a plane crash in russia's western siberia kills thirty one out of forty three onboard technical failure on the french italian media craft looks to be the likely cause of the catastrophe. the international envoy to syria tells the un security council there's no progress in implementing a ceasefire but the friends of syria group is criticized for undermining the un backed peace efforts live analysis on those developments shortly here on r.t. . the two sides are performed as the russian government considers loosening up registration for political parties some opposition leaders say there could be too many pitting for power. he's only that instead

of. use. well the budget cuts work the money that the european central bank through the early years of the crisis talks about the future for the single currency our top stories this hour. around the clock around the world on the screen and online this is the 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 surgery forty three people were on board when the aircraft went down minutes after takeoff early monday morning it's believed the pilots were attempting an emergency landing at this early stage it's thought a technical failure is the most likely cause greaves has the latest from the crash

site. the crash site actually just about half a kilometer behind me this case of east gallery in this site all day looking for clues is where they pulled twelve survivors from the wreckage of the plane we know that nine of them have undergone operations but three of which we sense of loss go for further treatment but some remain in a very critical state thirty one people have lost their lives in this air tragedy all curly early monday morning as the plane flew out of to an airport shortly after it was immediately after i think counted serious problems with the pilots being on an able to communicate with air traffic control or also according to eyewitness reports there 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 cheated there may have been attempts by the pilots to make an emergency landing do you know

just minutes after takeoff this plane plummeted to the ground and broke up to three parts of the investigation here very much in its infancy with three avenues being explored at the moment pilot error as twenty seven is actually due to celebrate his birthday tomorrow is twenty eighth birthday tomorrow there is some reports of the most 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 that there are too 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 or it came to the craft itself playing with that she 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 well this comes on the back of two

thousand. so deadly. but just we 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 surveyed visibly is the tail end of the plane . from the snow who 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. jacob greaves reporting there so as we mentioned there are reports that the pilot decided not to spray the aircraft with antifreeze and this could have led to the tragedy but aviation analyst chris yates who is based in manchester in the u.k. says defrosting is obligatory if the plane is being flown in harsh conditions. you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft hostile conditions when you could argue that very bad weather is a hostile condition and it's incumbent upon the captain of the. take precaution

before taking off. necessarily in freezing the frosting. ice. for a detrimental impact for severe impacts on the safety of fright as indeed its formation controls. the aircraft as well so if it proves out. it wasn't be a nice to good for taking the. lives one of the potentially one of the primary causes of this tragic crash. one other possibility being looked into is that pilot error may have caused the accident performer you to employ even to bleed off police that really is unlikely. but. i would rule out the possibility of pilot error because it is fundamentally at odds with what happens 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 but could also be a reason to try and return. still to come this hour here in r.t. it is but actual turmoil feels separatist sentiment. when you cannot make crisis taking great all the country every single sound since their way nationalist feelings. report from the ritual totems problems of self general where the people want sovereignty from the overseeing of rome. plus what drove the peace activists to try and storm nato headquarters a move met with a heavy handed police response which ended in hundreds of arrests. of the peace efforts for syria the international envoy to the country kofi annan has

briefed the u.n. security council on the progress of this mission ortiz report has more for us from new york so what was said during that briefing. well during the closed door briefing a lot was discussed between mr kofi annan the u.n. envoy to syria and the security council members what we do know so far is that mr anon says that there's been no progress on the ground in syria so far as to implementing a cease fire he also suggested the security council to consider creating a cease fire monitor mission but the biggest news so far is that according to mr anon syria has agreed to an april tenth deadline for a partial implementation of is six point peace plan and according to what is said syria has agreed to stop all acts of violence within forty eight hours of that april tenth deadline mr kofi annan urged the security council to support

for that april tenth deadline where partially his peace think i'm partially be implemented now we have been reporting that kofi annan did lay out a six point peace plan a few weeks back calling on both sides in syria to stop fighting stop their troop movements and stop the use of heavy artillery in heavily populated areas mr announce a peace plan also demands for i daily to our humanitarian seize fire for forty four aides to come into parts of syria and help those in need it also underscores that there needs to be an inclusive syrian led political process now from the very beginning russia has supported and fully the efforts that have been made by mr anon to bring peace to syria russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov recently said that russia has been urging syria to comply with the peace plan and to even lead by

example but he said that western countries and arab some arab countries also need to do their part in to earn. the armed opposition in syria to comply with the peace process now just over the weekend seventeen nations gathered together it's a group that's referred to as the friends of syria they gathered for a meeting and reaffirmed their support for the opposition groups they also recognize the syrian national council as the legitimate representatives of the syrian people now a lot of rob said that this only undermines the peace process that is trying to be implemented in syria he also said that it is a group known as the friends of syria cannot replace the u.n. security council and it is only the u.n. security council that can really make a decision as to whether mr kofi annan wants peace plan is moving in the right direction or not let's take

a listen to what more mr lavrov had to say. russia's committee to implementing the unknowns and we are constantly pushing the syrian government's secret steps in line with proposals according to eat the syrian government be the first to begin to pull that of its forces this is been an opposition to. us he expects in this and some arab states simply seem signal to the armed groups who are also responsible for the bloodshed in syria. in the aftermath of the friends of syria meeting it's been reported and stated that some western countries in the arab countries are also going to be aiding the syrian opposition with various forms of communication equipment and even according to reports of weapons clearly this is not how you put out the fire that's been raging in syria for more than

a year now with anything it's just adding more flames to it so you have two sides now trying to bring their own and inclusion to the conflict the bloody conflict in syria but at the end of the day it's mr kofi annan and his peace plan that is supposed to be the guiding course stop the violence in syria and that move according to russia should not be undermined by any other countries or groups thanks very much indeed marina reporting live from new york mets now discuss the different approaches for settling the yearlong conflict in syria with political analyst carlos watson who joins me live now from beirut that's just to react immediately to that news that assad's government has indeed agreed to the tenth of april being the third line to implement the peace plan but already damascus originally agreed to kofi annan peace initiative quite a few days ago and yet the vote in still continues certain jew had hoped that indeed we will see that peace plan initiated by the tenth of april or indeed on the

tenth of april. well obviously meeting that took place yesterday and what they called the friends of syria headed by the united states and france they're actually not looking for peace and they're looking to fund the terrorist organization to destabilize the region and to destabilize syria i think the intention. gathering yesterday and the statement that coming by. obama administration represented by secretary of state it does not look very good for syria and for the stability of syria i think somebody is instigating they're not looking to buy what we call normal dialogue between the government of syria and the opposition. syria has stated many times that they are sticking to the plan of anon but if mr anon is actually working on

a plan you hear the other side is saying we cannot give one hundred million dollars as they said yesterday to pay salaries to opposition and to terrorists to shoot and continue shooting so i doubt that at this point that. you know the peace initiative by is going it's going to be going very smoothly especially with that line is looming very soon so you would agree then with russia's concerns that the friends of syria is blatantly undermining the efforts of the u.n. . oh i think sabotaging the whole you and process and i think the american are dictating violence and chaos in syria and in the region i think it's time for the americans to let the people of syria get together and the healing spark between the syrian i think everybody agrees there is should be

a new form in syria but if the americans say we are committed to fund this. that is shooting and putting violence in place then i think what they saying we're not going to see any approach for peace or a peaceful outcome of what is taking place i think. qatar and arab emirates are not being helpful with the united states what we call those american persian gulf virgine in the region they want to do these continue the collation of violence in syria but the friends of syria say that the syrian national council is being recognized by them because they see them as a legitimate representative of all syrian people would you disagree with that then i think it doesn't have to i think there themselves are disagreeing because there is so many just among and you have to be very you have to take it with

a grain of salt when you said the consul of syria because there are so many splinter of this organization and every day you see the very briefly very briefly we're seeing parallels with what happened in libya with the recognition of the libyan national security council very similar to what we're seeing there with the syrian national council which of course the libyan national council did actually lead to the demise of gadhafi that's significant isn't it. but i think it's not can happen and i mean miscalculation this will leave the region for a war and all of being bad american are ready for it or the persian gulf country i think they're playing with fire and this flame everybody everybody has to be take a step back i let the healing of syrian continue but i think that american base point here the process where the persian gulf country must and terrorism should not be supported healing. but in

a process of reform this is what is needed right now and this guy was me thank you very much indeed for your thoughts live in beirut. a proposed 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 i literally hundreds of factions as aunties and he said no he 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 that's political reform starts. of former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger to the white house. off the political radar until sunday mass protests moving down after vast front claims against the december parliamentary vote now might be his chance to get back

in the game to crush only by the other could just about see it but. any party with five hundred members the. percent of russia's regions should be registered something but if you're one of the running but no one wants pushing for easy party registration is already seen faults as it was of dissidents and now there will be hundreds of car just registered hundreds of democratic socialist nationalist balance sheets will be kilometers long. and it found their beloved has been trying to officially get into politics for years but there are only. 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. so 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 readings 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 himself 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 trusted me for that reason i will form a new political force a strong party. it seems everyone wants to do in the party and start want. and want to greece berezovsky in london and me i'll go to church of 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. a look at the impact of the internet and social media on political turbulence across the world later today for you in the latest cross-talk debate that's coming a little later today. highlighting the massive wealth gap in italy its central bank says the ten richest people in the country have as much money as the three million poorest combined with economic inequality widespread prosperous and autonomous region of self general is looking to go it alone and break away from rome for good that is a contradiction of want to hear their complaints. lost in translation between the alps and the need to rein the population of hopping million people and a lot of to become independent one day that soul to roll

a probe into northern eternity all these has never been italian says abel claude's as showing off her native town of boys donna she spent thirty years of her life fighting for independence. the holy see where to rule in our languages german were taken from the rest of to rule before so honest a hundred years ago we have seen precious which has affected our language closed our schools and our sons and now changes our regional name into. enough really ever close refers to how these german speaking territory was occupied by eternally at the end of the first world war and was an exchange nine hundred ninety after world war two the allies decided that the province would remain a part of easily but would be granted a certain level of sold 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 economic crisis is taking grip over the country every single sound same stowaway 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 selfishly role doesn't want to help rescue them for so long i don't give him a cup of coffee and will then have a long discussion such a role is not in charge of saving each lee and couldn't have done so even if it wanted to only use a bad housekeeper that were not a full benefit of their own money. there is and ours are the two words which you 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 tally in

national budget to do so it will have to raise real estate the eighty and income taxes as well as paid by farmers instead the south to roll economics minister it wants to buy its freedom from easily one central role even names of concrete purchase price billion euros one knows that the best thing we can stay part of is really what 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. growth and infrastructure in this rich province of italy are indeed very non italian so too is unemployment which stands at only two percent compared to almost nationwide in a product 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 progress

this way with a little. exceeded our children our t.v. was on into. 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 yet arise from your painful austerity drive but will cuts alone cure the block's troubles and that was just one of the questions r.t. put to claude trichet he's the man who led the european central bank through the turbulent early years of the euro crisis. what he's calling very often he's only that instead of spending much more than you earn you spend. on you are a look at these things spending in her. so how could you call that austerity if you are back to sound policy then you import country and by improving confidence you give

a chance to growth and job creation i think it is it is the reality so either way the you with the problems the a.p. center of a larger problem which is you know characterizing all the advanced economy in my all understanding. and that full interview is coming your way later this hour here on r.t. belgium 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 demonstrations organized by belgian and the nato group action for peace campaigners was speaking out against the military interventions in afghanistan and libya and the alliance is nuclear missile shield plans across the world well to spoke to hans number one he's a spokesman for nato game over who took part in the protests he says they were

trying to stop a global war machine. the fact that he said to this doesn't mean we have to stay suppressive for the site we didn't use for items put through actively trying to get him to stop the preparation for our policies by nato so we say in the nato headquarters what i'm going to say is appropriation for i walk around many of our governments don't stop it it's done it's our citizens. to show that they want to stop it and they took us not for ten years not from the start and i didn't see a lot of success in the libya war and what you're seeing now is took years for some . new troops to solve the political importance so the for triggering question the military interventions are really green beach or are we just arming the next phase in the superstores. twenty five minutes past the hour now business

news next week every tree on the beach or looks like a pretty good start of the week is everything still looking rosy though in the markets at this stage of the day absolutely ever since we saw new manufacturing data come out in the united states which showed an expansion over the past month of one percentage point to reach fifty three point four percent and bess has been have been buying up stocks massively in the us what we're seeing right now the dow jones is up half a percent nasdaq up point eight percent on the news apple shares are propelling forward up the two percent so almost an all time. move over to europe where trading close on a very positive note would be footsie gaining almost two percent the dax one point six percent that's this like the fact that the euro zone unemployment came in at a new high of ten point eight percent on average. in other markets commodities are seeing also propelling in the price of oil light sweet is up one point three dollars per barrel of brant even more so this is of the. because

manufacturers are often the biggest. consumers of gasoline and oil products and news are for expanding expanding manufacturing in the u.s. is obviously bullish for the markets in currencies or the russian ruble gained versus both currencies on those higher high oil prices got a final boost in the last minutes of trading where is the euro is weakening against the dollar slightly and in the end to a dramatic change on the russian markets in the last fifteen minutes of trading after manufacturing dates and they went to do positive territory after pretty much fairing in the red throughout most of the session the r.t.s. was up by point four percent in my six a bit less than half a point three percent the main stories on the my sex preferred shares of. shot top five and a half percent on the rumors that the company may actually get rid of them altogether

convert them into ordinary shares with a premium to the market price and therefore we see a lot of growth there is obviously down after the plane crash and has been reporting on today and a v t v was among blue chips at one of the biggest gainers up almost two percent of the cars. also russian energy major t.m. k.b.p.s. poised to verse seven billion dollars to produce nontraditional gas in ukraine and 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 kiev has been long complaining about the price that it's paying for those supplies from. places i will go bill thanks a lot to retreat good to see you there more from you a little later we're going to stay with money and market matters here today.

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