tv [untitled] September 8, 2011 1:01pm-1:31pm EDT
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i mean with us tonight and we start with what spain called ice hockey is darkest day and the worst disaster affecting sport in russia's recent history let's take a look at an event going on at the moment these are the latest pictures we got through here at the r.t. news center from the very stadium in minsk where the locomotive team should have of course been playing tonight but what we're seeing here is a very different event that people have gathered for instead of a game it's a commemoration ceremony now for the forty three who perished when their plane crashed on takeoff one player and a crew member have survived they're in a critical condition tonight. and also families here gathering to remember the three time russian ice hockey champions dinner moments would have been locomotives opponents they've been symbolically scoring their own goals as a mark of respect during this ceremony the international team had star sportsman from different countries including ukraine's vakeel in the czech republic very
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touching scenes we watching here for the last half hour or so from minsk with the stadium crowded with people holding banners bearing the names of those who perished lottie's thomas managed to speak to the sole player who didn't board that fateful flight. the famous bells of jaroslav bring out for a community grieving a chilling reminder of the tragedy the country with the minds of some of the city's brightest stars. i knew many of the boys were personally what can i say they were saints i can say this about many of them they were joyful people they loved life and they wanted to live they brought so much joy into our lives. thursday marked the start of a three day mourning fans of. one of the city's central. question i
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can't describe how i feel it's a very serious loss to me the only thing worse than that would be to lose my family they were like family to me. but as a support group of thousands work through their grief together one man maxime's is dark and is going through his own personal nightmare he is the only member of the team not on board the fateful flight his coach told him to take the rest and meet the team for the next game in moscow. but this is very terrifying for me a hockey team is like a family i lost a family of forty people people i was close to for such a long time. now maxine is supportive of rebuilding the locomotive franchise but it's torn by survivor's guilt that i haven't met their families yet i can't imagine how that will break this is horrible for me i wasn't thinking about whether i was
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lucky or not that i wasn't on that plane. and now he must rely on his community sharing in the grief process so that the healing can begin and as a steady stream of mourners continue to come to this central church and you are sol to show their support it is clear that this is not just about an accident or a plane crash but it's about the loss of a team and something very important to a community that they will remember forever in your slidell sean thomas r.t. . wednesday's plane crash happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many of those who perished played for their countries more real stars of the game our sports correspondent kate partridge says rebuilding the team is one of the main priorities now ok. it's easy to say that but you know where would you start. well there there's there's been several lot there's been several issues that it had been raised through this first of all we effectively lost the last two teams but. there's been precedent set by other teams where
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volunteers have come through particulars as we mentioned before and earlier about the football team where volunteers from the league came through to replace those players and trainers who died before and this seems to be what the situation is happening now president alexander had said that he's been inundated with offers from players and from trainers to come through and offer their services to help rebuild that saying just looking at the names of some of those who perished here one of those who died was a local hero. the captain of the belorussian national team also a sort of. shock he was also born in it was a real as you say it was an international team i mean the coach himself going from kind of the records i mean they were known to ten different nationalities i mean they were as particular as we are in minsk that's what will be concentrating initially as we can see the brother of the belarusian go back to talking about this yes there is such it's so so much more tragic any plane crash is tragic but these
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chaps are also you absolutely i mean looking at the meeting at the ages of some of these players because they are sort of a step choke he's better russian he was just twenty one he's just starting out on his career. was twenty three i mean he has been in the junior ice hockey world championships you've got in terms of russia you have. been he was a junior world champion as well so again another twenty one year old made his debut last year against a number moscow. two on the air also to twenty year olds and as well i mean among the thirty seven players and coaches that died there were four n.h.l. postma genially since the last. the money has been raised to night during this event is going to be donated we think to the. to the club and i guess to help their friends and family at this awfully difficult time has been a big turn the night but what a turnaround of events twenty four hours makes i mean this much tonight if it had
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gone ahead of things totally different now but if it had gone ahead what sort of much would have been how important was it what is the i mean match of the season i mean looking back on the pre-season lockout how they they were day one seven out of the nine games and they were they were flourishing they've always been one of the powerhouses a russian ice hockey i mean as you said before three time champions and then when the k.h. i was formed that coming into its fourth they were there were seven finalist they were the finest they were always there in there abouts it's it's the only the there are so many parallels one can draw and i mean with the practice or disaster that we've talked about before where you a whole team is why it's out and the city is so devastated i mean as i said before manchester united and when that happened with the munich disaster this affects absolutely everybody and with such a large loss it really has i mean for people to be affiliated with with hockey into this station it's quite difficult to explain how important hockey is if
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you are a complete dyed in the wall sports fan and a hockey fan but really really has touched so many people in this country absolutely i mean we are looking at some of the the different quotations that are coming through in this thing two different coaches speaking for around the world and different different hockey unions i mean also in slovakia particularly some of these players it's a very small community they've been describing as a family so even though it's a global family it's none the less a family some of these some of the now the great and good the higher up in the organizations in ice hockey used to play yaroslavl and they've been saying how the town must be desolate because the hockey they are a hockey city they're a smaller city and hockey is their identity i knew you were hearing people who lived through so you know these people were our neighbors. went to school with them they knew even though they may not have been dyed in the wool hockey fans as i keep saying they knew each of these team members' names the same as their family had
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been wiped out. we were talking about you know where do you go from here and it's very early days we're talking about this a lot of these chaps to have been raid laid to rest are still being identified tonight. but you know where there's a team like this where there's a city like this like begin to pick itself up try to dust itself that maybe form a new team former new team that is definitely the priority it's the priority of the all the hockey legends that we have heard who are actually in jaroslav and also now in hockey and they are very much pushing the idea that they must go on if it's part of your identity and presumably he's hearing from the fans that's very much what they want what we also heard as well from the president of the kontinental hockey league alexander medvedev this is what he had to say. the ice hockey family mourns the loss of one of the best teams it was a multinational t. with a unique group of players and the international sports community sharing our grief
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it was announced and in team and our priority will be to build and you lock motif. of calls. for calls for the players which are a do with the war even it would be silly if your head coach and nobody over there was a just a good ways of sort of so bold as a manager saw in those of the clubs given the courses really gave the best players . what you feel it was a history of what you'd see over a lot stop. well as we're hearing them from it's on the net as head of the shell and he wasn't even in need to last people to volunteer for the rebuilding of the club effectively as i said before they've been inundated with offers from people from players to come forward and help in rebuilding. ok ok thanks for covering it gives people perspective on the sly much appreciated. what it has been emerging for
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the last moments of the players on board the doomed plane. i love you they were the final words of one of the players they had to say to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash and among the dead the youngest player of the team who despite being both injured and disqualified wanted nothing more than to be with his sporting brothers a decision that of course so sadly cost him his life we got more human stories on the timeline of the tragic event on our home page dot com. to each would read of his visit to the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster and jaroslav or at the site the russian president said the number of airlines must be dramatically reduced he also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention to pilot training in russian civil aviation sector saying those not up to the job must be sacked but very valid the entire industry must undergo serious changes russian president altered as plans for the international policy for jaroslava to visit the site of the crash but later did
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arrive to address the global gathering i've corresponded in this and now is there for a civil 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 kelly was behind a report showing britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion and started the emirate found the evidence in the case isn't as clear as previously thought. more than eight years since the death of u.n. weapons inspector dr 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
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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 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. this one group from across the aisle. who was. the lead. with. become pain has popular support of the daily mail newspaper hope to native around
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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 cover up. president barack obama has to speak before the u.s. congress to tackle the ongoing job crisis gripping america follows reports that no new jobs have been created in the country during all those worrying news for a nation with twenty four million classes employed. by the. employed or underemployed employed or underemployed i should say the discuss what of his sleeve we're joined live from washington. is the press secretary at the progressive change campaign committee deal very good even if you think speed of the program given the latest data for august is this the season of the mentioning the situation with jobs because of the state but. in the position to deliver or is it just going to be told . well we we really hope he's in the position to deliver we've got
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a jobs emergency right now in this country you mentioned twenty four million folks unemployed or underemployed in this country what the president's got to do tonight is go big or go home i mean the reality is that we've got to have a massive direct government investment in job creation if we're going to get through this the current jobs crisis here in this country but as you propose it to include provisions for the rich to pay their fair share only by the droll the republicans of course the dead opposed to tax hikes for the rich you're right republicans are opposed to it but the good thing for the president and progress is that the american people are behind it when you ask folks what they want this country to do they want massive investment in job creation and the way you can pave that is making sure the wealthiest pay their fair share currently the top four hundred. wealthiest americans earn more money than the bottom fifty percent
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of americans that's just wrong and not only is it wrong but with. increased taxation we can ensure that those twenty four million americans that are unemployed or underemployed right now are actually working and helping create the infrastructure we need in this country but you know if the republicans continue digging their heels in has a ball i'm going to get any of this through. well the way barack obama's got to get this through the president's if republicans are going to listen he's got to take it to the american people the reality is is that you know more than deficit reduction americans want jobs and they want jobs now and what the president can do is if the republicans are going to listen take it home take have rallies in the home districts of republicans who are obstructing a massive investment and in government job creation and take it right to the american people the american people are with him and he just got to stand strong and go big tonight on a real solid investment and job creation of this comes from the magic fairy does it there's always a matter of cost three to four hundred billion dollars which is not going to come
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from in these difficult times while the way we're going to pay for it is by ensuring that the richest americans are paying their fair share you know right now while republicans are fighting at every opportunity you know to ensure that some of these huge corporations don't have to pay their taxes the american people want the wealthiest one corporations to pay their fair share and that's how we're going to pay for what really needs to happen and investment in infrastructure development making sure our crumbling schools are better and can provide for american children and at the same time create jobs that's really what we need to be doing and that's what the president needs to be doing tonight what you what about college education the other big question most americans are graduating with tens of thousands of dollars in student debt most no chance of a job it's a grim picture they face how is he going to talk alone how they going to pay the money back. well i think one of the again it really gets back to job creation one
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of the proposals out there is a kind of a redo of this civilian conservation corps that would that help get the america out of the great depression back in the thirty's that's something that we could do right now a program that we could create that could put millions of young people back to work right now when you're forty fifty thousand dollars in debt and you don't got a job the last thing that we should be doing is is is complaining about about ways that we're going to pay for a program to put real people back to work we should watch the speech with great interest in the press secretary at the progressive change campaign committee thanks for being on. things a lot. palestinians have started a campaign for states ahead of the september twentieth vote in the united nations the code a letter to the local u.n. mission in ramallah saying the peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state and as i pulled a slate of reports the whole region is in a state of build up to the vote. well the palestinian authority officially launched its campaign for statehood today thursday and in
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a formal letter to the un secretary chief banki moon 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 the twentieth it has been dubbed the national campaign for palestine state one hundred and ninety four and to launch it some 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 obama administration is against the state to ration 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 meeting informally and in secret to discuss the possibility of possibly postponing this declaration that we have no confirmation of
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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 protesters clashed here in tel aviv with police a number of arrests were held people accuse the police of treating them brutally and all of this was because the government has started removing tents from the streets of several cities 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 addressed here within the israeli society. correspondent just a few days united states we're marking its greatest tragedy and half a century of course of 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 given the
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grease of grief and anger in the aftermath of nine eleven the invasion of afghanistan was an understandable decision says paul rogers is professor of peace studies at the university of bradford in the united kingdom but a decade on he believes it's also become obvious that there was and still is a more effective solution pursuing through policing and 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 have died 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 the curious thing is extraordinary thing is that the more troops have gone in over the last three years the more the violence has actually escalated to it seems to be
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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 is just not working out as expected. the tragic jet crash in you're a slob also overshadowed a major political event taking place in the city to change plans including those of president medvedev speaking the second and final day of the global policy forum he touched upon the major challenges russia is facing right now and he said this and now is there almost certainly a lot of debate and discussion took place at this today for despite the tragedy nevertheless the president felt it was the right thing to do to begin his keynote speech with a moment of silence then you are citizens were killed in the crash as well as citizens of several other countries let's observe a minute of silence to honor their memory but you. by which.
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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 jaroslav all he spoke about the ethnic divides in russia and also about income divides and about how he thought that is very much why the country needs to push on further with its at konami 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. 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 report from plenty of critics over the past couple of months that it's just not working you
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know europe we've seen violence on the streets of western europe and so this is something that experts analysts leaders have been discussing. for. thanks and so we've got more of a policy for we go salvo coming up in the next. grilles russia's presidential envoy to africa over the both libya and syria we've watched online as well incidentally local to our web site out to you don't call. it is business no it's not going to cost us here after a very short break. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in indonesia she's available in hotels coming down the resort and spa. resort and spa . remote have been turned. to spawn
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sunday a beach hotel the western resort use of doing club med bonnie so if you tell someone the. resort and spa the ritz carlton hotel ground many as you call it a hotel full seasons hotel the sultan hotel. hello and welcome to business here on our two we start the south with new pipelines which are sprouting across russia on the other side of the country from north stream the gas pipeline that provides a new artery and some markets in asia and this is sort of a has all the details 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
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pipeline which allowed to move putin is opening runs from sakhalin to vladivostok it is able to supply thirty billion cubic meters of gas annually bazza the russian seed is the round here need just a tiny part of that and that's why gas problem is desperate to find buyer so it's extra gas and doesn't talks with several contras but it's not all so easy at the moment stocks with china dragging over a prize and possible supplies to south korea are complicated by risk in transit 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 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. and let's take
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a look at the markets now we'll start with oil prices have been climbing higher right now but the gains are limited as weather conditions in the mexican gulf are still far from calm with even more tropical storms coming to some production. that was happening over in the u.s. markets there are flat seven or showed first time applicants for don't respond if it's one last week which drove in this is lower but some investors are still optimistic ahead of ben bernanke on the u.s. economic outlook. over in europe stocks have all their way back into positive territory and that's despite the european central bank. it's forecast for economic growth in the euro zone the e.c.b. also signaled it was no longer considering for the rate hikes. and here in russia the markets and of the trade in session on the pauls it's of the moment the r.t.s. games point two percent of all the my sex without point six percent let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my sex is going up over two percent
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after it acquired that missing european arm all gold spag mikko also gained after forstmann saw is finally starting talks to sell its stake in the company and among those bucking the trend will look while the company could face a several billion ruble for it as the federal and some monopoly service thinks it's overvalued fuel prices in the end of last year. and that's all the business is for now the headlines are next with cabin.
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live from central moscow you're watching r t international very good. our top story today the world's ice hockey community united in grief the russians lokomotiv team are almost entirely wiped a plane crash in the city yesterday a commemoration ceremonies being held right now in the place where the team was supposed to be playing sportsman fams. government faces legal action is doctors demand a new inquiry into the shady death of an arms inspector he was the man who revealed britain knew iraq had no weapons of mass destruction the invasion. of the middle east build up palestinians start a peaceful campaign for statehood ahead of the u.n. vote while that israel tensions grow as police clashed with protesters calling for a better government. one of europe's most wanted war crime suspects is in the hague right now but.
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