the torch relay. on r t r r. russia's republic of tar to stan is in mourning after a plane burst into flames on landing killing all fifty people on board. investigators are working at the scene of the crash here at the airport looking at the possible causes of would be explosion for me got pissed off in just a few moments. human rights violations and forced labor in cats are condemned by amnesty international in a report highlighting the brutal conditions placed by migrant workers preparing the gulf nation for the twenty twenty two world cup. and german media revealed that british intelligence is using hundreds of luxury hotels across the globe to spy on international diplomats while the bundestag calls for action to curb mass surveillance.

and watching r.t. with me and. now monday has been declared a day of mourning in the russian republic of tire to stand after a plane crash landed killing all fifty passengers and crew on board including a son of the region's top official locals have been bringing flowers to cause an international airport the scene of the tragedy. of is there for us. there's very heavy police security here right now we know that the site of the crash itself is also still blocked some relative so of the victims or here as well we saw a woman whose face was covered in tears she really did seem a bit lost like she didn't didn't know what was going on she said that her nephew

was among the killed passengers on board of that flight there are flowers here near the airports golding's a lists of the victims as well and psychologists are here since their help is really necessary right now they're assistance and later on monday also with the relatives of the victims are going to be allowed to start identifying them for the plane crash happened on the on sunday evening this was a flight from moscow to cazan it's not a long flight still less than two hours and as the plane was landing what we know is that it exploded killing all fifty people on board including the son of the republic's president and the head of the local department of the federal security service so forty four passengers and six crew members all of them were killed there are several versions into what happened and what caused this explosion from a human error technical malfunction off the airplane and saw from the reports that

the crew prior to the landing runway five hundred meters before they actually attempted landing they did allegedly report some technical problems with the aircraft there's also a version of that there may have been some problems with the fuel the plane was fueled the demise of the airport in moscow the samples of that fuel have been taken they're now being analyzed but so far no official version has been. adopted that still could still yet to be announced and we're going to find out more about what happens when the data from the flight recorders is analyzed as well. well the plane itself was over twenty years old and was jus to be taken out of service at the end of this year tar sand airlines claim there were no known technical problems with the aircraft before it took off however earlier in the day the same plane had flown from cars than to moscow and passengers reported huge vibrations during landing is pilot but instead. the flight

itself went quite smartly but just before the landing the plane started vibrating furiously initially i thought it was the when first but when we got talent of the plane it turned out the weather was great now it's the plane was shaking in progress from side to side linda to now first attempt that it was a really bad landing and i felt like the plane was going to roll off the runway. but as you heard earlier investigators are hoping to get more clues from the plane's all important flight data recorders david limit operations and safety editor of flight global magazine broke it down for us two boxes one of them records all of the communications on the flight deck that's what the pilots say to each other what the pilots say on the radio all the incoming voice messages from air traffic control and also you can even hear things like the engine noise if there was an explosion on board you would hear that in the other box is is i suppose you could say the main one but they're both very important in their own way is the

flight data recorder which records basically the health of the airplane to record what the engines are doing it records the profile of the aircraft speed it's actually chewed it records all sorts of parameters of out the airlines you know what the airline is doing from minute to minute and there will be at least half an hour of recording of this and it may be more before the time that the action the accident actually happened so the all-star sees will have a great deal of information to work with. now there has been a wide range of factors causing at tragedies worldwide over the years according to statistics from plane crash dot com more than half a caused by errors made by the flight crews themselves technical problems with the aircraft are responsible for just under a quarter of problems leading to accidents and of course bad weather conditions also play a role and last but not least terrorist attacks or hijackings make up nine percent

of the crashes earlier we asked civil aviation consultant mark weiss he used to fly the same type of plane that crashed in cars than what he thinks could have led to this catastrophe that was a real or poor repair that led to fatigue in obviously there is traffic failure all of these factors are going to be looked at normally in of emergency you want to get the aircraft on the ground safely as quickly as possible so what would have caused the aircraft to not live on its first attempt was weather a factor words crew fatigue crew onus there are going to be so many things that are to be looked at keeping in mind the accidents generally don't have been from a single event it's a chain of events that lead to a catastrophe like this. migrant

workers in cattle feel they are being treated like cattle according to a damning report from amnesty international the rights group has released the results of its probe into the gulf monarchies construction industry the report found numerous violations in the country which is steaming ahead with preparations for the twenty twenty two world cup amnesty says migrant workers are being deprived of pay in placed in overcrowded unsanitized housing the rights group also expressed its dismay that one of the richest countries in the world is allowing this to happen a spokesman for the organization told r.t. that some of the workers are being treated like slaves. what we found was that there are systemic problems we would be. my guest workers encounter and many of

them are subjected to data expectation for example which i think people who. were deceived about the baby getting caught or some people have been deceived about the kind of work they were to encounter and we found many workers who had not been paid . for a long time. some of them had not been paid for months at a time and we found groups of workers who had been stuck in the country trying to leave their desperate in some cases the side of it trying to be put on able to because they would not get to make that mickey choose was going to come three low in some circumstances there. were people who were in conditions that the most stable. jim and phil my computer guys a went to cats out investigating the situation but after interviewing migrants he and his cameraman were to tang them put behind bars they were accused to filming with because with that permission and attempting to spot a right to guys a told r.t.

what he uncovered. four of them they haven't got paid for seven months in a row right now trying to file their cases well all of those workers have one major problem they have to work within the so-called system let me try and explain to you what that is it's a law basically stating that every migrant worker that comes into qatar has to find his own personal sponsor meaning his boss the firm is working for the cup ration. and that sponsor has to take care of him legally legally medically but most of the sponsors obviously take the past posts away from the migrant workers and that put so numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation. germany's to speak on magazine claims that the british intelligence service operates a surveillance network of hundreds of undisclosed luxury hotels around the globe to

spy on diplomats and government delegations the program infiltrates the hotel's booking systems the agency can prepare the rooms for detail surveillance meaning bug phones and computers the scheme is also reportedly used to get the premises ready for the deployment of on site agents for closer monitoring the article puts britain in an awkward position in a time when germany is preparing to hold a special parliamentary session on the issue of spying is peter oliver reports. later on monday the german parliament will be sitting just behind me for a special session of the bundestag to talk about allegations of spying on the german people by the n.s.a. and the tapping of anglo merkel's private mobile telephone german opposition parties hard long being calling for a full investigation into these allegations that have come out following leaks by edward snowden that germany with targeted extensively by united states

operations senior parliamentarians here in germany have actually called on the government themselves to be very candid with their this of course comes after allegations that the german security services may have actually been complicit in spying on the german people so this whole session is there to try and find out who knew what about what exactly and as it goes on throughout the day i'll be bringing you all of the information that comes out of the me thing here on r.t. . that big calling is about avoiding government supervision but some are doing all day and challenge that we look at why the u.s. government is trying to tighten the digital currency sales we put this story in a couple of minutes. as the media leave us so we need to be. part of the scene motion see your. play

your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that deserve answers from. politics only on our team. pick your country iraq afghanistan libya saudi arabia israel egypt syria turkey and even around in each washington finds itself either the odd man out leaving alone or leading from behind in a muddled path is the u.s. simply out of touch or is history in the region nearly. speak your language or not of the. programs in documentaries and spanish what matters to you. the alternative angle of this story. here to. find out more visit.

again the french president says his country will be taking a tough stance against iran at the next round of international nuclear talks on wednesday prince who are along with speaking in israel which is now at odds with its main ally the u.s. over the best way to proceed at the negotiations the first meeting in geneva failed to produce any result after unexpected objections from france white house is now urging congress to give diplomacy a chance but the powerful israeli lobby is insisting on harsher can sanctions iran has been urged to suspend all nuclear activity for six months in return for a limited easing of trade restrictions we talked to cite as saying and he used to represent iran's nuclear negotiations with the i.a.e.a.

he thinks france's behavior is contradictory. france has a block. because of israeli claims i think this is a historical mistake france is making the i has a bolt for. i thought. the inspection. program and frequently has the reason no evidence of day version toward the end is asian this is clear but i really doubt the real concern of france is a nuclear bomb because france has strategic relations with israel is not a member of n.p.t. . to four hundred nuclear bombs. concerned about nuclear bomb france help israel to master nuclear bomb france held in the year two master

nuclear bomb therefore france has a very very bad record and while the obama administration's influence over the iran negotiations and the middle east as a whole seem to be slipping some are saying america's closest allies in the region are to blame that's been discussed by peter lavelle and his guessing crosstalk in fifteen minutes time here on our take. the u.s. is trying to start talks with the iranian government and yet it's getting clobbered in the middle east by the saudis who don't want to do it by the israelis or don't want to do a very good good friends nobody can. refute. a car which itself doesn't want to do it here he's trying to do a good thing for the world for bringing peace of media nature to the middle east and he's getting do you know killed from all sides i mean you can't win in these situations but you've got to believe in what you want to do when you want to bring

some sort of settlement he might believe that negotiations are the most important thing as opposed to saying actions but he's letting all these competing voices drown out his his mission. that's cross talk coming up in a few minutes time as the renegade cryptocurrency that she's to avoid the watchful eye of financial authorities has made history yet again because value surged past five hundred dollars this weekend after months of steady growth but as the currency is scoring more and more points it keeps raising eyebrows in washington is. reports . there's around one point two trillion dollars circulating in u.s. currency compared to around three billion dollars in bitcoin so big corning is still a very small phenomenon but it's growing and very rapidly the value of a big coin has increased ten fold since early two thousand and thirteen bitcoin bypasses government currency this is not subject to any regulations and at the

moment the government is looking at it with suspicion citing concerns that the virtual currency is being useful facilitating illegal activity like drug trade. we've seen things like bitcoin and others b.s. internet based currencies that are not subject to regulation or oversight and we're working very hard to look at how we can counteract that. but bitcoin supporters are pointing to the fact that this new peer to peer payment system is being used in a widening variety of transactions corners for example are now actively chipping in to help the victims of the typhoon in the philippines the u.s. government and the u.s. federal reserve obviously chance they're not either rapid development of bitcoin and are right now thinking how to maybe incorporate bitcoin into the conventional money system possibly wishing to see bitcoin as more of

a technological innovation rather than a truly stateless and independent currency in washington i'm going to check out so what is at the heart of the digital currency successful big koans are stored in anonymous online wallets more importantly users can carry out transactions between them bypassing the banks middlemen and governments and executive editor of laissez faire book geoffrey took a says officials have no chance of bringing in under their full control. governments always like to control money they like to control our currency and frankly washington is starting to get a little panicked about becoming a year ago to the laughing stock and now people are starting to worry sense they they don't want anything that happens out of their control and that kind really just doesn't care actually it's a perfect currency and it is it is immune from an abuse by governments and regulators no one controls their crime it's purely

a product of who can lobel international market of traders and users so in that sense because it is a very delusional airy tool to free people from oppression from their nation states governments can try to control it better whether they cannot. you without a let's have a quick look at what's on our website for you at the moment russia's answer to the prying eyes of drones and spy planes find out how the cutting edge system that you can see on your screen right be keeping secrets a. plan how's this for getting starstruck if you missed the biggest meteor shower in more than a decade we've got live pictures for you online. right to see. her struggle. and i think you're.

on the record with. thousands of demonstrators have flooded the streets of athens to commemorate the victims of a bloody student uprising four decades ago that event was instrumental in toppling the right wing military junk to rule greece for seven years until nine hundred seventy four but as lindsey france now reports for many this is about more than just history. this demonstration isn't a commemorative the for in that averse are in the public sector uprising which changed so much it makes the side he's physically in the government is not only drawing on who were former students and current students of people who want government change but it's also drawing people who are the aussie affected by the economic reforms the austerity measures that greece must undertake to get these

bailout packages the latest word from many people laid up the journalists and possibly university administrators they're here getting their voices heard it's also have even police presence to make sure that everything goes peacefully and i guess infiltrated many of the demonstrations and cause a lot of violence but everyone here so far seems very peaceful there so this protest the started in the afternoon has gathered thousands of people moved all over athens all age groups many people from teachers unions journalists and fascist movements people from all sectors of society really because it was from the leaves of what took place forty years ago which was students rising up to ask for their representation within government and still feeling that leadership needs to change in greece for that to happen. for europe showing signs of a shaky recovery from the crisis that shattered financial markets six years ago but

have the root causes of those problems been addressed to find out r.t. sophie shevardnadze spoke to zhang called three shake former head of the european central bank. paris a city of explicit luxury living side by side with our all of europe in one city. is making its own they're spending together in paris to stare at the desk and the stereo in the back of the bank bonuses worth millions but where is this contradiction leading to society had a number as you know of fines here and there all over the advanced economies that have been decided upon you had a very large number of see your walls having to leave and quit those who engage in criminal activity have been are pursued that the problem is much more generalized i mean practically all the economist we are more or less a company in this video of normal risk culture and also have to come first the

authorities in general all the governments. supervisory authorities we have saw confident until the start of the surprise and even after the start of the surprise that they thought that it was not possible that the food for sure system could collapse. let's have a quick look at some other stories now in egypt at least twenty four people have been killed and many more injured in a collision between a freight train and a minibus the crash at a level crossing to the south of cairo also involved several of the vehicles most of the casualties were reportedly members of a family returning from a wedding i'm going to survive quickly to take the injured to hospital but there

are fears the death toll could rise. a series of deadly attacks across the iraqi capital baghdad have left at least twenty people dead. multiple bombings occurred in commercial areas and city markets targeting soldiers on patrol as well as civilians iraq is experiencing its worst violence in years with a rate of killing that hasn't been seen since two thousand and eight the u.n. says nearly a thousand people lost their lives and shootings and bombings last month alone. and it is the crippled fukushima nuclear power plant of started removing radioactive fuel rods from one of the four reactors the procedure is considered highly dangerous but is a crucial first test of plant operator tepco has ability to move forward with securing the whole facility which could take decades each reactor has a radiation potential ten times higher than the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima the local authorities say they will immediately notify all residents living nearby

if anything goes wrong. in chile leftwing candidate michele has won the first round of voting in the country's presidential race she is seeking a second term as leader and fell short though of the fifty percent needed to secure an outright victory when a bash lays main campaign pledges to rewrite the constitution which dates back to the dictatorship of pinochet chile is one of the richest nations in latin america but millions have staged protests in recent years demanding more wealth equality and higher education standards. next promised sits across talk with peter lever. there is now an all new form of humanitarian aid for the twenty first century

created by members of the occupy movement this is nothing to do with hunger or homelessness but a different key problem in the so-called first world debt the rolling jubilee project has already bought around fifteen million dollars in personal debt for americans around the country most of the financial obligations that they bought were for medical bills and now the people who had to pay these bills are free from their burdens the group claims that the secondary debt market is very cheap and they are able to buy the nearly fifteen million dollars in debt for only four hundred thousand dollars the secondary market exists because banks try to sell consistently unpaid debt to third parties for less than a nickel on the dollar right now i would be begging the rolling jubilee project to get rid of my college loans but alas this is always purchased anonymously so it's all pure luck who gets their debt purchased the important thing about this project is that they're actually doing something against an evil system instead of just blogging about it and although fifteen million dollars is a tiny tiny drop in the debt bucket it may have really saved the financial lives of

many americans but that's just my opinion. the news. isn't. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle tongue tied in stumbling this is one description of american foreign policy in the middle east today take your country iraq afghanistan libya saudi arabia israel egypt syria turkey and even around and each washington finds itself either the odd

man out leaving alone or leading from behind in a muddled path is the us simply out of touch or is history in the region merely going on. cross talk washington stumbling policies in the middle east i'm joined by my guest host in washington she is a journalist and antiwar dot com we also have stephen slice and you're in new york he is a senior fellow at the century foundation and author of the book act of creation all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time you want it's only the three of us so please do jump in keli if i can go to you first in washington it seems that there is no narrative right now in looking at it washington's and its western allies but its approach to the to what some people would call the greater middle east which of course includes around i mean i and i'm an avid reader of antiwar dot com and i just don't see any kind of narrative i used

in the introduction of this program the word stumbling and that's what appears to be stumbling go ahead. yeah and i would take a different tact i don't think it's stumbling but i think what washington's approach to the middle east and its foreign policy over the last several years has been you know as a tale of lost opportunities when obama came into office he was pretty much handed a narrative he was handed a narrative of the arab spring and as a young fresh face who had promised much on his campaign in regards to. liberation and revolution. particularly with his speech in cairo he has pretty much fallen down on the job there he had a chance to you know defend advance the agendas of the revolutionary movements across the middle east and he decided.