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three people are evil rock each man reached out his hand towards me couldn't make it to him everything six months you could not get any clues everything was engulfed by. forty four people killed as a passenger plane crash lands in northwest russia eight survivors are hospitalized in critical condition. these are still being. probed after an anti nato mood grows in following claims of more civilian victims as a result of. leaving fifteen dead including children. and
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parents fighting red tape for their children's lives dozens of kids gardening and to sing for russia to supply the state from expensive treatment. and you're watching our table straight to our top story now a plane crash that killed forty four people in northwestern russia may have been caused by a power outage on the ground a passenger survived the incident and are being treated in hospital officials say the plane itself may have clipped power lines triggering a runway blackout crossed on the route from moscow crash landed on a highway just one kilometer from its destination airport. into other joins us live with details now. a truly shocking event what do we know so far about the details
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surrounding tragedy the latest there we're hearing from the management out. most of all it's good northwest russia where this plane it had intended on landing as the plane was coming down a take power lines that caused a short term blackout before that before emergency power was able to light up the runway again now this would have only been a very very short blackout so well know and how much that would have affected the situation for the last couple of t. you want three four aircraft we're also seeing though the the weight of that crash landed on a highway around a kilometer away from the runway suggested they really were trying to land on not highway they hardly looked to try and make it to the airport on patrols or boards and have been forced to put down basically where they could now whether this is due to the fight but there was no lights on the runway at the time it was we have to wait to find out now the black box recorders being recovered from the wreckage of
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the crash investigators are looking into trying to turn into what brought down this flight now they are looking of course what i said the he black outs a technical failure there whether that was the cause also looking into whether the weather was a factor they called a around the area of northwest russia when this plane crashed visibility around three hundred meters now that isn't too bad for the area of planes to land the pros of those type of conditions so they are trying to find out whether that played a factor as well or whether it was too human caused this this be not a human error in the cockpit by the pilots or on the ground from ground control services now the tuple of. one three four plane has been involved in crushes before now this is a very old aircraft the the plane was first designed in the one nine hundred sixty s. this particular model that crashed in northwest russia has been operating since the one nine hundred eighty s. now in two thousand and seven the russian transport minister said that these these
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particular aircraft should be removed from service and replaced with with more modern aircraft i would wait. to see if there's any more fallout following this crash is going to happen any time soon now we're hearing horrific stories from eyewitnesses they were on the ground the fact that this plane came down on the airport territory came down on a busy what to give me a busy highway and the first people on the scene to provide aid and rescue work were passers by the emergency services now the plane narrowly avoided sliding into a row of houses that would have resulted in many many more casualties fortunately that didn't happen but the as the plane hit the road it broke into two parts before catching fire say passers by able to pull out some incredibly heroic acts to drag people out of the plane before it burst into flames. move three people out of the rock each one was either in. could not sell but she was
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larger than a man can't you see was dark and there was a man he also was unhappy he was launched into me and we carried out two more people from the right each in the middle of the road another man reached. me but i couldn't make it to him everything starts exploding i could not get any closer everything was engulfed by fire sorry. peter out of those eight survivors any news of their condition is it a yes as you can imagine they are in a pretty bad state now several of them are said to be in a critical condition five being allowed to be flown back here to moscow where they'll receive further treatment however three on able to travel due to the competition what they're in now among those among no survivors we're hearing that there is a nine year old boy his fourteen year old sister and their mother they are being treated for as you can imagine burns injuries caused from the crash as they say
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this plane broke in half as it hit. the highway when they made this emergency landing. i know they are suffering from injuries from last impact as well as burns as the play starts to catch fire but doctors are saying that they're doing everything to make these people comfortable to give them the medical attention that they need. we've received six patients with physical trauma. the sixteen year old girl four of them are in a critical condition we're doing what we can do too early to make any progress. hearing there the doctors doing their best to do what they can for these people these people who survived this horrific plane crash in northwest russia. given our heart is peter all over live from moscow thank you. for staying with me as we continue our coverage of that plane crash in northwest russia throughout the day.
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to libya now where another deadly nato bombing in tripoli has reportedly killed at least fifteen civilians there to insists it has a command center that libyan officials say three children one the dead it comes just a day are three alliance admitted killing up to nine civilians in another airstrike blamed on a technical failure well arty's or if a national reports now from tripoli some images you may find disturbing. and other day has brought more death and destruction to libya a large private compound west of the capital tripoli has been leveled reduced to rubble in apparent and strike. rescuers have discovered the remains of fifteen people they called interleaving officials. the houses destroyed go on to general the other one of the people closest to colonel gadhafi he was among those who took part in the military coup to bring the
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libyan leader to power forty one years ago the general escaped injury but most of his family died in the attack. this man is talking about lethal ark will be one of the grandchildren of the general and one of three kids killed in the incident the day of the bombing the family had gathered with friends to celebrate his fourth birthday. libyan civilians it is. in the air hours of this morning killing fifteen people including three were children or. mothers. the number is fifteen and. nato has denied these claims just as it's never been to the death of more than eight hundred others believe in government says were killed
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by their brahms' the nine people killed in sunday's bombing of a residential building in tripoli remain the only civilian casualties by the alliance which claimed i misstated your technical failure a former pentagon official says the only thing clear about the nato campaign is the mountain casualty toll and damage it's inflicting on the even people they try to achieve a certain level of humanitarian effort and initially but the protracted bombing is now increasingly hitting civilian targets and it's creating a very negative reaction i think it does raise the question of what is nato's role continued role going to be there as this content of those actions increases are the voices become more and more to you the voices of the neighboring people. and it seems that the more anger they feel about nato the more they support their leader. this is the second time was.
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the same was. the to. the. united states is that was. that. you wanted to leave it out of this is. what is the. dying. r.t. . foreign intervention in libya that's clearly a growing number of civilian lives we revealed later in the program. in the u.s. try to see if people who are members a lot ideally really that is so then i'd be real worry is that it expands this war
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to the point where so many people join up with. us is on the expansion of its drone attacks in pakistan and we question whether the strategy is helping to fight terrorism in the region or foster it. the greek prime minister is facing a crucial confidence vote in parliament. whether he'll be able to secure another injection of cash from the e.u. and save the country from plunging into deeper crisis monday well that's ministers for the pressure on rates they gave athens two weeks to pass fresh budget cuts and tax increases missions that must be met to secure a previously agreed storm to go to europe. dependents party. says the uncertainty over the next payments for greece is understandable. they've got frozen feet about that but about the whole deal i mean greece is really not
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a very large economy and. in the present seventy billion with probably more to come in twelve months time and i mean look where's it all going to when what's basically happening is that the tax payers of northern europe particularly germany are going to have to pay out to stop greece should default and tax present on your own particular like the near fanaticism of the european elites for the political project of united states of europe and a common currency has resulted in a terrible terrible human cost for the people who would suffer would be the whole of the greek sovereign debt who basically by. institutions and the like is sort of the people who are suffering no who are simply trying to the two million private sector employees in greece who are actually very in the brunt of these draconian austerity cuts. britain will not take part of the new greek bailout that's ok prime
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minister is a promise to taxpayers he said he saw no reason why britain should be in all. countries but don't go on the referendum campaign britain this to. the i.m.f. george osborne and david cameron our prime minister is saying they will not put any british cash into the buyout but they're kind of playing with words really because we've just increased the amount of money we pay to the i.m.f. from ten billion to nineteen billion and if greece defaults and let's face it they are going to default not only on the first bailout but on the second bailout if indeed it does go through in a couple of months when they do default on now will be liable to pick up some of the bill so british taxpayers will pay for it i personally agree with the mayor of london boris johnson some people say he'll be the next prime minister after cameron i say let's greece go to the wall and no more bailouts greece must be allowed to leave the eurozone let them have the drachma then they can devalue then they can set their wages where they want to set them then they can begin to rebuild from
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there if we. draw our former foreign minister and home secretary said in the house of commons it's just a slow agonizing death of the euro. half an ounce of kaiser has his say about being a useful. pendants. generation ago or two generations ago the word work. accumulating savings but now the word work. accumulating debt so what they're saying is you young people out there who are entering the workforce if you work really hard you will accumulate massive debt even. but have a look at some of the international headlines now. and you see president is in the
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ben ali and his wife have each been sentenced to thirty five years in prison for state. tried in absentia into saudi arabia january. rising the judge also ruled that ben ali and his wife should pay fines almost sixty six dollars. twenty three years also faces a second trial on possession and drug charges. in china thirty six million people have been affected by floods and landslides of the chinese media reports the death toll has now reached one hundred seventy from a reading of three weeks ago it was triggered by torrential rains which followed one of the country's most severe droughts in fifty minutes authorities are warning commissions will continue. in the rivers in affected areas thanks. to. the u.s. administration says president obama will on wednesday the scale of withdrawal from
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afghanistan the speed and size of the put out of schools the visions that some in the military warning against any rule there are currently around one hundred thousand u.s. troops in the country. start next month and conclude a team in the afghan forces taking over security of the. campaign is in its tenth year but remains highly unpopular among the american public. the u.s. has stepped up its drone attacks in pakistan the most recent reportedly killing at least twelve people however a growing number of civilian deaths in the strikes has sparked public anger and concerns that the action is driving up the number of extremist kreutz with reports that the u.s. plans to expand its drone war again military criticism against the strategy is stronger than ever. as the story. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but its methods are under fire. in pakistan
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cia drone strikes aim a terrorists but end up killing mostly civilians public outrage is growing hatred and anger foster more terror if you push them of yours the wall then if this militancy and goes in is going to increase this is not good solution because if you are judging them by goons and they're not proud of the war you have good ones on the other side who wish to argue they're going to go in pakistan in the one year the u.s. strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only five actual militant leaders many pakistanis are furious at their government for helping the americans kill their own people they accuse their leaders of doing that in exchange for billions of dollars from washington americans on the other hand are not too happy with what they get in return for their billions how to support governments or large ones when we say enough is enough most governments lie to each other that's the way business
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gets done and meet all the cheerleading about bin laden's killing the us has stepped up drone strikes in pakistan. pakistan in a number of casualties that result because of the drone strikes. string mislike the taleban. in other groups in pakistan can recruit new members and they're doing. so very washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous al qaida outpost and he's planning to step up drone attacks on the country establishing a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when the nonce replacement iman also ari is thought to be building up bill quite as already significant presence in yemen. the us had been cooperated with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field. pre-occupied instead with the nationwide turmoil against the sollie regime that
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means the americans are likely to have a freer hand calling it along with the cia to take a central role because the agency is not subject to the accountability the u.s. military is legally under expect more bombs to fall on yemen when the u.s. starts to hit people who are members of al qaeda in the radio and then i think the real worry is ready to expand this war to that point where so many people showing up at all qaeda their security yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to attack there the american military presumably evening at an all kind of training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children in another strike a year ago a drone mistakenly killed the deputy governor in yemen his family and eight with the expansion of the drawing board it seems that was the seeking only in the south of the fighting al qaida analysts say some of the main theories of the war the facepalm are not having taking down the force of the faith in the army and the lack
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of accountability in many of the city there. that had not carried out the last friday where the america is fighting and fostering terror at the same time i am going to check our party. to have a child diagnosed with a rare and the sabin diseases every parent's worst nightmare that treatment exists though should be a welcome relief but in russia many hopes are dashed by extortionate costs of state support for something like a reports on the price you can be put in a child's life. the first match probably in fabry this year fourteen according to his birth certificate he looks have that his hearing was rapidly declining his vision almost gone he responded only to this old strokes of his mother who gave her everything to care for him. happy just to wake up and
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see him breathing sometimes he smiles and it's a greatest thing for me. he wasn't always this way but they just five he knew the point his mother is reading to him now by heart he was actually of an affectionate like cats and talked about being a driver then step by step his house began to deteriorate his mother rushed from one doctor to another until last year he was finally diagnosed with hunter syndrome a genetic condition that means he's body can't get rid of toxins it's extremely rare and extremely expensive to treat. it without treatment doctors say he may soon die if we get the drug his body will be slowly clean stop the toxins she may be able to walk again and play and enjoy life like other kids say airlie all costs will go a lot it was almost eight hundred thousand dollars beyond comprehension for you lana whose husband left the family with the first signs of the disease she pictish
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and all sorts of organizations it was a go to see the local authorities when in april they finally agreed to provide the money for the drug back then this piece of paper simply told this license to life. when i got this letter i was so hopeful it meant that my child would live they waited two weeks then months in early june wallace health took a turn for the worst and he died never having seen the promised drug. most people agree that losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a parent but he can assess it's not the worst thing for her is to leave the rest of her life knowing that her child could have been saved but the treatment was there and these exorbitant money was found in tape or administrative procedures whatever you call it. the idea was never given
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a chance. to say there was absolutely no way to speed things up there a region where you live and leave is an impoverished mostly agricultural province in central russia but what is treatment would have accounted for about a quarter of all how from cities but here in cola beatrice conscription for the treatment of this boy in military terms is equivalent to almost cancer surgeries in our region and we're talking about thousands of people yet we still made a decision to allocate this money but before this we need to conduct some budget restructuring and to hold attended by it now these procedures are almost complete and we expect the drug to be here by the end of june or it's already too late to how followed the allocated money nice even not in little boy spirit kilometers to the south least seventy year old peter was also diagnosed with contra syndrome yet he still has a few years before the damage becomes that record bill is parents believe to save their son this day have to step in. and do some good
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family can deal with this disease on its own the cost of the drug is simply unreal the local authorities often refuse to cover the costs that's why i think the state has to house. out of about two hundred fifty children of congress in germany russia doesn't have a receiving medical treatment it's a postcode lottery available in reacher areas like moscow and almost unimaginable in poorer towns and that despite the fact that when it comes to this citizenship all supposed to be playing on this. kind of work or artsy. other business update is next to me tree.
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hill and one welcome to business starting this tuesday morning rogers eighteen year long quest to join the world trade organization is coming to an end so that outstanding issues will be resolved by the end of july and if talks pass off smoothly russia will join the international trade call by december a u.s. official believes russia's membership will be beneficial for both the country and global economy. in fact russia's accession to the w t o would actually bring new opportunities for u.s. exporters and u.s. workers russia is the world's tenth largest economy but only after thirty seventh largest export market it's expanding middle class will likely soon make russia the largest retail market in europe russian accession to the w t a will provide
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america's farmers and ranchers with improved access to russia's one hundred forty million consumers a russia but is more integrated into the global economy which supports and it hears to its rules will strengthen the international economy the russian economy and the american economy. will finalize the decision on acquiring a tolling stake in austria's walks back and asked no one around two weeks' time the seven hundred million euro deal will help russia's biggest lender to establish itself on the european market but bank c.e.o. haven't graph out alive the company sentiment towards international expansion in the sentence and we're interested in emerging markets for example in europe we're interested in turkey in poland and we will look at assets in these countries according to our preliminary plan by twenty fourteen we should gain five percent a net profit on the international markets however i don't think we'll be able to cope with that because we changed our priorities to date we aim for
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a better competitive level in our country most likely we will be able to increase our expansion strategy after twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen but today our domestic market is our main priority. staying with burbank russia's largest lender was included in the list the world's twenty strongest banks ranked by bloomberg markets magazine as the only russian bank ever to appear in the ratings well most of the places will be played by lenders from canada and singapore liston both banks with assets worth more than one hundred billion dollars with a small share of bad credit some high working fish and see counted as difference between incomes and losses. signal to the markets now world prices are up with light sweet adding more than one dollar there's a less than that the latest figures show seventy eight cents brant around ten cents worries over greece's debt problems and
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a lot of prospects for global growth are still weighing heavily on the market yet we are seeing a correction because we're lost six percent last week and the situation sounds about average and. if we look at the stock markets in asia very positive picture then they care more than one point one percent hang same point eight percent also retail sectors are among the top gayness is up around the percent honda even more than that after the carmakers reportedly were set to go on a hiring spree to increase production. here in moscow a trade has kicked off on the r.t.s. and slightly higher is driven by oil and gas and financial stocks on this read bound in crude just talked about some seconds ago on my six will begin trading in around ten minutes and actually to mr. join us in one hour for more for an update on how the russian markets opened the session.
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