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 jaroslav all 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 to both now in the hospital fighting for their lives or he's john thomas has more from jaroslav. as we were coming in to. last night there 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 realizing really and fully that this team is gone locomotive jaroslav all was a very beloved team it was a three time a championship team so this city took a great pride in their hockey champions but it's not just a great loss of four yards level it's a great loss for russia as well as well as for the international hockey community as this was a multinational team with players from all over the world in fact many of these players actually played for the russian national team as well so it is a certainly a great loss now while we are standing here people are coming up and asking us for any information that we can give them and people are very interested in staying on top of the story a very very heavy feeling in the air in fact we had the opportunity to speak to

some people about their personal recollections of this event and about this team this is what they had to say. this is a huge loss for russia nice hawkie will do everything to support the families and how the sport continuous level is too hard to talk story them about and you know. we've been fans of this team for many years who family including a little child went to all the games but for us it's irreparable it's like losing a family member which. was you know i knew one of the clear is he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got 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 i know there isn't 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 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 out 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 flooded 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 on the close to someone at the office of the plane to come find to come. later we had another bang up in the plane started leaning to the right but didn't see it hit the ground. the plane broke in two.

witnesses there describing their recollections of the v. of ended 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 part of this team a goalkeeper people also goal keeper for the russian national team he his condition through the night hasn't really improved any that we can say he sustained burns over ninety percent of his body including severe damage to his respiratory system we also know that he 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 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 vigils and memorial service is being held in cities across europe as people gather to pay tribute to the crash victims log on to our team dot com for more videos around the world. when the day'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 nine hundred seventy nine they were a football team they were involved in an air accident and seventeen plays died when that happened 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 call which still exists today as becky stan 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 first at the moment in the first thing on their mind is whether they can could should perspire matches in the games due to take place 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 the rest of the team to make

a chair to give one player each to them to continue to play. if you are staff stay with us here on r t you still ahead in the program. despite the devastating tragedy here in eurostar will the global policy forum continue with president medvedev to make a keynote speech after he pays his respects to those who lost their lives. but first a russian pilot found guilty of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the u.s. earlier this year has been sentenced to twenty years behind bars konstantin you're a shaker was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten and transported to the u.s. are charges of drug smuggling or he's out of status you're going to has more from new york. this case builds a major precedent this is a 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're schenkel will be edge eligible for parole in as much as thirty 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 hold pull in till 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 i'm now convinced we have nothing to hope for believe him to die i hope the judge would be reasonable upright and nice room and he just well you think it's cruel but i send you twenty years behind bonds 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 what his whereabouts affectively considering him missing russian officials cited a breach of diplomatic conduct a breach of international law because they did not know where this citizen was and because the u.s. state department failed to do only inform them stay with us here on our t.v. still ahead in the program getting violent angry protesters in israel clashed with police and security forces trying to take apart their tent city. a decade since nine eleven we begin our special coverage of the anniversary of the rating the tragedy that shook the world. but 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 questioned the official version of events that kelly had committed suicide and accuse authorities of

a major coverup artie's laura has more of london more than eight years since the death of u.n. weapons inspector david kelly and still no inquest following his own mosque as the source of a report saying tony blair's government knew iraq had no weapons of mass destruction be full person invaded the country kelly was found dead in woods near his home a verdict of suicide was recorded despite what many see as conflicting evidence no one's ever said questions under oath about kelly's death and all medical and scientific reports relating to it were secretly classified something which has never been legally explained but it hasn't gone away this week talked to david how pain is to mond that the question of holding an inquest to be reopened he'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 in the group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence kelly is supposed to painkillers and slashed his own wrists but irregularities found by the don't include an absence of fingerprints on either the knife or the packet of pills. but i didn't. and do not join. the. you know. with these. you will sort of know who he will move. on. you see why no don't you know is it you who

who. the campaign has popular support reaches of the daily mail newspaper had to native around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his fellow campaign is hope this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play i just subsequent governments cover up cover ups 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 is a pretty. 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 tell us not to give any facts so therefore it's not easy to investigate but i think some of the european governments who have been involved they have to decide whether they see

the cooperation between the security agencies are more important then 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 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. 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 dmitri medvedev is due to speak later in the day for more we're joined by our way of life. so it's day two of the forum what are expected to be the main talking points. well of course people here today are thinking about that tragedy already

delegations are arriving for their sessions here at the global policy forum with flowers in hand and in fact president medvedev from south is paying his respects at the crash site this morning to those who lost their lives in wednesday's devastating plane crash with the some of the forum does go on today the focus is going to be a lot of speeches really president 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 twelve although he how . it's 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 bilateral meetings he's meeting the director general of. and also the president of turkey there they're expected to focus on fire that it will trade and

other issues of course in the region so a pretty full day some of the sessions have been council due to the tragedy and work will go on but it has to be said a very heavy feeling in the air here in europe 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 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 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 in syria yesterday the president still envoy to africa. 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 that libya without gadhafi doesn't mean it will automatically be problem to mark the sea in fact she went on to say that libya without gadhafi could turn into a spiral i should say even further in to civil war so those are some of the debates that are going on this year here out before him 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 any so now i live for us thanks for that report . 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 artie's policy reports. oh we're standing in front of the mayor's house here in tel aviv where several dozen protesters have gathered they screaming at the mayor to resign they call in corrupt and they calling on him to go home now this follows a protest 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 there were throwing stones and flowers and exited and some forty people were wasted we've been told of several incidents where protesters who brutally beaten by the police this is all in response to only wednesday morning when miss 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 tents were taken away people's personal belongings were taken away and the result was that protesters have called the government

thieves and 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 or 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 . turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi has denied speculation that he is seeking refuge in neighboring you there were some of his loyalists have already fled and his latest audio message the fugitive colonel has also about never to leave libya gadhafi reiterated plans to continue fighting against the rebels who he referred to as mercenaries thugs and traitors the statement follows conflicting reports regarding

the colonel's whereabouts as the manhunt for him continues. syrian troops have intensified their crackdown on the volatile city of homes with up to twenty people killed in the latest round of 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 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 a 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 guiding chickie on 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 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 great an effort as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if is that which warm just get off the grid or going to talk them over which we're thank you is the highest level of burden of it are and that have significantly thought of the fact that i'm living in 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 kade long campaign on terror has

created a new phenomenon 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 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 right to prove colonel lawrence wilkerson was collin powell chief of staff when he was the secretary of state under george w. bush he says some of the bush administration members deserve to be put on trial and he would be ready to testify george tenet told dick cheney what dick cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information. and we're stopping terrorist attacks that is order book the fact that there hasn't been

a terrorist attack on the scale of nine eleven on the u.s. soil is often attributed to the harsh methods used in the last decade of 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. swelling in response to things like u.s. drone attacks in office. so in some ways there's often a diversification of recruits and the other extreme organization in pakistan u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and made it only a handful of actual terrorists many of the victims' loved ones seek revenge by joining radical groups others like this young man who lost both of his legs and three family members in a drone strike 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 has called the terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror the war on terror. begins without god. 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. interview in sports coming up but first the business news with dmitri.

oh and welcome to business r.t. russia's online retailer ozone dot ru has raised one hundred million dollars for equity funding the money will be used for expansion that includes developing postal services in the country the funding is the largest round for an e-commerce company in russia versus include the existing partner room net and major japanese online retailer rakuten 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 in the first half of the year and is also considering an i.p.o. . 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 calm with more tropical storms coming to fret and 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 and is 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 the mizuho financial group in the lead. and here is the opening picture in russia slightly down actually in the very first minutes of trading here so my search 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. moscow city is planning the biggest asset sale in its history and its origins hope to raise up to two billion dollars r.t. correspond to get out of there has details. it is a question whether any 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 take 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 investment project one thought the government asked for a 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 off the bees 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 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 full this has not yet been revealed but it really is tens and

tens of them and i'm next announcing the headlines with maps to save us for that. the worldwide manhunt for him lasted for fifteen years. a one million year old warrant was

a promise traced. political must murder for the west. for many years in. general to serve in the army. or. on archie. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. ten thirty am in moscow these here are a sports team perishes and

a country mourns after wednesday's plane crash in the city of jaroslav kills forty three things. adding 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 developers for the first match of the season. twenty years behind bars a russian pilot arrested in the us sitting operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs constant he insists on his innocence while moscow previously accused the u.s. of conducting an illegal arrest and rendition. the british government under fire for stopping an inquest into the death of weapons expert david kelly who insisted iraq never had weapons of mass destruction will cause of the death of suicide again being questioned by doctors. next we look into the operations of u.s. and european security services and mounting allegations they've been violating human rights the interview coming up.