market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report on r.t. . on r.t. tonight experts investigate the cause of a plane crash in northwest russia as the catastrophe claimed was another life today bringing the death toll to forty five. at the site of the tragedy family and friends pay their last respects to monday's victims join me for the details in a few moments. i don't know if the terror operation is underway in the north caucasus a report suggesting special forces have suffered losses after an attack on a militant compounds all the details are coming up sorely. the greek government wins a vote of confidence in tossing the savage cuts required to secure a new e.u. bailout but i agree greeks say their voices are not being heard. by the former

soviet republics remember the millions of people who gave their lives to win the war against fascism wednesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion of the u.s.s.r. . hello this is our team osco it's just after eleven pm here now moscow time my name is kevin owen and our top story today the number of people killed in a plane crash in northwest russia has now risen to forty five for a young boy died of his injuries in hospital today experts are examining the doomed to pull off black boxes to establish the cause of the tragedy while family and friends arrived at the site and pay their last respects but he says for a city report. well it has been an emotional and tough day for the families and friends of the victims and the survivors many of them had gone to be a more to identify the bodies of the victims and

a few of them to coming here to the site where the crash had happened to have a one three four carrying fifty two people that live here on the road right behind me they have put together a small memorial where locals family members friends have been coming in bringing flowers and candles and also there was a small service earlier today where it was attended by officials of the region now as for the investigation itself it's still ongoing a flight recorder is in moscow being still being examined it will take some time before it is fully decoded and investigators say that at this point they're still looking at all possibilities nothing is ruled out yet all theories are being looked at whether it's your base your to look at the initial statements made by various authorities are they all looking closely at human error and bad weather conditions as possible and likely causes of the crash but i guess speaking to the family members for they have the blame game really takes a backseat at this point because they really just want to try and deal with their

own grief. struggling to keep her composure that is in disbelief at the sudden death of her friend you know who. i do not understand right happened he was one of the best people i've ever known i do not understand maybe it's frayed to want to have to happen. the russian premier league football referee. just one of the forty four killed monday night when he didn't pull of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow to bet as a void in northwestern russia crashed on this road missing the runway by a kilometer twenty four hours later the crash claimed another victim when one of the survivors a young boy died in hospital. when i heard the little boy to hospital died i was shocked it's awful my late husband was a pilot he had landed planes of this airport many times it's very personal to me. the site of the crash has been cleaned up the roads have been reopened the wreckage

of the plane completely removed but there are still career marks evidence like whispered poorest that reminds people of the tragedy that struck on monday night and for those who had been here to witness the risk sees things say that those memories are unlikely to go away. i didn't sleep for two days i couldn't even form a sleep i can't recall and people screaming and i was pulling bodies away from the plane which you have guinea was one of the first that the scene his house only metres away from where the plane came down. i heard the explosion and ran outside the lights went out i ran to the site and we started rescuing people here we're trying to win man two women and the pilot but he was dead the time in the right and we helped them the man we dragged away called his wife at home and he asked me to get his phone from his pocket they say he's still alive but still in the hospital. while all the bodies have been recovered the relatives of the victims still have the tough task of identifying their loved ones investigators say all possible

scenarios are being looked into but initial reports suggest bad weather and pilot error are the likely cause of the crash a suggestion that didn't sit well with some locals just. it's easy to blame the pilot because he's dead i think the airport itself is to blame family and friends are waiting for answers but all they can do now. he was only thirty eight. only thirty eight is remember those they've lost. that's our cilia r t russia's korea region. reports suggest seven special forces officers have been killed and at least sixteen others wounded during an anti terror operation in russia's volatile north caucuses fierce fighting broke out when a group of militants who'd been surrounded in the either try to break free with this developing story today are to go is going off now. this operation is still

continuing it's been going on for two days it's all happening in the troubled republic of kyrgyzstan in the corpuses in a forest area so perhaps the bats complicating the operation for the special forces it started with the authorities surrounding a group of militants watch to be try to break through and that's reportedly one some of the police officers were killed the authorities have also deployed havey old artillery including tanks and helicopters to assist them in this operation unfortunately the north caucuses appear is called the credo of terrorism in russia and president dmitry medvedev has been saying namely times it's one of the key wars of his administration to strengthen security in the caucasus authorities have been able to hold some successful operations in the region including the republic of the just last week we found and destroyed an underground weapons factory with numerous

homemade explosive devices would remote controls also last week before a limited person would invade it will be have been searching for since last knew he was plotting terrorist attack in moscow all the new year's eve and all that just shows how important it is to strengthen security in that region because it really does f.x. security in the entire country. coming up on our two year firsthand account from the libyan frontline we hear from a journalist who was in the region only a few days ago and who says that not what i see. on greece now the next where the prime minister has won a crucial parliamentary vote of confidence in his newly reshuffle government it was no then navigate the nation through a series of tough spending cuts and sales of national assets in order to secure a new bailout and avoid a default resulting sara first reports for the millions of anxious greeks who feel their voices are going on heard the future is never so bleak. is considered by many

to be the last case of democracy i think reese now the lightning kept between iain's and people in the government is creating explosive. we are a mix of people from the 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 out a large block demonstrations held an essential square now and it daily basis with some of the protests turning violent protests to stay the suffocating take ask nothing compared to the a stage the measures that they fail strangling their economy the people are being refused their rights to drugs what policies are going to be implemented. 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 with the i.m.f. can dictate policy with a european would be severe 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 rather like it or not we can see you know we're 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 defaults and there are rising concerns about the crisis that could trigger throughout europe writing barriers or terms of a domino effect. around her default this is their problem is the reason why the europeans are helping greece but in fact we are hearing gooders because they don't want this domino effect and because

they want to create all very shores of greece. sixteen percent of the quick went full sun employees western economic conditions here increased the euro is in dream it seems it's a. worse realities would be full of. people like there were uprising or there would be a lot of violence in the streets people said that when that turning out into the streets in their millions and the government continues to push ahead with the prepays measures who then they don't have to mock christie anymore the government is trying to govern but the people refuse to be governed in this way every day that disconnect becomes more and more dangerous bizzare care about the retards and happens to be 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 recoiling point plenty when he was on the streets of athens to witness the violence will know that it's

already past that point because a lot of people are now asking is really how much further does this guy stared at see happens and for more of sarah's inside of the problems in greece head online she's constantly telling her blog if you want to learn how the peaceful protest hostile details are to eat or calm while you're there as well you might consider these stories change in the netherlands where the humble coin has been brought up to date how spoil using the smartphone scanning crazes that means really you can find out all about it online and find it works a lot. in just a few hours' time the u.s. president is going to confirm his decision to pull thirty thousand troops out of

afghanistan by the end of twenty twelve it's part of barack obama's efforts to restore public trust at home where the nearly ten year long wars become increasingly unpopular lives the u.s. capitol now we're joined by afghan of war veteran turned peace activist checked in the kurds. good evening the taliban stepped up its assault on the afghan government recently the number of suicide car bombings has gone up you fought in afghanistan do you think it's the right time really to start pulling troops out like this when the war on terror clearly hasn't been one year. you know this is a great question and it is really important that now is the time that nato and the united states begin to take steps to withdraw our troops from afghanistan there's two major reasons why the number one we need to challenge the afghans to take over their own country to invest in their own infrastructure that afghans can begin to have control over their own territory into the war is costing an exceptional amount

of money for not just united states but every nation of all of which includes russia it includes pakistan it includes india includes a lot of the european union as well so it costs a lot of money so we need to bring our troops home and also to sew the afghans can begin to take over i will tell you everybody i mean let's talk about the hard to get over to the to the afghans because they can coax her make lovely kabul claims it's ready to step in assume responsibility for the security but at the same sound is that we're seeing attacks in the very heart of the capital some experts say president karzai has little power outside kabul really isn't the right time to be calling and letting them get on with it. well i mean first of all i wouldn't believe anything coming out of kabul because i think that conspiracy theories and xenophobia runs rampant through through the media there so i wouldn't believe much coming from kabul but i think it's clear that we can see that the longer that the

us stays and nato stays inside of afghanistan the more enemies we create because what happens in war unintentional consequences innocent people get killed more people join the insurgency that normally wouldn't and so it's in our best interest because not having troops there doesn't allow the insurgency to grow we've seen every year the longer troops stay the insurgency grows and anti american anti western anti european sentiment grows so that's why we should leave more importantly they're not all right you focused on the cost just as well at the start of all this america said it would rebuild the nation and bring democracy to the afghan people believed to be disbanded the process they succeeded. you know just to give you just an example we've seen. a report come out of the washington post a few weeks back that virtually all the reports coming in that dictated what what the united states was spending their hundreds of billions of dollars has been

shaken off the american people and off of the european nations basically stolen from the kabul government so the money we've invested has largely gone to waste and it will continue going to waste by any nation i continue to support it what we can do is provide financial support for n.g.o.s and non-governmental institutions that where the money actually hits the ground where the people are where schools are being built and roads are being built by n.g.o.s if we could to do that it would be good for the afghans if we continue to give money to the central bank in kabul that's bad because that's where karzai and his cronies will steal it also questioning the scale of this pullout the u.s. defense secretary and the top american commander in afghanistan that advise a much smaller wind than obama's proposing now they're supposed to be the ones in the know on the way. well they are supposed to be in the know but remember in terms

of the military i don't care if it's the u.s. military or the european military forces or russian except for the military has a certain mindset which is win through military means and that's the mindset of the military but there's a nother side to any squabble any war or anything in that and that is the political side and that's really what the president has to deal with and that in my opinion is the most important part because it's clear that afghanistan's problems are political problems not military problems so are their military successes yes but were there not been successes which are political we need political successes we haven't had yet and this is why having less troops but more diplomatic forces more n.g.o.s efforts more financial support for not for the car and the cars i ministration but for where for the people on the ground that's what needs to happen not supporting military efforts bombing innocent civilians and continued military

efforts that have really had failed to meet what really needs to happen and what should be done jake of the of the really thought he question of the afghan drug trade it showed outside of. ten years what night has been occupying the country is . one of us now the foreign troops are pulling out. well just to die that's a good grilli great question and basically what we know about the drug trade inside of afghanistan is that the coalition forces have not done much anything to to root out the drug trade and one of the reasons is if you root out the drug trade now cannot stand what's going to happen to the economy inside of afghanistan that largely doesn't already exist so what needs to happen in terms of the drug trade there needs to be increased economic development and providing alternatives to drug trade through either culture or other means southron is

a very. expensive spice that is just as expensive in some areas as heroin is and so this is one element that the international community can use to replace heroin but one other point i think i want to i want to make sure that we know about the big devil in the room here is the pakistani indian afghan relationship this is the devil in the room that nobody wants to talk about is this is the secret to the remedy to getting all the coalition forces out of afghanistan and letting afghans take over and what we need for inside of pakistan is real cool off aeration from the military and the intelligence community if we don't have that there is no hope for anyone including the russians the european union and the united states in terms of having a stable south asia so grief they are you hopeful of that are going to. you know i'm not i think we saw just recently with the capture of osama bin laden

inside of about a bad what that showed it was that we don't have call real cooperation from the pakistani government and we've also seen pakistan now bringing in relationships with china so what does this mean for in terms of u.s. russian european union indeed relationships continued tensions and if we don't if we as as an international community don't really put some pressure on pakistan to to have them as a cooperative partner in stabilizing that area it's going to be a nightmare for everybody and this should scare everyone to death a sobering prospect live from the u.s. capital afghan war veteran. thank you for being on r.t. . it's only has called for immediate cease fire in libya to allow humanitarian aid to be brought into the country the people comes after nato admitted to a blunder that resulted in the deaths of civilians including children i spoke to investigative journalist michelle cullen it was in the country just a couple of days ago he told me nato has been seeing its own interests in the

region. they are killed more civilians that the losses from the initials problems there are few small civilians the nato bombings so the real id is not protect civilians the deed is to achieve the economical tragical interest off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya i remind the us c. is a bankrupt country and also all preventing that caffie would be a sort of used to do i.m.f. some buying for african development the whole idea is to make the public international opinion accept the idea that nato is a copy of the world or that that nato has the right to make was where they want to revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with immunity

or and war. the countries of the former soviet union are marking the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion that claimed the lives of some twenty seven million people solemn ceremonies been held across several states which bore the brunt of the war against settlers armies here in moscow russians particularly late at the tomb of the unknown soldier by the crimean president but if stressed the importance of keeping the memory of them alive making sure it doesn't fade with time. i did belarus a special ceremony was held abreast fought for us which saw the first major standoff between soviet and nazi forces from where r.t. is a country over reports. like any careless child i had plans great evening i wasn't afraid when we started shelling i only remembered as something exploded and my bed was thrown into another corner of the room. not only four year old denies he was unaware of what was happening his father an experienced red army officer. also caught flatfooted that night seventy years

ago. i was at his house and my mother my father who was later defended breast 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 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 a siege they planned would last just hours instead was to go on for weeks in a fierce battle with those who defended to the death 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 surprise that army officers were spread out and was on the wrong but even the students stopped them. finding the

fort in fear of battles until the last survivor stories of their 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 news of the german army was much stronger every day we receive reports that the enemy marched another hundred kilometers deeper into a coma and the nazis were in a hurry at the gateway to the last country they bore him to the breast fortress with devastating intensity up to sixty six new 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 save 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 the skirt with a 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 leaders all but still when he. personally visited the site of the battle it's claimed that a stone hitler from the remains of the fortress despond 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 washington being in violence to another i live my life never doing any harm to anybody. shorting tonight people about his latest cost or guest of eight where the expectations were too high and the arab spring would bring democracy to the region that's about ten minutes time but first you say with business. well welcome to our tease business bulletin there's a multi-billion dollar dog fight taking place at the paris air show this year russia is pinning its hopes on

a range of defense aircraft and in civil aviation on the new sukhoi superjet grigori berg from invest cafe's is great potential for russia's newest contestants in the media market. well indeed we have seen over six hundred. from bridget and. apparent success is largely due to the to the reputation of. the time head of corporation out of those over six hundred across the need to have actually been supplied so maybe time for the modifications that can stand the competition from international majors such as canada's bombardier and reveals imbra who also manufacture aircraft of similar specification. and staying with the airshow era flot russians flagship airline has ordered eight triple seven passenger jets from boeing the one point two billion dollars deal is widely seen as a turn away from air bass which provides the majority of the carriers fleet analysts say the russian airline has obtained

a fifty percent discount from boeing saving up to a billion dollars meanwhile arafat has begged for inconsistent terms in both delivery and price. looking at the markets now the u.s. markets are trading serviceably whedon's day with all eyes on the federal reserve is holding its regular monetary policy meeting widely expected to keep rates unchanged and of more interest what will be watch a member nike has to say at the subsequent press conference about the state of the u.s. economy. the european markets have been trading cautiously as well during where this day session with investors curious as to what might be the next step in solving greece's debt problems banks in london are suffering with barclays and standard chartered chartered both down two percent karen roger the markets closed slightly up after early losses though uncertainty remains over the price of crude let's have a look at some individual share moves on the my six now most energy majors bounced

back from earlier losses with both gazprom and lukoil closing up over half a percent meanwhile banks were down as they came under pressure across europe with bt been losing one percent. precious diamond john's. well rose has increased 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 rather increase in precious stones prices. russian first eliza 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 a stronger global demand. and that brings you up to date for business for now you can always get out today online at our team dot com forward slash business stay with us for headlines next.

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