just after three pm here in the russian capital you're watching what's been described as ice hockey is darkest day and the worst disaster affecting sports in russia's recent history forty three people are confirmed dead after a plane carrying one of the country's top. crashed just after takeoff now the only two survivors are now at hospital fighting for their lives artie's shot thomas has more from that. 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 would be out 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 to the dream which we've been friends of his team for many years who family including a little child that went to all the games but for us is here after a billows it's like losing a family member. here but this was the new school for a while there was i knew one of the clear is he was my neighbor and he was a great 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 where there used to be a team. there isn't. so much when they were everything to us good he will remember them forever. i wish they were life yesterday afternoon on wednesday the plaintiff. to reach the altitude again the

lived in the power needed to actually take off shortly after takeoff 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 burns over ninety percent of his body and already has received. medical treatment also for his lungs as well another person suffering a broken femur as soon as that in this incident happened. that there would be a full investigation into this they've grounded some of the airplanes the same type forty two that was involved in this crash and he ordered the transportation of minister personally to come to the scene and handle that investigation. medvedev has expressed his condolences to the city of level as well as the families of those killed in the plane crash he was speaking at the global policy for the city is

currently hosting. the new our citizens were killed in the crash as well as citizens of several other countries let's observe an image of silence to honor their memory but. well earlier the russian president visited at the crash site where he said he's taking the investigation under his personal control he also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention to pilot training in russia civil aviation sector saying those not up to the job must be let go but that added that the entire industry must undergo serious changes. well despite the air disaster the global policy forum in the us level is continuing our correspondent and lisa now is there and she'll bring us more of what's been said there shortly. well wednesday's plane crash happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental 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 that

rebuilding the team will be a challenge but believes that lessons could be learned from a similar accident in the past. everybody who's involved in this game will be doing their best to ensure that something can continue and also a lot of people have been starting to pay tribute to there you see died and they include the russian former captain election yashin north of the current player. we can hear from the. country and my friends give them a. way to give years ago or. just want to give you. sweet stuff. going with the story we're going to be. you know. we'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 to play for lokomotiv yaroslav all 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 then and on that the cage and the teams that were playing in the soviet championship as it was then decided to give a player a practical so they could continue to play football that team still existed i expect he stands. that is a suggestion and i believe that it is now being considered seriously by the care. of the losses being felt not only of russia but also many other countries due to the hockey teams the international lineup of vigils and memorial services have been held in cities across europe including prague where people gathered to pay tribute to the victims of the crash will hear the thoughts and emotions as people outside russia reflect off the tragedy our web site that's our dot com.

to other news now russian a pilot found go. d. of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the u.s. earlier this year has been sentenced to twenty years behind bars. was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten and transported to america on charges of drug smuggling but moscow says his arrest and redemption were illegal as artie's and associates explains. 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 until the last minute himself and

his family his mother and wife who are here to support him broke out in tears in the courtroom today as the sentence was announced i'm not convinced we have nothing to hope for believe in and the judge would be reasonable upright and he just said 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 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 and four of them had a similar controversy surrounds another russian who is awaiting trial in the u.s. the alleged arms dealer viktor boot while he's now at a new york prison and the proceedings are scheduled for next month before the details of this intriguing case you can log on to our dot com. the british government faces a legal challenge over its decision not to allow a new inquest said to the death of weapons expert david kelly in two thousand and three well the group of doctors have questioned the official version of events that kelly committed suicide and bake years authorities of a major cover up artist or emmett has more now from london. more than eight years since the death of u.n.

weapons inspector david kelly and still no inquest following his almost 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 help in the group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. there is one

group from across the aisle. monograms. the. very. least you start to become pain has popular support 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 hoping this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play just subsequent governments cover up. cover ups are normal practice for american and the european security services that's according to the human rights commissioner for the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons thomas hammer burke says the practice have person best acacias in an interview that's coming your way. our but here is a preview. well there is an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this

secret in fact instructions from from with the support of the way to us not to give any facts so therefore it's not easy to investigate but i think that some of the european governments have been and they have to decide whether they think that the corporation between the security agencies are more important than to look into human rights violations and break the natural impunity is not acceptable that we have states within the states who are run on undemocratic 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. a terrorist activity has been weakened in russia but it remains a major threat that's according to the meeting with the head of all the russian president was speaking at the third global policy forum in the russian city of the other slav all the problems of a multicultural society

a concept that suffered huge blows recently in western europe were also among the issues he touched upon all artes and he said now with reports from the fore. multiculturalism certainly is the main theme at the forum in general and that was something that president. very much so in his keynote speech spoke about russia as a whole how as a country it's 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 the steady evolution of that criticism that russia is not moving fast enough is not something that the country should listen to but you keep going on its way towards modernization which of course is a big thing for president meant to his main platform as president he also spoke about multiculturalism in europe in western europe especially what we've been seeing the past couple of months violence on the streets quite

a few terror attacks and he spoke about russia how russia has been fighting terrorism quite successfully recently nevertheless remains a very serious threat newborn to the dangers of not being able to deal with integration and how that can of course lead to a very serious security threat to the president also speaking about the situation more hinting i would say in north africa and the mideast warning that you can't force other people to live the way you live and a lot of critics have been agreeing with that 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 artie's and he said now reporting from there and if you want to see more of president medvedev speech at the forum we've got all the highlights for you live if you're just log on to free video dot r t doc call for free. mission free

credit patient free in-store chargers free. range and free. free. free. download free broadband videos for your media projects free radio dot r.t. dot com. in israel angry protesters have clashed with police and tell of their vast or authorities move to dismantle a tent city the cap was part of a nationwide protest against the high cost of living and social inequality party's policy or reports were standing 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 point in corrupt and they calling on him to go home now this follows a protest way some two hundred demonstrators clashed with police in front of the city hall building they tried to storm the building they were throwing stones and exited and some forty people were arrested 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 i mean this appeal 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 they tense and urge them to do so peacefully but we saw 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're going to be upping this kind of resistance in the coming days these protesters have been on the streets of several cities of 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 the demands. of the. oh let's look at a more international headlines this hour the libyan leader moammar gadhafi has denied speculation that he's seeking refuge in neighboring niger or some of the savoy lists of already fled well in his latest audio message the fugitive colonel has also vowed to never leave libya gadhafi reiterated his plans to continue fighting against the rebels who he referred to as mercenaries bugs and traitors this statement follows conflicting reports regarding the colonel's whereabouts as the manhunt for him continues. syrian troops of intensified their crackdown on the volatile city of homs with up to twenty people killed and the latest violence activists say government forces are hunting for a group of soldiers who defected to the opposition comes after president assad's government delayed a planned arab league visit expected to begin on wednesday the 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 george bush dubbed a war on terror are coming under scrutiny a decade of military campaigns overseas has been accompanied by headlines of civilian deaths secret prisons and torture well as we begin our special coverage of the anniversary parties going nature takes a look at whether all that succeeded in making america a safer place or a more dangerous one. they are going to be one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history the 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 and the f s for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight

them have spawned even more extremism torture and if that which weren't just put out the great we're going to talk them over which we're thinking is the highest level of burden of years and that have significantly set its back since nine eleven in trying to defeat terrorism america's there kade 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 you think it should still be a tool yes rendition yes secret prisons yes wiretapping well with right to prove george tenet head of the cia at the time 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. well in response to things like drone attacks in office. and some way there's often a diversification of recruits at 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 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 is 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 there 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 team. will be continuing our special coverage of the ten year anniversary of the nine eleven attacks over the next few days and as our special report discovers on friday the us got a set of bore the brunt of america's so-called war on terror many afghans don't

know what the war is all about. in this province think about nine eleven and its consequences. but never. know. if i just got here we've been surprised everybody here now for six months and this is british stone ages where we are. all back with a recap of the headline shortly but first business news had to make tree. thanks to learn welcome to business and see new pipelines are sprouting across russia the other side of the country from north stream the pipeline provides a new artery to markets in asia business. this land is surrounded by some of the most and there are jihan green nations in the world consumption in places such as south korea or china is growing rapidly offering great opportunities for

gas brum to cash in especially now as it has loads of gas close to the region and read to be exported this new gas pipeline which allowed to move putin is opening ross from faculty into lodge of us told it is able to supply thirty billion cubic meters of gas annually bought to the russian seed is the round here need just a tiny part of that and that's why gas problem is desperate to find buyers for its extra gas and doesn't talks with several contras but it's not all so easy at the moment talks with china are dragging over the prize and possible supplies to south korea are complicated by risky transits through north korea but to their reason another project to make use of the far east and gas it is an alan g. plant and lots of us talk gazprom is considering building the plant with japan's a total corporation and if it's on stream in five years as planned the gas from

here may be a shipped to the world's biggest alan g. consumers south korea and japan. the gaza strip between russia and ukraine is getting a new twist kiev says it will explore the excess natural gas it has to buy oil from russia to europe here grayness fighting to renegotiate gas contracts concluded in two thousand and nine hundred is the old ukraine has to buy thirty three billion cubic meters of gas and this will lead to a surplus of six billion next year. exports this will reportedly cost gazprom around two and a half billion dollars russia's gazprom says the current gas contract is still in force but hasn't yet commented on ukraine's move. russia's top lenders burbank has bought the b i the east european arm of austria sporks bank the final price could range from five hundred eighty five to six hundred forty five million years depending on p.b.s. 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 agreements walks bank also provides burbank with a five year funding of five hundred million euros. nash's online retailer are you has raised one hundred million dollars for funding and this money will be used for expansion and that includes developing postal services in the country the funding is the largest for an e-commerce company in russia versus include the existing partner route net and a major japanese online retailer rakuten part of the cash will be used to bolster russia's shipping system by developing all zones own network retail those growth thirty six percent of first half of the year is also considering an i.p.o. . and that brings us nicely to the markets first of all to commodity markets or oil is down after posting significant growth in the previous session that says weather conditions in the mexican gulf still far from being calm with more tropical storms coming to fret and production right now light sweet bread down more than thirty

cents europe has reversed into positive territory ahead of obama's speech and. b.c.b.s. expected to halt the rate hikes mining giant glencore is up more than four percent as metals are seeing an upswing and world bank of scotland more is in london also up more than four percent. with a positive sentiment in europe russia continues from wednesday with marginal gains though r.t.s. up point one percent my six just one quarter of a percent we take a look at the main movers on the my surface you'll see that as burbank has one of the strongest performers after this announcement the deal with. it's up one half percent lukoil is down one percent as oil prices are treating an enormous nickel is positive as there's a lot of talk that there will be a premium to the market price when if and if and when the call goes ahead with the share buyback. russia's anti monopoly regulator will give the green light to the

merger of the my sex and stocks exchanges according to sources cited on interfax anything left concerns and decision on tariffs for traders joined company already plans to carry out an i.p.o. in twenty thirty. and the monopoly authorities in russia cracking down on big oil firms in order to restrain fuel price growth in 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 a non core assets the head of the ads a monopoly service is promising a new wave of court cases to try and force competition meanwhile prime minister putin has ordered the development of more of russia's far east to overcome fuel shortages there. and that's it for me can join my colleague marina course or she will be here in around fifteen minutes time to bring an update the headlines are next on.

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a country mourns after wednesday's plane crash in the city of yes leveled kills forty three including members of one of russia's top wise hockey teams the tragedy also touched other nations as players from many countries were on board all the way to bella reese for the first match of the season. sends his condolences to everyone connected to the ice hockey team at his keynote speech at the global policy forum in get a slot the russian president also visited the disaster site where he called for a drastic overhaul of the country's aviation industry. and the british government is under fire for stopping an inquest into the death of weapons expert david kelly who insisted iraq never had weapons of mass destruction the fischel cause of death of suicide is again that being questioned by doctors and up next is the cars are for children r t if you stay with us.