as you can see behind me this is the forest where the plane had gone through its. going to the airport so it had really burned out the force also knocked out a power line and there were statements made by airport authorities about what 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 tuple of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to better 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 we heard the sound of a huge explosion we arrived at the scene of the accident airplane was seriously damaged we could see its wing justing out of the bush years 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 haunt to see was dark then there was a man he also was unhappy he was launching than me then we carried out two more people from the wreckage in the middle of the road another man reached out his hand towards me but i couldn't make it to him everything started actually i was going 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. error 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 crashes human error places the biggest part of the numbers and which i don't think anything would go wrong with the plane itself in forty years of operation the tuple of one three four has proved to be 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 of mourning tesser cilia r.t. in the russian region. the greek government has narrowly won a key vote of confidence along the prime minister to continue his fight for more cuts parliament now has to decide whether to impose further austerity measures worth billions of euro in order to secure a second ballot out

a lifeline for the country's paralyzed economy because our furth reports people on the streets are sharing the government's vision. is considered by many to be the best place of democracy to increase now the whitening gap between the aims of the people and the government is preaching explained. we are a mix of people that have enough political dollars and we are here all together to say that we cannot be on the vice president we cannot hold. the measures taken on the measures that they take for us without us and we want to take out a 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 stage the measures that they fail 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 we're not 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 see you know we were facing a very peculiar form of dictatorship 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 default and they're rising concerns about the crisis that could trigger throughout. i think very chance of a domino effect if. there are no answer the full

this is their problem and reason why are europeans are helping greece but in fact we are hearing greece because they don't want this domino effect and because they want to take all very short of greece. sixteen percent of the quick what full sun employees western economic conditions here increased the euro is a dream it seems is a. people were. real fans were before over there were uprising there would be able to violence in the streets the people said that when the turning out into the streets and then millions and the government continues to push ahead with the potatoes measures well then they deign to have democracy any more the government is trying to grab the people refuse to be governed in this way every day that disconnect becomes more and more dangerous bizzare piece about the reef and nothing's really

a world away from what's been happening on the streets recently the question a lot of people. is just when will greece reach boiling point lenny when he was on the streets of athens to witness the violence that is already past that point because today lot of people are now all skiing is really how much does this guy so say. oh sorry firth was on the streets of athens when violent protests hit the capital read all about her experiences during the gulf in her blog on our website at our dot com. still ahead this hour hostage conflict of a number of civilian casualties continue to rise in libya some believe the american government is now politically on a bold withdraw from the campaign. also find out how a missing russian writer of instigating riots reappeared and.

the first tens of thousands of candles have been lit and 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 history thousands in moscow held with for a. time for the german army first attack the eastern front res were laid out memorials to the unknown soldier all across russia and a ceremony was held in the city of but asked in belo rooms which bore the brunt of the first nazi offensive the germans deployed a barrage of heavy artillery weapons on the breast fortress but failed to break the soviet resistance. is there for us. being here in such the prettiest fortress on this day seventy years after the start of the great passion war makes you not only see the visual damage to this citadel of body as the

forefront 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 remind her 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 nineteenth forty one here also loves behind several inscriptions like the one on a wall i'm dying but i want so we're not even oh yes we keep that fewer and fewer witnesses of us day of the war and the horse which followed. 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 called flatfooted that night seventy years ago before i was at his house with my mother my father who was later defend the bridge fortress this was our window on the first floor my father was sure there could be no war this is what the party keeps saying he thought it was an earthquake. he grabbed his accordion and ran outside my mom stopped him told him 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 siege 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 real scorchers became the size of the first major fighting between soviet forces and the viet market there was no warning when the nazis invaded on the night of the twenty second of june one

thousand nine hundred forty one there will be garrison by a surprise that army officers was brought out and passed on the wrong then i mean he shot but 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 loss of received the news far away in the republic of call me in northwest russia it was a deep grief silent pain for our people trapped here everyone knew that the german army was much stronger every day we receive reports of 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 archive footage from the time shows the fortress seal or didn't have a 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 though 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 good cross to me and said i just did what god told me to. 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 remain resisting the nazis as late as august when he had learned mostly me 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 know who 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. the us is tightening financial sanctions on the libyan government of 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 their story and lawrence davidson says the u.s.

and nato have made themselves hostages to conflict. what this calls into 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 and i'm think that nato and its commanders and the president and the 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 they will end up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in

libya and they will project media stories to cover it. took out our website for more news i catching videos here's a taste of what's online for you right now as the u.s. steps up with drone attacks against militants and we've seen anger over the growing number of civilians caught up in the strikes sending more recruits into the arms extremists. and ecologists are sounding the alarm over the notorious dancing braids in central bhatia to r.t. dot com to find out why its builders spent almost two hundred thousand dollars on planting trees that never had a chance to take root. but some writer at wired by giro who disappeared in malta 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 archies katrina as our of us has 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 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 keesha now are willing to admit the fact let alone talk about it on bills with he's been arrested by the prosecutors his warrant was issued by the prosecutors and is 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 a model of an 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 that consular employees from the russian embassy in

will do visited bigger if he did. 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 by motive 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. and the what i get of detention could have been a completely routine legal process but the very fact that moldova stories are still refusing to part with any coherent information concerning the case is definitely not doing them any savors and it's showcasing them all the prosecutor's office and of their e unfortunate light. catherine as are about r t moscow. five special forces officers have been killed and twelve others wounded during a shootout with militants in russia's republic of there are reports of several militant counsels he says well the anti terror or 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 trying to break through the surrounding russian units responded with artillery shells it's believed the militants were conducting training in order to carry out our scale terror attacks in the region. a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour about brain ford has had of life sentences to h.-e. activists found guilty of plotting to overthrow the state a prominent political leader and campaigner were among those convicted other activists were given up to fifteen years in jail and a total of twenty one stood trial shia protesters are calling for greater rights and democratic reforms in the sunni ruled kingdom. up to forty al-qaeda militants have fled a prison in the south west yemeni city have. the inmates escaped as insurgents attacked the prison from outside security guard was killed in two wounded during an

exchange of gunfire. several al qaeda militants were also injured officials say the men involved were convicted on terrorism charges were others were awaiting trial. hundreds of rioters have clashed with police in northern ireland during the second night of sectarian violence in east belfast crowds hurled stones fireworks and petrol bombs that police replied with one of cabinets two men were treated for burn injuries and a press photographer was shot in the leg police are investigating whether the man was the intended. ok we're going to take a short break here on r t and dina will be here with the latest business news stay with us.

and i would welcome to business money has been steadily flowing out of russia for the last nine months to use 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 all t's nick paul caught up with the c.e.o. of the new fund he started by asking him how the fund. as the basic idea behind the fund to spur investments because actual budget meets their chairman of national bank myself and some other key people who travelled around the investors in 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 come up with market because for many people to be their first investment the russians if have a part so we're investing this a basic ideas of 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 the swap looks 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 fed but everybody agrees that the resists perception gap that sickly 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 also investors. flood watches flagship carrier has ordered eight triple seven passenger jets from boeing announced at the paris show the one point two billion dollar deal is widely seen as a turn away from us which has been regular supply and the save the russian airline as of today the fifty percent discount for boeing saving up to a billion dollars meanwhile air flow has bashed their bus for inconsistent in the real price. would be difficult to give up on air bus and that accounts for eighty percent of the carriers. most of the stock markets now and european markets. in the negative territory mostly with investors pushes us to what might be the next step in solving greece's debt problems banks in london down volatile even stand a chance of down two percent the dax is up by just much here in russia the market

so also in negative territory as crude is also declining if you look at the main movers you'll see that. is up zero point two percent as the company has it takes between working with about us and buying the other figures banking stocks like another trading floor down b.c. losing one point four percent is also down point eight percent on the decline it's . now russia's diamond giant increase its net profit by forty two percent for the schools of the year before hundred thirty million dollar result was supported by stronger production on the thirty four percent increase in precious stones prices. and russian for its allies a producer has posted first quarter net profit of one hundred sixty one million dollars it's up from nineteen million last year revenue rose seventy percent year on year driven by stronger global demand. and that's it from me joy my colleague

katrina hopes she will be here next hour and throughout the day to keep you up to date with the latest business news headlines. culture is that so much of an oldish musician is a person on the market from spring to be uprisings in at least the states fast becoming fishy civil wars.

seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead at a beach front battlefield several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. to 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 garbage but to a chimney way where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra with julian cooper story on our team.

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a free medio dog our teeth on tom. live from moscow headlines a ten year old child who was pulled from the wreckage of the plane crash in northwest. brings the number of those killed in the incident to forty five the news comes as aviation experts examined black box recorders from the passenger jet exploded into flames in the republic. the greek government survives a critical vote of confidence and a false start to drive amid furious protests that the will of the people is being ignored the parliament must now decide whether to impose austerity measures worth billions of euro in order to secure a second. and former soviet republics more in the twenty seven million

victims killed in the fight against hitler troops hundreds day seventy years ago the nazi invasion of the soviet union. unleash the bloodiest conflict in history became known as the great patriotic war. thanks peter the bell and his cross talk gas debate whether popular uprisings will actually bring democracy to the arab world. and you can. follow in the 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 didn't take. it. through. 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 and 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.