russia is mourning the forty three victims of the plane crash that almost entirely wiped out one of the country's leading hockey teams has been called the nation's worst of a sporting disaster say pictures from the emotional memorial ceremony of the stadium in minsk where they locomotive team was heading to participate in the continental hockey league season opener and thousands gathered to remember those who perished in that fatal plane crash just minutes after takeoff during the ceremony did not mince it with the motives opponents bought up and scored goals as a mark of respect because he's seen holding banners that scholes bearing the names of those who died in the crash sean thomas managed to speak to this so player who didn't go with that faith faithful flight. the famous bells of jaroslav ring out for a community grieving a chilling reminder of the tragedy of the country with the minds of some of the

city's brightest stars. i knew many of the boys were personally what can i say they were 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 asaba locomotive gathered in one of the city's central cathedrals pushing i can't describe how i feel but it's a very serious loss to me the only thing worse than that would be to lose my family they were like family to me. but as a support group of thousands work through their grief together one man maxime's is dark and is going through his own personal nightmare he is the only member of the team not on board the fateful flight his coach told him to take the rest and meet the team for the next game in moscow. but this is very. terrifying for me the

hockey team is like a family or so i lost a family of forty people people i was close to for such a long time. actually supportive of rebuilding the locomotive franchise but it's torn by survivor's guilt. i haven't met their families yet i can't imagine how that will break this is horrible for me i wasn't thinking about whether i was lucky or not that i wasn't on that plane. and now he must rely on his community sharing in the grief process so that the healing can begin and as a steady stream of mourners continue to come to this central church and you are 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. sean thomas. and there were two survivors on board that fateful flight one of them these team member

alexander whose condition is now reported to have stabilized and that's receiving treatment at a meeting in moscow burns unit the other survivor is a flight engineer his name is alexander says also suffered severe burns and 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 that i might call it kevin. he sports presenter kate partridge at his watch as. 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 the portrait of the of this man response allays thirty six the belorussian captain i defended that played in the n.h.l. we've come to the russian he was thirty three runner up last year and being a junior world champion was russia then we don't see that part of the czech squad that what won the world. chips last year and along with luck want to skip

a cattle neck and also cling 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 in junior 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 a collective will in trying to rebuild this club alleys and the myth that it was the k. it k h l chief we got to be hearing from him say and he said about maybe volunteering for his country but as we can hear from that is being i saw the federation president the idea the will of to bring players to make change is coming forward

immediately pressure because. the family mourns the loss of one of the best teams it was a multinational to be with a unique group of players and the international sports community share in our grief it was announced and in team and our priority will be to build and you locomotive. dozens of calls. for the players which are. the war from what you believe it will be so if you're. already over there was a decided way as a referral of so that also. whether that was all those of the clubs given the calls as it really gave the best players. are different or there's a history of. what gets overlooked 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 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 just as well with some of the tributes that are coming in from former players who've gone onto to head up leagues in their own countries that have played in in this particular city are saying they can empathize with just what a tragedy it must be and how devastating it must be felt. talking to us earlier meanwhile mass commemorations have taken place across european cities hundreds have gathered in this central the capital wrong to remember their last favorite players chanting their names and lighting candles in their memory three track nationals well on board the plane for world champions in morals have also taken place in the neighboring slovakia with people paying tribute to hockey star to me try. to do for surgery almost

a group. my condolences. of course it's very sad. if you're very sorry for those relatives but. a lot in national team we feel shorey it is difficult for everyone but we have to go on. the money raised from that commemoration of violence that we saw earlier in minsk will go to the families of the players many of them left behind young children and as our sports presenter kate was saying talk is turning to rebuilding the team lokomotiv has just appointed a new coach to do just that one of your previously head of the junior team meanwhile more details emerge the bar the last moments of the players and boarded the plane. i love you these were the final words one of the players got to say to his wife and baby son just minutes before the crash. and among the dead the youngest of the team who despite being injured and disqualified

had wanted nothing more them to be with his sporting brothers and his decision cost him his life the more human stories of time a timeline to the tragic events and the latest developments for the world to websites that. dmitri medvedev has visited the crash site and lay flowers in tribute to the victims of the plane disaster. at the side of the russian president said the number of airlines must be reduced dramatically he also ordered the transport ministry to pay special attention to pilot training in russia's civil aviation sectors saying those not up to the job losses sucked with that it added the entire industry must undergo serious changes part of the chat have already been recovered from the water and flight recorders said to me by investigators. we know now president barack obama has delivered his a much anticipated jobs before congress and there he proposes spending more than

four hundred billion dollars and putting people back to work but critics say it's too little too late he's going next trick and explains. president obama addressed the lawmakers he put forward measures to create jobs and stimulate the sluggish economy at the u.s. has seen several years of massive job loss unemployment remains over nine percent we're talking about millions of people living jobless in this country congress might cut off unemployment benefits starting next year and the jobless in america will find themselves in an even more dire situation president obama in his address called for the congress to extend benefits for the unemployed he also suggested tax incentives for small businesses another measure he put forward is giving money we're talking about one hundred forty billion dollars to states and local governments so that they can keep you know the teachers and firefighters employed also hire infrastructure workers so that those workers can go out and spend money

and keep the consumption going although experts are saying that the stimulus plan obama is suggesting will not really bring the u.s. economy out of the woods because it will create in the best scenario around one and a half million jobs but it takes eleven million jobs new jobs just to get back to the pre recession level there's a lot of skepticism out there in congress many lawmakers are not happy with obama's spending plans while obama is not happy with the lawmakers unwillingness to compromise what's frustrating to many here is that this package of one hundred forty billion dollars in direct stimulus is being debated so fiercely where is a bill giving nearly a trillion dollars a year on defense purposes and on wars gets passed easily and quietly that surely leaves many americans really frustrated about their representatives and also politicians here tend to blame outside factors when it comes to a bad economy and america's very slow recovery after the big crisis from several years ago the u.s. treasury secretary brought up oil prices japan's disaster and the crisis in europe

and that's a popular take here these days i've heard several of ministration members blame those factors which raises some questions about the ability of the u.s. to deal with the aftermath of the global crisis that the u.s. has kickstarted in the first place. and economist is that obama's proposal to stimulate the economy isn't us official. more government or 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 jobs which are government jobs and actually suppress from source

the world has asked for more trouble and i must say i don't think the republicans are any better they're playing what they did under the bush administration was horrific to have brought on a depression and there was just like it's a replay of the roosevelt and the new deal because too much too much emphasis on the president for that matter too much in florida versus on the government. in 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 four hundred what followed was a decade of invasions torture scandals and untold abuses and sites begin our special coverage of the anniversary again it's you can explain. will show you that report late have a right now ivan even from a washington based think tank says the u.s. government is repeating the mistakes of the. a recent poll shows that the american public only twenty about twenty five percent think that the war in afghanistan or

the war in iraq you pick 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 bin live and 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've strengthened. it in the arabian peninsula and in the magreb and the reason that we've done that and also the group in somalia and i think we've both been small and you haven't yemen we've made our enemies stronger and 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 a surgical as you can so you don't stir up more of the animosity that breeds the terrorists. and laid his day with us as the facts of a post nine eleven while the u.s. is in afghanistan where many still don't know the reason why they were invaded in the first place. and this. think about nine eleven and its consequences. that this is. you know. if i just got here it would be good to be you know for six months this is very much the 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 they're pushing for a new inquiry after the first reached a verdict of suicide kenny was behind

a report travelling britain knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iran for joining the invasion. in the war and found out the evidence in the case isn't as clear as previous. 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 help him and a group of other doctors are distinctly underwhelmed by the evidence. that this one group from across the aisle. when. you start to become pain has popular support readers 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 campaigners hope this will lead to a full inquest into kelly's death many suspect foul play or just subsequent government cover up. palestinians have started

a campaign for statehood ahead of this september twentieth riot and the united nations they carried a letter to the local u.n. mission in ramallah saying their peaceful demonstrations will continue until palestine becomes a member state as artie's poorness their appalls the whole region is in a state of buildup to the. well 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 tellus fenians just demolished and what we understand is that the campaign will involve a series of events in the run up to the opening session of the un general assembly on september the twentieth it has been dubbed the national campaign for palestine state one hundred and one thousand and to launch its one hundred palestinian high ranking officials and activists gathered 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 aeration and the u.s.

has into a formal request to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas asking him not to go ahead with it but a bus has rejected because we are hearing some rumblings behind the scenes that israelis and palestinians have been. 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'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. september the twentieth it will no longer even listen to the concerns being addressed here within the

israeli society. normal practice for american and european security services that's according to the human rights commission for the council of europe especially when it comes to secret prisons and thomas hamill back says the practice hampered investigations in an interview that's coming up for you right now.

today we're joined by mr thomas harburg european commissioner 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 no there's 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 a committed and we have an atmosphere with 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. 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 say officials will ever be held accountable for their actions unfortunately it's

not likely but if the european governments could take this step to really put out everything they know and publish that it may start a process in 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. blish there should be democratic control of the

security agency's activities while 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. he demanded an apology from western powers over his alleged dish in 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 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 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 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 as a north caucasus 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 positive but unfortunately there is 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 time mr thomas however human rights commissioner of the council of europe thank you. thank you. one.

well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by obama's by napalm boy coming from saddam's whether it's on sonic boom six tractor marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs

in the pacific for landing purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in the war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that. the term used to attack that became synonymous with pure evil. the senseless slaughter of almost three thousand people all stunned the world. and it all seemed like a nightmare. then years on. r.g.p. remembers the attacks and insults from our. a look back at nine eleven when

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and again this is i'll see the headlines. to get angry at me morial says this takes place across europe at the walls ice hockey community remembers defaulter becomes a plane crash in central washington an emotional ceremony has also been held at the stadium in benefits where they too were supposed to play this season's other putting much. on president barack obama lays out his much anticipated jobs and before congress forced invest more than four hundred billion dollars in putting people back so want to put special emphasis on construction work gets teachers and the long term. unemployed this comes as speculation on the job market and the world's largest economy raises concerns over the ability of the united states to pull out of the economic crisis. also the british government faces legal action as a group of doctors demanded a new inquiry into the death of alms inspector david petit who was the first to reveal britain a new iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.