choose the stories that impact your life. choose the access to. this week's top stories here on r.t. airport tragedy a passenger plane slams into a russian highway killing four after overshooting the runway with survivors now fighting for their lives. president obama's call for a ban on some firearms sparks a massive shopping spree in the u.s. with gun stores reporting record profits. with no end in sight to the syrian conflict the rebels' desperate push for regime change and rejection of dialogue raises international fears that the worst is yet to come also moscow hits washington with counter legislation after the u.s. slapped sanctions on russian officials it accuses of human rights violations and

egypt through those want their opponents and lord the country's top prosecutors probe opposition leaders for allegedly inciting an uprising just days after a low turnout referendum approves a controversial new constitution. and i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. four people have died and four others are in a critical condition after a passenger jet crash landed at a moscow airport the plane is said to have overshot the runway splintering into pieces and littering an outlying highway with debris artie's medina question of a report from vnukovo airport. the investigation as currently underway this is the sac and and the biggest a parade of the plane does still remains very close to the

highway and looks quite terrifying the other parts of the plane of the cabin that through right on the highway off through the crash and where the forty two members died as well as the black boxes probably already been cleared over the night and there is also a video that captured to be exact a moment khalid this caused injury jobs that crashed into the finally got video appeared on the internet over the night because while it so far there are three main diversions why this tragedy happened just these versions are weather conditions pilot error and possible technical problems with the plane in particular there were reports that there might been something wrong with the plane's braking system that's why it couldn't stop while being on the. to geisha is currently underway adult age crew members for survived but all are in critical condition and according to the witnesses those drivers who were caught by this tragedy in their

own cars they said that the scene right after the crash looked very devastating and terrifying that pos injures some of those survivors on board of this plane were all covered in blood and they were in such a critical condition that people who rushed to how the survivors didn't even know how to approach them with the first aid they were afraid not to hurt them even more we can now listen to one of the witnesses what you want to say i saw one woman all covered in blood it was the florida tendon christina she said that the plane overshot the runway but they weren't carrying any passengers and that there is another surviving flight attendant there the rescue unit came very proud but the ambulance couldn't get through because of the traffic so we gave the injured flight attendant first aid to our best knowledge called her mother to tell her she was ok dropped her woman blankets and clothing we could find and they even found a car to take her to hospital but there is also is video that cop turrets of the

exact moment how one of the flight attendants was taking out of the plane you know the woman was unconscious she was all covered in blood and as she was visibly seriously injured people who rushed to help the survivors did that while parts of the plane were still on fire and there was a risk of a possible explosion this plane to pull your foot to all floor is a pos injured chad with the capacity to carry it to come. up with the capacity to carry two hundred ton passengers and this particular plane belong to a russian low cost or red wings. well matt and medic who is an airline pilot says it is still too early to tell but pilot error may well have been the course. mr gage will hold now. two different avenues of approach they're looking at technical failure such as a discussion already arising among spiralis about

a possible failure with the weight on we all switches which are basically design studio at the normal once it's made from touchdown so well the green systems could be fully deployed or possibly into pilot error now this is still very early after day accident the actual cause of the accident but the one in it and here character already overruns the runway in weather that i have to say was not as severe as it was originally start with just a little bit of cross wind and some snow but nothing major i don't know you have to wonder what happened or was this were the pilots able to recover this and missed something or was this completely beyond help. well more pictures and eyewitness accounts from the scene are on our website where you can also find out more about the plane itself that is if dot com. it feels like gun business in the us has never been better with people rushing to still was favoring firearms may soon become a thread between freight that is after barack obama urged

a ban on some weapons following the connecticut primary school tragedy. and takes up the story. about two minutes ago actually on this particular war here. a r.'s four zero zero zero for rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with the possible that and then everything everyone is flowing in purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them pay. buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action no eight ar fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the

rules have been going for a thousand and fifteen hundred eight hundred dollars to twenty five hundred three thousand dollars even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying spree i've ever seen so many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to thieve ministrations ben talk as the obama gun stimulus that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun salesman in america manufacturers of semi-automatic rifles were poured that their market has grown thirty percent over the last four years states like north carolina iowa you would have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the tragedy in newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons his

words have certainly provoked action just not the type he may have wanted or someone they say is against her. doing a great job for us. maybe they should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up gone apocalypse scenario so the band there there are no we. really need to start not only to start a serious research but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening any time soon after all and a significant gun control measures adopted in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. were genius. i'm going to take out. iran rolls out its hardware in the face of external pressure in a few minutes massive naval exercises in the persian gulf this is iran wants to show it can handle regional security despite the growing mountain of western backed

sanctions. and america is braced to plunge off the fiscal cliff as the democrats and republicans handle overtaxes. egypt's top prosecutor is looking to outlaw leaders of the opposition launching a probe into mohamed morsi three top opponents they are accused of inciting their followers to overthrow these alarmist president earlier this week the country's new constitution was officially adopted after a two stage referendum received the support of over sixty percent of voters amid a low turnout and allegations of massive fraud opposition activists say the new charter hastily drawn up by the muslim brotherhood effectively imposes shari'a rule on the country the all clark and world affairs contributor for britain's guardian newspaper explained why he thinks morsi is going after the opposition man. i think he wants to sort of deflect attention from the economy because the underlying

problem the biggest we're facing is the economic crisis one of four egyptians are without jobs poverty is on the right he just ended subsidies on fuel which means that the prices of gas and electricity are going to rocket and so this is a kind of sort of smokescreen and he was very keen to get the opposition tied up in these the big challenges to sort of stop them from focusing on opposing him on the issues where he's very weak and i think also he be worried that you know a sizable minority thirty six over thirty six percent of people voted against the constitution and about it seems to be that that he said is on the way. and i think that obviously you know i think we can see more protests in the new year. adoptions of russian children by u.s. citizens will no longer be possible after president putin signed the bill containing the amendment into law the measure is a tit for tat response to america's sanctions against russian officials it sees human rights violators artie's it brings us more details now on the diplomatic

wrath. you have to understand that the law the so-called denton magnitsky law actually deals primarily a with imposing travel and financial strictures on a number of american officials and persons who have committed crimes against russian citizens and only only part of the law actually bans the adoption of russian children a by american citizens it has been in part inspired by the case of the russian toddler who was adopted by the american family in two thousand and nine and died in their custody several months later after his father left him in a locked in the car in the blistering heat for nine hours the russian lawmakers feel that the american law system does not provide adequate adequate protection for the russian kids and also does not punish those responsible for the deaths of russian kids for example do you have to lose father adoptive father walked away with a fine but you have to remember that russia is going to boost the care and the situation with orphanages and foster homes in the country as well as improve the further

condition so for orphans it is seen as a sort of retaliate a measure towards this so-called magnitsky act which was adopted in the united states just a couple of weeks ago. which entails a list of russian officials whom the united states believed to be involved in the case of ciggy magnitsky and now the act itself. puts a severe restrictions on the travel and freezes financial assets of the russian officials in question now the case of the game against key. involved the russian lawyer who was arrested on tax evasion charges and died while they printed it for a limited confinement but again these two acts are seen as the latest developments in the diplomatic row which seems to not to get any better between russia and the united states despite the whole affair with the reset button. iran kicked off a series of naval war games in the persian gulf this week the maneuvers

a take. placed near the strait of hormuz trade ring that carries about a fifth of the world's oil shipments to iran earlier warned it would block off the strait if attacked but says this particular drill is aimed at improving security in the region but that security however is being deliberately undermined by external pressure on iran says the professor of political science mohammed has sand carney the security is a regional merger we should core group these over to create a regional security arrangement on portable in the united states has been the wrong . door out of our eyes in a way i mean to give them this feeling that the threat is coming from there on you need our presence here or a new role is it going to put the security of the region but we all know that your wall has never been any can't it is a regional issue all the security of the birds and all of the nuclear issue is

also something that we have been dealing. now with europe still in the throes of the euro crisis we look at the biggest shocks for the block over twenty twelve and though the e.u. got this year's nobel peace prize it came to the tune of molotov cocktails tear gas and clashes as people took to the streets to protest biting austerity measures artie's recalled program is just ahead after the break. as his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of teavana thirty five years old it wasn't the life he jumped off having studied accounting but he dition and familial duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute the traditional

two fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c. back amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so on the survey i simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government

is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for countryside and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hoda get the highest fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pasta way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact way he can start to look for a new wife. mission

free credit patient free transport charges free. range month free. free. free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media oh god r t dot com. so i welcome back moscow says that the refusal of serious k. opposition coalition to enter into dialogue with the government is

a road to nowhere and will only result in further bloodshed at a meeting with international peace envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi foreign minister sergei lavrov reiterated that dialogue is the only means to resolve the conflict he's also stated on numerous occasions that although russia condemns methods the syrian army is using in the war it will take no part in regime change in his his response to the leader of syria's king rebel group he demanded moscow apologizes for what he described as support for play. produced rules but i understand that mr hood tb is probably not very experienced in politics but he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interest to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to or position forces but we start from the premise that they should not only think about the roman 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 with their preconditions official notice i also managed to speak exclusively with the foreign minister more official thoughts and assessment of the syrian crisis that's coming up after twelve am g.m.t. . now telling companies are reportedly seventy million dollars in debt to afghanistan this could pull accuses some of them of tax evasion the main focus is on the military's biggest food supply a bit antiwar activist brian becker thinks could pull has enough skeletons in the same closet. is caught between a rock and a hard place he owes his very survival the fact of the matter is the occupation of afghanistan like almost all foreign occupations is riddled with corruption by the occupiers and by the elites whether we sippin of the. assistance and does the karzai government really represent the afghan people does it represent working families does it represent the poor farmers i would say absolutely not there is no indication of that whatsoever to the extent that the karzai government is demanding

from foreign forces or independent domestic forces any sort of revenue you can you can believe you can guess for sure i would say that much of that money will be treated as loot something that will be the private premise for those who are in power the elite themselves which is tasty go until america plunges off the fiscal cliff there is still no deal inside between the firmly entrenched republicans and democrats millions of americans stand to see their taxes go up dramatically in two days' time but the sticking point holding up negotiations are the rates for the rich republicans have rejected any deal that would see those taxes rise while the democrats insist on the wealthy paying up a little more investment advisor patrick young says the u.s. is heading towards further recession if it can curb its spending. i'm really worried going into twenty thirteen i mean ultimately the great thing is that

humankind will survive and we will all remain the same people but the problem we have is first of all america seems to be heading suicidally towards this thing the fiscal cliff the possibility that it may enter another leg or recession or possibly even depression as a result of legislators inability to curb their how bit of spending like footballers' wives and then on the other side of the atlantic we also have this problem the european union. gets solved its problems solving your problems means that twenty five percent of the workforce of several countries are out of work fifty plus percent of the youth of say somewhere like spain are out of work that really frightens me. now france is not alone in trying to raise more cash to fend off the economic crisis facing europe now we bring you personal side of the story we've been reporting throughout two thousand and twelve as we look back at events.

it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain or greece or even the u.k. and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so we. stood over some type of square and i just see the come around behind the camera everybody else around me putting just months on like you had to queue for moscow going to see your life before you can say anything you get that horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the police the producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of

a crowd which is great but then the crowd are shouting the correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got political elements you use yellow is the news on the court force you've got the tragic human stories of people who are driven to desperation and pushed onto the streets to protest what they see as their livelihood to chop the way over to pay back this most of. all people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost to the states the services and then you really get a sense of just how angry how desperate. they get the. in times of love dusting to the country and so yes that's not bad in the middle of one of those big protest movements when the classes break out. coming up next is all special report the takes a look at the gang violence plaguing los angeles that's off to

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