favorite it was a three time champion of the k h l so a very tragic night for this city and for the country and for hockey in general people who saw the plane why witnesses of the account say that they witnessed a plane going up a yak forty two and not making enough. speed or lift to get off the ground high enough then it clipped became and went down to hit 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 to the one in the hospital one of those after the plane to come find it annoying like to come. out several seconds later we had another bang up in the plane started leaning to the right after we heard the second 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 soon as you look at 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 but then came the flames and 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 which was. you just thought it was my home team we supported in c. we have this team who was shocked when we found out she went to all of the games knew all of them by name and it's very difficult to leave here. 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 euro 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. tragedy heartbreak for

everyone here lives taken so tragically tonight as you say sure 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 must tell of us as well we've got pictures of him coming up pieces day ninety percent of the rather graphic pictures he's being taken out of the ambulance 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 in the hospital treating him he was an important part of our team was nearly xander. certainly kevin in fact he was much beloved players 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 but 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 a respiratory system as well doctors at this hospital here in jaroslav all have said that he has already begun on 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 all souls 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 he did go into it just now but i mean investigators are going to be next on the same trying to find out what when. so terribly wrong every time you hit and

it does maybe one see it twice see. when i had a crush here in russia involving one of the old soviet type of across something in the temple awful now this yet forty two this is special i was full only at crawford is rather old design but of course it depends who you talk to sean doesn't it because i was speaking to a well seasoned american airlines pilot earlier on that i know we've spoken to him but if so this one 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 new of models anyone mileage in the us. well indeed in fact actually if you look at the r forty two itself and we can talk about that more tidbit the plane has been around since one nine hundred seventy five it was the first plane that was designed by the soviet union to hold 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 and the prime minister ordered the transportation minister to come immediately to the scene to launch an investigation as always is the case that 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 on the other news tonight as well. as though the entire yard forty two operating in russia the robot

arm to the has 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 airworthy again one other point actually came through earlier on tonight very early into this with that particular plane hundred us airworthiness certificate it was due up at about three weeks time. and pilot the american airlines pilot he want to know more details about what the relevance of that was it may just been a standard thing where it was up for renewal but i was 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 you there on this evening we saw hundreds upon hundreds of fellow citizens and euros level 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 jaroslava it's an international tragedy as well there are 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 in hockey in general but there are and pastors and embassies that are sending their regrets as well president get out tomorrow he's 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. and presenting kate poetry's told my colleague kevin ivan earlier that today's catastrophe is not a tragedy to strike. tonight i regarded talked about now as russia's worst sporting disaster absolutely i mean with the loss of a pretty effectively a whole team completely gone in one fell swoop it is indeed a tragedy but it does also bring to mind a similar disaster we were looking through and also some of my colleagues reminded

me of this of the pack tech or disaster which was also that was a midair crash that happened in nine hundred seventy nine in. which is in the ukraine and what happened is the practice or team had been promoted they were also going off to play did i mean to get a football match and they collided with another plane mid-air nine hundred seventy nine august seventeen players plus officials gone completely and of course talking about looking back at the archives that event a great britain as well absolutely you have the events looking through i mean we found at least eleven different crashes i mean the main one that definitely i can think of mainly in england is is militaristic in my scene one thousand nine hundred fifty eight the busby braves and also even as late as one thousand nine hundred ninety three the zambian national football team as well in a plane crash. or national hockey stars approach to the disaster this is the shock of this tragedy is being felt not only very greatly in russia but also of course around the world absolutely so many of the hockey teams now in particular in 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 our young america the czech republic have all the nature of 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 and 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 to court and 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 alexander because mark and other another famous sports commentators across russia and now we can hear from the k h l president alexander move there. a plane carrying the locomotive team crashed to right after the takeoff from your. according to the latest information only one plane has survived our teams don't think we can continue their marriage 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 ice hockey federation of russia. we 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 leave on in generous level to honor those who died in the disaster. well as it was very much as it is that 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 say well aviation expert mark vi says the american airlines pilot that was the

class investigation will take time but its results should help prevent future tragedy. well the first thing they're going to start with you're going to get investigators and. typically speaking you'll 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 in world wide 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. keep you updated with the nation's developments yaroslavl as we get. some of today's openings now and a top coots and has thrown out a series of lawsuits which said germany's bankrolling of bailouts to ailing european economies illegal but judges ruled out giving a blank check saying. let's now be pre-approved by palm and well that could happen germany's ability to react swiftly to any crisis about sets a precedent for other nations to tighten that belt as well opposition parties welcome the ruling will have made the crisis was strategic lays and

a lack of vision financial advisor patching young billies there's little to celebrate just yet. ultimately this is actually i think what we would call a pyrrhic victory it's an empty victory for mrs merkel yes the be allowed can go ahead but like all good court judgments read the small print and what has happened today is that in fact the german court has come i with an announcement that 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 bailouts can go ahead but at the same time it's still a very very quietly picture of quickly we know that the german people are deeply unhappy about what's going on and 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 as a bit of a relief rally which is going on as we speak what's happening is that greece is essential to being sold hide behind in slavery by the way that the euro debt mechanism is working for far stronger east 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 italy last month it's already were rooting around the place in spain and it hit portugal italy ireland 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 greece 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 none or further south they're tiny and senate has just approved the latest fifty four billion euro austerity package and. by strikes and

protests in the u.s. over. this time it's overwhelming and now the. the final approval in the now house of parliament within the past few minutes in spain the senate has also voted to add a constitutional amendment to limit the nation's debt unions and rights groups say the debt cow decimate the welfare system and hurt the most fundamental. libyan rebels say they've trapped colonel gadhafi and are ready to take him dead or alive they claim the former leader was tracked down after loyalist convoys left the neighboring niger on wednesday where the rebels are believed to have located get happy with high tech equipment and intelligence reports meanwhile the rebels now control most of the country after a helping hand for western nations but it's in stark contrast to how america and britain operated in libya recent years for the un to get out the campaign the cia and my sticks were allegedly sending terror suspects to libya for interrogation and

torture according to documents on earth there which is part outrages done it was sure of course but the regime toppled pasted up in libya may face more turbulent times than in the dictator's era. mohamed who is one of africa's most experienced diplomats just broke from the libyan capital he says may two bombings has turned it into a ghost town there is no police there is no administration there is no there is no schools law and order has been replaced by a crew of rebels some fear that the various groups who have emerged. to meet each other. have been stores have been raided every man stamped with kalashnikovs if the tribes fight for their independence the country will never in civil war with brutal urban guerilla war. lists argue that even rebel leaders don't know where their choices of from. rebel hands mahmoud joel was

a launch 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 and more good their fear appear 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 a tunisian women got abortion rights twenty years before women in belgium under the last regime divorced women good benefits revived arab who just movements are trying to reverse that. before the war leaders from barack obama to nicolas sarkozy and silvio berlusconi shook and even kissed gadhafi robles 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 a libya 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 now think libya is heading in the same direction but what they will do short of that it is mediterranean will not be a safe sea there will be a party and there will be 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 r.t. brussels. and staying with the region's troubles the situation in syria was

discussed in moscow at the meeting between the russian and french foreign ministers but was that a good laugh or often his counterpart stressed the need for dialogue between the syrian government and opposition but the meeting also outlined a few differences in approach france is seeking a tougher sanctions on the syrian government while russia wants a more peaceful solution but both look forward to discussing possible edges of the un general assembly later this month russia's foreign affairs syria must not be a repeat of the new piercing are. we're convinced that it's vital today to start talks and that 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 from swan's to see that happen every party in syria should stop using violence and we've proposed a resolution to this a fact we encourage the government to carry out the reforms it has launched and the opposition should not use provocations and reject invitations into dialogue as well

r.t. has been hearing how syria will only be able to settle its issues after western states stop trying to impose their parrot 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 of the pretty best the 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 for the syrian people to decide how far do they want to go to oust this dictatorship do 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 know powers 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 in 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 budgets you know no regime is going to budge to it with respect to sanctions and you're just going to see a tightening and tell ultimately yes you may see a libya type situation. let's remind our main story the tragic plane crash in the russian city of yeah. that's taking the lives of all. as we get more details throughout the. next update is in just under ten minutes time between now and then i want to focus on europe and the economic. self.

professor snider 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 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 one of its central problems is not just in the lines of states anymore but if it were rationed without legitimate base it has new nation new european nation but nations political relations within the union it less democratic

all the time in this situation we're losing what we call illegal state which is 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 the three. lawsuit that was most begins the introduction of the money. without the consent of the nations comprising the e.u. this year. it's being used as a political lever to make the e.u. a super state for example against russia in at the same time as a counterbalance 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 or genius economies because hardly be an optimal space for a common currency or a combination of interim markets with common currency it requires member states to

do revaluation and 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 it is a long way before we can possibly reach it the worst thing here is that a common currency is counterproductive 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 beardy we have never witnessed a situation when the law is not respected as we see now in the rescue time or they simply say that there is no other alternative but to sometimes neglect in

provisions of the treaties in their constitution otherwise the euro would crash when the euro is really over no they are you 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 form 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. air over the euro has contributed but also the diff collection policy which has other causes but the debt existed long before from the terms of the reunification with germany for the south you have been countries that are in trouble now where those that could lose their loan there because of in 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 in five point eight percent in greece at forty two this is all from credit the easing of the credit terms the holding of the interest rate is a fall senator in itself is a mean reason for the debt of multiculturalism has failed european leaders say but what are the actual consequences of that failure as a way multiculturalism even 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 is lan it comes with people to build active groups to promote islam in educate the establishment of sheria law and sharia law particularly is criminal section is absolutely impossible for european

relationships we have in religious pluralism europe in the single religion is done and islam is the religion that tolerate another religion as long as it has no power securitisation with the biggest political event for europe it meant that state and church were divided in no one is interloper 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. just so.

all main story on all seems tonight's a plane carrying the triple champion a russian ice team looking once he's got a stumble as crushed two hundred seventy kilometers northeast of mexico two people out of forty five for the awful to have survived the design stuff but the critical condition. to many is a hard call from the billions of euros given by the country to aiding a common means when legal they all say says that next time the government for hot sauce for permission but the european states. need another cash injection. as libyan rebels are close in on connell gadaffi relook at how the country could find victims of a stream of scrapes underneath the waves. and stay with r.t. as we get more details of the plane crash in more headlines in the next day we profile the controversial balkan war figure. the former minutes.