if you. are from finance to. keep dot com. week's top stories from r.t. is southern russian resort region struggles to recover after a deadly deluge as hundreds of volunteers rushed to help the people left without homes and supplies. u.n. findings in syria's come up probably rubbish rebel claims the regime massacred some two hundred civilians an accusation some world powers to give face value before rushing to condemn the regime. in spain follows increases wake stare at a protest take a bloody turn with police adopting a no tolerance approach in the dealings with demonstrators.

welcome says r t from moscow you're watching the weekly a roundup of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin owen and first the result region of krasnodar in the south of russia picking up the pieces still after the worst natural disaster in its history massive flash flooding killed over one hundred seventy people and destroyed thousands of. reports. it was a night of cheer for the people of green in almost an instant the small town was virtually swept away by a torrent of rain and mud deluged by a giant wave of up to seven meters dwarfing most of the buildings there wellington was lucky to survive in a sudden turning to walk up his wife and son before rushing to help an elderly disabled neighbor. experience what's a rose immediately tried to do something to save our belongings but the water was everywhere it was high time was saved ourselves and we climbed up onto the roof spaces others were not so lucky with many elderly people in particular found

amongst the dead in the morning so why vors desperately needed help fresh water dry clothes and food their s.o.'s message was answered thousands of emergency workers people from all walks of life rushed to chremes medical students assisted doctors vaccinating survivors fashion model and philanthropist but earlier with john over two gifts for children after an appeal on facebook 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 i kind of just got to do whatever we could in one day and we gathered does. tons of half of it is still there is a very necessary provision many locals refused to believe the official account but the flood was caused by torrential rains rumors that the deluge followed a discharge of water from a reservoir continued some spread both 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 are volunteers they. brought shovels rubber gloves everything that is needed to clean up the debris many flood victims took matters into their own hands with really diving for their belongings greetings to come shots car i escaped an earthquake there and when i came here i got hit by 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 weeks and months to get things back to normal this current southern russia is just refusing to give up even though the town has been badly hit that looks like the people of chremes have not last told and against all

odds they're staying and helping each other to rebuild their homes and their lives . are to cross and are reaching. for the timeline of the tragedy that swept through southern russia is available on our website there's plenty more on the story as well as r.t. the com there you can see photos and footage from the scene in the disaster that devastated towns and communities in southern russia. u.n. observers probing a mass killing in syria's hammer province have confirmed the regime's claims that its military was targeting rebel fighters in the area this contradicts oppositions reports of civilian massacres something the u.s. and its allies rushed to support. brings us more now from the capital damascus. but you're an observer trim mission hint 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 concluded that an attack

apparently by the governmental forces appeared targeted at specific houses and specific groups especially i mean to 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 have 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 terrorists 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 in what happened in the village of tremseh and they've even sad that the north given weapons set up buys forces from abroad and especially from turkey while problems continues to rage everywhere cool 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 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 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 he helped the syrian regime and was killing the rebels they say i am. on behalf of all fronts let me express my admiration by the 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 currently those murderers and i believe it is necessary for them to leave. 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. kind of march in this media are the voice behind the camera says the fight must go on it warms peace will happen to anyone who can trace with the assad government. they are top criminals these people are top of criminality how do they have the right. and when you find your country destroyed our country we've been building more lives. the whole world wants to see

a political transition from this illegitimate regime to actually see one that can take care of its people maybe how we're here that should such people force us 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 fears mounted in syria this is the people who pay the ultimate price. refresh our tea from damascus in syria. last a citizen curity force bus in the capital damascus reportedly wounding several people it's the latest in a string of attacks on government sites which the authorities blame on terror

groups middle east expert going to mayor told me the rest is modified greatly these days with the government now forced to wage war against militancy of infiltrated syria. the situation is calm changed completely there are still peaceful protests this 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 they follow a general pattern would start from the beginning the victim or the rochas bashar asad and we have to also the same strategy which hillary clinton promoted right from the beginning and many nearly all the governments from nato states they followed this pattern so they are not really interested in the vast

majority of the media they stick to this fishel pattern which is promoted by the western governments. now staying in the region bahrain's ban on opposition rallies and stop anti regime demonstrators from taking to the streets despite fresh clashes in the rest activists promise to escalate the protests a crackdown on dissent means bahrain's criticism towards syria is illegitimate says american academic calling cavil. continuing to be very skinny there's pro-democracy opposition supported well with three quarters of the barbie. in green many of the product of through killing some of the older. bro just because only. georgians continue the daily and continue. how areas to many observers and we don't

know about the. rooms of syria are being in baghdad. models are incredibly smart in the war on saudi arabia. bahrain regime going to have no all history of democracy or. the way to the free syrian army bunch of mercenaries there have no legitimate. along with bahrain saudi arabia has been stepping up its crackdown on anti-government rallies activists say two men were killed in the oil rich eastern province after police opened fire on protests triggered by the arrest of a prominent shiite cleric last sunday extra troops are being deployed in the area to prevent further rallies by the shia population which has long complained of discrimination by the ruling sunni family. still to come on the program including a look at how immigrants are now paying the price of reese's financial world braces to take certain items as extreme right wing faction galvanized public anger and

paint foreigners as the source of greece's troubles the report coming up. also r.t. avesta gates a mysterious ranch in the u.s. mountains allegedly harboring russian children stopped by american foster parents and then later abandoned. her work on the streets of spain this week as pent up public rage over the government's austerity drive spilled over into clashes with police mass protests sparked by miners began this wednesday the police reaction sort of a set. people injured in clashes. fired rubber bullets at the demonstrators with many activists and the government in madrid this friday approved a new round of cuts a precondition to the eurozone rescue deal for ailing spanish banks but a sociologist from the week he told me. the prime minister thinks. 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 a year 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 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 thinkable 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 and what's happening today now on the other side of the mediterranean in greece a stereotype driven rioting and protests have moved to do something much more sinister the violent attacks on immigrants is surging as extreme right wing factions revel

in their newfound public support they've pledged indeed to rid the country of all immigrants and are even urging volunteers to donate blood to greeks only jacob graves reports now from our. while all around the country crumbles some parts of greece are seeing firm foundations take root. in that we want a nationalistic state 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 that if you ask me about violence i would have to say yes we do have violence in greece but not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thousands of greeks suffer from by those gangs of foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land. despite spouting racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting

politicians live on air the party still secured around seven 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 dads there but those that they are going to i suppose by savary see me that these attacks are happening at night and therefore ever doesn't in a way by people who are often for dead and armed with clubs. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens i want to wish if i'd known what it was going to be like here i would never have left somalia from what happened to you when you're attacked. they 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 this in neighborhoods like this in central athens where an increasing number of attacks are taking place the so-called vigilance he proves in describing targeting ethnic minorities. victims say there's little point turn to police they're just not interested. greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border with turkey where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric flooding into mainstream politics i think that the lads waylaid that here are the ventral groups militant it 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 integral immigrant has been caught in there in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he entered europe and absent that means they end up in greece all 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 but the fire of extremism they're entering jake agrees r.t. happens. we invite you to head to our web site r t to come from one of the stories we're covering there right now unrest in israel housing rallying to mark a year since the start of mass social protests in the country with one man in tel aviv setting himself on fire for the night extensively last night your culture with its online also.

goes japanese u.s. and russian astro boy heading into war with unique scientific experiments that was a live picture of iran you can watch the full video of that rocket taking off by the incredible launch it was. politically active nonprofit groups working here in russia and funded from abroad may soon come under tough scrutiny a bill that forces such organizations to register as foreign agents is now passed its first stage of approval in the country's lower house of parliament the groups who have to undergo financial audit since a bit reports their activities otherwise they'll face heavy fines or even jail terms critics of mediately labeled the move an attack on civil liberties while supporters say it will help transparency the u.s. is slamming the bill too despite having earlier announced an almost identical law but with all there is a washington correspondent guy and to check out. the west hurry to dump the proposed legislation is a kremlin crackdown on n.g.o.s shows the money flow where is the money coming.

toward you or your organization so you get transparency you get regulation you get some of. these are all things that 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 the united states. you work for another country you have to register. that country. again that's. kind. of a foreign nation for onic a question in 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. i was a representative from st petersburg promoted economy corporation to reason cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic to natives of foreign agents insisted that representatives of c.d.'s also registered as foreign agents version of the law doesn't even include nonpolitical actors like that the foreign agents registration act in the us 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 principle as well as a receipt 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 organizations but many see another difference i need a new suit in the us doesn't have thousands of forming organizations which work to

change its constitution to change its leadership but in russia do you have a situation when scores of openness ations work precisely and that for example when some calls for people to join a protest they have the right to know who's behind that and whose payroll they are members of some non-governmental organizations met with hillary clinton behind closed doors in st petersburg afterwards one of them media the russkie said the sector estate 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 and of course when we say no government. organizations many of these organizations are government funded so they get some of their funding from from the government of the united states anyway so and she's saying that then the certainly do and they are certainly going to either get it over only and maybe she's hinting it covertly i don't now many of the n.g.o.s in russia which get their financing

from abroad to preach openness and transparency and the sponsors of this russian bill or e.q. it only makes sense that they themselves are subject to the same principles of transparency i'm going to check on in washington r.t. . on the second day of a visit to egypt u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton's met with field marshal who is saying turned his chief for the country's armed forces clinton urged him to hand over power to islamist president mohamed morsi as quickly as possible but while iskander a blogger and journalist spoke to his pleas washington hasn't yet picked a side of the egyptian power struggle washington has always been supporting the power structure that serves its purposes respective of whether they are democratic or not so currently they really don't care what kind of forces are there as long as they give the u.s. what it actually requires which is the foreign policy not to interfere with it and to make sure they have political and military allies wherever the news

a new system when you regina is in it but i think that what the u.s. is trying to do right now is to wait for to see who wins in the political battle that is ongoing between the muslim brotherhood and the military and reinforce the power structure that results out of that. deal to help safeguard children adopted by families in the united states has been ratified by the russian parliament the changes come out on the heels of chilling examples of abuse against russian children by other adoptive american parents did a culture reports. just some eight kilometers from the canadian border stands a remote trains hidden in the mountains and forests of this northwest part of the u.s. for many adopted children from russia who have found themselves abandoned once again this remote train in the state of montana has become their last resort through so much rejection but despite its noble goal care homes like this and there are

several across the country are close to the outside world it's almost impossible to discover the fate of these neglected children last week russia's children strides commissioner pavel isto health try to visit the range but it was denied access to the children living there. with their assume many lies about the real conditions of two dream adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on i know there were twenty four russian children of different ages and as our understand it they were already just days before my visit that this incident in montana happened only a week before a long awaited agreement concerning the well being of russian children adopted by u.s. families was to come into force russia has long been demanding information from u.s. authorities on the fate of children after they have been taken in by adoptive families but under u.s. law once a child is legally adopted the state has no specific responsibility to monitor or

oversee how they are doing with their new families once an adoption is foreign allies in any state in the united states that child is considered as is born to those legal adoptive parents there is no further intervention at all on part of the adoption agency in rison years it's an issue that has caused several difficulties in relations between the two countries since russia suspended adoption of its chill. by americans that was prompted by widespread outrage after a tennessee mother sent her adopted eight year old son back to moscow alone with a known saying she no longer wanted him and there was no isolated case nineteen russian children have been killed or badly injured since overseas adoptions began in nine hundred ninety one including seven year old you violence got about god was

beaten to death by his american foster parents. and this harrowing example from twenty ten when an american mother filmed herself punishing her adoption as little russian boy why she lied to me. what. to me. was. me. jessica beagley was charged with child abuse and there is untold numbers of children who have been and are being abused but it isn't stable and so it doesn't make the headlines we have no way of knowing though there has been some progress in the political arena there were thousands of russian children fostered an adopted across the u.s. and while some may well have phone loving families nobody knows just how many

a suffering the fate of little evens could have i got the idea of course the artsy reporting from los angeles california. thanks for watching the news for us this hour for all about the recap of this week's top stories in just a couple of minutes for your following that will be chewing over the issue of how much good food simply being thrown away by american supermarkets great program cannot cannot call to get the next shapes up in fact on our team from moscow.

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