in the hospital fighting for their lives or he was shot thomas has more. certainly heavy feelings all around as people come to pay their respects and mourn locomotive was a three time a championship team the people here loved this team and they are grieving in mass in fact today marks the beginning of a three day period of mourning here in the city of your arse and in fact just a bit ago president medvedev himself came here to the accident site to lay a wreath and pay his own respects a very somber day in fact we had the opportunity to speak to some of the mourners and these are their words the engine of the team which unlike you we've been fans of this team for many years who family including a little child went to all the games but for us is here operable los it's like losing a family member. here but this was the new school for those who was here i knew one of the clears he was my neighbor and he was a greets person he's cool two little kids left who 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. there isn't. so much. they were everything to us he will remember them forever. i wish they were life yesterday afternoon on wednesday the plane failed to reach the altitude again the lived in the power needed to actually take off shortly after takeoff it clipped an antenna at the end of the runway and burst into a ball of flames we know that there were forty five people on board at forty three of them are confirmed dead two in the hospital of course right now one of them world famous hockey player part of the russian national team as well he has burns over ninety percent of his body and already has received some medical treatment also for. longs as well another person who suffered

a broken femur as soon as this incident happened. to me a putin announced that there would be a full investigation into this they've grounded some of the airplanes the same type the op forty two that was involved in this crash and he ordered the transportation minister personally to come to the scene and handle that investigation. wednesday's plane crash happened on the first day of the new season of the continental hockey league many of the men who perished played for their countries and were real stars of the sport r.t. sports presenter andrew farmer says rebuilding the team will be a challenge but believes lessons learned could be learned from a similar accident in the past. one development today is that the k h l she said that the season was perspiring didn't definitely the season. placed around this week to the climax of the month of course the same thing that's been canceled so where they go from for the future i don't know what i know is that. everybody who's

involved in this game will be doing that best to ensure that something can continue in. and also a lot of people have been starting to pay tribute today he died and they include the russian former captain election yashin north of the current player. we can hear from the man. so. in the. country and a lot of my friends going to play in them because of the way to do the job years ago or because i'm going to just i just want to give my condolences to the families and the sweet stuff for the body but what shocked me with this very serious news that we. i'm speechless you know. is that i'm going to. be you're a sports commentator suggested yesterday but perhaps a way forward to help this club continues for every team in the k h l to give up apply to then go. a playful locomotive jaroslav will this idea came from another

child judy sporting tragedy in russian history back in one nine hundred seventy nine a packed the court football team were involved in their accident seventeen plays died and all not the case in the teams that were playing in the soviet championship is it won't stand decided to give a player the practical so they could continue to play football that team success that i expect you stand. that is a suggestion and i believe that it is now being considered seriously by the k h l laws as being felt not only in russia but other countries because of the hockey teams international lineup visuals and memorial services held in cities across europe including prague where people gathered to pray tribute to the victims of a crowd here the thoughts and emotions of people outside russia reflect on the tragedy by clicking on our team dot com. president dmitry medvedev visited the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster in the

jaroslava region at the site russia's president said he's taking the investigation under personal control also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention to the pilot training in the russian civil aviation sector saying it was not up to the job must be let go medvedev added that the entire industry must undergo serious changes. little the problem we have requires tough decisions russia's aircraft fleet has to be modernized and human lives here should come first not any other interests including those of russian plane makers. to visit the disaster site the russian leader changed his schedule at the global policy forum that's also currently underway in jaroslav all our correspondent in isa now is at the forum which will be bringing us the latest as it happens. by the devastating tragedy here and you're a snob of the global policy forum continues the president waited to make

a keynote speech after he pays his respects to those who lost their lives. we'll be bringing you dmitri medvedev speech live later this hour here on r.t. . 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 constantine was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten and brought to the u.s. on charges of drug smuggling moscow says his arrest and rendition were illegal as artie's on a stasi churkin reports. 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 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 and who the judge would be reasonable upright and he just well you think it's cruel but they send you to twenty years behind bars do you really think it may help in this case 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 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 security forces as police try 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 is coming up short. term became synonymous with pure evil. the senseless slaughter almost three thousand people stunned the world. and it all seemed like a nightmare. ten years on. r.g.p. remembers the attacks and it's. a look back at nine eleven.

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 a question the official version of events that kelly committed suicide and accuse authorities of a major cover up artie's laura i met 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 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 group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. we want to reach across the aisle. monograms. the lead. with. the campaign has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have 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 and just subsequent

government coverup. cover ups are normal practice 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 hummingbird says the practice hampers investigations 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 i think that the some of the european governments who have been involved they have to decide whether they seeing the cooperation between the secured agencies more important than to look into human rights violations and break the speed of impunity it's not acceptable that we have states within the states who have 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. the problems of a multicultural society a concept that suffered huge close recently in western europe among the main focal points of a third global policy forum in the russian city of jaroslava leading figures from politics economics and academia are taking part but the first solution is on how to best solve desperate situations of libya and syria among other issues artes and he said now it reports. of course this form of a march completely by the tragedy that happened on wednesday when almost an entire hockey team being wiped out in that plane crash i just want to point out that the venue for the forum ironically is actually their home stadium so just outside delegations arriving with flowers as well as president he made his way this morning to decide that crash with 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 i have also be having some bilateral meetings he's meeting the president of turkey where they're expected to focus on by the federal trade and other issues of course in the region that 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 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 the security of 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 or spiral i should say even further in the civil war so those are some of the debates that are going on this year here at the forum to spite the tragedy a lot of discussions about the world's most pressing issues on the second day of the global policy forum. so as he's a nice enough way following the debates of the global policy forum in jaroslav all will continue special coverage of the event throughout the day we're expecting president of to make a keynote speech shortly stay with us on our team for the latest. in israel i agree protesters have 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 inequality or he's possibly reports. in front of the mayor's house here in tel aviv where several

dozen protesters are gathered they screaming at the mayor to resign they're calling him corrupt and they're 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 were brutally beaten by the police this is all in response to early wednesday morning when municipal workers 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 urge 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 nazis and and warned them that they going to be upping this kind of

resistance in the coming days these protesters have been on the streets of several cities of the base a part of two months they're demanding issues of social justice they were 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. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi denies speculation he's seeking refuge in neighboring the share where some of his loyalists have already fled and his latest audio message the fugitive colonel also vowed to never leave libya gadhafi reiterated plans to continue fighting against the rebels whom he called mercenaries thugs and traitors the statement comes after conflicting reports regarding the colonel's whereabouts as the man 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 violence activists say government forces are hunting for a group of soldiers who defected to the opposition this comes after president assad's government delayed a planned arab league visit expected to start on 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 results of what president george w. bush dubbed the 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 allegations of torture we begin our special coverage of the anniversary artie's guided chickie on takes a look at whether any of it succeeded in making the u.s. a safer place. a good thing 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 is that which warm just get off the grid or going talk on the road which we're thank you is the highest level on a curtain call it is and that both significantly think it's backed up in trying to defeat terrorism following nine eleven america did not just go after the perpetrators it unleashed a campaign on a nation that had nothing to do with the attack hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians have died since the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three america's there gave a 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 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 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 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 a 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 our war on terror. begins with al qaida. but it does not in their listening to george bush's declaration of war on terror from ten years ago one is left wondering whether it was the beginning of a vicious circle where the revenge would take more innocent lives and would start a new wave of terror i'm going to check our reporting from washington our to. business next with dmitri stay with us. and a warm welcome to business r.t. the gas this feud between russia and ukraine is getting a new twist here says it will export to the excess natural gas it has to buy out from russia to europe ukraine is fighting to renegotiate gas contracts concluded in

two thousand and nine under this deal ukraine has to buy thirty three billion cubic meters of gas this will lead to a surplus of six billion next year if you're a big sports 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 but has not commented yet on ukraine's. russia's online retailer always on our you 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 foreign e-commerce company in russia and this is include the existing partner room net and a major japanese online retailer called rakuten part of the cash will be used to bolster russia's shipping system by developing our zones own network the online retailer grew thirty six percent in the first half of the year it's also considering a float. so it could be its stock markets europe has reversed into positive

ground ahead of obama speech and as the e.c.b. is expected to halt rate hikes glencore is up more than six percent as metals are seeing an upswing of the s. and lloyd's also more than three percent in the black. and with a positive sentiment in europe russia continues the bull run from wednesday when the market gave three percent the r.t. as a percent right now my six point seven if we take a look at the main movers on the markets we're seeing a look or actually heading down point four percent as well prices are seeing a slight movement into the red this burbank is one of the biggest gainers this one point seven percent norris nickel. is in negative territory despite ongoing rumors that it may on the thirteenth of september announce a share buyback at a significant premium to the market price of around twenty three twenty four percent. now the monopoly authorities in russia are cracking down on big oil firms in order to restrain fuel price growth from the country they've introduced

a ban the bill banning producers from adding new filling stations and regions where they already dominate the market those who breach the proposed law will have to restructure and sell non core assets the head of the anti monopoly service is promising to a new wave of court cases to try and force competition while prime minister putin is a little development of more refining capacity in russia's far east to overcome few . there. moscow cities planning the biggest asset sale in its history authorities hope to raise up to two billion dollars correspondent you're going to go there has the 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 part when every new investment project one thought the government push 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 but 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 options 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 russia's leading telecommunications company vimpel com has increased second quarter net profit by forty two percent however the total of three hundred twelve million dollars was nearly half what analysts were expecting still and many people from too

like a dialogue is positive about the company's future. it was the result of several one offs that should not impact its net income in the future periods when it is developing slowly than amateurs but this is probably the result of the company and investing into its top and into terror and introducing new tariff plans and that's impacting its current growth rates but in the future we do expect. to accelerate growth in the pressure deliver comparable to peers the growth rates. kind of backs to on the headlines followed by sports.

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headlines a sports team perishes and a country mourns after wednesday's plane crash near the city of jaroslava kills forty three including one of russia's top ice hockey teams tragedy also touched other nations as players from many countries were on board on the way to belarus for the first match of the season. twenty years behind bars a russian pilot arrested in the u.s. sting operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs constantine you're ashamed go in says he wasn't guilty 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 efficient cause of death of suicide again being questioned by doctors in. sports is up next with andrew stay with us here on r.t. .