sports team perishes in a country mourns of all the tragedy of the air disaster hitting one of russia's top ice hockey teams and is felt all around the world. twenty years behind bars are russian pilot arrested in the u.s. thing operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs but moscow says his arrest and rendition were illegal. the british government under fire first stopping an inquest into the death of prepping the expert david kelly who insisted on iraq never had weapons of mass destruction destruction the official cause of the death of the death suicide again being questioned by dr.

am in moscow i not très i good to have you with us here on r t our top story it's been described as the worst tragedy affecting russians forts in the country's recent history forty three people confirmed dead after an aircraft carrying one of russia's top ice hockey teams locomotive jaroslav all crashed just after takeoff this happened in the team's home city some two hundred seventy kilometers northeast of moscow. but the forty five people aboard only to survive they're now in the hospital fighting for their lives for more on this we go live to euro archy's shon thomas is

standing by for us. so people there must be in a terrible state of shock what is the mood on the ground. well certainly a very somber feeling in the air this morning as people wake up and realizing that really and fully that this team is gone locomotive jaroslav all was a very beloved team it was a three time championship team so this city of the great pride in their hockey champions but it's not just a great loss of four yards level it's a great loss for russia as well as well as for the international hockey community as this was a multinational team with players from all over the world in fact many of these players actually played for the russian national team as well so it is a certainly a great loss now while we are standing here people are coming up and asking us for any information that we can give them and people are very interested in staying on top of the story a very very heavy feeling in the air in fact we had the opportunity to speak to

some people about their personal recollections of this event and about this team this is what they had to say. and this is a huge loss for russia will do everything since it will depend on how the sport continuous level is too hard to talks already you could you ask me is this a dream i would give anything. not to be. you know it's not you respond is my home team we supported it we love this team you were shocked when we found out that we went to all the games all of the raining it's very difficult. and as we were coming into. last night or to survey the scene we actually spoke to some people one woman broke out in tears telling us her personal experiences one of her family members actually was part of the crew that saw the team off and had the last meal with them and they talked about how jovial the team was how excited they were for this first game of the season and that it was just such a tragic loss to see such

a group of youth and vitality just cut short. no this is still very early in the investigation here but what are. investigators saying at this point about any cause as. well about four hundred to yesterday what we do know is that we know that this plane a yacht forty two tried to lift off from jaroslav to minsk but it did not have enough speed or power to get off the ground completely and if somehow witnesses say that it clipped became a runway beacon of some sort and at that point it burst into flames right now early investigations that say that it could be pilot error but also there's some early indications that there could have been some mechanical failure as well forty two is a plane that's been around since one thousand nine hundred five commercially available since the one nine hundred eighty s. it's a very reliable plane basically but at this point most of those planes have been grounded pending

a further investigation after the accident vladimir putin ordered an investigation from the transportation minister to make sure that we know that exactly everything that happened right now the investigation is ongoing throughout the day. to look and mostly we've heard the planes he called so we told our granddaughter look there's going to be an airplane and i heard a bang and my daughter told me mom it's falling down to the side then came the flames and the smoke and we wanted to run away and we didn't know where it's run then move on to the river and saw the plane. operative's name on the posters and one of the after the plane to come. in like two cars colliding certain seconds later we had another bang in the plane started leaning to the right we didn't see it hit the ground and we saw that exterior of the plane broke into. witnesses there describing their recollections of the event that killed what we know forty three at this moment in time and two other people whose lives are

hanging in the balance. there are two survivors of the crash that we've talked about including russia's national team goalkeeper what's their condition. well we are in for the hospital right now where those two are being treated of course people coming up and asking about the condition of alexander. who is part of this team of gold people people are also goal keeper for the russian national team he his condition through the night hasn't really improved any that we can say he sustained burns over ninety percent of his body including severe damage to his respiratory system we also know that he is already undergone several surgeries to try and do what they can in these first early stages immediately following the accident to correct any problems that they can from the second survivor has suffered burns from only fifteen percent of the body which is a very good prognosis and has suffered a broken femur as well that person being treated here at this hospital behind me so

those are the two survival stories and of course if you know anything about burn victims if you have burns over more than fifty percent of your body the chances of survival are not good so thoughts and prayers from all over the country are filtering into this hospital right now. absolutely artie's john thomas live for us in jaroslav will expire reports. now this tragedy has touched not only russia but many other countries due to the hockey teams international line up the jewels on memorial services have been held in cities across europe as people gather to pay tribute to the crash victims seven former players from the world's top hockey league the n.h.l. and north america were among those killed in the crash they included stanley cup winner brad mccrimmon a canadian who was looking motifs coach also on the team or players from sweden slovakia the czech republic and dollars. well this plane crash happened on the first day of the new season of a continental hockey league and many of the men who perished played for their countries and were real stars of the sport for more of this i'm joined by andrew

farmer here in the studio thank you for being with us so this will be regarded as the worst tragedy in russian sports our recent history but not the first not the first you have to go back some time for the last one of the major incident back in one nine hundred seventy nine when the prime core football team were in cold in an air tragedy eight it was seventeen plays died on that occasion when two planes collided eighty four people on board in total so it's not the first time but it's interesting because even though this is only just happened that matter of hours ago after that incident that was talk about what can be done to help this team continue in the future and players from around russia decides to go to pack of course and start a new team to try and help them remain on the sporting map and there is talk even though it's very early days that is taught yes they perhaps something similar could happen here with local motifs team now the casualties will meet today to see if

the season the start of the season should be perspiring but i was mentioning the first game of the season yesterday the actual game between you live in atlanta the band and midway through we've got another game show today to sky against metal magnitogorsk i would be very surprised if that went ahead. and make a decision later today but yes this does go down for a as the worst sporting tragedy in russian history the last comparable one to this was in one hundred seventy nine when seventeen plays died from the protocol for port and this happening on the first day of the cage all season obviously the human tragedy of this incredible but how do you think this will actually affect the season itself from a sports person. you know i really i really do not know i mean a tragedy of this magnitude. on the first day of the season of the k h l you could see the sorrow in everybody's face is the fans that were at the first yesterday it was a band midway through plays rinty his fans stood up stunned by what had happened they

were crying we had had to make a channel coming on trying to give people hope trying to say that he was the they would be trying to look at the means of of continuing in the future a bit they say we think people have got to take in what has happened and collectively just decide it is what is best for everyone the first stage of that will be today let's today because when and what will happen with the rest of the season i suspect that the start of the season will be displaying to some time i'm not i don't know how long but people perhaps pay their respects alternatively people might think well look you know it might be a good idea to continue to show that the school should continue in and some may feel that. that might be a good thing but personally speaking i would be surprised but i think everybody just has to cycle actively what is best for the players families for the fans for

everybody because you see it's an international trying to right and to productize measure perspective and you have more of our sports are great but that's right tara thanks. for also covering the tragedy on our web site with condolences coming in from around the world go to our g dot com to find out how the hockey world has been reacting to this tremendous loss. from it other news we're covering on our t.v. our russian pilot found guilty of conspiring to smuggle cocaine to the u.s. earlier this year has been sentenced to twenty years in jail konstantin are shanker was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten and transported to the u.s. on charges of drug smuggling our correspondent churches are passable. this case builds a major precedent this is the first time when a russian citizen is sentenced to an american prison for an intent to participate in a crime in a case that was built by special agents posing as drug dealers arrested in a third country in this case the idea now here shank will be edge eligible for

parole in as much as thirteen years we know that his defense team has thirty dale's days to file an appeal but u.s. officials can take as much as two years to consider this appeal now the man has repeatedly pled not guilty in this case hopeful until the last minute himself and his family his mother and wife who are here to support him out in tears in the courtroom today as the sentence was announced to give you a bit of a background it was a family man with no criminal background he has never stood trial anywhere in the world including russia and the united states moreover he has never even stepped foot on u.s. soil up until he was snatched up by u.s. special agents in liberia last year and brought here to stand trial now his family as well as russian officials were not informed as to his whereabouts affectively considering him missing russian officials cited a breach of diplomatic conduct a breach of international law because they did not know where this their citizen

was and because the u.s. state department failed to do really informed them. stay with us here on r.g.p. still ahead in the program getting violent protests in israel plus with police and security forces try to dismantle their tent camp plus. a decade since nine eleven we begin our special coverage of the anniversary commemorating the tragedy that shook the book. the british government faces a legal challenge over its decision not to allow a new inquest into the death of britain's expert david kelly in two thousand and three a group of doctors question the official version of events that we had committed suicide and he was authorities of a major cover up or he's laura m. it has more from london. more than eight years since the death of u.n. weapons inspector talked to david kelly and still no inquest following his own masking as the source of a report saying tony blair's government knew iraq had no weapons of mass

destruction before person invaded the country kelly was found dead in woods near his home a verdict of suicide was recorded despite what many see as conflicting evidence no one's ever such questions under oath about kelly's death and all medical and scientific reports relating to it were secretly classified something which has never been legally explains but it hasn't gone away this week talk to david how pain is demanding that the question of holding an inquest be reopened he's challenging a decision by attorney general dominic grieve who ruled out holding a coroner's inquest in june citing what he called overwhelming evidence that the u.n. weapons inspector committed suicide but david help him and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence kelly's supposed to have overdosed on painkillers and slashed his own wrists but irregularities found by the top to include an absence of fingerprints on either the

knife or the packet of pills. i am. not. going to use. yeah they would be nice. if you had a man i mean you are about to. do you a piece and you had certain something. we would say. we have be. we want and so you were how did you learn some of this from him is that the. pope was the good chance you will solve the problems of the world he ordered the lord. with. eighteen.

so there was no don't keep it in his body and yet. who would be. that man who ordered a new quark. can you understand the election was was it's true and that's another reason and of course what he wanted to do was to contain the inquiry and make sure we are as well as we want the campaign has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper today today around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how payments his campaign is hoping this will be to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play and just subsequent governments cover up. for us our normal practice for u.s. and european security services about hamper investigations into actions that's according to thomas harmer burdett human rights commissioner for the council of

europe coming your way in an interview in just over ten minutes but here's a preview. there is an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this secret in fact instructions from from cia with the support of the white house not to give any facts on this so therefore it's not easy to investigate but i think that some of the european governments have been in war they have to decide whether they think that the corporation between the security agencies are more important than to look into human rights violations and break the ice or you know impunity is not acceptable that we have states within the states who are run under macarthur basis and violating human rights the security agencies must be put under democratic control and they are not for the moment in my opinion. in israel angry protesters have clashed with police in tel aviv after authorities

started to dismantle the city the care was part of a nationwide protest against the high cost of living and social inequality or his policy reports standing in front of the mayor's house here in tel aviv where several dozen protesters have gathered a screaming at the may actually done it pointing in correct in a calling on him she does home now this follows a case just several hours ago with some two hundred demonstrators clashed with police in front of the city hall building they tried to storm the building there were throwing stones and flowers and exited and some forty people were arrested we've been told of several incidents where protesters were brutally beaten by the police this is all in response to early wednesday morning when municipal workers started clearing up several streets where people have pitched tents for the better part of two months this was a surprise because earlier the government feared that protesters had until the end of the month to dismantle the tents and urge them to do so peacefully but what we saw this morning is that people skins were taken away people's personal belongings

were taken away and the result was the protesters have called the government thieves nazis and and wanted. that they're going to be upping this kind of resistance in the coming days these protesters have been on the streets of several cities of the basic part of two months they're demanding issues of social justice they've accused the minutes on yahoo government of putting too much attention on international affairs and not focusing enough on what is happening internally in this country just this past weekend it was the largest demonstration in israel's sixty three year history more than four hundred thousand people took to the streets using the government to pay attention to the demands put is the r.t.e. television. throwing out of some other stories making headlines across the globe syrian troops have intensified their crackdown in the volatile city of homs with up to twenty people killed in the latest violence activists say government forces are hunting for a group of soldiers who defected to the opposition this after president assad's government delayed a planned arab league visit expected to start wednesday last month syrian

authorities rejected an arab league statement calling for an end to the bloodshed the. united states firefighters are reporting that flames in the state of texas are at least thirty percent contained after burning uncontrolled for some three days but fires left at least two people dead with a number of homes lost reaching nearly eight hundred thousands of texans have been evacuated from the area the catastrophic wildfires are blamed on one of the state's most severe droughts on record. as the u.s. prepares to mark ten years since the nine eleven attacks the results of the huge backlash it triggered are still under scrutiny a decade of military campaigns overseas have been accompanied by headlines of torture secret prisons and civilian death or she's got a shotgun takes a look at whether all succeeded in making the us a safer place as we start our special coverage of the anniversary. one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history that i'm sure the in

a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but he's a merry current and the world now a safer place ten years on the most recent nine eleven commission report card gives aviation security in the u.s. the worst rate an f. as when terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if that which one just put out we're going to look for thank you it's a hypothetical on a curtain call it is and that if we think it's back on the road and they're trying to defeat them following nine eleven america did not just go after the perpetrators it unleashed a campaign on a nation that had nothing to do with the attack hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians have died since the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three america's decade long campaign on terror has created a new phenomena more without borders and as many say without rules torture rape and

murder that took place at the u.s. run prison in abu ghraib iraq as well as other u.s. prisons overseas brought global condemnation but key decision makers in the bush administration say what they did was in the best interest of their country and they would do the same again people call it torture you think it should still be a tool yes rendition yes secret prisons yes right you're talking. with the right approval colonel lawrence wilkerson was colin powell chief of staff when he was the secretary of state under george w. bush he says some of the bush administration members deserve to be put on trial and he would be ready to testify george tenet told dick cheney what dick cheney morning here oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information and we're stopping terrorist attacks there is order. the fact that there hasn't been a terrorist attack on the scale of nine eleven on the u.s.

soil is often attributed to the harsh methods used in the last decade of war on terror but counterterrorism experts say the fact that terrorists are successfully recruiting thousands of new members these days does not add to security in the u.s. and the whole world for that matter we've also seen other extremist networks like we're. right in response to your running for office for. some way for the diversification of recruits and the other organization in pakistan u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and net it only a handful of actual terrorists many of the victims' loved ones seek revenge by joining radical groups and others like this young man who lost both of his legs and three family members in a drone strike the other in protest asking when will the killing stop but experts say those pleas mean nothing when washington needs the chase to go on we have made

a cottage industry if not of much more than the card industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called the terrorist industrial complex wots of people who are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror our war on terror. begins in arcana. but it does not in there listening to george bush's declaration of war on terror from ten years ago one is left wondering whether it was the beginning of a vicious circle where the revenge would take more innocent lives and would start a new wave of terror i'm going to check our reporting from washington. business next with me to stay with us. welcome to the program says he is planning the biggest asset sale in its history

the authorities hope to raise tens of billions of dollars our correspondent there has details. there's a question whether any local authority in the world has such a wide and we will dream array of assets as the moscow government from airports to business centers to shopping centers to take makers and cosmetics makers the government has all of these buildings all of these companies and side city limits it is a direct testament to the air of yury luzhkov i was mayor for nearly twenty years until he was deposed last year he was forced to resign in his time the government had its finger in almost every party when every new investment project one thought the government asked for a share for itself whatever thievin privatized existing properties which used to be owned by the govt and sunday times it will come back to share as well. the new broom has come in. and what he's saying is that it's no job of the government to be looking after these private companies to be involved in all of these businesses

should have nothing to do with city administration this lease inefficiency this needs to potential conflict of interest so now the most interesting of these properties the ones which investors want to get their hands on are being put out for an auction and among them you can see behind me is moscow city busters business center you can see that the cranes there are not working because investment has largely stopped in it but at the same time the most government ownership of a platform for its future skyscraper there it's offering it up for sale the starting price and auction more than three hundred million dollars also there was a share in one of moscow's largest internet providers also offering shares and meat processing plants and so on in total over the next yeah now hoping that these auctions of which are planned to be tens and tens will bring in fifty billion rubles into the mosque a project which is almost two billion dollars that's how much they're hoping to selling off these various objects the full it has not yet been revealed but it

really is tens and tens of them. so you're going to not. could smell was so was stock markets asian markets are trading mixed head of key policy statements due out in europe and in the us ongoing as giving up early again that is now shedding three quarters of the said banking stocks under pressure with industrial and commercial bank of china dropping over percent but tokyo managed to stay afloat with financials taking the lead i do hope all you have to prepare to gain around two percent this hour. here in moscow the markets will start trading around one half hour was on wednesday the markets closed strongly in the black with the r.t.s. a nice six caning more than three percent back to fight world prices and positive movement pretty much all over the world. so business out he will be back around fifteen minutes time with nothing.

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in a few thousand and ten especially konami exulting for industrial production it was established in russia's small region with a total area of six hundred sixty six as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from profit seeking land and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction of fifteen point five percent of the special economic zone operates as a free customs own which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of information seems to some our region as he said is currently witnessing a sewage infrastructure construction the somali region special economic zones.