a plane crash in a russia's western siberia kills thirty one out of forty three on board a 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 the un backed peace efforts. also the two sides all for reform as the russian government considers loosening up registration for political parties but some opposition leaders say there could be too many vying for power. with the school. he's only needed instead of spending much more than you earn you spend

. on the new or will the budget cuts work the man who led the european central bank through the early years of the crisis talks about the future of a single currency. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow rover section. doctors are fighting for the lives of the twelve survivors of a deadly plane crash in russia's western siberia at least nine of them have undergone a critical surgery forty three people were on board when the aircraft went down a minutes after takeoff early monday morning it's believed that the pilots were attempting an emergency landing now at this early stage it's the have a technical failure is the most likely cause however there are reports that ice on

the plane could also be the reason as the aircraft was not sprayed with antifreeze before the flight of course want to take a greaves is at the crash site and he'll be joining us in just a little bit later in the program here on our city. so as we've been investigating here at odds he reports that the pilots decided not to spray the aircraft with antifreeze and this could ultimately have led to the tragedy however aviation analyst chris yates he's based in manchester says that the frosting is obligatory and if the plane is being flown in harsh conditions. you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft in hostile conditions when you could argue that very bad weather is a horse no condition and it's incumbent upon the captain of the aircraft to take precaution before taking off would necessarily include the freezing the frosting the ice build up from doing this compound for

a detrimental impact of severe impact on the safety of flight as indeed its formation around the control surfaces of the quarter as well so if it proves out. this aircraft wasn't the only stupid who taking off. it's one of the potentially one of the primary causes of this tragic crash. and as we have been reporting here at r.t. total failure is believed to be the likely cause of the crash but pilot error also being looked into but former employee you got a billion of believes the chances of that same store yours which i would rule out the possibility of pilot error because it is fundamentally at odds with what happened since the crew made a decision to return right after the plane took off what kind of mistake could there be it's possible that some system out function occurred that the pilots were informed about through a system message and they made a decision to return based on that it's also possible that there was some medical

emergency among the passengers i can't rule that out either something like a heart attack could also be a reason to try and return. let us spend just a moment here on our team to have a look at the background of this plane or the joint french italian made a.t.r. seventy two put into operation of the end of the eighty's more than four hundred are currently in service are all across the world and monday's crash is the first accident involving an a.t.r. seventy two in russia although not the first in the world it's been involved in over a dozen incidents where the first and one of the most deadly crashes took place in one thousand nine hundred four and that was in america when all sixty eight on board were killed it was caused after parts of the plane i stop a catastrophe led to the aircraft being banned in northern parts of the u.s. . turning our attention out of syria the international envoy to the country kofi annan is preparing to brief the u.n.

security council on the progress of his mission russia has once again reiterated its commitment to announce a peace plan stressing that it contains demands for both warring sides and must go dismiss the one sided nature of sunday's meeting of the so-called friends of syria group. in the coming days we're expecting another two delegations from different groups of the syrian opposition unlike some we're seeking to be friends to all syrians not just one part of the syrian nation from the friends of syria group should uni up to the un security council so not to this organization to judge about the effectiveness of koofi enhance speech mission russia is committed to implementing his plan and we are constantly pushing the syrian government to seek prompt steps in line with to finance proposal according to eat the syrian government be the first to begin to pull out of its forces this has been our

position to hire we expect all western partners and some arab states to simply seem signal to the armed groups who are also responsible for bloodshed in syria. another reason the friends of syria group was criticized by russia it is recognition of the opposition syrian national council as the only legitimate representative of the country the us led group has now even reportedly agreed to pay wages to syrian rebels and defecting soldiers story of artists or of whom talks of ending the violence on the inside it their friends in syria conference. outside their intake this riot police were getting heavy handed if they dispersed a tiny post syrian government gathering. their actions anything to serve to further anger already rowdy crowd. was.

quote. we want just to i began i want. ant xaus who are nothing. new but they can't force. the conference continued throughout the afternoon and they say talk is cheap the friends of syria have pledged millions of dollars for the free syrian army effectively putting the rebels on a 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 paid for with calls to the free syrian army becoming stronger his country turkey is now going to twenty thousand displaced syrians refugee camps near the border continual flow of new arrivals and these we mess nearly all have tales of war video to support. we had to skip over the border when the violence got to. negotiations they tell us

won't 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 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 people who support the mission called an int by shooting nation council we see syrian issue constitute a legitimate representative of all syrians this seemingly one sided approach is a part of the reason why russia and china has dismissed the. concerns that excluding the assad government from talks undermines diplomatic efforts to end the violence if you want to help syria the to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear and present assad is not going to. you know except of course you know. the western countries are

still giving aid to the opposition and then in the message to president assad was clear when it comes to the implementation of the peace plan time is running out so i see it. it's good to have you with us here on our team today and still to come this hour on the program italy's financial turmoil fuels separatist sentiment. we need the money crisis taking grieve over the country every single sound since to wake nationalist feelings we report from the rich autonomous province of south where the people want from the overseeing. plus what drove peace activists to try and storm nato headquarters a movement with a rather heavy handed police response it all ended in hundreds of arrests. just now it's running ten minutes past the hour here in moscow proposed

a new legislation for russia's opposition 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 in his arteries and he said no way explains this 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 and so former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger to the white house. are. going through was long off the political radar until a sudden mass protest movement picked up after vast fraud claims against the december parliamentary vote now might be his chance to get back in the game the pressure on the buy your ticket is that so but my proposal is that any party with

five hundred members that represents no less than fifty percent of russia's regions should be registered. if you in the stomach but none for once pushing for easy party registration is already seen thoughts as it was of dissidents and now there will be hundreds of part just registered hundreds of democratic socialist nationalist balance sheets will be kilometers on alexander be alive has been trying to officially get into politics for years but there are only. known for his staunch nationalism russian marches and tough rhetoric they love could now have a good chance of getting into parliament and already has a plan. so there will be many nationalist parties registered sore first goal will be to get together on one ballot as one party to bring up a reading is in use already popular as both of a movement to win seats. nationalists will have tough competition not least from

a new face who has already proved to south billionaire. and 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 trust me for that reason i will form a new political force a strong party. it seems everyone wants to join the party and start want self exams and want to breeze in london and me for no good but so have both said they have plans to launch political forces for those looking for a lighter choice they may well be able to vote for a party of love subtopic 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. look at the impact of the internet and new social media on political turbulence so that's going to be coming up there to survey on our cross talk a great program make sure if you can i get a chance to see. it. this is 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 rather heavy handed response from hundreds of officers the demonstration was organized by a belgian and the nato group action for peace campaigners were speaking out against

the military interventions in afghanistan and libya and the alliance is nuclear missile shield plans across the globe just a bit earlier on the program i spoke to hans a lot more under spokesman for the nato game over who took part in the protest he says that they were just trying to stop a global war machine the fact that these activists doesn't mean year after steve presley site we didn't use violence but actively trying to get him to stop the preparation of whopper the secret meeting of so we see the need to read quote that's what happens there is appropriation of war out war crimes and evil governments don't stop it it's the citizens who each are for to show that they want to stop it it's not for ten years in afghanistan i don't see a lot of success in the libya war and what you see you know is that the system brought to new troops to sort of political importance so you can question if

the military interventions are really pretty nice or are we just arming the next face in a civil war. this is our duty back to our top story for you a deadly plane crash in russia's western siberia it killed thirty one passengers twelve still fighting for their lives we can all cross live to artie's jacob grieve at the crash site jacob i do if you will for now take us through exactly what we know about the tragedy so far. sure well the crash site actually just about harf a kilometer behind me has been scouring this site looking for clues as where they pulled twelve survivors from the wreckage of the plane we know that nine of them have undergone operations but three have had to be sent to moscow for further treatment and that song remains in a very critical state now as you mentioned thirty one people have lost their lives

in this air tragedy all of turly occurring early monday morning as the plane flew out of to yemen airport shortly after it was immediately after i think counts as serious problems with the pilots being on and able to communicate with air traffic control also a witness reports plumes of smoke billowing from the engines shortly after that they are set ablaze now these are just reports at the moment how many sustained shaded but there may have been attempts by the pilots to make an emergency landing you know just minutes after takeoff its plane plummeted back to the ground and broke up to three parts. do you say other pilots indeed may have tried to make an in an emergency landing almost immediately after takeoff i understand about a one to one half kilometers away is the crash site where weather problems occurred and what about the causes of the crash at this point one of the investigators saying. well the investigation here very

much in its infancy with three avenues being explored at the moment on the pilot error is twenty seven is actually due to celebrate his birthday tomorrow twentieth birthday tomorrow now there is some reports of speculating that perhaps the pilot refused for the plane to be. the reason experts say is to be crucial because that could be an explanation for why the plane's wings weren't working at low to high stop also being stored is the role of the air traffic control in this case of finding this is probably the most likely route and likely reason is that there's a malfunction that came to be crossed craft itself. with actually manufactured in the eighty's by italian and french company it does have a bit of a history when it comes to deadly air disasters and in fact the company employing this u.t. air operating this flight the only ones to use this type of craft in russia now

this comes on the back of two thousand and where we saw a spate of deadly accidents and just when you take a look at the scene of the crash site at the moment it's very little really for investigators to be going on all that remained visibly is the tail end of the plane craft which from the snow crucially here they have managed to find the black box which recorded the last moments of the flight and hopefully this includes after what went wrong all right our crews there live and watching siberia just a short distance away from the crash site thank you. highlighting the massive wealth gap in italy its central bank says the ten richest people there have as much money as the three million poorest combined but with economic inequality widespread the prosperous and autonomous region of south to roll is are looking to go it alone and break away from rome for good and r.t.

second regret over went to hear their complaints. lost in translation between the alps and the mediterranean a population of half a million people and a lot of b. to become independent one day that south to roll a probe in some northern italy all these has never been italian says ever klotz as showing off her native town of boys she spent thirty years of your life fighting for independence. if you only see where two are all their names our languages german were taken from the rest of to rule before so it was a hundred years ago we have seen pressures which has affected our language closed our schools band our songs and now changes regional name into the adage enough. ever course refers to how these german speaking territory was occupied by eataly of 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 both already enjoys the status of one autonomy for example ninety percent of the tax revenue from these coffee will stay in the region while the other turn will go to rome but when you cannot make prices taking grieve over the country every single sound since 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 for so long i offer him a cup of coffee and will then have a long discussion softer role is not in charge of saving italy and couldn't have done so even if it wanted to usually use of bad housekeeper or lots of debts we're

not paying for their debts with our money. theirs and ours are the two words which we hear very often and south to roll and money is at the core of that is that the autonomy is expected to contribute one hundred twenty million euros to cleaning up the italian national budget to do so it will have to raise reduced state the eighty and income taxes as well as fees paid by farmers instead the south to roll economics minister it wants to buy its freedom from eataly once and for all he will names a concrete purchase price eighteen billion euros those that. we can stay part of italy 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. rose an infrastructure in this rich province of easily are indeed very non italian so too

is unemployment which stands at only two percent compared to almost ten nationwide one of article 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 progress this way. except in the church over r t what zanu eataly. in a few minutes we'll get to the markets with dmitri but for now more than a trillion dollars that's the size of the euro zone's newly expanded bailout fund it's hoped it will act as a buffer to future crises and market fluctuations that could get a rise from our europe's painful austerity drive but will the cuts alone cure the block's troubles just one of the questions we put. the man who led the european central bank through the early years of the euro crisis. with the school of good only that instead of spending more than you were you spend. all the new

were lifted this. year than what you heard so how could you call that austerity if you that. then you poor comfort and by improving you give a chance to growth and job creation i think it is the reality so either way the . problems. be center of a larger problem which is you know characterizing all the advanced economy in my you'll understand of the situation. and of the interview in full is coming your way in about ten minutes time here in arts in for now let's go to some other international headlines in brief for the world update will start in afghanistan where two bomb blasts destroyed a market in the northern part of the country and injured two dozen people including children and security officers explosions happened one after the other with

a second coming while security forces were investigating the initial blast officials say improvised explosive devices were used and so far no one has claimed responsibility. me and ma position leader unsung some cheese party claims to have won at least forty three out of the forty four parliamentary see. by elections we will see the chinese national league for democracy party won the last time the country held multi-party elections back in one thousand nine hundred ninety and with the results were ignored and she was placed under house arrest she was finally released in november and has gained support for hope push for a democratic million. a research ship owned by environmental group greenpeace has reached the side of a massive gas leak off the coast of scotland two hundred thirty eight workers were evacuated from the rig in the north sea when it began spewing highly flammable

natural gas last week french energy company total claims that the leak does not pose a significant environmental threat because company says it will try to plug it using heavy mud as well as drilling at relief wells into the sea floor. after the business we go there is to retreat and it seems the markets in russia continuing to look for direction that's right even though only twenty minutes remain on the clock for trading we are seeing the markets in very low volumes because there's manufacturing data coming up showing improvement in russia unemployment is going down in russia but elsewhere in the world it's exactly the opposite actually so what we're seeing right now is the obvious nice legs down just a notch in the final minutes of a second it was moving my six here in moscow and told you scholes is on the decline still looking for the valuable london. company we've been reporting on quite a while now after the plane crash is down more than three percent and the d.t.b.

is now standing gainer second largest bank in russia is up one and a half percent. elsewhere in the world also in the u.s. the markets are also looking for direction with the dow jones down in the first minutes of trading as manufacturing data in china came in on a decline and unemployment in europe seems to be worrying that's why in europe mostly the picture that we see. it is negative but the two indices we traditionally show most important ones the footsie in london and the x. in frankfurt are showing gains with a foot zero point four percent as a spike the fact that unemployment in europe has reached a new high an average of ten point eight percent in euro zone countries. now move over to other markets and in current seas we are seeing the euro weakening versus the dollar on that unemployment rate of ten point eight percent and the rubles barely moving against currencies reflecting the trend of the euro weakening on the

dollar strengthening and therefore this is what we're seeing with the ubiquitous russian currency oil is not providing that much support of the russian ruble nor the markets because it's one of the clause in all story here countries like the u.s. and other countries like the u.k. for instance of long rumored they could release their strategic reserves of oil onto the market and therefore it's sell right now. russia as the major t. and k b p is poised to invest seven billion dollars to produce nontraditional gas in ukraine a country seeking to attract investment to exploit its shale gas reserves which it wants to use now as an alternative to russian gas as long complained about the price that it's paying for those supplies from last year. and also one of the largest investment funds the norway sovereign wealth fund is shifting from europe to fast growing markets in asia and in africa we're talking about six hundred

billion dollars worth of money here but nick parsons from the national australia bank says this should not be viewed as a negative message to europe. we think that's a reaffirmation of its belief in global growth because it is the fastest growing economies in the in the world but it's seeking to increase exposure to well we have seen some very strong performance from the u.s. equity market recently emerging markets have done less well but some extend their customers for its oil then if you like investing those surpluses in a way consistent with its revenue streams but i think it is consistent with the funds aims and objectives it's not though an outright negative vote on europe and that's the way the markets look this up accused day without say because after the break we'll have the headlines with rory and then the interview with the former chief john poetry should.

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