national. union has no chance it will succeed i'm sure that this will be an. incredible event. and i really want to thank our russian friends for. organizing these work championships at such short notice but i'm sure the good president i mean off i know personally and his team will do their utmost to make these championships a thriving success. so if now where young an up and coming goal this could have a chance to perform on the european saw russia challenge cup comes to the most a region this week this will be the second time the cup has been held but this year the overall prize money has been increased to two hundred fifty thousand euros making it the third largest event of the tournament this competition is a stage of the european professional challenge tour which is a tier two bills the bend it allows the twenty top i must acquire thought of a european to the following year new talent and chance to shine so high

a level. it may play a crucial role for some young player to make the top trying to and that's what ever want is trying to make her not just make more money in prize money but to make the top twenty in the final rating which gives you an automatic card on the european tour for the next year so that's pretty much what everyone will be fighting for for those coveted top trying to place it. now the rugby world cup finally gets underway on friday with just new zealand. the pressure is on the all blacks who haven't won a tournament since one thousand nine hundred seven despite regularly being ranked as the world's best song life which a phone call from a course that was former new zealand captain sean he says this site is capable of winning the sport's biggest clients for the first time in twenty four years. and we're very excited at. three four years with no way of we've won the rights to the will cup and you don't count why it was not he said the last time we had a beer and i mean what's changed in new zealand something you know as

a nation. of four million people we talk about a stadium of four million people and they're looking forward to welcoming the rugby world and you think a possible capsulize about going to the world cups the world cup set up a show that i think gratian. the nice and sort of really taken on board what the rugby world cup has got behind it the museum. i love the rugby and i'm sure that. the right is a large part of what we can offer as a national party has been twenty four years of hurt so far as you know twenty eight years ago but somehow i said i'll be making a couple of months early i think there is even one nailed on favorites to defeat to south africa just last weekend straight in the news twenty different is this going on moments in the rounds but never so obviously it's a pretty four years since we last won the world cup it's a little montreal back when they get rid of. these ilands as

a team and done very well the last three three years preparing for this world cup but a force in the last couple of games we've had a bit of a blip but in doing that hopefully it's it's you know the prize inside them realise that you know it's not going to be as easy as some people think i'm a sort of reality check for us to those fans and media that you know will cups you know very very difficult to win and for new zealand they've got to play very. so you could be a blessing in disguise almost just to get expectations down a little because i mean news even the few months ago it's not going to go i think in terms of the why the new zealand struggle with such ease at the start of a trial i should say a process that's that we've had from a guy and it's really kind of them and really sort of going through it to the all blacks. have creators of the right gallows and if you don't like the breakdown. more often than not the team adonai strike down the one with diamond and my show

that i call kind of messianic game where three four weeks earlier richard mccord problem what the right going to special and this rubbish i tried the world. did against australia. that anything's possible if you could play well we can solve it if you're wrong you see it's like you know well you know i think obviously. that's with the times injuries as a concern and we saw that with the with the right kind of kind of plying adam johnson having applying not helping one hundred percent but this upset the balance of the time and that's why what combinations aside watching you know injuries is a concern for graham care a great thing and edges of it as a as a problem but he backs so hyper about quarter final time and but in doing that because somebody has an opportunity and victor base i took this opportunity really well against australia last week hopefully we've got there. is was. interesting.

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top stories on our t.v. the world's ice hockey community is united in grief after russia's little didn't see was almost entirely wiped out in a plane crash in the city of dallas level forty three people are confirmed dead and while two survivors are critical position. the u.k. government faces legal action as soft as the bad news was wired to the shady death of a weapons inspector he was the bad with revealed in britain a new iraq had no w m d's ahead of the invasion of. the middle east to build up palestinian start a cancel cafe for statehood ahead of you one of those all of israel tensions grow as we squash with protesters calling for a better government. just

after seven pm here in the russian capital you're watching our team and we begin with what i. it's been called ice hockey starkers stay are the worst disaster affecting sport in russia's recent history forty three people are confirmed dead after a plane carrying one of the country's top teams the look on the t.v. at a slav all crashed in the city bearing its name the only two survivors are in critical condition one being a team member and the other a crew member or both have been a taken to moscow for further treatment r.t. from thomas is in the crash site. a somber day here in the city of jaroslav well as the community reels from the tragic incident is that happened on that wednesday killing that locomotive team plane that did not make lift off at the end of the runway burst into a ball of flames after clipping an antenna and killing all but two on board there

were forty three confirmed dead two did survive at this time one of them of course being alexander gold. plated for the hours level 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 and other crew member of the plane that crashed. suffered a broken femur those two survivors have now been transported and have arrived in moscow so that they can get the best medical attention and care of a little to them so that they could possibly recover from this tragedy through the past night and that day this is the beginning of a three day mourning period for the people of the yugoslav all. immediately vigil started happening as i have friends and family members came chanting team slogan so that they could be together in this moment of grief after the night of the accident

wednesday night and then all throughout the first day people gathered at central churches in the saddle 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 understand and here is their grief in their words. we've been friends with this team for many years who family including a little child went to all the games for us irreparable loss it's like losing a family member. i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and. he's 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 i know there isn't what it hurt so much when

they were everything to us will remember them forever but i wish they were like 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 and upon learning the news we are told suffered a heart attack as well after hearing that her son who was involved in this incident another story that we're told is a flight attendant twenty nine years old on this flight it was very just really 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 sharing their community spirit so

that they can begin the beginning process after such a national tragedy and we've got more details emerging about the last moments of the players on board that plane how i love you these were the last words one of the players got to say to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash well there's more on the tragic events on our web page that's our dot com now wednesday's plane crash happened on the first day of the new season of the continental hockey league and many of those who perished played for their countries and were real stars of the sport our sports presenter came apart from says rebuilding the team is one of the main priorities now. well we've had reaction as unsurprisingly globally we were listening to some of the earlier quotes they were in the sports medicine and some of the players that were in the n.h.l. as well as occasional were describing ice hockey as a family so many of the the team members came from other countries we have ten

different nationalities in the aerosols side so the reaction is globally starts we hear from the fans and also from the highest in the lowest and the greats in the goods and we can also hear from players themselves alexei actually used to play for loco and he's not going to play for score we can hear from him. in our history of not only help it's all country and one of my friends going to the play and then you go to play to get a couple of years ago at the causes when just i just want to give make more sense to the families and when you see it's tough for everybody i think what shocked me with this very sad news that we've heard. i'm speechless you know if you guys are on the team and it's worse they're prepared. and as well also there are some sort of a gun show who plays the also a senator so the idea that you get from the n.h.l. everybody coming together and shot in grief the example that's been used is the parts of cord example that we have which is a football example of

a team that was rich it's you know snafus based on those original part of the soviet union and they were promoted in one thousand sometimes to the top flight and while they were on a plane collided midair and seventeen players and coaches were killed the theory the practice they had afterwards was that the league then sent a player from every team to make up a new team and this is a suggestion that's been made by commentators the cross russia and also the greats in the grid are all in favor of boosting the same and we can hear from some of the legends of the sport they're also inside. the ice hockey family mourns the loss of one of the best teams it was a multinational 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 a new lock my chief. dozens of calls was a picture of the thirty five calls for the players which are. the walls built up over to you they will be silly if your new head coach and nobody ever there was

a decided present felafel also represents all those of the clubs we will look at because as there is you believe the best way is. to walk away if you feel god has a history of go slow or working through the road stuff well as we had from alexander medvedev there the head of the k h l nobody even needs to be told people are actually volunteering to come forward and help we're building of the team and they have as i hear already i announced a new coach the former you seem to be of his coming in so you had a need to. dmitri medvedev has visited the crash site and laid flowers and food bute to the victims of the plane disaster in the us level a lot the sight of the russian president said the number of airlines must be reduced dramatically he also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention of the pilot training of russian civil aviation sector say that those not up to the job must be sacked a bit of out of the entire industry must undergo serious changes and the russian president altered his plans for the international policy forum in the us level to

visit the site of the crash but later you're right to address the global gathering our correspondents have now is there and will bring us more of what's been said later in the program. the palestinians have started a campaign for statehood ahead of the september twentieth vote in the united nations it carried a letter to the local u.n. mission and on the last say their peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state and so are the smallest lire reports the whole region isn't in a state of build up to the vote. well the palestinian authority officially launched its campaign for statehood today thursday and in a formal letter to the un secretary chief banky roun it urged the international body to recognize tellus fenians just demolished 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 twentieth it has been drugged the national campaign for palestine

state one hundred and ninety four and to launch its one hundred palestinian high ranking officials and activists gathered today for is day at the u.n. headquarters in ramallah for a short ceremony now of both the israeli government as well as the environment ministration is against the stick aeration 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 as we are hearing some rumblings behind the scenes that israelis and palestinians have been eating informally and in secret to discuss the possibility of possibly postponing this declaration that we have no confirmation of this what we've witnessed here particularly in the last two months is a build up of anger frustration and discontent within the israeli public particularly reveled in the turnout and government these have been the largest protests in this country's history and just yesterday protesters clashed here in tel aviv with police a number of the wrists were held people accuse the police of treating them

gruesomely and all of this is because the government has started removing tens from the streets of several cities despite the fact that earlier it would give protesters and till the end of the month to clean up their act and to meet the government in small ways and in boardrooms for discussions rather than on the streets so what protesters are saying here is that they really cannot trust the government and there's also the concern that as the government turns its attention to what is happening externally these of the september the twentieth it will no longer even listen to the concerns being a dick. here within the israeli society to discuss the build up to the upcoming u.n. vote on palestinian independence we're joined live by dr ron pundak he's the chairman of the palestinian israeli. forum thanks very much for joining us and now tell us thing and claim their action is peaceful how do you think it will stay that way. we all hope that it will become peaceful and that the israeli army will also

maintain it and what one poor bloke in order to make you know something which will get into fire and into a struggle i believe after talking with the policy leadership the objective is to do committees which would be nonviolence and would be peaceful and they will get the wish of the policy and people for said that they were nation forward independent state i mean you were talking there about provocation or the israeli defense force that started arming and training settlers several several weeks ago so i do you think that they're doing that as a provocation is that what you say. well i have no doubt that there are some israelis who have an interest. and i would like to see clash but i presume and i really do hope that the government's policy and the army will maintain this policy to try and low any fire which will erupt and all together one should remember to put a serious i'm not going to declare a state this is

a misperception which is going too fast what is going to happen at the u.n. is the question is would ask they were to recognize potentially the palestinian state will eventually would be clear declared by them they say that it would be cleared through negotiations so i presume the recognition would take place maybe that will go against it but they cannot veto it at the general assembly but the overwhelmingly majority of approximately one hundred thirty states would say yes and then i hope that israel eventually will come into its sense our government and will continue negotiations towards eventually two state solution based on sixty seven borders and then when the state would be clear the violence would not take place because it would be a result of negotiations but if they won't be any negotiations the palestinian sentiment will go and eventually we won't see this stability as we have seen until today because the continuation of your completion cannot be sustained for ever and

i add just following up on pam how far is. science independence and admission to the u.n. i mean if this is such a lot of build up forces can we expect a long. well you know the i think that the interest of israel would have should have been to raise our vote and the eddy to others in favor of for future declination of the state but i think the thing that they could position of the current coalition of free of the government the situation on the ground with i would social justice movement etc is weakening the ability of the government so i think that we might have a. alter and i. can you just fact i still have one more question i think we had a bit of

a sound problem there i do want to ask you quickly the u.s. is likely to be to palestine is independent of the earlier you were mentioning that they cannot get even though most of the other un member states are expected to support it if the u.s. does veto where do you see palestine going from there. well united states cannot veto a german general assembly resolution they can only veto a security council so the palestinians we do wise enough not to go to the security council but eventually to be a limit themselves to the assembly and then. when we go against it but it won't mean anything but the fear of the palestinians is that they'll move kerns will actually. try to limit their assistance the aid the money their relations etc and the by weakening the relations. and the police in this night might suffer but i presume that their move will will maybe go against it the palestinians will move

forward because we speak about national identity but i can only hope that both sides will not try to kill you in situation and their movements will understand that this is actually only a symbolic act which won't change anything on the ground all right thank you very much there dr ronn dr chairman of the palestinian israeli peace forum thank you. how the british government faces court action from a group of doctors over to 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 kelli was behind a report showing britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion as artist laura and i found out the case isn't as clear as previously thought. more than eight years since the death of u.n. weapons inspector talked to david kelly and still no inquest following his almost skiing as the source of a report saying tony blair's government knew iraq had no weapons of mass

destruction before britain 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 explains but it hasn't gone away this week to david's help it is to moan doing 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 him and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. cross.

we believe. become pain has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have to natal around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his fellow campaigners hope this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play and the subsequent government's coverup. well in just a few days the united states will be marking its greatest tragedy half a century the terrorist attacks on september eleventh two thousand and one followed was a decade of invasions torture scandals and untold abuses on both sides for more perspective on what's been achieved and what's been missed some joyed live from london i pulled off as professor of peace studies at the university of bradford thanks very much mr rogers thirty on the program and i just going back almost a decade when emotions were high tempers were high and all that mattered was bringing those responsible for nine eleven to justice was there really no other

choice but to invade afghanistan and iraq i think it was a choice being seen as an appalling example of transnational criminality rather than the start of a war i think it would have produced a very different result pursuing through creasing an international legal means would not have half the effect that we've had with the war in the in the appallingly atrocities in eleven september nearly three thousand people died since then for every person killed there eighty to two hundred twenty five thousand in iraq afghanistan and elsewhere and it looks like the united states may still have troops in afghanistan in another twelve or fourteen years time we're into a kind of never ending war so while it was very difficult to consider any alternative at the time given the horror of the atrocities in reality it would have been far more sensible to take a half hour but after all is said and done there has been a war and there's been a growing chorus declaring that the afghan war was

a failure but is that is that really true i mean after what happened to the taliban what other government would there harbor a terrorist cell. well that may be true but the point is that you have groups that are active elsewhere we saw the destruction of the u.n. building in the nigerian capital of a boot of just a couple weeks ago there is activity in yemen in iraq and in somalia you have a very dispersed movement you may not get governments actually harboring these paramilitary groups but the movement itself is not going away meanwhile you have one hundred forty thousand foreign troops in afghanistan far more than at the height of the soviet occupation over twenty years ago and it looks like we have the prospect of a very long war so the end result has been so different from what was expected that i think we really have an urgent need to try and learn the lessons let's look at the presence of the united states maintains that all the permanent bases both in afghanistan and iraq that's a process a region infamous for being a terrorist cell hotbed do you think the presence of our forces will actually

suppress the growth of terror there are no longer problems in afghanistan is the united states and its coalition partners see their role in a sense as kind of liberating afghanistan but for many people within afghanistan in particular pressure terms in the south and east they are seen much more as foreign occupiers so you get this kind of mirror image which if anything makes matters worse and the curious thing is extraordinary thing is that the more troops have called me and over the last three years the more the violence has actually escalated it seems to be a counterproductive move as i say this may be understandable in the context of the appalling attacks ten years ago but the reality is it was not working out as expected ok i'm just going back to our point again of lessons learned sources are they were talking about earlier what if god forbid of course that there was another terrorist attack on america on the scale of nine eleven with emotions still high do you think washington would make a different choice in its response this time.