is calling for a better government. this is r t is one of the moscow you're watching the program with me kevin now in this. how 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 of these pictures from earlier on this evening in a very stadium in minsk where the locomotive team should have been playing tonight but of course what we're seeing here is a very different event that people ended up gathering for instead of a game it was a commemoration ceremonies as the forty three people killed when their plane crashed on takeoff. one player and a crew member did survive. squad of green locomotives opponents. evenings they were symbolically scoring their own goals as

a mark of respect during the whole ceremony the stadium is crowded with people holding banners and scarves bearing the names of those who perished. thomas managed to speak go to the soul plane 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 i 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 wish i can 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 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 break 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 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 r.t. . and of course you know there were two survivors on board of a full flight there in a critical condition in hospital will be closely monitoring their progress for you over the coming days hoping they pull through. the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many of those who perished played for their country and the real stars of the game are sports presenter kate partridge. we can see some of the portraits of some of those players that be coming up 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 for the portrait of this man responsible

a thirty six belorussian captain i defended that played in the n.h.l. we've come to offer russian he was thirty three runner up last year and been a junior world champion with russia and we don't see a magic that part of the czech squad that what won the world championships last year and along with luck i want to skip the cattle next and also talking to another check as well this year is that 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 know champions looking at some of the. where of the dead for 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 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 a collective will in trying to rebuild this club alleys and the myth that if he's

the. chief we're going to be hearing from him soon he said about maybe volunteering players to come through but as we can hear from the to be ice hockey federation president the idea of the will of to bring players to a major change is coming forward immediately. to family mourns the loss of one of the best teams that it was a multinational with a unique group of players. and the international sports community sharing our grief it was an outstanding team and our priority will be to build and you look to you for. those of us of calls. for of course for as a boy of. the war it will be silly if you're. already over there was a decided ways of for all of. us all those of the club's. calls as. well as the. history of. your vote 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 a whole city but also what we know it's this 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 it in in at this particular city as saying they can empathize with just what a tragedy it must be how devastating it must be felt. and saw to sports correspondent kate partridge in a bit earlier on and of course the money raised from the commemoration earlier that we saw and skin that we're seeing our screens again now is going to the families of the players many of them left behind young children and as kate was saying talks turning already to rebuilding the team and locomotives just appointed

a new coach to try to do just that. previously headed the junior team meanwhile more details are emerging about the last moments of the players on board that do play 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 and submerge to despite being both injured and disqualified of the. nothing more than to be with his sporting brothers course the decision ultimately cost him his life this time more human stories and the timeline of this whole tragic event on our website r.t. dot com. to me to provide a visit to the crash site and lay flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster at the site the russian president said the number of airlines must be reduced dramatically now he also ordered the transport minister to pay special attention to pilot training in russia civil aviation sector saying that people not up to the job must be sacked but very valid the entire industry must undergo

serious changes. to take a look at some of the top stories this morning president barack obama has to speak before the u.s. congress to tackle the ongoing job crisis gripping america right now it follows reports that no new jobs have been created in the country during august that's worrying news for a nation with twenty four million plasters employed or underemployed i spoke to the congress lou rockwell and told me the proposal to stimulate the economy is an artificial fix. because too much too much emphasis on the president for that matter too much simpler emphasis on the government we have too much presidency worship in this country and everything's the president of barack obama is probably going to. keynesian solutions that is more government more government spending more inflation and more so-called government jobs government stimulus government payments to the labor unions to build bridges and build roads but all of us as we always have to keep in mind there are two sorts of jobs there are real jobs in the private sector

people do work that actually benefit society and people are willing to buy their products and where they improve the economy and then there are parasitical jobs sort of enter our jobs or government jobs and actually surprise from sort of the world so what obama's going to try to do maybe he's come to his senses and i have some good things to say i don't think so but you can't rule it out. 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 going to have brought on depression and they're crushing us it's just like it's a replay of franklin roosevelt and the new deal. and senior enlisted to green crest capitol much fred wolf told me the u.s. job market is that its lowest point since the end of the second world war right now 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 one thousand nine hundred 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 our troublingly elevated the overall unemployment level 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. palestinians have started a campaign for statehood ahead of the september twentieth vote in the united nations that occurred a letter to the local you admission in ramallah so in their peaceful demonstrations

will continue until palestine becomes a member state. reports now the whole region is in a state to build up towards the. well the palestinian authority officially launched its campaign for statehood today thursday and in a formal letter to the un secretary chief banky moon it urged the international body to recognize tellus fenians just demands 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 of 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. informally and in secret to discuss the possibility of possibly owning 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 happy. extended me these are september the twentieth it will no longer even listen to the concerns being addressed here within the israeli society. well there are forces in both israel and palestine that would like

violence to erupt in the build up to the un vote and these provocations must be avoided of pieces ever to be established says dr ron pundak he's chairman of the palestinian israeli peace and geo forum. now what is happening between us and the policy means will be judged by whether there will be clashes along they seemed lines between the israeli forces and the palestinians and also between the palestinians and the settlements with their west bank but as much as i understand the interest of both sides is not to reach any hostility on both sides they are provocative force 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 be 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. in just a few days' time from now 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 but as we begin our special coverage of the anniversary for you what is going to teach you can takes a look at whether the past decades made america any safer. i mean one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history that ushered in a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but is america and the world now a safer place ten. here's on the most recent nine eleven commission report card gives aviation security in the u.s. the worst great and the f s for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight

them have spawned even more extremism torture and if that which weren't just get off the grid or been taught a mode which we're thinking is the highest level of burden of it or and that have significantly thought of the fact that i don't live in a trying to defeat terrorism america's decade long campaign on terror has created a new phenomenon 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 you 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 gether 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 has called the terrorist industrial calm. lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror our war on terror. begins.

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. were given the grief and the anger in the aftermath of nine eleven the invasion of afghanistan was an understandable decision that's according to paul rogers he's professor of peace studies at the university of bradford in the united kingdom but a decade on he now believes it became obvious to that 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 to two hundred twenty five thousand in iraq and and elsewhere

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 three years the more the violence has actually escalated it seems to be a counterproductive move as i say this may be understandable in the context of the appalling attacks ten years ago but the reality is it is just not working out as expected well bit later today will be assessing the effects of post nine eleven world some more both on the u.s. and on those in afghanistan where they still don't know the reason why they were invaded in the first place. in this conference think about its consequences. if you. know it is you. if i just got in your boots rise. for six months from

a stone ages where we are. 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 a new inquiry after the first reached a verdict to suicide kelly was behind the reports showing britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion but it's not his lorimer 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 dr 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 before 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 pools. of this group from across the aisle thirty. years. no. the. lady with. the campaign has popular support reaches of the daily mail newspaper have to need to do 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 and just subsequent government coverup. well coverups normal practice for american and european security services according to the human rights commission of the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons tell us how a bird told us the practice hampers investigations in an interview that's coming up right now for you here on t.v. from moscow.

today we're joined by mr thomas have a bird european commission for human rights talking to us from a star's boards thanks very much mr however for joining us now let's get right to where well we know that there were cia prisons in the europe and people were tortured and now you're pushing for the truth what more should be known 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 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 there are serious human rights violations for committed and we have an atmosphere impunity

when it comes to these violations of human rights i think the truce has to come out on board really happened who took the decisions who are allowed the establishment of these secret places so that. and thereby allowing torture to take place now this is a story came to light i mean there have been some governments ordering 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 transfer 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 cia 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 everything they know and publish that it may start a process in the united states with 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 should 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 the british should be democratic. control of the security agency's activities well there are claims that the u.s. and the u.k. sent 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 now documents being discovered in tripoli which show that this actually did happen now the commander of the rebel forces that's. shipley he demanded an apology from western powers over his a legislation two thousand and four that i legit lee was arrested in bangkok and headed to gadhafi forces for torture now how do you think they're going to explain their alleged murky deals with gadhafi to the rebels because now they're essentially on the same side. i think the question has to be given to to washington

. is an explanation to be given there but he was obviously one of those who were picked up during this so-called war on terror he was in tandem of 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 to grant on a more or to the secret places of detention or to partner countries of the united states in this where there were torture 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 north caucuses which is of course a region are 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 their area. there is a focus more on the. the social dimension of this the roots for terrorism which i think is very positive but unfortunately still also a problem of impunity that 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. thank you.

this is our top story tonight the world's ice hockey community is united in grief after russia's lokomotiv team were almost entirely wiped out in a plane crash in the city of jaroslav a commemoration ceremony been held in a place where the team is supposed to play and sportsman families take. the u.k. government faces legal action as doctors to model new inquiry into the shady death of an arms inspector who was the man who feel britain mula rather have no weapons of mass destruction as head of the invasion. and in the middle east palestinian start a peaceful campaign for statehood head of the un vote while in israel tensions grow as police clashed with protesters calling for a better government. financial. scandal. the latest news headlines. to me to my.