around to my house. the flames. were talking to some of those witnesses especially where the plane. house was where the plane had actually landed in front of it and for most of them it the experience was harrowing the memory that they can't forget most is the fact that they were hearing cries for help at the site and so they do believe that there were more people alive actually but then there were further explosions after the initial one could only save as many as they could and only eight had survived initially and now seven are still alive in a state hospital both course it's still very early into the investigation the statements that have been made are based on the physical evidence as you can see behind me this is actually a forest where the flame had come through and hit some of the tree tops they're still working on the site behind me so based on the statements made that there was

low visibility there was bad weather and also ground control here said that they had asked the pilot to make a second turn so the initial theories that had come out from this investigation are based on that but the actual black box is still be decoded it's in moscow they're going to find out more from the final many patients from the life of. a commercial plane that would have landed on schedule ended up in pieces and inflames this tuple of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to northwestern russia crashed on a road around a kilometer from the runway airport officials say the plane hit a high voltage power line that cut off lights on the runway which also knocked out the town's electricity. at around midnight the lights went off in our house we were going to check the electric transformer when we heard the sound of a huge explosion we arrived at the scene of the accident. we could see.

they were bodies scattered all around the field there were lots of them i carried three people out of the wreckage one was either a girl or a woman i could not sell but she was larger than the man who was hard to see it was dark then there was a man he also was in the have he was launches and me and then we carried out two more people from the wreckage in the middle of the road another man reached out his hand told me but i couldn't make it to him everything started exploding i could not get any closer everything was engulfed by fire so very. 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. we're looking into several versions of what caused the tragedy 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 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 crashes human error plays the biggest part. of which i don't think anything would go wrong with the plane itself in forty years of operation the triple 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 beth as avoids declaring three days. morning desiree celia r t in the russian region.

the greek government has narrowly won a key vote of confidence around the prime minister to continue his fight for more cuts parliament now has to decide whether to impose austerity measures worth billions of euros in order to secure a second e.u. bailout and lifeline the country's paralyzed economy. firth reports there's an ever widening divide between the government's vision and the will of the people. it's considered by many to be the best place of democracy but increased now the lightening gap between me and the people in the government is preaching explicit and. we are a mix of people that have no political dollars and we are here all together to say that we cannot be and that vis present we cannot hold. the measures taken on the measures that they take for us without us and we want to take on large bug

demonstrations held in the central square now on a daily basis with some of the protests turning violent the protesters say the suffocating take us nothing compared to the a state that they fail a strangling their economy the people are being refused very right to judge what policies are going to be implemented upon them and of course the greek government is an accomplice to this of popular sovereignty i mean we're not one of anymore in the proper sense a sovereign country when the i.m.f. can dictate policy when the european when the sabean and the european union and the i.m.f. the so-called troika can come and say listen these are these are the measures you're going to implement you are going to implement them whether you like it or not we can say in no way we're facing a very peculiar form of dictatorship by the european union the european central

bank and the i.m.f. they finance chiefs a desperate not to see the first year raising suffering default and they're rising concerns about the crisis that could trigger throughout europe i think very chance of a domino effect if. the full and this is their problem and this is the reason why the europeans are helping greece but in fact they are here pingers because they don't. because they want to pay for very shortly the british version of the sixteen percent of the greek work full sun employees western economic conditions here in greece the year is a dream it seems is a. hoover people are worse off as were before over. there were. there would be a lot of violence in the streets the people said that when they're turning out into the streets in their millions and the government continues to push ahead with the

pace measures well then they deign to have democracy any more the government is trying to grumble but the people who refuse to be governed in this way every day that disconnect becomes more and more dangerous bizzare peaceful pair above the reef tops in athens really a world away from what's been happening on the streets recently the question a lot of people have been asking is just when will greece reach boiling point lenny when he was on the streets of athens to witness the violence will know that it's already past that point the question a lot of people are now asking is really how much further does this guy serve. firth was on the streets of athens when bottom protests hit the capital read all about and go think greece and her experiences in her blog you can find it on our website at www dot com. greece faces the prospect of financial cuts and

tax rises totaling up to twenty eight billion euros but european parliament member says it's actually banks who should be footing the bill. nobody is happy actually in the eurozone because we have had to save the banks who are ultimately to blame for what has happened in the crisis of two thousand and eight the financial crisis the banks did something extremely wrong or did not save themselves what we do need is make the greeks understand and i think most of them do understand that you cannot live with such a huge debt on your shoulders you have to get out of it now fortunately the greeks can raise much more taxes than they do now and they started to ready last year to raised two percent more taxes. than they did the year before it went from from thirty seven percent g. and i g a g.d.p. to thirty nine percent g.d.p. which is a huge increase in one year time it is very harsh for the greek it is very difficult for the greeks but it is unavoidable and i think that's

a tax on the banks which would make the burden the business a bit lighter for the greeks a tax on the banks in europe would be an important step a financial transaction tax with which we could we could do something for the greeks and other countries in difficulties. the u.s. is tightening financial sanctions on the libyan government as some members of congress call for a one year extension of america's military role in the country meanwhile the intervention has been hit by continuing criticism of the number of civilian deaths historian lawrence davidson says the u.s. and nato have made themselves hostages to conflict. with this cause into question the original justification for american intervention which was humanitarian my own personal opinion is that that was. just the media story for our domestic consumption you can either enter being anywhere with this level of

munitions and not kill civilians so ok you're going to protect civilians by intervening with the type of munitions. i cannot avoid killing. i think that nato and its commanders and the president the power to sherry's involved in this are beyond a point of no return or so they simply cannot stop in terms of their own mind what they've invested in this and therefore a great war ended up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in libya and they will project media stories to cover. well for the latest news from libya go to our web site that's dot com online right now nato airstrike reportedly kills fifteen people as an explosion rocks the house the top gadhafi general during his grandson's fourth birthday party the scenes of devastation. no

gun moscow getaway car a man goes in and handed to us bank saying prison is his only chance to get health care. at all to dot com. tens of thousands of candles have been lit in the former soviet republics today to commemorate the twenty seven million people who died fighting against hitler zomi on this day seventy years ago nazi troops invaded the soviet union into the great natural to more ideas to history thousands in moscow held it for a time the german army first attached these to the ceremony was also held in the city of bristol the roofs which on the ground on the first offense are not seized toward an array of heavy artillery and weaponry on the west fortress failed to break so it was instance auntie's country which is there for us. being here inside

the busiest fortress on these days seventy years after the start of the great passion war makes you know it's only see the visual damage to this city. the full front of that. org you can also feel the human coast of those terrible times dance from the walls of the fortress maybe you cannot see clearly behind that smoke is a living reminder about that the roches night thousands of people were buried alive on these four square kilometers on the night of the twenty second of june nineteen forty one defending the prettiest fortress was the first battle for the soviet union in the great. war but it was also one of its most boy couldn't chapters the nazi invade us expected that they would capture it swiftly but instead they came up against resistance which held out for months full thousand people managed to flee the touch of the fortress but most of them were killed shortly often both thousands others were besieged behind the fortress as was the last of the captured at the end

of july nine hundred forty one though some reports even suggest that isolated resistance wasn't counted even a month later because of that battle left behind inscriptions like the one with a knife on a wall i'm dying but i want to run we're not leaving the fortress. but looking back seventy years since germany's invasion of the soviet union historian dr michael james tells r.t. it was the great patrick isn't the soviet people who helped win the war. wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nineteen forty one and slight underneath justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism socialism but on the need and the real truth about

this was race hatred i believe the two for was just a science for the technical side. germany could very well have won at either. nine hundred forty one zero nine two forty two put it with the love of the motherland it was this extraordinary determination to carry on fighting the germans underestimated. and you can see the full interview with dr michael jones next hour here in the. russian writer eduardo but you know of who disappeared in moldova almost a week ago has turned up in jail the author is suspected of organizing mass protests in two thousand and nine against the results of the country's parliamentary elections lottie's customer service the story. written off russian writer the walk by get of was last seen on june sixteenth in the moldovan capital keesha 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 their 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. 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. 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 a day he's been arrested by the prosecutors his warrant was issued by the prosecutors and it's the prosecutor's office that should be on string questions about him which is providing the cell 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 mildew or visited big year if he did. and express any complaints about is living conditions or the way the investigation was going he's using the services of a qualified private moldova lawyers currently in investigation is being carried out

by motive in a third it's in accordance with a court decision he'll be held for thirty days the embassy is money story in the situation. and what gives detention could have been completely were team legal process but the very fact that moldovan authorities are still refusing to part with any coherent information concerning the case is definitely not doing them any favors and it's showcasing them on that one prosecutor's office and of their unfortunate white. catherine as are the r t moscow. five special forces officers have been killed and twelve others wounded during a shootout with militants in russia's republic of dagestan but on terror operation that began on tuesday is continuing its attempt to combat the militant movement that there is a tense fighting as insurgents try to break through the surrounding russian units as federal forces targeted the hideout with the opportunity reports of several minutes and casualties.

let's check on some other international headlines for you now in mexico police have arrested the alleged leader of one of the country's top drug gangs in the city that has sushma and also known as the monkey taking control of the familia cartel after the death of its previously and last year mexican president felipe calderon praised the capture as a great move against organized crime but augusta is accused of trafficking and selling drugs including cocaine and marijuana is also the last minute killing rival gang members. hundreds of riot clashed with police and we know that during the second night or so. terran politics and the last crowds hold stones far away at some petrol bombs at least plodding through to turns two men were treated for burn injuries the press photographer was shot in the leg

it's the worst trouble to see decade. law itself slowly resuming from south australian airports as the ashes cloud which volcano moves off shore country's largest airports have suffered two days of translations as a result of eruption a cloud is now expected to move to new zealand where it listeth flights will be disrupted kaino in chile which had been dormant for decades erupted on the fourth of june. argentina's president has announced she will stand for reelection and the months of speculation over her political future in two thousand and seven cristina fernandez to the post succeeding her husband who died of a heart attack a minister are often described by the media as onto his power company pose that shouldn't leave it lacks majority support in the country but could win the first round clinton against a divided opposition. in just

a few minutes we explore whether the uprisings in the arab world are more about chaos and violence than democracy and freedom itself the business update dmitri stay with us. and i watching business out see is going to have your company money has been steadily flowing out of russia for the last nine months do you see a risk aversion among global investors and you state backed investment fund as part of the effort to reverse that trend and encourage foreign capital to take a longer view our correspondent fool caught up with the c.e.o. of the new funky with me at the st petersburg form he started by asking him how the

fund. is a basic idea behind the fund to spur investment because actual budget with me to a chairman of the african on myself and some other key people who travelled around the investors of the world and we asked them how would you invest much more into the russian economy and basically they say that they would like to invest more but they need to come up with market because for many people to be their first investment the russians if become a partner so we're investment is a basic ideas of will invest in projects but it can invest in projects only if at least the same amount of money to school invested by the leading international investor in the project as well if you look at the broad a purpose of this fund what is it to achieve i think many investors feel that as a result of a perception gap between the real risk situation in russia and how some investors perceive it and you know we can go into the history of it but everybody agrees that

the resists perception gap that basically investors think it's more difficult and more risky to invest in russia as an actual it is so defunct it will be a partner in that they need the partner at the field look comfortable making investment and it's very similar for example if you invest in a rig in china you know would you invest on your own or would you like to partner was a chinese fund so we're just making it easier to find a partner and we share the risk because russian state will be for investing because those investors. ever thought russia's flagship carry as ordered eight triple seven passenger jets from boeing the one point two billion dollars deal is widely seen to signal efforts turn away from us which has been so regular supply and they say the russian airline has obtained a fifty percent discount from boeing saving up to a billion dollars meanwhile forgers abashed us for inconsistent and delivery and price some longer would be difficult for floats to give up on abbott says that

accounts for eighty percent of the carriers that. move through the markets and in the oil there's been a slight change of movement sentiment the light sweet crude down now forty three cents per brant is up twenty three cents that's despite positive developments in the euro zone situation of up to the greek government one key confidence vote on tuesday for investors in asia gaining more confidence that greece will avoid naming a default and the nikkei is up one point eight percent the hang saying point four percent hong kong listed exports on the phone a limited use gaining more than five percent most of its clients in europe that's you securities is leading the way and so you. here in moscow the markets have kicked off trading on a negative note despite the ongoing positive sentiment around the world as take a look at why this is happening it's moved to some of the main movers ross telecom losing one percent that's often losing four on tuesday and eight on monday after

declining point seven percent so with its ongoing hesitations as to where were the planes from and lukoil is up by just n o h. t of the market poses a problem for investors much interest and call from capital has some suggestions for the best equities to park cash and. during the small market perhaps you know the banks legs better ball would be the save us haven't for russia. selected. some retail names also quite defensive some people say gold stocks like paulus to throw balls at each against but i'm sure it will fall to with the. always a medium term if the market would really start recovering that high but the names including cone gas might outperform short term but we don't expect this to happen say this week. coming up next see the headlines with the carry and i'll be back in

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it's the al and the russian taliban headlines for you. the ten year old victim of a russian plane crash has died in hospital the number of those killed in the incident to forty five news comes as aviation experts examine the black box recorders in a passenger jet that exploded into flames in the republic of. the greek government survives a critical vote of confidence in its austerity drive and its furious protests that the little people are being ignored parliament must now decide whether to impose austerity measures worth billions of euros or to secure a second you paid out. and former soviet republics more me twenty

seven million victims killed in the fight against hitler's troops on this day seventeen years ago not seem dangerous or could reach the bloodiest conflict region's history. as a great patriotic. people of l. and his crosstalk guests debate whether popular uprisings will actually bring democracy to the arab world. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle from spring to fall the uprisings in at least three arab states are fast becoming vicious civil wars is the arab awakening less about democracy promotion and more against a stifling status quo and police states and what are the chances the arab awakening will be hijacked by new strongman and dictate.

the process not the uprisings in the arab world i'm joined by david price jones and florence he is senior editor of the national review and author of treason of the heart from thomas paine to kim philby in washington we have omar baddoor he is a political scientist and human rights activist and in austin we cross to alan cooperman he's an associate professor at the l.b.j. school of public affairs of the university of texas all right gentlemen this is cross talk and i mean cross talk rules in effect you can jump in anytime you want if i could go to david first in florence is the is the arab awakening as it's being called turning into an arab nightmare as i started out the program three of these countries that are undergoing. social strife it's turning into a vicious civil war and democracy seems to be more of a distant ideal if it ever was.