streets of. china operations are today. oh sports team perishes and a nation mourns well the tragedy of the air disaster hitting one of russia's top ice hockey teams was felt around the world. twenty years behind bars a russian pilot arrested in a us thing operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs but moscow says his arrest and rendition were legal. and the british government under fire first struck an inquest into the death of weapons expert david kelly who insisted iraq never had weapons of mass destruction cause of death of suicide again being questioned by doctors.

nine am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t a top story it's been described as the worst tragedy affecting russian sports in the country's recent history and deadly plane crash near the city of jaroslav will deprive the world of ice hockey the ice hockey world of some of its most promising players. forty three people confirmed dead after the aircraft carrier and one of the country's top look on the t.v. crash just after takeoff it happened on the eve of the new season in the team's home city two hundred seventy seventy kilometers northeast of moscow of the forty

five people aboard only to survive both are in the hospital fighting for their lives or keyshawn thomas has more from yourself. 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 a 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 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 for your house 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 russian ice hockey will do everything to support melissa and how this will continue as level it's too hard to talk story. because my son asked me is this a dream i would give anything for this not to be really you know it's not me here is how does my home team really support it will you know this team you were shocked to know and what we went to all the games all of them by name it's very difficult. 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 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 are some early indications that there could have been some mechanical failure as well the other 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 operative you want to not just want to get off the plane to come for you heard a noise like to come as commanding several seconds later we heard another bang when

the plane started leaning to the right i didn't see it hit the ground but we saw that it's tell you. the plane broke into. witnesses there describing their recollections of the the event event killed what we know forty three at this moment in time and two other people whose lives are hanging in the balance we are in from 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 will 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 for the second survivor has suffered burns for 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. wednesday's plane crash happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many tonight who perished played for their countries and were real stars of the sport for more on this i'm joined by our team sports presenter andrew farmer here in the studio thanks for being with us so tell us more about lokomotiv how big is the club and how can it start to rebuild in the wake of a tragedy on the scale it is and. it's a three time russian champions they've always there their banks when they catch. reached the business end of the season and the international stars they transfer big names in the world of i so. for example the board yesterday with its russian

plays out it's unlikely anyone canady killaloe if they also attract the czechs. have a. stefan leaf was the the swedish goalie so they have no problem in attracting talent like this and they always have been a major player in hockey in russian hockey as well now this is you regard it as one of the worst disasters in russian sports history but it's not the first outsiders it isn't the first plant the core is is one that springs to mind it was that it happened in one nine hundred seventy nine they were a football team they were involved in an air accident and seventeen plays died when that happened but maybe some good i don't like using that word now but something can be learned from that because that team is decimated and the question was well how can we help this club continue in every team that was in the russian championship with the soviet championship out that time gave

a player which then went to play for practical which still exists today is back to stand there was one sports commentator suggested yesterday perhaps a similar sort of thing could be done and the k h l chiefs the the heads of the kontinental hockey league said they would consider a similar move so i mean i think they are thinking about of things first at the moment and the first thing on their mind is whether they can could should perspire own matches in the k.h. are the only games due to take place right this week but also on the agenda would definitely be how can we help this club i'm one of one of the suggestions is can we are asking the rest of the teams indicate share to give one player each to them continue to play for the community if you are staff all right we'll see what happens thanks very much ortiz preppers are a problem. we're also covering the air disaster on our website we have more on the loss and how it's being felt not only in russia but in many other countries due to the hockey teams international lineup vigils and memorial services held in cities

across europe as people gathered to pay tribute to the crash victims click on r.t. dot com for more videos on tributes from across the globe. right now to the other main stories we're covering on r t a russian pilot found guilty of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the u.s. earlier this year has been said institute decades behind bars constantine jarosz and co was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten and brought to the u.s. on charges of drug smuggling or if he's honest as he churkin 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 the idea now your shanghai will be edge eligible for parole in as much as thirteen years we know that his defense team has thirty 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 whole killing so the last minute himself and his family has mother and wife who are here to support him broke out in tears in the courtroom today as the sentence was announced when i see him. my son never even held drugs in his hands and surely he wasn't going to. kill the people who marry it's crazy to. own him you. convinced have nothing to. do. and muesli and he just will you think it crude petition to twenty years behind bars of parent there i 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 all the and for him back. stay with us here on our t.v. still ahead in the program turning violent protesters in israel clashed with police and security forces try to take apart their tent camp also. a decade since nine eleven and we start our special coverage of the anniversary and memory to the tragedy that shook the world. first though the british government faces a legal challenge over its decision not to allow a new inquest into that into the death of weapons expert david kelly in two thousand and three a group of doctors have questioned the official version of events that kelly committed suicide and he was the authorities of

a major cover up or he's there and 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 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 explains but it hasn't gone away this week talked to david how it is to mond thing that the question of holding an inquest be reopened he's challenging a decision by attorney general tillman a green 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 halpin 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 talk to include an absence of fingerprints on either the knife or the package of pills. and going. you know we would introduce you to the moon who was the chancellor and you would. know he would move. it's. right on the. sea why no and it is you

who who in. the campaign has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper here today to around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his fellow campaign is hoping this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play i just subsequent governments cover up. cover ups are normal practice for us in european security services according to the human rights commissioner for the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons thomas harmer bird says the practice hampers investigations in an interview on your way in a little more than an hour here's a preview of what he had to say. well there's an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this secret in fact instructions from from seeing the way toss. so therefore it's not easy to investigate but i think that some of the european governments have been involved they have to decide whether they sink the

corporation between the security agencies are more important than to look into human rights violations and break the ice for you know impunity is not acceptable that we have states within the states who are run on the basis and violating human rights the security agencies must be put under democratic control and they are not for the moment in my opinion. it israel angry protesters clashed with police in tel aviv after authorities moved to dismantle our tent city the cap was part of a nationwide protest against the high cost of living and social inequity archies parsley reports i was standing in front of the mayor's house here in tel aviv where several dozen protesters have gathered pace screaming at the mayor to be done they're calling him come back and they calling on him to go home now this follows a focus 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 that were throwing stones and flowers and exited and some forty people were wasted we've been told of several incidents where protesters were brutally beaten by the police this is all in response to only 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 teams and urge them to do so peacefully but what we saw this morning is that people scenes 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 of the base a part of two months they're demanding issues of social justice they were cruising the net. when yahoo governments are 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 discreet urging the government to pay attention to their demands policy our team kind of is. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe syrian troops have stepped up their crackdown on 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 rosman syrian authorities rejected an arab league statement calling for an end to the project. and united states firefighters report that flames in the state of texas are at least thirty percent contained after burning uncontrolled for three days the fire left at least two people dead and the number of homes lost reaching nearly eight hundred thousands of texans had to be evacuated from the area

a catastrophic fires are blamed on the state's most severe droughts on record. russia is marking seventy years since the start of one of the longest and deadliest sieges in the history of the second world war the eight hundred seventy two day let in grad blockade throughout the day will be covered with morial events across the country so stay with us our team is peter oliver has the story from st petersburg can log on to our website to see it in full. this is where the blockade began on the eighth of september nineteen forty one german troops arrived here occupying the city of. it severed the last lun connection to leningrad cutting off the city's supply of food a military equipment. finally in this news block is the u.s. prepares to mark ten years since the tragic nine eleven attacks the results of what george w. bush dug a war on terror are coming under scrutiny a decade of military campaigns overseas have been accompanied by headlines of civilian deaths secret prisons and torture we begin our special coverage of the

anniversary our he's got a takes a look at whether any of it succeeded in making the u.s. a safer place. i mean one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history are shared 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 air as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if the reforms if they are great we're going to tell them oh what you're thinking if the high focal. and that significant we think it's back on the web and trying to defeat terrorism 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 wiretapping with the right approach 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 cheney want to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information. and we're stopping terrorist attacks that is the 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 as 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 without matter we've often seen other extremists. or. in response things like you know your own back office or. some way it was offered in a diversification of recruitment to other organizations 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 and others like this young man who lost both of his legs and three family members in a drone strike gather 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 was called a 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 in arcana. but it does not in their 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 our team.

recap of the headlines the spotlight coming your way after the business update stay with us. thanks man hello and welcome to the program moscow city is planning the biggest asset sale in its history the saudis hope to raise up to two billion dollars correspondent going to president if there's a question what any local authority in the world has such a wide array of assets as the moscow government. airports the business centers the shopping centers to take makers and cosmetics makers it is a direct testimony to the air of yury lonchakov who was married for nearly twenty years until he was deposed last year he was forced to resign in his time the government in almost every part when every new person project one the government itself now the new broom has come in and. what he's saying is that it's no job of

the government to be looking after b.'s private company to be involved in all of these businesses but nothing to do with the ministration so now the most interesting of these properties the ones which investors want to get their hands on i've been put out for an auction 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 pulitzer has not yet been revealed but it really is tens and tens of them. at the markets now oil is make stuff to posting significant growth in the previous session the weather conditions in mexico you got the still far from being gone with more tropical storms coming to threaten production. let's move to stock markets now in asian markets have descended into the red that's ahead of keep all these things and in the west hong kong to give up early again since now showing three quarters of

a percent thank you so the pressure with industrial and commercial. bank of china dropping over percent and tokyo just a notch in the red financials however are up in the ducal financial group is gaining around one hundred percent. in moscow trading all starts in around thirteen minutes time on wednesday markets closed strongly in the black with the r.t.s. my sex addict three percent on the back of high oil prices and positive movement in stock markets around the globe russian equities did pick up on wednesday as investors look forward to the announcement of a new stimulus package in the u.s. from president obama well the national capital believes the positive trend will continue in the short term but volatility will remain. where the market will be looking to build on wednesday's strength and see whether there can be some follow through on there was fear of the beginning of the week we're heading towards another european crisis if i recall back for about

a little bit because people some hope and i think if you see a stronger market today then you know friday could look quite good and we would have ended the week up in the week global that is remains the very high actually at the moment what tends to happen is that you have a piece of information that comes out of the market opens up in the morning gaps up all caps down and then remains there for the rest of the day which is which is actually very frustrating and it's all being driven by politicians in europe and the us are saying and trying to second guess what or politicians are saying is a very difficult credible thing for a market to do so i think that's where you put the. russians leading telecommunications company even bill com has increased second quarter net profit by forty two percent however the total of three hundred twelve million dollars was nearly half full and this we're expecting still. you know from the dialogue is positive about the company's future. there was the result or several one of us should know on. its net income in the future periods when volcom is

developing slowly than amateurs but this is probably the result of in the company and the investing into its natural and into terror and. inducing and that's. the current growth rates but in the future we do expect. to accelerate growth in the pressure to deliver comparable to peers growth rates. business and he will be back around fifteen minutes time for an update the headlines are next arts.

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