international news live from moscow this is with me here national thanks for joining us and our top story russia is mourning the forty three victims of the plane crash that almost entirely wiped out one of the country's leading hockey teams it's been called the nation's sporting disaster and we can now see pictures from the ceremony at the stadium in minsk where the locomotive team was heading to participate in the continental hockey league season opener thousands gathered to remember those who perished in the fatal plane crash just minutes after takeoff and during the ceremony. it would have been like opponents symbolically scored only goals as a mark of respect could be seen holding banners and scarves bearing the names of those who died in the crotch thomas monish to speak to the player who didn't. light .

the famous bells of jaroslav ring out for a community grieving a chilling reminder of the tragedy that cut short the minds of some of the city's brightest stars. i knew many of the boys personally what can i say there were scenes 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 the 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 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 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 human can begin and as a steady stream of mourners continue to come to this central church and you are so awful 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.

and there were two rivals on board that fateful flight one of their lives team member. whose condition is now reported to have stabilized and he's receiving treatment at a leading burns unit the other survivor its flight engineer alexander says are also suffered severe bout of the knee injuries the accident happened on the first day of the new season of the kontinental hockey league many of those who died were in their twenty's and had just signed their first major league contract and earlier my colleague kevin out and spoke to our sports presenter. and here is what she's going to say oh 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 for is the portrait of the of this man response allays thirty six belorussian captain i defended that played in the n.h.l. we've come to a russian he was thirty three runner up last year and being

a junior world champion was russia and we don't see that part of the czech squad that what won the world championships last year and along with lot of us escape a cattle class next and also turning to another check as well that's years of 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 i mean he'd been thirty been in junior champion looking at some of the. where of the day for. actually playing in the junior league or 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 alys on the myth that if he's the k. it k h l chief we got to be hearing from him soon he said about maybe volunteering for us to come through but as we can hear from that he starts to check the ice

hockey federation president the idea the will of to bring players to make change is coming forward immediately. the ice hockey family mourns the loss of one of the best teams which 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 a. dozen or so of calls actually. five calls so i was a boy we try to do the wolf from what you believe it will be so if you're good you're for abortion and nobody over there was a decided ways of sort of so. that when things are sold most of the clubs are giving the cause as it is it really gave the best players. are different or there's a history of very little slower for kids overall don't 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 mock the tragedy move

forward and rebuild what was a powerhouse in russian i saw 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 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 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. that was all she is kate partridge talking to meanwhile mass commemorations have taken place across european cities. hundreds have gathered in this center of the czech capital prague to remember the last of your great players chanting their names and lighting candles and then memory through traffic nationals were on board the plane among them was in what world champion young american memorial service is also taking place in the

neighboring slovakia the people paying tribute to hosni hart's horrible it's true. it's a huge. for searing it was to great. my condolences of course it's very sad. i feel very sorry for his relatives. a lot in national team we feel story it is difficult for everyone but we have to go on. the money raised from that commemoration of burned that we saw a little earlier and meant schoolgirl to the families of the players many of them left behind young children as our sports presenter kate it was say talk is turning to rebuilding the team lokomotiv that's just appointing a new coach to do just that over of your behind previously head of the junior team meanwhile more details have emerged about the last moments of the players on board the doomed plane. and i love you these were the final

words one of the players called to say to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash. among the dead the youngest male the team despite being both injured and disqualified had wanted nothing more than to play with the supporting brothers and decision cost him his life more human stories a timeline to the tragic events and the latest developments logon to our website that's r t dot com. and to make sure we do that it has visited the crash site and laid flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster. and at this science the russian president said the number of our lines must be reduced dramatically he also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention to pilot training in russia's civil aviation sector saying those not up to the job market sucked out of the entire industry must undergo serious changes part of the chatter have already been recovered from the water and flight recorders sent to the investigation.

we're now in an hour's time president barack obama needs to speak before the u.s. congress to tackle down growing job crisis gripping america it follows reports that no new jobs have. created in the country during or gets boring need for a nation with twenty four million. underemployed and economists to go well that's sad that obama's proposal to stimulate the economy you know if you think. there's too much too much emphasis on the president for that matter too much and put emphasis on the government we have too much presidency worship in this country and everything is the president and the barack obama is probably going to propose 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 this is we always have to keep in mind there are two sorts of jobs there are real jobs in the private sector

for people to 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 and jobs which are government jobs and actually surprise from social well being so what obama is going to try to do maybe he's come to his senses in all have some good things to say i don't think so but you can't rule it out probably what he's 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 depression and they're crushing us it's just like it's a replay of a friend from roosevelt and the new deal. the syrians have started a campaign for statehood ahead of the september twentieth violet and the united nations that carried a letter to the local u.n. mission in ramallah saying their peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state and. reports the whole region in a state of build up to the vote. while the palestinian authority officially

launched its campaign for statehood and in a formal written to the un secretary chief banki moon it urged the international body to recognize palestinians and just demand now 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 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 this what we've witnessed here particularly in the last few 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 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 are the. september the twentieth it will no longer even listen to the concerns being addressed here within the israeli society. and just a few days the united states will be marking its greatest tragedy in half a century the terrorist attacks on september eleventh two thousand and one that followed what followed was

a decade of invasions tortious scandals and untold abuses and by the sides as we begin our special coverage of. the takes a look at whether the pilots decades made america any safer. going to be one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history and should be in a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but is america and the world now a safer place ten years on the most recent nine eleven commission report card gives aviation security in the u.s. the worst rate and after as for terrorists experts say the methods used to fight them have spawned even more extremism torture and if that which weren't just put out the great we're going to talk them over which were thank you if the i phone will occur. and that significant we think it's backed up in a trying to be careful 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 new think it should still be a tool yes rendition yes secret prisons yes wiretapping well with the right to prove colonel lawrence wilkerson was collin powell chief of staff when he was the secretary of state under george w. bush he says some of the bush. administration members deserve to be put on trial and he would be ready to testify george tenet told dick cheney what dick cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information and we're stopping terrorist attacks that is order book in pakistan

u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and made it only a handful of actual terrorists many of the victims' loved ones seek revenge by joining radical groups others like this young man who lost both of his legs and three family members in a drone strike 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 complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror our war on terror. begins without god. 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 out reporting from washington r.t.

. and ivan eland from the washington based think tank says the u.s. government is repeating the mistakes of the past. recent poll shows that the american public only twenty about twenty five percent think that the war in afghanistan or the war in iraq picked choose which one you want had a. positive effect on fighting terrorism in fact they seventy five percent think it either had no effect or at a negative effect i think we got been lived in i certainly don't have a problem with taking out the. vote for bin laden himself the main trunk of al qaeda but we created al qaeda in iraq and we strengthened. in the arabian peninsula and in the madre and the reason that we've done that and also the group in somalia and i think we've both in somalia and yemen yemen we've made our enemies stronger and that they weren't even really our enemies when we started out so i think it's really it's going too far and what you need to do if you're fighting terrorism. and

you can't do it with law enforcement alone which you should do most of it with law enforcement then you use the military but you do it in the shower with special forces cia you don't invade countries or bomb them from the air as in libya or whatever i mean you just be as surgical as you can so you don't stir up more of the animosity that breeds the terrorists. and later today with us says the facts of a post nine eleven world both on the us and on those in afghanistan where many still don't know the reason why they were invaded in the first day. of this conference think about nine eleven its consequences. if. you know. if i just got your bits right everybody you know for six months some secret story just 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 they're pushing for a new inquiry into the faster reached a verdict of suicide kelli was behind a report showing britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq before joining the invasion and as aussies more and 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 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 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 helping. distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. from across the aisle. the police. would. become pain has popular support of the daily mail newspaper in a today around fifty six thousand dollars in just a week to help finance the appeal how pain and his fellow campaign is hoping this

will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play just subsequent governments coverup. so cover ups are 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 and thomas says the practice hampers investigations and interview that's coming up here right now.

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 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 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 an atmosphere of 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 of detention and thereby allowing torture to take place now is the story came to light i mean there have been some guy. 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 tell 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

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 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 the british should be democratic control of the

security agencies activities while there are claims that the us and the u. . 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. simply he demanded an apology from western powers over his alleged russian two thousand ford i logically he 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 that question has to be given to to washington. 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 with that shown and he was obviously one of those badly treated and i think he and others. apology some of them who were brought there to go out 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 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 the area. there is a focus more on the social dimension of this the roots for terrorism which i think is very possible. 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 howard berg human rights commissioner of the council of europe thank you. thank you the a. limited

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