review of the. sutra who told me. he was breaking news a jet carrying a triple champion russian team has crashed in flames near the runway in the city of . two hundred seventy kilometers northeast at this stage only two survivors among the forty five people who were on board. is near the crash site. to tell us what's happening around you. well right now. the investigation is well underway and really a cleanup if you will emergency work being done to try to find the bodies so far thirty one bodies have been found you can see pictures here of the crash what

happened was. a very. human factor is one of the ones of course as always is when you have a plane crash like this but the second is a technical. enough altitude it ended up crashing about five hundred meters from the runway now from the pictures that we're getting in the latest pictures we can see and confirm that most of the plane did end up in the river like i said thirty one bodies already found and i just want to go through the numbers that we have so far forty five people were on board thirty seven of them were part of a look might see. and forty three of them have been confirmed dead to start to be survivors are in hospital in critical condition but there are very conflicting reports as to whether or not alexander. member of the russian national ice hockey team. was to. in the hospital with eighty percent of his body burned

whether or not he is in fact died or not has worked we're trying to figure out what the situation is but we do know that two people so far it's been said have survived this horrible tragedy. coming through but the some of the the finer points of it still sketchy wearing various of things about that player tonight but tell us a little more about this team lokomotiv yaroslavl how important were they how big were they in the on the sports the. well i think he is a big sport in russia and already we've seen pictures of fans that have made their way through security really because we keep it's very difficult to get to that crash sites trying to film some of those pictures we saw fans there were already laying flowers top the site and. you have fans coming out so obviously the whole sports community the whole country this is not only going to be and is a national tragedy but we know that foreign nationals were on that plane as well in fact the head coach was needed was killed he was fifty two years old already the

embassies of sweden slovakia and other countries have confirmed that their nationals were on board that plane we're seeing some incredible pictures from another one another opening match of the k h l season was to take place of course it was canceled but some really really touching pictures of fans there just devastated in tears over this tragedy so it's going to touch not only sports fans were of course ice hockey is a big one here in russia but the whole country really they mean the world right now i think it's fair to say is watching as this tragedy unfolds and we're getting the details up of how how big it is ok in this thanks for bringing us what you know because you know with you later for more let's bring in now our sports correspondent kate partridge take very good into terrible day for world of of hockey here in russia we heard there from minnesota that this team is very well thought all of the fans from around russia. to pay their respects just how big

a name were well they were the three time travelers before the advent of the k h i was the continental hockey league which which is now which is due to start its fourth actually today and then even even in the cape shell looking at a fantastic team they've been they've been runners up they've been seven finalist they're always a team that is there in there about this is not just as a necessary it's such a big loss for hockey it's a big loss for russia a lot of international players and indeed the foreign coaches world absolutely private criminal fifty two year old for fifty two your canadian former stanley cup when i'm sort of carbery flames and also some of the big key players were players that had been brought in from other countries from the czech republic out of you know players like that it's it's it is a big shock we are going to hockey fans are going to go to red square in central moscow as well to pay their respects you know i don't know any more about the one thing that we did hear and see also with the pictures and this is a showing there was that the the match that she was referring to is solid if you

are the defending champions from maine last year's runners up are plants in a fart in basically the opening game of the season and they've actually faced off they were actually playing that game when news came through of exactly what happened and mr it's very very he's the president was there and effectively the game was stopped as news came through and they stopped there and then had a minute's silence and as you can see by the the pictures everybody was just completely devastated in shock the whole team on. this news who read this for the families of the course a huge blow to europe. absolutely i mean it's hard it turns are often associated with their sporting triumphs and when you lose not only not not only one player which would be tragic but to lose to a sort of generation of players it is devastating for we would you even begin. to really there's been talk about it but where to begin to sort of start again and rebuild the team after that sort of tragedy well there have been suggestions as one point eminent commentator who suggested that perhaps every other two. even the

catcher could contribute a player i said as it as a gesture of goodwill of solidarity that the team could rebuild itself as a mark of respect and also eighty two as it were just carry on ok well ok thanks for for previous the your sporting side of your thoughts as well as much appreciated tonight. just to remind you the main use that we know tonight a jets carrying a triple jump in russian ice soccer team has crashed in flames near the room where the city of ghosts level two hundred seventy kilometers northeast of bosco at this stage it's thought but still to be confirmed there are only two survivors of the forty five who were on board members of the locomotive euro slava hockey team were on board the plane on the way to minsk in belarus the hockey team would do as we've been hearing to play. in the opening game of the season for kontinental hockey league on thursday the team including players as we've been hearing there from a sports correspondent from this know as well a lot of international players german sweden's about into as well as of course

russians it's not clear how many of the fatalities were for members of the team at the moment we are thinking that is the majority of them and the rest workroom all right well let's bring in more perspective now to try to shed some light on how this crash may have happened to try and find out more about this got forty two airplanes the radiation expert mark weiss he's a former pilot with american airlines in washington d.c. my very good evening thanks for being on the program tonight let's talk about this plane this call off yet forty two jet split in service isn't it since nine hundred eighty dozens of the fleet are still in service with russian and other airlines how safe is this jet. yeah forty two is quite a capable airplane it has a long history and a positive history you know you can equate that type of an airplane very similar to work in the united states and around the world was. seven twenty seven well

built as long as it was well maintained had a long life to it and has a good history behind it. hearing some news reports of this jets in a certificate was due to expire in three weeks could that have been a factor is that just you know a standard thing these safety is difficult to cover the plane gets given the once over they get renewed i would that have been a factor at all that it was just three weeks from an expiring. well i think you really have to look at what was going to be expiring was it through for a heavy maintenance check which is typical of a lot of aircraft paranoia craft go through that at one time or another or were they taking it out of the fleet for another particular reason at this point i really couldn't i wouldn't want to speculate at that point if it was still flying and well maintained then that really may not have as much relevance is it would

appear on the surface again reports still coming through one of the early reports a. tenner on the airfield there we're also hearing from eyewitnesses world's policeman saying that he saw flames coming up as i was a nine story building other reports still sketchy and i guess if it hit an aerial could that have brought it down because it depends a great burial was. well i guess it also depends on where it hit also you know accidents stone happen generally for a single cause if if it hit an area in the takeoff corridor there wouldn't have been an obstacle in its path so if it hit something it had to be outside of a regular takeoff path or there was a reason why it was not at the proper altitude or over that piece of land so again nothing is a singular event everything is a compilation of events coming together to cause this accident our thoughts of

course very much for the family the friends the loved ones of these poor souls of dogs and of course also every time this kind of action happens when a plane goes down our thoughts also with the investigators the people have to be on the scene trumping through the wreckage find the bodies the investigators have to try to establish what what happened where did they start. well the first thing they're going to start with you're going to get investigators and. typically speaking you bring investigators who have expertise in all the various systems and aircraft components and engines. airworthiness. you bring them all together and you start with the records of the aircraft the maintenance records of the aircraft the history of the aircraft the history of the crew the weather at the time any problems that were encountered by aircraft taking off before them it's a long tedious process but these people who do this job and here we have the national

transportation safety board who oftentimes are called in worldwide as experts in forensics of accidents. they're very well trained and they're very detailed and nothing really goes overlooked they will find every bit and piece to put this together because remember the end result of the investigation is not just. to give closure to everybody but to prevent something like this from happening again what was it this is a problem with an aircraft was it an engine problem was it a problem from a aircraft taking off before to cause turbulence was it something that came a clark. there could be a lot of reasons was there an explosion on the airplane you know we all look at the terrorist activity what was the cause of this and that will be a painstaking process but it will be very thorough ok voice for american airlines

pilot and homeland security expert with the spectrum group thanks ever so much for giving us your thoughts on the international tonight so much appreciate it thank you and my my thoughts to everyone. thank you mark ok well let's go to a correspondent on the scene and this is this. just bring us up to date. if views are just joyously just shooting into the eye bring us up to date all the war you know about what happened this plane crash earlier on today the white suit the majority if not all of this whole contained tonight and i'm going to get a lot of the crew on the plane as well. yeah horrible tragedy hearing you're a slob will just want to add carlos to forces global policy forum which is being held is pure accident that we're so close so many officials in town and we're now hearing that presidency means the mutated not only is he going to cut short much of his meetings that were planned for tomorrow but he himself is going to commit to this crash site to pay his respects people flooding in. to this area to lay flowers

to pay their respects. to the euro so i will look for months you should team up with just a horrible tragedy what's happening now is it's getting dark and cold and so that what investigators and emergency workers are hoping is that that won't hamper them finding many more bodies they found thirty one bodies so far of course we know of forty three are dead so they still have several more to find and with no light it's going to be difficult for them to do i heard you mention that our thoughts are with those emergency workers and that certainly is the case it's cold out here most of that plane wreckage is in the water and it's dark so it's going to be hard for them they're going to continue working throughout the night. to try to recover as many bodies as possible and i also want to mention that the transport minister and other officials are also making their way to this site a lot of matches have been cancelled the k h l season is just opening up so it really is just a horrible moment for sports fans russians and everyone that is watching the sun

fold as the information comes in as to how many people died and the gravity of this tragedy and so we just heard the true overheard it from our voice a very seasoned x. problem so american airlines and i would say. as a security homeland a voice who's very courageous. because it's such early days to say wall pools this crash you know as adults as the boys are still being kicked out of the pool to put them on the list when you hear that sometimes it's a russian plane an aging mobile like the like the took them off. for they needed to go to the plane could it have been something wrong with up plane or wasn't positive air at has any more news coming through in the last hour or two about what may have gone so terribly wrong here. it has indeed there are a couple ways that it could have gone to human factor as i'm sure we've been hearing for hours now it's always taken into great consideration even in plane crashes like this what we were hearing early into the developing story was that.

during takeoff perhaps there was some kind of technical failure on the plane could not gain altitude in it and perhaps one of the verses that we're hearing is that it hit some kind of antenna and then fell into the vocal river so that's probably the most likely investigators of course are going to be looking at all kind of factors we are and we can confirm that the prosecutor general has ordered a full check of the airline that was in charge of this flight carrying of course the entire team and also are going to be checking all ya forty two planes. in their entirety in their use in russia so new york for each is flying into investigators to firm that this plane should be able to fly. and continue carrying people we tried just like this are happening i have to say that the people we have been speaking to do say that it is a fairly reliable plane but there have been several incidents is in the last ten years with john for you to see of course investigators taking that into

consideration as well a lot of this and i think through much of just incidentally what you're talking about i'm a quick choice and here's a bell tolling bell and you there. it is i'm not sure if it's not that i think we're going to have to receive that it is obviously people in mourning here it sounds like they're from kind of church nearby you know right. the process of mourning and people kind of paying their respects and taking in everything that's happening in this relatively small town obviously something that is going to go way beyond your you're in touch the whole country it's not the world's ok listen our thanks for bringing us what you know be catching up with you. this is art international from moscow and we will of course keep you updated with the latest developments in europe as we get them throughout the evening let's turn to some of the day's other top stories now in the top quarter thrown out a series of more suits which said that germany's bankrolling a bailout staling european economies were illegal but judges ruled out giving

chancellor merkel a blank check saying any future aid was no be pre-approved by parliament course that could hamper germany's ability to react swiftly to any new crisis but it's a president for other nations to tighten their belts as well positioned parties welcome the ruling today but said merkel has made the crisis worse through delays lack of vision reaction of course decision one of those is one of those who raise the lawsuit against the german government let's talk now the lawyer and professor marcus kerber is live in berlin to talk to us mark is very good even to thanks for being on r.t. international so now this verdict is in today this must be a major blow for you what are your initial thoughts. it's not a major blow it's of course formally speaking a legal setback because the court not unexpectedly. rejected the complaints we've made but as a matter of fact. the court has only decided to something which is already a part of the past now the european financial stability facility as it is practiced

in the past with a volume more limited with tools being very limited and with little flexibility so we are now going to examine whether the new european civilisation mechanisms one which has been reshaped and which have a bigger volume which should react more quickly and which should enlarge the truths to be employed and which should as well pm preventively could go along with the. with the reserves the court has made how can the german parliament use its veto powers in line with the scriveners of the reaction. required to request it for the new european financial stability facility this is the question. we are in for now the legal fight and the political fight is only starting because the illegal practices of the european central bank continues and the president of the federal

public of germany has publicly declared that these practices reserve legal attention so i'm quite optimistic that the verdict which is a setback from really is the beginning not only of the agony of the eurozone but it's the beginning of a very heavy political inside fact but i guess you must take some comfort as well from the fact of the limits of chancellor merkel's also going to go through rather hoops without a new bailout so i guess i think had the political you wanted your some way towards getting a yes this is a this is a partial satisfaction at least. but in a way the judges might not. have understood how the new masters of the european financial stability facility want this facility to react very swiftly how could this be in line with veto power of the german parliament if the german parliament of the budget committee has the say only a few days to take advice to read the papers and to prepare

a decision so quite frankly i don't see how the requirement of the quote could be compatible with parliamentary practice and with the swiftness of the rapid reaction which. the masses that of the european financial stability facility hope to have. i repeat a new legal fight is going to start very soon ok well we take in what you say because germany is without question the driving force isn't it behind the euro and the reason the currency that is highly valued does not oblige germany to help out its fellow eurozone members that are struggling right now with the burden of such a strong currency. yes as a matter of fact the there is a relatively strong currency the value of the euro is not the problem the entrancing value is not a problem but the problem is the indebtedness of several countries on the mediterranean namely portugal and greece

a very very different reason i did mention ireland because i'm his main your problem but it's a banking sector but the question is is the euro zone as it is shaped today is it an optimal currency area is it an auction currency space and i have great doubts that it can to assist in the current shape we have to make it trying to very very quickly and had really happened courage to kick out rather beginning of the year two thousand and ten i think are the tragic course of events would have been a different one and we would have very sounder european currency one to union as we have today so the fundamental problems of the. eurozone have not been solved by the verdict which we haven't had in and culls from. i would like to remind you of the fact that the court said they're not going to decide on economic questions through the economic questions which is fundamental remains to very very wide open

wide open and every day reminded by reality kerryman tain the eurozone in the current shape and i fear we cannot. well first markets go to thanks for your thoughts on r.t. tonight much appreciated thank you very much. libyan rebels say they've colonel gadhafi in the ready to take him dead or alive the former leader was tracked down after loyalist convoys left for the neighboring country of the rebels are believed to be locating look at the thing with high tech equipment and intelligence so they're now controlled most of the country after a helping hand from western nations but of course in stark contrast merican britain operated in libya. recent years for the anti kadafi campaign the cia and m i six were allegedly sending terror suspects to libya for interrogation and torture according to documents and earth in libya that have now sparked outrage that is during a bushel reports next the sign of suggests the violence isn't over yet as the real

chaos maybe yet to come. the whole beautiful song is one of africa's most experienced diplomats just broke from the libyan capital he says need to pull being has turned it into a ghost town that is no police there is no administration. there is no there's no schools nor and order has been replaced but what lee crew of rebels some fear that the various groups who've emerged might soon stop fighting each other what's your weapon stores have been raided every man stamped with kalashnikovs in the tripes fight for their independence the country will answer and never ends in civil war of brutal urban guerrilla warfare and lists argue that even rebel leaders don't know where their choice is and from. rebel hands mahmoud general was a launch to find islamist sleeper cells have joined history and sit in vast parallel structure of confidence has appeared we have no idea who is in charge of them later as hopes of

a reliable replacement for more ammo gadhafi appear to be fading libya's rebels remain deeply divided while the chaos from a bombing appears to be spreading beyond the country's borders in the turmoil there are fears that religious extremists could be using libya as a base to further their aims in north africa and fun to museum noise good part of a but not the mission women got abortion rights twenty years before women and they'll jump on the last regime divorced women good benefits revive arab who just movements are trying to reverse that that they can afford the war leaders from barack obama to nicolas sarkozy and silvio berlusconi shook and even kissed the deficit panel she wrote was got the bridgecorp it treatment in paris but the west will also change tack want experts if libya doesn't go for them as planned according to this man who's just returned from war torn tripoli the message from some locals there is that the conflict may have created

a frankenstein's monster for europe they warned us that we don't know what we are creating the it will be a free haven of extremist groups which are just on the southern border of europe poirot's from failed somalia may be close to a no go frighteningly some diplomats. libya is heading with direction but what do will go through that if he admitted that india will not be a sifts and there will be pirates and there will be all bloat to control it into india to make it safe i don't think french economy can support that with the new intervention in libya has brought large numbers of new forces to the fore experts fear the worst it still may come to regret their regurgitates the new bush will see brussels instead with the region's troubles the situation in syria was discussed here in moscow at a meeting between the russian and french foreign ministers his counterpart stressed the need for dialogue between the syrian government and the opposition but the

meeting also outlined a few differences in approach to france is seeking tougher sanctions on the syrian government while russia wants a more peaceful solution but both look forward to discussing possible measures at the u.n. general assembly later this month russia's foreign minister stressed that syria must not be a repeat of the libyan scenario. used we're convinced that it's vital today to start talks and it is actually what the syrian leadership calls for us it's extremely dangerous to print certain forces in syria to boycott those talks and neither russia nor france wants to see that happen every party in syria should stop using violence and we proposed a resolution to this effect we encourage the government to carry out the reforms it has launched and the opposition should not use provocations and reject invitations into dialogue still. it's been a day of disquiet in israel where police have started dismantling the tent cities built by protesters during the past two months demonstrations time in the west bank

jewish settlers broke into an israeli defense forces base than lies in several vehicles their policy has got the latest. it's a lot of anger in tel aviv i mean at least they did they since the tel aviv city hall officials said they would hold the phone out of the speech twenty two months demanding issues of social justice early this morning at five o'clock local time a little municipality workers dismantled the change and took away property right now the protesters and police are cashing in front of the tell it is minister and they are calling for the telegraph mayor to resign but it is our warning that they will be more aggressive measures of neighborhood in the coming hours they have turned the reaction on because amid and disgusting a lot of tension here in terms of how the protests and our social justice has been handled by the natanya government spent most of today as a way thanks to clarke and although the situation is quiet there now it was a software a number of pages vandalized and is waiting to find what they say this was in

retaliation for the army this man. now was an illegal act this is essentially is a number of pages getting together putting up a caravan through the clearing that this property is good if you go outside for even to use the borders on even to foment of the israeli government recognizes and the first one is that this is happening because today peace now movement. came a construction in the west bank among informants and amongst double that it is the weight in the rest of the country. particularly tense day here in israel not only here in just a little bit but also in tel aviv these are the the coaches and the social justice the morons. that we really have to date on a breaking news that this hour the playing saturday the spilled nearly all of the champion russian ice hockey team lokomotiv jaroslav all there yet forty two jet crashed during takeoff from various level airport two hundred seventy kilometers northeast of moscow and killed forty three of the forty five were on board at the

time authorities say the plane failed to get enough altitude and crashed into a runway became so far. thirty five bodies have been recovered early indications suggest that a technical failure is the main cause of the crash pilot error also suspected the jet was heading to the belorussian cattlemen square locomotive dearest level would you play the first match of the k h l season the entire squad were on board including players from sweden poland ukraine the czech republic germany latvia and better of a devastating day than for the world of sport here in russia kate partridge will have more of the legacy of the team that had come from the pit of my eyes russian ice hockey success you're watching r.t. from moscow.