sports and russia's recent history forty three people confirmed dead after a plane carrying one of the country's top teams locomotive jaroslav crashed just after takeoff only two survivors are now in the hospital fighting for their lives or he was john thomas any more. it certainly is a tragic day here in this city of the mood in the air is that very heavy and somber as people come here to pay their respects at one of the central churches along the river here in this city in fact hundreds of people have come here slowly in and out to pay their respects and just so that they can feel like they are part of the community a community that has lost one of their prizes one of their treasures the locomotive team was a championship team and very much loved by this community so one thing that we are getting a sense of is people here are mourning the loss of a group of young men who were so young in fact the youngest of them only twenty years old a group of people whose lives were cut short in their prime as they were on the way

to do what they loved to do and we had the opportunity to speak to some of the mourners and this is what they had to say. which unlike you we didn't fans of this team for many years who family including a little child went to all their games for us to see their operable it's like losing a family member. i knew one of the clears he was my neighbor and he was a greets 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 and now there isn't. so much. they were everything to us will remember them forever. i wish they were alive. about the accident itself what we know is that four

o two on wednesday afternoon this plane was taking off from yachts level to minsk where the team was going to play their first game of the season this is a championship team they were very excited but we know that that plane failed to to have enough power and speed it to make a lift off right now early indications are saying that it could be pilot error also some evidence suggesting that there could have been a mechanical failure of some sort that investigation is under way prime minister vladimir putin has ordered a full investigation in fact ordered the transportation minister to come to jaroslav and handle that investigation himself but shortly after takeoff witnesses say that the plane made a little bit of a swerve if you will and then clipped an antenna or runway beacon and at that point burst into flames killing forty three on board with only two survivors operative in the mine on the justice i want to go after the plane to come find you like to cause colliding several seconds later we had another bang then the plane

started leaning to the right i didn't see it hit the ground but we saw that it's to you. now let me give you a little bit of information about the plane itself it is the yak forty two which was first flown in one thousand nine hundred five but then became a commercially available in one thousand nine hundred eighty it was the first soviet plane that was designed to adhere to international standards it is a three engine plane it's relatively sturdy plane it is used all over the c.i.s. states and in russia as well as well as cuba right now we know that there are more than ninety of them that are in operation right now now the transportation minister has given an order that there will be an investigation into these planes to make sure that there is nothing wrong with these planes and we are expected them to be grounded at this moment in time alexander. is one of the survivors he has sustained burns over ninety percent of his body and anyone who know is from million with burns no. those that anyone with over fifty percent has

a very dismal chance of survival so he has undergone multiple surgeries already at this point including surgeries to help repair his a damaged respiratory system the other person a crew member on board has suffered a broken femur as well as burns over fifteen percent of his body right now they are at the hospital and undergoing treatment to see if they can pull through this and of course throughout the day emotional messages of support have been pouring in from around the country from other countries as well as this was a multinational team this isn't just a loss for jaroslaw it's a great loss for russia and it's a great loss for the hockey community as well we're covering the air disaster on our web site where we have more on how this loss is being felt not only in russia but in many other countries because of the hockey teams international vigils and the morial service is held in cities across europe as people gather to pay tribute to the victims down to r.t. dot com for more videos from around the world. wednesday's plane crash near the

city of jaroslav will have to private ice hockey of some of its most promising players many of the men who perished 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 the 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 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 where the soviet championship at that time gave a player which then went to play for the call which still exists today as becky stand and. one sports commentator suggested yesterday perhaps a similar sort of thing could be done and the k h l chiefs the heads of the kontinental hockey league said they would consider a similar move 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 shoot. 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 teams in the k h l to give each to them continue to play for the staff . stay with us here are two you still ahead on the program. despite the devastating tragedy here in europe for 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 in prison constantino shankar was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten and brought to the u.s. on charges of drug smuggling our correspondent out of starting a church 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 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 hopeful in till 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 hope for believe him to die and i hope the judge would be reasonable upright and he just said well you think it's cruel but i send 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 do only inform them. stay with us here on r t still ahead in the program getting violent angry protesters in israel clashed with police security forces tried to dismantle their tent camp plus. a decade since nine eleven we begin our special coverage of the anniversary commemorating 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 committed suicide and accuse the authorities of a major coverup archy's lauren it 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 mosque 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 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 is 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 and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence kelly's supposed to of pain killers and slashed his wrists but irregularities found by the doctors include an absence of fingerprints on either the knife or the packet of pills. cross the aisle. and joined. the. yeah.

you. know he. would move. so why don't. you. the campaign has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have to need to do around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his fellow campaign is this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play and just subsequent governments cover up. cover ups are normal practice for u.s. and european security services according to the human rights commission or the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons thomas says the practice hampers investigations and in an interview that's coming your way in the next hour here's a preview. where 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 seeing some of the european governments who have been involved they have to decide where they see the corporation between the security agencies that 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 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 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 reports

from tel aviv. oh we're standing in front of the mayor's house here in tel aviv where several dozen protesters have gathered there screaming at the mayor to resign quoting him 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 they 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 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 for the bishop 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 on our team television. the problems of a multicultural society a concept that suffered huge blows recently in western europe among the main talking points of the third global policy reform in the russian city of jaroslav it's hosting debate searching for solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems with leading figures from politics economics and academia taking part president dmitry medvedev due to speak later in the day as are his and he said no way reports. delegations are arriving for their sessions here at the global policy

forum with flowers in hand and in fact president has made himself is paying his respects at the crash site this morning to those who lost their lives in devastating plane crash. the forum today the focus is going to be a lot of speeches president giving his keynote speech and what we're hearing is there is 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 i have also be having some meetings he's meeting the president of turkey there they're expected to focus on by that it will trade and other issues of course in the region and the focus of this year's forum is really multiculturalism and how do we live and combine a modern state with social diversity that has been a really big topic here 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 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 libya without gadhafi doesn't mean it will automatically become a democracy in fact he went on to say that libya without gadhafi could turn into a spiral i should say even further in the 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. turning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe i was to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi has denied speculation. he's seeking refuge in neighboring the share where some of his loyalists have already

fled and this latest audio message the fugitive colonel has vowed never to leave libya gadhafi reiterated plans to continue fighting against rebels who he called mercenaries drugs and traitors the statement comes after conflicting reports about the colonel's whereabouts as a manhunt for him continues. the syrian troops have intensified their crackdown on the volatile city of homs with up to twenty people killed in the latest round of violence activists say government forces are hunting for a group of soldiers believed to have 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. as the u.s. prepares to mark ten years since the nine eleven attacks the result of what president bush dubbed the war on terror are coming under scrutiny a decade of military campaigns overseas has been accompanied by headlines of civilian deaths and secret prisons as well as torture we begin our special coverage

of the anniversary our he's got a cheeky on takes a look at whether all 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 rate an f as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if that which warmed if it out the great we're going to talk them over which we're thank you is the highest level of burden uter and that have significantly said it's back on the weapon in trying to defeat terrorism that 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 gave long campaign on terror has created a new phenomenon 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 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 to 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 with. 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. . lines coming away in a few minutes first though business with dmitri. and

welcome to the program the guess dispute between russia and ukraine is getting a new twist here of says it will export the excess natural gas it has to buy out from russia to europe ukraine is fighting to renegotiate gas contracts included in two thousand nine hundred this deal ukraine has to buy thirty three billion cubic meters of gas and this will lead to a surplus of six billion next year of exports this it will reportedly cost gazprom around two and a half billion dollars russia's gazprom says the current gas contract is still in force has not commented on ukraine's move yet. russia's online retailer also on our you has raised one hundred million dollars for equity funding this money will be used for expansion that includes developing postal services in the country the funding is the largest for an e-commerce company in russia investors include the distinct partner group net major japanese online retailer

akutan part of the cash will be used to bolster russia's shipping system by developing those on zone network and on and retail has grown for thirty six percent in the first half of this year is also considering an i.p.o. . seek a quick check on the markets asian markets are trading mixed head of key policy statements in europe and in the u.s. hong kong did have gains early on in the session but is now losing one percent banking stocks under pressure that's true and commercial bank of china is dropping one half percent tokyo is still managing to stay afloat one third of a percent material financial group is in the lead. by one half hours since the opening of this session in russia was still seeing a correction with. my six within just point one percent energy show. as our correcting if we look at the main movers on the my six ross near ft here's

a down around point four percent of financial stocks also under selling pressure with the profit taking seen in point nine percent north nickel is down one percent despite the fact it's widely speculated the company will be buying back its shares at a twenty four percent premium to the market that's according to the folks news agency quoting a source in the company rogers leading telecommunications company even as increased second quarter net profit by forty two percent however the total of three hundred twelve million dollars was nearly half of what this were expecting still. to hear now from troika dialog is positive about the company's future there was there is or several one offs should know on. its net income in the future periods when full kwame is developing globally than i am tears but this is probably the result of the company and the investing into east natural and into.

and introducing new terra plants and that's impacting its current growth rates but in the future we do expect. to accelerate growth in the pressure to deliver the comparable to their peers the growth rates. moscow city is planning the biggest assets it's history so to serve to raise of two billion dollars or six correspondents you've got to go to the details. it is a question whether any local authority in the world has such a wide and 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 mayor 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 top 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 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 full this has not yet been revealed but it really is tens and tens of them and you next see the headlines with magic stay with us.

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a country mourns after wednesday's plane crash near the city area of. forty three including members of one of russia's top ice hockey teams tragedy also touches other nations as players from many countries were aboard on their way to belarus for the season's first match. twenty years in jail russian pilot arrested in the u.s. sting operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs konstantin cohen says he's innocent while moscow previously accuses the u.s. of conducting an illegal arrest in rendition the british government under fire for stopping an inquest into the death of a weapons expert david kelly who insisted iraq never had weapons of mass destruction official cause of death of suicide again being questioned by doctors. next financial pundit max kaiser looks at the scandal behind financial news headlines stay with us through.