the week's top stories a southern russian resort region struggles to recover following a deadly deluge as hundreds of volunteers rushed to help those left without homes and supplies plant. your own findings in serious amount province of rubbish with a grain of rebel claims the regime must get some two hundred civilians and accusations some world powers took at face value before rushing to condemn the regime and. pain for losing greece's way down to the stairs the protests take a bloody turn with police adopting a no tolerance approach and their dealings as demonstrated.

hello welcome to our c twenty four hour news live from moscow i'm here with the latest news and every view of the week's events fast the resort region of crossing a dying day south of russia is picking up the pieces after the wife's natural disaster is history massive flash flooding killed over one hundred seventy people and destroyed thousands of homes all she's done is a lot skase in the region. it was annoyed of turf for the people of greensburg in almost an instant the small town was good to be swept away by a torrent of rain and mud there which by a giant wave of up to seven meters. of the buildings there willing to do it was lucky to survive the sudden burning to walk up his wife and son before rushing to help an elderly disabled neighbor from worcester presuming dreams periods water rose immediately we tried to do something to save our below. but the water was

everywhere it was high time was saved ourselves climbed up onto the roof of my son's presence others were not so lucky with many elderly people in particular found amongst the dead in the morning survivors desperately needed help fresh water dry clothes and food their s.o.'s message was their self thousands of emergency workers people from all walks of life rushed to crimps medical students assisted doctors vaccinating survivors fashion model and philanthropist that earlier with john over two gifts were children after an appeal of baseball i just left everything and came here just to just to clarify because i felt i had to and to see how how i myself can be helpful but also before doing that we kind of just got to do whatever we could in one day and we gathered this. tons of half of it is sealed with a very necessary provision many locals who refused to believe the official account

but the flood was caused by torrential rains rumors that the deluge followed the discharge of water from a reservoir continued some spread by social media triggering a second wave of panic hundreds of people will gather here fearing that the new wave of floods is coming into town nobody says where they got this information basically people rely on rumors the false alarm however did not stop people from once again returning to their homes and continuing the massive operation these people just arrived from the i.c.c. they were volunteers they brought shovels rubber gloves everything that is needed to clean up the debris and many flood victims took matters into their own hands literally diving for their belongings greetings to come chats car i escaped an earthquake there and when i came here i go to buy a floods the russian government and regions of georgie's are to compensate victims with cash and help to rebuild their homes or new ones but those left with nothing and even though it may take. a month to get things back to normal the cyclone in

southern russia is just refusing to give up even though the town has been badly hit it looks like the people of greensburg have not lost hope and against all odds they're stealing and helping each other to rebuild their homes and their lives. crossing the region and the timeline of a tragedy that swept through southern russia is available on our web site and there's plenty more on this story at all to dot com here and there you can see photos and footage from the scene of the disaster that devastated towns and communities in southern russia. they are now un observers probing a mass killing in syria's home our province have confirmed the regime's claims that its military was targeting rebel fighters in the area this contradicts the opposition's reports of a civilian massacre something the u.s. and its allies rushed to support more of a notion of brings us more from the capital damascus. but your enemies are attrition hit syria has visited the village of tremseh in the syrian central

province of hama hours after the news of much about the alleged massacre there and they've confirmed fierce clashes between the rebels and the governmental forces took place on the ground but this concludes is that an attack apparently by the governmental forces appeared targeted at specific houses and specific groups especially amita faxes and opposition activists and this conclusion actually contradicts initial reports that we've been hearing from syrian opposition here that they've been very fortunate this is been a massacre the opposition has also claims that at least two hundred people most of whom civilians have been killed in this incident actually what the international observers have discovered is in line with what we've been hearing from official sources here in damascus that the army launched an assault against trouble hope but in this village in the province of hama we've been hearing accounts from official sources that the army even allowed some time for local residents of this village to

evacuate and that was only off to the rebels refused to surrender that's going to intensify did this village holding this assault officials have come to me to say that they've seized many weapons from what they call word terrorist and they've killed many of them and even captured some of them and we've seen apparently some of these people on syrian t.v. here in damascus and this can fast they were involved in this incident and what happened in the village of tremseh and they've even sad that they were given weapons that abides forces from abroad and especially from turkey while problems continues to rage everywhere call syria it still remains unclear exactly who the syrian government the syrian regime is fighting against his more important that since the uprising in syria escalated the west has been consistently calling on assad his and. government to step down in effect a leader when i go to the demands of the armed opposition but it seems too far from

its nuclear understanding of 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 explain why this man was hanged and which really helped the syrian regime and was killing the rebels they say that i met. on behalf of all fronts let me express my admiration by the bravery overt but this kind of justice only adds more anger to what has already been called a signal. to the terrorists really those murders i

believe is necessary for them to leave us. 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 but well 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 camera says the fight must go on it warms this will happen to anyone who cooperates with the assad government. they are top criminals these people are top 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 you seem to actually see one that can take care of its people many here however fear that should such people force their side to leave since like these could become a familiar occurrence and have little faith in a western force democracy. where 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 why some states still continuing to call on assad to leave and support in his opponents fears mounting syria that this is the people that will pay the ultimate price. rifle shot r.t.

from damascus in syria. a blast has hit a security force in boston the campus all damascus reportedly wounding several people is the latest in a string of attacks on government sites which they are forces blame on terror groups middle east expert going to mare's says then rest has modified greatly with the government now forced to wage war against militants who have infiltrated syria . the situation is calm changed completely there are still peaceful protest is but there's an increasing number not only of deserted army people but also of jihadists of islamic scientists who have the only purpose to fight. government and as far as western media are concerned well they follow the general pattern would started from the beginning the victim the rochas bashar al assad and we have to all the same it's the same strategy which hillary

clinton promoted right from the beginning and many nearly all of the governments from nato states they followed this pattern so they're not really interested in the vast majority of the media they stick to this fishel pattern which is promoted by the western governments. and saying in the region bahrain has been an opposition rallies hasn't stopped and to regime demonstrators from taking to the streets despite fresh clashes and arrests activists promise to ask a state of protests and american academic colin carvel and spent a lot of time in the region said a crackdown on dissent in bahrain makes the country's criticism toward syria illegitimate. continuing to be very skilled. pro-democracy yahoos and supported while we're three quarters of the barbie where you should. read many of them brought to us

through. some of the all or just broke just because only. the georgians continue the daily and continue. to many observers of the. syria are being. modeled on a growing minority in the world saudi arabia. regime going to have no all history of them are. put through why they do this free syrian army. bunch of mercenaries that have no legitimacy. and along with bahrain saudi arabia has been stepping up its client down an anti-government rallies activists say two men were killed in the oil rich eastern province after police opened fire on crowd has triggered by the arrest of a prominent shiite cleric last sunday extra troops have been deployed to the area

to prevent further run is by the shia population which has long complained of discrimination by the ruling sunni. and more says a come for you in the program including a look at how immigrants and loud paying the price of greece's financial woes racist at times certain assets as extreme right wing functions galvanized public anger and pain foreigners as the source of greece's problems. it also lays out foreign funded groups engaged in russian politics may soon face tough financial examination washington cries privacy in sync meant exercising the same law at home . how they come to streets of spain this week as pent up. public rage over the government's austerity drive spilled over into clashes with police. has sparked by minus began this wednesday the police reaction of the seventy people injured in clashes ride clad cops five of the bullets had to demonstrate as with

many acts of a decent and detained government in the trade this friday approved a new round of cuts a precondition to eurozone rescue deal for ailing spanish banks and says he'll just camos del close believes that one of those the prime minister should resign. the tendency is to think maybe that. protesters have become desensitized to all of the police violence because we've been dealing with it for years but today we saw pictures of you know images of an eleven year old child shot in the head with a rubber bullet ok we've seen we've seen policemen with no with no badges of course that's become you know standard operating procedure for them basically i don't know how much further they can really push it you know if you had any sense of decency or even a fragment of the dignity that miners and the protesters the indignados have that he would resign along with the rest of his government he's broken every campaign promise that he's made some even comical levels you know his entire party was

saying that raising the sales tax was you know one thing the ball and all that and now we have a twenty one percent sales tax and i think people are are wising up to this you know they see a lot of similarities between what was happening in this country forty fifty years ago and what's happening today and on the other side of the mediterranean in greece so stairs he drew and ricing and approaches have morphed into something much more sinister and violent attacks on immigrant says surging as extreme right wing functions of a rival in the new found public support and they've pledged to rid the country of immigrants and are even volunteers to donate blood to the greeks only jacob graves not from. all round the country crumbles some parts of greece acing firm foundations take root. in that we want a nationalistic state above all of them should go back to where they came from the

word of an elected official as unemployment grows hand in hand with extremist sentiments looking for people to blame for their current plight the golden dawn party has proven to be the prime outlet for public anger get that if you ask me about violence i would have to say yes we do have violence increase the not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thousands of jake's suffer from it by those gangs of foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land there was despite spouting racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians live on air the party still secured around seventy percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections. campaigning with a promise to throw all sick immigrants out of their hospital beds and then send three pledge as having dark consequences as greece and in particular athens have seen a spike in the number of hate crimes that have seen almost they are that's the part

that's by organized groups by certain set of very seeming that these attacks are happening at night and therefore whatever doesn't integrate by people who are often for dead and armed with clouds. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens i want to wish if i had known what it was going to be like here i would never have left somalia from what happened to you when you're. there beat me to the ground and ran over my leg with a bike. his case is by no means unique the mother of these children was also assaulted while pregnant the perpetrators remain at large. it's in neighborhoods like this in central athens where an increasing number of attacks are taking place the so-called vigilant see groups in discrete targeting ethnic minorities. victims

say there's little point turn to the police but just not interested. greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border with turkey that's where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that's circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics i think that the. leg of the here are the groups minutes hardest insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice with a doubling to our agreement what happens is once one illegal immigrant is been caught in there in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he ended in europe and absent that means they end up in greece well athens pleads for more e.u. support the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble

they're fleeing from the fire of extremism they're entering j.q. griese r.t. happens. and you can head to our studio called for more all our stories including under arrest in israel than the rally to mark a good since the start of mass social protest in the country with one man in tel aviv even setting himself on fire. the russian milo had to be rescued from a rubbish shoot after he claims an angry taxi driver grant him inside for not paying his. bloops agree active nonprofit groups working in russia and funded from a broadway soon come under town scrutiny

a bill that forces such organizations to register as foreign agents has passed its first stage of approval in the country's lower house of parliament the groups will have to undergo financial orders and submit reports of their activity is otherwise they will face heavy fines all even jail terms critics immediately labeled the move an attack on civil liberties while supporters say it will have little help boost transparency so the u.s. has launched the bill despite having early introduced an almost identical law and for more here's our washington correspondent guy in a church account. the west hurried to dub the proposed legislation as a kremlin crackdown on n.g.o.s pressures of money flow where's the money coming from for the boys organizations to get transparency to get regulation to get some monitoring of the pivotal. these are all things a nation a sovereign nation is allowed to do u.s. officials were quick to express concern presenting it as an exclusively russian

initiative but as the russian foreign minister said the concept and even the wording of the proposed law was almost entirely borrowed from the american bill called the foreign agents registration act if you work in united states if you work for another country you have to register as an agent of that country. now that again that's that's not a negative meeting but it means that you are representing a country and to be known if you're getting paid under the employment of any foreign nation veronica questioning nick of us says while in the u.s. she was forced to register as a foreign agent even though she was not involved in any political activities. to them i was a representative from st petersburg we promoted economy corporation to reason cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic teenagers and foreign agents insisted that representatives of cities also register disappointing agents version of the

law doesn't even include known political actors like the foreign agents registration act in the u.s. quote requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi i political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal as well as the receipts and disbursements in support of those activities end of quote the sponsors of the russian bill say their version is almost identical with the american law the us argues the difference is that their law doesn't address nonprofit organisations. but many see another difference but he knew that the us doesn't have thousands of whoring organizations which work to change its constitution to change its leadership but in russia do you have a situation when scores of organizations were precisely on that for example when some comes for people to join a protest they have the right to know who's behind that and who's payroll they are members of some non-governmental organizations met with hillary clinton behind

closed doors in st petersburg afterwards one of the media the russkie said the secretary of state is aware of the proposed law and quote is searching for ways to modify the support of russia's n.g.o.s without subjecting them to a crackdown end of quote we say non governmental organizations many of these organizations are government funded right so they get some of their funding from from the government of the united states anyway so and she is saying that then that they certainly do and they are certainly going to either get over it when maybe she's hinting at covertly i don't know many of the n.g.o.s in russia which get their financing from abroad to preach openness and transparency in the sponsors of this washington bill argue it only makes sense that they themselves are subject to the same principles of transparency i'm going to check on in washington are to. us a secretary of state hillary clinton has arrived in egypt will have first talks with the country's new elected islamist president in the home and will say. to push

for a completion of post revolution change in the country and for economic restoration middle east expert and independent journalist laurie everest says this illustrates america's eagerness to retain influence in the country. hillary clinton is claims she's there to help the egyptian people themselves determine their future but that's not what's going on line hillary clinton and the rest of the u.s. establishment are working in a very fraught situation to make sure the military the egyptian military with which they have deep and long standing ties remains the dominant force in the egyptian state as it remains today and that the egyptian state which was so discredited under mubarak actually religion atomized and strengthened by incorporating new social forces like the muslim brotherhood there was no revolution in egypt state

power or means in the hands of the same instant chanson class the brotherhood represents no one the mental break only of. egypt's role in the u.s. dominated global capitalist economy or of great with u.s. interests in the middle east the u.s. remains that dominant power it's trying to maintain a dominance in the new situation with new tactics in the wake of the arab spring as people are rising up against the old order of the us to. me their grip on this region so he's rocket on at three passing korea has successfully blasted off from the bike a new spaceport heading to the international space station for a four month mission to carry out a plethora of scientific experiments data set him off. when now contant down the.

hall she d. of the age of pan as well as yuri malenchenko of russia as well as our sunita williams of the united states and it's almost a list of all right now. let's stop. this as just. what you call the human body and different materials react to the weightlessness environment of space they'll also be looking at how body burns as well as a muscles i dabs and will also be looking at different materials and finding out which are suitable for the harsh environments of space travel they'll also be looking at how to make those materials all of this is to be explored in the name of research as well as in order to allow humans to venture father into the solar system which surely wishing them all the best until they get to their next home

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