and r.t. investigates the real the radiation situation in the japan's fukushima nuclear plant the international community tightens up atomic security. the european union has agreed to bail out greece one more time but only if athens introduces savage new austerity measures the greek parliament vote on the cuts totaling more than one hundred billion a year is expected on tuesday the proposals of course an angry response from the greek public with the promise of more massive protests to come but the photo may be decisive not only for the fate of greece but also the ailing euro skeptics in brussels even staged a symbolic funeral for the currency sotiris apology office a lecturer at the university of the aegean believes greece can only move forward by abandoning what he calls the absurdity of the. problem is we cannot do it we are giving twelve billion lifeline. the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous did this is totally absurd it is for the benefit of greek p

coming up a little later here on r.t. police in the u.s. have closed an investigation into the so-called sexting case that's dominated national headlines for over two weeks and then senator tweeted a received photo of himself triggering a media rush that overshadowed world news including the war in libya and violence in syria he's got to look at where priorities lie in the american media but he doesn't know the american media can't get enough of anthony we nurse quite shocked let me read you west congressman had sent this lewd photo to a young woman via twitter a story made a perfect sex scandal with a shameless cover up this is a twitter hoax surprising that was done i am a victim of this poor girls the victim of a subsequent embarrassing compaction last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message just part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i posted to twitter i panicked i took it down and said that i had been hacked and of course a tearful apology and deeply sorry for the pain t

r.t. . well you can give us your thoughts on the stories we're covering here on the screen on our team heading to our web site is r.t. dot com news and analysis updated every minute and here's what's their feed to discover today should you log on right now a devastating blow to several villages in a central russian republic as an ammunitions depo disaster lights up the night sky the details and video spectacular video of that incident are available right now at r.t. dot com. also bear in mind you can see how hundreds exercised their first amendment rights at the jefferson memorial in washington by dancing it's up to five people arrested last week for a similar flash mob including an r.t. america presented with police actions described as aggressive and unconstitutional . a major milestone in space research and possible space travel has been reached this week it's now every year since a crew began a simulation of a first manned flight to mars and all without ever leaving the ground six hundre

will stay with r.t. for in-depth coverage of natural disasters because later on in the program going to be a russian oceanographer he says the phenomena are here to stay. previously unseen video footage has surfaced online showing the crash of an iranian military jet at an air show two years ago the haunting video was filmed by the crew of another plane flying in the show just outside tehran captures the moment an seventy six military plane falls to earth and explodes after a midair collision with a fighter jet seven crew members were killed in the crash. that sort of brings up thought for the moment i'll be back with the headlines for you and about to turn off minutes from now stay with us life in moscow i'll be back after a short break. twenty years ago in the largest country in. the sense of a sense of. what had been shown. to be going to germany. where did it take them. if. good.

carry a push to over r.t. moscow. very interesting stuff indeed the new documentary trouble do try and find it somewhere on your television it is global in english twenty four hours a day fascinating stuff and it all right you with r.t. live from moscow let's turn over to the weather forecast now and i'll be back with the headlines. day children play war in the all keys to me. nine hundred forty one these walls when the first barrier fell announce the troops on their way to moscow and. the target wrestlers were dying one by one under siege the sutler want to elope. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell model. but i'm not so rendering. if. fifty feet. mission creep couldn't take three. charges free. range free risk free stooge free. libya.

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will be back to recap i had lunch for you just a few moments here on r.t. in about five minutes from now stay with us life here in moscow. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on our team. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is approaching it from. the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the world for misleading them that the united states is trying to get its astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in bases of. noises around one or two doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's

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also this hour on r.t. it's confirmed fifteen people near japan's fukushima nuclear plant showed signs of radiation exposure last month the latest government checks on that with anger and skepticism. international news and comment live from moscow this is a team with twenty four hours a day it appears that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is not only being targeted by nato jets but the international criminal court also has him in its sights two charges in the hague of issued an arrest warrant for get off in his closest allies on charges of crimes against humanity our correspondent alina going to go has more . namely he's being accused of purposefully targeting his civilians of killing civilians during the dispersal of the protest in february of this year the court's decision and the request for the arrest of moammar gadhafi his son and also his intelligence minister has been issued by a lot of the prosecutors of the international criminal court and this is only the second time in nine year history that such a

on the way here on r.t. as financial woes gripping europe we take to the streets of new york to find out if people there feel they're heading down the same road. freezes work and. i feel like we're on the right i think we have to fix it on the global level but i think we reach country have to know where they are expectations it was pretty bad during the great depression that is a bottom that we can compare it to i know it will get that bad but i don't think we're there yet. egypt's former finance minister minister sentenced to thirty years in prison he was living openly in london despite being want to cairo. was convicted of abusing power for personal profit fled the country after the january revolution and as r.t. reports this isn't the first time that london has provided a safe haven for rich for information. when egypt erupted into violence at the store said the year the u.k. was among the first to support the uprising out with the old dictatorship and in with a new era of democracy the old guard was swep

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area pushed over r.t. moscow. and some hollywood glamour is being sprinkled on the russian capital today as the thirty third international film festival kicks off in moscow the hotly anticipated world premiere of the third transformers movie will open the event seventeen films will compete against each other for the prestigious st george's gone over the course of the next ten days here in our correspondent peter all of is following the action. fantastic atmosphere here in central moscow ahead of the opening of the thirty for thirty third international film festival here in the russian capital plenty of fans come out to greet the great in the good in the glitz and the glamour a lot of them over here right now how y'all doing. they're enjoying themselves i certainly am it's not a bad days work when you get sent here great atmosphere we've seen a lot of the stars entering into the cinema just behind me at pushkin square in the center the russian capital we've seen sheila both the star of the transformers movie also w

with r.t. as we highlight the week's stories that made headlines i'm a rule research a welcome to the program now serbia has asked the hague to question the former general about it she was accused of genocide as a potential witness and their own investigation into what happened in the balkan this conflict let it shift here to the war crimes court for the first time this week calling the charges against him monstrous and up not just the former bosnian serb army chief has been indicted on i love doing other stuff war crimes including the murder of eight thousand muslims outstretched and it's up next police hearing will take place now in a month child been on the run for sixteen years and was arrested in serbia just over a week ago his extradition was touted by the e.u. as a key objective of the countries of membership but as artie's caterina. reports the e.u. dream doesn't appear to be any closer. still waiting for the green light service arrests an extradition of former bosnian serb army chief o

r.t. dot com. this week nato intensified its bombing campaign in libya and agreed to prolong the mission for another three months until september also was dated the u.n. issued a report claiming the rebels as well as colonel gadhafi had been guilty of committing crimes in while british and french time helicopters have carried out the first tribes of believe they are giving the nato campaign more muscle gave colonel gadhafi the move has prompted concerns over in river and land base the fact that russia's foreign minister warns that pushing the boundaries of the un mandated leader may lead to future resolutions losing their credibility. when we expressed our opinion over to circulation of the military operation with what's happening is a shift towards a ground operation this would be very regretful because the violations of the security council resolution already taking place. more than enough to think about didn't actually choose towards humans decisions. they took the hoped for a quick res

and in moscow the r.t. it's trading sessions kicks off in the black coming back from monday's losses the mice it will open shortly that figures seeing there is from monday's close both markets finished in the red though on monday on the negative sentiment of the european debt jitters. russian stock markets have been largely negative at the start of the trading week marco concepts from a treaty investment bank says gasol from a slew of annual general meetings this week will keep investors busy. we have a quiet week and we're waiting for a lot of a.g.m. june comes to towards the end and we don't expect any fireworks per se we have we don't know but just having these meetings and proving you know people don't send elected new boards we've seen a few positive developments in the boards and more market friendly people have come on the boards and you saw the impact of that and it was on us for the rest of the week we're just waiting for again the greek and then us data as well and it's been on and off in the last

the long wait for justice continues his role of a r.t. moscow to poland now where military court has cleared seven nato soldiers of killing civilians in an attack on an outgoing village four years ago the panel ruled the evidence was not signal a sufficient to support war crimes charges saying honest mistakes or faulty ammunition might have been to blame but as aussies daniel bushell reports the verdict outraged many observers and fuelled calls for troops to be withdrawn from afghanistan. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers were put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven mortar shells that were fired by polish troops and the afghan village of nine as a result six people were killed and three were severely wounded but the soldiers were cleared of all charges one of the accused told r.t. it's all been a big mistake we didn't see people. we were accidents of the south sud

has been telling me here in r.t. that saving the banks is why politicians are so determined to bail out greece and keep it in the eurozone one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro is so that the banks don't have to take a serious. policy there's something. wrong with the banking system it's almost as if there's a holy alliance of politicians and bankers. people i'm sure that's what the people on the streets of athens today feel like don't think the banking crisis is over i suspect but it's hard and in many cases it might have been better to do what iceland did and say look these banks go bust these people lose their jobs these people lose their money that's about life and i suspect we're going to regret keeping the banks afloat and imprisoning countries like greece inside a currency union which they're just not suited. well you. know u.s. missile defense plans for europe has suffered a setback prague is now refusing to take part in the system czech officials say they're not happy

sorry i wish her well r.t. moscow. we have plenty more stories lined up here on live on our website at r.t. dot com. what's online right now or discover the fates often than the cover of a russian agents in the u.s. last year including the famous and the chapman. from last may be a long way from the sea but there are still plenty of places to set sail from check out guide the city's your teen club that's at r.t. dot com. where just a few moments the business news with katrina. hello welcome to aunty's business bulletin russia is on its way towards cutting its budget deficit and returning into the black in the next three years boy and crude prices could also help reduce a three point six percent gap in the budget down to one percent by the end of the year but analysts warn that high crude prices are putting the long term financial stability at risk. it's a good thing for russia that they will come back for it was heading up two hundred twenty hundred thirty dollars on brooms in the longer run this will be a boom and bus

and as israel's relationship with its neighbors becomes ever more tense r.t. looks at the plight of communities on the egypt gaza border and due to israel's decade long blockade the civilian population has resorted to underground smuggling to stay alive. to be next to the border because of the media. but also on the border of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risks. to jungle streets and marcie. greece may receive the next instal and of its one hundred ten billion euro zone in july athens has promised to implement strict storage of measures to stabilize its economy a goal it's failed to reach so far public anger is nothing over the cuts and tens of thousands of greeks are protesting outside the parliament fessor political science pit but as told by a little earlier on r.t. that he thinks that bailing out countries isn't there in. europe and the i.m.f. and greece to tighten its belt more and more are so there's no no way greece by itself can get out of the crisis is if you tigh

you with r.t. live from moscow and coming up the russian businessman being lined up for jail not justice as the extradited victim who prepares to appear in a new york court his defense accuses politicians of twisting the jury's arms to keep him behind bars. watchers and boy he is in tripoli to convince the regime there is no place for colonel gadhafi in libya as a future but loyalist officials have told me that the colonel is not prepared to step down it's the latest push by moscow to mediate a cease fire but to go off earlier held talks with rebel leaders in benghazi and a relative of gadhafi is in egypt there's no letup in the fighting meantime with yet more nato airstrikes and rebel advance towards tripoli the colonel's aides say he won't consider. stepping down until a ceasefire is in place but within just the past few hours told us here at r.t. it's time for a new approach to solving libya's conflict. nature has its own military agenda and there is another political agenda which is on the tabl

r.t. reporting from western libya. professor lawrence davidson from west chester university in pennsylvania told r.t. that nato has understood from the very beginning that it's humanitarian operation would inevitably bring civilian deaths. what this calls into question is the original justification for american intervention which was humanitarian my own personal opinion is that that was always a just a media story for our domestic consumption you cannot enter being anywhere with this level of munitions and not kill civilians so ok you're going to protect civilians by intervening with the type of munitions that cannot avoid killing civilians think that nato and its commanders and the president and the politicians involved in this are beyond a point of no return so they simply cannot stop thinking in terms of their own mind what they've invested in this and therefore they will end up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in libya and they will project media stories to cover. just foreign intervention in libya tha

and r.t. is coming to you live from moscow and time now for a quick look at what's ahead for you in the program here and in the world police down on protesters taking part in an anti government demonstration it's being called the silent revolution. while the russian aviation experts of ruled out technical failure as a possible cause of the fatal passenger jet crash in the country's northwest they are right now coding information from the black box flight recorders to discover what caused the plane to hit the highway on monday night relatives of victims locals have come together to pay their last respects near the scene the to pull off one of three four exploded killing many of the passengers on board survived the hospital with severe injuries i want to a ten year old boy later died that brings the death toll to forty five. well the u.s. has a valid to change its mission in afghanistan from a role of combat to one of support president obama has confirmed his decision to pull out a third of grou

british historian the author a go to michael jones well known for his books on world war two he told r.t. what motivates hitler's decision to invent the same unit seventy years ago want to help the civil troops to win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation hitler's code name for germany's invasion of the soviet union it became the largest ever military operation both in terms of sheer resources deployed and also in casualties and michael jones's new book tells the story of the red old me during the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. to say well let's start from the beginning of operation barbarossa why did decide to invade the. always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave

r.t. reporting from western libya. it is with you k. government admitted the libyan war has so far cost the country more than four hundred million dollars british m.p. gerry gardiner says it's both unfair to give taxpayers' money to rebels and illegal to take sides in a civil war. i think the gadhafi regime does look extremely shaky and much of it because of the pounding that it's received of course from british and french and american support. but my worries in the u.k. that we've seen that this so far has cost us a quarter of a million pounds the role that was set out by the united nations resolution one thousand nine hundred ninety three was very clear it was that there should be a an effort to induce a cease fire in libya and to enforce that cease fire now it seems that we've been very keen to try and and stop the armaments that are coming from gadhafi is regime in the government but we have been much less prepared to do that when the armaments and the and the fire has been coming from the rebels that's not an even handed in force o

and r.t. is coming to you live from moscow and what parties could soon be represented in that russia's lower house of parliament after the president proposed a lowering of the threshold from seven to five percent of the vote that's the minimum level needed to take up a seat in the duma speaking before the decision dmitri medvedev said it could be possible to lower that figure to three percent in the future and reform a political competition and help to modernize the country however it may be a different point out that the december parliamentary election will be held using the current regulations the change in the threshold of implementing rule applied to elections in two thousand and sixteen. well hoping to give up politics some fresh impetus is one of russia's richest men who has set his sights now on the parliament of profit off has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december elections it stands for a more liberal russia but crocker from self didn't want to ca

you would r.t. live from moscow and all the latest news features and analysis lined up for you of course on our web site check out some of the items right now nationalist icon it. has been laid to rest here in moscow it's after he was fatally shot last week log on to r.t. dot com to find out more about the controversy surrounding the disgraced for the coverage along with expert opinion available online right up. on our website an american anti missile watch it has sailed into the black sea it's ready for war games with the ukrainian navy russia says its presence close to the country's southern border threatens national security follow the dispute by logging on to r.t. . just only twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow there's a growing and see israeli sentiment in europe with calls on e.q. and u.s. governments to stop ignoring the occupation of palestinian land and politicians remain silent on the subject activists rallied to draw attention to the plight of palestinian people. from brussels. of

gary pushed over r.t. moscow. all right very interesting stuff indeed the new documentary trouble do try and find it somewhere on your television it is global in english twenty four hours a day fascinating stuff all right you with r.t. live from moscow let's turn over to the weather forecast now and i'll be back with the headlines. today children play war in the old case maybe. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nazi troops on their way to moscow and. funders the rest of us were dying one by one under system of fire and. water in the interim i am i. was. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell mother i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. to. mission for. cretaceous three is for charges free. range month three risk free stews types free. food free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media and on to our teeth dot com. the. libyans in opposition held benghazi cry out against alleged atrocities committed by rebel forces this is

tessa recently r.t. russia is going to the region. civilian casualties in the libyan conflict continue to rise with the government blaming nato for killing more than a dozen people in a recent airstrike in that used in town of brega the alliance denies the accusation saying it struck only legitimate military targets meanwhile opposition leaders in bengali say they're ready. for the rather bloody conflict to an end but many in the country believe the rebel forces more interested in waging war than creating these artes various you know from the reports. this family hasn't had the wall quiet and peaceful like this one for months they've escaped from the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to hide in this refugee camp in the west of the country after a life in their native town became a night. it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gunshots one day people from the government and then you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me we have to arrest your daughter be

carry pushed over r.t. moscow. remember you can watch the channel right now by clicking at r t r t v dot com and on satellite travels throughout the world i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes coming your way an exclusive interview with a russian businessman who's eighteen is to become prime minister still ahead stay with us here on r.t. . if . more than a month. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge it up and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes sense arctic is so special and attractive for many wildlife in antarctica it is the closest and fragile. expedition to the bottom of the earth on our team. but i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a cam cutting factory. but we have less garbage now. some visitors who come here make fun of me. picking up garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm a good person. it's just the people don't see me. but i fe

well you're watching r.t. live from moscow still have for you this hour japan's nuclear disaster underestimated we visit the sheema city player and save by the authorities to find radiation levels there are one thousand times the norm. plus a perfect way to learn more about russia from visiting its most beautiful places to discovering some of its most ambitious innovations find out all about our new documentary cho in a few minutes. well i will now be easier for russian political parties to win seats in the lower house of parliament as the president has signed a bill lowering the threshold from seven percent to five percent of the votes speaking to the media before the decision dmitri medvedev said it could also be possible to lower that figure to three percent the president said that this is a needed to boost political competition and health modernize the country seven percent threshold was introduced in two thousand and seven by his predecessor vladimir putin. and hoping to give that competition some fresh i

r.t. a man and a teenage girl who are among eight survivors of monday night's plane crash in northwestern russia have died in hospital. one three four heading from moscow to russia's republic of korea crash landed on a major road just a kilometer from the runway that disaster has now claimed forty seven lives artist has a silver sent this report from the crash site. struggling to keep her composure john is in disbelief at the sudden death of a friend. i do not understand why it happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's fate the wanted to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee vladimir brick by just one of the forty four killed monday night when he did pull of one three four carrying thirty two people from moscow the burglar's avoids going north western russia crashed on this route missing the runway by kilometer. it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes at this airport many times it's very personal to me th

r.t. says are cilia reports. struggling to keep her composure that yana is in disbelief at the sudden death of her friend when you're bored at work i do not understand why it happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's frayed the wanted to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee. just one of the forty four killed monday night when he took will have won three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to bettors avoids going northwest to russia crushed on this road missing the runway by a kilometer twenty four hours later the crash claimed another victim when one of the survivors a young boy died in hospital. when i heard the little boy in the hospital died i was shocked it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes at this era poured many times it's very personal to me . the site of the crash has been cleaned up the roads have been reopened the wreckage of the plane completely removed but there are still clear mark

and to watch this interview in full in about an hour's time here in r.t. the us to staff up its drone attacks in pakistan the latest killing at least twelve on monday but a growing number of civilian deaths in the strikes to spark public anger with concerns the action is driving up the number of extremists recruits and now with record stats the u.s. plans to expand its drone war and yemeni territory criticism against a strategy stronger than ever our she's got it she can't reports. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but it's not the czar under fire. in pakistan a cia drone strikes aim at terrorists but end up killing mostly civilians public outrage is growing hatred and anger fausta more terror if you push them against the wall then if this militancy and goes in is going to increase this is no more dissolution because if you're attacking them by drones and they're not part of the war they have the bombs on the other side which party they're going to go in pakistan in the one year the u.s. strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only

and r.t. also caught up with irvine from nestlé russia who told us about their latest plans in the country and how much they are injecting into the russian economy. we're investing still strongly in media and in new innovations which will bring into the market coming in the second half of this year innovations but we're also investing in the infrastructure in russia so we've just completed an investment into matures which we've now got big coffee factory there seven billion rubles we've just put in and that may be really the total investment intermissions to ten billion rubles and this year we're also building a new fractures well this year alone will be looking at i you know half billion rubles reimbursements we're going to continue to do those kinds of things. and finally let's take a quick look at how the markets finished the trading week while prices continued to fall friday reaching full month lows as investors reacted to fears of stronger output from saudi arabia and load global economic

watching r.t. live from moscow us now take a look at some other stories from around the world then clashes have erupted in some parliamentary elections thousands of supporters of the procurators party which won just six percent of the vote clashed with police as officers fought to disperse stone throwing protesters fifty percent of the votes went to rolling prime minister typer gone by his party still failed to gain the parliamentary majority required to ensure constitutional change. some flights have resumed in a straight after earlier destruction from an ad. bloom that left over fifty thousand passengers stranded fears remain that a volcanic ash can severely damage aircraft engines a chilling interruption happened over a week ago and has forced air traffic in several south american countries to come to a standstill. nature's beauty as dangerous explored in our special report today we'll look into the enormous power of an avalanche here's a taste of what's just a few minutes from now. stream casca

peter all over r.t. to vero beach and. others are plenty more ahead here on r.t. in less than a thirty minutes some extreme action most steps competitions where excitement and danger go and in hand we report on one of the newest most thrilling sports and cliff diving. but what about all the business update with korean that will be coming your way very soon stay with us here in alt. to. get. to be on the phone or whatever. street still keeps the secrets of the mountains time to reveal versions of things from the soviet files. but i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a can cabin factory. but we have less garbage now. some businesses who come here make fun of me. figure out garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm a good person. it's just the people don't see me. but i feel it was time people like me. that i feel people will start to appreciate us. welcome to prisoners here in our t.v. thanks for joining me this hour russia's electricity export monopoly into rao has pulled the plug on its supplies to bellow s

you with r.t. now the former finance minister and hosni mubarak's ouster gyptian government has reportedly found a safe haven in the u.k. but despite the fact that he's been sentenced in absentia thirty years in jail by a court for corruption profiteering and abusing state assets it's all or about looks at why the u.k. is sheltering senior figures from the regime at the same time i said publicly backs the arab spring. when egypt erupted into violence at the store said the year the u.k. with among the first to support the uprising out with the old dictatorship and in with a new era of democracy the old guard was swept aside but many running in fear for their lives ran straight to a new life in london and the local egyptian community is horrified angry disappointed some of them calling she want to go and. because it is a long time now that the british government be allowing people running oil not just from egypt from all over the world you said carly is just one the former finance minister instead of

you with r.t. let's check out some other headlines from around the world this hour a gunman have attacked the presidential compound in southern yemen i'm pulling for soldiers president ali abdullah saleh has also suffered injuries and has left the saudi arabia for treatment there's no speculation over whether or not he will return to the country has been hit by an arrest for three months at least one hundred fifty killed in the government crackdown. now a chain of volcanoes started erupting in start and chile is causing thousands to flee from the area plumes of smoke and ash are rising ten kilometers into the air there have been no reports of injuries so far the volcanic chain has been dormant for decades so it's lost a major eruption in one nine hundred sixty. i'm going to stay with our teeth all in depth coverage of natural disasters later in the program we interview a russian oceanographer who says the phenomena are here to stay. now a previously unseen video footage child surfaced online allege

this is r.t. coming to live from moscow with the marina joshie radioactive material has been. tax it in seawater around japan's fukushima plant was concentration levels two hundred forty times higher than safe limits scientists warned that the elements strontium is highly dangerous to humans as a ten accumulate in bones and is believed to cost cancer thomas has been to a city to measure radiation levels. were eighty kilometers away and the radiation levels in this area in many many places in many instances are much higher or really close because if you look at a map of where a city is in relation to the actual nuclear facility plant number one where a lot of that radiation. from the winds are bringing that radiation in the. city and the rain in the wind is blowing the radiation in this direction so we were at a spot where the radiation levels or one thousand times what is considered to be a safe dose is so very very dangerous levels and so scientists that we are working with today. different universities are working together on projects to try to figure out ways to use a simpl

you with r.t. now dozens of people have been killed in afghanistan in separate bombings over the past two days the attacks follow president obama's announcement of his troop withdrawal strategy the latest attack on a hospital in eastern afghanistan left at least thirty five dead with some reports putting the death toll at sixty it comes amid heightened tension between coalition forces and. afghan army after a number of nato soldiers were killed by taliban infiltrators in uniform on wednesday president obama announced that withdrawal of a third of u.s. troops by the end of next year the plan has been mostly met with hostility among u.s. military's leadership but afghan in a combat veteran turned antiwar activist jake believes that the presence of foreign a force is only helps to breed the insurgency. the longer that the us stays in and nato stays inside of afghanistan the more enemies we create because what happens in war unintentional consequences innocent people get killed more people join the ins

with r.t. now europe is seeing a surge in anti israeli settlement with a growing clamor for governments to stop turning a blind eye to the occupation of palestinian land activists say they want action not words and are demanding an embargo on exports from illegal settlements but as artie's and daniel bushell reports politicians are remaining tight lipped on the issue. against israel thousands called for the boycott of his really good over its continued expansion of palestinian land a jewish demonstrator says enough is enough. american leaders do not think that the e.u. does nothing the repeated un resolutions have ruled israeli settlements illegal. activists and european union to war the main export of the occupied territories and fruits a full human barricade to use a ploy deposed still getting through. israel's carmel brand market settlement produce and pocketed profits but find forces moving their citizens are committing war crimes under the geneva convention public pressure is beary fruit i

and as israel's relationship with its neighbors becomes ever more tense r.t. looks at the plight of communities on the egypt and gaza border and you israel's decade long blockade sabean population has resorted to underground smuggling just to stay alive they live only next to the border of the gaza strip and egypt. but also on the border of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved one. they are ready to take any risk. to. the streets on r.g.p. . he would not say yes we are one of the week's top stories here and a major milestone in space research on a possible space travel that's all been reached this week it's now over a year since the crew began a simulation of a first manned flight to mars and all without ever leaving the ground six holland says are taking part in the seventeen month mock up mission that's how long the return trip to mars will take a look inside a capsule with russian and european scientists studying the psychological effects of long time isolation the crew is now on of the return leg after a suc