people confirmed dead after an aircraft carrying one of russia's top ice hockey teams locomotive jaroslav crashed just after takeoff as 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 are now in the hospital fighting for their lives for more on this we go live to your os level artie's sean thomas is standing by for us. hello shalyn 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 are realizing really and fully that this team is gone locomotive jaroslav will was a very beloved team it was a three time a championship team so this city took

a 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. this is a huge loss for russia nice hokie will do everything to support the families and how this will continue numerous level is to haunt the talks will read. my son asked me is this a dream i would give anything even my flat for this not to be real. you know it's

not we know this mayhem team we supported it we love this team and we were shocked when we found out we went to all the games all of them by name it's very difficult . and as we were coming into. last night to 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. and now this is still very early in the investigation here but what are investigators saying at this point about any cause as. well about four o two 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 it somehow witnesses say that it clipped became the runway beacon of some sort and at that point it burst into flames right now early investigations and say that it could be pilot error but also there's some early indications that there could have been some mechanical failure as well the 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 blood in me and 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 the new look and we've heard the plane take off 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 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. operative in the van and the possible someone at that after the plane took off i heard a noise like two cars colliding several seconds later we heard another bang then the plane started leaning to the right i didn't see it hit the ground but we saw that its tail broke off the plane broke into. witnesses there describing their recollections of the event and that it killed what we know forty three at this moment in time and two other people whose lives are hanging in the balance. now there are two survivors of the crash that we've talked about including russia's national team goalkeeper what's their condition. while 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 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 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 sean thomas live for us in jaroslav all acts by report. now this tragedy has touched not only russia but

many other countries due to the hockey teams international lineup there jewels on memorial services have been held in the 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 is locomotives coach also on the team or players from sweden slovakia the czech republic loggia and dollars. wednesday's plane crash happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental 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 do have to go back some time for the last one of the major incident that was back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine when the pac core football team are involved 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 a matter of hours ago after that incident was talk about what can be done to help this team continue in the future and players from around russia decided to go to pack the corps 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 was told yes they perhaps something similar could happen here with local motifs team now the k.c.a.l. chiefs will meet today to see if the season the start of the season should be perspiring and that was meant to be the first game of the season yesterday the actual game between you live in atlanta is the band midway through we've got another game 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 in freight as the worst sporting

tragedy in russian history the last comparable one to this was in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine when seventeen plays died from the pact the core football team 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 perspective. you know i really i really do not know i mean a tragedy of this magnitude on the for. state of the season of the k h l you could see the solar i in everybody's face is the fans that were at the first match yesterday it was a band of midway through plays or in tease fans stood up stunned by what had happened they were crying we had to head to the cage shell coming on trying to get people hyped trying to say that the this they would try and talk of a means of of the team continuing in the future a bit this is say with me i think people have got to take in what has happened and collectively just decide which is what is best for everyone the first stage of that

will be to die 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 don't know how long but for people to the house 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 today not for the players families for the fans for everybody because you see it's an international treaty right under former thanks much for perspective and you'll have more in our sports report that's right thanks. we're also covering the tragedy on our website with condolences coming in from around the world go to our team dot com to find out how the hockey world has been reacting to this tremendous loss.

turning to other news we're covering on our t.v. a 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 has more. 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 liberia now you 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 broke 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 citizen was and because the u.s. state department failed to do only inform them. stay with us here on r t still ahead in the program getting violent protests in israel clashed with police the security forces tried to dismantle their tent camp plus. a decade since nine eleven and we begin our special coverage of the anniversary commemorating the tragedy that

shocked the world. the british government faces a legal challenge over its decision not to allow a new inquest into the death of weapons expert david kelly in two thousand and three a group of doctors question the official version of events that kelly had committed suicide and accuse authorities of a major cover up r t s laura m. it has more from london. more than eight years since the death of u.n. weapons inspector 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 said 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 explained but it hasn't gone away this week talked to david how pain is to mond that the question of holding an inquest to be reopened he is 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 dave attell pain and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence kelly's supposed to of pain killers and slashed his own wrists but irregularities found by the doctors include an absence of fingerprints on either the knife or the package of pills. but i have. my mom who. did not join. the. yeah be with you know

police. if you had a man have an inquiry about you and your jurisdiction you. and you had certain you can see some sort of piece of evidence you agree to would say. you have these pieces of evidence it would want to see what you're going to write this remember is that rude folk who is the johnson if you will to the nub of the room he would move. with the children on the. so why don't don't kill his body and yet who who people. that man who ordered a new quark can you understand the alacrity the speed it was it's true and that's another reason of course what they wanted to do was to contain the

inquiry and make sure that as well as they wanted the campaign has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have to need to do around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his fellow campaign is hope this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play and just subsequent governments cover up cover ups are normal practice for us and european security services that hamper investigations into actions that's according to thomas hamer berger 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 way tell us 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 involved they have to decide where they sink

that the corporation between the security agencies are more important than to look into human rights violations and break the most fear of impunity is not acceptable that we have states within the states who are run on democratic basis and violating human rights and 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 a tent city the camp was part of a nationwide protest against the high cost of living and social inequality artie's policy reports were standing in front of the mayor's house here in tel aviv where several dozen protesters have gathered they screaming at the mayor to resign they call in corrupt and they're calling on him to go home now this follows a protest just several hours ago where 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 only the government said 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's tents were taken away people's personal belongings were taken away and the result was that protesters have called the government thieves nazis and and warned them. that they going to be upping this kind of resistance in the coming days these protesters have been on the streets of several cities for the basic part of two months they're demanding issues of social justice they were accusing the netanyahu 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 there was the largest demonstration in israel's sixty three year history more than four hundred thousand people took to the streets urging the government to pay attention to their demands policy r.t. television. during 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 the 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 artie's got a shaky and takes a look at whether all succeeded in making the us a safer place as we start our special coverage of the anniversary. of the b.b.c. one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history that ushered in a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but is america 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 for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them

have spawned even more extremism torture and if that which weren't just get off the grid or been talking those which were thank you is the highest level on a curtain call theater and that significantly set its back on the other they're trying to be careful and following nine eleven america did not just go after the perpetrators it unleashed the 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 wiretapping

well. with me right to prove colonel lawrence wilkerson was collin 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 wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information and we're stopping terrorist attacks that is order book 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 a 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 network swelling ranks in response to things like u.s.

drone attacks and often. so in some ways there's often a diversification of recruits and the other extreme organization in pakistan u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and made it only a handful of actual terrorists many of the victims' loved ones seek revenge by joining radical groups others like this young man who lost both of his legs and three family members in a drone strike gether 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 a cottage industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called the terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror our war on terror. begins with our kind of.

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 dmitri stay with us. welcome to the program moscow says the u.s. planning the biggest asset sale in its history the authorities hope to raise tens of billions of dollars our correspondent you're going to have has details. there's a question whether any local authority in the world has such a wide and bewildering array of assets as the moscow government from airports to business centers to shopping centers to cake makers and cosmetics makers the moscow government has all of these buildings all of these companies inside city limits it

is a direct testament to the air of yuri luzhkov who was married 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 part when every new investment project one top the government asked for a share for itself whenever it even privatized existing properties which used to be owned by the govt and soviet times its ilk out back 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 bees private companies to be involved in all of these businesses which you've got nothing to do with city administration this leads to inefficiency this leads to potential conflict of interest so now the most interesting of these properties the ones which investors want to get their hands on i've been put up for an auction and among them you can see behind me is moscow city bus because business center you can see that the cranes 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 of dog more than two hundred million dollars also. and one of moscow's largest internet providers they're also offering shares and meat processing plants and so on in total over the next yeah they're hoping that these auctions of which are planned to be tens and tens will bring in fifty billion rubles into the moscow budget which is almost two billion dollars that's how much they're hoping to selling off these various objects the full list has not yet been revealed but it really is tens and tens of them. are going to my. it's now we saw it was stock markets asian markets are trading mixed head of key policy statements due out in europe and in the u.s. on kong has given up early again that is now shedding three quarters of a percent banking stocks under pressure with industrial and commercial bank of china dropping over to said but tokyo managed to stay afloat with financials taking

the lead and i do hope for you now to a group is gaining around two percent this hour. here in moscow the markets will start trading in around one half hours on wednesday the markets closed strongly in the black with the r.t.s. m i six gaining more than three percent the back of high oil prices and positive movement pretty much all over the world. so business r.t. will be back in around fifteen minutes time with an update.

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headlines a sports team perishes and a nation mourns after wednesday's plane crash near the city of jaroslava kills forty three including the members of one of russia's top ice hockey teams the tragedy also touched other nations as players from many countries were on board on their way to balad ruz for the first match of the season. twenty years behind bars a russian pilot arrested in a u.s. sting operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs konstantin eric shanteau has insisted he's not guilty while moscow previously accused the u.s. of conducting an illegal arrest and rendition. british government under fire for halting an inquest into into the death of weapons expert david kelly who insisted iraq never had weapons of mass destruction efficient cause of the death of suicide is again being questioned by doctors. up next we look at the operations of u.s. and european security services and mounting allegations they've been violating human rights the interview coming up.