that's emerged from a blogger on the scene what do you know about that the house we've managed to get in touch with a blogger who says that he was supposed to be on the plane he said that the demo flight was only supposed to last thirty minutes it's now been a few hours after that flight and he's also sent some pictures on his twitter feed of a makeshift headquarters set up at the airports near one of the gates as coordination maps for the authorities trying to coordinate efforts there and pictures of the helicopter that's been out and has returned unfortunately that helicopter has not found any evidence of the plane at the moment tom i take us back if you will just for a moment over the sukhoi superjet is the latest generation aircraft only been flying commercially since just last year my right with that it has indeed it was really hoped to be a modern revamp of the russian aircraft industry this jet was a modern version that we were trying to market i was trying to market to many international markets this particular plane had been on a demo top had already been to kazakstan to pakistan and my own mark and was going

to visit of the southeast asian countries it was thought that there were forty four people on board some of those may have been reps from an indonesian air firm if it has crashed this is indeed a major blow to the russian aircraft industry and there is the russian aircraft industry has been trying to improve its image after a number of crashes was with older planes and this was hoped to try and really improve that image we are yet to find out what happened exactly are the arteries or tom bought and thanks for coming on the program. we'll get back to the breaking news as more becomes available to us here on r.t. for now though ukraine's jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko has been moved from prison to a local hospital the opposition leader had been on hunger strike for nineteen days claiming abuse in an earlier attempt to move a concern over a treatment has caused diplomatic tension with ukraine postponing a regional e.u.

summit this after several states pulled out in protest with the latest from kiev r.t. is alexia chefs. emotional ukraine's former prime minister now serving seven years in prison for abuse of power has been transferred to a clinic where she will be observed her spinal hemorrhage which has been reported for the last several months will be observed by a german doctor she insisted that this must be a german doctor and that no ukrainian doctor will have access to her treatment now certainly this comes after a great deal of controversy surrounding this hospital is ation of tymoshenko in fact on april the twentieth she was meant to be transferred to a hospital but back then she claimed the prison guards physically abused her punch ernest almost landed several punches on her body and the photos of her bruises were made public on the internet now we understand that she has finally agreed for this treatment for how long this will last and whether the doctors would be able to finally cue her off for spinal which is certainly remains unknown but those

physical abuse reported physical abuse by prison guards on timoshenko certainly cause lots of controversy abroad with some politicians on the highest levels in european countries saying that they will boycott the euro twenty twelve championship which is starting in a little more than a month from now and those politicians including the german chancellor angela merkel the highest ranking politicians in the netherlands in the czech republic in germany so it is unclear whether whether this development in the story whether the fact of hospitalisation will ease the tension whether those politicians who are willing to boycott the euro twenty twelve will decide to come here eventually but certainly this is something of a big step forward in this story because for up to this moment the authorities have been saying that they will not allow you to machine go to be treated by any foreign doctors on the ukrainian soil or anywhere abroad we even heard an offer from to put

in which you have to michigan treated in russia but the authorities in ukraine denounce that such possibility could even happen so certainly we waiting to see for any reactions from you. but hopefully most of the politicians will change their opinion and will be able to come to the euro twenty twelve period in month time. reporting there now as of lot of may of putin settles into his role back at the top of russian politics groups of opposition activists have continued their isolated walks and sit ins across the center of moscow they've been going on for three days now protesters now have a joint a sanctioned communist rally in the city and they're marching with them. grieves he's at the scene. officially this rally has been tires of the company's car sales of course it has got a story about boxing champion of the great victories i first saw you here and here but it also is a very normal day party with our first woman being standing against the do more let since it's

a place back in december i miss allegations of the total fraud and then not the only ones who do this are those in the crowd at the moment so using this day and this site should be running for a sponsor already i go so close charlie down there goes the right women sellers association for free and fair elections have a sleep out numbers here that's partly because i'd be struggling on the back of the presidential elections in march to bring together a number of around i've watched it all so i won't see seems to change the extension on that because that is precisely it gets you know gratian of blood i'm a person as president it's something i stood against for a while now we have seen a stage in these talks systems just yesterday but people amassed near a local square in central moscow and therefore any political slogans is this risk arrest these are sites and demonstrations that what they do is they see unlike

other mass now the number rests on the back of this two hundred is the official figure for just yesterday alone although protesters put the figure much higher than that you know among them they have doubts of the head of the left from the left from the government he has been detained on a number of occasions he stood attention and he say he may go on hunger strike also alexina bounty and seek russian oh you know for someone who's not a few people are very active and we think you know you guys you know say see why yes he has been detained now speaking to some of those in the crowd associated with the what remove for free and fair let. it's things they want off this right to do to another and again this cast and mouse game with police they sit down and if they get moved on and they go elsewhere all this action comes on the back of quite a markedly violent demonstration that took place on sunday just ahead of the no gration of lot of a person as president so clashes between police and protesters injuries being

sustained over close ties with the high level of the rest of protesters and police saying that some of the demonstrators who are quite violent how you guys are trying to rip off they're right here. now the action began a day ahead of putin's integration which was held on monday and he certain now i am political analyst dmitri babich they try to understand who's driving the protests. who is the russian opposition well of course it depends who you ask but also if you take a look for yourself what you'll see most often are a lot of different colors organizations and parties well to help us kind of decipher who's who in this i think we can call modern russian opposition is dmitri bobbitt he's a political analyst for voice of russia radio thanks for being with us i want to start with alexis in the widely and surrogate self just because they're the most well known at the moment they're constantly getting arrested and being released just briefly tell us who they are and why they've become the prominent leaders of

our name is not a typical leftist populist like well does he use the morning to corruption and nationalist. but let's focus on the flanks for a bit looking at this video this is this is sunday's protest which for the first time turned really ugly you see these there's so and the left front it's called what what are the main focus of that party it's a flag we saw a lot of on sunday you see there these are red flags with red stars so this is an image abroad people might think it's you know a communist party because they read russia communist so what they write because it will do so for recently because. he is. left for aung to be an ally of the communist party a russian federation human being chronically ill but he should be eating all the sections get him constantly arrested that's his style that's like is that they're on i kissed where he is their traditional. russian i guess what does

that mean in terms of there are several groups which do not want to live themselves with the left front or with the communist party job you gone off sunday i was there and there were clearly some people who were trying to provoke violence a lot of these so-called anarchists you can see here basically were running into the riot police and also were wearing a lot of these masks. let's talk a little bit more about the nationalist side that we see sometimes i believe we don't have pictures here yet but it's. white there it is what's this is it means someone you know all of the groups all the nationalist groups that are strongly opposed to the current government strung up all white. and red. but who would not like to be associated with communists or leftists what does it mean that . when we see tens of thousands of people on the streets of moscow as opposed to small groups like we see here which we saw after the inauguration sit ins trying to happen why don't we see the thousands of the masses do we see so many different

flanks if they are so anti putin can't they just get under that banner all these groups have a mutually exclusive view they're not simply unthinking histogram not simply contradictory that's just including school of the nationalistic use put in of being a liberal liberal secular which would have been a nationalist the left would you know the sort of social system is a liberal secular revival in the soviet period so they can't agree on anything the only thing that they can agree on is that they don't like what they want the current russian state took away that's about to meet their bob rich political analyst from russia radio thank you very much for trying to help us understand what's happening with the opposition in russia because certainly people in the country have never been more involved in politics. and he said now i think. i need our stories or just go to our website artsy dot com that's where you can find out how politics is casting a shadow over the london olympics some countries are using prevent to question

britain's foreign policy and with use of the double standards with fears it could ruin the year's biggest sporting event. and he's the man who gets governments around the world sweating as to whether his latest leaks will expose the secrets. program to do it on today find out the truth behind the arab spring watch the program at your leisure. as speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution was really egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. it is good to have you with us here on our team today a bomb has detonated in syria just moments after a u.n. observers team which included the bodies chief monitor passed by eight soldiers are

scored in the convoy were said to have been injured now it comes after envoy kofi annan said damascus was failing to halt the violence and also warned that his peace plan is the last chance for the country to avoid a civil war. the latest details were purged the syrian ambassador to the united nations say that a number of regional arab powers are sponsoring terror in syria to undermine kofi annan plan he said the syrian government remains committed to the plan but it faces a surge of terrorist attacks including. a massive show that d.v.d. and said it has the confessions of dozens of individuals involved in terrorist activities upon the order of thirty countries here's what he said these terrorists did not come into syria. by using. they came into syria through the syrian borders with the neighboring countries so it's

not a secret anymore who is behind these groups the. who are giving orders and try to work through these terrorist. leave. he also accused turkey of harboring armed groups which are infiltrating syria committing crimes and returning back to turkey because syrian ambassador said what also undermines kofi annan his plan is the inflow of arms into syria now both the syrian ambassador to the u.n. and even the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. noted that there has been a decrease of violence in syria but the international envoy kofi annan said there is still a profound concern that syria is descending into full on civil war up to one hundred international observers are already working there the only said the number will reach three hundred by the end of the month so there's going to be more eyes on the ground as of now he said and i'm going to i'm going to quote here there has

been a worrying episodes of violence by the government but we have also seen attacks against government forces troops and installations it's very interesting how the u.s. ambassador susan rice responded to the claims made by the syrian ambassador she brushed off the question about terrorists and then she went on talking about those who took up arms to fight for their rights a very dubious question arises here is that an attempt to justify violence on one side while. the other being exclusively the syrian government susan rice confirmed it in a way with her latest statement by putting all responsibility in the hands of the syrian government and never not once mentioning the armed groups in the opposition with this regard and that despite the fact that the u.s. has accepted kofi annan plan which addresses all sides of the conflict not just the syrian government. now a quarter past the hour here in moscow israel's politicians have avoided the need for early elections after the ruling coalition announced it struck

a surprise deal with the opposition kadima party but the country's military leadership still isn't seeing eye to eye with lawmakers accusing them of being hysterical over the perceived threat from iran policy looks into this growing rift usually it's all secret service eavesdropping and others this time it was the other way around in what was supposed to be a closed form of the former security chief was caught saying this maybe i'm saying very difficult things i don't believe in the prime minister and not in the defense minister i've seen them from up close they are not people that i just to leave the state of israel into in the event of this magnitude the strongest criticism so far from someone in the know bringing the growing rift between israel's political and military might over whether or not a techie ran out into the open. and small. and maybe not polite but i'd prefer the innocence of the sentences.

for. one thing what we're seeing first is that this government doesn't really engage with with the country as a whole this hasn't been a public discussion as to whether israel should launch a strike against iran and there's also a feeling that within the government itself it's only barak committed the of themselves who are making these decisions has been no wide at the base among the smaller security cabinet or even the wider carping that israeli politicians are near hysterical when it comes to iran and they've more than hinted that a military strike is under consideration were determined to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. we leave all options on the table. and containment is definitely not an option. section in life. yet. even.

for the first time ever the head of the israeli army was still in office has broken rank and thrown doubt on with it iran is in fact planning to go nuclear. iran is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb it hasn't yet decided whether to go the extra mile but will israel go the extra mile and decide to bomb iran until. the military or the security establishment the stalk the government it's almost or the leaders of or the military and security establishments were replaced recently the question is what will their presence establishment say and will the onset be supported by the government or make the divide between the two sides even deeper the temperature is rising ahead of nuclear talks slated to happen later this

month in baghdad but also on this point there's disagreement with intel of is in a circle some high ranking israeli officials say pressure against iran is bearing fruit one is also official line is that it won't be can't buy negotiations policy r.t. tel aviv. or the prison riot kicks off the answer you want up there here now we're starting with venezuela clashes there in a jail between armed inmates and troops or the prisoners opening fire guards responding with tear gas the riot followed the government's decision to close the prison over recent. complaints of overcrowding at least eight people were injured including the relatives of some of the inmates who had gathered. there would be suicide attacker enough oil the airline a bomb was reportedly a double agent all along cia operatives are said to have infiltrated al qaeda in yemen and exposed to plant a bomb concealed in underwear was meant to have blown

a u.s. airliner from the skies on the first anniversary of osama bin laden's death a similar scheme was used in december two thousand and nine but that failed when the explosives didn't detonate properly. the head of the left wing syriza party says he can form a new greek parliament. a coalition based on tearing up the terms of the international bailout deal he meets the two mainstream pro austerity parties today if they fail to come to an agreement greece will be forced to hold another vote the developments follow sunday's election results which gave no single party enough votes to govern and. all right to the rest of today's news now here on millions of russians are once again been remembering the heroic deeds of their grandfathers who put an end to the bloodiest war of the twentieth century the victory day parade in honor of the defeat of the nazis has taken place on moscow's red square it was it's

a usual impressive display of military might. was there to witness. this year's big parade has come to a close on red square in the center of moscow celebrating the sixty seventh anniversary of the role played by the soviet union and the victory over nazi germany during the second world war now the parade was started off by the newly elected president vladimir putin he paid homage to all of those who helped to win that victory all of those years ago this year fourteen thousand troops marched across red square to the iconic center of the russian capital and they were followed by some pretty serious military hardware armored vehicles high tech tanks and followed up by again by strategic missiles the parade was closed out with a fly by from military helicopters bearing the flag of the russian federation as

well as the banners of the defense ministry and the army the navy and the air force around fourteen hundred veterans were in attendance to to witness this year's parade many of them had actually taken part in the thursday parade to commemorate the victory in world war two back in one nine hundred forty five some of those coming straight back from the front to march across red square that day now the celebrations here in russia and in moscow continue throughout the day here in the capital they come to a conclusion with a fantastic spectacular fireworks display at ten pm local time just making sure that this day is a celebration as well as a commemoration of the sacrifice paid for the freedoms we have today. and about our breaking news here on oxy for this hour indonesian authorities say a russian built sukhoi superjet aircraft has disappeared from radar could have

crashed into a mountain. and are joining us live on the program with more tom can you bring us up to speed on the latest please. of course rory the plane was on its second demo flight at an indonesian airfield returning to that airfield when pilots reportedly are asked to allow to drop their altitude from ten thousand down to six thousand feet that permission was granted and the plane was in the process of descending and turning when it disappeared from radar the plane has not returned to the runway since and it's a very mountainous area and all four of these at the airport say that even if the plane was still flying it would by now have run out of fuel talk talk to us about her some additional information that may be coming in though we understand that there's been some info incoming or from a blogger at the scene what can you tell us about that indeed there has we've managed to get in touch with a blogger who saves that he was supposed to be on the flight but that flight was only supposed to last thirty minutes and it's now been several hours he's also sent

some pictures via his twitter feed of a makeshift headquarters being set up at the scene to try and coordinate efforts to try and find the aircraft and we managed to hear a little from him earlier. the authorities are searching for the plane helicopters just returned but says there's no trace of it rescuers are looking at the maps trying to determine where it could be i have been aboard this plane i flew here on board and there were two flights the first one was fine it lasted thirty minutes then we came back the plane was checked over and it was fine the second flight should have also lasted for thirty minutes but it's now been gone for almost four hours i could have been only to get in when i stayed back because i wanted to film it from the ground this was a demonstration flight for an indonesian aircraft company that wanted to buy twelve such plane we've already been on this plane in kazakhstan pakistan. the next stops

would have been laos and vietnam. so that's the latest we can hear from the ground we've also seen pictures of helicopters that have been out searching for the aircraft and have so far found nothing so as the search operation is underway tom let's take a step back for a moment i understand that the sukhoi superjet is the latest generation aircraft it's only been flying commercially or since last year now it's a very new aircraft it was hoped that it would revive the hopes of the russian aircraft industry and they would be able to sell many three thousand dollars have actually already been placed on it has started commercial flights last year it's the first aircraft that has been pursued from the very beginning of its design up until now since the soviet union and it was really hoped that that would really prove popular among countries this particular aircraft was on a demonstration for it had been to various asian countries and was going to fly on to various other southeast asian countries it's enough to say that if this aircraft

has crashed it will be a massive blow to the russian aircraft industry and this was their first attempt at a commercial jet it may be their last. live on this breaking news thank you. back in just a moment here with the headlines on odds some more on this breaking news story and then we'll get to cross talk.

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this is our breaking news for you this hour. a russian built. aircraft that disappeared from radar could have crashed into a mountain but they haven't ruled out the possibility that it could also have been hijacked the plane was reported to be in good condition when it was examined preflight there were said to have been forty four people on board and has now been missing for almost four hours its flight was only planned for thirty minutes more on this breaking news story as soon as we get it here on our. next for another edition of cross talk.