so their culture and nationality profession evolved with the furthest thing i think it might c.m.'s be commonplace maxime's but still we have to talk about us because today we got that feeling because now. what you did notice there is a huge temptation to start again or to tighten the screws the real work of rick was it for this and that would be the simple onslaught of. prime separate there's much poverty what should be done as z's we wish to say we sure got to be far out there on the leadership to. tighten the screws but it's not the way. you should not limit their rights so people and you should. be given the play of the shard bulk of the criticism and that is why in the policy of any state in the we are not exclusion in any stance european asian ones. which

just the good will sometimes he acts on the reaction estate is so ultra conservative radius prevail and you know your politics what you get and. what it's all fashions all the same if she is. a legal part is made their way to live parliaments of some countries and. there are. influence and factor in the social life all this days and some places torture sajjan officially moved like you for potentially the good of the new border barriers even bigger then the notorious bill in wall art directors of the us and we will hear calls for the expulsion of all foreigners and suppression of any kind of minorities like you and i will later stress. i'm talking about not with luther those days aweek sure on the

way of democracy i'm talking about not so much the most advanced the most democratic states. and russia in our country i'm going with the role so that those who would like to of you who don't like they were sent here we have a different people and there are people who would like to box. you and go in alliance into the bright future with i'm convinced that this is not their way moreover it is struck to focus on that i believe that this state of the woods that should follow the society trends just they should keep up there is a trance rather than dragonet gulf of moreover the leadership of first states is the people with their all on impressions mistakes.

them and their leaders. in islam i mean with another warts like this they would if we should to you and i just a limited reality are saying to be that it we're expected and should support and it has social diversity as the main there should know as it includes to this we continue with your to increase financial in the formation support for the and jaws of different profile and level of government and secondly we should render some or two of these people to get access to a new independent information sources included in the incentives to make and for development of digital television and broadband international i'm personally involved in this and i believe this is exclusively important for our country we are practically humanoids digitally how big a country body still there is room for improvement is that we should improve the education system and science for me while encouraging the international cooperation

innovation and the mentee in a spirit of freedom i offer it to you now universities because we should treat you fools you very well upon without exclusion you traditionally and at the same time morton. cultures which. exist in our country of what we do well enough and finally a few for maybe the most relevant taken into college forthcoming the parliamentary elections. are to go for tea and offer the constitution a fresh search its fourth the principle of ideological and political diversity to deal with russia over recently years we have brought over election but have made our own legislation more sensitive to this principles and political parties have no equal opportunity is to be presented. to me the election thresholds has been reduced from seven to five percent for the potus they can be placed in this they don't mark years i have already said that this is and storing them with the and at

the same time gradual modernisation of i want a little system and in my opinion this is what we need but i hope they open and some are saying that we should do everything swiftly and quickly and that will be a success but this is one position on the other position they have that let's keep what we have now everything is good so we have solid political support so institutions quiet good situation in the economy so. to make harm do harm there but we should do b. they will appear in their how monist way will be a complex society in which many groups and senate least influence exist they call for further decentralization of the straight into allegations of some public functions to be social organizations and some policies of from higher authorities to regional and human issues both your cause is of the trends of the development of

the russian statehood and it's obviously this is the trend for the development of other states as well dear friends in conclusion i would like to say that here we politicians social figures mission who should be mission you play members representatives of n.g.o.s journalists. and i sincerely thank you for the for this a patient in the work of our work for us for our forum. you become a bait and not a living in the global you put out the feedback system which really is the mold you know that land it's this forum that. provides for a. chance to listen to each other better to understand better. and now a forum is that demonstration of. they will city.

that is why the. all mankind has a chance i strongly believe that thank you very much thank you for comment but is it bates in being with us on this forum and taken into those. events with we should confront thank you. you've been listening to the keynote address of russian president dmitry medvedev to the global policy forum in the russian city of jaroslava president medvedev started the address with a tribute to the fallen players who died in the locomotive plane crash tragically earlier on wednesday an open with a moment of silence then he continued addressing the main topics of the forum talking about multiculturalism and the challenges of diversity that face modern countries saying that diversity though is essential to the cultural and society of societal development of modern countries he talked about information technology the

advancement of social networking the russian president known to be a lover of technology and trying to make russia a more high tech country he addressed class inequality class where warfare and income inequality and its role in shaping modern societies said that there needs to be a focus on diversity and multiculturalism in a russia specifically something that he also addressed including the tensions that it could lead to in modern society and in modern russia also address the challenges that are. facing russia in terms of terrorism and the wealth gap that exists in this country he also talked about progress of russian democracy and about how to preserve the integrity of the country in the face of the challenges that it faces and wrapped up by saying that it is through diversity that a country can be made stronger and better adapt to challenges and become a better member of the global community so that was the address of president medvedev brings us to our top story that we were talking about earlier.

as president medvedev had mentioned during his speech the tragedy. was described as the ice hockey darkest day the worst disaster affecting sport in russia's recent history forty three people confirmed dead after a plane carrying one of the country's top teams locomotive crashed just after takeoff only two survivors now fighting for their lives in the hospital our teams sean 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 os level and in fact just a bit ago president get of 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 then the dream we didn't fancy christine for many years the family including a little child that went to. but. it's like losing a family member. that was the new school for well there was a new one of the clears he was my neighbor and he was a greets person he's cool two little kids left you 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 good he will remember them forever. they were life yesterday afternoon on wednesday the plane that failed to reach the altitude again the lived in the power needed to actually take. shortly after takeoff he had

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 of forty three of them are confirmed dead two in the hospital of course right now one of them the world famous hockey player part of the russian national team as well he has that burns over ninety percent of his body and already has received some medical treatment also for his lungs as well another person that he suffered a broken femur as soon as this incident happened. to putin announced that there would be a full investigation into this they've grounded some of the airplanes the same type of the forty two that was involved in this crash and he ordered the transportation minister personally to come to the scene and handle that investigation. dmitri medvedev visited the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster in the region at the site russia's president said he's taking the investigation under his personal control he also ordered the transport ministry to

pay special attention to pilot training and russia civil aviation sector saying those not up to the task must be let go but have added that the entire industry must undergo some serious changes russia's leader is in jaroslav all taking part in the global policy forum that's currently underway he started his keynote speech at the forum by asking everyone to observe a moment of silence. like you can get us all citizens were killed and the citizens of seven other countries were also killed in the crash and i was to observe a minute of silence to look cool and then my memory. our correspondent is on our way is at the forum she'll join us live shortly with more on the russian president's keynote speech. 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 our sports

presenter andrew farmer says rebuilding the team will be a challenge but he thinks the lessons could be learned from a similar accident in the past. everybody who's involved in this game will be doing that best to ensure that something can continue and also a lot of people have been starting to pay tribute today as he died and they include the russian former captain alex yashin north of the current player. we can hear from the map. will come to my friend's going to play in them because the way to get the job years ago or those rooms is just want to give my condolences to the families. and the sweet stuff for the body what shocked me with the story. i'm speechless you know. i'm going to. be

a sports commentator suggested yesterday but perhaps a way forward to help this club continue is for every team in the k h l to give up a player to dangle it's a playful. will this idea came from another tragedy 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 on that the case in the teams that were playing in the soviet championship as it was then decided to give a player the practical so they could continue to play football that team still existed on the specky stand so that is a suggestion and i believe that it is now being considered seriously by the k h l. the loss is not only being felt in russia but other countries too because of the team's international lineup vigils and memorial service is held in cities across europe including prague where people gathered to pay tribute to the crash victims here the thoughts and emotions of people outside russia reflecting on the tragedy.

dot com. now to other news 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 brought to the u.s. on charges of drug smuggling but moscow says his arrest and rendition were illegal or he'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 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 he just said well you think it's cruel but i send you to twenty years behind bars do you really think in my house 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 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 and four of them provide more details on your

shirkers case on our website or to dot com. 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 the authorities of a major cover up or he's aware of 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 almost skiing as the sole civil 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 old medical and scientific reports relating to it was secretly classified something which has never

been legally explained but it hasn't gone away this week 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 dave attell pain group of other distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. that this group. crossed by. monograms. the police. would. become pain has popular support reaches of the daily mail newspaper have to ne to do 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 just subsequent governments cover up. or cover ups are standard procedure for u.s. and european security services according to the human rights commissioner for the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons thomas harburg says the practice hampers investigations in an interview that's coming your way in about twenty minutes here 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 that the some of the european governments who have been involved they have to decide whether they see the corporation between the security agencies more important than to look into human rights violations and break the ice for you know 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. terrorist activity has been weakened in russia but remains a major threat according to president dmitry medvedev russia's president was speaking at the third global policy forum in the russian city of jaroslav all problems facing a multicultural society a concept that suffered huge blows recently in western europe are among the issues he touched on for more on this we're going to have to live. for. so a keynote speech there by president about it at the forum can you unpack some of the main issues for us. well multiculturalism certainly is the main theme at the forum in general and that was something that president to me to me to be defiled lighted very much so in his keynote speech i spoke about russia as a whole how as a country is so diverse ethnically also income wise and how really the country

needs to diversify its economy for it to grow he also warns that he doesn't believe it's something that needs to be done revolutionary really fast he spoke more about sort of this steady evolution and that criticism that ross is not moving fast enough is not something that the country should listen to but you keep going on its steady way towards modernization which of course is a big thing for president made it his main platform. as president he also spoke about multiculturalism in europe and western europe especially when seeing the past couple of months violence on the streets quite a few terror attacks and he spoke about russian how russia like you said has been fighting terrorism quite successfully recently nevertheless remains a very serious threat and you've warned of the dangers of not being able to deal with integration and how that can of course lead to very serious security threats and that's a theme that's going to continue throughout the day as the rest of the speakers who

are joining in to this discussion will continue throughout the day here at the president also speaking about the situation more hinting i would say in north africa and the warning that you can't force other countries to use the reference to people really but it was obvious he was talking about perhaps the situation in libya that you can't force other people to live the way you live and a lot of critics have been agreeing with pat that you can't take a country and try to make it a democratic country that things need to be slowly done and that each country very well has the right to its own kind of democracy. all right our life for us thanks for that report. business is next with dmitri medvedev go stay with us. thanks man hello and welcome to business r.t. russia's top lenders burbank has bought the eastern european arm of austria's for

expansion the final prize could range from five hundred eighty five to six hundred forty five million years depending on performance by the end of the year the head of the burbank sees the acquisition as the bank's springboard for expansion in europe under the agreement bank will also provide burbank with a five year funding of five hundred million years. the gas dispute between russia and ukraine is getting a new twist here of says it will explore the excess natural gas it has it has to buy oil from russia rather to europe ukraine is fighting to renegotiate gas contrast conclude in two thousand and nine and of 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 key of exports this year will reportedly cost gazprom around two and a half billion dollars russia's gazprom says the current gas contract is still in force and hasn't commented on ukraine's move yet. russia's online retail or zonder

or you has raised one hundred million dollars for funding now 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 existing partner net the major japanese online retailer akutan part of the cash will be used to bolster russia's shipping system by developing our zones own network the online retailer has grown thirty six percent the first half of the year is also considering a free float. move to stock markets europe has reversed into positive ground ahead of obama speech and as the c.b.s. expected to great heights mining giant glencore is up more than four and a half percent metals are seeing an upswing also in london the royal bank of scotland lloyds are up more than four. the positive sentiment in europe russia continues the bull run from wednesday when the market gained three percent the r.t.s. up is up point four percent my stocks a bit more than that point six for there to look at the main the movers on the my

six you'll see that still some of the blue chips are down like lukoil down a half a percent this is on the back of a slight decline in oil prices after also significant growth seen on wednesday as burbank is up two percent as we've just heard the confirmation that it's buying into vox bank and norris nickel is also one percent there's speculation that there will be a large premium to the market price when the company if the company of course goes ahead with a share buyback. and 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 bill banning producers from adding new filling stations in regions where they already dominate the market there is a breach the proposed law will have to restructure and sell known core assets of the anti monopoly services promising to a new wave of court cases to try and force competition meanwhile prime minister

putin has ordered the development of more refining capacity in russia's far east to overcome fuel shortages there. and moscow city is planning the biggest asset sale in its history authorities hope to raise up to two billion dollars r.t. correspondent going to. 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 cake makers and cosmetics makers it is a direct testament to the air of yury luzhkov who was married for nearly twenty years until he was deposed last year he was forced to resign in his time the government had its finger in almost every part when every new investment project one the government asked for share for itself now the new broom has come in. and what he's saying is that it's no job of the government to be looking after these private companies to be involved in all of these businesses which have 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 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 list has not yet been revealed but it really is tens and tens of them. headlines are next.

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two thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines of a sports team perishes and a country mourns after wednesday's plane crash near the city of jaroslav kills forty three including members of 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 sees. me bed and sends his condolences to everyone connected to the ice hockey team at his keynote address to the global policy forum in the city of jaroslav russia's president also visited the disaster site where he called for a drastic over. all of the country's aviation industry. twenty years behind bars a russian pilot arrested in a us sting operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs constantine go insisted he was innocent while moscow previously accused the u.s. of conducting an illegal arrest and rendition. and britain's government under fire for stopping an inquest into the death of weapons expert david tell you.