a brand new russian passenger plane the one hundred is missing in indonesia with fifty people on board after going off the radar on wednesday. russia celebrate sixty seven is a victory of a nazi germany as the traditional grand parade rolls across red square to the ethnic ethnic. also reporting the ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has moved to hospital from her prison in a bid to alleviate concern over her treatment. the opposition leader had been on a hunger strike following claims that she was abused by prison guards more details

to follow in just a few minutes. with you twenty four hours a day in indonesia the search for a missing russian plane has continued into the night there's been no contact with the cruel passengers who were taking part in the sales demonstration since all communications with the aircraft were lost mid-flight let's not get the latest from sean thomas. sure it's been several hours since the plane went silent any news on what could have gone wrong well bill it certainly is a mystery at this point what we do know is the plane was on a routine flight taking people up to test the jet out as it were people who could be buying this plane for their own companies and it was supposed to be a thirty minute flight then we do know that the pilot requests. to descend from tel

ten thousand feet to six thousand feet and then it disappeared from radar at that point they decided to send out search crews but they had to call those crews back because of nighttime hours and poor weather conditions there are reports of fog in that area at this point in time they're waiting to see when they can go back out to search for that airplane again but one thing that they're not ruling out is they're not ruling out the possibility of a hijacking they also know that the plane was low on fuel in fact by the time the plane was supposed to land back at the airport in jakarta the fuel supposed to be spent so there could be a problem with that as well will you live to thirteen years in indonesia or know the area and the terrain very well just how difficult could it be to find that a. well certainly a lot harder than people might think because of the terrain in fact the mountains south of jakarta are volcanic some of them are very high and surrounding those mountains are hills valleys rocky terrain there are some plantations in the area lots of rivers but even those rivers aren't what you might expect as a river valley they are rocky type areas that aren't really easy to

navigate now the good news is that it is a densely populated island there are people everywhere so if something did happen to this plane there will be someone who has seen it and authorities are hoping that they can get in touch with those people some time when the search resumes in the morning have there being any problems with sukhoi superjet in the poem. well not really this is actually a brand new airplane it is russia's first sojourn into the commercial aviation industry since the soviet union in fact it was meant to revitalize the commercial aviation industry in russia in fact it is a highly technical and highly advanced piece of equipment in fact it was also equipped with equipment that could detect abnormalities in the terrain is so at this point in time no abnormalities this is an anomaly thanks very much indeed our correspondent sean thomas there well the sukhoi superjet one hundred was a brand new russian passenger plane on the course with. following the developments

concerning the loss of this new passenger plane here on r.t. and a russian blogger dollar who was initially supposed to be on board the missing superjet report online from jakarta he's also providing us with the latest pictures from the region he spoke with r.t. on the phone earlier. in the authorities are searching for the plane helicopters just returned 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 it 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 plight should have also lasted for thirty minutes i could have been on it 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 planes we have already been on this plane in kazakhstan pakistan. the next

stops would have been laos and vietnam. and of course we'll keep you updated on the developments in indonesia where the search continues for that brand new russian passenger plane the sukhoi superjet one hundred it went missing during a demonstration flight with fifty people on board. besides the soviet troops thousands of british soldiers sekret fi's their lives during the war they went to sea braving subzero temperatures in the arctic to deliver arms and food to the red army all in all four million tons of supplies were sent to the eastern front but as i have a ben reports that epic effort has remained largely unrecognized until now the worst journey in the world was how would churchill described it the ten day through hell. the arctic convoys were a vital lifeline of supplies to the soviet union with britain's east an ally in the

grip of a nazi onslaught 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 experienced in the can you just imagine wives come in that. there's a block of flats you just passed the wife say just picked us up picked us up just marketing ploy just. buried by and we were fourteen thousand pretty a very dark at all and you know we've been lifted up because you could hear the screws turn in at the war. 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 warmth 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 water so cold that falling in meant almost certain death yet those behind the mission never on and the men it sent john received medals for other campaign see fourteen but he's still missing the one that matters most discussed it while being trained in a minute only a few of us left now. a more well interactive. not frightened now and i mean come on we i know. i didn't say i got. pacific defense medal i've got the order came pies the campaigns are been in a pair of them only five. one of an english medal

for the ration card 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 honored 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 make the six month minimum an impossible targets given the extreme conditions of the arctic it's disgusting and to my mind you know the fact that it's been it's taken so long is really heartbreaking because over the years we've been campaigning for this medal many many of these veterans have and have now passed away and the absolute tragedy if this would be if we did get to a situation where the medal really removes the barriers and the outcome with actions are allowed that medal and there are none of them alive to say that 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 on top of the two 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 either bennett's r.-t. london. in syria a roadside bombs hit a military truck injuring six soldiers the vehicle was part of a convoy carrying the head of the united nations observer mission on the syria first reports from damascus. what's really interesting come back the attack today as it evolved the u.n. observer says that one of the questions we've been putting to the observer themselves over the past couple of days if you know how do you guys feel about the senseless war to you is there any concern about that changing and they've also you know we're being welcomed that's why well there is a concern for a lot of people here is that there is going to be elements trying to undermine this

mission and i was speaking to the head of the national coordinator council inside opposition here in syria the other day i asked him that question whether he was concerned about the mission being undermined and take a listen to what he had to say we're afraid that and his plan is really threatened by those who are. providing. funds. and fifteen minds even against the plan but it's start of the very very very first moment when this plan was declared they said it's a failure it won't be better than the arab league learn so let's kill the hope that's what they're saying and if the hope is killed what will happen as he said the u.n. observer mission seemingly being welcomed by both sides taking full steps that is progress the games need to build on that expectations are very very high remember

there is a huge amount riding on this we're not going to want to see is that this affecting the mission and anyway forty seven first then the generals ukrainian opposition leader unit to be shown to has been moved from prison to hospital for treatment the former prime minister had been in hunger strike for nineteen days claiming abuse in an earlier attempt to move authorities are hoping this will defuse a growing diplomatic crisis is threatening to overshadow the euro twenty two all football championship ortiz and actually i'm sure skeet has this from. 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 there's been 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 ukrainian soil before that there was an attempt to transfer you to one of the hospitals. on april the twenty of in fact she back then claimed 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 now there's been a very harsh reaction following the a legit abuse of physical abuse by the prison guards domestically with thousands of supporters of you protesting in the prison building and in near the court building and also very harsh reactions coming internationally now several leaders of european states said that they would boy called you were twenty two well football championship in ukraine and poland because of the way had allegedly been treated by

prison guards in 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 a rollercoaster story. when if you just joined us we've been covering russia's a victory day celebrations throughout the day here in r.t. and millions of russians are marking the occasion to commemorate russia's triumph jury what it calls the great patriotic war well earlier on we observed a minute's silence dedicated to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom

our correspondent has. that somber moment is central to the commemoration of victory in the great patriotic war and that minute's silence is held by attorney all flames and war memorials all over russia and the former soviet union and it's there to commemorate the twenty seven million twenty five to twenty seven million people who died during the course of that conflict when germany attacked the soviet union in june one nine hundred forty one the nazi regime nearly destroyed the soviet union but over the next four years on the battlefront ranging from the black sea to the baltic from the volga and all the way back to berlin the soviet union managed to turn the tide of the war until an armistice was signed in germany in one nine hundred forty five it's that achievement that makes this day and that minute so important there's been

a parade here through red square fourteen thousand troops tanks modern aircraft and missiles have paraded through and also today there are fireworks all of this just as it was in the parade in one thousand nine hundred forty five to mark the victory then there's also a parade of veterans that number growing smaller each year the people who can remember from their own minds those dark days and also the laying of the wreath next to the eternal flame and the tomb of the unknown soldier up against the kremlin walls if you look around in the days surrounding picture day you'll see lots of people wearing ribbons like this this red and black ribbon and that's become the symbol of the commemoration of victory day people hang it on their bags they put it on there because you'll see it's all over the place and also around europe today it's the day after v. day that was held yesterday for the same reason the victory over nazi germany the

difference is because the armistice was signed very late in the evening on the a. of may in moscow it had already turned to the ninth of may it must be said v. day doesn't hold such weight in europe anymore as victory day does here in moscow a lot of young people here it's been recorded in poles they're starting to forget lenin they're starting to forget stalin but a lot of them still remember victory day it is almost seventy religious day here in the russian calendar and a lot of young people around moscow today have been carrying flowers as they do every year on victory day they give those to older people to veterans to people who lived through that time with the message thank you thank you for all that you did to win that victory over nazi germany. there and now we can bring you some of the highlights of that parade in red square.

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this is the live here in moscow where the twenty four hours a day came up to twenty one minutes past the hour here in the russian capital now let's check out some other news making headlines around the world in a state the leader of greece's left wing silesia party is attempt to form a new government after sunday's election policy will. enough votes to rule alone alexis tsipras he wants to form a coalition government based on tearing up the terms of the international bailout deal which he's described as barbaric as meeting with two mainstream pro player parties today as the two sides failed to agree greece will be forced to hold another election next month. first behind

a foil airliner bomb plot was reportedly a double agent cia operatives are said to have infiltrated al qaeda in yemen and expose the planned a bomb hidden in underwear was meant to blow a u.s. airliner from the skies on the first anniversary of osama bin laden's death a similar scheme was three years ago but failed when the explosives didn't detonate properly. since jan has resumed its aerial bombardment on south sudan according to a military official the spokesman said sudanese warplanes have attacked three southern states over the past two days it's unknown how many bombs were dropped or how many people were killed in the attacks here in security council approved a resolution last month threatening sanctions against both countries if they did not cease pants on the border and return to negotiations. hackers calling themselves the russian wing of the international anonymous group have reportedly attacked some of the government's main websites the claims are made in

their twitter feed the president's page at the kremlin dot ru was earlier taken down for several hours in the run up to vladimir putin's inauguration the group posted a video threatening the websites of the government and prime minister both were then targeted on the fourth of may although they were forced offline previously a lot of us hackers have also infiltrated the websites of the cia f.b.i. the white house ukase home office. israel's prime minister has joined forces with the opposition in a surprise move which puts an end to the need for early elections but many of the country's military leaders remain at odds with lawmakers who they feel are a little too trigger happy when it comes to the perceived threat from iran as a story usually it's all secret service that's eavesdropping on 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 trust to lead the state of israel into an 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 of a whether or not a techie ran out into the open. it's not. and maybe not polite but i'd prefer that in the sense of the sentence as we speak the truth. i think what we're saying first was that this government doesn't really engage with with the country as a whole that 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 white at the base among the smaller security cabinet or even the white a couple of israeli politicians are near hysterical when it comes to iran and

they've more than hinted at 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 in the section in life. yet. even. if you leave it. 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 and almost all of the leaders of all the military and security establishments were replaced recently the question is what will their presence establishments say and will the answer 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 while is also official line is that it won't be can't buy negotiations point to slee r.t. tel aviv. shortly will be discussing what's inflaming the conflict in syria that'll be up to recap of our top stories in a few minutes from now when we build on stay with this life here in moscow.

the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the

mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact there are limits there. this we're just being carried out under the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community and provide. david cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group

complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriot takes the unpopular course but helps the country of wooden stakes and even if they come this way at these photos patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. in his secret laboratory here in the kirby was able to build a new it's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about any.