breaking news this hour a passenger plane with more than forty aboard crashes in russia's year olds after takeoff thirty one confirmed dead twelve survivors it intensive care. group of nations backing regime change in syria believed to have put rebels on the payroll prompting interest the syrian people are being ignored over questions about their future. party fever permeates russia's opposition movements as the government readies to loosen up registration for new and not so do political factions. and with many italians choked by austerity the country's affluent alpine region of south to roll sees a rise in separatist sentiments of. the us a market pop icons out

the front of the something close up in positive territory join me in about twenty minutes time from business but it's and i'll have the official biggest bully in. eleven am in moscow i met treasure bring you today's top stories and a look at our breaking news coverage a passenger plane carrying forty three people has crashed in russia's year olds the accident happened minutes after takeoff in the city of to med for more on this we go live to our teaser renegotiate with latest updates so what more can you tell us this hour. well at this point we know that the search and recovery teams have completed their work at the crash site the investigation of course has been launched at this point that preliminary according to preliminary reports. technical

error is to blame now the plane crashed shortly after takeoff just minutes after leaving the airport is to being at the airport at the aircraft has lost radio signal with the air traffic traffic controllers that apparently the the pilots have attempted to undertake a an emergency landing after discovering that they are experiencing technical difficulties that didn't go over very well the plane crashed broke into several pieces and burst into flames on impact. of the planes which at the deplaned went down a not too far from a village that somehow has made the search and recovery efforts of a little bit easier at one point there were more than two hundred people participating in those efforts and of course at this point they have a good clue to the recovery mission on the ground the minister of emergencies is sending three planes with special medical equipment doctors and teams of psychologists to help out everybody who has been affected by this crash those who

are wounded of course the relatives of all the people who were on board and they are supposed to fly to two men also with the early if they get there early or still leaning against today now there's also some reports which are saying gods of the cruise if the technical crews only let up on that on the ground in my house been responsible again those are just the preliminary reports coming in from various were and versions seized at the emergencies ministry sources and the investigators as well. enter into this is the third major passenger plane crash in russia in less than a year and most new source of huge concern what's being done about that. well there is the plane crashes which occurred before i involved russian made planes one of them occurred and that was of all it's good in the northwest of the country in june of last year everybody who was aboard died when the plane was about attempting an emergency landing in high. in the verbal weather conditions the second plane crash

of course down happened in september in cars level dads aircraft was burying the cars of a hockey team on board that was the crash that crash showed me to huge impact not just on the rushes the sports community but on the world as well as a community of sports because that a lot of those who were on board were members of the three time russian hockey champions a lot of them were playing in the n.h.l. self people were around the world have felt the impact from that incident of course we have yet to win both of these cases either the weather conditions or the pilot error a word to blame and that is statistically the two highest the reasons for plane crashes again we have to get to it were to hear what exactly happened in this particular instance in the plane crash into me. all right he's really going to show live in central moscow with an update thank you. special envoy kofi annan is due to brief the u.n. security council on how damascus has complied with the latest peace plan and

accepted last week the friends of syria group believes president assad has failed to so far implement the plan the group's meeting in istanbul has seen some gulf nations a little allegedly deciding to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime or to sarah ferguson. who talks of ending the violence on the inside it defends his syria constraints. go site they take issue it's nice we're getting heavy handed they dispersed a tiny place syrian government gathering so they use a gun kind of crowd to split the money man pushing them back up the freight with their actions going he seemed to say to the. rowdy crowds. os. us. we won't just. gun and good and so it's. moot but because.

things like that only get at. the fact. that. the conference continued throughout the afternoon and they say told his cheap friends to syria have pledged millions of dollars for the free syrian army effectively putting the rebels on the foreign payroll however even this didn't go as far as the opposition great the syrian national council and some of the friends of syria had hateful with calls to a purely on the free syrian army becoming stronger hayes country turkey is now paying to twenty thousand displaced syrians refugee camps near the border see a continual flow of neurons evils and these we mess nearly all have tales of war videos things to support. we have to skip over the border violence got through. negotiations they tell us why work the opposition will not back down

from this fight nor they feel will president assad despite the syrian government's along with the international community having signed up to the un envoy to syria case he announced peace plan at the friends of syria conference the parties have already decided who is just in it representative of the syrians friends of syria syrian people support the mission called an int declared by shooting initial council we see syrian issue council a legitimate representative for all syrians this seemingly one sided approach is a part of the reason why russia and china has dismissed agree. concerns that excluding the assad government from talks undermines diplomatic efforts to end the violence if they want to help syria they need to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear that president assad is not going to. you know accept the kofi annan peace plan. as the western countries

are still giving aid to the opposition at the meeting then the message to president assad was clear when it comes to the implementation of the peace plan time is running out its search i think it's temple. journalist and political analyst christoph forstall says he isn't surprised by the stories of the friends of syria group is providing salaries to syrian rebels he tells r.t. financial aid and weapons have been fighting their way into the country since the start of the uprising they are being paid since a long time since the beginning and since we have an eyewitness now the ex lebanon correspondent of zero mr ali hashem who went away in disgust from zero one who said in april two thousand and ten it was two thousand and eleven sorry april two thousand and eleven i have personally witnessed hundreds of people crossing the border from lebanon into syria from bed all experts know quite clearly that must

have been preplanned and prearrange from the summer two thousand and ten and that kills the whole story the west and some of these corrupt arab allies including unfortunately turkey are making out of syria so what we can say now so to see neo colonial battle of the west against syria is in in a way stalled right now to try it diplomatically they tried in diplomatic bickering you know about about dealing with communication equipment this is all a ridiculous show these people these are praises in syria from the start from outside. stay with us here on r t still to come in europe's dark spot. i have to she could only finally be shooting up to this problem and holding people accountable the whole admits it's ok investigation into evidence of a secret cia prison on its territory where it's clean prisoners pretty tortured.

first from the pirate party of russia to a group headed by billionaire tycoon without proper of there is no shortage of fresh political blood that hopes to fight its place in russia's parliament this week with the president expected to sign a new laws making it easier for them to register the competition could get a lot tougher artes and he said our reports. politics in russia may never be the same protests have become a common sight and new parties are registering left and right that's political reform starts very slim so former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger to the white house. and so was long off the political radar until his son in mass protests moving picked up after vast front claims against the december parliamentary vote now might be his chance to get back in the game to pressure only by the other could just

about see it but my proposal is for any team with five hundred members that represents no less than fifty percent of russia's regions should be registered something that you in the running but not so once pushing for easy party registration is already seen faults as it was of dissidents and now there will be hundreds of pot just registered hundreds of democratic socialist nationalist balance sheets will be kilometers long. and xander below has been trying to officially get into politics for years but there are there are. known for his staunch nationalism russian marches and tough rhetoric and love could now have a good chance of getting into parliament and already has a plan that. there will be many nationalist parties registered sora first goal will be to get together on one ballot as one party to bring up a release in use already popular aspects of a movement to win seats. nationalists will have tough competition not least from

a new face who has already proved himself billionaire. a sensation in the presidential vote announcing his candidacy just months before and coming in third now promising to work hard for the middle class. more than five and a half million people voted for me who trusted me for that reason i will form a new political force of strong party. it seems everyone wants to join the party and start one self exams and want to grease berezovsky in london and make real good virtue of have both said they have plans to launch political forces for those looking for a wider choice they may well be able to vote for a party of love sub tropic russia or a party of friends of elliott's but if before there were complaints of too few parties it may now well be too many perhaps putting the days of a so-called technical russian parliament behind but

a new russian political system that works still some way off and he's now a r.t. muska. well you can always log on to our website for more comment and analysis here's what's online right now. r t v is it one of the darkest reminders of the soviet past a museum dedicated to the bulaga labor camps here terrifying flashbacks from his former inmates. plus you can find amazing pictures of a miraculous escape as almost seven hundred fishermen were saved from an ice floe that broke our precious far east coast taking hundreds of people into freezing waters. previously dismissed as rumor claims of a secret cia prison in poland are now under investigation the prime minister donald

tusk has pledged a thorough probe into existing evidence the country's former intelligence chief already faces charges former cia officer ray mcgovern explains the significance of the revelations these high high values suspects would prove to be given and hence cherry should techniques and that of course meant that it needed a secure place to do them the story broke in a crash many years ago but not until now that the polls pretty much it made it better small cited there was condoned the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials who chose to call it so finally facing up to this problem and holy people accountable accountability is a noun that has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials and even jurists in the us administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened under the cheney

bush regime are continuing anywhere else in the worlds. painful times of severe cuts and austerity in italy the autonomous region of south tirol in the cradle of yobs stairs is one of the country's few islands of prosperity but the italian debt burden biting the hard work is a carry over reports on how the wealth gap is leading to a rise in support for a breakaway from world. lost in translation between the alps and the need to rein in a population of hop a million people and a lot of pain to become independent one day itself to roll a probe in sanaa of an oldies has never been italian says eva claude's is showing off her native town of. she spent thirty years of your life fighting for independence see. people only see where to rule in our languages german were taken from the rest of to rule by force so lost a hundred years ago we have seen precious which has affected our language closed

our schools our sons and now each of the changes regional name into adage he not he ever quotes refers to how these german speaking territory was occupied by eataly at the end of the first world war and was and it's in one thousand nine hundred after world war two the allies decided that the province would remain a part of easily but would be granted a certain level of self-government goes on already enjoys the status of an autonomy for example ninety percent of the tax revenue from these coffee will stay in the region while the other ten will go to rome but when the economic crisis is taking grave over the country every single sound seems to wake nationalist billings and this is the situation the politicians are all too ready to take advantage of we asked the chairman of the popular libertarians party how she would answer an

italian from a poor region of the country who wanted to know why self to roll doesn't want to help rescue them. so i know that i don't know him a cup of coffee and will then have a long discussion stuffed her all is not in charge of saving easily and couldn't have done so even if it wanted to and i usually use a bad housekeeper really lots of debts were not being flippant it is the down money there is and ours are the two words which you hear very often insult to roll and money is at the core of the dispute each one of these expected to contribute one hundred twenty million euros to cleaning up the tally in national budget to do so it will have to raise real estate the eighty and income taxes as well as fees paid by farmers instead the south to all economics minister wants to buy its freedom from easily one cent for wrong he even names a concrete purchase price billion euros one knows that the best thing we can stay

part of easily but we want full financial freedom we're ready to pay a solidarity tax of three percent we'll pay our foreign policy fiscal and euro policy otherwise we'll do the rest on our own we build our roads in several months but before it happens we wait for permission from rome for years of growth and infrastructure in this rich province of the city are indeed very non italian so too is unemployment which stands at only two percent compared to almost ten nationwide in a product like local government has to keep pushing with the idea of independence concert sure because we can go on like this there's no way we can progress this way. exceeded our children r t what zanu eaten. more than a trillion dollars that's how big euro zone the euro zone is a newly expanded bailout fund is here to help it a lot as a buffer to future crises and markets are two ations that could yet arise from the painful austerity drive across the carpet while the cuts will be able to cure the

block's troubles i was one of the questions that our histories are so you're putting your god trish a former head. the european central bank. with the school's thirty three billion often he's only that instead of spending more than you earn you spend. then you were a look at these spending and then what you heard so how would you call that austerity if you back. then we've come from and by. you give me a chance and growth and job creation i think it is that he came to the way the you with the problems. be center of the larger problem which is you know characterize the all the advanced economy in my you wouldn't study of his. full interview coming up in the next hour here on our team stay with us for that

turning the first to some other stories making headlines across the globe a north korean and u.s. officials have held in a formal talks amid tensions over theone yang's plans to launch a long range rocket the next few weeks the meeting in germany comes after the u.s. called for the launch to be cancelled over concerns that might be a cover for a long range missile test north korea denies this and says the rocket will event to put a satellite into orbit in. the u.k. and argentina the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the falklands war memorials being held to remember almost a thousand people who were killed in the conflict this amid strained relations between the two countries with buenos aires threatening legal action against companies involved in drilling for oil in the waters off the islands coast. nowadays many see the internet as one of the main battlegrounds for influencing public opinion as well as a vital tool for bringing change to the modern world but you can like it but can like or share buttons really start

a revolution coming up later cross talk delve deeper into this the full show coming your way in less than ten minutes. people who are otherwise isolated in opinion and are fearful of that opinion being divulged in their context are suddenly made aware of the fact that many other people share that opinion they have a place they can gather and find out that they're not alone that makes a huge difference now and they're also sharing it with a whole bunch of armchair revolutionaries and i've been one in some of these cases but it's an interesting case where the armchair revolutionaries can actually make a difference in the sense that ok john just email i was in the contrary to what is the difference ok the difference is that that being aware of what's going on on the ground in a pretty granular way makes it possible to deliver the people to the people on the ground tools that make it easier for them to conduct the revolution that they're engaged in. recapping our breaking

news this hour thirty one people confirmed dead after a passenger plane crashes in russia's year olds just after takeoff twelve had been rescued and taken to the hospital all of them remain in intensive care the plane reported to a crash some forty five kilometers from the city of tube and while trying to make an emergency landing witnesses say the aircraft burst into flames when it hit the ground it was headed to the city of certain siberia russia's invest it and festive committee says not a function or pilot error could be because the head of the local emergency services explained how the rescue was carried out just. ask the rescuers to get them out of the depth we carry on stretchers two helicopters help here look at it it's already been injured from the site it was the passengers in the nose of the plane managed to survive the crash one woman is still unconscious and another survivor later died but the rest are conscious most people have suffered great injuries and fractures.

before i turn to switch gears now to the business r.p. standing by at the desk so the european markets are just open tells more about the sentiment there yeah that's right now they've kicked off in positive territory actually they've been open for about twenty minutes all side how we look it gains in their first hour around a third of a percent i believe as you can see the foot sea there and the dust gaining around the same amount as they only days we'll be watching those european markets throughout the day if we stay closer to home for a few minutes or so let's have a look at the russian markets because they're now in the second hour of trade now today's the first day of the first trading day of the second quarter so be interesting to see if we can really keep hold of those gains and if we look at some individual shammy as we see who's really benefiting from the positive numbers that you can see that gold is indeed obvious net profit rose by fifty seven percent last year thanks to an increase in sales and strong got gold prices as well bucking the

trend is. paris down after the jet crash we've been talking about earlier today in the headlines and brushes that gas late gazprom is the country's best duck she raised one point four percent in the first quarter of the year just just a fraction of the cent in positive territory and other news russia has hauled the daily amounts of gas transit through ukraine moscow says it will keep on reducing the usage of the route in favor of all other lanes to europe like the battery scene pipeline newly built subsidy route nordstrom meanwhile allies say the quick shift is unlikely and connect the current crop with seasonal demand. and get in but let's have a look at how the oil prices are doing for this hour as you can see you've got a light sweet that trading over one hundred three dollars per hour on the brand is over one hundred and twenty three dollars a pub our. tensions in iran are continuing as far as the oil prices are concerned

so be keeping an eye on that we've got the embargo due to take place in june we've heard a lot of countries including france britain and the u.s. saying they would be prepared to do. a stop policy we'll see how that's going to benefit the price that later on this week we move on we're taking a look at the exchange rates we got the ruble it's true rating now we've got the ruble is high against both the u.s. dollar and the european cars if you look at the euro it's all about you can see it at one thirty three fifty two you see just every such a fraction higher up the least hour moving on we're taking with asia and then at the end of that trading day is manufacturing in china that was really dominating the sentiment there as you can see the hang seng point four percent in negative territory now there was a conflict going on here because we had data from official figures saying that manufacturing had improved and then we had figures from the hate just b.c. independent surveys that you can track so investors weren't quite sure which way to

turn his p.c. data to the president over bats i've looked at the decay we can see is marginally higher that's because of a weak again eggs are. really benefiting in the region if we move on to gold prices we can see that they're benefiting. is a fraction up it down as we can see that and silver lining gold is skis upon as far as go through six point seven percent gain in the first quarter of this she has a strong prices that we're seeing that as i said earlier. they're doing rather well on the back about the weakening dollar always helps out the gold prices as well as out jews in india as well they're going to be returning to work after being a strike so that's how the markets are looking moving on to other news we've got the u.k. could get some of its energy set up by a russian's russia intends to take part in building two power stations in. other

russian corporal. ration is interested in buying a say in the progress new projects will rise or fall sweet germany's energy firms are w.-e. and eon as they will to leave the twenty four billion dollars venture claiming uncertainty over investment returns. i tell you so much is the markets for now going to be keeping track on the hour every hour today great thank you very much we'll expect another one later first the headlines coming up and then breaking news that recap in a few moments with. the the. coming .

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