good to have you with us here on r.t. today just in time for the headlines and looking east asia pacific nations hope to jumpstart global economic growth the apec summit in russia's far east with developing giants russia china building a. greek fury over crippling cuts spreads from athens to the country's second largest city stuff and some people including police want to protest against a fresh austerity package. and cuts diplomatic ties with iran over its nuclear

program and support for the syrian regime all of this in an unexpected scene as part of the u.s. led campaign to increase to iran's isolation. i know it was an ad is asked of that rocked not just the world of hockey but also the whole of russia forty four lives were lost when the plane carrying a look at all went down a year ago now here on our take a look back at those events. level fans were preparing to celebrate the start of the new season for the kontinental hockey league. the home team looking at the field is level was expected to emerge victorious. but the fans' excitement was suddenly overrun by a riff event. c.

ward yeah but i wouldn't say that tonight's is the memorial service commemorate seeing the chief team killed in a plane crash and look at the stuff. the good the players from do not know men scope hissing the puck into the own goal symbolically giving the victory at seafield a slob. through .

time to get out dani training will start soon when in forty minutes ok. can't. get it through it's difficult to serve in the cargo. especially when they're only starting to end and when they're just little kids there makes it to have the food that they have to change a lot and parents have to forget about anything else or say about what about the other children is they depend entirely on their training championship or just saying you've been your one thanks you're welcome. the parents of the successful hockey players have already gone a long way of raising their sons to become real champions they've shouldered years of hard work to win hearts the lives of their children. alexander's coach. went to canada and we ordered.

a broad gave back with now xander put them on it training but nikolai kicked him out during training he was sitting and looking at escape and when i went into his room i saw him sleeping next to escape can you imagine that. at the age of just ten alexander wrote an essay his mother has kept it all these years. parkies a game for real men they write these say they're cowards don't play hockey when i grow up i want to become an n.h.l. hockey player but most importantly doing sports is healthy. every other boy and generous level dreams of becoming a professional hockey player hockey classes have been held here for more than twenty years. if your child does a little bit more every day than his peers during training then he's more likely to

be successful of course you should also have talent basically brains are more important than ice hockey than brute force if a child has a fine head he's sure to play well. in a way looking mighty for he was the foundation of the city of yugoslavia itself the team boasted the best hockey players from the world the bellows via the czech republic slovakia sweden the united states and canada people love to look emotive jaroslava not just because it was one of the most renowned teams in the country all but it won the russian c. colleagues three times but for the fact that it was also a very friendly and well balanced team it's called players were always from jaroslava. and that remained unchanged.

alexander of us enough had played ice hockey since he was eight in the summer of two thousand and eleven he returned from the n.h.l. the twenty three year old was going to play with a look at monte for a year and then return to america in two thousand and eleven he was going to get married just like a few of his friends from the club like andre kill him consolidate a stop to. his that was not easy the third thing is age group you always won the title of the best player in the tournament and sometimes in player of the year. he does actually scores first and only gold and the n.h.l. gives this to every player but their first go was in the world would be a rule and he did it until.

the run took a chunk of the scene as just an ordinary city kid he played ice hockey and went to school but it was quite some time before people began to notice his talent he was the first on a master sports of jaroslav and ice hockey yvonne was both the face and the heart of the team as well as a symbol for the city. where you hear from many parents that their children say that they want to be like your van where it is very good that he lives on as a role model for young boys should reward. alexander ghali what one does on the ice often saving his team from defeat in the last moment. he also played at the heart of the russian men's national ice hockey team alexander was an only son a loving husband and

a father. i never thought that people in the city loved our son so much but he was just an ordinary guy i mean either he was too young or small there was always something like that. at two minutes past four in the afternoon of september the seventh two thousand and eleven the ice hockey world was shaken by terrible news look i'm a thief was travelling to minsk and below us for the first game of the two thousand and eleven to two thousand and twelve season when their plane crashed built an ocean airport in the region deficient explanation was pilot error. gainey punin was among the first to arrive at the crash scene he was a close friend of event to the team's captain. there are

still a few places here where the earth is still scorched and the smell of kerosene hangs in the air. the plane taking off from airport began to roll comedia lay after takeoff and flew in this direction before crashing by the river by the second most severe blow curd here and led to an explosion. why can some one of the airplanes fuel tanks were full of god. i think that's when most people were killed last year four hundred. thirty seven passengers and eight crew members on board only teammate alexandra galimore and flight engineer alexandra c. itself was still alive after the awful crush but barely the world prayed for

a miracle. close my husband took him by the hand and said son well this is why you have to live and in reply i he just moved his finger. but no one can survive with ninety percent burns to their body five days later alexandra de lima died when he played hockey he was always the last to leave the ice he recently told the truth here i'm still waiting for him i can't believe what happened. i still can't help imagining that he'll come home into the room with any moment and say mom let's have lunch it's very hard. to go it has to be him everybody says the time he was all ones but it does not. it simply teaches you to carry on living with these dogs that we will never forget this sorrow will always be with us as always my baby is what motivates me to keep going

and. she proudly tells everyone that she is christina go lima but whenever people ask her where she is she always makes a point of mentioning her surname. what i can't think of anything else than telling her that her father now lives in heaven and that he's watching us on the market by tell her that she can wave her hand to him and he was innocent we once bought floating lanterns curried big lanterns and sent him a message to heaven she believes in it and i get it. all the homes of those who lost their sons brothers and husbands are very similar numbered shirts trophies and medals adorn the walls one thing they all share is the last picture of the whole team taken at

a training camp in switzerland. for us they still exist and the simply not with us anymore. must continue living somehow. but how they want to go saved dozens of lives over the years just hours before the crash he anonymously transferred almost seventeen thousand dollars to pay for a young girl's cancer operation. he was very sympathetic to others. he put human life above money to give away ten million rubles to children he did not even know despite the fact he had a family of his own there are people who hoard their money but not him he was a very generous and open person money and fame did not spoil him at all. pictures are all that we have now. here.

the plane crash that killed the city's entire hockey team has changed a life and go to struggle forever. lokomotiv jaroslava was our star team it was the strength of our city they promoted us. as the come on the block this team was of course the love of our city says will move on and on of the team and. never going to our team was the hope of jaroslav and you know it will take

a long time for the new guys to heal the wound in the fans hearts. when he was just four years old under a lot say of had to choose between football and hockey a five minute encounter with his idol is on to left such an impression on him that he instantly opted for hockey oh yeah. yeah i had just come home from training at the gym. well when i heard the tragic news oh well now. so you know if there is also. the people's grief is expressed through hundreds of songs poems and street art to remember given to fans drew his picture on the walls of the house where he lived the commemorative clock has also been put up to honor his memory at first they feared it wouldn't be allowed as according to law such memorials and permitted

until twenty five years after a person's death. on which no this is the pose that he usually made after he scored a goal for some reason he always raised to stick to show off after getting the park and it was it is just your victory way. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

in spite of the tragic plane crash none of the young players who go slow gave up on the sport on the contrary the city used to live because of schools in world more boys than usual everyone dreams of joining locomotive but few succeed even those who fail never regret the opportunity to try to make. the world well i would also like him to be like iran. even had a difficult life he didn't make it into the team of masters all at once he was made to go from jaroslav well to another school but he always worked hard and proved it with the way he played that he deserved to be a number one team player even though finally they noticed him and invited him to

lokomotiv jaroslav will of course i hope andre reaches his level in sixty it's just like iran did. before. not everyone has what it takes to make it through locomotives demanding hockey school trainers and always quick to recognise a future star either so the ticketing goes up planning their own ice hockey academy . in spring last year we were sitting with sergei and event thinking about opening up school so that your goal was to get the boys off the streets and fulfillment sports but. we wanted to stop them wasting their lives drinking and smoking. good expose that at the facility has three buildings a skating rink a sports hall that kind of public one of them where you will go see it will have

locker rooms otel and probably a gym but the. pollution for the project has already been selected there's even a waiting list of students hoping to be taken on by the new school but funds for the facilities construction a limited and your charity account has been opened for people who want to make a donation. immediately after the tragedy top ice hockey clubs offered look at maty for the condolences the everest level to chose to miss the whole of that is season they played in the in the russian major league a new team was formed one player at the time emil a member of the new squad shares the deceased alexandra gullable so. annoyed that

it was very hard and i came here there was sorrow in the team oh no jokes no laughter no smiles because it was difficult. it was the team's head coach he was the first american in n.h.l. history to have schooled muldrew thirty goals in one season. it hit everybody is hard i think is it here because everybody knew somebody on the plane or they knew somebody through another person so there was an awful lot of connection to that team we had joseph was a chuck who was a part of our organization and caroline of the year we won a stanley cup brad mccrimmon i knew very very well documented so small and. when something like that happens you know it doesn't go unnoticed by anybody. the best defender in the national youth ice hockey team in the two thousand and ten

playoffs was among the first to join the new look at motif team. a lot of the city was depressed but little by little it came to terms with what happened. of course no one asked for my by the tragedy and they never will but even more so when the home city where we are very lucky to have been chosen to restore the team. of the sixteen years with the n.h.l. world renowned hockey player viktor kozlov wanted to finish his career in russia he already had a claim to fame for scoring six goals in just twenty four ales food afterwards and all the guys are in very good physical shape and they are training hard i must say that all the guys are very fast capable technically skilled undetermined to win. every day the scene of the tragedy sees more people arrive relatives friends and

fans they make sure that there are always flowers at the monument inscribed with the team members' names but also keep the area clean. the old team that has passed away will always stay in because they used to be among the new guys who will come to save the team to save the city and they will come from other cities and help us i hope one day they'll become as dear to us as the old team of my. book reading your glory it is going to be very difficult to view the generation that saw that team and love that team to get used to the new one which as you know it's me and i think that the new generation of fans is going to be here in some five years from now when the team develop their own style their own charisma and appeal so that bush blew it.

and. with a helmet pants gloves and skates aspiring young hockey players have to carry around ten kilograms in total. kid to hockey teaches in durance strength and commitment to go so i want to grow up to be a real man. under his parents always try to drive him to and from training sessions each time they watch his progress on the screens in the lobby with. relatives of the deceased players never missed a single game before the disaster but now they turn off the televisions when a hockey match comes on. to kill i remember how one saw a game on t.v.

with a look i'm a teacher. might think. i started looking for a leg zandra and panic. but when it dawned on me that it was a different team already said about the book. i'm not going to watch any of. i simply cannot imagine the club without oleksandr. before her child was born marino always played a part in ice hockey matches she dozed in the team's cheerleading group that would be i'm dancing for a volleyball team now. and it wasn't xander who encouraged me to start a team of my own sussing up the moment of disaster but i still do it's one of those and some people look down on me for that but this is sort of really cool doubles. at least i can somehow get my mind off or it's happened again.

yeah in this piece i painted black players symbolizing the members of the old team and the great plays of those replacing by play yes it will take time of course that these new guys will become fly hope love and pride of all city. the members of cuba one of the best known groups in the us love it has run hustling for its next performance they became stuff thanks to look at my chief of the singing humorous rhyming soames dedicated to the teen since then they've always

attended the matches the tough guy from sandusky. was let go by. it so happens that the songs were meant to be just a joke but then the loyal fans took it on and it became the hockey club's trademark and practically their anthem they were followed by dozens of tunes devoted to look i'm with you however not one of them has been as catchy as those songs. that. was. wasn't. that happy era between nine hundred ninety seven and two thousand and eleven is over and there will never be another team like the one we had before it's going to be a different squad if they invite us to sing songs for the new guys we will be happy to do so to support them we will sing all the songs including the funny ones.

before the first warm up match between like a motif and sasco must go it's traditional for fans to stock up on team scarves and burners but this year before the start of the season only shirts with the names of deceased players are available supporters won't be able to buy items bearing the names of the new team players until after its official line up is finally announced . that it was there. was. such a get off. the time. period i. am on this story goes without saying that i will always have the team that died in my heart. at. that. goal we

must learn to live with this sense of loss we must remember them but carry on without them this is not the end of the world it's the end of one story which was cut short but now we have a chance to start over. a new team has returned to the cage shelf and i hope that we will become champions a gal ashcraft i. the next generation of hockey players has a great example to follow and andre just like every other young boy in jaroslava faces the portraits of his heroes every time he comes to training in spite of the terrible disaster look at motifs club slogan still stands true elohim

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