could have happened several theories are being explored and of course the flight recorder will be essential to this investigation a commercial plane that would have landed on schedule ended up in pieces and in flames this double of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow the northwestern russia crash 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 and plane was seriously damaged we could see its wing justing out of the bushes there were bodies scattered all around the field there were lots of. three people out of the wreckage one was either a girl or a woman i could not sell but she was larger than the mine was hard to see was dark then there was a man he also was in the heavy he was launched on 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 and 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 but some would argue that in most plane crash a human error place the biggest part. you covered 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 was shared by the people of beth as avoids declaring three days of mourning tesser cilia r t in the russian region. the greek government has now really want to keep vote of confidence allowing the prime minister to continue his fight for more cuts parliament now has to decide whether to impose further austerity measures worth billions of euros in order to secure a second ballot out a lifeline for the country's paralyzed economy this hour for three ports people on the streets aren't sharing the government's vision. it's considered by many to be

the best place of democracy but increased now whitening the gap between the people and the government is preaching explained. we are a mix of people that have not political dollars and we are here all together to say that we cannot be on the displeasure we are not called. the measures taken on the measures that they take for us without us and we want to take our large bug demonstrations held in the central square now on a daily basis with some of the protests turning violent protests to say the suffocating take ask 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 post of popular sovereignty i mean we're not

we're not any more in the proper sense a sovereign country when the i.m.f. can dictate policy when the european when peaceably 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 a way we're facing a very peculiar form. by the european union the european central bank and the i.m.f. a finance chiefs a desperate not to see the first year raising suffering defaults and there are rising concerns about the crisis that could trigger throughout europe i think very chance of a domino effect if. they are now inside the home and this is their problem and this is very reason why the europeans are helping greece but in fact we are here pingers because they don't want this domino effect and because they want to take all very short of greece. sixteen percent to the quick

what full sun employees western economic conditions here increased the euro is a dream it seems is a. one person who the people are worse off as were before over there were uprising or were there would be a lot of violence in the streets the people said that when they're turning out into the streets and then millions and the government continues to push ahead with the prepays measures when they deign to have democracy anymore 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 pay above the reef tops and 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. see. what's our first was on the streets of athens when violent protests hit the capital you can read all about her experiences during the unrest engulfing greece and her blog and you can find that on our website r.t. dot com. still ahead for you this hour hostage to conflict the number of civilian casualties when you drive in libya some believe the american government is now politically on able to withdraw from the campaign. also find out how a missing russian bride or the instigating mass why it's reappeared in the mall don't be in jail. tens of thousands of candles have been lit in former soviet republics today to commemorate the twenty seven million people who died

fighting against hitler's army on this day seventy years ago nazi troops invaded the soviet union leading to the great patriotic war the bloodiest in the region's history thousands in moscow held a vigil at four am the time for german army first attack the eastern front research related morals known to the unknown soldier cross russia ceremony was also held in the city of breasts in belo rooms which bore the brunt of the first nazi offensive the germans deployed a modern heavy artillery weapons on the breast fortress but failed to grave soviet resistance. is there for us. being here inside the prettiest fortress on this day seventy years after the start of the great war makes you not only see the visual damage to this city. the full front of that war you can also fill 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 kilometers on the night of the twenty second of june nineteenth forty one here also loves behind several inscriptions like the one on a wall i'm dying but i want that we're not even told us we keep you around. we are witnesses of the first day of the war and the horse which followed after here is the story. you would like any careless child i had plans that evening i wasn't afraid when they started shelling i only remember that something exploded and my bed was thrown into another corner of the room. not only four year old canady was unaware of what was happening his father an experienced red army officer was also caught flatfooted that night seventy years ago before i was at his house with my mother and my father who was

delayed to defend the breast fortress this was our window on the first floor my father was sure there could be no war this is what the party get saying he thought it was an earthquake he grabbed his accordion and ran outside my mom stopped him told me and this is war. the war for which the nazi military the very marked had come up with a name for long before blitzkrieg but his seach they'd planned would last just hours instead was to go on for weeks in a fierce battle with those who defended to the death the biggest scorches became the size of the first major fighting between soviet forces and the vienna market there was no warning when the nazis invaded on the night of the twenty second of june one thousand nine hundred forty one the bombardment of the garrison by some fries but army officers were spread out and was on the wrong ben i mean ition but

well even this didn't stop them to finding the fourth and fifth battles until the last survivor stories of the heroic resistance quickly reached different fronts soldier me the loss of received the news far away in the republic of call me in northwest russia it was a deep grief silent time for our people trapped here everyone news of the. when army was much stronger every day we receive reports that the enemy marched another hundred kilometers deeper into our homeland the nazis were in a hurry at the gateway to vast country they bore him to the breast fortress with devastating intensity up to sixty six min cells a second archive footage from the time shows the fortress silhouetted in heavy smoke hundreds were killed in their sleep during the first minutes of the attack among them small children some survived the night only to be buried alive later

this is my second mother when the nazis rounded up refugees scattered in villages nearby this woman saved me the germans dug a mass grave into which they were about to throw women and children this woman pushed me and my mom under her skirt when the german slaughtered everyone around and left this woman took me out from under her skirt crossed me and said i just did what god told me to you. after nine days of fierce fighting hitler's forces captured most of the fortress but their losses amounted to almost nine thousand there were reports that isolated defenders remained resisting the nazis as late as august one hitler and mussolini personally visited the site of the battle it's claimed that a stone hitler picked up from the remains of the fortress was found in his office after the war. i'm often asked what was the biggest award for you the one most valued from that war the most precious award for me is that i stayed alive everyone

was fighting like true heroes but few survived but you could understand it four years of age nothing it's only now that i'm a father and grandfather myself that i realize what a life is worth now i'm a fierce pacifist i hate war i don't understand how want to human being can do violence to another i live my life never doing any harm to anybody. our team. bellows. 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 over the number of civilian deaths historian lawrence davison says the u.s. and nato have made themselves hostages to conflict. what is causing to question is the original justification for american intervention which was

humanitarian my own personal opinion is that that was always a just a media story for our domestic consumption you cannot 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 that cannot avoid killing civilians i don't think that nato and its commanders and the president and the 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 they will end up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in libya and they will project media stories to cover. their check out our website for more news and eye catching videos

here's a taste of what's online for you right now as the u.s. steps up and drone attacks against militants in the middle east anger over the growing number of civilians caught up in the strikes and sending more recruits into the armed extremist. and the ecologist are sounding the alarm over the natori is the damn thing great in central russia go to argue dot com to find out why it's constructors spent almost two hundred thousand dollars on planting trees that never had a chance to take care of. russian writer eduardo bugger but year 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 or he's considering a house the story. written off russian writer the out 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 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 keesha now are willing to admit the fact let alone talk about it on bills that is 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 in 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 concede on the twenty first of june that consular employees from the russian embassy in will do visited bigger if he did. not express any complaints about his living conditions or the way the investigation was going and he's using the

services of a qualified private moldovan lawyer currently an investigation is being carried out by moldovan authorities in accordance with a court decision he'll be held for thirty days from the embassy is money storing the situation. if the what gives detention could have been a completely routine legal process but the very fact that moldovan is dorothy's are still refusing to part with any coherent information concerning the case is definitely not doing them any savors and it's showcasing them although a prosecutor's office and of very unfortunate light. gastritis are of r.t. moscow. five special forces officers have been killed and twelve others wounded during a shootout with militants in russia's republic of kyrgyzstan there are reports of several militant casualties as well the anti terror operation that began on tuesday is continuing its attempt to combat the militant movement in the region there were reports of intense fighting as a group of insurgents tried to break through the surrounding russian units

responded with to overrate shells it's believed the militants were conducting training in order to carry out more scale terror attacks in the region. it's twenty one minutes past the hour of let's check on some other international headlines about brain court have life sentences h.e.i. activists found guilty of plotting to overthrow the state a prominent political leader and activist were among those convicted other activists were given up to fifteen years in jail total of twenty one stood trial she of protesters are calling for greater rights and democratic reforms in the sunni ruled kingdom. hundreds of writers have clashed with police in northern ireland during the second night of sectarian violence in east belfast crowds hurled stones fireworks and petrol bombs at police replied with water cannons two men were treated for burn injuries and a press photographer was shot in the leg but we start investigating whether the man

was the intended. and flights are slowly resuming from south australian airports as the ash cloud from a chilly involved. no off shore the country's largest airports have suffered two days of cancellations as a result of the eruption the cloud is now expected to move to new zealand where it's thought to mystic flights will also be destructed the volcano in today which had been dormant for decades erupted on before. now in just a few minutes a british historian tells us why he thinks nazi germany invasion of the soviet union seventy years ago failed but first it's the business news to me after a short break.

and i have to you watching business tsotsi money has been steady the flowing out of russia for the last nine months due to risk aversion among global investors a new state backed investment fund is part of the effort to prevent that trend of encourage foreign capital to take a longer view all these nick poole caught up with the c.e.o. of the new fund he started by asking him how the fund would work. as the basic idea behind the fund to spur investment because actual budget meets your chairman of michigan on bain myself and some other key people who traveled around the investors of the world and we asked them how would you invest much more into the russian economy and basically they said that they would like to invest more but they need to have a good bargain because so many people that get their first investment the russian if a partner so we're investment is a basic ideas of funds will invest in projects but it can invest in projects only

if at least the same amount of money is going vested by the leading international investor in the project thus while you look at the broad a purpose of this fund what is it to achieve i think. many investors feel that is the wrist sort of a perception gap between 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 it's a resist 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 part in it to feel more 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 would you like the part that was the chinese fund so we're just making it easier to find a partner and we share the risk because russian state will become invested was those investors. aeroflot russia's flagship carrier has ordered eight triple seven

passenger jets from boeing announced at the paris air show the one point two billion dollar deal is widely seen as a turn away from buzz which has been efforts regular supply and they say the russian airline is obtained a fifty percent discount from boeing saving up to a billion dollars meanwhile have losses bashed us for inconsistent terms in delivery and price some argue that it would be difficult. to give up on air bus as an account for eighty percent of the carriers fleet. european markets started wednesday session on a negative note they're pretty much still there the dax is up by just a notch those are two negative investors are still cautious they're wondering what might be the next step in solving greece's debt problems banks in london are down by those instead of chances on these in two percent as. in russia the markets in the red on the declining crude biase as in my solution point six percent have lots

however is up point four percent as a company as they've been working with airbus and boeing banks are down like all the other trading floors with bt down one point four percent. diamond giant says increase its net profit by forty two percent in the first quarter of the year the four hundred thirty million dollar result was supported by stronger production at a thirty four percent increase in precious stones prices. also in brief russian fertiliser producer. has posted first quarter net profit of one hundred sixty one million dollars that's up from nineteen million last year revenue rose seventy percent year in year driven by strong global demand. coming next i'll see the headlines business l.t. will be back in fifteen minutes time. question

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discovers foot makes antarctica so special and attractive for many wildlife in antarctica is the bones and fragile. expedition to the bottom of the earth r.t. . hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. 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 and i assemble all of everything that's wrong with our god. government allowing not only

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it's two thirty pm in moscow these are the top stories on our team a ten year old child who was pulled from the wreck a plane crash in northwestern russia has died in hospital that brings the number of those killed in the incident to forty five the news comes as aviation experts examined one box recorder from the passenger jet that exploded into flames in the republic cutting. the greek government survives a critical vote of confidence and it's all stare if you drive in a furious protest that the will of the people is the ignored part of them it must now decide whether to impose austerity measures worth billions of euros in order to secure a second e.u. bailout. former soviet republics more than twenty seven million victims

killed in the fight against hitler is true to this day seventy years ago the nazi invasion of the soviet union the bloodiest conflict in the region's history became known as the great patriotic war. when next we talk to british historian and author dr michael jones well known for his books on world war two he told r.t. what motivated there's decision to invade the soviet union seventy years ago and what helped the soviet troops win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation barbarossa hitler's code name to germany's invasion all to save the union it became the largest ever military operation based in terms of resources deployed and also in

casualties datsun michael jones's new book tells the story of the red ole me during the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. today let's start from the beginning of operation why did decide to invade. always 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 slight underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism of bolshevism and that was what he really put out to your that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a menace that needed to be destroyed but. the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads mind hitler's book it's clear that you always want.