it's now ten pm thursday the eighth of september my name's kevin and first tonight we start with what's being called ice hockey is darkest day and the worst disaster affecting sport in russia's recent history let's take a look at these pictures from the very state even when square indeed the locomotive team should have been playing a little earlier on tonight but of course what we're seeing here is a very different picture a very different event that people have gathered for instead of a game you're looking at a commemoration the ceremony now for the forty three people killed when their plane crashed yesterday on takeoff in jaroslav one player and a crew member survived you never miss would have been locomotive suppose instead night they've been symbolically scoring goals as a mark of respect during the ceremony the stadium has been crowded with people holding banners and scarves bearing the names of those who perished thomas most to

speak to the soul player who didn't board that fateful flight. the famous bells of jaroslav ring out for a community grieving a chilling reminder of the tragedy the country with the lives of some of the city's brightest stars. because i knew many of the boys personally what can they say they were seen 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 period as fans of ya slava locomotive gathered and one of the city's central cathedrals i 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

akon 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. this is very terrifying for me the hockey team is like a family i lost a family of forty people people i was close to for such a long time now maksim is supportive of rebuilding the locomotive franchise but is torn by survivor's guilt that i haven't met their families yet i can't imagine how that'll be this is horrible for me i wasn't thinking about whether i was 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 jaroslav all 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. . because we must get we know there were two survivors on board the fateful flight they are in a critical condition still tonight in hospital will be closely monitoring their progress. well the accident out on the first day of the new season of the continental kingly many of those who perished played for their countries and the real stars of the game are sports presenter kate partridge joins me now to talk about some of that but before we talk about the sporting side let's just talk more about the pictures we're seeing on our screen there it is a really solid ceremony when watching it for last hour two happening tonight in the by the russian capital of minsk looking a demon. there aren't way where a locomotive this is disappointing thing was supposed to be playing the seasoning season opening game. the nice news that does come out of this a little bit a little glimmer is that the ticket sales we look at that stadium it's packed those

tickets sales the nation's for movie going to the families are going through such an awful time at the moment for the people that they've lost all those players and the coaching staff who has died they're all being remembered they're missing the main players the main stars of that team only were all stars but you know the main names the big names lined up there on the ring can't wait that's it and we can see some of the portraits of some of those players that be coming out now i mean as we've said before there were ten different nationalities within the team but it was very poignant for the local mintz crowd is the portrait of this man a stansell a thirty six belorussian can't belarusian caps it and defended it played in the n.h.l. that country. author a russian he was thirty three a catchall runner up last year and been a junior world champion as russia then moved on to maddox the part of the czech squad that what won the world championships last year and along with luck i want to give a cattle class next and also turning to another check as well as years of russia

shake he was only thirty again czech republic it spent most of his n.h.l. career at the carolina hurricanes and been a world champion in two thousand and five illustrious names in real mentioning the big names of course you must forgive those we said last talking about looking at the earlier pictures you know a lot of the rest of the much younger again some as young as twenty any plane crash again and you can't over stress it is a tragedy it's always horrendous but specially when such young people are involved such young chaps in this case absolutely i mean we've mentioned before i mean he didn't even junior champion looking at some of the. where of the day for actually playing in the junior league of part of the n.h.l. there were two players who were just twenty years old again tragic loss of life i mean we are any sporting loss by definition people are younger anyway i mean some of the senior players were only in their thirty's and it's tragic and when we know

we're removed from second explosive i don't avoid thirteen of the bodies of those who were who perished of the forty three it's still very early days to be looking ahead i have to say but you know life has to go on it's a fact of life that life has to go on i mean i guess people already talking about what's going to happen no to lokomotiv club or they're going to try and rebuild it it's early days but it's early days but it's what they have done is they've already named their new coach who is he was the you start this process but of the old he had been he would also he'd let it lead the side to win the russian championship before he retakes up the reins so that was an announcement that came through earlier today but what more than not this there's been a kind of a collective will in trying to rebuild this. alleys on the midnight of who's the. chief we're going to be hearing from him soon he said about maybe volunteering for us to come through but as we can hear from the ice hockey federation president the idea of the will of to bring players to make change is coming forward immediately.

the icehockey 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 it was nonstandard team and our priority will be to build and you lock motif. dozens of calls actually. five calls i was a boy and we try to do the wolf but what do you think it would be silly if the bird you heard the board. member of the over there was a decided way as a fellow so also. for most of the clubs given the course as a really good person who is for the record you feel that there's a history of very little slower for kids who wrote stop. exactly was the same before exile and meant that if they're saying that people are coming forward players coaches wanting to rebuild this club this this tragedy has still only hours

old and yes there is a there is a will from the whole ice hockey community to move forward mock the tragedy and move forward and rebuild what was a powerhouse in russia. mentioned just just now that thirteen bodies have been identified this new information has come in now saying thirty five of those forty three have been identified so terrible time for the friends and family isn't it but how important you can see the grief on the friends and the family in the families there. in the crowd but what is the main in russia people shooting into this station from around the world might not be hockey fans are they will hockey fans i mean what how important is it you can see the grief but it difficult to describe how much it's been mourned here isn't it absolutely i mean football is the world game and it's still very much is in russia but hockey is very much the russian sport that is making its way back it had a bit of a lull and it's definitely on the rise again and and you have a city like alice level which is basically a hockey city so anything any tragedy that effects that wipes out

a whole team affects all. whole city but also what we know just as well with some of the tributes that are coming in from former players who've gone on to to head up leagues in their own countries that have played in this particular city are saying they can empathize with just what a tragedy it must mean how devastating it must be felt as we can see from some of these pictures that in the city and then habitants or. can you give us a bit more perspective on this awful event and. well for more details emerging about the last moments of the play is on board take a look at our website but these are also some of what what some i love you they were the final words one of the players got to say to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash and also 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 and course that was a decision at the end of the day that cost him his life we've got more human

stories and the timeline of this whole awful event on our web site as i say at r t dot com. and to me too rivera has visited the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster jaroslava at the site the russian president said the number of airlines in russia must be reduced dramatically he also was at 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 very valid the entire industry must undergo serious changes the russian president altered his plans for the international policy forum in yaroslavl to visit the site of the crash but later he did arrive to address the global gathering our correspondent mr now is there and she's got more about that for us a little bit later in the program. but let's look at some more of tonight's top news stories before we catch up with mr though in the british government faces court action from a group of doctors over the death of weapons expert david kelly back in two

thousand and three they're pushing for a new inquiry after the first reached a verdict of suicide kelli was behind a report showing that britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion i was artie's lauren but 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 dave attell pain and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. this one. from across the aisle. monograms. the. very. least you start to become pain has popular support readers of the daily mail newspaper have to natives 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 just subsequent

governments coverup. 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 august that's more good news for a nation with twenty four million classed as an employed or underemployed get more insight into a bomb as proposed jobs act and find out what it might entail going to your can talk to max fred wolf you just sitting around. capitals get that right very good evening should could see it made a promise is gonna cut it this time all they want. well i think that the public is sort of fed up with promises and rhetoric and this is where the rubber meets the road you're seeing a president and president obama whose numbers keep going down and in fact in the latest polling that we got just a few days ago have reached new and troubling lows especially before what's guaranteed to be increasingly hot and divisive and nasty and expensive presidential

cycle that really has already begun but will shift into high gear in the near future we saw as zero jobs created so no loss no creation in august in two thousand and eleven august that's the only the second time that's happened in the last time that happened was nine hundred forty five we have youth unemployment in the united states at eighteen percent official rate or twice the nine point one percent overall rate so not only are we not doing well by the citizenry writ large we're not really setting up for a particularly fortuitous future when we see that the youth levels of unemployment are even higher than are troublingly elevated overall unemployment level. deja vu i don't know what you think about it it seems that many of the solutions offered for this crisis seem to stem from what was done to conquer the great depression back in the thirty's if you read the history books and all the other similarities then. well there are similarities with the great depression unfortunately in many regards we're seeing more similarities to the hoover response than the f.d.r. response which is unfortunate given that the response had

a much less positive outcome for the country i think we are going to see an extension of the payroll tax deduction which will be helpful i think we'll be seeing it sold as a new program when in fact it's kind of an extension of an existing program we're going to see a grab bag of some other programs it looks like including a special outreach for putting construction workers back to work to fix the country's beleaguered and really kind of dilapidated infrastructure that's a good idea although i think this might go into the daily dollars short file it is a good idea in addition to which i think we're going to see some direct program attempting to address the forty two percent of americans who are unemployed right now who are what we call long term unemployed because they've been out of work for twenty seven weeks or more and that really begins to be chronic it's harder to reenter the labor force and we know that those prolonged periods of unemployment are highly correlated with home foreclosure personal bankruptcy psychiatric and community problems of a very severe nature is spending

a while now and then of course is cut so many of the other is now in these ongoing cuts still being pumped through the u.s. government massive cuts if you kind of compare with what's being done in greece and a much smaller scale cuts they didn't want the country still buried in debt was going to work at american. i think both the i.m.f. and the united nations have warned that the austerity route to economic recovery has a lot more pitfalls than it does ramp ups to success and so if we do follow that we're likely to have the result that we've seen approximately six times out eight or three times out of four over the last thirty years when any country has tried that we should keep in mind too that the president is likely to announce tonight a grab bag policy with three hundred billion dollars over two years which sounds like a lot of money but it actually amounts to about one percent of g.d.p. per year over two years or a commitment over two years of about half what we committed to suring our financial sector a few years ago and while i think we needed to secure our financial sector if we're trying to secure main street three years later for half the money with twenty five

million people across fifty states involved then we run the significant risk that we keep trying to fill a large and growing hole with a peg or a stop that's much smaller than the hole and the longer we wait the larger the hole gets much grief if you can't it's not all bad news though is that let's look on the bright side it would be wrong to say there's been no economic recovery in the states after all mega-corporation the banks they're posting record profits where's a lot of money going. yes we have seen some recovery so the top twenty percent of americans have done pretty well they've made most of a recovery we see the stock market has doubled off its lows reached in march two thousand and nine or had until it recently sort of started heading aggressively back down again across the month of august and late july we have seen lots of recovery work technically not in a recession we have low growth but not zero or negative overall growth and i think that there is a little bit of an overstatement of the proclivity of a double dip recession my guess is it will continue to have the kind of quote

unquote recovery that you need a microscope to tell the difference between that and a recession or a flat period but we may not double dip down into recession will make that choice for us is our policy decision all right max couldn't quite get a bite on that last question but thanks for your input as ever much fred wolff senior analyst agree capital thank you. but the city has 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 they are peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state and results he's pulling reports next the whole region is in a state to build up to the. 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 palestinians 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 thursday at the u.n. headquarters in ramallah for a short ceremony now both the israeli government as well as the obama administration 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 discontent within the israeli public particularly leveled at the netanyahu government these have been the largest protests in this

country from history protesters clashed here in tel aviv with police a number of the wrists 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. to try to crush. overshadowed a major political event taking place in the city in exchange plans including those of president but rather of speaking of the circuit in final day of the global policy forum approach toward the major challenges russia is facing right now or his correspondent. 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. our citizens were killed in the crash as well as citizens of

several other countries let's address and the need of silence to honor their memory but you by 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 all he spoke a lot about the briefs in society as snake income winds and how that can lead to problems in society and about how russia needs to take a steady growth towards modernization another theme that has come up very much so apt is today forms 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 president putin even russia in general especially over the past couple of years that you can't do much other countries have the kind of doctors that you have the idea that the president has made a few days before about it of course is a reference to people that just because someone doesn't do something we think it's redundant means it's wrong he was referring to libya how do you when you're working for nato they found teaching countries to have to marcus these they will consider other by you know for me personally it's more difficult to defend he says because there's only one bad thing about democracy cannot impose it's really difficult imposing democracy should groups within the society and very often these societies in 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 the

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 do 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 of 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 are working hard in order to help syrians to create a kind of document in this between two camps which are fighting against each other and this fighting does not serve the national interests of syria thank you very much john sara from me helmer kill of the presidential envoy to africa and of course over the two day for a pretty much the main theme when it comes to security what's happening there but

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hello and welcome to business here on our team new pipelines are sprouting across russia on the other side of the country for north stream the roof the gas pipeline provides a new artery it's a markets in asia and business heartsease that telefonica 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 opportunities for gazprom to cash in especially now as it has loads of gas close to the region and read it to be exported this new gas pipeline which lead to more putin is opening rounds from faculty in 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 pump is desperate to fly and buyers for its

extra gas and doesn't talks with several contras but it's not all so easy at the moment talks with china are dragging over the prize and possible supplies to south korea are complicated by risk in transit through north korea but to their 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 may be shipped to the world's biggest alan g. consumers south korea and japan. and let's take a look at the markets now all prices have slipped back down as weather conditions in the lexicon gulf are still far from call now let's take a look at what's happening in the u.s. stocks there are trading in the red i reports showed first time up lichens for jobless benefits climbed last week which so this is lower and of course ben

bernanke comments that he's not worried about inflation didn't help matters all over in europe stocks called their way back into positive territory despite in european central bank cutting its forecast for economic growth in the euro zone you see he also said though that was no longer considering further rate hikes here in russia are markets under the threat in session on a positive note with r.t.s. gaining a point two percent more than my six one zero point six percent. that's all we have time for this hour the headlines are next with kevin.

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hello this is our team from moscow one is kevin know in our top story tonight the world's ice hockey community is united in grief after russia's locomotive to almost entirely wiped out yesterday in a plane crash in a city gotta stop i could have a ration ceremonies being held in a place with a team of supposed to play with sportsmen and families to. the u.k. government faces legal action as doctors demanded you inquiry into the shady death of an arms inspector he was the man who build a rock had no weapons of mass destruction head of the boat. in the middle east bill the palestinian start of peaceful campaign for statehood ahead of the u.n. vote while in israel tensions grow its police clashed with protesters calling for a better government. to attention to libya now and more insight into what's happening the latest interview is coming right up for you.