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tensions grow as police clashed with protesters who are calling for a better government. welcome says r.t. it's just after midnight now here in moscow my name's kevin and i was stuck with what speaking called ice hockey is darkest day the worst disaster affecting sport in russia's recent history let's take a look at these pictures from a bit earlier on the seething in the very stadium in minsk where they look at marty's team should have been playing earlier tonight but of course what we witnessed was a very different event for the people had gathered for instead of a game it was a commemoration ceremony for the forty three people killed when a plane crashed on takeoff yesterday. one player and a crew member survived. would have been locomotives opponents but they have been
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symbolically scoring own goals instead as a mark of respect during the ceremony the stadium was crowded with people holding banners and scarves bearing the names of those who perished party shawn thomas managed to speak to the sole survivor 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. i knew many of the boys personally what can they see they were seeing 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 locomotives gathered and one. the
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city's central cathedrals which 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 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. 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 maxine is supportive of rebuilding the locomotive franchise but is torn by survivor's guilt. 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
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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 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. thomas. but of course we know that there were two survivors on board that fateful flight still in a critical condition this morning in hospital and we'll be closely monitoring their progress for you the accident happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many of those who perished played for their countries and the real stars of the game are sports presenter kate partridge has more on that. 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 means crowd. ad for it is the portrait of
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the of this man response allays thirty six the belorussian captain defended the plate in the n.h.l. we've come to pass off a russian he was thirty three a catch all runner up last year and being a junior world champion was russia and we don't see i'm not a part of the czech squad that what won the world championships last year and along with luck i want to skip a cattle class next and also be talking 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 we've mentioned before three hundred of i mean he'd been thirty been do you need champions looking at some of the roster. where of the dead there were four paper actually playing in the junior league of part of the m.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 the senior players were only in their thirty's there's been a kind of
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a collective will in trying to rebuild this club alleys on the myth that if he's the paid shell chief we've got to be hearing from him soon he said about maybe volunteering for his country but as we can hear from that he starts being ice hockey federation president the idea that the will of to bring players to a may change is coming forward immediately but. 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 it was announced and in team and our priority will be to build and you lock motif. dozens of calls actually. five calls for the players which are. the walls built from what you believe they will be so if you're good you're for abortion and nobody ever said it was a decided way as a fellow so also when it was all those other clubs given the cause as it is it really gave the best players. if it was
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a. little slower. stop this this tragedy has is still only hours old and yes there is a there is a will from the whole ice hockey community to move forward mark the tragedy and move forward and rebuild what was a powerhouse in russian ice hockey 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 of 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 head up leagues in their own countries that have played in at this particular city are saying they can empathize with just what a tragedy it must mean how devastating it must be felt. sports correspondent kate there talked a little bit earlier on of course the money raised from a commemoration of events that we just saw immense you get on the screens now will go to the families of the players many of them left behind young children such a story as our sports presenter kate was saying talk is already turning to
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rebuilding the team and locomotive has just indeed appointed a new coach to do. previously head of the junior side meantime more details are emerging about the last moments of the players on board the doomed play really touching some of these i love you they were the final words of one of the players we got to say to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash. and among the dead also the youngest player of the team who despite being both injured and disqualified wanted nothing more to do with this courting brothers and of course ultimately that as we've seen so sadly was a decision that cost him his life more human stories of the timeline of this tragic event on our website at r t v dot com. to be to admit it was a visit to the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster and jaroslav all the sites the russian president said the number of their lives in russia has been dramatically reduced he also ordered the transport ministry. to pay special attention to pilot training in russian civil aviation
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sector now saying that those not up to the job must be sacked but added the entire industry must undergo serious changes. a look at some other news president barack obama's to speak before the u.s. congress to tackle the ongoing job crisis gripping america it follows reports that no new jobs have been created in the country during august that is worrying news for a nation with twenty four million classed as employed or underemployed so if more insight into a bomb is proposed jobs act and what it might entail let's go live to albany usa we're joined by economist rockwell lew very good evening thanks for being with us lou rockwell from the what was it were you from the little bit of a mrs institute think tank i just wanted to get that out to tell our viewers to give you on the program now given that quite frankly disturbing data from last month what is on the table for america tonight. well barack obama is probably going to propose more keynesian solutions that is more government more government
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spending more inflation more so-called government jobs government stimulus government payments to the labor unions to build bridges and build roads but all of this is you know we always have to keep in mind there are two sorts of jobs there are real jobs in the private sector where people do work that actually benefit society and people are willing to buy their products and whether you're improving the economy and then there are parasitical jobs sort of anti jobs or government jobs and actually subtract from social well being so what obama's going to try to do maybe he's come to his senses in a lot of some good things to say i don't think so but you can't rule it out but probably what is going to do is ask for more trouble and i must say i don't think the republicans are any better their plan what they did under the bush administration was horrific to the people that have brought on a depression and they're crushing us it's just like it's a replay of franklin roosevelt in the new deal you know it's something has to be done i think everybody agrees on that don't you talking about the republicans there
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are a number of republican lawmakers we have announced that they've boycotted this but they're going to boycott the speech what to say that even refer to go to a football game with this family. from the outside without it america from the outside what does that say for a bill which needs the government to unite talk of this huge problem seriously that all americans are facing so great is it well i think it's actually wonderful i mean we have too much presidency worship in this country and everything is the president of it's that goes too much too much emphasis on the president for that matter too much influence on the government we don't need the government all to get together unless we're going to say send them all to the bahamas for a few years that would be a wonderful thing get them out of this country. we don't want them to unite we because when they unite they do evil i mean they they increase themselves they rip off the average guy to an even greater extent. if you don't know if you've been in washington recently they all live very well there in the imperial capital but they're crushing the rest of those so we don't want government to do what you want
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to government get out of the way we would like to have the government you know if you were government employees fewer regulations fewer taxes just there's too many of them there to repay shows the true predatory so we don't need them all getting together again and maybe send them to the moon or someplace i guess that may just. getting jobs but it's america's restarting the manufacturing industry but of course the us is having to compete very hard with cities like china like india even if we forget america's massive debt is how long how slow go ahead isn't it boy i love the fact that we have the opportunity to buy great goods from china and india that are well priced and serve our needs thank goodness no should the american manufacturing sector be bigger i don't actually know and certainly the government doesn't know all they can do is free up the economy and let autopen doors and consumers make the choices that will build prosperity it can't be planned out of washington all they do is do damage all they've got is
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a hammer right i mean all government is the locus of violence and the threat of violence that's the only tool they have to whether it's a parking ticket or you know anything else they always threaten you with violence so if we want more economic prosperity we need less government and i guess you need the use of your side as well you know the future depends on today's use public education in schools in your country and bearing the brunt of the cuts how does that bode to get the country back on its feet for the future well you're right we do need the young people and i think there is a vastly increased interest in young people about what's happening in the economy why such things as social security are not going to provide what the government claims but the public schools and the public schools are just a bunch of indoctrination academies intended to make kids a bit of the government be willing to go fight the wars pay the taxes salute the president and so forth so we would love to see the public schools kind of rebut the best. well you could do for american youth but they're not actually coming and if the government doesn't cut in dealing what they're talking about is maybe cutting
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the rate of increase we ought to have cuts we've made to close a bunch of these public schools they do damage with private school and home schooling unschooling we need private alternatives to government education which is really counter education so big great thing to have the public schools cut close them out nail the door shut. but another about how you would sort out all of the country's crisis but afraid we're out of time to roll call chairman of the wake of one missing since to you thanks being with us thank you. well the students who started a campaign for statehood ahead of the super between few votes in the united nations they carried a letter to the local you admission in ramallah so peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state a result. the whole region is in a state to build up to vote. while the palestinian authority officially launched its campaign for statehood today thursday and in a formal written 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
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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 his day at the un headquarters in ramallah for a short ceremony of both the israeli government as well as the obama administration is against the stick 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 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
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leveled at the netanyahu government these have been the largest protests in this country's 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 extend to me these of september the twentieth it will no longer even listen to the concerns being addressed here within the israeli society comedy's correspondent paula. in just a few days 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 i'm told abuses on both sides but as we begin our special coverage of the anniversary is going to take on takes a look at whether the past decade has made america and he safe.
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going to be one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history i'm sure doing a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but is america and the world now a safer place ten years on the most recent nine eleven commission report card gives aviation security in the u.s. the worst rate an f as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if that which weren't just put out a great we're going to look for thank you it's a hypothetical on a curtain call. and that have significantly said it's back where they're trying to beat them america's decade long campaign on terror has created a new phenomena more without borders and as many say without rules torture rape and murder that took place at the u.s.
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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. when he was the secretary of state under george w. bush he says some of the bush administration members deserved 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
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joining radical groups others like this young man who lost both of his legs and three family members in a drone strike gether in protest asking when will the killing stop we have made much more than the industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has 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 r.t. . the british government faces court action from a group of doctors over the death of weapons expert david kelly in two thousand and three the pushing for
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a new inquiry after the first ridge devoted to suicide kelly was behind a report showing the britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion and his answer is lower amid found the evidence in the case isn't as clear as previously thought either. more than eight years since the death of u.n. weapons inspector david kelly and still no inquest following his own masking 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
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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 in group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. one group from across the aisle. monograms. the police. would leave by. the campaign has popular support reaches 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 campaign is hope this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play just subsequent governments coverup. for r.t.
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coverups and all practice for american and european security services according to the human rights commission for the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons tell us how a book says the practice hampers investigations and in interviews coming up right now. today we're joined by mr thomas have a bird european commissioner for human rights talking to us from
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a star's boards thanks very much mr however for joining us now let's get right to what we know that there were cia prisons in europe and people were tortured and now you're pushing for the truth what more should be know there is a lot more to know because we haven't had a full account for what really happened and who took the decisions and on what grounds when these black sites were established on european soil of the things that we still have to know what do you think is most important i think we have to learn from history and unfortunately during this period of ten years very serious human rights violations for committed and we have enough impunity when it comes to these violations of human rights i think the truth has to come out on board really happened who took the decisions who allowed the establishment of these secret places of detention and thereby allowing torture to take place now this is a story came to light i mean there have been some governments ordering
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investigations will they found very little so far do you think it's possible that they're deliberately trying to play it down and if so is there any proof of them doing so well there is an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this secret in fact instructions from from the support of the way to us not to give any facts on this so therefore it's not easy to investigate but i think some of the european governments have been involved they have to decide whether they think that the cooperation between the security agencies are more important than to look into human rights violations and break the fear of impunity ok well we're talking here about european officials authorizing these rendition sites but what about those who . actually masterminded and those who were directly involved do you think say officials will ever be held accountable for their actions unfortunately it's not likely but if the european governments involved could take steps to really put out
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everything they know and publish that it may start a process in united states where the accountability also there is established but why is it not likely. it's not likely because this is there is an atmosphere of security confidentiality around this. notion that when it comes to the activities of a security agency the truth shall not be told to the public and i think that is a real problem because here we have had cooperation between the united states security agency and european agencies under which human rights violations were seriously seriously violated and it is very important that we know when we know the violations were made. that should be the democratic control of the security agencies activities while there are claims that the u.s. and the u.k.
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prisoners to be tortured in libya to the gadhafi regime does that seem likely to you yes it's very likely and it fits a pattern and also there are no documents being discovered in tripoli which show that this actually did happen now the commander of the rebel forces that. he demanded an apology from western powers over his alleged russian two thousand and four and i legibly he was arrested in bangkok and headed to gadhafi forces for torture now how do you think they're going to explain their alleged or murky deals with gadhafi to the rebels because now they're essentially on the same side. i think that question has to be given to to washington. is an explanation to be given but he was obviously one of those who were picked up. during this so-called war on terror he was in tandem or that shown and he was obviously one of those badly treated and i think he and others. and apology some of them who were brought there
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to got on a more or to the secret places of detention or to partner countries of the united states in this where they were tortured they were not probably not innocent but still even people who are on good ground suspected they have the right to certain protection when it comes to human rights including not to be tortured and speaking of the militant groups you just released a report based on your visit to russia's and north caucuses which is of course a region now marked by sporadic violence by terrorists how do you assess the struggle against the terrorists over there the struggle is still going on there have been some positive initiatives taken a lot of money has been put on budgets in order to improve the standard of living in the area. there is a focus more on the social dimension of this the roots for terrorism which i think
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is very positive but unfortunately there is still also a problem of impunity the crimes which have been committed including by law enforcement forces have not been satisfactorily addressed and people guilty responsible have not been brought to justice so there is still a need to do more when it comes to that aspect all right well thank you very much effort your time mr thomas however human rights commissioner of the council of europe thank you you. thank . worldwide manhunt for him lasted for fifteen years it's. a one million year old war it was promised for his capture. political must murder for the west. the
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live from central moscow this is our team thank you for being with us rob you're watching around the world. community is united in grief tonight after russia's lokomotiv team is almost entirely wiped out in a plane crash in such. a commemoration ceremonies been held right in the place where the team was supposed to play with sportsman fans. faces legal action. inquiry into the shady death of an arms inspector he was the man who revealed new iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. the middle east build up palestinian start a peaceful campaign for statehood ahead of the u.n. vote was in israel ten shouldn't grow since police clashed with protesters calling for a better government. midnight thirty one more news in full for me twenty nine minutes ahead next though we profile the controversial balkan war figure rock cold blooded which the former bosnian.
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