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 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. and around midnight the lights went off you know how it's going to check the electric transformer we heard the sound of a huge explosion we arrived at the scene of the accident the airplane was seriously damaged we could see its wing adjusting its motions it would bodies scattered all around the field lots of. three people out of the wreckage one was either a girl or a woman and i could not sell but she was larger than the mines she was hard to see it was dark then there was a man who also was in the heavy who was launching the knee and then we carried out two most people from the wreckage in the middle of the road you know the man

reached out his hand towards me but i couldn't make it to an actual everything so six lodging i could not get any closer everything was engulfed by fire story. 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. but we're looking into several versions of what caused the tragedy these include the human factor such as an air of the crew or 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. of which i don't think anything would go wrong with the plane itself in forty years of operation the one three four.

extremely reliable aircraft in previous catastrophes human error was always to blame the same is true the pilot should have made a second one to approach this is exactly what happened to the polish presidential airplane while the best of gators worked on the case relatives of the victims and survivors are dealing with their own grief was shared by the people of because of bullets to close the days of mourning the deaths are still there r t in the russian region. at least five special forces officers have been killed and twelve others wounded during an anti terror operation in russia's follow town north caucasus region hideout in the russian republic of where some thirty militants are believed to be stationed has been under heavy artillery shelling with tanks and helicopters in action fierce fighting broke out when insurgents attempted to break through the surrounding russian units there are reports of several military casualties. still ahead for you here on our team stripping millions of people on their privacy

and only the name of fighting terror were reported on us our first to keep information on all transatlantic passengers from the e.u. for fifteen years top lawyers have slammed the proposed deal illegal. to greece now where the prime minister has won a crucial part of the mentoring vote of confidence on handling the country's debt crisis he must now navigate the nation through a series of tough spending cuts and sales of national assets in order to secure a new e.u. bailout and avoid a default because our teeth are further reports for the millions of anxious greeks who feel their voices are going on heard the future has never looked so bleak. it's considered by many to be the best place in democracy to increase now going to be the gap between me and the people and the government is preaching explicit. we are a mix of people

a couple of political dollars and we are all together to say that. we cannot be on the displeasure we cannot hold. the measures taken on the measures that they take for us without us and we want to take our lives back demonstrations held on the central square now on a daily basis with some of the protests turning violent the trade has to stay the suffocating take out nothing can take the stage if they fail strangling their economy the people are being refused their right to judge what policies are going to be implemented upon them and of course the greek government is an accomplice to this most 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 europeans when the 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're going to implement them whether you like it a lot we can say in a way we're facing a very peculiar form. by the european union the european central bank. or a finance chiefs a desperate not to see the first year raising self in default and their rising concerns about the crisis that could trigger. i think there is a chance of a domino effect if if greece or. announcer default and this is their problem and this is the reason why the europeans are are helping greece but in fact we are hearing greece because they don't want just. because they want to pay for very shortage of greece for the sixteen percent of the greek what full sun employees western economic conditions here in greece do your easing dream it seems it's a. free for burma one person who the people were very often as were before

over there were uprising or 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 pace measures when they deign to have democracy anymore the government is trying to grumble but the people refuse to be governed in this way every day that disconnect becomes more and more dangerous this very peaceful of care about the reef talks and nothing's 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 reach boiling point well anyone who is 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 so after say athens. well are two star a further witness the violence on the streets of the greek capital for herself if

you want to read about her account of the situation in the country can visit our walk section at our team dot com also there. is the end of an era as legendary media personality glenn back bids farewell to fox news channel and launches his own pay to view on my network. the lawyers for the european commission claim a proposed deal between the u.s. and the e.u. allowing america to store the personal data of millions of transatlantic passengers illegal that's according to a report in the u.k.'s guardian newspaper the us wants access to credit card details phone numbers and home addresses of european passengers as part of its anti terror measure let's talk more on this deal we're now joined live from brussels by

dr batten who's a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party thanks for joining us this afternoon the european commission lawyers say the agreement is illegal what do you think well the lawyers are called on that point but it certainly seems to me to be disproportionate just disproportionate and intrusive in the amount of information that they actually want on travellers and it could well be illegal especially under existing data protection legislation not queried that before when speaking on this subject in the parliament. the moment amount of information about people their personal details credit cards travelling companions but bizarrely they say that they won't categorize information in terms of political philosophical or religious beliefs and it would seem to me that one criteria that would help you to find terrorists who might be planning to blow up an airplane or an airport would be. on the basis of their political religious or philosophical beliefs that seems rather odd to me now

i understand under this agreement the us will get to keep the data e.u. citizens for fifteen years what does the e.u. e.u. get out of this is the us do you think to offer the same kind of information while this is this is always the question everything with the us seems to be a one way street the same with our extradition treaty with the us in the u.k. they can take our citizens. very easily where we can do the same thing against them they're protected by their own courts in terms of this information the americans get to keep it for fifteen years my understanding of this directive is that the member states will only get it to keep it for five years and i think it's bad enough having your own big brother state created in the european union without have been subjugated to an american big brother state as well by the same method how effective do you think this agreement will be in fighting terrorism and illegal immigration well we're always told that these things are done to protect us from terrorism and organized crime and we all want to be protected from that of course

we do and we have to have proportional laws in order to do that but i think these things should be reached by international agreement so that everybody cooperates truly cooperates rather than is forced to do it. and you know we all agree through our democratic governments what my party doesn't want is another e.u. directive because we don't believe in the e.u. we don't believe in the legislation has any legitimacy anyway because it's not democratic and of course all this is being negotiated with the u.s. australia and canada by commission a mile stretch our own government won't know what comes out of the legislative sausage machine until we actually get to vote on it here so we you know it's one of the many many other areas of policy where the british government no longer has any influence or say over what happens. some say that the deal could threaten the liberty of our ordinary people then of course that. understandable as we're looking at the deal but what do you think that passenger down there could be used for. the

problem with all this data and this is going to be very extensive it's going to be as we said earlier names addresses credit card details who you were traveling with we know this information is never secure because the british government has lost you know it we've had farcical examples in the u.k. where people have left vast amounts of information on laptops and on c.d.'s in the backs of taxis and it's gone missing is gone missing in the post information is hacked into and stolen we know it's not secure it never is so whatever i say about that we know we can't rely on that so i think if you're going to connect and collect information it should only be where necessary and there should be very stringent safeguards for actually protecting it and severe penalties on those who leak it or steal it. but as i say this should be done by international agreements by countries around the world because we're all in the same boat regarding terrorism and organized crime so we should all be cooperating together. favor of the doing this on its own you know as part of his own legislative machine and the

usa getting a special deal which the rest of us don't get but people i mean use their credit cards all the time over the internet and there's lots of private information available there isn't it better to give out that information and feel protected. well of course this is very everybody's very vulnerable on this we all pay for things over the internet with credit cards and people can get into severe difficulties with the law when they find out their credit card details have been taken by criminals and used for something else this is why has to be very carefully regulated and we have to be protected we know we have to be protected but the question is is a lot of this stuff being done in the name of terror preventing terrorism and organized crime in order for governments and the e.u. considers itself to be a government whatever it might say in order to have more information and control over its citizens i think the citizens have to be very resistant to the development of the big brother state whether it be the all the you. u.s. or russia or anywhere else. all right gerrard baton member of the european

parliament for the u.k. independence party thanks for that thank you very much. let's take a look at some world news in brief for you this hour at least forty al qaeda militants have managed to escape from a jail in yemen after insurgents attacked the prison from outside they targeted security guards and seize their weapons killing at least one officer but jail is believed to house more than one hundred key al qaeda members among those who broke out were prisoners convicted on terror charges months of unrest in yemen have led to fears of al qaeda is growing influence. syria has poured scorn on e.u. moves to impose sanctions saying it will simply forget europe is on the map of violent crackdown against anti-government activists in the country has left hundreds dead since the uprising began in march activists are calling for president bashar assad to step down meanwhile the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has renewed his pledge to allow fact finding and

humanitarian missions into the country. the u.s. president is expected to confirm later today his decision to cut american forces in afghanistan by a third barack obama has called the scale of the withdrawal significant and said truthful start to return home by july the afghan defense ministry welcomed the decision saying its own security forces were now capable of filling the void more than fifteen hundred american soldiers have been killed in afghanistan since the u.s. led invasion and years ago. now the contras of the former soviet union are marking the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion which claimed the lives of over twenty five million people solemn ceremonies have been held across several states which bore the brunt of the war against helpers' armies in moscow's russia's political elite laid wreaths at the tomb will be unknown soldier by the kremlin wall president vendor stuff the importance of keeping the memory of the war alive making sure it doesn't fade with time and in belo roofs

a special ceremony was held at the breast fortress which witnessed the first major battle between soviet and nazi forces the garrison staged a hopeless defense against overwhelming odds sacrificing their lives to slow the enemies of vast because they didn't catch over is there for us. being here in such 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 forefront of that war 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 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 leaving for us each year and fewer witnesses saw 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 the water was high. his father an experienced red army officer was also caught flatfooted that night seventy years ago before i was at this house with my mother my father who was laid 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 gets 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 a 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 of the various courses became the size of the first major fighting between soviet forces and the vienna marked there was no warning when the nazis invaded on the night of the twenty second of june nine hundred forty one the bombardment of the garrison by surprise that army officers were spread out and passed on from there i mean ition but even this didn't stop them to finding the forts in fierce 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 course in northwest russia it

wasn't deep grief silent pain for all people trapped here everyone knew that the german 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 missiles a second archive footage from the time shows the fortress silhouetted in heavy smoke hundred. 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 and this woman pushed me and my mom under her skirt when the german slaughter 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. 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 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 for. the most precious award for me was that i stayed alive everyone was fighting like true heroes but few survived but could i understand it four years of age. it's only now that i'm a father and grandfather myself i realize what a life is worth now i'm a fierce pacifist i hate war i don't understand how one human being can do violence

to another i've lived my life never doing any harm to anybody. our team. well in just a few minutes our chasing down with world war two historian michael jones fight germany claims that they a baby the rules of engagement dr jones believe some of the. genocidal war on the eastern front. there was a german and i'm not claiming that it was fighting a clean war and it was it was the units behind the army and it was the us that we're doing today on pleasant stuff but that was not true many were infected by the race corporate counter to the songs towards the jews and the german army eyes the participates atrocities the full security council troops against the russians the population was certainly knew they were going on the justification was we were

fighting a brutal war of survival. but war with darker than any other war in the twentieth century indeed possibly in human history. you can watch that full interview at half past the hour we're going to take a very short break and katrina will be here with the best. and i welcome to aunty's business bulletin money has been steadily flowing out of russia for the last nine months due to risk aversion among global investors and the

state backed investment fund as part of the effort to reverse that trend and encourage foreign capital to take a longer view on things nick poole caught up with the c.e.o. of the new fund kero the trio have started by asking him how the fund would work. there's a basic idea behind a fund to spur investment because actual budget with me here chairman of michigan on bass myself and some other key people who traveled around the investors in the world and we asked them how would you invest much more into the russian economy and basically they sat that they would like to invest more but they need to come up with a partner because for many people to do their first investment the russians then you become a part so the 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 dischord invested by the leading international investor in the project as well what's the broad a purpose of this fund what does it hope to achieve i think many investors feel that there is 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 it's a resist perception gap but basically investors think it's more difficult and more risky to invest in russia as an actual it is so there will be a partner and they need the partner 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 bid for investment was those investors. aeroflot russia's flagship carrier has ordered 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 us which has been aeroflot regular supply of analysts say that the russian airliner is of ten to fifty percent discount from boeing saving

a billion dollars meanwhile teraflop has bashed in consistent terms in both delivery and price some argue that it will be difficult for arafat to give up on a bus as it accounts for eighty percent of the carriers fleet. my european markets around the start of wednesday's session on a negative note with investors cautious as to what might be the next step in solving greece's debt problems banks in london are suffering with barclays and standard choppers both down two percent and here in russia the markets are flat to positive on the uncertainty of crude. let's have a look at individual shamers on the my six now most energy majors bounced back from early losses with gazprom absolute caught up around point four percent meanwhile banks have down as they are across europe would be to be losing almost point eight percent this hour. russia's diamond john also has increased its net profit by forty two percent in the first quarter of the year the four hundred thirty million

dollars result was supported by stronger production at thirty four percent increase in pressure starting pieces. are all russian fertilizer producer has posted first quarter net profit of one hundred sixty one million dollars up from nineteen million last year revenue rose seventy percent year on year driven by strong global demand. and that's all the business for the south will be back with more in just under an hour's time stay with us the headlines next.

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at four thirty pm moscow time these are the headlines on our team a plane crash in northwest washington claimed another life bringing the death toll to forty five experts are investigating the evidence from the find to establish the cause of monday's. early reports suggest a pilot error in. the greek government narrowly wins a vote of confidence indorsing the savage cuts required to secure a new e.u. bailout in the same day to stave off i should say a debt default thousands of angry greeks protest against new measures saying their voices are not being heard. the former soviet republics remember the victims of the war against fascism wednesday march the

seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion of the u.s.s.r. more than twenty five million people died to bring about victory on the eastern front. next laura emmett sits down with british historian dr michael jones who's written extensively about world war two he shared his knowledge about why hitler invaded the u.s.s.r. and how the soviet people managed to win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation barbarossa hitler's code name for germany's invasion of the save the union it became the largest ever military operation both in terms of resources deployed and also in casualties dr michael jones's new book tells the story of the weirdo 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 the.

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 and slight underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism bolshevism and that was what he really put out to you or that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a man that needed to be destroyed but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads mind hitler's book it's clear that he always wanted to carve out living space. and do the expense of the people he regarded as racially inferior and when he announced operation.