dealt a terrible blow that's being mourned in the country and across the world almost the entire lokomotiv team was wiped out in a plane crash as they headed to a match in minsk or an emotional ceremony was held to honor the victims for eight a lot of fans held banners and scarves bearing the names of those who died in the crash as their portraits were placed on the ice during the ceremony deny moments who would have been locomotives opponents symbolically scored goals their own goals as a mark of respect forty three people died on the plane to crash moments after the takeoff near the city of jaroslav ill believe the aircraft failed to gain the proper height and clipped an antenna near the runway two people survived they are being treated for serious burns and other injuries one player did narrowly escaped the inflated flight ill fated flight because he wasn't aboard the plane artie's shon thomas spoke with.

the famous bells of jaroslav ring out for a community grieving a chilling reminder of the tragedy that country at the lives of some of the city's brightest stars. i knew many of the boys personally what can i say they were saints 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 watched 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. 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. 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 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. locomotive was an international team and the grief is shared throughout europe hundreds gathered in the center of the czech capital prague to remember a memorial i've lost players chanting their names lighting candles in their memory three czech national board all former world champions top track i was talking. about the loss is unbelievable. 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 who took a huge interest in what they did i really enjoyed working with them. morial service is also happening in neighboring slovakia where tributes were paid to the sports star powerful demitra people who gathered near an ice arena. share their emotions.

i am shocked. it is a big loss he was a great player. it is horrible it is difficult to talk about it. there's more on this story many others on our website among the dead the youngest player of the team who despite being both injured and disqualified wanted nothing more to do with is sporting brothers a decision that cost him his life. and the recently married flight attendant who plan to quit the job and have the baby her touching story and many others at r.t. dot com. turning out of the day's other main news confrontation between libyan rebels and pro could offer you forces shows little sign of easing 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 rabbani well lead where two of khadafi sons are said to be leading the arm resistance this despite the interim government seeking to negotiate a peaceful solution the deadline for gadhafi loyalists to surrender has been extended to this saturday as for the colonel himself in his latest audio message the ousted leader claimed he was still in libya and vowed he'd never leave his ancestors homeland meanwhile life in the libyan capital still struggles after falling into rebel hands with a celebratory mood quickly dampened by fears of possible anarchy artie's marie if you know she has more from tripoli. a city celebrates for more than ten days the labor and capital has been rejoicing in the dictator's fall where he he wanted to bring his quarter here on the central square for his rules for the second anniversary we put our flag ansted we won we're so happy without him. it seems in the last two weeks rebel fighters have fired

bullets into the air the to her short tour in this sort of tripoli early august. the reveal seen our very very forward. this third gadhafi. duffy's viktor toward. he told old to be more lovely what the people of that we know you see the love him all of us we're not afraid of his and we don't argue that you don't know what i like with a lower case but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased up a lot of money lives in tripoli's slim district historically pro khadafi for the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia other hand doesn't want to show his face on camera and ceased want to 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 dark we are afraid we always wait for something bad when gadhafi was here at least we didn't have to sleep awake what we do know of the rahman says he also want to change and the brighter future for his country but not they sway. and people are dying on both sides the cities destroyed or no one cares do they seriously think that they changed it for the better don't lie to yourself 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 go up each and decomposing bodies. says 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 growing

bigger and bigger. to tripoli fell into rebel hands the national transitional council leave his new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi but two weeks have passed and there is still no sign of its presence on the ground zero of all the being raced towards the city functioning by south and treading a fine line between freedom and anik a. rich notion of. tripoli libya. stay with us here on r t still ahead in the program president obama resents his four hundred billion dollar jobs package with critics saying it won't be of maybe of any help to the debt stricken economy or the country's unemployed plus. seeking membership palestine building up for september's vote that could grab the long awaited status as a u.n. member. but first russia is willing to support different approaches to resolve the

situation in syria as long as they send signals to both sides of the conflict president medvedev made the position clear in an interview after the global policy forum jaroslav all peter all over brings us more of the russian leaders point of view. president medvedev has warned against viewing the situation in syria in terms of good and seeing this careful consideration must be paid to certain elements within the syrian opposition before the international community. to dealing with them now the president did have also called on both the assad government and the opposition to bring about an end to violence in the country. i believe the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact we address 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 feel 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 of the russian they support moves but only if they don't boil down to the one sided condemnation of the government. we should send a strong message calling on all the conflicting parties to come to the negotiating table to start talks and stop the bloodshed this is also in russia's interest because russia has always been syria's friend countries have close economic and political ties that's why we'll continue to look for solutions to the situation in syria. 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 the president mentioned there that negotiation is important and russia is playing its part as a mediator on friday representatives of 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. syria russia of course doesn't want to go see syria go down the same road as what happened in libya with the un resolution that was imposed being used as. the international intervention going well beyond the parameters laid out in the mandate they want to see me go see a should bring a peace to syria. a report from artie's peter all over in moscow you can see the full version of the interview that president medvedev gave to euro news television on our website r.t. dot com.

images from nine eleven still chilling even ten years after the attacks that shook the world they triggered the war on terror but in the country that was at the forefront of that war it can be hard to find people who are member why the 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. never. can you show them a few more and can us do they know where it is we don't know so that's because because we are former we never heard about the need for the world. cup and.

the two young men clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders at a local show would have more to say you know you see. this thing 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 and go saying it so i think that was a call but if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is pretty much the stone ages where we are and what do you think about the reactions fascinating the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul and you just shows you how isolated they're even in their own country. understand. that you know you don't think you know you're going to send come to this point and get the airplane from here to the united states but you know how much. it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and what do you see that picture you know it's good picture mind yourself because you're there to see

afghans looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform of carrying a rifle. to be back. and saying we're going to help you to destroy one building and to destroy us how many funding and this is going to help you where is the help. work your way down what this is going to give it to our kids go. fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't and they didn't write. 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 to help them so you know when you have when you can feed yourself a bird house yourself how are you going to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand that i just set it up over the top of this with i never thought to ask 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 with the villages oblivious to nine eleven but the afghan police and

even some of the translators working with the u.s. military you don't know that is for you to see that i have no idea what syria if you haven't 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 withdrawing 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. well continue our special coverage of the nine eleven anniversary over the next couple of days with reports and analysis on the attacks legacy and a decade of the so-called war on terror. the term is to 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. president barack obama has presented his much awaited jobs act to congress it 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 got a chicky on explains. president obama addressed the lawmakers he put forward measures to create jobs and stimulate the sluggish economy of 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 a product but national consultant richard 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 turn out as some other

stories making headlines across the globe the first funerals have been held in the only two days after a massive briefcase bomb exploded outside the city's high court twelve people were killed in the blast and dozens more wounded in the in authorities detained three men for questioning in the continuing investigation into the explosion the court bombing was the first major attack in india since twenty six people were killed by serial blasts in mumbai in two thousand a. nato has admitted its forces in afghanistan did mistakenly kill a b.b.c. reporter in july a u.s. soldier mistook the journalist for a suicide bomber when troops responded to a militant attack in the southern afghan town you alliance launched an inquiry after questions were raised over initial reports that the correspondent had been killed by taliban insurgents this comes amid the withdrawal of foreign troops from afghanistan expected to be completed by two thousand and fourteen. the deadly legacy of war and the appalling illness it can cause for servicemen even long after

they've returned home hall explored in our special report coming your way. when you look for a nuclear winter against. your brain. you have no idea. but only in those news block palestinians have started their campaign for statehood ahead of the september twentieth vote in the united nations they carried a letter to the local u.n. mission in iraq saying their peaceful demonstrations will continue told palestine becomes a member state as are his policy reports the whole region is in a state of excitement and the build up to the vote 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 and 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 postponing this declaration that we have no confirmation of this. we're back with the headlines but up next business news with dmitri. good morning and welcome to business r.t. 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.e.s.p. energy european union has been trying to resist the expansion of gazprom and to the retail segment of the market so it wouldn't be able to supply transit and sell gas . the gas a few between russia and ukraine is reaching a breaking point keven system lowering prices will moscow says the existing contracts. this has the potential to degenerate into another gas war which could result in supply disruptions to europe but if that were to happen the tell me through its cork was energy center warns it could be the end of ukraine's role as a transit nation. conflict between russia and ukraine will be the last conflict for ukraine as a transit countries or so after that one of the russia will invest all money necessary to build seoul stream the next line north three may be something else just talk radio and i'm sure that you mean the implications are also realizing that

these three but so far at least there was 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. that it's never the less. common sense of my plates are all by the end of the day we both have normal agreement with russia working agreement. for the first time a foreign investor may come to russia's iron industry country's of the largest manufacturer of steel pipes chel fight is in talks to sell around twenty five percent stake for french company value wreck commerce and daily says the deal worth four hundred million dollars expected to close in october child pipe has long been struggling to attract investment to pay its debts and fund further development russian company made two attempts to raise capital with a public offering but had to cancel the plans due to uncertainty in the market analysts say the deal with the wreck could be a solution. move to the markets now well is on the rise after obama proposed the

jobs act worth more than four hundred billion dollars to the troubled u.s. economy. blend a bit of a tongue twister there is up twenty seven cents of this light sweet is just over eighty nine cents per barrel. move to stock markets now in asia the picture has changed somewhat the nikkei is the deeper in the negative territory the hang seng has had to give up its gains despite chinese data showing consumer inflation slightly in august financials however holding up against the negative movement in japan the nikkei is indeed in negative territory following a revision of japan's april to june gross domestic product to a lower level now is take a look at the opening picture in moscow now after two days of gains i'm afraid arrows have to be read actually the r.t.s. is supposed to be down one percent my six point eight percent this is on the back

of negative movement in the united states and in asia and expectations that european markets will also open the negative territory. well so far september has been a month of respect for the stock markets compared to a heavy selloff in the previous month however it is too early to celebrate says chris we fear from troika dialog he believes stocks are at risk of having an even bigger slump in october. october is always the most dangerous month 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 business starting is back in fifteen minutes with an update the headlines are next.

well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by ariel bombs by napalm boy coming from saddam's whether it's our sonic boom city factory marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for planning purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that share shall be taken in the war to protect one by 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.

services held in russia for the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed one of russia's greatest ice hockey teams forty three people died as the plane crashed after takeoff near the city of. both sides of the conflict in syria to come to the negotiating table after the. russian leader also warned against a one sided approach and willingness to help stop the bloodshed. in libya fierce fighting resumes between. the forces with battles raging near two of the few remaining strongholds. just a day before saturday's deadline for gadhafi loyalists to surrender. the indian summer of september provides a great time to.