three. three. three. three blogs videos for your media drug free media are cheap. latest news in the main stories this week twelve survivors of monday's siberian plane crash are in a stable condition is now thought likely to failure to spray the aircraft landed for years cause it to fall to earth. time's running out for the latest peace plan for syria was the un's pressing the government and opposition to lay down their arms for the killing continues. to keep power players in egypt lot has a muslim brotherhood and the ruling military council endorse their prime candidates for next month's presidential vote. sunday is the deadline for a meeting since with several of the hopefuls already barred from running at the deadline for the short list to do next week. plus moscow slams the sentencing of

victor but of vows to bring the alleged russian arms dealer home after a u.s. court gave him twenty five years of conspiring to kill americans. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t was marina joshie welcome to the program and all the trial survivors of a plane crash in western siberia on 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 and saw failure to spray the aircraft landed freeze may have been the cause are says 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 because the magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk in

among the first firefighters on the scene yury immediately spotted one of the few survivors of the first thing we saw was the clean 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 very cool kid and asking to turn the heater on even though it already was on thirty one people lost their lives in a tragedy the shock 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 a brief moment those involved stop their work that's a relief family members arrive at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones and the charts the pay their respects to say. word out still to rule 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. you hear. some a look believe geisha 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 scoured the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to contemplate their loss degrees r.t. . an official investigation into the cause of the plane tragedy is still underway right now with kristen says defrosting is a working theory as a site is going ahead and harsh conditions. you know whenever you're flying any

type of aircraft in hostile conditions when you put on can you that very bad weather is a hostile condition and it's incumbent upon they become sort of way to take precaution before taking off and would necessarily include the freezing the frosting. or ice buildup on wings can have a detrimental impact or severe impacts on the safety of flight as indeed ice formation only control surfaces of the aircraft as well so if it proves out. it wasn't the only stupid who are taking off and that is one of the potentially one of the primary causes of this tragic crash. for more information on the plane crash log on to our website are to go on and here's what else is waiting for you there right now the infamous hack to this group takes down a u.k. government website with a twitter of message saying it was

a protest against conan surveillance proposals. and activists take action to present her in greece is beyond well you know good and as live on air by a group of masked protesters who broke into the studio. there is less than forty eight hours left for the syrian government to comply with the u.n. back peace plan it calls on the baskets to withdraw troops and tanks from residential areas seizing all military activity but the government says it won't pull bath without written guarantees from the rebels to make sure they won't move in to take over verse cities have you went last to damascus for ongoing violence but the regime blames the bloodshed on terrorists funded and armed from abroad but rebel fighters have been refusing to relent until president assad steps down and they are being told through a multi-million dollar support from the u.s. and its allies as artie's sarah first. talks of ending the violence

on the inside the friends of syria come. outside day and take this riot place we're getting heavy handed they dispersed a tiny per syrian government gathering. quite a crowd the moment first thing i'm back on the right with their actions a nice thing to say to the. rowdy crowd oh yes oh. yes. we want just. aren't good aren't so who are. moved by the force. the conference continued throughout the afternoon and they say talk is cheap friends to syria have pledged millions of dollars with the free syrian army effectively putting the rebels on the foreign payroll however even this didn't go

as far as the opposition group the syrian national council and some of the friends of syria had hateful with a penny on the free syrian army becoming stronger the haze country turkey is now home to twenty thousand displaced syrians refugee camps near the border see a continual flow of new arrivals and these we met will have tales of war videos and nothing to support. we have to skip over the border violence go through. negotiations they tell us while we're the opposition will not back down from this fight nor they fill it with interest 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 the friends of syria conference the parties have already decided who is just not representative of the syrians friends of syria sheehan people support the mission and covenants declared by shooting nation council we see

syrian issue. illegitimately present if you for all syrians this seemingly one sided approach is a part of the reason why russia and china has a history we think uncensored excluding the assad government from talks undermines diplomatic efforts to end the violence if they want to help syria the 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 accept the kofi annan peace plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition at the meeting though in the message to president assad was clear when it comes to the implementation of the peace plan time is running out sir. is that. some observers say the rebels are reluctant to give up a fight because they have so much international backing and swiss based researcher benjamin scott thanks to armed opposition is poor in syria into civil war.

getting so many. forces from the outside are on their side why would they have an interest. so to offer make a compromise with the government everyone is blaming the government for the violence they've. come to actions in order to cause foreign intervention we saw what happened in afghanistan after u.s. intervention we saw what happens to iraq we saw what happened to libya state that is falling apart now. if. syria. of so-called free syrian army will actually succeed to take over the. most likely face. very seriously with or in syria with all these different factions fighting each other like muslim brotherhood extremists representatives of certain minorities etc . later in the program here in our arms from abroad find out why the action could

hinder india's military modernization as a country prepares billions on weapons. and presidential hopefuls are racing to round up enough support to have a first round of the vote next month some days that that line for nominations with several candidates hoping to fill the shoes of hosni mubarak who was ousted more than a year ago i guess a ridiculous crowd was in cairo was more. it is true that the military is still rather powerful and it is also true that i'm all the candidates for the upcoming presidential elections you can see some of the names which were very familiar during the mubarak era for example his former prime minister isn't running for the presidential seat as is the head of his intelligence that was one of the most recent surprise now in a series after especially after it came three days after marshalling on that is the man's name after he stated that he is not going to run or see changed his mind

a little bit later on now you cannot forget that there is also a very strong piston this presence and that is probably the strongest the strongest party that is or the strongest parties which are presenting their candidates for the presidential polls of course the muslim brotherhood which initially from the get go right after the revolution said that they are not going to to put forth a candidate for the presidential elections and of course to go later they made waves by putting forth one an extremely wealthy businessman known for his brother rather radical views but then apparently they're having doubts of whether enough is going to gain support he put forth a second candidate so you have two candidates from the muslim brotherhood you have several of the more liberal sort of left right wing left left wing politicians who are also of course in the race but they are not as vocal and their supporters are not as rowdy as those for example as for the islamists one of the

candidates from the saudi party already said that he wants to make. you know for example drinking alcohol absolutely illegal even for tourists that he wants to ban swimsuits from being born on egyptian beaches and he also wants to segregate women from men when it comes to education and to lower the age of consent to about twelve years of age so they're not washington or any other western country sids. see he is the most radical islamists as are threats of course remains to this war until after the wreck sells the ridiculous current government it now to boost its international standing the muslim brotherhood sandie thirst official delegation to washington this week after decades of mutual distrust u.s. based alice frank salvato says america should think twice before it seeming out undemocratic forces the white house you know we would hope that they're looking at best case scenario but they need to be

a little bit more cautious about the worst case scenario and that includes arming rebels in syria the arming of and aiding of rebels in libya when in fact and we knew that they had ties to radical islamist groups and especially and specifically al qaeda a when you're talking about trying to divide the islamic world in vieira of the 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 the road for lack of a better word regimes that have taken over in some of these countries that have experienced the arab spring but they're not friendly to to western culture or western ideals although they might like the financial backing that will come that you see a lot of these the factions 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 us

constitution. is truly in the air on the. moscow is vowing to use all your means to bring the car back home after other russian businessman was sentenced by u.s. court he was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but his anderson's a giant and minimum term twenty five years stressing there would be no evidence of crime had it been for the american sting operation that set up his arrest i guess 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 who are into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer viktor boot was handcuffed whom to the u.s. and placed in solitary confinement for months before a 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 four to forty four year old russian air cargo business men fascinated hollywood want to borrow. your record. and we are in the other eleven who 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 right 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 part members a colombian group deemed terrorist in the u.s. but not by mini other countries and they you went and 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 playing dirty by 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 the mood to extradite him or should kidnap and boot family also calls us actions entrapment and kidnapping i can accept it was the belief the boots might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves but there is 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 the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of defense that the us lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court boots defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real far members and all he was trying to do was to alter cargo

planes the use of magic crimes when in fact interested in and manufactured evidence journalist george map has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of us judicial power play if you will that richter and it and in particular the charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man. russian citizen writable were troy davis to be sentence right or convicted of a crime or even commit which are good is the second. since it is in the new year to face sentencing on american certainly for little crimes committed in a third means that both cases a major precedence and represents a worrying us tragedy to simply override the legal systems of other countries is this a target of rights in. our washington used a legal loophole to entrap and they pick their court that's according to american lawyer now the u.s. government takes a very aggressive approach that extra territorial like if someone is in london wire

transfers a sum of money to an individual and early on and unbeknown to the am the money kings through citibank in new york that paying that touching of u.s. jurisdiction is sufficient jurisdiction for the united states government enough to charge both of those individuals with money laundering but both facing extradition proceedings if they both lose they're looking at up to twenty years of parole twenty years without parole as worst facing a federal judge in manhattan the u.s. government decided they wanted him to say or able to sue for manufacture in my view jurisdiction not illegally a form of an craft month where they were able to pull mr boot into the jurisdiction of the u.s. courts a place team him him extradition proceedings apply where you. thailand and have the next provided to the united states. now around two thousand mourners the town of

the funeral of the demetrius current source and elderly man who shot himself in front of the parliament building in athens earlier this week seventy seven year old left a suicide note in which he accused the government of destroying his pension with a stare and cuts his suicide rate can hold and. protest with violence erupting when hundreds of demonstrators gathered in syntagma square to pay their respects protesters started throwing petrol bombs at police responded with tear gas and depression and suicide rates have been on the rise of a country which has been forced to impose public spending cuts to deal with its mounting debt financial analyst patrick young says recently 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 to vault ultimately that may be a terrible problem for a great many financier's and investors but at the same time i have to say any bank

that bought greek there in the course of the last ten years was stupid so making that absolutely clear the simple fact is greece must default on its debt and i it probably needs to leave your room egypt lee it must deflate its currency it is going to still have many problems but the truth of the matter is 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 far one of our constituents killed themselves when they themselves make fifteen yards in the euro's per month without any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher and b. which isn't enough to manage to pay for dozens of pensioners every month the new

austerity greece. over in bahrain nonviolent demonstrations against the government rage on whether the word is raying and with force several protesters were injured on saturday when 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 is serving a life sentence for speaking out against the bahraini government has been on hunger strike for two months valley to choose freedom or death and slammed for rights violations by international watchdogs but the u.s. continues to support bahrain as a key arab ally journalist and anti-war activist don de bar thinks washington's middle east policy is inconsistent and look at the role the united states is playing in vast rain 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 their wives you have a human rights activist a 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 oriole and other geopolitical considerations that the prime u.s. policy. now some other stories from around the world and pakistan's military saying little hope of finding any survivors of an avalanche which involved a military encampment in the mountainous kashmir region one hundred thirty five people are thought dead the search involving more than one hundred fifty soldiers sniffer dogs and helicopters has recovered over a dozen bodies so far. the collapsed mine shaft in peru has left nine miners trapped underground trapped

a dead outside limit on thursday after workers set off an explosion to the smog copper or rescue teams are supplying man with oxygen and drinks through homes police and firefighters walk to freedom mining accidents are fairly common improve more than fifty people died in the country's mines last year. in britain and political activists who disrupted the traditional oxford cambridge university boat race has been charged for causing a public bus tour. forced the rowers to stop legal swam to their parents. or simply removed from the river bridge went on to take the tile after odds were broken or all this was the first incident of its kind of the one hundred fifty eight year history of the race. christians throughout the world have reason to celebrate the day marks palm sunday for orthodox christians a jesus and thirteen just one week before he was crucified and pro distance and

catholics are observing easter the day of christ's resurrection the vatican has ticked off celebrations with its annual mass and blessing in st peter's square the orthodox calendar marks easter sunday. the first batch of a deployment of u.s. marines has arrived in australia 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 an area obama has called a priority washington has bases in countries like singapore japan and south korea and china's backyard on his ear and they say just specialist him bill says the hospital he may or may backfire on the host nations of the soup united states and. china is taking. into account we haven't really is going into

this as an effect. it's name not have links three. years ago but really what it is we have this fundamental problem finding united states and why isn't china and then we have all these subordinate countries. australia new zealand what do they have to work out how they go to show interest countries. getting themselves into this. relationship. long term deteriorating relationship safe in china and they really need to think seriously about. india's military has been damaged by recent corruption scandals and claims that it's falling apart but now the government spending 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

proofreader reports. 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 reveals 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 of. you have sometimes is that the bureaucratic level you have in decision which is sometimes at the level of the politicians so that incentive is huge problem but were tours of close first some they've opened for others many foreign depends firms are now eyeing the opportunity to take a slice of india's huge difference pie india is the world's largest importer of

arms and is that to spend one hundred billion dollars in the next ten years to modernize 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. these of the electric submarines to india. and russia also hopes to do so india also appears keen on the opportunity to let russia help modernize its defense systems and says a partnership with the country could be beneficial for both sides russia is one of the few countries that have joined joint development or military one of the classic examples. the other example is the.

focus of so india a string of military scandals as 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 city preassure either r t new delhi india. i for instance did hear an argument from orders out website ardsley dot com i'll be back shortly with a reminder of the week's top stories.

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