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thick fog around that area of northwest russia when this plane crashed visibility around three hundred meters now that isn't too bad for the area planes do land the proposal was going those type of conditions so that they are trying to find out whether that played it a factor as well or whether it was too human error cause this this human error in the cockpit by the pilots on the ground from ground control services now we're hearing horrific stories from eyewitnesses they were on the ground now due to the fact that this plane came down not on the airport territory came down on a busy what to give me a busy highway the first people there were on the scene to provide aid and rescue work passes by able to pull out to make credibly horowitz acts to to drag people out of the plane before it burst into flames i carry three people out of iraq each one was either a girl or a woman i could not sell but she was larger than the man he was hard to see was dark then there was a man he also was unhappy he was larger than me and we carried out two more people
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from the wreckage in the middle of the road another man reached out his hand towards me but i couldn't make it to him everything starts exploding i could not get any closer everything was engulfed by fire so very survivors are in a pretty bad state 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 country should what they're in. we've received six patients with physical trauma men women and a sixteen year old girl four of them are in a critical condition we're doing what we can huge too early to make any prognosis hearing their doctors doing their best to what doing what they can for these people these people who survived this horrific plane crash in northwest russia. live from moscow with our team as we continue our coverage of that plane crash in north.
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russia throughout the day. to libya now where another deadly nato bombing in tripoli has reportedly killed at least fifteen civilians nato insists it hit the command center of it even officials say three children are among the dead becomes just a day after the alliance admitted killing up to nine civilians in another air strike which is blamed on a technical failure ortiz griffin reports now from tripoli with some images you may find disturbing. and other day has brought more death and destruction to leave. a large private compound west of the capital tripoli has been leveled reduced to rubble in an apparent airstrike. rescuers have discovered the remains of fifteen people according to libyan officials. the houses destroyed belonged to gen moody one of the people closest to colonel
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gadhafi he was among those who took part in the military coup to bring the libyan leader to power forty years ago the general escaped injury but most of his family died in the attack. this man is talking about little are 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 from it is the word attacked in the airlie hours of this morning killing fifteen people including three were children are. there is mothers. but the number is fifteen people nato has denied these claims just as it's never debated the death of more than eight hundred eleven government says were
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killed by their bombs the nine people killed in sunday's bombing of a residential building in tripoli remain the only civilian casualties i can buy the alliance which blamed. technical failure a former pentagon official says the only thing clear ball the nato campaign is the mountain casualty toll and it's inflicting on the 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 discontented actions and crazies are the voices become more and more the to the voices of the libyan people. and it seems that the more anger they feel about nato the more they supported.
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that this is the seventy's that this is this is. your. challenge this is our chance. to. be. in the united states is that this god. that. you want to deliver our message. is that. dying. r.t. tripoli. and it's not just foreign intervention in libya that's claiming a growing number of civilian lives as we reveal later in the program. when the u.s. starts to hear people who are members of all i've been reading and then i'm being
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real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with all kind of us is under fire for the expansion of its drone attacks in pakistan and yemen we question whether the strategy is hoping to fight terrorism region foster it. the greek prime minister is facing a crucial confidence vote in parliament determining whether he'll be able to secure another injection of cash from the e.u. and save the country from plunging into a deep crisis on monday e.u. finance ministers further pressure on greece. two weeks to pass fresh budget cuts and tax increases conditions that must be met to secure a previously agreed installment of twelve billion euro. duquesne hundreds party wants britain out of the e.u. says the uncertainty over the next payment for greece is understandable. of course . they've got frozen feet about that but about the whole deal i mean greece is
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really not a very large economy and what are you talking in the present seventy billion with probably more to come in twelve months time and i mean where's it all going to when what's basically happening is that the taxpayers of northern europe particularly germany are going to have to pay up to stop greece should default taxpayers of northern europe don't particularly like obsession in the near fanaticism of the european elite for the political project of united states of europe and a common currency has resulted in a terrible terrible human cost if there is a greek default the people who would suffer would be the holders of greek sovereign debt who are basically by. institutions and the like is sort of the people who are suffering no. principal probably the two million private sector employees in greece who actually burn the brunt of these draconian austerity cuts or britain will not take part in a new greek bailout that's the u.k.
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prime minister's promise to taxpayers he said he saw no reason why britain should be involved in the burdens facing eurozone countries but john gaunt referendum campaign says britain this do for cash by 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 by now but on the second bailout if indeed it does go through in a couple of months when they do default on now it will be laudable to pick up some of the bill so british taxpayers repaying 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 through the wall you know move by allowed greece must be allowed to leave the eurozone let them have the drachma then they can devalue
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then they can set their wages where they want to set them then they can begin to rebuild from there if we don't do it now as jack straw our former foreign minister and home secretary said in the house of commons is just a slow agonizing death of the euro. well off financially period banks kaiser has his say about it he used financial woes and overwhelming debt dependents you can catch up with his unique analysis twenty minutes. a generation ago or two generations ago the word work imply accumulating savings but now the word work means accumulating debt so what they're saying is you young people out there who are entering the work. for us if you work really hard you will accumulate massive debt. then in lessons from the japanese crisis that's the main aim of the new form if yet
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which began on monday in the opening session of the meeting the atomic agency chief called for a tightening up of nuclear security. and also stressed the need for greater transparency in the history especially in emergency situations over the long awaited report into the machine the disaster has been. malcolm grimston the london based policy adviser says the decision to keep its results behind closed doors is wrong. understandably all of us want to know as much as we can about the present situation clearly sometimes you need discussions behind closed doors to . discuss things that may not be the case but which would cause a lot of fear if if they were announced until an hour later not to be the case but for such a major and meeting of this sort i do believe that a demonstration of openness is extremely important but i think this is the wrong
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people are going to think. they don't want to come out even if that's not the case i don't believe personally that we've seen a massive cover up of information coming from japan what we have seen though i think is a very slow response to questions and attitude which is before our true backward looking about this is what we think might have been happening two or four weeks ago instead of this is what we think might happen in two or four weeks time and when that is the attitude. people are going to think is are sitting on the information they don't want to release. let's take on some of international headlines now former tunisian for instance in the other dean ben ali and his wife the. been sentenced to thirty five years in prison for embezzling state funds they were tried in absentia after fleeing to saudi arabia generally doing the uprising the judge also ruled that paris should pay fines to almost sixty six million dollars the
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reader who is in power for twenty three years also faces a second trial on possession of drug trafficking charges. twin suicide car blasts outside the iraqi capital have left at least twenty two dead and dozens injured explosive vehicles were blown up near the city governor's compound but it's not known yet if he has been hurt comes a week after a similar suicide attack on a police building in northeast. which is in a tight corner. the u.s. administration says president obama on wednesday announced the scale of the withdrawal from afghanistan the speed and size of the school's divisions that some of the military warning against any rapid withdrawal currently around one hundred thousand u.s. troops in the country the pullout is scheduled to start next month and to conclude a twenty one team of the afghan forces taking over security campaigns in its tenth
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year and remains popular 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 a spot of public anger with concerns the action is driving up the number of extremist recruits that with reports that the u.s. plans to expand its drone or yemeni territory criticism against the strategy is stronger than ever ots n.h. account of the story. the us is looking to expand its war on terror but its methods are under fire. in pakistan cia. drone strikes aim at terrorists but end up killing mostly civilians public outrage is growing hatred and anger foster more terror but if you push them of their world then if this militancy and don't lose him is going to increase this is no more dissolution because if you're
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attacking them by drones and they're not part of the war there are good ones on the other side who which party they're going to join in pakistan in the one year the u.s. strikes killed seven hundred civilians but net it 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 on do we support governments or large ones when do we say enough is enough most governments lie to each other that's the way business gets done and meet all the cheerleading about bin laden's killing the us has stepped up drone strikes in pakistan. and pakistan in a number of civilian casualties that result because of the drone strikes are showing this like the taleban. in other groups in pakistan to recruit new numbers and
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they're doing that i. accelerated pace washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous al qaeda outpost and he's planning to step up drone attacks on the country and stablish ing a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when bin nonce replacement iman also laurie is thought to be building up as already significant presence in yemen. the u.s. had been cooperating with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupied instead with their nationwide turmoil against the sollie regime that means the americans are likely to have a freer hand going it alone. with the cia to take a central role because the agency is not subject to the accountability the us military is legally under expect more bombs to fall on yemen when the u.s. starts to hit people who are members of the new arabian peninsula then i think the
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real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al-qaeda their security in yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to tack there the american military presumably ming at an al qaida training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children in another strike a year ago a drone mistakenly killed a deputy governor in yemen his family and eight with the expansion of the wrong war it seems the one thinking only of myself in the fighting on my account and only say some of the main theories of the all the face of mars not having taken down the fourth symphony and that their bombing and the lack of accountability when it comes to the city in that area that had more carried on the west side of me well that america is fighting and bomb terror at the same time i am going to check our border . are. moving on to have a child diagnosed with a rare and disabling disease so every parent's worst nightmare having that
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treatment exists should be a welcome relief but in russia many hopes are dashed by extortionate costs and lack of state support. reports on how a price really can be put on a child's life. the first match followed in february this year fourteen according to his birth certificate he looked have that his hearing was rapidly declining his vision almost gone he responded only to this silver strokes of his mother who gave up everything to care for him. i'm happy just to wake up and see him breathing sometimes he smiles and it's the greatest. thing for me. he wasn't always this way they just five he knew the point his mother is reading to him now by heart it was actually even affectionate he liked cats and talked about being a driver then step by step his house began to deteriorate his mother rushed from
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one doctor to another until last year he was finally diagnosed with hunter syndrome a genetic condition that means he's body cond gets rid of toxins it's extremely rare and extremely expensive to treat. without treatment doctors say he may soon die if we get the drug his body will be slowly clean stop the talks and she may be able to walk again and play and enjoy life like other kids say annual cost football though 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 and all sorts of organizations it was about to see the local authorities when in april they finally agreed to provide the money for the drug back then this piece of paper seemed to follow this license to life. when i got this letter i was so hopeful it meant that my child would live. there waited weeks then
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months in early june voted 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 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. wrecked tape or administrative procedures whatever you call it. the idea was never given a chance local authorities say there was absolutely no way to speed things up their own 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 subsidies of here in cola get your skills course for the treatment of this boy in monetary terms is equivalent to almost all cancer
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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 to by it now these procedures are almost complete and we expect the drug to be here by the end of june well it's already too late to have followed to the allocated money may save another little boy disappeared kilometers to the south at least seventy year old peter who was also diagnosed with contra syndrome yet he still has a few years before the damage becomes that record both his parents believe to save their son the state has to step in. no single 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 of this one think the state has to house. out of about two hundred fifty children of a hunter's syndrome in russia less than half are receiving medical treatment it's
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a postcode lottery available in reach or areas like mosco and almost unimaginable in poorer towns and that despite the fact that when it comes to this citizenship they're all supposed to be playing on this same. kind of work or artsy. but in just a few moments i would cross over to dimitri for the business. it was good to have your company you're watching business out see russia's eighteen year long bid to join the world trade organization is coming to an end it is hoped the outstanding issues will be resolved by the end of july if talks pass off
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smoothly russia will join the international trade club by december a u.s. official believes russia's membership will be beneficial both for the country and the 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 our 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 america's farmers and ranchers with improved access to russia's one hundred forty million consumers a russia that is more integrated into the global economy which supports and adheres to its rules will strengthen the international economy the russian economy and the american economy. the bank will finalize the decision on acquiring
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a controlling stake in australia's vokes bank international in around two weeks' time the seven hundred million euro deal will help russia's biggest one that cellphone the european markets but i see you having grabbed the company's sentiments towards international expansion. 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 a better competitive level 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 the bank russia's burbank was included in the list of the world's twenty strongest banks ranked by bloomberg markets magazine stan the russian bank ever to appear in the racing while most of the places all
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complied by london's from canada and singapore the list involves banks with assets worth more than one hundred billion dollars taking into account small share bad credits and high work efficiency. sectors of the markets now and oil prices are up with a light sweet adding around one dollar three cents brant up seventy seven cents meanwhile worries over greece's debt problems and the prospects for global growth is still weighing heavily on the markets what we see is actually a rebound because oil lost six percent last week a situation in europe raise concerns about energy. stocks across asia pushing high and make a one point one percent hang saying almost one percent also retail cyclists were among the top gainers with toyota and honda in the lead up to the carmakers reporters they were set to go on a hiring spree to restructure. their moscow trade is kicked off the r.t.s.
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is slightly are driven by or gas and financial stocks are rebounding crude my sex is also off half a percent so you heard some of the individual movers on the my six ross telecom is up two percent after news eight percent the session before that so news the camp. it will be included in the privatization program meanwhile oil and gas shares are actually mixed cross you have to call in point one percent despite the rebound in crude prices. and that's all for now we will be back next hour with an update the headlines are next with carrie do stay with us with.
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lulu. to. please. the be. cool the latest in science and technology from the slush.
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we've dumped a few jerks coverage. you're watching r t the main stories we're covering this forty four people killed as a passenger plane crash lands in northwest russia eight survivors are hospitalized in critical condition bad weather and systems failure are among the first theories of course of the tragedy. claims of more civilian victims in libya after fresh nato bombing at least fifteen reported dead two children following an airstrike west of tripoli comes just a day off we have died so that it took place a good blaming of weapons malfunction. and the prime minister of greece is facing a crucial confidence vote in his recent government the outcome could determine
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whether to push through a new austerity package to secure another much needed injection of cash you. co-host stacy herbert asked what effect mountains of debt can have on the nation's self-esteem because the report is next. backstabber welcome to the kaiser report as we have been reporting financial melt. made the world uninhabitable for capital and so now we live in a financial no go zone you are slaves of the talks of debt that have been created a fall in which we are mr wealth and little of the toxic sludge slow cheap station herbert tell us more max well i have proof of this not only the revolution
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happening in greece but we have the financial propaganda to convince you the slave on this toxic debt farm to continue incurring more debts one better self-esteem saddle yourself with mountains of credit card debt new study claims yes being crushed under a mountain of debt is typically frowned upon max but new research has suggested this could actually be a dream scenario for many young adults claims those saddling themselves with credit card debt will feel empowered and feel more self-esteem well i guess this research was financed by j.p. morgan chase. perhaps but the research was actually conducted by rachel dwyer an assistant sociologist at ohio state university and her study found that eighteen to twenty seven year olds who had huge credit card debts not just small credit card.

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