on the main story this hour a russian passenger jet overshoots the runway at a moscow airport breaks into pieces and careers into a busy highway tonight we hear from the passes by you became the first rescuers on the scene and our set spurts of what could have gone so badly wrong. good morning shift just joined us just after midnight here in moscow know my name is kevin irwin and this is r.t. first four people have been killed in the saving after a passenger plane crashed into the side of one of moscow's main highways the jet

then broke into three parts on the right wing caught fire after it overshot the runway vnukovo airport on board were only eight crew members at the time for survive that they were in a serious condition with head injuries. as the latest. four people have died three man the captain the flight engineer and the second pilot and one woman twenty eight year old hostages four are others have been all clearly severely injured all of them have been young people as far as we know the oldest one has been just thirty two years old and all of them have been flight attendants and now their true being treated at different hospitals here in moscow and we're hearing from the doctors who have been taken care of them for these latest hours that all of them are in a very serious condition and the condition of one of them is set to be very critical but they had to pull it to all four airliner flying from the czech

republic to moscow care reared off the runway at new cover airport while lending and then crashed into one of the city's busiest highways caves highway and then broke into three parts and almost immediately caught on fire the raw three main causes that are considered. to be the reason of this tragedy and they are weather conditions. of pilot error and technical failure but i have to say that both the captain and the second pilot have been very experienced passionless with the fifteen thousand for the captain and ten thousands of flight hours for the second pilot sully every nation acts produce saying that one of the reasons why it all went wrong could be the fact that the airplane that is designed to carry at least two hundred people has been almost empty and it's very hard they say it's

even harder to land. an empty plane than to land a full plane. well it's not difficult of course is it than diverge in the shock of the people driving along the major highway close to moscow earlier when the two hundred capacity passenger jet plowed into the side of the road they were all close by the very first images of the crash appeared on social networks within minutes like this video taken by i wish many of the people driving by stop to give aid to the injured from the crash waiting with them for the emergency services until they arrived one of the my witnesses was one of the people helping out at the scene. i saw one woman well covered in blood it was the flight attendant christina she said that the plane overshot the runway but they weren't carrying any passengers and then there is another survivor he tried to attend and then the rescue unit came very far but the ambulance couldn't get through because of the traffic still gave

the injured flight attendant first aid to our best knowledge called her mother to tell her she was ok get strapped home norman language and close group of find and even found a car to take her to hospital. or another person driving past actually saw the plane breaking apart before rushing to help one of the injured crewmembers says his account. i was driving along the highway to small school when i saw the accident with my own eyes at the end of the runway there's a seven to me too long trench that separates the runway from the more school. overshoot the runway and hit the drink with its nose and the newsgroup approximately of the place where they have business plans and there was one person who dropped out of the plane onto the most kooky of home and the front wheel also broke off we helped to carry one injured we could do with the help of the police asked the people to leave it then we put this person in the camp which took him to the hospital. until now the two you too are four planes her little history of

action and such is lectures yes q tell me more about this particular model of airliner in the company. this is the first incident involving the triple of tour for a blind where people died so the first fatal incident involving the spline only once only on one occasion this plane which was designed back in the eighty's and has been in operation for a little more than a decade only once has been actual incident two years ago it had a crash landing nobody was killed only a few were minor injuries were reported back then so this is the first time something like this happened it is generally considered considered to be a very reliable plane it carries more than two hundred passengers very widely used for charity flights of russian tourists all major holiday destinations the company itself is a charter company called the red wings it's owned by alexander the liberty of russian billionaire who is a very prominent figure and he's been trying to run for mayor as office several years ago he also owns several british newspapers. including the evening standard

so generally it's been a very good company i've used them couple of times and you know i've never thought they would actually have an incidence something like that and their safety record speaks for itself they never had an incident of any kind before so this is the first time they've had anything like that. of course but it looks here just came across a small blessing with the there was no passengers on board the plane which can carry more than two hundred if it was full and that's amid a busy holiday season to that big weekend coming up aviation safety expert david limone to explain to me earlier why the jet was almost empty the clue is with the fact that this is a chance or airline it does a lot of charter work and therefore it had a task a chartered toss to carry people out to the czech republic that it didn't have a cost to bring bring them back until probably a later date meanwhile i suspect the airline needed its aircraft back at base to do other work so i think you'll find out find that this was what in the trade is

called up positioning flight it was positioning the empty aircraft back to its base on the runways long enough the weather wasn't particularly a problem there was some very light snow at the time but at the you know for anybody who operates in the moscow airport at this time of the year that shouldn't be a problem. of course it does reduce the adhesive on the runway the braking efficiency of the airplane but the pilots of course have to and you know it's their job to make allowances and if braking action is not very good it when an aircraft goes over the end of the runway like this it's almost always because the aircraft for some reason landed too fast which would be a case of misjudgment unless there was a technical reason and we haven't heard any inventions yet or that the true again a misjudgment issue landed too far down the runway and therefore couldn't stop by the end of it. so to recap four people including the captain were killed earlier on

this evening after a passenger plane crashed into the side of one of moscow's main highways there only eight people all of them crew members on board the plane which can carry more than two hundred passengers if it had been full the four who survived are in a serious condition with head injuries it was a red wings flight from the czech republic it overshot the runway at the city's vnukovo airport at four thirty five pm local time the airline said the plane had its last full technical check just over two weeks ago. you still had to cause this hour including the international peace envoy to syria warning that the nation is set to descend into hell unless the opposition and government stop talking russia says the rebels preconditions leading to a dead end bus from the kremlin to public dissent a look at how the changes on russia's political scene in twenty said to be remembered by those who covered the mirror to see just a couple the stories we got ahead for you.

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international peace envoy for syria says there are only two directions for the conflict now a political process or hell and russia's foreign minister at a meeting with lakhdar brahimi in moscow said the syrian opposition's refusal to talk with the government only pays the way for further bloodshed the article prisk an awful of those talks the biggest stumbling block in the syrian conflict right now is that the opposition is rejecting any compromise saying strictly that president assad has to go while assad himself says he's not going anywhere he's protecting his country and moscow says nobody is able to persuade him to change his mind and neither side is willing to put its weapons down if. you know the only

alternative is. clearly hand. on the political process then we have all of us to work says listen in for a political process mr brahimi added that this should be a syrian allowed political process which should be based on the agreements reached by world powers in geneva and they include forming a transitional government which could include all sides of the conflict but the opposition is not only on the willing to negotiate with the syrian authorities it's now rejecting direct talks with moscow which has been trying to be a mediator and we've heard from the leader of the recently established opposition coalition who demanded moscow to apologize for what he said was support for president assad but you must stand that mr hottie of his probably not very experienced in politics if he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interests to hear our position from us and not

from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat but we were ready to talk to all opposition forces but we start from the premises that they should not only think about their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and if they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy they should meet our representatives without preconditions on notice meanwhile the violence is continuing to escalate in syria there have been more terrorist attacks the rebels have been also attacking states military air strips of while government troops have been responding with more shelling. iran's navy is deployed in the strait of hormuz a k shipping route of course one fifth of the world's oil it showcasing terrans military capabilities maneuvers devised to test combat ships submarines reconnaissance and a new mid range missile drills come amid growing pressure and sanctions against iran's nuclear program global diplomacy especially sapporo ridge says the purpose

of the exercises is not show was still to go but a readiness to defend the country's borders for the past thirty two years war the west pacific united states is waged a covert war against iran so you want has been people hearing itself and demonstrating it's to defend itself i don't believe that iran would ever take action if we see more naval military exercises right now it's because the media is focusing on iran whereas in fact. earlier this month there was operation lucky mariner with twenty seven countries participating. although a lot of them were of service and they were all the way in the persian gulf in iran as territory in the media the silent one between iran demonstrates it's very nice to defend its sovereignty and its national interest then there is the media focus on iran now it's been a turbulent year for russian politics with

a dim approach and come back to the kremlin met with big opposition rallies plus pussy riot some from this cathedral performance protest on the court case and followed that splitting russian society here that is how some of the staff here at our to include me covered it all in twenty twelve and recall what happened. presidential election twenty three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and i mean you come across lines throughout the night was a great night wasn't the real color was right behind us was in it but but so one point when putin came out to show me like crowds the way across the doom of the thousands and thousands of people i suppose so celebrating his victory one of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place up to that election work and

protest rallies it never really feels like we are actually taking part in the event it was during one of the massive coldest rallies in moscow on the square that it really hit me for the first time when i saw the crowd watching a t.v. truck parked right next to ours in another station and i realized how soon was people really turned uncontrollable in the matter of a second and they'll come in just as easily chaos rebirthing of people trying to get the political point across in the past twelve months. the best way to do that would be a bag on your head and to some right be dancing in a cathedral one thing that was important to get across when we were covering it is people's political flavors in this country the fact was that what they did was deeply offensive to a huge number of people not something that they consider when they were looking at the closely watched case. when they made a press release about sour interview with president putin the first that he's ever given i think he's stirred inauguration we see dozens and dozens of calls from

international media representatives and they were all asking us just one question did he say anything about the pussy rights case nothing was out of this in fact the more challenging it is the one gauging the conversation would be of course not. the big list in my head i want to hear about his thoughts on the ongoing syrian conflict also whether the punishment the push the right punk band was indeed with hindsight may be too heavy and some interesting comments to make about that i would have thought about the russian opposition movement one of our big stories of the year the streets are available for protest that is for sure and and i think it's good that people are conscious about politics while politics is not a big deal among most people here in this country would want to be going to change let and only be good for society and i think the authorities we have to do with relatively low. or recollections of the just going in the next few days as well in iraq tens of

thousands of sunni iraqis are protesting against the shia led government for a week now demonstrators blocked a key highway west of baghdad demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister so the muslims used to control the country till saddam hussein was toppled during the u.s. led invasion ten years ago and current sunni demonstrations the sit by serves as a possible probably go to an arab spring style uprising in return for sectarian violence. in iraq e american blogger thinks used to fear inside iraq played a big part in so in the seeds of today. that unfortunately is another example of failed u.s. interventions decades after the us invaded the country and destroyed it and promised everyone on the ward and in iraq that it will build a functioning democracy what everyone will be happy living in peace and prosperity became one of the water places to live on earth the country is completely destroyed

the society has been destroyed the infrastructure has been the destroyed five million people have been displaced and a million people were killed and there is till this day in two thousand and twelve we still have a very fragile political system that the iraqis view as a very corrupt very dysfunctional one so unfortunately it's another example of the failure of installing a government system by u.s. or nato invasions. the clock's ticking for us when we go see a chanson avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff again produced no result if publicans and the democrats the bail to reach a deal on how to reduce the national deficit tax hikes and spending cuts with billions of dollars automatically take effect on generator first another round of talks the shows were for saturday barack obama said what he considered an emergency bill for low earners and the unemployed if agreement isn't reached before the deadline more world news now the six men involved in the gang rape of

a student in india have been charged with murder just hours after the victim died in a hospital if convicted all could face the death penalty case despite protests in new delhi with the authorities resorting to banning mass gatherings of parts of the city now people are still joining to express their anger world demanding extreme measures to keep the streets safe and i'm not. just joined recapping our main news tonight for people including the captain have been killed after a passenger plane crashed into the side of one of moscow's main highways there only eight people all of them crew members at the time on board the plane the plane can carry up to two hundred passengers if it had been full the four you survived are all in a serious condition with head injuries this morning the red wings' flight from the czech republic overshot the runway at the city's vnukovo airport at four thirty five pm local time the airline said the plane at its last full technical check just over two weeks ago. as more details come in about the course of the might we will keep you posted you'll be the next to know about it this is.

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russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russian film until mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local shops so let me marry bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred and still helps keep the money flowing. it's a russian thing you know what you can't explain. your. local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on us this time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to

the repertoire of the audience called the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how. i mean. really. worst for the. white house says. for the. record for a minute. what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told.

i gave him every morning and fortunately today could mark the very last episode of breaking the set because you see today may be the very last day here on planet earth that is according to crackpot interpretations of the mayan calendar so and owner of this i've packed my final show for your doomsday pleasure including a brand new interview with director oliver stone and historian peter president a look at what creepy surveillance we won't have to deal with anymore since the fan of the world and all and then i'll be explaining what the mayans actually meant and why we will all be here come tomorrow let's break the set. that. you've never seen anything like that.

so last week i had the great pleasure of having academy award winning director oliver stone and historian peter because they're on the show they were here to talk about their new showtime series and book called the untold history of the united states but the part you didn't see is the discussion we had after that interview which i got their opinion on obama's policies the current state of play and united states take a look. so it took both of you four years to produce this series and almost almost five. and you have a chapter called obama management of a wounded and higher where you give a harsh critique of the obama administration what in your eyes has been the most troubling aspects of his presidency all over. well i think that under the disguise of a sheep's clothing he's been a wolf. that because the nightmare of the bush presidency preceded him and people forgave him a lot he was

a great hope for change the color of his skin the bug bringing in the internationalism the globalism seemed all evident and he's an intelligent man but he has. take in the old bush changes and he's basically put them into the establishment he's codify them that's what's so weird going into a second administration that is living outside the law and does not respect the laws of foundation of or of our system and he is a constitutional lawyer you know without the law there is the law of the jungle nuremberg existed for a reason there was a reason to have trials as a reason for due process as bad as corpus called the united states. do you agree. totally if you look at his domestic policy he didn't break with the wall street friendly friendly policies the bush administration if you look at his. transparency he claimed to be the transparency president he's running for office there hasn't been transparency we've been actually classifying more documents under

obama than we did under bush all previous presidents in one thousand seven hundred two thousand eight indicted three people total under the espionage act obama has already indicted six people under the espionage act the surveillance hasn't stopped the car suresh ns without particular trial have hasn't stopped so those policies have continued in the war policies and the militarization policies were maintained that we're fighting wars now in yemen afghanistan was done by keeping troops in afghanistan we haven't cut back on the things that we all found so odious of the bush about the bush administration and obama has added some of his own the drone policy obama had more drone attacks in his first eight months than bush had his entire presidency and these are very very dubious international legality and peters were hopeful on the second term that we have to be some more flexibility we hope so there is a system in place that is enough.