right. from stingray. stunts on t.v. don't come. our breaking news story on a brand new russian passenger plane the sukhoi superjet one hundred has gone missing during a flight over indonesia with forty four people on board. it's good to have you with us here on our t.v. today the breaking news story is that both ortiz and jakarta are searching for a russian passenger plane after all communications with the craft were lost made flight now let's cross over to prius rita standing by for us now in new delhi priya it has been several hours now since contact with the plane was lost or any news

from your end on what's actually happened. that's a worry well indonesian authorities are still searching for that plane it's a russian sukhoi superjet one hundred the plane had forty four passengers on it and disappeared off the radar as you mentioned during that demonstrated flight in jakarta a day it's already buttons are over there it's around eight o'clock at night and it's raining the visibility is bad we're hearing that there is bob so the helicopters are actually no longer searching for the plane but the search is still going on of just being restricted to ground crew as the plane went missing twenty minutes into the demonstration members of the crew actually asked for permission by the aviation authorities to descend but now no one on the plane can be reached in the aircraft is not responding to hale's we actually got a chance to catch up with the prospect for terry obvious night aircraft corporation which is the company that built that plane let's take

a little listen to what she had to say about what's going on. under complete with. the project one hundred one it was conducted its second demonstration flight in indonesia the first flight went without a hitch but flights were carried out from the same airport in jakarta before the second fled the plane underwent required maintenance and was technically in good order according to information from indonesian authorities communication with the plane was lost twenty minutes into the flight at two thirty five pm local time right now the search is on for the plane in the crisis group has been formed. so we don't have too much information about who exactly is on the plane we know that there were eight russians and thirty six that is and from other countries there are also reports that there were a few airline executives on the plane who were testing the jets performance most of the people on the plane worked for major airline companies the russian air craft that landed in jakarta today and was on its fourth stop during an asian tour this

specific plane had already. half an hour demonstration flight today in jakarta as the press secretary of united aircraft corporation just pointed out the plane had previously been in pockets sunny and mark and kazakhstan and was that to head to laos and vietnam are surprised me on a side of the plane was ultimately on a sales pitch in the region according to what you're telling us now here on r t it's night time over the oso is a brand new plane what's saying about the possible causes now for the disappearance so hurry of hijacking or the possibility that the plane crashed into a nearby mountain and have not been ruled out by eastern authorities if the plane gave crash at doherty say that i'm urgency peak in should have gone off and as of right now on there have been no reports about any such emergency beacon going off which is why the indonesian authorities haven't ruled it out the possibility of

a jacking as low oil pre-owned as we just are working here now to establish the connection here it's getting a little bit dodgy on our end can you take us back though to discuss have there been any problems in the past with sukhoi superjet that we that we know of. well hurry the sukhoi superjet one hundred is the first passenger plane that's been built in russia since the end of the soviet union and on this plane was actually a joint venture between several countries that were providing parts for the airplane including france the u.s. italy germany the u.k. and switzerland the first model of this plane was unveiled in two thousand and seven on the first test flight was done in two thousand and eight and the earth hasn't your flight was in two thousand and eleven just last year there haven't been any problems that the plane but so far there have only been a dozen of these type of been. there have already been russian and national orders for one hundred seventy of these planes to be built dozens are already under

construction in this plane of indonesia actually did a three hundred eighty million dollars deal this past august to purchase the jets which is why this plane was there in the first place to do the demonstration all right hockey's appreciative of joining us live from new delhi thank you now the super just one hundred is the first civil aircraft designed and manufactured entirely in russia since the of course the collapse of the soviet union it's a joint project of the russian aviation giant sukhoi europe's superjet international on seven me several dozen other companies as well where the plane was meant to offer a whole new dimension of technology come foot eclipsing its outdated soviet rivals it features a fully electronic fly by wire system as opposed to the manual flight controls sundaes equipped with a built in failure detection systems aside from its cutting edge technology the super jet is cost efficient to run due to its in light of weight but also reduced

fuel consumption maintenance costs of the plane belongs to the regional class but is designed to effectively operate on a number of mainline routes. now a russian blogger sort of who was initially supposed to be on board the missing super jet reports online from jakarta is also providing us with the latest pictures from the region and he spoke with us just a bit earlier via telephone. they were thora to use the 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 you know to again but i stayed back because i wanted to film it from the ground this was

a demonstration flight from indonesia an aircraft company that wanted to buy twelve such players we have already been on this plane in kazakhstan pakistan. the next stops would have been laos and vietnam. just a bit earlier in the program on r.t. we spoke to aviation security expert chris yates and he believes the disappearance of the plane could be linked to the hostile nature of the region's terrain. i think we can possibly rule out the suggested hijacking scenario no indication as to why something like that would have. even if all of the transport. so i could be turned off. you would still see for example a primary radar blip on the screen syndicating of where the aircraft might be generally within the region that doesn't appear to be the case so i think we can

rule out that hijacking scenario and instead i think we have to look out a possible technical malfunction. operator error pilot error. we know that this is a. airports in terms of all of the navigation aids and such like. but it's also interesting to rate around it it's not a difficult task force by any means to operate in and out of but if it was descending back into the airport at the end of this demonstration flight. descended below the altitude given by traffic control then it might well have gone into one of the mountains nearby. in order to stay with us here on our two you will keep we'll be keeping you updated on the developments in indonesia where the search continues for a brand new russian passenger plane the sukhoi superjet one hundred which went

missing during a demonstration flight with forty four people on board. it is a day to remember for millions in russia and surrounding nations whose forefathers vanquished the nazi war machine sixty seven years ago festivities are being held across the country and military parades have rolled through several cities of course the biggest taking place right here in moscow parties piter all over was there to witness the impressive display of military might. 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 now this year fourteen thousand troops marched

across red square through 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 flyby 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. is putting all of our reporting on our sides the soviet troops are thousands of british soldiers sacrificed their lives during the war they went to see braving subzero temperatures in the arctic in order to deliver food to the red army all in all of four million tons of supplies were sent to the eastern front but as aussies ivor bennett reports their epic effort has remained largely unrecognized until now. the worst journey in the world was how wilson churchill described it the ten days through hell the arctic convoys were a vital lifeline of supplies to the soviet union with britain's eastern ally in the grip of a nazi onslaught that just nineteen john c. is was a gunner on board one ship braving fierce seas bitter cold and

a treacherous route infested by german u. boats never been spirited in the can you just imagine wives come in that. there's a block of flats just past as who the wife say just picked us up picked us up just market. just. perry mind we were fourteen thousand per year clark and you know we've been lifted out because you could hear the screws turn in at the wall. below and in the water this is the very ship john says his job was to man the n.t.a. craft guns against the heavy enemy fire from above but the onslaught came from the sea to the huge icy waves with the wharf even a ship this size just over eight hundred ships were dispatched in total in the convoys but one in eight never made it back britain lost three thousand men in what

was known as the most hostile theater of world war two the waters so cold that fall in meant almost certain death yet those behind the mission never ordered the men it sent john received medals for other campaign c. fourteen but he's still missing of the one that matters most but are filled discussed why the while been training i mean there's only a few of us left now. a more well interact. how come not frightened now and i mean come on but i know. when we did i didn't say i got. pacific defense medal i've got the order came pies are the campaigns are been in the eye of the mon if i had. one of an english medal for the ration cards but that could soon change prime minister david cameron's finally ordered the medals review after years of campaigning from

veterans they haven't been on it so far because of bureaucratic red tape limiting war heroes to one medal per campaign medal rules also mean a stint on the convoys wasn't long enough to meet the six month minimum and impossible targets given the extreme conditions of the arctic this is the thing and to my mind here the fact that it's been it's taking so long is really heartbreaking because over the years we've been campaigning for this matter many many of these veterans have and have now passed away and the absolute tragedy if this would be if we do get to a situation where the metal really remains the barriers and the outcome with actions are allowed their mettle and there are none of them alive to receive any of the sixty six and a half thousand men who sailed on the arctic convoys just two hundred remain like john they've just been offered another medal by russian government for ever in debt to this service and on top of that to it's already awarded to john will find out in

september if he is to finally receive what he really wants but for other aging war heroes like him it could be too little too late i've been it r t london. it's a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital where thousands of opposition activists have marched through central moscow in a rally organized by russia's communist party but hundreds of other protesters still angry of lot of putin's return to office have jumped on the bandwagon with them of course want to jerk aggrieved small from the scene. yes this rise officially sanctioned from the comas hasa now coming on the victory day of course it has basis for the significance of. the soviet era aerial shots of most of those aussie air a much higher today than it was hoping that actions occurred in the seven but i mean allegations of electoral fraud have become iced coffee on the only one house a state if i take

a look around the crowd at the white ribbon strewn everywhere you ask such trying to use this all the sanction rally to get there i sit across the senate to a stand against the inauguration of but i'm a person as president ever since march the presidential elections simply haven't had as many people out on the streets willing to show their support for months now they've resorted to other tactics a real employee of the tactics recently woman beast a simple citizen quitely the sort demonstrations where people gather the money versus central moscow and avoid any displays of political allegiance because these are signs if they do to their if they were to do that they'd risk arrest some of the leaders have been detained including alexina brownie problems anticorruption leader and also known for his stars within the opposition movement he tweeted asking people to come out yesterday they did just that a couple of hundred likened it to job by police riot police arresting fear that

members went on to another part playing a sort of passive mouse game with police that's something they say why everybody here they'd be willing to again today i guess would be all the little parts of playing a piece of cardboard in any major cause or say it's because the political statements so i don't know why. i leave this organize because the ones that i think it's them against but i'm a person was present far from home i come from different areas of this you spectrum real amalgamation you have national summarised you have those of the. front down so who's also been detained for yesterday's protests he's going on hunger strike but he's the left front and they are usually associated with the communist party so there are different thinking different approach this is a little behind this one move it comes on the back of those demonstrations we saw taking place on sunday their head of the inauguration of blood be uprooted now they

turned quite markedly bonnet compared to others we saw protesters with police led to a number of injuries injuries and on both counts with police arresting quite a few number of demonstrators out alleging here trying to pull some of their riot gear from the leading to some of the patients. are but our breaking news this hour here on the search operation continues in indonesia for a russian passenger plane after all communications with the aircraft were lost made flight the sukhoi superjet one hundred was on a demonstration flight nature carter it will show you all to carry out two flights today the first one going as planned however during the second the flight the plane disappeared from radar a search operation is being complicated by nightfall and bad weather conditions authorities have several versions of what might have happened none of them official as of yet but it is the first such incident involving the brand new russian plane

which made its first flight in two thousand and seven do stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story. it is good to have you with us here in our to today in syria a roadside bombs hit a military truck injuring six soldiers and the vehicle was part of a convoy carrying the head of the united nations observer mission it's not clear at this point who was behind the blast the attack comes a day after the un envoy to syria warned his peace plan is the last chance for the country to avoid civil war kofi annan also accused of massacres of failing to halt the violence despite it being nearly a month since the nationwide truce was imposed with all the details of serious responses artie's guy in a church account. where heard the syrian ambassador to the united nations say that a number of regional arab powers are sponsoring terror in syria to undermine kofi annan his final and he said the syrian government remains committed to the plan but

it faces a surge of terrorist attacks including suicide bomb bombings the massacre shows a 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 parachutes. 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. believe. he also accused turkey of harboring armed groups which are infiltrating syria committing crimes and returning back to turkey because syrian ambassador said would 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 have 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 stepped down to fight for their rights a very dubious question arises here is it 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 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. reporting there before we get to the r.t. world of data jailed ukrainian opposition leader yulia tymoshenko has actually been moved now from prison to a hospital for treatment the former prime minister had been on hunger strike for nineteen days claiming abuse in an earlier attempt to move authorities are hoping this will defeat was a growing diplomatic crisis threatening to overshadow the euro twenty twelve football championship from kiev artie's aleksey got a chef scare. now we have it officially confirmed that ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has been delivered to a hospital in her reported spinal hemorrhage will be treated it is interesting that

it will be treated slowly by a german doctor now has insisted that no ukrainian doctor has access to her treatment it's unclear whether she is just mistrustful or she is afraid of her life something her daughter has been reporting now this with lots of control over see preceding this transportation of. the hospital now for several weeks she had been claiming that she will not be treated in ukraine and asked permission to be relocated abroad for her spinal damage to be treated there but the authorities have been adamant that she would not leave the korean soil before that there was an attempt to transfer you to go to one of the hospitals. on april the twenty seven fact she back then claim to that prison guards physically abused her during the transportation and recently photos of her bruises were made public on the internet causing a lot of fuss here in ukraine and internationally and you know there has been a very harsh reaction following the a legit views of physical abuse by the prison guards domestically with thousands of

supporters of unity mission called protesting in the prison building and in the near the court building and also very harsh reactions coming internationally now several leaders of european states said that they would call it the you were twenty two well football championship in ukraine and poland because of the way had allegedly been treated by prison guards and the list of the officials included the german chancellor angela merkel the government of the netherlands the president of the czech republic and the german president as well as several other top officials in europe now ukraine even had to cancel the european states summit in the crimea in this city or because of so many officials from europe deciding to boy call this summit and certainly the fact that she will be treated in a hospital by a german doctor is definitely a move forward we are certainly waiting for any more developments in this rather turbulent on the rollercoaster story. our straight into the outer world of where we

go will start with greece where the leader of the greece is a left wing a series party is attempting to form a new government after sunday's election left no party with enough votes to rule alone alexis tsipras says he wants to form a coalition government based on tearing up the terms of the international bailout deal which he described as barbaric he's meeting with two mainstream pro bailout parties today if the two sides fail to agree greece will be forced to hold another election next month. the person behind of oil the airline bomb plot was reportedly a double agent a cia operative is said to have infiltrated al qaeda in yemen and exposed the planned a bomb hidden 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 to roughly three years ago but failed when the explosives didn't detonate problem. it department store fire in the philippines has left at

least seventeen people dead at the blaze that broke out in the early morning at the southern island of mindanao the victims are believed to be female employees who were sleeping in the shop three people did manage to escape but one worker still remains missing at this point the cause of the fire is on. our back to our breaking news here in our to your thorold's in jakarta searching for a russian passenger plane after all communications with the aircraft were lost mid flight let's get some more insight on this now from our. joining us on the program or any any news now the latest hours since we last spoke other what happened to the plane. no news yet rory the indonesian authorities are still searching for that russian suit superjet one hundred the plane had forty four passengers on it and disappeared off the radars during a demonstrated flight in jakarta today it's already gotten dark over there and it's

raining the visibility is not that good there is fog so we're hearing that the hollow copters are no longer looking for the plane this search is now when restricted to ground crews it's taking place about thirty two miles outside of jakarta outside of this city in a very mountainous area so obviously there are a lot of challenges that the search authorities are having to deal with the plane went missing twenty minutes into the demonstration members of the crew did ask for permission to d.c. and but now no one on the plane can be reached and the aircraft is not going to hail. we're learning a little bit of information about the people on the plane there are eight russians on the plane and thirty six citizens from other countries the pilot of the plane is a fifty seven year old russian pilot we hear that he has a lot of experience he's flown about forty five different types of aircraft in his life and there are other people on the plane a lot of them are airline executives who are on the plane to tast the jets

performance the russian aircraft landed in jakarta today it was on its fourth stop during an asian or. this specific plane and already made one half an hour demonstration flight in jakarta today and it had previously been. funnier and more and caused the death that it's a hassle mottos and vietnam next pre-op or if you would you know about a possible explanations for the disappearance of this point. so worry as of right now hijacking or the possibility that the plane could have crashed into a nearby mountain had not been ruled out by aviation authority if the plane did crash at doherty say that an emergency beacon is that have gone up and as of right now everything has been silent there have been no reports that an emergency beacon went off which is why the authorities have not ruled out the possibility of a hijacking all right he's appreciative of joining us live from new delhi thank you

. or it was good to have you with us here on our to today excuse me to stay with us a very fluid situation as we continue to cover this breaking news of a mission missing a brand new russian sukhoi superjet one hundred a someone needs a cutter we'll give you the latest as soon as we get it here on out say. night fifty two meters oh wait more than a thousand times its. skin thickness thirty centimeters the guinness record. commemorating the battle of stalingrad. the mother than called. on our team.