sportin russia's recent history forty three people are confirmed dead after a plane carrying one of the country's top teams locomotive jaroslav all crashed in the city bearing its name the only two survivors are still in a critical condition tonight one being a team player the other a crew member both have been taken to moscow now for the treatment marty sean thomas is near the crash site. it's a somber day here in the city of jaroslav well as the community reels from the tragic incident 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 to me did it survive at this time one of them of course being alexander. played for the team as well as the national team he suffered burns over ninety percent of his body as well as he has gone under gone multiple surgeries including of his respiratory system another 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 able to go so that they could possibly recover from this tragedy through it at the past night and that day this is the beginning of a three day mourning period for the people. immediately vigil started happening as fans and family members came chanting team slogan so that they could be together in this moment of grief 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 didn't fancy many.

childhood went to. it's like losing a family member. it was i knew one of the clear is he was my neighbor. it was a great person he's got two little kids left who could this happen when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears i still can't grasp how it could happen there used to be a team and now there isn't. so much. they were everything to us he will remember them forever. they were life 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 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 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 sharing their community spirit so that they can begin the healing process after such a national tragedy and more details are emerging about the last moments of the players on board that doomed plane i love you these were the final words from one of the players who got to speak to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash and among the dead the youngest player the tamer despite being both injured

and disqualified and wanted nothing more than to be with his sporting brothers a decision of course in the end that cost him his life we've got more human stories and the timeline of this tragic event on our web page. wednesday's plane crash happened the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many of those who perished played for their countries were real stars of the sport our sports presenter kate partridge 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 there in the sports bulletin and some of the players that were in the n.h.l. as well as the case you were describing ice hockey as a family so many of the the team members came from other countries we have ten different nationalities near us level side so the reaction is global it starts we hear from the fans and also from the highest in the lowest and the great in the goods and we can also hear from the players themselves alexei yashin used to play

for luck and he's not going to play for school we can hear from him. no history of not only hockey to a little country and my friends going to the play you guys are great to get a couple of years ago and of course one just just want to give my condolences to the families and. it's tough time for everybody but what shocked me with this very very sad news that we heard. i'm speechless you know if you guys are on that team were separate here and as well also there are some sort of a gun show place the also a center so so the idea that you get from the n.h.l. everybody coming together and shock and grief the example that's been used is the practical example that we have which is a football example of a team that was a rigid city in a snaffle a speck a stone that is originally part of the soviet union and they were promoted in one thousand eight hundred nine to the top flight and whilst on route they were on a plane that collided in midair and seventeen players and coaches were killed in

the series the crashes they had afterwards was that really then sent to play out from every team to make up a new team and this is a suggestion that's been made by commentators across russia and also the greats in the good are all in favor of boosting the same and we can hear from some of the legends of the sport they're also right jaroslava with this idea of. 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. standing team and our priority will be to build and you locomotive. dozens of calls. five calls for i was a boy of witchery do the walls but what do you think it would be silly if your porch and nobody over there was a decided ways of a fellow so it also. was all those other clubs he would look at cause as a really good person where's. the local would you feel it was

a history of. the world not stopped. well as we had an example many said of their 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 in the team and they have as i hear already there now it's a new case the former use. of his coming in to head up a new. part of your sports correspondent to me to rivera has visited the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster and jaroslav at the site the russian president said the number of airlines must be reduced dramatically he also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention to pilot training in russia's civil aviation sector saying those not up to the job must be sacked and read about it the entire industry must undergo serious changes the russian president altered his plans for the international policy for the jaroslava to visit the site of the crash but later did arrive to address the global gathering our correspondent mr now is there i will bring us more of what's being

said a bit later in the program. the british government faces court action from a group of doctors over the death of weapons expert david kelly in two thousand and three they're pushing for a new inquiry after the first reached a verdict of suicide kelley was behind a report showing britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion and was not islam not 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 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 and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. of this one. cross the iron lady. monogram. the. very. least you start to become pain has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have to native around fifty six thousand dollars in just

a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his fellow campaigners hope this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play and just subsequent government coverup. 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 the peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state and is artie's paula slee reports next the whole region is in a state of build up now 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 banking 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 dubbed the national campaign for palestine state one hundred and one thousand and two launch at some one hundred palestinian high

ranking officials and activists gathered today thursday at the un 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 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 discontent within the israeli public particularly leveled at the mid-town yahoo 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 arrests were held people accused the police of treating them brutally

and all of this was because the government has started removing tents 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 always 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. here within the israeli society. somebody is correspondent paula slater well there are forces in both israel and palestine and that would like violence to erupt in the build up to the un vote and these provocations must be avoided if peace is ever to be established so says dr ron pundak he's chairman of the palestinian israeli peace and geo forum now what is happening between us and the palestinians will be judged by whether there will be clashes along they seem lines between the israeli forces and the palestinians and

also between the palestinians and the settlements within the they west bank but as much as i understand the interest of both sides is not to reach any hostility in any culmination of fighting or as we have seen in the year two thousand when the two sides clashed into a second violent intifada so i presume that both sides will try to contain and maintain the current situation because it wants neither side it's having say this one should remember that on both sides there are provocative forces and the strength of the two governments will be to try and calm down these provocations and not to. be carried away by the. which would try actually to heat the area because they don't want to see quiet as quiet is a message for the future for the hope for the peace force us and these people don't

want to see peace. a russian pilot who was convicted of drug smuggling earlier this year has been sentenced to twenty years in prison by a us court constantine got a shank or was detained in liberia twenty ten and transported then to the u.s. the case itself set a major president as it was the first time a russian citizens been sentenced to jail in the u.s. for intent to commit a crime in a third country you're ashamed to repeatedly pleaded not guilty in the case his defense now has thirty days to file an appeal although u.s. officials could take up to two years to consider it moscow says arrest and rendition or illegal will seek is the part. in just a few days the united states will be marking its greatest tragedy in half a century the terrorist attacks on september the eleventh two thousand and one what followed was a decade of invasions torture scandals and untold abuses on both sides well as we begin our special coverage of the anniversary here on r.t.

garniture can takes a look at whether the past decades made america any safer. they are going to be one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history that i'm sure did in a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but is america and the world now a safer place ten years on the most recent nine eleven commission report card gives aviation security in the u.s. the worst rate and after as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if if that which weren't just get off the grid or going to look for thank you is the highest level on a curtain call theater and that have significantly set its back on the world and they're trying to be careful and america's that cade 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 the 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 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 we have made 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. will give the grief and the anger in the aftermath of nine eleven the invasion of afghanistan

was an understandable decision says paul rogers he's professor of peace studies at the university of bradford in the united kingdom but a decade on he believes it's become obvious there was and still is a more effective solution pursuing through precision international legal means would not have had the effect that we've had with the war in the in the appalling atrocities in september nearly three thousand people died since then for every person killed eighty one two hundred twenty five thousand in iraq are going to 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 the curious thing is extraordinary thing is that the more troops have called me in over the three years the more the violence has actually escalated to it seems to be a counterproductive move as i say this may be able to stand over in the context of

the appalling attacks ten years ago but the reality is it is just not working out as expected. well tomorrow we're going to be assessing the effect of a post nine eleven world both on the us and on those in afghanistan where many still don't know the reason why they were invaded in the first place. in this province think about nine eleven and its consequences. and never. will know. if i just got in your woman's cries. for six months from a stone ages where we are. the tragic jet crash was overshadowed a major political event taking place in the city and it changed plans including those of president medvedev speaking at the second and final day of the global policy forum he touched upon the major challenges russia's facing right now are his correspondent and this is now is there. almost certainly a lot of debate and discussion took place at this two day forum 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 by. our citizens who were killed in the crash as well as citizens of several other countries let's observe in the native silence to honor their memory but you buy that. the president went on to give his speech it focused on multiculturalism of course that's the theme of this year's forum here in jaroslav he spoke a lot about the briefs in society as nick income winds and how that can lead to problems in society and about how russia needs to take a steady growth towards modernization another thing that has come up very much so apt is today form is of course the situation in the mideast and north africa especially concerning libya and syria and in fact joining me now to speak more

about that and who better to know about the situation there is the presidential envoy to africa thank you very much for joining us but what about themes that we hear often from the president even russia in general especially over the past couple of years that you can't sue the other countries don't have the kind of democracy that you have the idea that the president is meeting today spoke about it of course is in reference to people that just because someone doesn't do something we think it's redundant means it's wrong course he was referring to libya how do you when you're working for nato they found teaching countries to have to marcus these they don't consider of the right you know for me personally it's not difficult to defend he says because there's only one bad thing about democracy cannot impose its were difficult to impose with democracy you should group within the society and very often these societies and the parts of the world which we're talking about. to have to some home or denies themselves from medieval ages

style structure and medieval ages style mentality so i think that it's really very difficult just to bring blueprints from any western or eastern capital to this part of the world and say hey this is the way you have to do it. just finally i want to talk about syria you think that it will turn into another libya i hope not i hope not that's why russia is working hard in order to build bridges between the government and the opposition on the ninth of september will be receiving again the delegation of the syrian opposition we shall be receiving the representatives of the syrian government on the eleventh of the twelfth of september we'll be working hard in order to help syrians to create a kind of docking mechanism between two camps which are afraid to be against each other and these white does not serve the national interests of syria thank you very

much transparent front mikail markel of the presidential envoy to africa and of course over the two day forum pretty much the main theme when it comes to security what's happening there but that debate of course will continue but a lot of work done here at the global policy forum in yourself and thanks for the message ok it's going to be here in about twenty minutes time with more news tonight on locomotives jaroslav on the ice hockey team so tragically almost wiped out in yesterday's plane crash here in russia she's news about how they're going to try to try to rebuild a club big job ahead that's ahead then tonight let's catch up on the business from moscow next. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. new pipelines are sprouting across russia on the other side of the country from north stream now the roof ski gas pipeline provides a new artery to markets in asia and business artsy set down have a look over travel there for us. this land is surrounded by some of the most adler

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 lead to more putin is opening rounds from sakhalin to large of us it is able to supply thirty billion cubic meters of gas annually bought to the russians see it is the round here need just a tiny part of that and that's why gas pump 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 to their reason not a project to make use of the far eastern gas it is an alan g.

plant and lots of us talk gas from is considering building the plant with japan's corporation and if it's on stream in five years as planned the gas from here may be shipped to the world's biggest alan g. consumers south korea and japan. the us take a look at the markets now all prices are down after posting significant growth in the previous session and that says weather conditions in the mexican gulf are still far from home with more tropical storms coming to threaten production. in the u.s. markets are now mixed their board showed first time applicants for exult was by the feds climbed last week pushed over this is lower of but some investors are still optimistic their head of ben bernanke's speech on the u.s. economic outlook. in europe has clawed its way back into positive territory that's despite the european central bank cutting its forecast for economic growth in the.

b.c.b. also signaled it was no longer considering further rate hikes. and here russia markets and the trading session on the positive notes the r.t.s. game point two percent told them i said point six percent let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my sex sperm bank going up over two percent after a while the eastern european arm of both spanned norsk neck all game business well after reports russo is finally starting talks to sell its stake in the company and among those bucking the trends was. the company could face a several billion move all fine as the federal ants will not fully service things its overvalued fuel prices in the end of last year. that on thursday u.s. president barack obama is suppose a new stimulus package the republicans who are pushing for cuts to the budget may yet block the three hundred billion dollars plan however well indeed so from citi group believes both measures are necessary it's just

a question of timing if the announcement of the. fiscal stimulus would be matched by a commitment to request the this commission to go shaking the spending cuts between now and november the commission look at additional in the future to make up for the fiscal loosening to if this kind of rebalancing of the fish goes. from in the future if. it would be positive for the u.s. he called to be there for for the world because i mean you could in russia there wouldn't be special direct effects on the. that's all of us is for now the headlines on that.

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