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article treatment initial reports point to human error and bad weather conditions at the time as possible causes of the crash ground staff at the local airport claimed they had asked the pilot to make a second approach but he said he'd make it the first time however investigators say there are several theories and nothing has been ruled out just yet. it is continue their work at the site of the tragedy the debris there is spread across a three hundred meter radius the flight recorder has already been found communication recordings are being analyzed forensic analysis is being carried out we're looking into several versions of what caused the tragedy and these include the human factor such as an air of the crew or the ground services severe weather conditions technical failure and several other potential causes of this is a twenty eighth crash involving a tuple of one three four tarnishing its reputation even more in two thousand and seven russia's transport minister called the aircraft obsolete and should be
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replaced within five years but some would argue that in most plane crashes human error plays the biggest part of the numbers of which i don't think anything would go wrong with the plane itself in forty years of operation that you pull of one three four has proved an extremely reliable aircraft in previous catastrophes human error was always to blame and the same is true here the pilot should have made a second landing approach this is exactly what happened to the polish presidential airplane while investigators work on the case relatives of the victims and survivors are dealing with their own grief one shared by the people of because of voids declaring three days of mourning tesser sylvia r.t. in the russian region where former american airlines pilot captain vice told me a major question that needs answering is whether the aging plane of the necessary warning equipment aboard. certainly one of the things we have to find out was whether this aircraft was in fact. did it have on board ground proximity
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warning which would have alerted the pilot that his closure rate to the ground or his distance from the ground was either too close or too fast for the appropriate position on the phase of flight that's the landing phase the flight it would say terrain terrain to lopo up various types of warning systems like that on aircraft but later in the program we're going to be reporting on the new safety hopes for russian aviation the latest aircraft is on a pilot ever in the past hopefully takes the skies of the largest show in the world the report of the late. though just a day after admitting killing nine civilians in a bungled airstrike nato has been accused by the libyan authorities of causing at least another fifteen deaths the alliance confirmed and care that another bombing but it's not responded to the allegations of civilian casualties financial reports now from tripoli and now the day has brought more death and destruction to leave
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a large private compound west of the capital tripoli has been leveled reduced to rubble in apparent as strike. rescuers have discovered the remains of fifteen people according to libyan officials. most of the money. they have destroyed belonged to general moody one of the people closest to colonel 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. because. this man is talking about. 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 the families where attacked in
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the airlie hours of this morning killing fifteen people including three were children are better educated there is still the mothers nurture the girl. it's. the number is fifteen people nato has denied these claims just as it's never debated the death of more than eight hundred others believe in government says were 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 a mistake 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
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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 nato's actions and crazies are their voices become more and more than to the voices of the libyan people was and it seems that the more anger they feel about nato the more they supported. that believe that that's how this is because seventy wasn't that this is this is that you are. right in the to that this is the. best adult that was. in the united states this was done to get out i've gotten. the
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was. we will not you want to deliver the witnesses to or not to leave the step up on being. docking leave certain is that more indeed dying. grief national r.t. three. lawrence davidson is a professor of middle east history at west chester university says nato is determined to see its libyan campaign through to the bitter end the queen queen is that i think that nato and its commanders and the president and politicians involved in this are beyond the point of no return so they simply cannot stop in terms of their own mind what they've invested in this and therefore if they won't end up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in libya and they will project media stories to cover it. it's not just in libya where foreign intervention is claiming
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a growing number of civilian lives as we reveal later in the program to the u.s. is coming under criticism for its use of drone strikes in pakistan and yemen critics want to get instead of fighting terror the feeling. now that the moment of reckoning is approaching for the greek government within the hour it's facing a no confidence vote in parliament over its harsh austerity measures they need to be implemented to secure a new loan from the e.u. designed to prevent defaulting on its debts and triggering a eurozone crisis you finance ministers have given greece two weeks to force through tax hikes and spending cuts in return for a twelve billion euro lifeline the measure is deeply unpopular with the greek public and even if the government wins the no confidence vote it still has the massive protests to contend with that's according to some terrorists plan to go to seize lecturer at the university of the. the problem is we cannot we are giving twelve billion lifeline. the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay
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debt to repay previous did this is totally absurd even if the government manages. to have the confidence vote tonight it's not sure if they can put up stand up to the pressure from the streets especially during the two day national strike at the days when the newest of the package is going to be discussed in parliament. and regardless of the way the vote goes any pay david campbell bannerman who spoke to me he's from the u.k.'s conservative party believes greece is future prosperity rests with the collapse of the euro question now is are we throwing good money after bad money into how many billions can you throw at this you know the tolerance of the people for carts for extra taxes as we've seen in greece there's real trouble lever there's trouble in spain and ireland particularly i think it's in
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major trouble the euro and i have been saying for some time i do believe it will collapse by the heart totally and probably quite shortly now but to be honest i think you leave your is a political prison for for countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from that prison recreate their own currencies have the valuation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and they'll get back and on their feet i sink they should go back to the drachma i think they need to get out the euro it is a prison for them and to recreate the drachma i know there are no plans at present to do that but of course they can't sort of plan for foundry until he or she fails i think that is the salvation for greece and that's the way it really should go but obviously that's a matter for the greek people and that will be decided tonight. next it's the annual aviation showcase when companies battling for control of the skies a billion pound deals the shows on the web site paris in the past russia's always
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had a large presence there this year to its goal with more planes on offer than ever before the super jet spin a superstar on the delegation. of the forty nine paris air show russia's role the putting on display its newest development in civil aviation design and that is the same once the one hundred the super. design is designing them the jet has never going to receive numerous offers for that but the primary goal for this craft is with most of the outdated to you one fifty four sent to you one thirty just like the one which fell in korea on monday that is the hope of russian and of course the designers of this equipment present are saying that the plane's design has particular focus on the security systems on the controls so in the. room while it's even making the air with so it's kind of predicting the air
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that could be made by a pilot therefore making the plane a much safer alternative to the already existing aircraft however when exactly. this was a project will enter the fleet of russian aviation companies is not yet known the latest drone attacks in pakistan of reportedly killed twelve only nine of them confirmed taliban fighters the growing number of civilian deaths that means more angry locals are joining the militants and with the u.s. now turning its attention to yemen the uproar looks set to become even louder. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but its methods are under fire in pakistan in the one year that cia drone strikes killed seven hundred civilians but netted only five actual militant leaders. in pakistan in the number of civilian casualties that result because of the drone strikes. stringless like the taliban and al qaeda and other groups in pakistan to recruit
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new members and they're doing that. 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 do we support governments allied to us when we say enough is enough most governments lie to each other and so a business gets done washington now sees yemen as the most dangerous 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 bin lon's replacement iman also ari is not to be building our bill quite as already significant presence in yemen. the us had been cooperate in with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field
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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 us starts to hit people who are members of all idea new arabian peninsula then i think the 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 one attack theory 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 drone war it seems to go once the seeking only a misnomer the abiding on my account and only say some of them make the turns of
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this issue all the pages mark not having to take into account the fourth of the name and the term bombing and the lack of accountability when it comes to the community that features that adds more paradox to the web strategy to me asking what that america is fighting and fostering terror at the same time i'm going to check our reporting. our. next you know the mystery of the disappearance of a prominent russian novelist has been sold edward bugger off has called a close friend and revealed he's in a moldova jail your stories at last the rest of the bauman who for two years had boasted of organizing mass riots there in two thousand and nine of his country deserve and takes up the story. written off russian writer the out by get of was last seen on june sixteenth in the moldovan capital case now. a week later it's turned out that he had been detained by local authorities for allegedly masterminding public riots in april two thousand and nine then thousands of unhappy
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moldovans took to the streets protesting the results of the country's parliamentary elections opposition leaders accused the ruling communist party of falsifying votes by give himself frequently stated that he was in fact one of the organizers of the unrest but until now not many people took him seriously if he did i know he was there when the riots with taking place he doesn't deny that fact or anything but as far as organizing the riots would taking part in any kind of commotions that's ridiculous the unique kind of action he would have gotten involved that would have been with the ladies not the police. and authorities however took him very seriously so seriously they issued an order for his arrest and even though he will officially remain behind bars for another month not many officials in question now are willing to admit the fact let alone talk about it on bills that is been
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arrested by the prosecutors his warrant was issued by the prosecutors and it's the prosecutor's office that should be on certain questions about him which is providing the cells where he's being held and prosecutors however aren't keen on admitting that responsibility in fact they're trying to avoid admitting anything at all when you don't have the most prosecutor general's office does not confirm nor deny the arrest of mr buy gear of those attempted stonewalling would have been effective had the russian consulate staff not gone and visited the men in prison wouldn't you consider on the twenty first of june that consular employees from the russian embassy in will do visited big year if he did not express. any complaints about his living conditions or the way the investigation was going so he's using the services of a private lawyers currently an investigation is being carried out by a third in accordance with a court decision he'll be held for thirty days the embassy is money storing the
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situation. in the what detention could have been completely we're taking a legal process but the very fact that these are still refusing to part with any coherent and formation concerning the case is definitely not doing them any favors and it's showcasing the prosecutor's office and of very unfortunate light. as our. next in the program we look at the.
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with me i have to face the governor she lives the former israeli ambassador to the united nations professor thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you for you were recently quoted as saying that the united states will not veto the u.n. recognition of a palestinian state come september why are you so sure of this i did not say that the united states is not going to recall what they said is the united states has their own considerations in the we should not act as if the veto is in our pocket i think we should not trust the united states to repeal but we should ourselves if obama was not to veto the declaration of a palestinian state would he not face political pressure at home i mean after all there is an election that he wants to win you know every politician is interested
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in continuing his way but i i think obama really wants peace in the world and especially in this region which affects the way in the middle east in the whole of the world in a way so i believe that clearly obama's first of all concerned with the wind being and we're doing of his own people but he's also interested in continuing their missions in the vision the you took upon him so when he took would you say that the relationship between the united states and israel is colder than it's ever been before i think so with all the united states we would be in a much more difficult position not only because of the vital but because of the support that we get from them is so with i think the relationship it's not only on the per month equal political event it's also cultural ideological. they know that we are so far the only or the most important democracy in the middle east do not
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think a bomb has lost credit. politically in the arab world there was so much hope when he came to power and he certainly seems to have remained a very close friend of israel as you say i think that. the palestinians put a lot of hope in obama in the obama administration to be the honest broker. i think they still see this way just this morning we were announced the. obama administration made it very clear that they are going to veto in the security council in the quest to become a full members of the will of the nation so i know that they trust that the obama at the moment in trying to achieve peace in the region. they know that he is trying to perceive himself as an honest broker is there the possibility that the united states could veto the establishment of
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a palestinian state and still the general assembly would recognize that. mission of the palestinian state was already announced in ninety eight the eight by yasser arafat and nothing different so this can happen again and again it will not gain anything to the palestinians what can what it can achieve is the continuation of the delegitimization of the state of israel and this is something that i think can be avoided only through bilateral talks do you have faith that netanyahu is serious about peace i have faith in him because for the last two years when i served my country is the israeli ambassador to the united nations. i saw i watch really clearly not only what he said in the body land in the speech which was two states for two countries but also the way that he acted in freezing for ten months building in the settlements which no current no government ever before why
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then do we hear so much about settlement building taking place despite the construction. there was not a continuation of the building in those ten months but in those ten months what happened was the palestinians did not move in spite of the fact the the free there was a freeze which never happened before there were no buildings except maybe some place for expansion and still nothing happened is so it's not us to blame it's the palestinians who did not move for those. a whole year and they know peace talks took place in they also think the americans also did their part in making the palestinian sit on their hands. abbas and said it in so many words he said the obama put us on a tree he went down from the settlements you know the only resistance resisting on me is stopping or freezing the building and i was left on the tree this is what i wasn't himself said so with the phrase did not happen in the last two years
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or even more since gus liberation we did not have any peace talks the u.s. president barack obama has publicly committed the united states to peace based on the one nine hundred sixty seven borders what is the benefit to him of sameness in public you know the obama administration unlike former administration is very much engaging with the world with the muslim world which is the african and say i could see the way that the obama as a. representative in a bus of the susan rice the way the cheap acts at the united nations the way that she acts the way that she embraces the way that she engaged in really a want to be an honest broker in the middle east and not to be perceived as they were for so many years is being one sided and supporting on israel i think this is
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his idea in a new way this is what former miss way szell said as well but he may. it's very very clear that this will be the basis for the coming peace professor thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. . seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand desert of beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is very most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only
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garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra what julian cooper story on our team. culture is that so much given to each musician on the market from spring to fall be uprisings in at least the states fast becoming fishes civil wars. emission free cretaceous free trees for charges free. range
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this is our team from moscow our top stories for you flight recorders from the plane that crashed in northwestern russia killing four people and injured eight have been delivered to moscow now for analysis bad weather conditions and human error a lethal course the incident. at least fifty more civilians killed as nato bombers miss a top gadhafi aide but instead the birthday party was four year old brother. in question tossed in protecting them. and counting down to the showdown the greek parliament proposed from him in a confidence vote on the government over salvaged new austerity cuts needed for another bailout love of the country started on the brink of becoming the first you're also mentioned to default. it's coming up to midnight thirty one here in
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moscow next the emotional crusade of a u.s. world war two combat veteran who returns to the battlefields at red beach and to our island where he fought sixty five years ago part two of his story is here on r.t. . the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health hazard when the refuse is swept out to sea during a storm. despite this danger leon saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles he found a base yos major recycling plant nearby where aluminum cans are crushed in both cans and bottles. leon paid a visit to the owner and manager of the plant derek and her warmth i wrote repeatedly into the washington usual suspects the president and the white house the
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secretary of defense the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff members of congress so i'm here to began and hopefully an action program with funding from my government but we've got. to be starting to see how there are many. faceted. and call their. way here is in a nutshell what i'm thinking is that we should expand your operation clean up the beach on red beach one would be my primary objectives because my salty language but you can understand my anger and having saying this desecration of how ground war on red beach. leon had developed an action plan for base you know that included two phases the first would be to set up refuse containers and collection centers throughout the beaches and employ local citizens the second phase would be to.
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