everything was engulfed by fire so very. among the eight survivors were a young boy his teenage sister and their mother five had been flown to moscow for medical 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. to get his 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 the

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 replaced within five years but some would argue that in most plane crash as human error place the biggest part of the name was 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 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 beth as avoids declaring three days of mourning tesser sylvia r.t.e. in the russian region now are to talk to captain mark weiss a former american airlines pilot who says the major question now is if the plane

had the necessary warning equipment. certainly one of the things we have to find out was whether this aircraft was in fact. did it have on board ground proximity 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 libyan government officials have accused nato of killing fifteen people including three children in an airstrike west of tripoli if the allegations that proved to be true it would be the second attack causing civilian deaths in a space of twenty four hours or more if a notion of reports from tripoli. 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 apparent as strike. rescues have discovered the remains of fifteen people according to libyan officials. most of it but it wasn't me. the house destroyed belonged to daniel 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 for to. the general escaped injury but most of his family died in the attack if you would see just the day with. this man is talking about. one of the grandchildren of the daniel 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 the airlie hours of this morning killing fifteen people including three were children are better there is still the mother's murder the girl. with. 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 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 crazes other 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. the believe that that's how this is because seventy wasn't rising prices that the soldiers that you are. the right talent that this is our chance and. the rest of the time when that was. in the united states this was done to the extent that i've gotten. the was. i think.

we will if you want to deliver our message to him not to leave the stamp that long being god attacking libya what's certain is that more are indeed dying. otty really. the u.s. and nato have become prisoners of the situation in libya that's the view of professor lawrence davidson from west chester university in pennsylvania. the queen the queen is that i'm think that nato and its commanders and the president and politicians involved in this are beyond a 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 counter it. and it's not just in libya where foreign intervention is claiming a growing number of civilian lives as we reveal later in the program the. u.s.

is coming under criticism for its use of drone strikes in pakistan and yemen with critics warning that instead of fighting terror it could be fueling. and the newest safety hopes for russian aviation the latest aircraft designed to make a pilot error a thing of the past takes to the skies at the largest air show in the world. the greek government has won a crucial vote of confidence in parliament the new finance minister will now seek to push through harsh austerity measures against fierce public opposition in return for another e.u. i.m.f. bailout to prevent the country from defaulting on its loans the vote also puts the country of step closer to reviving an existing twelve billion euro lifeline from the e.u. european finance ministers have given athens two weeks to force through high tax hikes and spending cuts as the fears mount about the future of the euro itself should greece default the measures are deeply unpopular with the greek public with

stiff opposition on the streets expected british conservative european parliament member david campbell bannerman said before the vote vote its outcome it would have little impact on the euro project future. the question now is all we throwing good money off the money you know how many billions can you throw. this you know the tolerance all the people for carts for extra taxes as we see it in greece there's real trouble over there's trouble in spain and ireland particularly i think it's in major trouble the euro and i have been saying for some time i do believe it will collapse either in thoughtful socially and probably quite shortly now but to be honest i think you'll see your is a political prism for for countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from that prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and

they'll get back on their feet i think 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 found be until you are actually 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 the government still has the peoples that fury to contend with and that's according to so here is a plan go to this lecture at the university of the a.g.m. . the whole austerity package that had been implemented for at least a year has aggravated this crisis and that's why we are now facing this uprising it's a sort of a popular insurrection right now and we have will have entered a phase of political crisis but actually the people are demanding these are how the hell option first of all people say they do not want to pay this debt i think the

first step the first step to make things better would actually be add this isn't from the greek part two for for for an immediate stoppage of debt payments we cannot afford this debt anymore this is this is some sort of an ideological blackmail stoppard's to payments to the debt or even a new element of that does not mean that the cancer is being cattle from the rest of the world or that the country is going to be bankrupt the problem is we cannot do it we are giving twelve billion lifeline. the biggest part of which is going to be used to repay debt to repay previous dates this is totally absurd. artie's financial guru max kaiser says greeks are being fooled into bang off a debt they are not responsible for you can catch up with more of his thoughts on the scandals behind the economic struggles in greece next hour right here on r.t.

. language is being abuse or they're saying are talking about the people and their debt it's not the people's debt those people don't have the debt the bankers gave them their debt o.-p. date they're suffering from other people's debts it's not their debt that's why they're having a revolution. the growing number of civilian fatalities from u.s. drone attacks have sparked fury in pakistan afghanistan and across the arab world almost forty attacks this year in pakistan alone have killed over three hundred people but despite the public anger in the muslim world the u.s. is now planning to increase the use of the remote controlled weapon to volatile yemen in its war against al qaeda and a chicken comments. the u.s. is looking to expand its war on terror but its methods are under fire in pakistan

in the one year the cia drone strikes killed seven hundred civilians but net it only five actual militant leaders. in pakistan in a number of civilian casualties that result because of the drone strikes are straying less like the taleban qaeda and other groups in pakistan to recruit new numbers and they're doing that i. accelerated pace 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 or large ones when do 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 as stablish ing

a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when the nonce replacement iman also ari is not to be building obl quite as already significant presence in yemen. the u.s. had been cooperate ing 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 us starts to hit people who are members of the 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. yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in want to attack 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 drone war it seems to go on to seeking only a misnomer legally binding on the client i can only say some of them may be in terms of this issue although the phrase mark not having to take into account the fourth symphony and the param bombing and the lack of accountability when it comes to the city and that peter is that more paradoxically less strategy really asking what that america is fighting and fostering terror at the same time i am going to check our reporting. tonight the mystery of the disappearance of a prominent russian novelist has been solved eduardo buggered off has called a close friend and revealed he's in a moldova jail the authorities at last arresting the man who for two years has boasted of organizing mass riots there in two thousand and nine. picks up the story

. written off russian writer the walk 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 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 get 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 not i know he was there when the riots with taking place he doesn't deny that fact there anything but as far as organizing the riots would taking part in any kind of commotions that's ridiculous the only kind of action he would have gotten involved that would have been with the ladies

not the police. when 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 it's been 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 would you consider on the twenty first of june the consular employees from the russian embassy in those days i visited big

year of. did not express any complaints about his living conditions or the way the investigation was going so he's using the services of a qualified private lawyers currently in investigation is being carried out in a third it's in accordance with the court's decision he'll be held for thirty days the embassy's money story in the situation. in the uk but you'd have detention could have been a completely routine legal process but the very fact that moldovan authorities 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. catherine as are the r.t.e. moscow. the. show is underway outside paris with playmakers showing off their best on the aviation catwalk russia's new sukhoi superjet is among them and is the star of the country's a fleet on display. as more from paris. by the forty nine there is air show

russians were all the putting on display its newest development in civil aviation design and that is this one summer one hundred the super bowl a design we're always in is designing then the judge has a right to receive numerous more than that but the primary goal for this craft is to be placed most of the how do you did that to you won fifty fours and t. you won thirty fours 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 its particular focus on the security systems on the controls so in the. room while it's still even making the air with so it's kind of predicting the air that could be made by a pilot therefore making the plane a much safer alternative to the already existing aircrafts. just.

thank you. even though you're. with me i have to face a governor live the former israeli ambassador to the united nations professor thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you wolf when 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 this is the united states

has there on considerations in the we should not act as if the victoria is in our pocket i think we should not trust the united states to report but we should trust 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 in continuing the way but i i think obama really wants. peace in the world and especially in this region which affects the way is the middle east and the wall of the world in a way so i believe that obama's first of all concerned with the wind being and we're doing of his own people but he's also on interests of the continuing there in the vision and the it took upon him so when he would you say that the relationship between the united states and israel is colder than it's ever been before. i think

so without the united states we would be in a much more difficult position not only because of the veto but because of the support that we get from them. i think the relationship it's not only on the political level it's also cultural and ideological. they know that we are so far the only or the most important democracy in the middle east do not think a bomb has lost credibility 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. of the palestinians put a lot of hope in obama in the obama administration to be the honest broker and i think they still see that this way just this morning we were announced this i believe. the obama administration made it very clear that they are going to veto in

the security council a request to become a full members of the eleven nations so i know that they trust that the obama is adamant in trying to achieve peace in the region in a they know that he is trying to save himself as an honest broker is there the possibility that the united states could veto the establishment of a palestinian state and still the general assembly would recognize that. mission of the palestinian state was already announced in nineteen eighty eight. and nothing happened so this can happen again and again in the it will not gain anything to the palestinians a 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 my letter 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 is remember.

to the united nations. i saw a watch very clearly not only what he said in the by the land. for 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 did ever before why then do we hear so much about settlement building taking place despite the construction freeze that there was not a continuation of the building in those ten months but in those ten months what happened was the palestinians they don't 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 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 palestinians sit on their hands. abbas and so they can so many words he said the obama put us on a tree he went down from the settlements you know the only resistance resisting only stopping or freezing the building and i was left on the tree this is what i wasn't and. so with the freeze did not happen in the fall the last two years or even more since cast lead operation we did not have any peace talks the us 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 of us. the way the cheek.

nations the way that she makes the way that she embraces the way that she really wants to be. in the middle east. as the world. is being one sided and supporting i think this is his idea in a new way this is what form. but he made it to. be the basis for the coming professor thank you very much for joining us here. in india in the movie going to join the hotel rooms. for her to the ground in period truly the taj west coast coromandel you kind of let her tell her. to go and. read this in the kernel was her turn to retreat.

and bringing you the top news headlines from around the world live from moscow this is our to be glad to have with us russian the investigators are to shortly begin decoding flight recorders from the doomed to a long one thirty four plane that crashed in northwestern russia killing forty four people eight survived the disaster with serious injuries and with the tragedy being blamed on bad weather human error. libyan officials say at least fifteen civilians celebrating a child's birthday are the latest to be killed by nato in an airstrike just twenty four hours earlier nato admitted a mistake an attack in which the donkey regime says nine innocent people died. in

battle the greek government has won a crucial concert. it's a vote in parliament this a decision opens the path for new austerity cuts of needed for another e.u. i.m.f. bailout loan but may intensify rage among the country's public and opposition. up next an emotional crusade of a us war award to combat veteran who returned to the battlefields at red beach on torah law island where he fought sixty five years ago the first part of his story is right here on r.t. . in the fall of one thousand nine hundred three america began a major campaign against the japanese defenses in the central pacific over thirty five thousand u.s. marines and naval forces were assembled for an invasion. on nov twentieth america

launched an unfair be a salt against one of the most heavily fortified japanese islands in the world. on board a higgins landing craft ensign leon cooper was responsible for the lives of hundreds of men. for the thousands of marines riding to the shores that morning no one could imagine the ferocity of the battle to come or the death and destruction that would soon face. in february of two thousand and eight leon cooper a navy veteran of the tower battle and a film crew left los angeles on a journey that took sixty five years. to. be at the.