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new details emerge after russian pilots say everyone aboard a crippled passenger jet by crash landing at a short airstrip in a remote. pilot's increasingly being called heroes for that conduct find out why just in the. joke that's too close for comfort

a u.s. soldier facing condemnation for planting grenades in the cars of iraq these are a lot. if you stand in that excuse that something which might be totally out of there is nothing but a pretty school to stop people next going to the u.k. ready to review its controversial extradition laws as they allow one sided deals where brits are set for trial abroad with little or no proof of guilt. nine pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story prosecutors are investigating the crash landing of a crippled russian airliner in the northwest of the country all eighty one people aboard had a miraculous escape when the plane overshot in a bad an airstrip on tuesday and slammed into the trees artie's tom barton has

details. first we just heard that there had been a crash landing these new details revealed an astonishing story in the air really the flight the two full of t. one five four was on a six hour flight from the far east of russia into moscow for four hours into that flight at the height of thirty thousand feet ten thousand meters a huge electrical failure struck the plane which knocked out its navigation systems its communications systems the fuel pumps taking fuel to the difficult time for the engine and also the flight brakes the flaps on the on the wings that left the pilots with a very difficult job finding and have faced down very quickly. they have looked around in the kone region where they were currently over in northwest russia and they found an old disused airstrip they then circled three times to try and get the

right approach using only their engines with no electrical assistance and then managed to put the plane down on the runway the runway being too short for the plane however so it overshot into trees beyond the runway amazingly after all of this no one was hurt out of the eighty one passengers and crew on board and they all got off the plane safely they represent of the company that owns the plane has said though in the in the investigations afterwards and as far as they know currently nothing was wrong with the with the plane as we can hear so i want to reform the investigation committees working out the site to find out what really happened before the flight the plane was functioning normally it is on the go on planned technical maintenance and preflight checks houser seventy two passengers only two people and mary couple refused to continue their journey by plane they went by train there was no real panic when the plane landed there was slight

nervousness because there were emergency slides and everyone was anxious to leave the plane as soon as possible but the stewards did everything well in the evacuation was done in a normal manner. people are saying that these two pilots who managed to participate in safely should be given awards when they return to moscow after de briefing the off for a tease said calling them heroes really an aviation expert said just that and and sort of expressed what a difficult task these two were really faced. of course it's not being used for what it was intended because it's a helicopter airdrome the ground was too hard and without any runway markings but you have to be a monster to land the plane like this what is most important is the insurance and ability and professionalism of the whole crew if the whole crew listens to their pilot and he really acts with responsibility for the whole plane this is the main thing this means it's a professional crew the proof is that no one was injured on board the plane the

investigators now have a ride to the site and they're going to go over there see this plane and look at the whole situation to try and find out what happened with this electronics failure the two pilots currently helping them with their investigations will only know the full answers when the investigation comes back but for the moment when the pilots return it's undoubted they're going to be met with a hero's welcome. reporting from our teams tom barton pilot an aviation expert here any cash believes the crew didn't accept the job in extreme circumstances. of course it was a considerable degree off walk a but they believe fear i have to compliment above all vera sharp professionals keels of the russian crew on fifty four is not an easy aircraft to what he would will ever think rocks normally every even when every think of the raids as it does supposed to operate through really have had the push should be on the envelope

where they say they will have good demonstrate their very high professionalism to learn that over there in operate their flaps and slats it is quite a challenge and these are. and i have to say that the crew did just fine. a former u.s. sergeant who served in iraq secretly planted grenades in the cars of iraqis at checkpoints for a laugh he filmed himself and the reaction of drivers is a joke and put it all on you tube but as artie's policy reports most iraqis see nothing funny about life in a conflict zone manning a checkpoint all day must get boring which is perhaps why sergeant dunson and his partner admit they passed the time playing jokes on unsuspecting drivers in the future to posting dunson describes how they planted a grenade in the iraqi man's car a few seconds of confusion all is explained and the perplexed but very relieved driver is same time his way. out of you know cause.

or our it was just one of those being where you know it happened. on a guy like on but for most iraqis this is not fun and life here is very far from being a joke. i think it's only for them to laugh for us it's not funny but very scary. we're used to car bombs explosions and searches happening every day but if someone did this to me i would be so scared. as would most people in a country where a checkpoint can often mean the difference between life and death it's not uncommon to have your heart take at least a dozen times a day if you had any the way that what you will see the city of britain they will be arrested on the spot and. harrison. and some american military personnel are not seeing the funny side of sergeant dunces antics i would not tolerate that and my organization. i don't think that's conducive to gaining. you know into the

partnership with with the federal police or certainly and trusting their confidence and us or the people for that matter and trusting the. trusting in the federal police doc to fight him out but that army has never been pranked himself that claims to have witnessed american soldiers displaying even more alarming behavior. i personally know of many cases where soldiers would take a bet and for example hates an iraqi citizen just for fun there were cases where people died from the so-called sun we had about one hundred fifty thousand american soldiers here and although some were professional there were many who were not. but i want to a local t.v. stations you know picked up on the idea that. it takes well known local celebrities to iraqi checkpoints and plays pranks on them in much the same way as dunson and

his colleagues but use a nudge and i will buy i says it's a way to lighten the situation. we're not making fun of the iraqi forces they're very brave in fighting terror but we wanted to present them in a unique and different way we also want to present weapons as something people can laugh about. there's mixed reaction to the iraqi show but still iraqis making fun of iraqis is very different according to most people here to americans getting in on the act and with people still being killed in iraq if we day it was a constant reminder that terrorism is no laughing matter. back to. and staying with iraq at least six people have been killed and thirty five wounded in separate attacks in baghdad today a civilian and three policemen were killed when twin car bombs exploded in the south of the city two people were killed in a simultaneous double blast near a bus station in eastern baghdad on tuesday a gunman wearing

a rocky army uniform shot dead to u.s. troops. coming up later here on r t a bottle on the scene. we tried to shoot a movie just stop them by. law enforcement tries to stop poachers that are pushing the sturgeon towards extinction in their hunt for black gold. but first britain has announced it will take a fresh stock of its extradition laws that currently allow u.k. citizens to be shipped for trial abroad with little or no evidence of guilt but the overall is expected to focus on the treaty with the u.s. as campaigners say it's biased against britain but the home office says the independent review will not impact any cases already being processed as artie's laura emmet reports. reclaiming some of its lost power britain is set to review controversial extradition treaties with the us and european union under the current laws countries that want to extradite british citizens don't have to

provide any evidence that they're guilty of the crime they're wanted for if you stand in that cost used of something which might be totally absurd there is nothing that a british court can to stop him being extradited to have a very very limited powers to stop him being extorted and we've seen this in a number of cases now where there's no real evidence against somebody and if the court was allowed to look at the evidence they would say sorry it doesn't justify tradition we're not going to allow it after years of fighting it's a small victory for john this sharp her son is gary mckinnon who is wanted in the us perhaps into the pentagon's computers he's been granted a stay of extradition and if the review gives britain its legal system more power to protect its citizens he may not have to face decades in an american jail the way really really difficult because there is every second is that hate and stress and it's very difficult. prepared that it may be a longer way he agrees as long as it is good and also if the treaty is changed and

helps everybody then only something's been achieved and you feel that it wasn't over nothing that we went through the hill with some the treaty with the us was put into place following nine eleven to make it easier to extradite terrorists critics say it's one sided because britain can't extradite us citizens without proving the individual has probably committed the crime and so far only one person is believed to have been handed over on suspicion of terror the treaty has been mainly used against businessmen accused of fraud and minor offenders karren told is one of the u.k.'s top extradition lawyers involved in most recent high profile cases i think it has been appears to. if it is the one type of people we do not terrorists i do believe that america takes advantage of the very weak position the u.k. is in is in relation to this extradition treaty more than

a thousand people were seized by u.k. police last year on orders from the e.u. or united states fifty percent turn the year before british lawyers say many european states have imposed conditions on extradition to protect their citizens whereas the u.k. has no star job touts a large proportion of extradition is to the e.u. often minor offenses which aren't necessarily considered crimes in the u.k. cool for a review of the situation intensified last year after germany refused to extradite a doctor who had accidentally killed a patient whilst working in the u.k. they're reviewing panel made up of lawyers and international relations experts is due to report next summer but until the situation changes british citizens will still be at risk of being extradited with no evidence under a law that even the man who signed it former home secretary david blunkett now admits gives too much away your abit r.t.

. up to forty homes have gone up in flames in a village in southern siberia as wildfires continue their trail of destruction across russia locals have been taken to safety authorities say seventy firefighters are battling to prevent the fires from reaching another village near by blazes across the country this summer of claimed more than fifty lives russia's president dmitri medvedev has blamed the negligence of local authorities and values that if it happens again those responsible will be fired. so is that the current levels and level of organization of management good enough current levels give responsibility to the regions but it doesn't allow for that responsibility to be withdrawn it is a fight. if it happens it should lead to the instant firing of officials of the government. iran's continuation of its nuclear program is making world leaders reconsider the way they handle the issue russian foreign minister sergey lavrov had

said the six party negotiating bloc needs to rethink its terms in order to get tehran back at the table political analyst clifford chance says an agreement is only likely if the u.s. and iran find some flexibility. the iranian issue can be resolved if both. find newfound flexibility it's very important to me that the u.s. stop calling on the iranians to suspend enrichment. of uranium iran will enrich uranium they will have a nuclear program the iranians you do agree to limit on the program they need to agree to inspections and they need to explain what they're doing now that. is all by way of saying that an agreement is possible but both sides need to stop saying no to the other side. that full interview with clifford cup china coming your way in a little more than an hour here on r.t. . poachers hunting for

a black caviar are pushing the sturgeon towards extinction in russia's southern caspian sea while authorities have been battling to stop them and so only lead to legal fishermen to take guns along with their fishing rods as our. reports. a weekly raid on poachers in the volga delta that caviar in each one of these jars is worth fifteen thousand dollars fishing wild sturgeon is highly illegal but the ban has simply driven the prices up making poaching ever more lucrative poaches supply forty nine out of every fifty jars of caviar consumed. colonel gets in below shows the equipment he sees in just the last few months was just all around there are hundreds of four man cruising speed boats equipped with remote is satellite navigation and weapons we try to shoot their motors to stop them but they fire back and we can't get them all. the caspian sea produces the vast majority of the

world's black caviar but the population of sturgeon n. it has dropped by forty times in just two decades the local university is now simply trying to save the genetic samples before it's too late because we knew without scientists and fish breeders the sturgeon would have become extinct or reading what i would be seen only in aquariums this is a catastrophe. the government subsidizes breeding farms such as this one to try and avoid total extinction successful breeding is difficult even here it takes sturgeon until they're nearly ten to start reproducing but at least i'm just farm their offspring are not destined for the dinner table. here they release about one million fish everything go yeah but then as soon as they sturgeon are set free most of them are legally fished again meaning that the population is not likely to recover for decades. the sports installing millions of dollars of new but

the manager say only better regulation can change the situation. the problem isn't the people here on the ground the problem is corruption at a higher level a whole system has been constructed to make sure that those who break the law do not pay. meanwhile colonel gets them beat out goes out on another rate he knows that the generous touch of poaches awaits him. even if you dress them to date over his will replace them to. see. remember you can always find more on the stories we're covering along with video blogs and a whole lot more on our website here's a taste of what's online right now at our team dot com. anti immigrant sentiment still sweeping parts of the u.s. despite a recent poll suggesting the inflow of migrants fell by more than a half in the past few years. and the birth of the north korean leader is still shrouded in mystery but evidence suggests that kim jong il may have been born on

a small village in a russian far east all that and lots more at r.t. dot com. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a b.p. investigation into the gulf of mexico oil spills says the oil company was to blame along with a number of its contractors their report that took about five months to compile pointed to a chain of failures involving various parties in the biggest environmental disaster to hit america b.p. says it accepts all recommendations in the report and will implement them worldwide the rig explosion in april left eleven workers dead and caused a massive oil leak. in the u.s. a small church in florida says it will burn copies of the koran despite international condemnation the dove world outreach center plans to mark saturday's anniversary of the september eleventh attacks by burning copies of the islamic holy book it's meant to be a warning to all radical muslims but up top muslim cleric along with prominent members of the obama administration have said it could do permanent damage to ties

. hundreds of people took to the streets of los angeles to protest a police shooting of a guatemalan immigrant protesters threw rocks and eggs at a local police station and officers responded by firing rubber bullets more than twenty demonstrators were arrested earlier about three hundred people blocked a nearby intersection as part of the protests. and nasa experts have been advised in the thirty three trapped chilean miners on how to cope with their predicament with the potential for months until rescue doctors have told them to form an underground community to combat the mental stress the miners have had some light relief as they were able to watch chile play you rain live on television i mean your projector was passed through the bore hole to display the game on the wall. and in less than twenty four hours our extensive live coverage begins of the global policy forum in the russian city of yaroslav all its attracted a vast political crowd from some thirty nations as well as several heads of state

the russian press the press attache of the russian president italian says everyone is looking forward to some wide ranging dialogue. this forum is taking place only for the second time but it has already attracted a lot of interest from our foreign partners as well as political circles aside from the russian president italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi and south korea's president mean young buck will take place in the forum a large number of prominent florida and russian political analysts will participate and work in different fields i'm sure will draw lots of interesting conclusions during the forum president medvedev will meet his foreign colleagues and make an address but will also separately meet with russian and foreign political experts to discuss the problems and achievements during the year. when it's something really crucial. to get down to.

special coverage. just the latest. round. discussions on the modern state in providing security and stability of the present day world. question. as ever this news blocks that thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. stephanie mundy joins us next with all the latest from the world of business after a short break. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around

the world. join us for technology update on our jeep. fellow and welcome to the business bulletin russia's find that alexei kudrin has issued a warning on growth and inflation in the country so that's. good returns if it's his economic growth this year it will be lower than expected we forecasted to be closer to five percent but today we expected to be a rowing four percent and inflation is higher because food prices are rising we expected it to be around six percent but now you really can't see it in. moscow as an international financial center that's the focus of a conference under way in the russian capital and our correspondent to tell you how clover is at the event. the project aimed at developing most going into an

international financial center is designed to not only to attract more foreign investment into the russian capital but also to help russia's financial system to become more globally competitive however this idea has already sparked some curtis's money some analysts are saying that this goal is hard to achieve in the near future they say that russia still a lacks our financial stability that it's domestic financial markets are very much underdeveloped and that there was almost no track record of a low and stable inflation in the country and they say that the more feasible goal to achieve into the future from moscow is to become a regional financial hub from the already existing in some areas. reasonable financial center for all that is going to be the for the future you know from this point of view was right through the willingness to do the full beef i disapprove of

it already has some serious counters you through for the girl looking to show no interest in the truth or you can feel is the solution to the missiles and the supervision or regulation of financial markets in the summer before the thirty's because shortly before the financial markets i think initially the forest service markets russia's economy has a long way to go before the ruble becomes an international reserve currency that's the dominant view from a conference focused on the prospects for the russian currency he steps according to analysts should be to boost the government bond market stabilize and diversify the russian economy and lower the inflation rate however the president of the my sex exchange says russia is making progress. ruble to be accepted in settlements and she says he couldn't stop them this is the first step towards the bulls are making rulers of cars pulled right and daryl hooka from my cup says the ruble is

already attracting international interest. the trading that we're seeing on the plant form is growing month by month so they're all sort of three to six months we've seen huge increases in volumes we would expect those volumes to topple over the next six months so there's massive october we've seen counter parties in hong kong and singapore in new york and chicago in particular all looking at the ruble for most of more inquiries now about ruble are actually coming from north america and asia. my sex aims to start trading the yuan ruble cross by the end of this year analysts say the trade will boost the profile of both currencies my sex says the initiative came from the russians central bank and the people's bank of china is expected to launch the same trade. now let's have a look at how the russian actually markets on whether stay at the r.t.s. and my sex finished higher back to our form with fabric gaining a hefty two point seven percent energy majors will still lend support mustapha is

more than two percent higher claims. washing all companies are increasingly looking east several producers want to expand or establish operations in china within several years while snuff representatives told a conference they could build new oil refineries jointly with the chinese meanwhile plans to sell more oil products to china vice president you need fed to said look was priority is to expand to asia as the fastest growing. global stock markets took a breather on tuesday after a five day rally business r.t. spoke to several analysts about their forecasts for the russian markets for the rest of this year well typically we have a very quiet summer in russia where volumes are very weak and that's definitely the case this year as we come out of the final quarter of the year volumes do tend to pick up trading activity picks up and generally historically the market tends to rally so most of the gains that investors make tends to be towards the end of the year so yes we are starting to see the.