awful atrocious this past week or so we've still snowing outside knows two weeks exactly or very poor visibility more school was absolutely buried the city was paralyzed in recent memory if people should make a difference this plane often there were stories of some of the older russian planes crashing the five fours except for but this plane and of one for eight reading up about it no it's not one i'm particularly familiar with fly this is very often it's a regional jet airliner apparently pretty new in design it first took to the. run two thousand and four. no i'm just looking at some of the stats about it no no particular. fatal crashes before there was an accident apparently during its development that was back in twenty eleven but it doesn't look like there's been any fatal accidents with it since so it seems like it's been a safe plane as you say these planes these regional airline is russia's

a big country taken off every day every few hours flying people run from moscow and around this huge gonna be exactly the plane is you know buys the standards of aircraft it's relatively new and with these planes if you have the proper maintenance if you have the proper procedures if everything is followed the chance the chance of a catastrophe is this incredibly small the chance of a crash other than something something unforeseen going wrong again not mentioning the weather here because it is incredibly it's highly abnormal visibility has been very poor there's been enormous huge quantities of snow that have fallen over central russia the army was mobilized mobilized to clear moscow of snow so that motorists could at least get to work in even. the desh regions it's been it's been terrible but again this we we don't have enough information as to what happened if indeed it was flaming in the sky or if it was fire while it was in the air then.

that is something entirely different where you could be any manner of things could be catastrophic. terrorism. i'm looking at sort of your lines here again when people think of russian airlines they merely think of the national flag carrier certainly for an aeroflot that's going to extremely good safety reputation these days runs a very new fleet they call it one of the one of the newest fleet air buses. boeing because they don't really run russian planes anymore although they do run some of the super jets don't they but generally not over to work over to europe look in a set of airline see it seems it was formed back in one thousand nine hundred thirty one it's a company it's been going for a long time. in december twenty third seen it became the first russian operator of embraer egypt's again they've got a very good reputation for for reliability but that wasn't the plane we think was involved here now as of october twenty fifteen russian aviation authorities sanctioned apparently sort of a lot after

a violation of security rules reading in here. the airline was therefore no longer allowed to operate flights to destinations outside of russia from the twenty six of october twenty fifth that was reinstated may twenty sixteen but obviously there have been in the past i'm just researching this as i'm speaking there have been safety concerns about this airline in the past well there you go but again it's it's early days to talk about reasons because we don't even know how many people you know have been hurt in this in this incident there is an update there is an update just really it's just been posted on the wiki page and before he got to. sing a surat of a loan say in one for eight flying from domodedovo or we think took off from about two o'clock this afternoon crash near the village of our good of in moscow region moscow blast. you're not familiar with. south. southeast i think

southeast of moscow. what's the territory around there. is pretty flat no big mountains or anything when you heading that far again same thing same things gentle you know gentle hills flat land swamps forests how difficult would it be for most of the services to get out there is it pretty well connected more school moscow in the surrounding moscow suburbs and surrounding moscow fifty kilometers any where you go great infrastructure roads so they'll be able to get to the location relatively quickly if of course the snow again the snow the visibility if that doesn't hamper them. ok so let's go through what we what we know again at the moment if you just joined us this is r.t. international sad news coming through that we hear in the last hour or so a passenger plane has crashed. we believe it was an antonov a n one four eight that was operated by sarette off airlines carrying sixty five passengers and six crew

we've got flight number reading this down here it's flight number six w seven o three we believe it's crashed outside of moscow city itself in the in the moscow county it was heading to central rough russia and it was run by surat of the airlines it was heading to a place called in central russia. details of that coming through of course throat the afternoon sadly and we yet to hear about casualties and indeed how many people may have perished there in the flight post not looking good. on the new political party set to launch in the u.k. says it will reverse britain's exit from the european union and it's to gaining popularity in france present manual micron's parties even offering up advice about it to charlotte do bensky as more. this is really a brand new political party that's a boat to launch in the k.

its goals are quite ambitious pledging to transform british politics and reverse brigs it it wants a second referendum on it i think there's no chance of bragg's it being reversed the british people have spoken and that's an end of the matter they can bash their head against a brick wall although get is a sore head for the party is launching in the u.k. it's getting advice from a. colonel here in prague for helping her and coming from a manual much calls party the republic of march with advisers said to be at a recent meeting consulting about tactics and its north one your good friends was a blank u.p. like the west and like many other countries looking for because it was feeling despair i think the danger increasing you can look at the future musical and i

think the movement of christian authors i believe with when you use the future you can embrace. burring the ideas of mark. which invited in every day people regardless of their experience in politics were new also calls on everyone to join and those behind it hope it'll work for them to. we don't have much time the only way of winning is by the same miracle as michael the u.k. electoral commission says there is no issue with the british party receiving advice from a foreign political party providing it receives funding from it so it's fair enough but what the reaction be if the advice was coming from a russian party will there be a great outcry as there would be if politicians from any political or from any other country were trying to advise politicians or tell them what to do but i mean

what we should all be doing of course is talking to politicians from other countries not to get advice from them not to be told what to do but simply to find out what's going on in those countries we are stringing for an interview to discuss the party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about our year saying that r.t. would look to undermine it also accused the channel of being up propaganda to answer jested that russia had interfered in the brakes vote dividing the u.k. for europe despite a lack of concrete evidence. when you clearly doesn't have a problem when it comes to seeking the advice of a foreign power such as france when it comes to reversing briggs it a referendum in which the majority of voters or plea to leave you so it seems that for a new meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved challenged even

ski r.t. paris. republican lawmakers in the us are threatening to cut funding to the world health organization's cancer research program it's after the international agency for research on cancer said america's most widely used weed killer this is a long running story this one is probably carcinogenic now it's made by the agricultural joy. monsanto of course monsanto strongly disagrees with the classification of its beside here their research agency leads prevention activities and helps shape international policy on tackling cancer but some u.s. lawmakers have cast doubt on the findings. unsubstantiated claims i or your responsible handling of why arc should receive any government funding in the future they're disputing the organizations findings regarding its leading herbicide called round up round up is made by month santo and it's the world's most widely

used weed killer since the seventy's it's been sprayed on corn soybeans cotton and other crops and republicans believe that the study was flawed and relied on cherry pick science accusing the agency of lack of transparency and anti industry bias they say that it's quite a state is designated as carcinogenic it will require manufacturers and retailers to warn workers and consumers and plus it'll increase costs and instill fear in the public some have disagreed with republicans it is important that we review the methods and tactics that industry has used to influence this administration and attack independent scientific organizations like the world health organization's international agency for research on cancer or i would like to say that fundamentally this hearing is about the ability of a public health agency to call a carcinogen a carcinogen even if that carcinogen makes a huge amount of money for powerful corporations according to the center for

responsive politics monsanto lobbied more than four point three million dollars in twenty seven team the environmental protection agency which is not an international organization concluded that the same ingredient does not cause cancer and i are says that they've been under attack ever since they published their conclusions against life a state at the same time monsanto has been pushing against these findings through several different means and the company is seen as quite controversial not only in the u.s. but all over the world president micron promised in november that would be banned within three years inevitably modified crops have been banned in over thirty five different countries but not banned in the u.s. international organizations have concluded that life is it could be cancerous so these lawmakers intentions. quite unclear. spirit in washington but to that breaking news story coming from russia this afternoon if you just joined us news news a passenger plane has crashed in the last few hours after taking off from one of moscow's main airports down were dead of the airport earlier this afternoon i

witnesses say they saw the plane on fire before the crash you can see an example of that kind of plane and the operator there was an antonov one for eight airplanes operated by set off airlines a russian company was heading to or sq in the urals in the central russia city close to the russian border. there were sixty five passengers and six crew on board is sending our correspondents out there now and we've yet to hear any more about casualty numbers there are a fatality numbers to say the emergency services of there are no pictures coming back from it yet either but. you can bet your bottom dollar will be getting that i suppose within about half an hour or so as the first crews get there and get pictures back so it doesn't look good anyway we'll keep you posted. for more news from the way the winter olympics in south korea got underway on friday with a grand opening ceremony in the host city puncturing nearly three thousand fleets

from ninety two countries took part in the event but in the run up to the celebrations demonstrations and scuffles erupted outside the olympic arena people supporting peace between north and south korea gathered for a rally while another group protesting north korea's participation in the games clashed with the police. despite the scuffles on the streets korean politicians are taking steps to find a solution to the conflict there's been so long drawn out the south korean president now says he's ready to accept an invitation to visit the north of certain conditions are met is potentially sets up the first meeting between the countries more than a decade that the imitation was delivered by hand by kim jong un's sister she's there attending the winter olympics she's the first member of north korea's ruling

family to visit the south since the one hundred fifty s. in fact she met with president moon for three hours of talks at the games opening ceremony also hinted at warming relations with both teams marching together. while the two koreas were able to march under a single flag of course the russian competitors were there under a neutral banner taking part as a limb pick athletes from russia or team away are it's being turned it's after the international olympic committee banned russia following the scandal although the russian flag being forbidden officially by the i.o.c. it did still manage to find its way into the stadium in

a small way. when i heard that russia can march under their own flag i felt quite sorry for the athletes you know the athletes who were completely clean and had no problems but they were deprived of the right to represent their country and so i thought i would support them by putting the flag out there and partially said because you know i was looking forward to seeing the best in the world and well the russians are the best in the world a lot of things so i can't see them which is kind of sad but mostly mad because they've worked for years for these olympics and now they're being told you know they don't even have really proof they just have suspicions and now they're being sold without really a chance to properly appeal they can't compete and i just think that's really unfair i just heard a last minute appeal from forty five athletes and two coaches against prevented the from competing it failed the lawyers branded the decision as sanctions in disguise . guss arbitrators of concert at the process created by the i used to establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete. at least from russia could not be described as

a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision so there you have it according to the court of arbitration for sport ridding the russian athletes of their olympic invitations isn't equal to punishment and cas is perfectly happy with the criteria that the i.o.c. and mission lee shows for these invitations the president of the world anti-doping agency is pleased he says that the timing is great and that all the clean athletes should now be reassured the i.o.c. are happy to they have applauded the verdict as you can see and this tweet though the russians are obviously totally devastated i don't know what to say i'm really disappointed i can't understand the cast decision first they cleared the athletes and now they say sorry you can't go to the olympics this is some kind of madness it's terrible not just for fleets but for all of international sport did i expect

cas to reach this decision fifty fifty especially after thomas buck in one of his later speeches pressured the court of arbitration for sport after ruled in our favor he was literally threatening the court he was almost saying he would dissolve the court if it root again in favor of russian athletes. coach albert dempsey and co who was by the way one of those to sue the i.o.c. was referring to all the things that were being said about the court of arbitration for sport ahead of the hearings including these statements by the president of the i.o.c. kind of the decision is extremely disappointing. the decision shows. the need. for reforms in the internal structure of costs here thomas bach was referring to the previous cas verdict and that requires a bit of background the forty seven russian athletes and coaches who were suing the

international olympic committee were from two groups thirty two hadn't been sanctioned by the odyssey investigators as a result of the russian doping scandal at all fifty received lifetime bans their medals were taken away by the i.o.c. a few months ago but then the very same court of arbitration for sport last week cancelled these lifetime bans due to insufficient evidence the abuse of the sanctions and the and the individual results achieved in such reinstated so the decision that we have right now completely contradicts the previous one and this is a real disaster for the country the athletes both the ones who are still going to compete and young saying under a neutral flag and those who are banned the coaches the fans they are baffled by how unfair it could get have no way. i was hoping that yes would

ruin our shame or right now i don't know what to do i'm disappointed in what of course and i won't give up on subordinates and a lot ahead of me and i will compete and win medals for my country. and to the very end we will bring the. as you would go in our favor now i feel sadness and sorrow. in every competition i can. strengthen the opportunity to compete in the next. i had no emotions last we had all our backstabbing you were just waiting for a decision making such situations make you stronger emotionally. it's tough time for those athletes meantime but a brighton whose history was made at this year's olympics in a small part nigeria has entered the winter games for the first time the women's bobsled team the athletes managed to get to play on chang thanks to a crowdfunding campaign they say they hope their example will encourage other athletes from africa now too. i think we definitely put ourselves on the map in

terms of ok we don't have all these things but these things are still possible to get inside. africa is a beautiful client today and we are representation of the africans here in our historic stance of being the largest number of africans we are a representation of exactly what that beauty genuinely is and so if we can encourage others to live inside that and take away whatever stigma is maybe associated with the consulate with regards to growth and development i think that that's huge that's very important and i hope that we can do that. but i think if we continue to encourage those things in the future it will start to come together but you have to start something. for the world's biggest social media for a. day by british lawmakers who took the unusual step of conducting a parliamentary hearing outside britain as they tried to get him to pin down the

companies over alleged russian interference during the breaks to vote but it seemed there was little have anything to back up those accusations again. they looked at all advertisements with any connection to russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the referendum a very small number of suspects its research agency linked accounts forty nine such accounts were active during the campaign which represents must point some of the total number of accounts these are very low level until we completed this investigates we won't know but what we haven't had this. information that's enabled us to target on a particular page or a particular phenomenon despite all their commitment enthusiasm and hard work spanning over a period of really several months when this inquiry kick started it seems like the u.k. parliamentary committee that's trying to play. out the truth about russia and any

breck's that meddling they seem to be really hitting a brick wall this week they travelled all the way to washington thousand thousands of miles presumably having spent thousands of pounds to get there and what they ended up with while questioning the executives of twitter you tube and facebook was just frustrating it seems and that's what's taken the atmosphere investigative journalism for instance that it led to suggestion that there are lots of campaigns going on now you have an image you haven't looked happy that's the thing you haven't looked succumbing to the contrary remember going on in the car well it seems who did look was twitter and what they said they found was that there were only forty nine accounts connected to russia during the time of the fact that referendum again i'm no mathematician so correct me if i'm wrong perhaps but it seems that there's this is really nothing to write home about given that twitter has hundreds of millions of accounts and despite the chair of this committee

damian call and saying that his quote instinct tells him that the numbers should be higher that did not turn out to be the case so despite this goes chasing continuing and the committee keeping asking the executives to look harder it seems no fruitful results so far. but of course it makes good headlines the similarly huge appetite for that kind of stuff in the media with little to work on again let's take a look at some of the headlines this one reads it has finally conceded that russian account tried to influence bricks it but read on there's only a passing mention to explain the story is just a few dozen accounts that we're talking about there the same with the times headline which admits the existence of so-called russia trolls the first paragraph then reveals in fact there are only forty nine suspicious accounts another example of really going to dig deep to find it though the actual numbers are mentioned in a very lengthy article in the numbers a minimal radio talk host john galt told us the russian investigation may well be

a wild goose chase after all. this is a farce these employees went all the way to washington to question though they don't understand how the internet works they could've got them on a skype call a question it's far soko an issue a waste of my taxpayers' money and it served very very annoying it's a joke they act in an almost kangaroo court fashion firing questions at you and hardly waiting to listen to the answers you know or i don't think the british public care they know why people voted for it let's just get over it and accept democracy. as this is art international in the last there's been news coming through of a passenger plane crash here in russia it seems this plane crashed shortly after takeoff in the last hour or so from moscow's domodedovo airport witnesses say they saw the plane on fire before it went on it was an antonov one for

a operated by the rattle of airlines would believe the flight number was six w seven o three it was flying to or ski that same city close to the russian border with. reportedly sixty five passengers and six crew on board that plot that flight this site of the crash has already been found emergency teams though. i can only reach it on foot because of severe conditions on the ground it's snowing very heavily here around moscow at the moment is sites of roundabout we believe fifty to sixty kilometers from moscow still no word on what may have caused the crash but our website talking about initial reports saying there that nobody has survived the crew and passengers had no chance the interfax news agency reporting there some people who probably witnessed that crash see we haven't got any pictures back yet from the site there we will be getting there you said our correspondents they

shouldn't take too long should be within the hour or so but it does look like seventy one people have perished today we think it is not being confirmed yet i'm just going by the early speculation there by some eyewitnesses being reported by interfax we think seventy one people could have perished on that serato felons regional airline regional flight today that took off from domodedovo airport earlier this afternoon on an answer north pretty modern plane once north one for eight you can see a picture of it there now. r.t. dot com and keep abreast of it as well of course follows on twitter too no they were just some of the big stories of the week just gone near moscow it's kevin and say thanks for watching and hope you have a good weekend. altie we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the free world cold and you're back to been a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in

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breaking news from international is sunday afternoon a passenger plane on a domestic flight here in russia with seventy one passengers and crew on board has crashed shortly after taking off from a moscow airport details still coming. under some of the stories that shape the week here on the weekly the twenty eighteen winter olympics underway in south korea but dozens of russian athletes have had their hopes dashed just hours before the opening ceremony their appeals over a doping related ban were rejected. u.s. lawmakers are threatening to cut funding to a global cancer research program after it linked america's most widely used. made by monsanto to cancer.