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

suicide again being questioned by doctors. ten am in moscow i'm not trying so good to have you with us here on r t our top story it's been described as ice hockey is darkest day and the worst disaster affecting russian sports in recent history. forty three people confirmed dead after a plane carrying one of the country's top teams locomotive yarrow sagal crashed just after takeoff it happened on the eve of the new season in the team's home city

some two hundred seventy kilometers northeast of moscow of the forty five people on board only to survive but both now in the hospital fighting for their lives or he's john thomas has more. as we were coming in to. last night or to survey the scene we actually spoke to some people one woman broke out in tears. 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 fluke a motive 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 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 have to say. this is a huge loss for russian ice hockey will do everything to support the families and help the sport continuous level it's too hard to talk story and let you know. we've been fans of this team for many years who family including a little child went to all the gains but for us it's irreparable it's like losing a family member which. was that i knew one of their careers

he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's cool two little kids left how could this happen when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears i still can't grasp how it could happen there used to be a team and the reason 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 felt somehow witnesses say that it clipped became a runway became of some sort and at that point it burst into flames right now early investigation to 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 op 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 attitude of the mine in the close to someone a little after the plane to come flying that annoy you so much to come was commanding seventy seconds later we had another bang and the plane started leaning to the ground for didn't see if you took around. between broke into. witnesses there describing their recollections of the via veneto that 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 a part of this team a goalkeeper 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 has already undergone several surgeries to try and do what they can and visa first early stages immediately following the accident to correct any problems that they can for a 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. all over the country are filtering into this hospital right now we're also covering the air disaster on our website where we have now more on the loss that's being felt not only in russia but also many other countries due to the hockey teams international lineup visuals that memorial service is being held in cities across europe as people gather to pay tribute to the crash victims

log on to our journey dot com for more videos around the world. when today's plane crash near the city of jaroslava has deprived the world ice hockey of some of its most promising players many of the men who perished played for their country for their country played for their countries and were top class stars of the sport our sports presenter andrew farmer says rebuilding the team will be a challenge but believes lessons could be learned from a similar accident in the past. it happened in one nine hundred seventy nine they were a football team they were involved in an air accident and seventeen plays died would not happen if something can be learned from that because that team was decimated and the question was well how can we help this club continue in every team that was in the russian championship of the soviet championship at that time gave a play which then went to play for the call which still exists today as they stand and. one sports commentator suggested yesterday perhaps

a similar sort of thing could be done i mean i think they are thinking about it things for the moment and the first thing on their mind is whether they can cut should perspire own matches in the k.h. of the opening games would you take place this week but also on the agenda would definitely be can we help this club one of. one of the suggestions he's come we are asking the rest of the team to make a choice to give one player each to them to continue to play. if you are stuff. stay with us here on argue still ahead in the program. despite the devastating tragedy here in your struggle the global policy for making t.v. news president did it to make a keynote speech after he pays his respects to those who lost their lives. but first the russian pilot found guilty of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the us earlier this year has been sentenced to twenty years behind bars. or was

detained in liberia in twenty ten and transported to the u.s. on charges of drug smuggling or he's an associate has more from new york. 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 like the area now your show will be edge eligible for parole in as much as thirty years we know that his defense team has thirty deals days to file an appeal but u.s. officials can take as much as two years to consider this appeal now the man has repeatedly pled not guilty in this case hopeful until the last minute himself and his family his mother and wife who are here to support him out in tears in the courtroom today as the sentence was announced i'm now convinced we have nothing to believe in contrary and the judge would be reasonable and nice food and he just

said well you think it's cruel but they sentence you to twenty years behind bars do you really think it may help in this case 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 effectively 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 duly informed them stay with us here on r.g.p. still ahead in the program getting violent angry protesters in israel clashed with police or security forces trying to take apart their city plus. a decade since

nine eleven and we begin our special coverage of the anniversary of the rating the tragedy that shook the world. first 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 have question your official version of events that occur we have committed suicide with already use of a major cover up or more of london more than eight years since the death of un 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 britain 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 since questions under oath about kelly's death and all medical and

scientific reports relating to it were secretly classified it's something which has never been legally explained but it hasn't gone away this week talked to david how pain is to that the question of holding an inquest be reopened he's challenging a decision by attorney general tillman a grief who rules out holding a coroner's inquest in june citing what he calls 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 is supposed to have painkillers and slashed his own wrists but irregularities found by the top to include an absence of fingerprints on either the knife or the package of pills. and. but he

would you know he's. you. know he would move. it's. wrong. you see why you know don't you know is it you who who. the campaign has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have to nate sit 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 proverbs are standard procedure for u.s. and european security forces according to the human rights commissioner for the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons thomas harbored says

the practice hampers investigations and interview coming your way about twenty minutes there's a cretin. well there is an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this secret if 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 the some of the european governments who have been involved they have to decide where they see the corporation between the security agencies are more important than to look into human rights violations and break the country to impunity it's not acceptable that we have states within the states who are on the 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. while russia city of jaroslava has been plunged into grief by wednesday's plane

crash the third global policy forum is also happening there it's hosting debate searching for solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems with leading figures in the world of politics economics and academia taking part president dmitry medvedev is due to speak later in the day for more we're joined by our tears and he said our way of life. hello and so it's day two of the four are expected to be the main talking points. but of course people here today are thinking about that tragedy already delegations are arriving for their sessions here at the call the policy forum with flowers in hand and in fact president made himself is paying his respects out of the crash site this morning so those who lost their lives in wednesday's devastating plane crash with that said the summit of the forum does go on today the focus is going to be a lot of speeches really president miter did giving his keynote speech and what we're hearing is there he's going to speak about the situation of course in north africa and the middle east also about the economy lots of analysts hoping that

perhaps he'll announce whether or not he will run for reelection in twenty child although he. has hinted pretty straight forwardly that he doesn't believe international forums are the right venue for those kinds of announcements i have also be having some five out of all meetings he's meeting the director general of. and also the president of turkey where they're expected to focus on by the article trade and other issues of course in the region so a pretty full day some of the sessions have been canceled due to the tragedy and work will go on but it has to be said a very heavy feeling in the air here and this morning the major security issues have already been raised before and what have we heard so far. that's right the focus of this year's forum i is really multiculturalism and how do we live and combine a modern state with social diversity so that has been a really big topic here it's said by critics that multiculturalism especially in europe is failing experts saying that russia perhaps could share its experience

with europe on how to work a big debate going on here about whether immigration law should be tightened or whether there should be other ways to try to help the integration problems in europe with all the violence and. issues we've been seeing it in london and other countries in western europe throughout the last couple of months another issue of course here being discussed is security the situation in libya and syria yesterday the president still envoy to africa or kill of made it very clear that he thinks that. the international community is not learning from mistakes of iraq and afghanistan he made that very clear by warning libya without gadhafi doesn't mean it will automatically become a true marker see in fact she went on to say that libya without gadhafi could turn into a more spiral i should say even further in it's a civil war so those are some of the debates that are going on this year but here

at the forum despite the tragedy a lot of discussions about the world's most pressing issues on the second day of the global policy forum that argues the news and i live for us at n.p.r.'s. in israel angry protesters have clashed with police in tel aviv after authorities moved to dismantle a tent city camp was part of a nationwide protest against the high cost of living and social inequality archy's policy reports. i was standing in front of the mayor's house here in tel aviv where several dozen protesters that gathered they screaming at the mayor to resign they point in corrupt and they calling on him to go home now this follows a protest just several hours ago way 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 arrested we've been told of several incidents where protesters who brutally beaten by the police this is all in response to early wednesday morning when he was

a coworker started tearing 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 urged them to do so peacefully but what we saw this morning is that people's hands 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're 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 kissing the natanya who government 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 the streets urging the government to pay attention to their demands policy our team television

. for another some other stories making headlines across the globe i was to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi has denied speculation that he is seeking refuge in neighboring you there were some of his loyalists have already read his latest audio message the fugitive colonel has also about never to leave libya reiterative plans to continue fighting against the rebels who he referred to as mercenaries thugs and traitors the statement i was conflicting reports regarding the girl's whereabouts as the manhunt for him continues. syrian troops have intensified their crackdown on the volatile city of homs with up to twenty people killed in the latest round of violence i could say government forces are hunting for a group of soldiers who defected to the opposition this after president assad's government delayed a planned ira league visit expected to begin wednesday last month syrian authorities rejected an arab league statement calling for an end to the bloodshed and. as the u.s. prepares to mark ten years since the nine eleven attacks the results of what

president george w. bush dubbed war on terror are coming under some scrutiny a decade of military campaigns overseas has been accompanied by headlines of civilian deaths secret prisons and alleged torture we begin our special coverage of the anniversary artie's guide each to qian takes a look at whether any of that succeeded in making the u.s. a safer place. i mean one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history 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 and air as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if which one of us get off a grave or going out on the road which we're thinking is the highest of all. and

that has significant we think it's back on the road and they're trying to defeat terrorism the 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 there cave long campaign on terror has created a new phenomena and war 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 be the same again people call it torture new think it can still be a tool yes rendition yes secret prisons yes wiretapping with 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 if we're stopping terrorism there is order. the fact that there hasn't been a terrorist attack on the scale of nine eleven on the u.s. soil is often attributed to the harsh methods used in the last decade of war on terror but counterterrorism experts say the fact that terrorists are successfully recruiting thousands of new members these days does not add to security in the u.s. and the whole world for that matter we've also seen other extremist networks like or swelling in response to things like us drone attacks and. so in some ways there's also been 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 it from strike get in protest. when will. but experts say those pleas mean nothing when washington needs the chase to go on and we have made a cottage industry if not of much more than a car going straight out of the what my former boss colin powell was called a terrorist industrial complex lots of people were making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror and war on terror. begins with. what 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 martin interview with sports coming up but first the business news with a new trade. oh and welcome to business r.t. russia's online retailer ozone dot ru has raised one hundred million dollars for equity funding and money will be used for expansion that includes developing postal services in the country but while it is the largest round for an e-commerce company in russia versus include the existing partner route net and major japanese online retailer reported part of the cash will be used to bolster russia's shipping system by developing those on its own network the online retailers grow thirty six percent the first half of the year and is also considering an i.p.o.

. sigurd would be a markets now oil is mixed after posting significant growth in the previous session that says weather conditions in the mexican gulf are still far from current with more tropical storms coming to fratton production. is moved to stock markets now asian markets are trading also mixed ahead of key policy statements a jew out in europe in the u.s. hong kong gave up early gains then does shedding around two point four percent banking stocks under pressure with industrial and commercial bank of china dropping around a percent but tokyo still manages to stay afloat around point three percent this with a miserable financial group in the lead. and here is the opening picture in russia slightly down actually in the very first minutes of trading the r.t.s. and my circle managed to put on something like point two percent at the opening but right now they are correcting after

a very strong session on wednesday when both of them gained around three percent. possible cities planning the biggest asset sale in its history and its origins hope to raise up to two billion dollars on t. corresponding going to get out. it was a question what i knew a local authority in the world has such a wide eyed bewildering array of assets as the moscow government from airports to business centers to shopping centers to cake makers and cosmetics makers 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 poll i went every new press and project one thought the government pushchair for itself now the new broom has come in. and what he's saying is that it's no job government to be looking after these private companies to be involved in all of these businesses you 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 have been put out for an auction in total over the next yeah they're hoping that these auctions of which there 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 foliage has not yet been revealed but it really is tens and tens of them kind of next to last in the headlines with not the same. i am. the king.

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