olympic torch relay. m r t r. tonight security video showing the deadly plane crash. with a jet nose diving in thirsting into flames. also this hour germany's held a special parliament session over spying allegations with chancellor merkel complaining of a lack of trust with washington. the russian called the greenpeace arctic ship medic and a photographer both charged with hooliganism along with others who tried to storm an oil rig in september.

it's now just after eleven o'clock at night in moscow and first this hour. dramatic video of the final terrifying moments of tatarstan flight three six three which crashed killing all fifty on board and yesterday a correspondent has can offer ports from the site of the tragedy. of the actual moments of the plane crash. does provide a clearer picture of what happens but it actually raises even more questions into what could have caused this horrific tragedy because earlier we were reported and we're told that the plane sort of slid the runway then exploding while the new footage shows it was diving into the ground then joining into this huge fire there's a lot of hope for that the answers will be provided by information from the flight recorders which have been found by now but they have been damaged severely in this crash in the explosion we've been delivered to moscow and it's going to take some time for them to be. for this vital information to be taken out to finally

understand who or what is to blame for this tragedy where there was a technical malfunction off the aircraft or human error or any other reasons monday has been and still is a day of mourning for the fifty people that were on board this plane all of them died. i think. definitely the a local c.r. and especially the family members are in shock. even the loss of people that i've been talking to have been saying that this is was quite a popular flight they do understand that they could have been easily in their seats one woman told about her emotions she lost her son in this tragedy he was such a good boy healthy and handsome he had a good family his son is only three years old he made many plans for the future. psychologists are working with. the relatives of the victims so they obviously are

in a deep state of shock this is also now the time for them to start the no matter how difficult it is to start dealing with some of the consequences and to start identifying the bodies of the victims. there's been a major outpouring of grief on the internet one state t.v. sports commentator a lost his wife and step daughter in this tragedy and in his twitter account he wrote the question how to live after this also russia's president lied to a fortune expressed his condolences to the families of the victims he also. spoke on the forum with the president of the republic after their son whose older son was also on board this plane he died he got married not so long ago and it turns out that his pregnant wife was also supposed to be on the plane but miraculously she

wasn't because he talked her out of it so this is definitely a major tragedy for this whole town and well it's going to take time for a life to get back to normal here. and there was a gust tonight and when the plane went down winds were pretty strong up to eleven meters a second the pilots are trying to abort their landing and requested a second attempt when the jet plummeted to the ground passengers who travelled on the very same plane to moscow just a few hours earlier said their landing was also made high winds and was frightening . it's pilot but in. the flight itself went quite smoothly the just before the landing the plane started vibrating fiercely the plane was shaking it was direct from side to side linda to now first attempt but it was a really bad landing and it felt like the plane was going to roll off the runway. just after the accident last night spoke to civil aviation consultant who used to fly the same type of plane involved in the cousin disaster he told me there was

a combination of factors behind a crash that was the poor repair that led to the team and obviously catastrophic failure but all of these factors are going to be looked at normally in interim urgency 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 were. crew fatigue crew only as there are going to be so many things that have to be looked at keeping in mind there are accidents generally don't happen from a single event it's a chain of events that lead to a catastrophe like this well stay with r.t. for updates as developments continue to come through to us and get across more detail of the tragedy online to it. germany sold a special parliamentary session on spying on the heels of

a scandal triggered by legs that u.s. and british intelligence services have extensively been targeting its officials in her statement chancellor merkel complained that trust with washington was undermined correspondent peter all of the reports next. we've heard the chancellor speaking to that special session of parliament today saying that it was only through investigation into these allegations that trust could be could be regained . stressing the gravity of these allegations of a widespread spying program by both the united states and g c h q from the british. of course britain the united states and germany count themselves as very close allies and that's been something that has certainly struck hold here. thank you to keeping such close tabs on on each other and in fact that angle of merkel's own private telephone may have been hacked by the united states it was noticeable

today while she was speaking in parliament she was using pen and paper as opposed to her. usual smart phone in hand as she usually house during these type of meetings. talk about how to rebuild that trust though it is said it's going to come down to an investigation the the opposition parties here in germany had wanted an extensive parliamentary inquiry they haven't been given that and they've criticized angela merkel for not going far enough when it comes to investigating these allegations of widespread spying and i've been speaking to senior political figures in europe they've told me that they're not they expect they spy agencies will look into government but what's been special about what's happened here in germany is while it seems that business and private citizens have been the main targets now that prompted over a hundred fifty thousand people put their names to a petition that was handed to parliament today petition among other things called for edward snowden to be allowed to come here to germany to be granted asylum here

. they drove a correspondent in the palin well guess who's been checking up on diplomats have checked into big hotels british intelligence has been secret service in the rooms of foreign the police at the top three hundred fifty hotels worldwide according to latest revelations in germany's spiegel newsmagazine from you league splendid snowden the program's called royal concierge apparently it intercepts reservation confirmations when the sent to government addresses from said monitored hotels that agency can then quote prepare the rooms for detailed surveillance meeting phones and computers says a german investigative journalist he met snowden here in moscow last month along with a german m.p. he says governments badly needed assistance that's one of the things that's being discussed is the question of how to get input from of the person who actually knows the most about the documents right now all of the documents are being kind of read in and reported on by journalists who of course you know are doing their best are

doing the best job they can but these are complicated things and it would make sense to get expertise i mean from the person and knows the system and and the n.s.a. from the inside as a matter of fact i mean the interior minister and other leading people in the german government have acknowledged the importance of snowden's allegations i mean the fact that angle americal actually called president obama about. the story about her cell phone was not just the basis of a newspaper story it was that basically the german authorities had found out that this was true. developing story tonight a russian photojournalist who was working on greenpeace arctic sunrise ship's been freed on bail he's the second person to have been released during hearings in some petersburg where two courts have been deciding whether to extend or not the custody of a group of protesters arrested in the russian arctic of to try to board an oil rig a correspondent for national in the city kalinski called tain st petersburg to tell

you i hope you can see behind me has ruled on monday to release on a two million ruble or sixty thousand dollar bail to russian citizens and two members of the so-called arctic thirty the arctic sunrise ship doctor had a local journalist both detainees will be freed as soon as the bail is put up and experts say it will not take more than two days but this is a very good news for them especially given the fact that both detainees are very young people their husband and wife have both attended today's hearings and we saw them and these were very touching moments this day was not as good as it was for them for all protestors because another court also here in nursing three more skilled court has decided to extend the pretrial detention for another activist greenpeace activist a fifty nine year old man from australia till february but all these hearings have started here in st petersburg after russia's investigative committee applied for

the extension of the pretrial detention for the arctic thirty say they need more time to complete the propane september the green crease arctic sunrise ship approach. offshore all drilling platform in russia's northern pretoria sea it's owned by russia's energy giant gazprom and then a group of activists attempted to hold themselves on the platform as they sat for a protest over the danger is that the drill in could potentially pose to the environment i have to say that last year they've tried this same start and they've actually eventually managed to do so. and spend more than ten hours on the platform but these here they were arrested almost immediately by coast guard initially charged with piracy they were facing up to fifteen years in prison but later on the chargers were changed to hooliganism first they've been held in the russia's

northern port of movements but we could go there were transferred here to st petersburg where they are now kept in three different detention centers who are have been hearing from greenpeace international but they would apply no extension as they say this is not legal so let's see how the story may end rif national reporting for us coming up from bits to loss as head of brecqhou breaking weekend that scope washington worry coming up then we take a look at why lawmakers want to clip the digital cullen's. well. it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future of covered. wealthy british style.

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a message of support to israel speaking to parliament in jerusalem francois hollande said paris wouldn't back down on the sanctions regime against iran until the country gives up its nuclear program any time a british newspaper claims israel might join forces with saudi arabia a military campaign against iran if they don't approve of whatever atomic agreement is reached and in another development russia's president putin is spoken to iran's leader ahead of wednesday's global talks is out he's pulis lier. the russian president vladimir putin held a telephone conversation with his iranian counterpart who harney and in that conversation pushed and told him that there was a real chance that the international standoff over iran's nuclear program could ultimately be solved now this comes just two days ahead of slater talks that will take place in geneva between the six global powers and iran's and if any kind of indication is accurate that there will be some kind of deal reached this will happen then potentially this week and at the same time what we're hearing from the

british newspaper the sunday times is that if a deal is reached this puts the option of a military strike by israel and saudi arabia back on the table both of them are worried that the deal would see international sanctions against iran lifted while the country continues with its nuclear enrichment program according to the sunday times riyadh is offering tel aviv tactical supports in the form of allowing israeli warplanes to use its airspace in any kind of possible military strike and at the same time allowing the israelis to use saudi tanker planes drones as well as helicopters the saudis are reportedly furious over any kind of possible deal and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly said that he will do everything it takes to make sure that his country is secure particularly as regards iran the last time the world powers mitt to discuss the iranian nuclear program was back on november the tenth and at that stage no agreement was reached and one of

the major critics was the french and right now you have the french president francois hollande visiting israel and palestine he's here on a three day visit and now netanyahu has urged him to keep up the pressure against iran and western allies francois hollande by what indications is going to do this earlier he did say that there were four conditions that paris was insisting on in. indeed any kind of deal with iran is to be brokered and these conditions are that only raney and nuclear installations need to be put under international supervision immediately that enrichment needs to be suspended to the twenty percent level that the existing stock needs to be reduced and that iran needs to halt construction on the iraq plant it on yahoo has praised the french president for his position the views of iran and its nuclear program. of middle east i spoke to a former radio diplomat who's represented to run in talks with the u.n.

nuclear watchdog he pointed a major contradictions in france's position over. france has blocked the peaceful because of israeli claims i think this is a historical mistake france is making the i.a.e.a. has a bolt five thousand man the inspection of it your in your nuclear program and frequently has announced the reason no evidence of diversion toward that end is asian this is clear but i really doubt the real concern of france is a nuclear bomb because france has a strategy to relation with israel who is not a member of n.p.t. and possess about four hundred nuclear bombs therefore france should not be concerned about nuclear bomb france help israel to muster a nuclear bomb france heard in the year two nuclear bomb therefore france has

a very very bad record. migrant construction workers in catarrh are suffering from systematic human rights abuse according to a newly published report from amnesty international the gulf kingdom has drawn international focus as of course it prepares to host the twenty twenty two football world cup testimonies from workers say they're being treated like cattle with amnesty indicating that some abuses amount of forced labor violations include unpaid wages harsh and dangerous conditions as well as overcrowded and sanitary housing the report highlights how the exploitation is happening in one of the world's richest countries we heard more about the report from misty's head of refugee and migrant rights. what we found was that there are systemic problems with the make it workers encounter and many of them are subjected to david expectation for example which i think people who. were deceived about the baby getting caught there are some people have been deceived about the kind of work they were doing there 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 we. had been stuck in the country trying to leave they were desperate in some cases the side of trying to be but i needed to because they would not get that makes it i mean teaches. in some circumstances. with people who are in conditions that most favor. i spoke to a german filmmaker who went to qatar to investigate from self to situation but paid to castell his cameraman were detained and interrogated by security officials accused of attempting to spark a riot by talking to these workers mr diesel told me what he uncovered however about the problems these migrant workers face when they get to cut. 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 of the state take the past posts away from the migrant workers and that put so numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation online why. once upon a time it's not a sort of bedtime story once upon a time the planet mars was just like earth partly now scientists want to know what went wrong nasa center when you will decide to study the red planet skies to discover why it became uninhabitable billions of years ago when we get more about that for instance rates on our website. europe's most active volcanoes are at it

again is putting on a show in the sky above sicily able talk about mt etna it's a rapid that we've got pictures in are in motion section. right to see. her street. and i would think that you're. on a reporter's. instal. would be in the. in brief a manhunt underway tonight for government in france who shot and critically injured a photographer with a hunting rifle on the newspaper's head office all the main media offices in paris now being closed tonight the being heavily guarded by police the attacker escaped from the scene and hijacked a car forcing the driver to take him to the shelves a leisurely pace confirmed it's the same man who attacked a twenty four hour t.v.

news channel on friday no shots were fired but he had threatened then quote not to miss next time. a huge rebel attack has rocked a government building northwest of damascus has killed at least thirty one troops an opposition group which is part of the western backed free syrian army says it carried out the attack and has posted this video on the web you saw it comes despite efforts brokered by russia and the u.s. to bring the rival sides in the conflict to the negotiating table. freight train a minibus of the need ships real mess here at least twenty four people are dead many more injured it happened to the level crossing south of cairo and also involved several other vehicles it's thought over although the barriers to the tracks were closed at the time cars were still crossing as the train approach most of the casualties were aborted members of the same family returning from a wedding. indonesia's recalled its ambassador to australia in an angry response to

allege spying it stems from leaks by edward snowden revealing that australia had been listening in to the in the museum president's phone calls it's not the first espionage tension between them indonesia someone destroyers ambassador previously or reports that its embassy in jakarta was used as a u.s. led surveillance network in asia. the digital currency because we reached a record high this week of five hundred dollars each it's selling a real roller coaster ride with its value and reputation because its frequently linked to internet black market transactions despite that rapidly become the twenty first century money spinner washington most still not sure it can be trusted is there are trees going to future care. there's around one point two trillion dollars circulating in u.s. currency compared to around three billion dollars in bitcoin so big coin 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 these 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 denied the rapid development bitcoin and are right now thinking how to may be incorporate bitcoin into the conventional money system possibly wishing to see coin as more of a technological innovation rather than

a truly stateless and independent currency in washington i'm going to check out. well if you're still trying to head round it this is going to you just create an online wallet that so identified by digital code that transactions can be processed between users without the middleman crucially cutting out financial institutions and governments jeffrey chuck has not had to make who campaigns to free up global economics he's enthusiastic about he says there's no way the authorities can brighten. governments always like to control money they like to control currency and frankly washington is starting to get a little panicked about becoming a year ago to the latin stock and now people are starting to worry. they don't want anything that happens out of their control and become really just doesn't care actually it's a perfect currency and it is it is immune from abuse by governments and

regulators no one controls that quite it's purely a product of a little international market of traders and users so in that sense because it is a revolutionary tool to free people from oppression from their nation states governments can try to control it but ultimately they cannot all the latest news if it's a must twenty four seven and r.t. dot com of course i am but the next news bulletin about thirty three and a half minutes time up next though or crossed over whether america's losing its influence in the talks over iran's nuclear program and the wider middle east always topple conversation from us this is r.t. international. this is the media lead us so we need to keep. the same motions into. play your part

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young young a. torch is on its journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. torch relay. on r t r c dot com. hello and welcome across 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 iran and each washington finds itself either the odd man out leaving alone or lead. from behind in a muddled package if the u.s. simply out of touch or its history in the region merely being on. cross like 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 slawson juror in new york he is a senior fellow at the century foundation and author of the book act of creation right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in it anytime 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 no.