for four pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t and we begin with what has been called a. day and the worst disaster affecting sport and russia's recent history forty three people are confirmed dead after a plane carrying one of the country's top teams that. crashed in the city bearing its name the only two survivors are in a critical condition want to being a team player the other a crew member both are being taken to moscow for further treatment largely sean thomas is near the crash site which. day here in the city of jaroslaw well as the community reels from the tragic did sit in the that happened on that wednesday killing that the entire locomotive team as they were on their way to their first incident this happened about four o two on wednesday afternoon as their plane did not make lift off at the end of the runway burst into a ball of flames after clipping an antenna and killing all four but two on board there were forty three confirmed dead two didn't survive at this time one of them

of course being. played out for the team as well as the national team he suffered burns over ninety percent of his body as well as it has gone under gone multiple surgeries. including of his respiratory system another crew member of the plane that crashed. broken femur those two survivors are going to be transported to moscow so they can get the best medical care so that they can try and pull through this incredibly tragic incident. through it at the past night and day this is the beginning of a three day mourning period for the people. immediately vigil started happening as. members. so that they could be together in this moment of the night of the accident wednesday night and then all throughout thursday people. gathered at central churches in the so that they could be together

and share in the grief as well we had the opportunity to speak to some of the people as to their recollections and memories of the people on this team and here is their grief in their words. we've been fans of this team for many years who family including a little child went to all the games for us this irreparable loss it's like losing a family member. i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got two little kids left how could this happen when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears i still can't grasp how it could happen there used to be a team and no there isn't. it hurts so much. they were everything to us we'll remember them forever. i wish they were life

and a few anecdotes to share with you about this tragedy that aren't actually related to the incident at all but one of them one of the wife of the coaches was on her way back from vacation when she learned that her husband was in this accident and was asked to come and identify the body at the morgue in that case on her way to the morgue she got into a minor car accident she is ok but also a mother of one of the players on upon learning the news and we are told suffered a heart attack as well after hearing that her son was involved in this incident another story that we're told is a flight attendant twenty nine years old on this flight was married just three months ago and had told her friends and family that she was planning to retire from this business so that she could raise a family and have children and of course the people here are going to be gathering up for the next few days sharing. their stories share your community spirit so that

they begin the healing process after such a national tragedy. a wednesday's plane crash happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league and many of those who perished played for their countries and were real stars of the sport. joins me now in the studio for more creative certainly kate is a great tragedy for the ice hockey world what reaction have we been hearing so far well as has been mentioned before the players that played for this particular team came from around ten different nationalities around the world the hockey community in itself is very much a small community even though it's very much global the reaction that we've had is coming from the n.h.l. over in america as well as the shell it is it's come from the greats in the good it has come from the highest and i was it's come from fans from everywhere this is really seen a coming together of everybody within the ice hockey community i mean particularly players they reacted to this very strongly as well that friends were colleagues and i think now we can hear from alexei yashin he used to play for is now going to

fight for. my friends going to play a. couple of years ago or. just want to give my condolences to. me with this very. well we heard them from so he doesn't actually play fall off a place for us or center says so again the idea of the reaction coming from the global community or what about the future of the club and this is an entire generation of one whole team god what about the future is going to be rebuilt anything about that what we've been hearing from we've been hearing from the legends of the sport has been saying they've taken very much on board the idea that the hockey must carry on and the idea that's come true before is commentators have

to have broached the idea of the practical team that was a football team that was originally from the soviet union that was in a terrible irony also on a plane going to deploy it dinallo minsk and they were involved in a month and mid-air collision one hundred fifty people died seventeen members of the team itself on the team officials they died and what happened with the football league was that they all the league then each of the individual teams then volunteered a player to come through and and to form a new team the idea that the team must carry on in the league was carry on and as it is going to be on the twelfth of september and we can now hear how the greater good from in the ice hockey world making these suggestions and how we can go forward. because. the ice hockey family mourns the loss of one of the best teams it was a multinational deal with a unique group of players and the international sports community sharing our grief it was an outstanding team and our priority will be to build and you lock motif.

it's huge tragedy for the. big shark different. great hardship players. some good people. not only in our careers support but you know those services are. keeping. their people on this support of the team so there's a. they're professional work or it's. not no one seemed to be successful but. calls. for calls it was a boy try to do the war room with you but it would be silly if your new incredible . nobody over there was a just a good ways it was sort of so bold as that whether that was all those those are.

called the. players or the local would you feel it was a new. one as we heard them from alexander medvedev the head of the k h l saying that people don't even need to be honest people are volunteering to come and and play and also to coach and manage the club so the idea that very much everybody is you could tell by the great and good that all in shock but the idea that they all want to come together and go for the rebuilding is already happening actually all right thanks very much for kate for that perspective from the sporting industry there thank you well let me medvedev has visited the clash and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster in the us lovell and at the site the russian president said the number of a our lives must be reduced dramatically he also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention to pilot training and russia's civil aviation sector saying that those who are not up to the job must be sacked but that of added that the entire industry must undergo serious changes. president medvedev

altered his plans for the international policy forum in to visit the site of the crash but later arrived to address the global gathering our correspondent and he said now is there and she'll bring us some more of what's been said there shortly and also this hour. a decade since nine eleven we begin our special coverage of the anniversary commemorating the tragedy that shook the world that's coming up shortly. now the british government faces court action from a group of dog. doctors over the death of weapons expert david kelly in two thousand and three are pushing for a new inquiry after the first reached a verdict of suicide well kelly was be behind a report showing that britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion and found out the evidence in the case isn't as clear as previously thought. more than eight years since the death of u.n. weapons inspector david kelly and still no inquest following his own mosque as the

source of a report saying tony blair's government knew iraq had no weapons of mass destruction be full person invaded the country kelly was found dead in woods near his home a verdict of suicide was recorded despite what many see as conflicting evidence no one's ever said questions about kelly's death and all medical and scientific reports relating to it were secretly classified something which has never been legally explained but it hasn't gone away this week talked to david how pain is to mond that the question of holding an inquest to be reopened he's challenging a decision by attorney general domenic green 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.

cross. his mind. the lead. with. become pain has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have to natured 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. i was reporting there palestinians have started a campaign for statehood ahead of the september twentieth vote in the united nations they carried a letter to the local u.n. mission in ramallah saying their peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state largess policy or has more all the developments in the region paula

hi there so what exactly are the palestinians calling for. well the palestinian authority officially launched its campaign for statehood today thursday and in a formal written to the u.n. secretary chief ban ki moon it urged the international body to recognize palestinians just demands and what we understand is that the campaign will involve a series of events in the run up to the opening session of the un general assembly on september the twentieth it has been dubbed national campaign for palestine state one hundred and ninety four and to launch its one hundred palestinian high ranking officials and activists gathered today thursday at the u.n. headquarters in ramallah for a short ceremony of both the israeli government as well as the obama administration is against the stipulation and the u.s. has sent a formal request to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas asking him not to go ahead with it but a bus has rejected this we are hearing some rumblings behind the scenes that

israelis and palestinians have been meeting informally and in secret to discuss the possibility of possibly postponing this declaration but we have no confirmation of this or are those a lot of talk sort of leading up to the u.n. vote and ease well as well as bracing itself for that vote is about. well it certainly is what we've witnessed here particularly in the last two months is a build up of anger frustration discontent within the israeli public particularly leveled at the netanyahu government these have been the largest protests in this country's history and just yesterday protesters clashed. in tel aviv with police a number of. people accuse the police of treating them brutally and all of this is because the government has started removing terrorists from the streets of several cities despite the fact that earlier it said it would give protesters and till the end of the month to clean up their act and to meet the government including ways

and in boardrooms for discussions while they've been on the street protesters are saying is that they really cannot trust the government and there's also the concern that as the government turns its and turns its attention to what is happening externally be these of september the twentieth it will no longer even listen to the concerns being addressed here within the israeli society. thanks very much for that report artes of policy reporting there from a time of year. how the tragic jet crash has overshadowed a major political event taking place in the city and change plans including those of president medvedev speaking at the second and final day of the global policy for he touched upon the major challenges russia is facing that he said now is there for us at the moment hi there and so what exactly did the president have to say. almost certainly a lot of debate and discussion took place today for him just by the tragedy nevertheless the president felt it was the right thing to do to begin his keynote

speech with a moment of silence. but do you believe our citizens work. so when other countries were killed in the crash. and i wish to observe the. memory. well the president went on to give his speech it focused on multiculturalism of course that's the theme of this year's forum here and he spoke about the ethnic divides in russia and also about income divides and about how he thought that is very much one of the country needs to push on further with its. diversity in order to help society grow in the country grow in its steady path towards modernization of course a very i think we could say main platform of president made he also spoke about the situation in north africa and in the mideast saying that countries shouldn't. push

forward and try to teach other countries really in one word or another how to build a democracy it's something that has to come from within and of course he was talking about the situation in libya and syria and that's something that has really been a big topic today for him again multiculturalism in its failure really we've heard from plenty of critics over the past couple of months that it's just not working you know europe we've seen violence on the streets of western europe this is something that experts analysts and leaders have been discussing. for. right well thank you very much for that to me some reporting there from the global policy forum. now a russian a pilot who was convicted of drug smuggling earlier this year has been sentenced to twenty years in prison by a us court. was arrested in liberia in two thousand and ten and transported to the u.s.

moscow says his arrest and rendition or illegal. 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 him 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 not going to insist we have nothing to hope for believe in and who 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 their citizen was and because the u.s. state department failed to do only inform them. now in just a few days the united states will be marking its greatest tragedy in half a century the terrorist attacks on september eleventh two thousand and one what followed was a decade of invasions torture scandals and untold abuses all of the name of justice and righteousness well as we begin our special coverage of the anniversary of his

going to check out takes a look at whether the past decade made america a safer place. maybe one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history i'm sure doing a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but is america and the world now a safer place when you saw the most recent nine eleven commission report card gives aviation security in the u.s. the worst rate and after terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if this which weren't just put out the great we're going to look for thank you is the highest level on a curtain call theater and that have significantly said it's backed up and they're trying to be careful 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 decade long campaign on terror has created a new phenomena 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 no 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 the 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 and often. 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 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 right now kyra. 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. the vicious circle where the revenge would take more innocent lives and would start a new wave of terror. reporting from washington. over the next few days we'll be bringing you continuing coverage of the approaching a ten year anniversary of nine eleven including its effects both on the u.s.

some of those in afghanistan where many still don't know the reason why they were invaded almost a decade ago. in this province think about nine eleven. and let us. know. if i just got in your. having been here now for six months this is from the stone ages where we are. all for now and next is the business news with marina. hello and welcome to business here on our new pipelines are sprouting across russia and on the other side of the country from nordstrom the roof a gas pipeline provides a new artery to markets in asia and business artie's that jennifer you call a travel there for us 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 about should its full gas prone to cash in especially the now as it has loads of gas close to the region and read it to be exported this new gas pipeline which will lead to more putin is opening rounds from fact highly into vladivostok it is able to supply thirty billion cubic meters of gas annually bazza the russian seat 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 a prize and possible supplies to south korea are complicated by risk in transit through north korea but is there reason not a 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

corporation and if it's on stream in five years as planned the gas from here. yeah maybe a shipped to the world's biggest challenge. south korea and japan. the second look at the markets now will start with oil prices there are down after posting significant growth in the previous session and that says weather conditions in the mexican gulf are still far from calm with more tropical storms coming through for us and production. in europe has reversed into positive ground ahead of obama's speech and as the e.c.b. is expected soon holds rate hikes mining giant glencore is up more than four point five percent as metals are seen an upswing and r.b.s. envoys are also more than four percent in the black. the positive sentiment in europe russia continues the ball wrong from the ones they won the market day for sides let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my sucks sperm bank

a strongly in the black after it acquired the eastern european arm old bald spot and lukoil is among the main losers the company could face a several billion ruble fine as the federal and some monopoly service thinks it's overvalued fuel prices in the end of last year the same story with can see with ross that end gas problem that's and also nickel is on the rise on the ports busan is finally starting talks to sell its stake in the company. that's all we have time for this hour for more business news head to our website r.t. that com slash business in the meantime states in for the headlines.

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paul comeback you're watching r t and here's a look at the main headlines the world's eyes talking communities united in grief after russia's let. the motive team was almost entirely wiped out in a plane crash in the city of yet a slot with forty three people are confirmed dead while two survivors are in critical condition both have been taken to moscow for specialist treatment. the u.k. government faces legal action as doctors demand a new inquiry into the shady death of the weapons inspector he was the man who revealed that britain and new iraq had no weapons of mass destruction ahead of the invasion. the middle east the build up of palestinian start a peaceful campaign for statehood ahead of the vote israel tensions grow as police clashed with protesters calling for a better government. also twenty years in an american jail a russian pilot the tape in a u.s. sting operation in liberia is subjects for conspired to smuggle drugs but moscow.