nine am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story ice hockey in russia has been dealt a terrible blow that's being mourned in the country and across the world almost the entire locomotive team was wiped out in a plane crash as they headed to a match in minsk where an emotional ceremony was held to honor the victims. fans held banners and scars varying the names of those who died in the crash as their portraits were placed on the ice during the ceremony do not know who would have been locomotives opponents symbolically scored own goals as a mark of respect forty three died on the plane as a forty two that crashed moments after takeoff in the city of jaroslav but it's believed the aircraft failed to gain a proper height and clipped in and had any other runway people survived the tragedy both being treated for a serious burns and other injuries one player though didn't narrowly escaped the

all fated flight because he didn't board the plane artie's sean thomas was able to talk to him. the famous bells of jaroslav ring out for a community grieving a chilling reminder of the tragedy the country with the minds of some of the city's brightest stars. i knew many of the boys 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 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. but 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 support. rebuilding the locomotive franchise but it's torn by survivor's guilt that i haven't met their families yet i can't imagine how that will be this is horrible for me i wasn't thinking about whether i was lucky or not that i wasn't on that plane. and now he must rely on his community sharing in the grief process so that the healing can begin and as a steady stream of mourners continue to come to this central church 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. look at motive was also an international team and the grief is being shared throughout europe hundreds gathered in the center of the czech capital prague to remember the last players chanting their names and lighting candles in their memory three czech nationals world war all former world champions talk track ice hockey official and former national team coach slapping the letter said it was incredible. it's hard even to talk about we've lost players in their prime but with the hard core of the national team i knew them very well even though they were playing abroad still they were always trying to get better they can't i didn't just want to be part of a system they wanted to know the details of their positions and how to best school they took a huge interest in what they did i really enjoyed working with them. and morial

service is also happening in neighboring slovakia where tributes were paid to the sports star pavel demitra people who gathered near an ice arena in bratislava sharing their thoughts because. i am shocked. it is a big loss he was agreed. it for the sake of it though it is horrible it is difficult to talk about it. more on this story and many others on our website r t v dot com among the dead the youngest player on the team who just might be both injured and disqualified wanted nothing more had to be with his sporting brothers a decision that cost him his life. and the recently married flight attendant who plans to quit the job and have a baby her touching story and many others it's a click away at archie dot com. turning now to other news on r t confrontation between libyan rebels and pro could offer you forces shows no sign of

letting up battles have been raging near the towns of sirte and bani walid two of the few remaining strongholds of the fallen regime forces loyal to the colonel fired rockets from bani walid where two of coffee sons are said to be leading the armed resistance this despite the interim government seeking to negotiate a peaceful resolution the deadline for khadafy loyalists to step down has been extended to saturday as for the colonel himself in his latest audio message to the leader claimed he was still in libya and vowed he'd never leave his ancestors homeland meanwhile life meanwhile life the libyan capital still struggles after falling into rebel hands with a celebratory mood quickly dampened by fears of anarchy could set in artie's marie if an ocean has more from tripoli. the. a city celebrates for more than ten days the libyan capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall where the he wanted to hang his portrait here in the central square players who for

the second anniversary we put our flag instead we were so happy without him. that it seems in the last two weeks rebel fighters have fired bullets into the air for short during this hold on tripoli early august already be a phenol very very forward. mr gaddafi. duffy's victor thought. he told all the people love me or the people of me no you see love him and of course right of freedom is when we don't know where to get that bit on that we're done all right with a lawyer but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased i thought of mom lives in tripoli's district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia other one doesn't want to show his face on camera and ceased when

a hidden location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't let our children outside when it's done we are afraid and we always wait for something bad when gadhafi was here at least we didn't have to sleep a wink but we do know some of the rahman says he also wanted change and a brighter future for his country but not face way. people are dying on both sides in the cities destroyed and no one cares do they seriously think that they changed it for the better don't lie to yourself or you just look around is that what you wanted. and divorce is a round is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos the badly damaged buildings matched by the rising stink of each and decomposing bodies youngsters roam the streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry our weapons not toys

many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the cities symmetries a growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fell into rebel hands the national transitional council leave his new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi it's weeks have passed and there is sealed no sign of its presence on the ground zero of all to be in a race towards the city functioning by south and treading a fine line between freedom and anik a. rigged notion of. tripoli libya. stay with us here on r t coming your way in the next ahead president obama senses four hundred billion dollar jobs package with critics saying it won't be of any help to the debt stricken economy or to the country's unemployed plus. seeking membership palestine building up for september's vote that could grant the long awaited status

as a u.n. member. but first russia willing to support different approaches to resolve the situation in syria as long as they send signals to both sides of the conflict president vet have made their position clear in an interview following the global policy forum in jaroslava for more on the russian leaders view let's go live to our teams peter all over standing by moscow so peter what exactly did to be true medvedev say about resolving the situation in syria. well the president made yet of his warned against viewing the situation in syria in terms of goods and seeing this potential consideration must be paid to sit now women's within the syrian opposition before the international. song side to dealing with them now president medvedev also called on both the assad government and the opposition to bring about an end to violence in the country and said russia is always has been and always will be a friend to the syrian people. however i believe the resolutions we would approve

to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed to both sides things aren't just black and white they're the antigovernment protesters in syria are not followers of some refined european models of democracy there are different groups within the opposition some of them are to put it straight extremists and some might even be called terrorists the situation is not that simple and we have to take into account the balance of different forces and interests that russia may support certain moves but only if they don't boil down to the one sided condemnation of the government of president assad we should send a strong message calling on all the conflicting parties to come to the negotiating table start talks and stop the bloodshed this is in also in russia's interest because russia has always been serious friend and our countries have close economic and political ties that's why we'll continue to look for solutions to the situation in syria with. russia has opposed the sanctions that have been put in

place on syria including the most recent ones imposing an oil embargo saying that more time should be given to the assad government to achieve the promises made to bring about change in the country now president medvedev mentioned there that negotiation is important and russia is playing its part as a mediator on friday representatives of the. the syrian opposition are in moscow for talks with top russian diplomats on monday representatives from the assad government will be here to talk to talk to diplomats to try and bring an end to this situation in syria russia of course doesn't want to go see syria go down the. same road as what happened in libya with the u.n. resolution that was imposed being abused as far as russia. with the international intervention going well beyond the parameters laid out in the mandate they want to see negotiation bring a peace is syria. here all for

a lie for us in moscow thanks for that report. you can see the full version of that interview president medvedev gave to euro news television on our website or t dot com. images from nine eleven are still chilling even ten years after the attacks shook the world they triggered the so-called war on terror but in the country that's been at the forefront of that war it can be hard to find people who remember why foreign troops arrived in the first place we continue our special coverage of the nine eleven anniversary with this report from afghanistan. helmand in southern afghanistan is the province that is borne the brunt of the fighting between the taliban and coalition forces what would afghans in this war torn province think

about nine eleven and its consequences. while on patrol with the marines i get a first opportunity to ask a couple of young afghan men what they know about nine eleven but this year we're going to look forward with. never heard i've got to see if can you show them a few more and can us them do they know where it is even we don't know so that's because because we are former we never heard about anything else about the world pickguard more so coming through. the two young men who clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders at a local show would have more to say yeah no i didn't see it in. this ng i just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's a that's only thing i can say when you guys show this picture that guy is saying it so i think i was a cop but if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is premised stone ages where we are and what did you think about the reactions i thought investigating the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never

going to kabul it just shows you how isolated they're even in their own country go beat them on the understand. that you know you don't think you know you're going now america afghanistan come to this point and then get the airplane from here to attack in the united states you know how much fun i think you're going to it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and you say you had that picture you know it's good picture mine yourself because what you see after looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform if you're in the right. to your back that was part of the things that make sense and we're going to help you to discern one bonding and distress how many funding and they say we're going to help you where is the help. work your way down what this is going to give it to our kids go. into the fighting and they do it to their own kids then it may but that i don't invade and. i do sympathize or understand what your some are saying it's even just from the weather we've had recently people losing their homes and nobody see the

helpful so you know when you have when you can feed yourself or earth house yourself are you going to care about somebody six thousand miles away. so i can understand that this is not about over the top of this with i never thought to ask those questions of anybody here so why we're here amazingly in a country where for ten years a war has been fought with nine eleven as its root cause and justification it turns out not only were the villages oblivious to nine eleven the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the u.s. military but you don't know that is for you to sit on i got no idea of the syrians have you ever seen these pictures before. the survey taken in twenty ten by the international council on security and development found that ninety two percent of afghan men in helmand and other afghan provinces had no idea what nine eleven was with american troops that start with during this year it seems likely that they will leave afghanistan without the vast majority of afghans ever having really understood why they came in the first place adam plots from afghanistan for no well

continue our special coverage of the nine eleven anniversary throughout the next couple of days with reports and analysis on the legacy of the attacks and a decade of the so-called war on terror. the terrorist attack that became synonymous with pure evil. the senseless slaughter of almost three thousand people stunned the world. and it all seemed like a nightmare. ten years on. r.g.p. remembers the attacks and its aftermath. a look back at nine eleven on our key. president barack obama has presented his much awaited jobs to congress earmarks more than four hundred billion dollars for putting people back to work but some critics say it's too little too late or he's going to 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 the 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 on. financial consulting richard esko says obama shows a lack of political strength even though he claims to play hardball. look the housing crisis alone took six point seven trillion dollars out of this economy there are twenty five million people unemployed or underemployed so yes we need to be pretty aggressive and as for the president again look i'm glad he's talking about jobs he should have done it before but even when he says i'm going to be bold

and take a firm stand he does seem to say to the other side would you like my firm stand by throwing in some things that you like to is that not too firm so i think we've reached the point where we have to say look this is the beginning this is just the start if it passes if it doesn't pass then it's clear that republicans want to sell the country out for their electoral chances next year they're not of some other stories making headlines across the globe the first funerals have been held in new delhi two days after a massive briefcase bomb exploded outside the city's high court twelve people were killed in the blast and dozens more injured and indian authorities detained three men for questioning in the continuing investigation into the explosion the corresponding was the first major attack in india since twenty six people were killed by serial blasts in mumbai in two thousand and eight. a senior british judge has revealed the findings of an official inquiry into the death of an iraqi man

eight years ago muso was working at a hotel when it was raided by u.k. soldiers who took the man to a british base where he sustained ninety three injuries and died six soldiers were cleared of wrongdoing at the court martial in two thousand and seven a seven served a year in jail becoming the first convicted british war criminal in the military operation in iraq. the deadly legacy of war and the appalling illness that it can cause for servicemen even long after they've come home all explored in our special report coming your way in about ten minutes. when you look for nuclear winter. barrels. in your brain. when you have new or do you really think you. are going to.

finally this news blog palestinians have started a campaign for statehood ahead of the september twentieth vote in the united nations they carried a letter to the local u.n. mission in ramallah saying their peaceful demonstrations will keep up until palestine becomes a member state as are his policy reports the whole region is in a state of build up to the vote the campaign will involve a series of events in the run up to the opening session of the un general assembly on september the plaintiffs it has been dubbed the national campaign for palestine state one hundred and one thousand and two no one should some one hundred palestinian high ranking officials and activists gathered at the u.n. headquarters in ramallah for a short ceremony now both the israeli government as well as the obama administration is against this declaration 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

this declaration that we have no confirmation of this. retreat up next with the business report stay with us here on r.t. . good morning you're with business good to have your company for the first time gazprom has managed to acquire an energy retailer in europe it's buying a fifty one percent stake in the czech gas and electricity company r.s.p.b. energy european union has been trying to resist the expansion of gas from into the retail segment of the market so won't be able to supply transit and so guess the guess is true between russia and ukraine is reaching breaking point kiev insists on lower prices while moscow says the existing contracts are fair this has the potential to degenerate into another gas war which could result in supply disruptions to europe but if that were to happen that tell me the world skulk of us

energy center warns it could be the end of ukraine's role as a transit nation. a new conflict between russia and ukraine will be the last conflict for ukraine as a transit countries or so after that moment got russia will invest all mining necessary to build south stream the next line north story maybe something else just off where you are right and i'm sure that you're going implications are also realizing these three but so far these very short term games are much more important to them they don't want to look even for the next two three years i'm not speaking about ten twelve nevertheless i flew that common sense somewhere. plates rule by the end of the day will both have normal agreement between russia and ukraine merchant agreement. circular to the markets now always on the rise after barack obama proposed a jobs act worth more than four hundred billion dollars the troubled us economy brant blend is close to one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel w.t.f.

just over eighty nine. look at the stock markets asian shares are mixed this hour in hong kong stocks are supported by chinese data showing consumer inflation crude slightly in august financials are on the rise h.s.b.c. is one of the top gainers up one percent the nikkei however is in negative territory following a revision of japan's april to june and gross domestic product to a lower level construction linked broadly lower in tokyo. around thirty five minutes left before the opening bell here in moscow russian markets and the first session on a positive note your tears gating point three percent and my six point six. well so far september has been a month for for a spike for the stock markets compared to a heavy selloff in the previous month however it's too early to celebrate says chris we feel from troika dialog he believes stocks are at risk of having an even

bigger slump. a tobar is always the most dangerous months in global equity markets historically that's when investors confidence capitulate and we're heading into a very similar and therefore dangerous period in this october confidence is clearly very fragile if the economic indicators in early october are bad we are vulnerable to another october selloff and i think particularly when we start seeing the third quarter financial results from the u.s. banks i think that's going to be a very critical period if those numbers are bad or if the banks you know start talking much more negatively than they have been about the environment i think that could undermine confidence and we could have an october crash so we're very vulnerable to an october crash this year more than any other year in the last ten years matters next time i'll see will fold a headlight stable so that. you're

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nine thirty am in moscow the zero r.t. headlines grief in the air a memorial service is held in russia and across europe for the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed all of them almost all of one of russia's greatest ice hockey teams forty three people died as the plane crashed moments after take off in the city of dallas law. president medvedev urges both sides of the conflict in syria to come to the negotiating table in an interview after the global policy forum in jaroslav will the russian leader also warned against a one sided approach and confirmed russia's willingness to help stop the bloodshed . in libya fierce fighting resumes between rebels and pro coffee forces with battles raging near two of the few remaining strongholds of the fallen regime this just a day before saturday's deadline for gadhafi loyalists to surrender up next we explore the deadly legacy of war and illness that can strike servicemen even after they've come home.