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three. three. three. three volunteers to video a four year media drug free video gargi dr tom. these are the main stories of the week twelve survivors of a said year in plane crash are in stable condition it's now thought likely the failure to spray the aircraft intended for use causative fall to earth. time's running out for the latest peace plan for syria was the one pressing the government and opposition to lay down their arms the killing continues. plus moscow slams the sentencing of victor borge and vows to bring the legit russian arms dealer home after a u.s. court gave him twenty five years for conspiring to kill americans. it
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is not am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me joshua 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 it came down just minutes after takeoff and near freezing temperatures thirty one people including all the crew were killed it's thought failure to spraying the aircraft went out for use may have been the cause argues jake agrees reports from the scene. i heard an explosion and then we got a call and my commander ordered us to go to the scene in these few minutes you realize something was wrong but the magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk in among the first firefighters on the scene yury immediately spotted one with few survivors the first thing we saw was the plane debris on fire and we started putting the flames out there was this one man standing alone he didn't seem to have a scratch on him and we took him to hospital. but he was shaking he said he was
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very cool kid on our screens turn the heater on even though it all really was on. people lost their lives in a tragedy that 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 for brief moment those involved stop their work that's family members arrive at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones in the charts their pay their respects to say well no doubt still through the contemplates. the. thrust into grief relatives have been left searching for answers and already some think they know the most probable cause and if it's true it's a tragedy that could have been averted. here for you to agree.
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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 was team scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to cold to play their loss degree arcee. artificial. yes a geisha to the cause of the plane tragedy is still underway but aviation analyst chris kate says the frosting is obligatory if a flight is going to have and harsh conditions. you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft in hostile conditions and you could argue that very bad weather is a whole snow condition that it's incumbent upon they become sort of they. take precaution before taking off would necessarily include the freezing the frosting.
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or ice buildup on the wings can have a detrimental impact so severe in part on the safety of flights as indeed it's formation on but you control surfaces of the corrupt as well so if it proves out. its aircraft wasn't the high strung group who are taking off. that is one of the potentially one of the primary causes of this tragic crunch. for more information on the plane crash and log on to our website r t v dot com and here is what else is waiting for you there today the infamous happen to this group takes down i do k. government website with it where a message saying it was a protest against the korean surveillance proposals. and the terrorist take action t.v. presenter angry is bombed with yogurt and agues live in air by a group of mass of protesters who broke into the studio.
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and others less than forty eight hours left for the syrian government to comply with a un back peace plan it calls on the baskets 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 sand to mask his blames ongoing violence on terrorists funded and armed from abroad more than a hundred people were reportedly killed just on saturday as the rebel fighters are refusing to cease fire until president asad steps down and they have been promised multimillion dollar support from the u.s. and its allies as artie's sarah for three for. talks of ending the violence on the inside at the friends of syria close friends. outside they can take issue and they
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say we're getting heavy handed they dispersed a tiny price syrian government gathering. quite a crowd the but first thing about this right that their actions only seem to say to the already rowdy crowds oh oh. we want just to i've got. good. souls who are. moved by the 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 placing 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 hate for with. the free syrian army becoming stronger country turkey is now haint twenty thousand
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displaced syrians refugee camps near the border see a continual flow of new arrivals and these we met will have tales of war videos of things to support. we had to skip over the border when the violence got through. negotiations they tell us why were the opposition will not back down from the sites all they feel will fit into fads despite the syrian government's along with the international community having signed up to the un envoy to syria case he announced peace plan at a friends a syria conference the parties have already decided who is just a minute representative of the syrians france of syria student people support finnish new covenant declared by syrian national council we see syrian issue council illegitimate representative of all syrians a seemingly one sided approach is
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a part of the reason why russia and china has dismissed agree on the same 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 and present assad is not going to. be. accept the kofi annan plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition at the knees in a message to president assad with clear when it comes to the implementation of the peace plan time is running al it's surface. now how observers say the rebels are reluctant to give up the fight because they have so much international backing and very basic research things the armed opposition is holding syria into civil war. they getting so many singers. so many
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forces from the outside are on their side they have an interest to make a compromise with the government everyone is blaming the government for the violence they will. be silenced and provoke onto actions in order to cause foreign intervention we saw what happened in afghanistan after u.s. intervention we saw what happened to iraq we saw what happened to libya a state that is falling apart now. if. syrian national council of so-called free syrian army will actually succeed to take over then we have. most likely to face. very serious serious or in syria with all these different factions fighting each other like muslim brotherhood. extremists representatives of certain minorities. now later in the program when immigration leads to isolation france's president thinks to crack down on religious extremism leaving the country's muslim community feeling disconnected from the rest of society. and find
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out why corruption could hinder india's military modernization as the country prepares to spend billions on new weapons. today marks the nomination deadline for egypt's upcoming presidential election former vice president omar suleiman who served under ousted leader hosni mubarak will be running the muslim brotherhood has also put forward two candidates the decision was spurred by fears that the military council made this was by the brotherhood's primary nominee either as long as groups after their nominations for threatened democratic brotherhood already dominates parliament and the group which is drafting the country's new constitution freelance journalist. muslim brotherhood monopoly government have a negative impact on. the muslim brotherhood have not been one suit to push social change so i imagine it will be a particle for women or for minority groups think using coptic christians who
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obviously i'm quite important in this country i think in the midst of it 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 of the revolutionary groups i mean they appeared to have been doing deals with this guy behind closed doors which could basically mean that it isn't revolutionary change and this i think will be the worry for the rest in the future of egypt. well to boost its international image egypt's muslim brotherhood sent the first official delegation to washington this week at their example to secure more support from the u.s. with only started dealing with these long acknowledgement after it played a key role in the toppling of president mubarak but now as frank salvato says america should be teaming up with undemocratic arab forces the white house you know we would hope that they're looking at the best case scenario but they need to be a little bit more cautious about the worst case scenario and that includes arming
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rebels in syria the arming of an eating of rebels in libya when in fact we knew that they had ties to radical islamist groups and especially and specifically al qaeda when you're talking about trying to divide the the islamic world in the arab world it's a very hard thing to do. you won't see ready allies for the west especially in some of the. i'm going to use them for lack of a better word regimes that have taken over in some of these countries that have experienced the arab spring they're not friendly to to western culture or western ideals although they might like the financial backing that will come you see a lot of these the spec sions leaning towards the installation of sharia law is something that is paramount in their constitutions so to try and ally with someone who is putting shari'a law in place especially when it's so antithetical to our u.s. constitution. corneas twirling in the air on the. and coming up later in the program
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race shaping new nation could allow scores of brand new and sometimes controversial parties to answer the russian parliament examine the possible alcohol interest. is vowing to use all legal means to bring victor bullet back home after the russian businessman was sentenced by u.s. court he was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge gave him a minimum term to twenty five years stressing there would be no evidence of crime had it not been for the american staying operation that set up his arrest or jesus if you're going to has more. years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash forward into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer viktor boot was handcuffed flown to the u.s.
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and placed 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 an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the stork the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one far for every twelve people. in our court. are we army or a boot lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion one before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as fart members
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a colombian group team terrorist in the u.s. but not by name any 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 plea dirty arm twisting in 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 the extradite in washington kidnap and good family also called u.s. actions entrapment and kidnapping the i can accept the possibility that might have some information that's might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just say to themselves that there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive these 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 boot extradition illegal
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and question the validity 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 cargo planes the maginot crimes when in fact there is action and manufactured evidence journalist george map has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play that i feel the victor and it's to take the 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 writable who are truly be with you know sentence right or trying to commit victim who is the second. since it isn't any easier to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation both cases such major precedence and represents a worry the rest tried to simply override the legal systems of other countries is
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this a circuit of hearts. and washington used the legal of halting trapping convict victor bull and that's according to american lawyer. the u.s. government takes a very aggressive approach extraterritorial if someone is in london wire transfers a sum of money to an individual and really on and on but none stop him the money kings through citibank in new york that paying that touching of u.s. jurisdiction is sufficient jurisdiction for the united states government and the 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 to the federal judge in manhattan the u.s. government decided they wanted him to say for a bill to food to manufacture in my view jurisdiction not illegally a form of in craft not where they were able to pull mr boot into the jurisdiction
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of the u.s. courts they placed him in you know in extradition proceedings about why you. thailand and had an extra dieted to the united states. over in bahrain on violent demonstrations against the government rage on was used the word is weighing in and with force several protesters were injured on saturday one police fired tear gas and rubber bullets thousands railing on friday were also met with a crackdown they marched in support of a human rights champion who's serving a life sentence for speaking out against the bahraini government has been on hunger strike for two months to achieve freedom or death regimes been slammed for whites violations by international watchdogs but the u.s. continues to support. the arab allies at least aspart the risks says the case will help expose the truth. hunger strikes i think they do contribute though you do what you gold because what they do is they reveal the real tactics which are being
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because through and by the regime in order to clamp down on the protests of stores so more and more such acts i think call for that expose of the true nature of all the true tactics which the regime use using and what that's the concern more pressure on certain western countries also the european powers in order to change their stance because of the visibly the regime in the can focus is all on syria and what's going on in syria setting aside but we all know the difference in bahrain does exist we also know and i think this is the main issue here. is a very close ally of saudi arabia and saudi arabia hence is going to be our allies have been us so when we speak about the blackouts being put on the train i think first and foremost that this is a saudi arabian wish because the saudi arabians also fear that there might be a domino effect which could happen in the persian gulf beginning from behind and then spreading to spreading to saudi arabia the international community is still
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focused on the world also i think that all contributes to the anger would show we witnessing the popular anger which in the end i believe will achieve the end goals . it's not just tourists from around the world that sounds military so there is little hope of finding any survivors of an avalanche which and got the military encampments in the mountains kashmir region one hundred thirty five people are there the search operations span and already night is expected to continue on sunday morning search involving more than one hundred fifty soldiers sniffer dogs and helicopters has recovered over a dozen bodies so far. last mind group has left nine miners trapped underground the shaft seidlin on thursday after work they set off and it's closing to the slot car rescue teams are supplying them with oxygen drain. through holes police and fire fighters worked to free them hiding accidents are fairly common in
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peru more than fifty people died in the country's mines last year. in britain and environmental campaigner who disrupted the traditional oxford or cambridge university go graze has been charged under the public order act filled forced to stop when the swat swam into their past the race resumed after he was safely removed from the river and cambridge went on to take the title after oxford road nor this was the first incident of its kind. of fifty eight year history. and the u.s. military's been damaged by recent corruption scandals and claims that it's falling apart but now the government spanning hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing and strengthening its army as the world's largest importer of arms looks at its options russian firms are lining up hoping to cash in for we quarts.
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of rampant corruption and an army falling to pieces the current state of the indian military according to the country's top general himself he recently revealed he was offered a bribe of almost three billion dollars by a lobbyist to buy substandard defense equipment he turned down the bribe but the scandal has rocked the country and caused the ministry of defense to suspend six defense firms for ten years over their lobbying tactics what happens is you have long delays. you have sometimes is that the bureaucratic level you have in decision which is sometimes a level off the politicians so that in itself is a huge problem but we're joris of clothes for some they've opened for others many foreign defense firms are now i'm the opportunity to take a slice of india's huge defense pie india is the world's largest importer of ons that is set to spend one hundred billion dollars in the next ten years to modernize
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its military equipment russia is at the forefront of the battle to win some of those contracts moscow says it can provide three billion dollars worth of walk ins to india every year. thanks to the. defense systems there's also very intense competition for. providing new. diesel electric submarines to india. and russia. india also appears keen on the opportunity to let russia help modernize its defense systems and says the partnership with the country could be beneficial for both sides russia is one of the few countries that have joined us in joint development of military hardware one of the classic example is. the other example is the. support thirty year. olds are working together on the
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fifth generation. of so india's string of military scandals is providing a shakeup in its military suppliers but competition to fill the void will be fierce among the russian and international firms bidding to bring india's armed forces up to date preassure either r.t. new delhi india. political reform that took effect in russia as we could see literally hundreds of new parties registering to run for parliament now you look sad because occurrences of bad. 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 here. as you know him so he was long off the political radar until
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a sunday 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 or pressure only by the other candidates that see but my proposal is for any team with five hundred members the. percent of russia's regions should be registered stick but something that you on the stunning and i'm told once pushing for easy party registration is already seen falls as it was a resurgence of now there will be hundreds of part just registered hundreds of democratic socialist nationalist balance sheets will be kilometers long. and founder of the lord has been trying to officially get into politics for years but there are. known for his staunch nationalism russian marches and tough rhetoric but love could now have a good chance of getting into parliament and already has
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a plan. so there will be many nationalist parties registered sore of course goal the need to get together on one ballot is one party to a ratings in use already popular aspects of a movement to win seats with nationalists will have tough competition not least from a new face who has already proved himself billionaire brokered 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 self exiled and want to breeze berezovsky in london and me for no good virchow 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
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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. well raises up here in artsy i'll be back shortly with update on the week's top stories.
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