a plane crash in russia's western siberia kills the thirty one of the forty three on board technical failure on the french italian made aircraft looks to be the likely cause of the catastrophe. with the international envoy to syria due to report on the progress of his peace plan the friends of syria group is criticized for undermining un backed peace efforts. also the two sides of reform as the russian government considers loosening up registration for political parties some opposition leaders say there could be too many for power. with

the school. he's only that instead. will the budget cuts work the man who led the european central bank through the early years of the crisis talks about the future for the single currency. worldwide news live from the heart of moscow this is are with me you seem shy doctors are fighting for the lives of the twelve survivors of a deadly plane crash in russia's western siberia forty three people on board when the aircraft went down minutes after takeoff early monday morning it's believed the pilots were attempting an emergency landing now at this early stage it's thought a technical failure is the most likely cause let's have the latest now across i was

watching peter all of us standing by for us live up to take us through what we know already. well as it stands it's less than twelve hours since the plane crashed so the investigation very much. stages now as it stands at the moment the only thing that investigators all ruling out is a terrorist attack it is believed this technical failure could have been the. most likely cause of this crash now the plane was traveling for two men too so to go to west in siberia very shortly after takeoff from two men they air the pilots circled back around to the airport and attempted to make an emergency landing now after that seems to have gone by the plane broken teeth several pieces resulting i say in the deaths of thirty one of the passengers who were on board the twelve other passengers and crew that were on board in a critical condition doctors doing everything they can for there right now though

in terms of why this happened and what caused this crash the flight recorders from the aircraft have been recovered. and investigators. will be looking at those to try and work out what caused this now forty three people were on board the aircraft though it should have been forty four one passenger at the last minute deciding if he was too tired he had been traveling elsewhere to get to the airport he was too tired to board a flight he chose not to and missed out on being on this is horrific. tragedy crushed so as the investigators looking into what caused this as it stands they want people lost their lives twelve though in a critical condition fighting for survival and we have the latest news here regarding a seven survivors who were listed in critical condition have undergone surgery

they're now listed as stable. in this fluid situation r.t. thank you. so as we mentioned here on r t there are reports that the pilot decided not to spray the aircraft with antifreeze that could have led to the tragedy but every asian analyst chris yates to space to manchester says that the frosting is obligatory if the plane is being flown in harsh conditions. you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft hall style conditions when you put on cue that very. is a hostile condition and it's incumbent upon they become sort of way to take with you proportion before taking off would necessarily include the freezing the frosting. or ice buildup on the wings can have a detrimental impact of severe impact on the safety of flight as indeed its formation only controls the cross as well so if it proves out.

it's aircraft wasn't beyond stupid who are taking off. it's one of the potentially one of the primary causes of this tragic crash. now the joint french italian a.t.r. seventy two model was put into operation of the end of the eighty's or the first flight it was back in one nine hundred eighty eight more than four hundred are currently in operation all across the world the aircraft can carry up to seventy four passengers and the crash in western siberia is the first accident involving an a.t.r. seventy two in russia but not in the rest of the world it's been evolving over a dozen incidents the first and one of the most deadly crashes took place in one thousand nine hundred four in the u.s. when all sixty eight passengers on board were killed it was a cause after parts of the plane i stop and the catastrophe led to the aircraft being banned in the north of the us. quite a while to stay with us here at r.t. for the latest on the plane crash in western siberia as our correspondents bring us

the latest details from the region. now the latest peace efforts for syria the international envoy to the country kofi annan is preparing to brief the u.n. security council on the progress of his mission it follows a meeting of the so-called friends of syria group in turkey delegates reportedly agreed to pay syrian rebels wages russia has dismissed the gathering for its unilateral approach to the crisis saying that the group's plans run counter efforts for peaceful settlements serve as more. talks of ending the violence on the inside the friends of syria conference. outside they take place we're getting heavy handed they dispersed a tiny processor in government gathering. quite a crowd at the moment first thing about the threat that their actions only seem to serve to further round already rowdy crowds. us houses

us. we want just to. the gun aren't good and so you are not. new body can force. the conference continued throughout the afternoon and they say talk is 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 group the syrian national council and some of the friends of syria had paid for with calls to a pinny on the free syrian army becoming stronger his country turkey is now paying to twenty thousand displaced syrians refugee camps near the border see a continual flow of new arrivals and these we mess nearly all have tales of war videos little things to support. we have to skip over the border on the

violence go through. a she a shins they tell us why we're the opposition will not back down from this fight nor they feel we'll presidency. despite the syrian government's along with the international community having signed up to the un envoy to syria cape fear and peace plan at a friends of syria conference the parties have already decided who is the legitimate representative of the syrians france of syria june people support finnish new covenant declared by shooting nation council we see syrian issue. consul illegitimately presented for all syrians this seemingly one sided approach is a part of the reason why russia and china has dismissed. concerns that excluding the assad government from talks undermines diplomatic efforts to end the violence if they want to help syria the to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on

neutral ground it's quite quite clear and present the saudis not going to. you know except to call c.n.n. eastland as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition and anything though in the message to president assad was clear when it comes to the implementation of the peace plan time is running out sir for i think it's temple. and journalist and political analyst christoph says there's nothing new in the friends of syria deciding to fund the opposition fighters financial aid weapons are finding their way to the country since the very beginning of the unrest 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 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 there all experts know quite clearly that must have been preplanned and prearranged from the summer of two thousand and ten and that kills the whole story the west and some of these corrupt arab allies including unfortunately turkey are making it out of syria so what we can say now is the sort of see neocolonial battle of the west against syria is in in a way start right now they're trying diplomatically they're tried in diplomatic bickering about god dealing with communication equipment this is a ridiculous show these people these are praises in syria from the start from outside. and watching our team still to come for you this hour in the program italy's financial turmoil fuels separatist sentiment. that we cannot make prices taking over the country every single sound seems to wake nationalist

feelings we report from the rich autonomous province of south to roll where the people want sovereignty more than they want to hand over cash to rome. so what drove peace activists to try and storm nato headquarters a move that led to hundreds of arrests one of the demonstrators gives us his first time. proposing new legislation for a position of political parties could make their entry into parliament much easier if passed the law may lead to an unprecedented push for power by literally hundreds of factions as are his and he said now explains that could cause a problem in itself. politics in russia may never be the same protest have become a common sight and new parties are registering left and right as political reform starts reason them slow former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger

to the white house. off the political radar until it's funny now says moving it picked up after vast fraud claims against the december parliamentary vote now might be his chance to get back in the game more pressure on me by the other just about suit but my proposal is that any party with five hundred members and percent russia's regions should be registered. at you on the running but no one's pushing for easy party registration is already seen fawns. now there will be hundreds of park just registered hundreds of democratic socialist nationalist balance sheets will be kilometers not. and it's konger be a lot of has been trying to officially get into politics for years but there are there are you. know for his staunch nationalism russian marches and tough

rhetoric beloved now have a good chance of getting into parliament and already has a plan and. 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 news already popular aspects of a movement to win seats nationalists will have tough competition not least from a new face who has already proved to south billionaire broker of 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 him with the rest of me for that reason i will form a new political force a strong corridor. it seems everyone wants to doing the party and start want exiled and wanted greece berezovsky in london and me for no good whatsoever 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 subtropics 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. moscow. a look at the impact of the internet a new social media on the political turbulence across the globe later today that will be an all ages edition of crosstalk make sure you catch up.

live from moscow this is artsy highlighting the massive wealth gap in italy and its central bank says the ten richest people in the country have as much money is the three million poorest combined with economic inequality widespread the prosperous and autonomous region of south to roll is looking to go it alone and broke away from rome for good teams that could really grow trover went to hear their complaints. lost in translation between the alps and the need to reign a population of top one million people and a lot of pain to become independent one day that's all to roll a program to northern eternity all these has never been italian says abel cloths as showing off her native town of boys on a she spent thirty years of her life fighting for independence. the only scene where two. languages german were taken from the rest of to rule by force so host a hundred years ago we have seen precious which has affected our language closed

our schools. and now it changes our regional ring into. you know the need ever closer refers to how these german speaking territory was o'keeffe i'd like italy 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 tangible go to rome but what you cannot make prices taking grieve over the country every single sons since to wait nationalist billings and this is the situation the politicians are all too ready to take advantage of we asked me 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-control doesn't want to rescue them for so long i don't give him a cup of coffee and will then have a long discussions are stuck to raul is not in charge of saving easily and couldn't have done so even if one churchill usually is a bad housekeeper. were not a will bet it is our own money. there is and ours are two words which we hear very often insult to wrong and money is at the core of the dispute the time is expected to contribute one hundred twenty million euros to cleaning up the italian national budget to do so it will have to raise real estate the eighty and income taxes as well as the speech by farmers instead the south to roll economics minister it wants to buy its freedom from easily one simple rock even names of concrete purchase price billion euros almost out the best we can stay part of usually what we want

full financial freedom we're ready to pay a solidarity tax of three percent we'll pay our foreign policy a fiscal and euro policy otherwise we'll do the rest on our own we build our roads and several months before it happens we wait for permission from rome for years. rose an infrastructure in this which province of italy are indeed very non italian still to use unemployment which stands at only two percent compared to almost nationwide. like local government has to keep pushing with the idea of independence that's for sure because we can't go on like this there's no way we can produce this way to get over control. sixteen of their children our t.v. was run into the. more than a trillion dollars that's the size of a year or zones newly expanded bell out fund it's hoped it will act as a buffer to future crises and market fluctuations that could get a rise from europe's painful austerity drive but well cuts alone cure the blocks

troubles just one of the questions we put those are called push and the man who led the european central bank through the turbulent early years of the euro crisis. with the school austerity very often these only that instead of spending much more than you were you spent only known you were a look at these things spending. which you heard so how would you call that austerity if you go back to sound policy then you would pull for comfort and by improving confidence you give a chance to growth and job creation i think it is it is the reality so either way if you you with get to the problems. the center of the larger problem which is you know characterizing all of the advanced economy in my all understanding of this in theory.

i know that full interview is coming your way later this hour here on artsy belgian police have arrested almost five hundred peace activists outside nato headquarters in brussels protesters attempted to storm the building but were met with a heavy handed response from hundreds of officers pounds at lamar and a spokesman for nato game over he took part in the protest they were trying to stop a global war machine which isn't functioning honestly. perfect these are to this doesn't mean we have to stay specifically cite we didn't use violence but actively trying to get them to stop preparation of war policies by needle so we see the nature of course what happens there is appropriation of war war crimes and governments don't stop it's. citizens. to show that they want to stop the need for ten years not just. for the success in the believe your war and what you

see you know is that the system. works and you. can sort of political importance so effectively you can question the committing their pensions are really pretty obvious just arming the next phase in the civil war. not just about our top story here on our all day today we've been talking about this tragic accident of an airliner an airplane in western siberia crashing shortly after takeoff killing most of the passengers on board i mean i would talk to you have got me i'm to actually call form a pilot and current chairman of dexter company for more details on this oh good to see you today thanks for coming on to see the main theory being investigated at the moment is that technical failure was to blame another plane was just surfaced only two months ago and what kind of failure do you think that could be. so it could be a wide array of frizz and say the technical one so you won't have to related but i

would rather stay there any kind of comments or predictions. on side professional expertise and inspection should draw results or even afterwards in-house inspection for thirty one point two with that but perhaps we can speculate on is the tie the witnesses say the plane caught fire before it hit the ground what does that suggest to you. again. very difficult to say you being away from the accident site the only thing i know that seventy two is a well known aircraft that pretty well suitable for the russian climate conditions and that's the reason why your chair has acquired it so the aircraft is since one thousand nine hundred five as i believe it's a printer made pretty popular original type of equipment used all over the world now when you when you say a plane like this is well accustomed to operating in a harsh environment certainly western siberia would be no exception the point of

curiosity though is that we have reports the crew decided not to spray the aircraft with antifreeze and it's possible the engines froze when it took off why would the pilots refuse to do that surely that their safety is something to be considered as well. so do i said conditions actually the service. should provide to the i wanna i'm sure it's been in place otherwise so the aircraft would never be released for a plate so in terms of the. equipment on the board yes all of those aircraft i agree with with this type of you know. i don't believe you know even not considering climate conditions and wesson say it's something related to that again it's too premature. i to judge and dad why i wouldn't the

equipment itself. and direction of a former pilot and currently chairman. thank you very much for coming on r.t. today thank you i time now to head over to the r.t. business desk for our hourly update i believe dimitri a study by for us now hello to you one of the world's largest investment funds announcing a shift in strategy what's all that about what we're talking about six hundred billion dollars worth of money and not fund and that's the norway wealth sovereign wealth fund and it's moving from european equities it's reducing its exposure to europe to asia and africa the most the largest fastest growing economies in the world and let's talk in more detail to nick parsons from the nationalist really a bank nic hello to you and let's let's first discuss whether this let's move makes sense to us or. well it's very mind this norwegian fund is stands currently at year end to five hundred seventy seven billion u.s.

dollars now it was limited by statute to only being able to invest just under forty five percent of that in non european markets it's been lobbying from two thousand and ten for a change in the portfolio weightings they've finally been agreed and it is being allowed now to increase its weightings in the united states in africa and indeed in asian markets too so the likelihood is it's growing over time to take its position up to something like sixty percent of its portfolio is going to be in new york p. and markets and we think that's a reaffirmation of its belief in global growth because it is the fastest growing economies in the world that it's seeking to increase exposure to we have seen some very strong performance from the u.s. equity market recently emerging markets have done less well but to the extent that they're the customers for it's oil then if you like it's investing those surpluses

in a way consistent with its revenue stream so i think it makes good sense nick do you think the priority here is to target growth potential in asia africa in the u.s. or is it is it more about reducing exposure to european risk. well i don't i don't i don't view it as a negative for europe i don't think that was what was behind this after all they have indeed been lobbying for this move for the last two years and finally the government who ultimately controls this fund. the central bank who manage it to get the portfolio weightings it's been arguing for for some time now if we're looking even it even with a slowdown in china we're still looking at asia growing at something like five to seven percent a year over the next five years. would seem prudent for an investment

institution with a longer term horizon this state all fund has got to be seeking to increase its exposure indeed a report was presented to parliament on where the s. and what the assets would look like in twenty thirty yes to meet it on a worst case it would have something like the value that it has today that's to say a little over half a trillion dollars on a best case it felt that the size of that investment fund would be approaching ten trillion us dollars so certainly it wants to get exposure to the fastest growing areas of the world and that's what it's going to do with this portfolio shift it's not overnight it will be over time but i think it is consistent with the fun's aims and objectives it's not though an outright negative vote on europe. how does how does russia fits into all of this. we're doing for it directly in the sense that they're not seeking explicitly to increase or decrease their

holdings that they may have in russian companies directly it's estimated that this fund owns around one and three quarters percent of all european equities so the entire european equity market it holds almost two percent he holds almost one percent of all global equities so it still is substantially a very large player but in terms of its direct exposure to russia and no information has been given in the announcements that we received on friday evening and i doubt very much that anything that they would wish to signal with any changes in investment policy about a country which for them is essentially a competitor when it comes to the production of oil all right nick parsons head of research at the national australia bank in london thank you so much i'm afraid that's all we have time for don't really have time to take a look at the markets in russia let me just tell you the shift has happened and

from positive territory into negative territory more on this in around thirty five minutes time.