latest news and main stories this week twelve survivors of severe in plane crash are in stable condition it's now thought likely the failure to spray the aircraft as a phrase causes them to fall to earth. time's running out for the latest peace plan for syria with the u.s. pressing the government and opposition to lay down their arms but the killing continues. plus moscow slams the sentencing of victor borge and val's to bring the alleged russian arms dealer home after the u.s. border twenty five years for conspiring to kill americans.

is a day on the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshing all twelve survivors of a plane crash in western siberia monday are now in stable condition they were among forty three people on board the plane when i came down just minutes after takeoff and near freezing temperatures thirty one people including all the crew were killed it's thought failure to spray the aircraft eventually frees may have been the cause argues jake agrees reports from the scene. i heard an explosion then we got a call in my commander ordered us to go to the scene in these few minutes you realize something was wrong with a nine mm shoot of the situation having quite sunk in among the first finds us on the scene yuri immediately sponsored one list to survivors meet with the first thing we saw was the clean debris on fire and we started putting the flames a. there was this one man standing alone and he didn't seem to have

a scratch on him then we took him to hospital. and he was she think he said he was very cool to get on our skins turn the heater on even though it already was on thirty one people lost their lives and the treasury this shocked the country there are only twelve other survivors pulled from the wreckage one dying on route to the hospital the others remain in a critical condition the investigation here continues but thought brief moment those involved stop their work that's the read family members arrive at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones in the charts their pay their respects to say a farewell word out still through contemplates the. thrust into grief relatives have been left searching for answers and already some think they know the most probable cause if it's true it's

a tragedy that could have been averted. you appear to agree some loop with the investigation is far from over and hasn't reached any binding conclusions black box flight data and a largely intact cockpit may provide answers but once teams scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to call the plate their loss to greece see. an official investigation into the cause of the plane tragedy is still underway they've usually alice chris defrosting is obligatory the fight is going ahead and 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 hostile condition then it's incumbent upon they become some of the aircraft to

take precaution before taking off would necessarily include the freezing the frosting. ice buildup on wings can have a detrimental impact will severe impacts on the safety of flight as indeed ice formation on the controls that it says are the crofters well so if you proves their notes. on this aircraft wasn't the only system before taking off and that is one of the potentially one of the primary causes of this tragic crash. well for more information on the plane crash you can log on to our website r t dot com and here's what else is waiting for you today in the c activist group takes down a u.k. government website with its wearer of message saying it was a protest against the coney and surveillance proposals. and in an activist taken action a t.v. presenter in greece is bombed with the word of ags live in error by

a group of mass protest there is a probe into the studio. all those last and forty eight hours left for the syrian government to comply with the u.n. backed peace plan it calls in damascus to withdraw troops and tanks from residential areas seizing all military activity but syrian activists and even the head of the u.n. say the regime continues its crackdown on dissent the mask has blamed ongoing violence and terrorist funded and armed from abroad more than a hundred people were reportedly killed just on saturday as rebel fighters are refusing to cease fire until president assad steps down and they've been promised multimillion dollar support from the u.s. and its allies as a geezer first retorts. talks of ending the violence on the inside the friends of

syria conference. outside the turkish riot police were getting heavy handed they dispersed a tiny proceeding government gathering. quite a crowd. first thing i'm afraid their actions going to seem to certain further anger already rowdy crowds oh yes houses it's. just two of the gun aren't. so. new but they can force. the conference continued throughout the afternoon and they say told his cheap friends assyria have pledged millions of dollars for the free syrian army effectively pitting the rebels on the foreign payroll however even this didn't go as far as the opposition great the syrian national council and some of

the friends of syria had hateful with calls to a purely on the free syrian army becoming stronger his country turkey is now going 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 things to support. we have to skip over the border on the violence got to. negotiations they tell us why we're the opposition will not back down from this fight nor they feel we'll put it in fast 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 a syria conference the parties have already decided who is the legitimate representative of the syrians franch of syria shooting people support the initial call and declared by should initial council we. cede an issue. consul

a legitimate representative of all syrians this seemingly one sided approach is a part of the reason why russia and china has dismissed the great. concerns that excluding the assad government from talks undermines diplomatic efforts to end the violence if they want to help syria to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear that president assad is not going to . you know except the kofi annan plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition at the meeting though in a message to president assad with clear when it comes to the implementation of the peace plan time is running al its surface. it. sounds or are saying the rebels are reluctant to give up a fight because they have so much international backing and germany based researcher benjamin thanks armed opposition sprawling syria a war. in so many signals. so many forces from the

outside are on their side why would they have an interest to to two of make a compromise with the government everyone is blaming the government for the violence they will increase counter actions. to cause foreign intervention we saw what happened in afghanistan after u.s. intervention to iraq we saw what happened to libya state but it's falling apart now . if if syrian national council of so-called free syrian army will actually succeed to take over then we have. most likely. very serious serious in syria with all these different factions fighting each other like muslim brotherhood salafi extremists representatives of certain minorities cetera. over in bahrain on violent demonstrations against the government rage on it was the

word he's weighing in was for several protesters were injured on saturday when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets thousand railing on friday were also met with a crackdown they marched in support of the syrian rights champion serving a life sentence for speaking out against the bahraini government has been on hunger strike for two months bound freedom want to ask the region's slammed for rights violations by the national watchdogs but the u.s. continues to support bahrain's a key arab ally journalism anti-war activist don de bar thinks washington's middle east policy is just. look at the role the united states is playing in bahrain when they've been claiming that they're in syria over human rights that they were in libya over human rights and yet they are suppressing human rights and raid it shows that president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton are hypocrites there are wires and you have a human rights activist the bonafide human rights activist on a hunger strike you don't hear a word of it in the american media the interests of the united states in bahrain

according to the people that make policy here is to maintain the fifth fleet period that's the bahraini people are nothing but people that are supposed to service that base and keep their mouths shut while they do it elsewhere there's oil and other geopolitical considerations that the prime u.s. policy. and later the program when immigration leads to isolation for president aims to crack down on religious extremism leaving the country's muslim community feeling disconnected from the rest of society. basco is vowing to use all legal means to bring victor go back home after the russian businessman was sentenced by a us court he was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge gave him a minimum term twenty five years stressing there will be no evidence of crime had it not been for the american sting operation that set up these arrests are doing us a target has more. years spent by the u.s.

to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer viktor boot was handcuffed whom to the u.s. and police in solitary confinement for months before trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fork the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one of our ritual. records. are we on the other eleven bood lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his

trial this is the award of war. the merchant of death. and you've got him in your hands spread he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as fart members a colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the u.n. met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts the u.s. reportedly clean dirty arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of extradite him or should say kidnap of boots family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping i can accept the possibility that boots might have some information that's might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to

themselves there's someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive those people onto their territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia called boots extradition illegal and question of a litany of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court roots defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark members and all he was trying to do was sell to all the cargo planes majnoon crimes when in fact there is direction and manufactured evidence journalist george matt has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play if you live victor and it's and in particular charges that were brought against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether it be russian citizen because we were to be you know sentence right or

a regular price and if he didn't commit it to good is the simple. russian citizen for the new year to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation both cases a major precedent setting represents a worrying us tragedy to simply override the legal systems of other countries is this ensure that our rights in. washington you sound legal loophole to entrap and convict victor borge that's according to american lawyer top the us government takes a very aggressive approach that strip territorially if someone is in london wire transfers a sum of money to an individual and early on and on but once that they arm the money things through citibank in new york that paying that touching of u.s. jurisdiction is sufficient jurisdiction for the united states government to charge both of those individuals with money laundering both facing extradition proceedings if they both lose they're looking at up to twenty years of parole twenty years without parole as worst place to go if the federal judge in manhattan the u.s.

government decided they wanted him to say or able to manufacture in my view jurisdiction not illegally a form of uncropped much where they were able to pull mr boot into the jurisdiction of the u.s. courts and placed him in him in extradition proceedings by way of. thailand and had him extradited to the united states. coming up layer of the sour here in our team are shaping politics new what it allows for brand new and sometimes controversial parties to answer the russian parliament examine the possible outcome in just a few minutes. around two thousand mourners a tale of the funeral of demetrius crystal's and elderly man who shot himself in front of the parliament building in athens earlier this week the seventy seven year old left a suicide note in which he accused the government of destroying his pension or the stare he cuts his service side rekindled and to stare you measures protest with

violence erupting with hundreds of demonstrators gathered in syntagma square and pay their respects protesters started throwing petrol bombs at police responded with tear gas depression and suicide rates have been on the rise in a country which has been forced to impose public spending cuts to deal with its mounting debt financial analyst patrick young says rees needs to take urgent action to get out of its dire situation. the greek government is bankrupt the greek government cannot afford to stay in the euro and pay its debts it must default ultimately that may be a terrible problem for a great many finance serious investors but at the same time i have to say any bank bought greek debt in the course of the last ten years was stupid so making that absolutely clear the simple fact is greece must have thought on its side it

probably needs to leave the euro originally it was deeply into its currency it is going to still have many problems but the truth of the matter is that when you do get to this sort of extreme only this sort of extreme measure is going to be possible to resolve your situation and ultimately it really beggars belief that we have a greek politician the most highly paid politicians in the whole of the european union turning round and going oh well that's very start one of our constituents killed themselves when they themselves made fifteen thousand euros per month without any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher and b. which is enough to manage to pay for dozens of pensioners every month in new austerity greece french president nicolas sarkozy and veiled his vision for the country on thursday in preparation for the upcoming election here it confirmed his plan to cut immigration to france by half just two weeks after shootings in the

city have to little's rocked the country but assess are selling our reports our prisons policies have left nannie muslims feeling isolated. this may be a film about the struggle to live in the french suburbs but this. is reality. a shooting of seven people in toulouse by a frenchman of algeria and dissent is the latest incident to intensify a already heated debate on security immigration and it to gratian in a country with the largest muslim population in europe i was director from air force and firstly i must say this is an isolated case and fortunately most young immigrants in france do not have this kind of behavior and i think this is a result of his personal journey if out that it was out of place in france would be humiliation discrimination and therefore personal kind of feeling of hatred and hatred of france in the words of this second generation muslim immigrant many like

yourself don't feel french. in the suburbs there is this feeling of rejection by france and the government socially when we say i'm from the suburbs they're not taken seriously the truth when young people apply for jobs and the sun resumes and how the suburban address it causes many problems some employers time to favor people from central paris or sometimes she says favor a more french name and variant lies a problem a french republic's values of liberty equality and fraternity seem to exclude those living on the periphery like this suburb of mont there where we chanced upon a law that in protest to be good you need my claim the right to live like everyone else if you earn between one thousand and thirty hundred year olds you live in as best as you live in the middle of electromagnetic waves with leaves in unsanitary conditions just five minutes from posh areas like the. people die here and totally

different i see no no i denounce that fact and france will have a revolt there's a french saying to describe the country today loosely translated as a france and moving up to speeds of the young people who find themselves stuck on the slower moving train some say they belong to a generation already lost by the stay. they find a sense of belonging elsewhere by the time that happens any efforts to bring them back a likely to this new child and where some may find solace is anyone's guess this may not only young people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood it's the wives of osama bin laden or other so-called leaders who create ideas there's a new generation that asunder implicit and aggressor and it's going to conflict with the internet and the easy access to information freely and easily and the worst is that in the real that is reinforced by dinner and this is a huge danger to you in response politicians bombard the public with proposals for even more policies like policing internet behavior we do see the number of new

immigrants are stripping some of their citizenship the tricks a are hall of presidents so cozy as really trying to espouse the line the right. nationalist party here as well. you know ways attacking immigrants talking about meat making issues and covering so muslim girls these have become major issues in france rather than the question of creating jobs and perhaps the question of how to bring back the very basics of a society that calls itself a gala tarion chesser cilia r.t. paris. now take a look at some other stories from around the world today marks the nomination deadline for egyptian upcoming presidential election the muslim brotherhood has put forward two candidates and it fears a military council could disqualify the party's primary nominee former vice

president omar suleiman who served under ousted leader hosni mubarak will also be running a vote scheduled to take place in two rounds of may and june and is touted as it gets a first for a presidential election. pakistan's military say there is little hope of finding any survivors of an avalanche which involved a military encounter in the mountains kashmir region one hundred thirty five people are thought dead the search operation suspended overnight is expected to continue sunday morning and the search involving more than one hundred fifty soldiers sniffer dogs and helicopters has recovered over a dozen bodies so far. collapse minding shafts in the room as raft nine miners trapped on the ground the shaft caved in outside on thursday at work or so on that explosion to the slide or rescue teams are supplying the man with oxygen and rings through a hose police and firefighters work to freedom mining accidents are fairly common

in peru more than fifty people died in the country's mines last year. now other first batch of a deployment of u.s. marines has arrived this trillion as america boosts its military presence in the asia pacific region more than two thousand personnel will be deployed there over the next few years this adds to america's military footprint in the region troops are currently based in countries like the philippines and singapore all in china's backyard you see on based asia specialist him deal says the hospital you may backfire on the host nations. the nicest face and says why about the rise of china . taking moves to change to counter that now we have some areas going into starbucks this is in effect what american based its may not have the legal status of the base she might have had seen a change of clothes years ago but centrally what it is we have this fundamental

problem will be climbing the united states and rising china and then we had all these subordinate countries and with slaves. one australia new zealand what to do they have to work out how to coach in this country it's our polish league getting themselves into this relationship to cherish long term generation nation shipping the united states and china and then really need to think more seriously about it. a little reform that took effect in russia this week could see literally hundreds of new parties registering to run for parliament i just wasted our will of sad because of places that. 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 so former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger to the white

house. thank you don't you know him for who was long off the political radar into 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 pressure only. but one proposal is for any team with five hundred members there is in some a less than fifty percent of russia's regions should be registered at something that you almost certainly. want pushing for easy party registration is already seen falls 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 long. and it's down there below has been trying to officially get into politics for years there are only.

known for his staunch nationalism russian marches and tough rhetoric and love could not 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 ratings in the us 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 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 me just of 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.

and want to greece but his own skin london and me for no good show of have both said they have plans to launch political forces for those looking for a wider choice they may well be able to vote for a party of love subtropics or a party of friends of elliott's but if before there were complaints of too few parties it may now well be too many perhaps putting the days of a so-called technical russian parliament behind but a new russian political system that works still some way off and he's now a r.t. muska. well we're up to date here on artsy at all before and when out of the top stories.

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