world of ice hockey the ice hockey world some of its most promising players. forty three people confirmed dead after the aircraft carrier one of the country's top teams looking motif jaroslav all crashed just after takeoff as 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 and only to survive both are in the hospital fighting for their lives artie's sean thomas has more from jaroslava. 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

a 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 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 jaroslav all 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. will do everything to support the families and how this will continue numerous level is to halt the talks already you could you. ask me is this a dream i would give anything for does not to be real you know it's not me here is not is my home team we supported it this team and we were shocked when we found out that we went to all their games knew all of them by name it's very difficult we know that this plane a yacht forty two tried to lift off. 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 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 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 a lot of 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 i put it to you mine on the i want to put off to the plane. to come. several seconds later we had another bang in the plane started leaning to the right i didn't see it hit the ground but we saw that it's. the plane broke into. witnesses there describing their recollections of 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 a goalkeeper 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 has 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. wednesday's plane crash happened on the

first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many of the men 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 a man in the states a three time russian champions they've always there they're at banks when they cash out. reached the business end of the season and the international stars they attract the big names in the world of ice. for example yesterday with the two russian plays out it's unlikely anyone going on each other a lot of the officer try to check. vassie checked stephan leaf was the the swedish goalie so they have no problem in the tracting time and 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 as i understand it isn't the first but the core is is one that springs to mind it was 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 or the soviet championship at that time gave a player which then went to play for the core which still exists today is becky stan there was one sports commentator suggested yesterday perhaps a similar sort of thing could be done and the chiefs the heads of the kontinental hockey league said they would consider a similar move so i mean i think that they are thinking about it things first at the moment in the first thing on their mind is whether they can could choose to

spawn matches in the 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 in the k.h. out to give one player each to them continue to play. if you are staff all right we'll see what happens thanks very much our team sports presenter. 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 wind up visuals and memorial services held in cities across europe as people gathered to pay tribute to the crash victims put on r.t. dot com for more videos on tributes from across. the globe. 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 sentenced to two decades behind bars constantini are shango was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten and brought to the u.s.

on charges of drug smuggling artie's honest r.c. church going to 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 has mother and wife who are here to support him broke out in tears in the courtroom today as the sentence was announced my spam. my star never even held drugs in his hands and surely he wasn't going to. kill the people who america it's

crazy to. me me. convinced we have nothing to live in to do. and he just you know you think it's crude but there's sentence him to twenty years behind bars if there . 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 only inform them. stay with us here on r t still

ahead in the program for 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 commemorating 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 the 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 accuse the authorities of a major coverup artie's laura emmett 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 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 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 packet of pills.

and do not join. the. you. know he. would. so why don't you. who. the campaign has popular support of the daily mail newspaper today 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 subsequent governments

coverup. cover ups are normal practice for u.s. and european security services according to the human rights commissioner for the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons thomas hamburg says the practice hampers investigations in an interview coming 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 cia with the support of the way tell us not to give any facts 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 seeing the corporation between the security agencies 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 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.

israel angry protesters clashed with police in tel aviv after authorities moved to dismantle a tent city the camp was part of a nationwide protest against the high cost of living and social inequity artie's policy reports the standing in front of the mayor's house here in tel aviv where several dozen protesters have gathered screaming at the mayor to resign they point him corrupt and they're 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 they were throwing stones and flowers and exited and some forty people were wasted we've been told of several incidents where protesters were proved to be decent 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 did. that protesters had until the end of the month to dismantle the tents and urge them to do so peacefully but 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 base a 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 our team television. to another 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 last month syrian authorities rejected an arab league statement calling for an end to the bloodshed. in the united states firefighters before 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 the catastrophic wildfires 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 leningrad blockade throughout the day we'll be covering memorial events across the country so stay with us our teams peter all over has the story from st petersburg you can log on to our web site to see it in full. and this is where the blockade began on the

eighth of september nineteenth full t one german troops arrived here ok applying the city of. its seventh the last eleven connection to leningrad cutting off the city's supply of food and military equipment. finally in this news block as the u.s. prepares to mark ten years since the tragic nine eleven attacks the results of what george w. bush dubbed 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 artie's guide each to qian takes a look at whether any of it succeeded in making the u.s. a safer place. oh you. mean 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 taught a mode which we're thank you is the highest level on a curtain call theater and that have significantly set its back on the weapon in trying to defeat terrorism 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 that gave a 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 new think it should still be a tool yes rendition yes secret prisons yes wiretapping well with the right approval 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 you know or swelling in response to things like u.s. drone attacks and often. so in some ways off within 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 is called the terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror and the war on terror. begins when our kind. 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 r.t. a recap of the headlines in 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 this history the saudis have to raise up to two billion dollars correspondent even to know. if 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 the business centers the shopping centers to take makers and cosmetics makers it is a direct testament to the air of yury 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 the government asked for share for 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 these private companies to be involved in all of these businesses should got nothing to do with city administration 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 option 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 this has not yet been revealed but it really is tens and tens of them. so you look at the markets now oil is mixed after posting significant growth in the previous session the weather conditions in the mexican gulf are still far from being calm with more tropical storms coming to threaten production. that's move to stock markets now in asian markets have descended into the red that's ahead of key policy statements in europe and in the u.s. hong kong did give up early again so it's 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 hat financials however are up with the whole financial group is gaining around one half percent. in moscow trading will start in around thirty 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 us from president obama rather 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 there was fear of the beginning of the we were heading towards another european crisis so that i would pull back for about a little bit gives people some hope and i think if you see a stronger market today then you know friday could look could look quite good and we would have ended the week up in the week global volatility remains a very high actually 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 in the

u.s. or say trying to second guess what politicians are saying is a very difficult thing for a market to do so i think that's where you get the volatility right now. russia's leading telecommunications company vimpel com has increased second quarter net profit by forty two percent however the total of twelve million dollars was nearly half this we're expecting still. you know from the dialogue is positive about the company's future. that was the result or several one offs should know on. its net income in the future periods. is developing slowly than amateurs but this is probably the result of the company and the investing into its top and into terror and it's introducing new terror plans and that's impacting its current growth rates but in the future we do

expect. to accelerate growth this impression to deliver comparable to your peers straits. business we will be back around fifteen minutes for an update the headlines are next.

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thirty am in moscow these are your r t have lives a sports team perishes and

a country 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 touched other nations as players from many countries were on board on their way to belarus 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 constantino shango insists he wasn't guilty while moscow previously accused the u.s. of conducting an illegal arrest and rendition. and 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 cause of death of suicide again being questioned by doctors coming up al gore and of speaks to wall street analysts professor michael hudson about the outlook for the u.s. economy stay with us.