moscow's burning two dramatic fires in the city overnight with one happening sixty six stories up a skyscraper the other killing seventeen people trapped in a burning market warehouse. u.n. peace envoy kofi annan convinces president also to honor an april tenth cease fire as doubts grow over the arab front if rebels willingness to stick to their side of the bargain. and flight recorders are examined to gain a crucial insight into the last minutes of a plane which crashed in the west from siberia it's been revealed the aircraft wasn't he iced before takeoff. parts risking it all and

losing everything the growing number of italians turning to gambling to make their fortune in tough economic times. a warm welcome to you vibe from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said no way it's two pm here in the russian capital and the city has seen two massive fires overnight with one quick thing a city skyscraper which is set to become the tallest building in europe another proof cradle for seventeen people who were sleeping when the fire started our correspondent arena go to scott has more from the scene of moscow's deadliest place in five years. people died in this blaze the cause of their death is said to be smoke inhalation they were migrant workers who were living and working at this

warehouse located on the outskirts of moscow in all the parts. at this point investigators are still looking through the scene trying to determine the exact cause of this blaze and to see if there possibly could be any more bodies found no this is the second fire which occurred in the russian capital in the space of less than ten hours yet another blaze occurred at the most go suzi i was in the center of the of the russian capital one of the structures which is still under construction of the federation tower caught fire from a ballet or wish i was torn off by a very strong winds god cause on this lighting fixture you have to understand construction there is still going on workers are working twenty four seven and they need light at all times so the better got caught on the sliding fixture and then the entire sixty sixth floor of the federation tower was ablaze within minutes it

was truly a sight that most guys have not seen in their very long time of course you also have to understand the efforts which were put into this by the most of the firefighters is exempt karla's brigades for helicopters they had to take in the water from the most cool river took them four hours to put that blaze out of course the fire in the federation tower which once completed is supposed to be the tallest structure in all of europe a very bizarre kind of string of fires in moscow one in a spectacular another not so but unfortunately very deadly. we will find more footage and photos of the two fires on our website our cock. in other news a tentative cease fire by april tenth that's the latest deal hammered out. between the syrian government and international peace envoy kofi annan the agreement which includes a state trooper pull out and an end to shelling was announced in a briefing at the u.n.

security council but artie's marine important i reports there are plenty of hurdles still ahead and not all of them in syria. the biggest news so far is that according to mr anon syria has agreed to an april tenth deadline for a partial implementation of the six point peace plan and according to what is said syria has agreed to stop the violence within forty eight hours of that april tenth deadline we have been reporting that kofi annan did lay out a six point peace plan of few weeks calling on both sides in syria to stop fighting stop their troop movements and stop the use of heavy artillery in heavily populated areas from the very beginning russia has only supported kofi annan six point peace plan for syria most recently russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov reiterated moscow's support for the plan but mr lavrov indicated that the

plan could be undermined by those that are showing more support for the armed opposition in syria russia is committed to implementing. and we've constantly pushing the syrian government's secret steps in law in. accordance to it's the syrian government's to do first to begin to pull that's of its forces this is the position to all of us he expects this and some arab states simply seems to be all. responsible for the bloodshed in syria. just over the weekend seventy nations gather 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 said that this only undermines the peace process that is trying to be

implemented in syria he also said that it this 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 peace plan is moving in the right direction or not. well like libya where nato members air drops of weapons for the rebels in syria there is greater reluctance to do so mideast analyst ahmed fati explains why he thinks what he thinks i should say is stopping the west from carrying out a similar strategy. those who have started. the opposition in syria were predominantly belonging to the muslim brotherhood the american administration is very very careful in syria these are principles for freedom democracy and human rights for the syrian people but the

concerns that if when and if the will supply weapons to the rebels it might be used against them exactly in afghanistan when you support group . history. and we ended up with very loving nobody wants to see that anymore. well in egypt the leading force force their political forces the muslim brotherhood has come under fire from the public and other political groups for nominating its own candidate in the upcoming presidential race the movement broke its earlier promises to stay out of the vote but the decision also sparked internal frictions within the brotherhood with some of the group's top figures resigning in protest at the move over a dozen other islamist organizations also criticize the nomination blaming the muslim brotherhood for jeopardizing the town's democratic change in egypt held through cairo based freelance writer and journalist believes the party's domination

of egypt's political scene will do the country no good. the muslim brotherhood has not been one seat to push social change so i imagine it will be quite difficult for women with minority groups including coptic christians who obviously are quite important in this country i think is a misnomer they have shown a very strange relationship with the ruling military council and the supreme council the armed forces so i think this is where they maybe some issues are the revolutionary groups because they appeared to have been doing deals with discussed behind closed doors which could basically mean that there isn't revolutionary change based i think will be the worry for the rest into the future of egypt. regards he coming up for you this hour the u.k. is said to work jobs big brother practices from overseas a new communication monitoring bill macy everyone's internet and from context revealed to the government. but first investigators are searching for clues as to what caused

a passenger plane crash in western siberia as they start unloading data from two flight recorders found at the site thirty one people were killed when the plane hit the ground just minutes after takeoff doctors are trying to save the lives of twelve survivors are these jaker greaves is in the region for us. mourners of family members are currently gathered at the site where the plane crashed to pay their respects to loved ones this comes as twelve people are still fighting for their lives the savoy was from this plane crash many of them being treated in hospital you see nine on the go operations many still in critical states just how do you want to be able to be sent to moscow for further treatment as that crash itself there are a number of sonora is being investigated they do have the black box of a where is the set that is being looked at and analyzed in moscow at present also investigators scoured this site are looking at the top it remains relatively intact

looking there at some of the equipment to see if it gives away any clues as to what happened here now we know that three possibilities are being looked into the blade of the toilet pilot error and that's the airliner you said the other part is quite young twenty seven years old that she said celebrate his twenty eight birthday today had it not be for this disaster that he had no alcohol in his long time line there are questions being asked as to why this plane wasn't properly d.r.s. first including this likely affected the ability for it to fly and for the wings the function now the blame for this has been leveled by some you tear the airliner in cold indeed local officials now saying that's probably a fundamental reason for this crash the less the investigation officially remains very much open as such they're also looking to the armies of flight control whether or not they will play a role so if the plane malfunction involved in this scenario we know that it was

fit to fly before takeoff nonetheless we're dealing with a craft that she came in one thousand nine hundred three and it is an older model as for the event itself took part in the early monday morning shortly. very much immediately after their problems arising see the plug not be able to communicate with air traffic control but we have differing import reports i would discount say that there was smoke coming from the plane well investigators don't think actually happened what they think occurred is that this plane was flying about two hundred meters above ground the engines were she fucks you don't know how well they're functioning they were at the time then the plane rolled twice as it plummets and as it did what it hit the ground that's when the thought started that's what it broke up into three pieces parties jacob riis reporting there we've been gathering expert analysis of the crash here on r t aviation consultant and former pilot

captain mark rice thinks it's still too early to jump to conclusions over the cause i've got over twenty thousand hours of flying for in various types of aircraft from small to reply ops similar to the one that crashed two large intercontinental jets . when you talk about pilot error there's. generally speaking you're dealing with professional pilots and no one situation creates that as a situation by itself events lead to somebody making a mistake or not following a prescribed checklist and certainly in this part of the investigation it's for too early to ascertain whether or not that that was the situation again once you get the black box and determine what happened with the engines what happened with the air for old wind itself the cockpit voice recorders will tell you

a lot of transmission to the traffic controllers whether or not there's an emergency had been declared. you know throwing out terms like pilot error is very easy but not necessarily accurate. well to find further details on the plane crash in western siberia you can go to our team dot com and there you'll find the timeline and analysis on what could have led to the tragedy as well as more images and a look at concerns over safety on a rush as domestic airlines. the u.k. government is set to adopt a bill allowing it to monitor all phone and internet connections between citizens promote it as vital for home security and sprint compared to the u.s. patriot act adopted after nine eleven but civil liberty acts or has sworn that the law is just a small step away from having big brother brother full access to private communication it requires. to install these black boxes which gives the government the ability to

track all text messages e-mails phone calls where they're going who they're going to and where they were sent from and well it basically meant there is no content restrictions or they're not allowed to actually take content. thought all of this information is all they need to then get warrants and go after the contents of the e-mails anyway so there's a good parallel to us here they say that they can actually keyword search and search for phrases and search for people's names in the contents of e-mails with computer systems they answer the key words in and then they search all the e-mails and then once they find something then the e-mail get sent to the human to human beings who think it's a war and so there are ways around kind of word games and associations where the government can actually access some of the contents of the e-mails right now in great britain google rejects sixty three percent of requests from government agencies this bill will say essentially that google can't say no and that

government will be able to get its mission no matter what. well across the atlantic the u.s. also sees a spy plan you can read online about of contracts of nuclear power drones will be able to gather intelligence and bring down from about. one hundred to dot com satellite photos so north korea is all set for its controversial rocket launch condemned by many countries for stirring up regional tensions. in italy a growing number of people are turning to gambling trying to make money fast in a struggling european economy scratch cards and online poker have made begin to stray so accessible that many find themselves fighting in addiction parties

accompanying the groucho reports now that for some it's an taishan is simply too much. eighty years now marco has been telling his story already over again to other members of gamblers anonymous but even that's not long enough he says to cure himself of the addiction with a book around to being go to go away his parents wife and several jobs at one point he resorted to stealing money from his mother. for the perfect world of gambling the king and the and then gambling was taking over me i got a very good girl. i was there in your body i paid for it go away. marcos started gambling when he was eight then there were no t.v. or tricks but there were beautiful movies and irresistible you were for potential gamblers. thirty eight august i got my new thriller that i can't remember

a given how. desperate to win their fortune and not an easily around a million gamblers i figure growing rapidly due to the economic crisis in. marketing has become very aggressive and sells gambling as if lottery tickets were the only groceries commercials from a suitable help overcome financial difficulties because of the crisis is not only men who gamble it's also their wives and their children who play poker online for gambling in italy was like an erotic movie but today it's like porn. after the us italy has the largest law trans credit card market in the world last year alone eighty billion euros were up for grabs and while casinos and he put drones have been losing clients mass gambling and gambling is the only thing people spend money on here they spend three hundred four hundred years only one hundred years and are

happy because they've won when in fact they've lost two hundred this is one of the most popular ways of gambling immediately only you have to do is scratch a strip on a ticket and you could win a fortune i wasn't that lucky today but for some the promise of becoming an instant millionaire is simply too much to resist on average ten percent of the family income we need to leave spent on gambling and significantly helps the government feel its coffers of the health ministry is aiding the large. gambling will soon be included on the list of acknowledged diseases and it will change everything google work and prevention complains will offer psychological assistance to gamble as well also in large medical programs the health minister also proposes amending the current law to take the television and seriously restrict gambling but before these happens for marco and his other fellows overcoming addiction will remain a question of self discipline and face. exceeding the children r

t grow. well much of the economic hardship gripping italy and europe at large has often been attributed to speculation by big banks intent only on profit coming up next our friends of the room max kaiser and stacey herbert weigh in on predatory practice in banking. time after time on the cost report our articles have shown if you purchase some credit derivatives from goldman sachs from j.p. morgan look at the entirety of italy municipalities going broke all across italy why because they got credit derivatives from j.p. morgan goldman sachs are going to a country like greece they sell bonds they cop a book so they can get into the euro and they collapse then greece and other countries got to go berserk the help of cure the problem of having dealt with goldman sachs of course the earnings are up but it's a virtuous cycle what kind of drugs are they got these great people taking.

coming up to twenty minutes past the hour a look now at some other news from around the world by clashes have erupted between police and protesters and one of the artists during a rally outside the u.k. embassy over the british control of the phone neither thankfully angry demonstrators threw petrol bombs and pulled down barricades for offices the spotted with tear gas protest march the first. birthrate starts to fall in florida which almost a prominent people died. ten captives have been released by the revolutionary armed forces of colombia otherwise known as far six police officers and four soldiers are reportedly the rebel groups lots of military hostages and have been held in jungle hideouts for at least twelve years fark is latin america's oldest guerrilla group losing ground in recent years due to military pressure. and a u.s.

government funded study has found that the radiation released by the damaged fukushima nuclear plant in japan to be almost the same level as chernobyl the findings found that much of the radiation had drifted into the pacific ocean for casino was hit by a tsunami last year triggering a crisis as engineers battled to prevent a meltdown of the reactors. but the u.s. department of homeland security has placed an order with a defense contractor to buy up to four hundred fifty million rounds of lethal ammunition but there are concerns over whether the agents using the bullets have had sufficient training and what the ammunition is going to be used for according to journalist david seaman. well the people within it. they are not federal agents are not as well trained they're not as well vetted these are the kinds of people who think that grandmothers and little children or

a threat to national security when they go through an airport and to give all of these these agents so much firepower i really does make you wonder if they know something if the american people do not know about you try out different scenarios why do they need this much ammo and certainly target practice is one option but even if they're burning through twenty million rounds a month to train their agents this is still overkill this is still too much so best case scenario this is sort of a waste of taxpayers' money and worst case scenario is they're planning for economic unrest were violent protests or something that requires hollow point ammunition on a wide scale. but at the latest now from the financial world with katie on our business desk katie capital outflow it remains a problem for the russian economy tell us more exactly right that is the thing that we're following at the moment any is local economists the biggest problem the biggest threat to the russian economy about capital the lights now last year we saw

figures of eighty four billion dollars we see that the trend is continuing through to teach thousand and twelve now it's me thinks speaking exclusively to business are to you tapi head of the central bank says this could quickly turn around but everything depends on the new government. when jori quite high current account last year around hundred million dollars probably. little bit about it balanced truth out for up to now generally clear this creationist were profitable but if the rest of the global interests would be quite happy with the new government they adjourned the government for the next several months in that case it probably will change the candidacy and instead of capital outflow with. capital inflow. ok now on the topic of the russian markets let's see how the r.t.s. in the my stakes is before me in this hour and it's been

a positive day around such leave the answer some of my stocks. higher than a percentage point in the positive territory at this hour so they've had a good day and that's the third day of gains and it's the second day of the second quarter so far so good let's have a look at the stocks and see who's really benefiting now lou call is and that's despite comments made by the general and bt capital that their plan to create output and quadrupled dividends without into debt likely that's what they say but as you can see a one point seven percent that's what was also posting a healthy gains there one point seven percent up a match or about over eight percent in positive territory this hour that's largely because china a u.s. have posted really healthy manufacturing in the data is that helping boost demand for commodities worldwide that's going to change the ruble is performing well against both the u.s. dollar and the euro we can see the euro dollar is also

a fraction higher one thirty three forty one a for this hour if we look up the oil prices we see they are declining still the light sweet over one hundred four dollars per hour the brant nearly one hundred twenty five's a fairly strong figures you're saying that even though that we can see they declined at this hour still for a high prices for then gave you know the what the world is watching the european markets to look at as one of those fronts so much they in the last few minutes or so we've got the first in the dust both down now in general terms of german stocks have performed best as it's two thousand and six that's relative to u.s. stocks ok that's how the markets look for this hour what i can tell you that we've got the we've got american that figures coming out later on in under three hours ties we'll be following those markets so that's the markets for now at least all right thank you very much for that update coming up for us here in our two a special report on the huge opportunities for winter sport and it's in russia but

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