off the ground high enough then clipped a became and went down a hill a ball of flames we had the opportunity to speak to some people who witnessed this in person and this is what they had to say about the accident. but if anyone on the gospel someone at the got off to the plane to cough i heard a noise like two comes colliding several seconds later we had another bang then the plane started leaning to the right after we heard the second going the plane suddenly dived and hit the ground i didn't see it hit the ground but we saw that it's tell you. the plane broke into sousa newark and we heard the plane takeoff so we told our granddaughter look there's going to be an airplane then i heard a bang and my daughter told me mom it's falling down to the side then came the flames in the smoke and we wanted to run away but we didn't know where to run then we went to the river and saw the plane we. have now come on you know start looking man she was my home team we supported in this team who was shocked when we found

out who went to all the games knew all of them by name and it's very difficult. and on a personal note we were on the train and as the news of this tragedy started to spread through the train and people who were on their way to jaroslava started hearing the news you could see how personally it touched people who are from the area one lady sitting next to us burst out into tears and told us that one of her family members actually had the final meal with the team before they headed off to the airport and said that they were all in great spirits and ready to go for their first game of the season and of course this ended in tragedy heartbreak for everyone here lives taken so tragically tonight as you say shore now we understand talking about the two survivors one a crew member the other a national team goalkeeper among the survivors what more can you tell us about alexander gurley more must tell our viewers as well we've got pictures of him coming up pieces staying ninety percent. there rather graphic pictures he's being

taken out of the. on a stretcher at the moment we hear the latest from the hospital this family have been to see him the way reports earlier on and must say that he had passed away they were quickly retracted we hear that although he's got very severe burns tonight the that he is still alive his family have been to see him the hospital treating him he was an important part of the team was nearly xander gallimore. certainly kevin in fact he was much loved player not just important for lokomotiv but important for the national team as well as you mentioned he is the only survivor of the thirty seven team members coaches and crew that were on this flight there was one other survivor who was a member of the crew as well but as you mentioned burns over ninety percent of his body including his respiratory system as well doctors at this hospital here in jaroslav all have said that he has already done undergone multiple surgeries

including surgeries to help repair his damaged respiratory system so hard fight ahead and anyone who is familiar with burns over a certain percentage of your body the survival rate is not very good so tough times ahead for the family and also for alexander as well because also is very much with the family friends and loved ones of all those that have perished. as the rescue operation turns to a recovery operation over the next twenty four hours and so i mean it's still early days and you did going to it just now but i mean investigators are going to be next on the same trying to find out what went so terribly wrong every time you hear and it does happen maybe once a year twice a year of an air crash here in russia involving one of the old soviet type of across something in the temple off so now this forty two this is special always falls on the aircraft and it's rather old design but of course it depends who you talk to. doesn't it because i was speaking to

a well seasoned american airlines pilot earlier on i don't know we've spoken to him but of servicemen before we fly planes they say it doesn't always matter how old the plate is it's basically down to how well this thing is service sometimes they can be more reliable than the newer models any knowledge in that. well indeed in fact actually if you look at the r forty two itself and we can talk about that more the bit of the plane has been around since one nine hundred seventy five it was the first plane that was designed by the soviet union to uphold to international standards we don't know how well this particular plane was serviced but it was a private charter jet but again they are looking at possibly human error in terms of the pilot making a wrong decision that led to the tragedy also there are some early indications in the investigation that there could be some technical malfunctions as well and of course. putin is the prime minister ordered the transportation minister to come immediately to the scene to launch an investigation as always is the case and when

something like this happens in russia there's always a quick response to make sure that they get down to the bottom to find out exactly what went wrong that investigation is ongoing right now people on the scene in fact you can actually still smell some of the burning in the air so it's very shortly after the incident but again what we do know is that the plane that failed to get enough altitude hit some sort of a beacon or an antenna on the end of the runway and went into a ball of flames so right now they're going to be poring over that scene over the next few days to make sure that they know exactly what went wrong in the other news tonight as well was that the forty two operating in russia there are about one hundred of them have been grounded temporarily while investigators try and work out what's gone wrong we don't know when they'll be. given the green light to be and where the again what other point actually came through earlier on tonight very early into this with that particular plane one hundred new it's the innocent tiffany. it was due up at about three weeks' time so the airline pilot the american

airlines pilot he want to know more details about what the relevance of that was it just been a standard thing where it was up for renewal but i was an interesting point that came out just briefly shawn before you go in about thirty seconds or so it's very hard isn't it to describe how much of a shock this is for jaros lovell earlier on this evening we saw hundreds upon hundreds of fellow citizens and eurostar pouring out onto the streets in way. certainly in fact hundreds of people coming out to pay their respects chanting team slogans for lokomotiv but this isn't just a tragedy for jaroslaw it's an international tragedy as well there were members on this team from sweden ukraine czech republic bello reuss of course russia canada as well so it was an international event and not just for sports and hockey in general but there are and passengers and embassies that are sending their regrets as well president get out tomorrow is changing his schedule at the international forum so

that he can come and actually pay his respects at the scene of the accident as well so very tragic with world leaders paying their respects at this incident all right sean thomas royalty. thank you for bringing us up to date with what you know. but earlier i spoke to our two sports presenter kate partridge she says today's catastrophe is not the first such tragedy destroyed russian support. for events tonight i regarded and talked about now is russia's worst sporting disaster absolutely i mean with the loss of patti effectively a whole team completely gone in it is indeed a tragedy but it does also you bring to mind a similar disaster we were looking through and also some of my colleagues reminded me of this of the pack teko disaster which was also and that was a midair crash that one hundred nine hundred seventy nine in. which is in the ukraine and what happened is the practice of a team had been promoted they were also going off to play did i mean skin a football match and they collided with another plane midair ninety seven. nine

august seventeen players plus officials gone completely and of course talking about looking back at the archives that the great britain as well but it was absolutely there at the events looking through i mean we found at least eleven different crashes i mean the main one that there for me i can think of mainly in england is is more interested in my scene one thousand nine hundred fifty eight. and also even as late as ninety nine hundred ninety three the zambian national football team as well and a plane crash. into national hockey stars approach to the disaster this is the shock of this tragedy is being felt not only very greatly here in russia but also of course around the world and absolutely so many of the hockey teams now in particular the k.h. are not only attract russian players they attract players from all around the world also the n.h.l. who also sent their condolences we were looking eight to nine different nationalities some of the stars kind of are who need the czech republic have also made sure slovakia all these international players the repercussions here are not just russian they global but we also been talking about how how the teams carry on how how the city can carry on having lost we can see the pictures there of the

families how devastated they can be in this particular instance back recorded all the other teams within the top flight a voluntary player went to play for them and this is something that might as has been suggested by commentators like that is on the market other another famous sports commentators across russia and now we can hear from the president alexander the. plane carrying the locomotive team krrish to right after the take off from your. according to the latest information only one player has survived our teams don't think we can continue to manage after such news thank you for your understanding and supporting this decision now let's commemorate the players who have passed away with a minute of silence. the president of the kontinental hockey league and of course comment as well coming through tonight as well from the president of the federation of russia. about them. offer our condolences to the families and the

club i see it is a huge loss for russian ice hockey because there were a lot of good players in your islam so we will do everything to find out the causes of the tragedy to support the families and help the sport live on in your islam to honor those who died in the disaster. well as it was very much as to jack says that this is all about rebuilding the communities rebuilding a hockey community and there's been there have been suggestions because it is the it's effectively the end of the team we there is a famous commentator xander because mike you suggested that perhaps other teams maybe donate players and help to help in the rebuilding of the city and also the same part of your sports correspondent with me a bit earlier on was a measure the spot where the ocean expert mark weiss is a former american airlines pilot he told me thinks the crash investigation will take time but its results should help prevent future tragedy. 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. air worthiness. 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 to 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. you

know to give closure to everybody but to prevent something like this from happening again. with the course keep you updated with all the latest developments as we get them but now to some of the day's other news here on the top court in berlin this thrown out a series of more suits which said germany is bankrolling of bailouts to ailing european economies relief but judges ruled out giving chancellor merkel a blank check saying any future aid must now be pre-approved by parliament and that germany's ability to react swiftly to any crisis but it also sets a precedent for other nations to tightlipped else as well the opposition parties welcomed the ruling but said well it made the crisis worse through to the lack of vision financial advisor patrick young told us is little to celebrate just yet. ultimately this is actually i think what we would call a pyrrhic victory. it's an empty victory for ms that's markel yes to be alive couldn't go ahead bob like all good court judgments read the small print and what

has happened today is that in fact the german court has come up with an announcement of the german parliament and most importantly of all the german budget committee has a grid deal more say on what goes on in the whole issue on a larger basis what we're looking at today is the fact that yes can go ahead but at the same time it's still a very very poorly picture of the we know the german people are deeply unhappy about what's going on they don't see there being any benefit in suddenly giving a credit card another bottle of vodka to a driving drunken man in a department store and that's what we've got here it's going to still be a terrible result once the market has had a bit of a relief rally which is going on as we speak what's happening is greece is essential to being sold vying to end slavery by the way that the euro debt mechanism is working it's a farce for greece it's a farce for the greece people and it's a total complete and utter disaster for the greece should be allowed to go free and

it must make its own decisions its own sovereign decisions that have greece doesn't leave the cancer is spreading and as we know it reached in italy last month it's already rooting around the place since. so far does the disease google for it finally kills the patient i think the question is it's not a question of how much work is there to get angry side of the euro actually are much chances are that the euro is going to survive with greece still in it and the answer is really numb. well further south italian senate approved the latest fifty four billion euros sturdy package ending weeks of political bickering accompanied by strikes and protests new measures include tax hikes and an increase in the retirement age for women and it now goes for final approval in the lower house of parliament and in spain the senate has also voted to add a constitutional amendment to limit the nation's rampant debt but unions and rights groups say the debt cat will decimate their welfare system and hurt the most

vulnerable. libyan rebels say they've trapped colonel gadhafi and they're ready to take him dead or alive the former leader was tracked down after loyalist convoys left for the neighboring country. the rebels are believed to have located gadhafi with high tech equipment and intelligence they're now in control of most of the country after a helping hand from western nations with us in stark contrast to how america or britain operated in libya in recent years before what we're seeing now because before the and to get a few campaign the cia under my six who are allegedly sending terror suspects to libya for interrogation and torture according to new documents that have been unearthed in libya they have sparked outrage was artie's daniel bushell reports now the signs suggest the violence isn't over yet and the real chaos may be yet to come . mohamed his song is one of africa's most experienced diplomats just broke from the libyan capital he says mates who has turned it into

a ghost town there is no police. there is no administration there is no there is no it's called law and order has been replaced by a 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's armed with kalashnikovs if the tribes fight for their independence to come she will enter and never ends in civil war with brutal urban guerrilla warfare lists argue that even rebel leaders don't know where their fighters of from. rebel heads mahmoud joel was alarmed to find islamist sleeper cells had joined his tripoli offensive the vast parallel structure of competence has appeared we have no idea who is in charge of them. hopes of a reliable replacement for more of my gadhafi appeared to be fading libya's rebels remain deeply divided while the chaos from nato 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 if i'm to new zealand or a good while of all that well denise young women got abortion rights twenty years before women in belgium under the last regime divorced women got benefits revived arab sunni just movements and trying to reverse that. before the war leaders from barack obama to nicolas sarkozy and silvio berlusconi shook and even kissed gadhafi the rebels got the red carpet treatment in paris but the west will also change tack warning 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 it will be a free haven of extremist groups which are just on the southern border of europe

pirates from failed somalia made their coast a no go. frighteningly some diplomats will think libya is heading in the same direction but what they will do sure that it is mediterranean will not be a safe sea there will be a part of us and there will be all bloat to control the mediterranean to make it safe i don't think french economy can support that western intervention in libya has brought large numbers of new forces to the fore experts fear the west itself may come to regret their emergence daniel bushell to brussels well stay with the region's troubles this time looking at syria it was discussed in moscow to meeting between the russian and french foreign ministers bit earlier both sergei lavrov and his counterpart stressed the need for dialogue between the syrian government and the opposition but the meeting also a few differences in approach to france's seeking tough sanctions on the syrian government while russia wants a more peaceful solution both said they 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 libya saying. we're convinced that it's vital today to start you're still in this is actually what the syrian leadership calls for it's extremely dangerous to prompt 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've 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. he's been hearing out of syria will only be able to settle its issues after key western states stop trying to impose their imperial ambitions on it with sanctions. sanctions always hurt the people i mean it's amazing that these old colonial powers have now learned that it only ends up hurting the people not

the regime itself it actually solidifies the power if it's the best best way forward is to butt out i mean that's what the u.s. needs to do that's what the brits need to do france the world is filled with dictators with tyrants it always has been this is a matter of the syrian people to decide how far do they want to go to oust this dictatorship if they want to go to revolution which is a very costly enterprise a lot of people lose their lives this is a choice that people of that country need to make but you know these these are they all come on you hours you know britain and britain france i mean they're they're living in the old days of having their empires back where they're controlling the middle east and controlling the events of the middle east and installing their little puppet regimes extracting oil from these countries is going to go to something significantly worse they're going to keep playing this game with the sanctions yesod regime is not going to budge it's you know no regime is going to

budge to with respect to sanctions and you're just going to see a tightening and tell ultimately yes you may see a libya type situation. you're watching r t from moscow if you just joined us on main story tonight the tragic plane crash in the russian city of jaroslava earlier that has taken the lives of nearly all of the city's hockey team it's been described as one of russia's worst sporting accidents as we get more details than i will of course keep you posted the next update just on the ten minutes from now between now and then we focus on europe next and the economic and political tangle that it currently finds itself in. the euro.

professor shaft snyder thank you very much for joining us we're going to be talking about the e.u. but what a mess it all seems to be in what's happened to it appears on your the e.u. has become a bureaucratic system that we call a super national confederation of states but from the legal point of view it has this tendency to turn into a federal state and says one of its sensual problems is not just an alliance of states anymore but a federation without legitimate base it has no nation new european nation but nation's political relations within the union yet less democratic all the time in this situation we're losing what we call illegal state which is of the highest priority the euro two seem to be in big trouble what's going to happen to it. the

euro will inevitably fail it was always clear that the euro project would not succeed already in one thousand nine hundred three. the master of the lawsuit that was most begins the introduction of the monetary union without the consent of the nations comprising the e.u. and this euro is being used as a political lever to make the e.u. a super state that for example against russia in the same time series is a kind of balance against china the usa and other economic giants but this lever was always economically doomed to feel that. the eurozone is comprised of very different here a genius economies begin hardly be an optimal space for a common currency a combination of entering markets with common currency it requires member states to do revaluation in devaluation of their currencies taking into account different levers of productivity and efficiency of their economies we can member states are not competitive in bailouts cannot help here as we see now

a common currency can be introduced only when the member states economies are convergent and have similar levels of productivity. and there is now the case is a long way before we can possibly reach it the worst thing here is that a common currency is counterproductive that it hinders the aims of economic development we still hold on to the euro because we want to make a superstate out of the e.u. so it's the subject of bailouts is also causing a lot of controversy particular here in germany because they end up having to foot most of the bills what's going to happen there. in the b. or d. we have never witnessed a situation when the law is not respected as we see it now in the rescue time or they simply say that there is no other alternative but to sometimes neglect some provisions of the treaties in their constitution otherwise the road crash of the euro is really a new the earlier it is only an instrument and nothing more nobody needs this e.u.

which became a bureaucratic dictatorship we should have an association of european states and nations we should be capable of admitting the russian federation and a highly important european state but it is at this moment in today's forum absolutely impossible. the e.u. was born in the terms of cold war it was meant to be against the soviet union the e.u. wants to be a super state politically but it will feel economically what caused this current financial crisis in the year. over the euro has contributed but also they did collection policy which has other causes but the debt existed long before from the terms of the reunification with germany for the south european countries that are in trouble now where those that could boost their loan debt because of end subsidized interest rates they live beyond their means just think about it since the introduction of the euro the salaries of corks in state officials rose in greece at seventy six percent in germany at the same time zero point nine percent in wages in germany rose at five point eight percent in greece at forty two this is

all from credit the easing of the credit to the holding of the interest rates. is a full sentence in itself is a mean reason for the debt of multiculturalism has failed european leaders say but one of the actual consequences of that failure as a way multiculturalism even the people from southern europe germany northern europe hungry poland russia or european nations living together they know it has not failed there is no problem at all the problem is with the muslims it's not people who continue the problem but. comes with other people with big build active groups to promote islam and educate the establishment of sheria law and sharia law particularly is criminal section is absolutely impossible for european relationship we have in religious pluralism europe in that a single religion is done and islam is the religion that elevates another religion as long as it has no power securitization was the biggest political event for europe it meant that state and church were divided in no one is entitled to impose

its religion and determined against any tolerance of sharia law but it has nothing to do with tolerating muslim people it professor thank you very much.

good morning from. the international story coverage of russia's worst ever sporting a jet carrying the country's triple. locomotive has crashed near the runway in their hometown which is two hundred seventy kilometers northeast of moscow seating for only two survivors from among the forty five people who board. in other news germany's highest court rules of the country's billions for struggling nations are legal the. next time she wants to run for the rescue. surrounded by the rebels nazi looks at libya might become a breeding ground for extremists and face an even bigger simply. because keep you updated on the plane tragedy in the coming hours as more details of the next of the next pay.