the special envoy held talks with these syrian president who earlier accuse the

u.s. and some of its regional allies of being partially responsible for civilian deaths in his country what is more of a notion is there and brings us the latest. well you're an arab league's actually able to see your ear has described his meeting with president bashar al assad here in damascus on monday as constructive kofi annan has sat that they've agreed discussed and agreed on approach and common approach on how to end the violence here in syria he has such that it can only be done and should be done through dialogue has also stressed that. all the sides been involved in these conflicts should do they have passed to try to implement the six point peace plan brokered by you in april in the back to where they've been doing it before actually indeed the peace plan six point plan hasn't been successful so far we've been only seen in witnessing this collation of the violence here in syria immediately after it was announced so it's absolutely clear that something should be changed in the way to

implement that and this is exactly what kofi annan has been stressing the point there is also is a very interesting detail while talking about this common approach kofi annan has sat that. we will share it with the armed opposition but after that immediately he has corrected himself and said that i will share it with the opposition and that could be considered as an indication that we were unlikely to see any dialogue between the current regime and the opposition any time soon i'm sure that's not surprising because president bashar assad has recently said that he is ready to talk to these people while the syrian opposition has made it has made it clear big can be no solution and no dollar is possible until assad leaves we have been hearing recently very hostile months from president bashar al assad on foreign nations involvement in this crisis in syria he has sat the u.s. is trying to destabilize the situation here in the country by providing its

political support for armed gangs and terrorists operating here in syria here is also said that saudi arabia and katara are also involved in this crisis by. providing financial support to the rebels and by arming them and he has also mentioned turkey that he is providing logistical support for the rebels and this crisis has been raging here in syria for sixteen months already and many asked the question why it takes so long and some analysts say that the most complicated thing is that while it's clear from one side there is a syrian regime of bashar assad and his opponents it still remains unclear exactly who or what it is fighting against and here's my report on that will be for you watch i just want to warn you that you can find some of the images from this report disturbing. since the uprising in syria escalated the west has been consistently calling on assad and his government to step down you know defectively 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 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 what he helped the syrian regime and what's 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 with peace. 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 but 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 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 type of criminality how do they have the right 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 team 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 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 why some states still continuing to call on assad to leave and support in his opponents fears mounted in syria that this is the people that will pay the ultimate

price. my flush out sea from damascus in syria. maria is one of the few foreign journalists in the heart of the syrian conflict for her twitter stream she brings us the latest on how the situation is unfolding there it's first hand experiences interviews and footage and her latest tweet she quotes a syrian human rights activist who says the militarization of the conflict is a result of rebels using very sophisticated weaponry. president putin has said working out a political solution in syria will take much more effort than what he called barbaric foreign intervention but he added only dialogue will bring last stability speaking at a meeting with the country's ambassadors and then voice putin outlined russia's foreign policy priorities for more on this now from ortiz sean thomas. international relations are getting 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 the distracting. them with. we see some of our foreign partners striving to maintain their influence so that often our partners back to unilaterally which goes against international law we see this in sue called human interior operations but exports of the asteroid democracy interference with internal conflicts what we do by see that the process of reforms in north africa and the middle east is controversial and unbalanced if one and many of us remember vividly the tragic events in libya east these scenarios must not be repeated in other countries such as syria now it is interesting that this is 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 out against

trying to earn points by using harsh anti russian comments an ideological stereotypes which russia is trying to step away from the 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. russia's military official says they'll be no new almost deals with syria until the political situation there stabilizes washington criticize the country for selling arms to the assad regime taking particular issue with the shipment of assault helicopters moscow says it was simply fulfilling earlier contracts under which it repairs syria owned helicopters bought years ago.

saudi arabia may be one of the loudest voices when it comes to criticism of syria over what it calls the repression of the people but it seems it's using similar tactics at home two people have reportedly been killed when police opened fire on the regime demonstrators is not the first time there have been deaths of protests while many of falso found themselves behind bars political analysts professor evil human who says riyadh is far from the ideology it's trying to preach. well so their abia is not only supplying arms it's also financing the western backed insurgency in syria and it has its long arm playing games in other places including lebannon and several countries in the gulf as world so the a policy and. extremely supportive of western aims especially nato aims in the arab homeland i think it's really a funding of that they should speak about his so-called dictatorship in syria when

you know if we apply the same measures to so the area of elections or having different political parties or a free press or you name up there we find that so there are a be a lags far behind syria and many other countries in the reeds and. lost militants have shot dead eight pakistani troops at a military base in the east of the country earlier a massive convoy of demonstrators protesting against pakistan's decision to reopen nato supply routes of pass through the area mike ready and activists from the antiwar group democracy village i spoke to a little earlier he says they've got plenty of reason to be angry. the mission let's call things by their right name this is not a mission this is an invasion illegal invasion and never ending military occupation of afghanistan. the success is only going to come around if all the troops nato troops and u.s. and u.k. troops pull out immediately not just combat troops but all of the troops the thirty

thousand a jew to stay there after twenty fourteen i can understand why the pakistanis are up in arms about this and why they're protesting so vehemently. their country's been abused by the u.s. and yet they're still bending over backwards to. say that the continuing occupation of another foreign country the terminology again the nato ally is a complete your audience there's no allegiance there there's no common interest there. what there is an enormous amount of mineral wealth in afghanistan. meanwhile in afghanistan the pitch battle took place today in the taliban stronghold region of kandahar attack began with a wave of suicide bombers detonated their explosives at the entrance to a police compound medicines including other suicide bombers then stormed the heavily fortified facility killing at least five people the gun battle lasted for two hours earlier a bomb in the province killed six u.s. troops while other attacks claimed about two dozen more lives the taliban says its

responsibility it is responsible for the wave of violence. the first witness has taken the stand of the trial of black women that is the former bosnian serb army commander hearings resume despite the defendant claiming new rules at the hague tribunal made the trial unfair under them the prosecution now has the right to produce previously un submitted evidence but that it should be on the run for sixteen years was arrested in serbia in a sting operation last spring he faces eleven counts including genocide and murder allegedly carried out during the yugoslav war in the ninety's he denies all charges against him. but. south sudan has been marking its first anniversary of independence from sudan but the celebrations come as the neighbors are teetering on the brink of a full scale war dispute over the unsettled issues of oil deposits in the border as tension a boiling point all of which south is dependent on infrastructure in sudan to export its resources the production has grown to a hoax after both transit fees problems only added to the south's current economic

situation. it's actually twenty two minutes past the hour now let's join katie for all the latest business news. hi there bill it's all going on as you know all the draw most to do with the ability and has the better past. atthis in its billions they are actually form up partners and it's all going on in london with each other at the high court today it's ever a conflict to do with russo going to talk about that later on let's check out the u.s. markets will see that wall street is now trading a full day's news and as you can see is declining well the out of main you make out and dow component. is set to report the second quarter results after the close investors are expressing a drop in the global production feeding demand keeping metal prices low europe and

the e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels right now and the president of the european central bank has said that although important progress has already did there is a leaders that must continue to press towards a deeper integration including steps to include sharing of the financial leverage to the common cause if we check out the exchange rates is still low sugar around those two year lows against the dollar love us as investors stick to the safe haven the russian car is used to losing ground against the man cars is being dried slow but of course the sour global the ruble is seen as risky assets in these times of uncertainty and talking of uncertainty let's go over to the russian markets and see that it was a challenging day for a much indeed we have a mix to close as you can see just there in negative price you know near the terms of the percent down the losses for those oil prices bouncing back from the two week alone so it will take a quick snapshot some of the movers and shakers them says the investment holding

company has bought back no point five percent of it shares in the market our thoughts passenger flow has grown thirty percent in the first five months of this year to six million people and roughnecks is having higher hopes by those stronger . crude prices it is up around a third of the positive territory now staying with the russian company as i mentioned earlier the battle for a major stake in the world's top i mean you produce a russo is moving to the british capital the company's biggest shareholder and cards have and. it's facing the rival. china noyo in the london's high court claims that a pastor was his business he took control over. back in the middle of the year now the suited to a one billion dollar stake in the company that denies the charges he claims he has never been affiliated with roussel. so let's see how this or price is continuing to rebound as you can see and as i said rebounding from the two week

lows that we've been looking at we've had the labor strike norway which is the three things you hope production not so worse than europe's biggest exporter of the business but now will be about tomorrow morning. more time to give you the races up days and figures and business dramas and also. because you think good to see you have a good evening and more from cage's mora well in just a moment the gloves come off in another far edition of cross talk or heated debate program but first a recap of the day's top stories coming your way stay with us live this is.

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