this is the exceptional of the cheesy debility you'll business in russia will come to the small region for more information log on to the to invest in some are of that or you. eight thirty am in moscow these are your r.v. headlines a sports team perishes and the 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 tragedy also touch other nations as players from many countries were on board on their way to bell routes for the first match of the season. twenty years behind bars a russian pilot arrested in a us sting operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs konstantin era shango has insisted he's not guilty while moscow previously accused the us of conducting an illegal arrest and rendition. british government under fire

for halting an inquest input into the death of weapons expert david kelly who insisted iraq never had weapons of mass destruction efficient because of the death of suicide is again being questioned by doctors. up next we look at the operations of the us and european security services and mounting allegations they've been violating human rights the interview coming up. today we're joined by mr thomas hamill burke european commissioner for human rights talking to us from a star's boards thanks very much mr however for joining us now let's get right to where well we know that there were cia prisons in europe and people were tortured and then now you're pushing for the truth what more should we know there's a lot more to know in fact because we haven't had the full account for what really happened and who took the decisions and on what grounds when these black sites were

established on european soil other things that we still have to know what do you think is most important i think we have to learn from history and unfortunately during this period of ten years very serious human rights violations were committed and we have an atmosphere of impunity when it comes to these violations of human rights i think the truth has to come out on board really happened who took the decisions who allowed the establishment of these secret places of detention and thereby allowing torture to take place now this is the story came to light i mean there have been some governments ordering investigations where they found very little so far do you think it's possible that they're deliberately trying to play down and if so is there any proof of doing so well there is an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this secret in fact instructions from from cia with the support of the way taught 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 aboard

they have to decide whether they think that the cooperation between the security agencies are more important than to attack to look into human rights violations and break the ice for you know impunity ok well we're talking here about european officials also rising these rendition sites but what about those who. actually masterminded and those who were directly involved do you think say officials will ever be held accountable for their actions unfortunately it's not likely but if the european governments could take this step to really put out everything they know and publish that it may start a process in united states where the accountability also there is established what is it not likely you say this is not likely because this is there is an atmosphere of security confidentiality around this. notion that when it comes to the

activities of a security agency the truth will not be told to the public and i think that is a real problem because here we have had corporation between the united states security agency and european agencies under which human rights violations were seriously seriously violated and it is very important that we know when we know that the violations were made that we establish that there should be there mccarthy control of the security agencies activities well there are claims that the u.s. and the u.k. said prisoners to be tortured in libya to the gadhafi regime does that seem likely to you yes it's very likely and it fits a pattern and also they are now documents being discovered in tripoli reach through that this actually did happen ok and you've seen a proof of such things happening yourself no not myself but i have been reports. from human rights watch showing that there was such activities and typically this

is not made. for apartment from the cia in washington because they have the policy of never making any public comments on such revelations that the commander of the rebel forces that's. really he demanded an apology from western powers over he. is a legislation two thousand and four that i legit lee was arrested in back caught and had it's a good ol forces for torture now how do you think they're going to explain their alleged murky deals with the to the vocals because now they're essentially on the same side i think the question has to be given to who washington. is an explanation given there but he was obviously one of those who were picked up during this so-called war on terror he was in guantanamo that's shown and he was obviously one of those who were badly treated and i think he and others this is an apology

some of them who were brought there to count on a more or to the secret places of detention or to. countries of the united states in this where they were tortured they were not probably not innocent but still even people who are on good ground suspected they have the right to certain protection when it comes to human rights including not to be tortured by the rebels are now in control and foreigners are reportedly in danger especially black africans because i well there have been accusations of them being about these mercenaries how do you think this will affect the building of a democratic society in libya you know i'm not an expert on the ground my focus is on europe right obviously there is a problem there and human rights organizations have already reported about the problems when it comes to how rebels have dealt with africans who have been accused of being mercenaries for if we could just do our best in order to ensure that those people are well treated some of them of course may well be genuine refugees from

other parts of africa who were trying to reach europe past via libya and what stuck there and i think it's very important that also european governments deal with refugees from libya coming from other parts of africa in line with international standards when it comes to decide. refugee policies oh looking at the united states now in libya that has been reported what do you think is the area that needs the most attention at the moment and how are they going to going to go about solving these humanitarian problems i mean this is very general can we break them down here first of all it is important to establish security in the country so that the normal life could start again secondly to build democracy because there was no democracy there which is a very difficult challenge and i hope that there could be a generous approach from from europe to share the experiences we have when it comes to the steps to be taken in order to build institutions democratic ones and to

allow for. genuine willow people to be channeled into political decision making ok well going back to what you were an expert on those black sites are what do you think is the next step now that the story house come out into the public in poland they have already started for the prosecutor and investigation and i think it's very important that his work is protected and that there is no attempt to slow down his work because he sensitive when nations see it with the united states in romania their work hasn't really started there was one investigation by a political group from the senate but the prosecutor has not started an investigation and i really hope that that office will now take the initiative and start analyzing the situation and come up with a report they are saying it's important that the investigation is not block it earlier you were expressing your concerns that there could be directives from

higher up to to not give enough information how do you go about going about that hurdle the way you're dealing with governments here is very difficult because of this notion that activities by the security agencies and their cooperation between themselves should be kept secret at all cost i think that is really the notion that we. we have now to start discussing because so many human rights violations have been committed under that notion and the time has come to establish a democratic control of the security agencies they should not be allowed to take action which violate basic human rights yes should not be but do you think that just let's just look at concrete actions we're talking about what is right what is law from your point of view what concrete actions are just wondering really legally speaking will it be possible to get all of the truth out i think it would be very difficult unfortunately but i hope that the discussion that may come now will

encourage some of the politicians to take greater steps and a better position when it comes to this because it is not acceptable that we have states within the states who are run on undemocratic basis and violating human rights the security agencies must be put under democratic control and they are not for the moment in my opinion though you said you are using the tap out of verse three of nine eleven to raise the issue of cia black sites so why is that because. you know. i think that the first priority of course is to pay respect to the victims of the attack on the united states ten years ago but then we also have at the same time to look at how did the us government and european governments respond to this attack and unfortunately i think there is a lot of lessons to be learned from how this war on terror so-called war on terror was conducted which allowed for very serious human rights violations which

unfortunately also had the effect that terrorism has spread the militant groups have increased and the number of people killed and many of them innocent doing those ten years they also deserve some respect in this situation and therefore i think it's absolutely important that. the way we handled this gruesome attack will be under an honest discussion so that we don't repeat this in the future and speaking of the militant groups you just released a report based on your visit to russia's and north caucuses which is of course a region are marked by sporadic violence by terrorists how do you assess the struggle against the terrorists over there the struggle is still going on there have been some positive initiatives taken a lot of money has been put on budgets in order to improve the standard of living

in the area. there is a focus more on the social dimension of this the roots for terrorism which i think is very positive but unfortunately there is still also a problem of impunity that crimes which have been committed including by law enforcement forces have not been so the factory addressed and people guilty responsible have not been brought to justice so there is still a need to do more when it comes to that aspect all right well thank you very much effort your time mr thomas hubbard human rights commissioner council of europe thank you thank you.

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sports team perishes the country more in the up to wednesday's game back to the city of daraa stubblefield forty three the members of one of russia's top ice hockey teams tragedy also touches other nations as players from many countries were on board on the way to go roots for the first match of the seems only twenty years behind bars a russian pilot arrested in a u.s. sting operation in liberia sentenced her conspiring to smuggle drugs consequently eric shanteau insists on his innocence while moscow previously accuses the u.s. of conducting a legal arrest and rendition to the british government under fire for halting an inquest into the death of weapons expert david kelly who insisted iraq never had weapons of mass destruction will cause of death of suicide is again being questioned by doctors. sports news next with andrew farmer. hello again and

you are a very dramatic day in the russian's forest world so ice hockey teams could postpone the start of the cage all season after the locomotive tragedy yet is not should not look at that today the tributes have started to flood in lot more in the story at least in a month. hello day watching the sport and these are the headlines. tributes pouring in from around the world forming the locomotive yaroslavl disaster which killed thirty seven ice hockey starts. plus will appeal strike a ballot in six games and for a challenger to use darkie quickly go back in fear. and it's a walk out of the u.s. open is right hold place for second day of flushing. the tributes from around the

world are being made following the tragic crash which killed practically the whole of the locomotive jaroslav all ice hockey team thirty seven plays were among the forty three people who died when the plane came down just after takeoff how the one place survived russian alexander galley mark but he's in a serious condition with eighty percent of the russian built yet forty two plane crashed into the river volga shortly after takeoff from the national airport yesterday that is just outside rock a mighty hometown of the outside world which is two hundred fifty kilometers northeast of moscow that thing we're heading to means for their first game of the new casual season ok shell chase will today decide whether to spend much least in light of the tragedy to scar which is a house next to michael of course receiving while yesterday's game between some about you live and atlanta he was abandoned midway through hockey fans have been laying flowers at lokomotiv stadium are those that died included russian klarik tentacle janet and going out in chile off i'll check star's years of classic jack and young magic and calla swedish chloe stephan reef and lapping defenseman carlos

as well as canadian coach brad mccrimmon ice hockey stars from the k h l and america's n.h.l. have been leading the tributes. to cheat games on history of money not a meat market small country and one of my friends going on a plane and there's a way to build a club years ago or the closest one just just want to give my condolences to the families in need she stockpiled for a people who actually offered thirty. nine. if one summer for for hockey players in the hockey world to soften last night. you know are these guys. played against or you know you play with them in a certain point. and effects everybody so your big family everyone knows each other and you know someone. you know in this league or in the sport worldwide so

i mean whether they're hockey players or not that's a huge tragedy and it's awful to see so how it's. going to those people muschamp terrible thing that happened. no one guy that ended up being on that plane and not one of my old coaches in atlanta mickey sherman and. you know he's got a family of kids and much like so many other guys still. you know something that's crazy to think that it could happen but you know tragic. one ounce thought i'd say they will appeal against the six cane ban handed to their star striker valid since he was given the punishment after this time. he suffered need ligament damage and the six months of. the rest of the rest of the domestic season as well as his country's you're a twenty twelve qualifying campaign she years ago velux and then he put that in a couple of different brazilian forward breaking. in

a similar crash couple of is now set to deputize backing for that. joint top of the table. to go. to the u.s. open the rain has affected play for second day that defending champion rafael nadal was trailing by three games to love in the first set of his fourth round match against. one play was stopped that clash was originally. put on hold until earlier on wednesday and it finally came through only to once again by elements also stop the strikes. against the surprise package american favorite andy roddick is also awaiting his match against a threat to regime rafa nadal believes it was wrong to ask plays play top. of the specially you know. nothing but that for the tournament you know. this is with him

a lot of money. we are part of the show. not just working for. still they called us on court so that's that's the possible. course for forty five minutes but the rain really never stops. because there are four minutes with no i think we have to go down the court and they still put them called for the other understand but you know. the. the players in this part of the show do and we gotta protect everyone's pretty realizable i know this is what we want on the court was still running back and the core was and the polls were really what. everyone but i sports mentioned. to be on par and they were just. fine but it doesn't really make sense to me just trying to go there for like seven or eight minutes and then i want to come back

inside so i think that's kind of why everyone was a little bit disappointed and i don't think. they will host the modern pentathlon world championships from today and among the athletes preparing for the tone alexander luthern they were only join the russian team three years ago constant so that's why. russia has always been a powerhouse in the manse more than in power for three gold medals from the last three olympics is the best evidence of the team's dominance then because of the depth of the nation's scale and the russians could field several teams in their own right and it will be a tough challenge for the coaches to choose their to athletes that will compete at the london olympics and twenties well. if you think you should send in work you know the order we managed to save in training camps for fans are full and after the soviet union collapsed either we've invested one half million dollars in developing this camp or right now it's one of the best in the world so i've also got

a powerful squad the problem is that only two of our athletes can compete to be a lympics so we have very tight competition in the national team. and three years ago the russian team also acquired an unexpected rain forest meant nowadays it's quite common for athletes to change their citizenship in order to get in to take part in big competitions but alexandre listen story is something completely different the twenty three year old was born in belarus and got into sport by learning to swim with a six they age of twenty one his life to get. that's the good with this you pick one of the bell as team coach with my former coach or national coach wanted to get rid of me soon enough of a diagnosis of heart disease and told me i was unsuitable for professional sport there was a whole thing to hear my with but i quit spores and got a job in playing it already however luckily russia's coach will exceed our plan of english me to train calum with and made several examinations them but i'm fully fit

to compete with so i see it here in russia fortunately listen got back into the sport less than a year after he had week and since then he has a wonder russian championship twice was a runner up at the world championship last year and tops the world rankings this season and the belorussian leads a very strong team that includes two world champions league after all of insanity connecting and doubling became pm and dreamy see. i worried so much when i got back to training with alex a two time olympic champion i've seen my save and wondered how can i become such a legendary athlete the levels seem to be unreachable for me but i started to train with the team and the guys showed me how half the battle is hard to train every fencing touch every second game in swimming in running every faultless right every accurate shot can make the difference between those accolades battling for a place like olympic games out of the blue and ill russian has added more

competition to the russian team while russia have gained and their flick pollute said to dominate in the near future and could be a strong contender for them at the olympic games in london and to mind its well because they are a team. so that brings the end of the sport for the moment and back again enough to last time.

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