screen this is artie live from moscow 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 crew or passengers who were taking part in the sales demonstration flight since all communications with the aircraft were lost mid-flight are to sean thomas has the latest. 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 requested 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 night time 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 the 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 was supposed to be spent so there could be a problem with that as well 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 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 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 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. almost talking to be a little early while many in the aviation industry are saying the incident is more likely due to human error than mechanical malfunction that's according to operations and safety editor for online magazine flight global david lim out. what i think i think the most helpful way of trying to understand what might have happened here is to remember exactly what it's doing in indonesia it's on indonesia on a demonstration tour of the world showing off to potential customers just what a good airplane this is and just how clever it is and how far you can take it sometimes the pilots or the crews deliberately take the aircraft right to their limits and they do that sometimes when the aircraft is quite close to the ground

that's what a demonstration flight is often like sometimes they push the limits just too far and that might happen we're talking about highly professional test pilots on board this aircraft people like that just less an airplane run out of fuel so i think you can rule that one out hijack like like who why what's the motivation of being on that's not a commercial flight this one is a demo flight no i think you can rule that one out mountainous terrain well yes if there are mountains there a pilot isn't going to run into them if you can see them if the mountains are in clouds the pilot still knows they're there and this aircraft has to rain warning system on it using the high terrain is an excuse for an accident in an aircraft as well equipped as that i think is a bit farfetched but just because the demonstration flights have come to grief so often in the past if i were to put my money on this the cause of this one that's

where i'd put it does turn out to be the fact that the crews simply were pushing their luck too far then sukhoi will regain face. 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 which went missing during a demonstration flight with fifty people on board. millions of russians are marking the victory day to commemorate russia's triumph during what it calls the great patriotic war. we observed a minute's silence dedicated to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom our correspondent. that somber moment is central to the commemoration of victory in the great patriotic war and that minute's silence is held by eternal 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 the data chief moment 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 been 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 it today 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 ve 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. 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 that today 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 picture 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 the victory over nazi germany. tom on their red square here in moscow where besides the soviet troops thousands of british soldiers secor finds their lives during the war they went to see 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 been reports the epic effort has remained largely unrecognized until now the worst journey in the world was

how winston 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 at 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 they are thin in the can you just imagine. wife's come in that chair. is the block of flats you've just passed as who the wife say just picks us up picked us up just market i just. bought perry bond we were fourteen thousand pretty heavy. and you know we've been lifted out because you did hear the screws turn in at the wall. below and in the water this is the very ship john says served on 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 the 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 of world war two the waters so cold that fall in meant almost certain death yet those behind the mission never on an the minute st john received medals for other campaign c. fourteen but he's still missing the one that matters most a large field discussed that while being trained i mean there's only a few of us left now. a more well interactive. not frightened now and i mean come on we i know. some we actually would say i got plenty pacific defense medal i've got the order came pis

out the campaigns are been in the eye of the mon if i had. one of an english. medal for the russian college 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 premier a critic 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 the fact that it's been it's taken so long it's 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 metal barriers and the outcome with actions are allowed and metal 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 their service on top of that it's already awarded to john will find out in september if he is to finally receive what he really wants but the other aging war heroes like him it could be too little too late either bennett's r.t. london. jailed ukrainian opposition leader unit to machine code has been moved from prison to hospital for treatment the former prime minister had been on hunger strike for nineteen days claiming abuse in an earlier attempt to move or authorities are hoping this will defuse a growing diplomatic crisis threatening to overshadow the twenty twelfth championship. has this now from. now we haven't 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. to be treated there but the authorities have been adamant that she would not leave the soil before that there was an attempt to transfer to one of the hospitals. on april the twenty 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 been

a very harsh reaction following the alleged. physical abuse by the prison guards domestically with thousands of supporters of. 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 you were twenty championship in ukraine and poland because of the way had allegedly been treated by prison guards 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 because of so many officials from europe deciding to 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. now to some of the news making headlines around the world in a world update the leader of greece's left party is attempting to form a new government after sunday's election left no party with enough votes to really . says he wants to form a coalition government based on tearing up the terms of the international bailout deal which is described as barbaric he's meeting with two mainstream parties today if the two sides fail to agree greece will be forced to hold another election next month. the person behind the foiled airline a bomb plot was reportedly the cia operative. in yemen and exposed the plant a bomb hidden in. a u.s. airliner from the skies on the first anniversary of. a similar scheme was three years ago when the explosives didn't detonate properly.

according to a military official in the south sudanese war planes have attacked three southern states over the past two days it's unknown how many bombs were dropped how many people were killed in the attacks security council approved a resolution last month threatening sanctions against both countries if they did not. return to negotiations. in syria a roadside bomb has hit a military truck injuring six soldiers the vehicle was part of a convoy carrying the head of the united nations observer mission comes a day after the u.n. envoy to syria warned his peace plan is the last chance for the country to avoid civil war. is in damascus says a lot is at stake. the u.n. observer team in damascus had traveled down south to durant's today and they've gone as is normal with a team of journalists and security escort this is happening every day the team in

damascus are getting out and travelling around the country we were actually down with a separate team of observers north and and we were coming back today when we had this news that the team that had traveled to iraq had had witnessed this explosion now what it from the journalists and the people who were that when it happened it sounds like it was some sort of car bomb when solved just as the observers have driven past one of the military checkpoints. they were very very close to its and injured some of the security personnel who were schooling that would be seen some of the pitches that damage that was done thankfully no one killed we don't really know the extent of the entries at the moment we have the head of the mission who was there general but maybe he is clear speculating about what could've caused this as a small army very because you've already seen the syrian national council that's the opposition group outside the country they've released a statement saying that they've accused the regime of using tactics to push the

u.n. observers out now is really unfortunate this is something you see a loss in syria the back and false accusations from both sides and it happens a lot to really muddies the waters with the situation here now what we can tell you is that from what we've seen and we've been with the observers every day for the past couple of days is this more or less is service and sales and they say they are being welcomed facilitated by both sides not as not to say they're not violations happening from both sides incessant areas that they have been welcomed their presence is welcomed and it's having a small but noticeable effect in the areas that they are visiting now that's a fact they're also in areas that there are large on rest at the moment and in places like iraq and italy where we were last night there are criminal gangs operating. and there are foreign nationals who've come into the country who are fighting now this isn't a secret was noted by the arab league observers is being noted right now by the un i've. certainly been there reports that one of the questions we've been putting to

the observer themselves over the past couple of days is how do you guys feel about the sentiment towards you is there any concern about that changing and there's also you know we're being we're ok and that's where there is a concern and 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 that's the insight 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 are afraid that and his plan is really threatened by those who are. providing. funds. and thirteen minds to run against the plan but it's start of the very very first moment when this plan was declared there said it's a three or it won't be better than the. learn so let's kill the hope

that's where they are saying and if the hope is killed what will happen as he said at the u.n. observer mission seemingly being welcomed by both sides but taking small 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 thing we're not going to want to see is that this affecting the mission and anyway israel's prime minister has joined forces with the opposition in the surprise move which puts an end to the need for early elections to many of the country's military leaders related to all this with lawmakers who feel they are a little too trigger happy when it comes to the perceived threat from iran. has the 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 in the form of 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 you are like it's not the. way we're not polite but i prefer the innocence of the sentences we speak the truth. to our fourth story. where 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 cop in the 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. yet. even. if you. for the first time ever the head of the israeli army while still in office has broken bank and thrown doubt on whether iran is in fact planning to go nuclear. iran is going step by step to the police 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 and. the military or the security establishment the stalk the government or most

or the leaders of all the military and security establishments were replaced recently the question is what will their presence establishment say and will be on subi supported by the government will 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 in tel aviv in a circle some high ranking israeli officials say pressure against iran is bearing fruit while israel's official line is that it won't be can't buy negotiations policy r.t. tel aviv. now a reminder of one of our top stories here on russia celebrating the sixty seventh anniversary of victory over nazi germany in the second world war the trademark

annual parade rolled across red square earlier on wednesday and here are some of the highlights for you. to our. oh oh

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and we'll be bringing all the victory day celebrations here moscow covering the following display here in the russian capital that's at the top of the next down about thirty minutes from now in the meantime coming up now will be off a recap of our top stories of me all just ahead stay with us live here on alt.

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