i. our breaking news story on r.t.e. international a passenger plane with seventy one people on board crushes shortly after takeoff from the moscow airport leaving no survivors the authorities are investigating all possible channels to establish exactly what happened. russia's m urgency services say they have recovered one of the plane's black boxes us the round the clock search operation could drupal its manpower to six hundred people in the snow.

twenty four hour news live from moscow this is our to international my names you know neil alone welcome we begin with breaking news a plane with sixty five passengers and six crew members on board was crushed just start side moscow shortly after taking off leaving no survivors. with these are the first images of the crash site that emerged online soon after the tragedy the footage was apparently shot by locals the plane came down near a village around sixty kilometers southeast of moscow emergency services reportedly

struggled to reach the area first as you can see there are due to the heavy snow which has been falling and which continues to do so weather conditions are among the versions being investigated by the authorities for the crash together with human error technical malfunction and others. well the plane was heading to or sq a city close to the russian border with council it took off from the head of her port in the russian capital before diverting east just four minutes after taking off the plane disappeared from radar as investigators say the crew did not report any irregularities to that dispatching ahead of the crash. as mentioned the plane was an off one for owned by surat soft. took its maiden flight back in two thousand and ten the specific model of plane that we're talking about can reach speeds of around eight hundred twenty kilometers per hour on this capable of

carrying up to eighty passengers on board. let's get the latest details our correspondent right goes dia of the scene of the plane crash what do we know at this stage what has been established this point in the investigation. while the investigation is continuing and i doubt the. definitive statement until they've picked up all the pieces to speak we're about a kilometer from the crash site itself we've got the early on. that will police cordons keeping everyone out now the. blocked access to everyone the official reasoning makes sense that is to keep the press and the curious away from the away from you know impeding the recovery operation itself there are hundreds and hundreds of rescuers here now i think according to the latest statement six hundred

rescuers working at the crash site in the bot that number around the place waiting for the shift to kick in and waiting to replace the fellows that are digging away in the in the snow in the deep snow here because this is this is about sixty kilometers southeast of moscow the crash site itself is in a field and it is there's a lot of snow there a lot of snow now a lot of wreckage a lot of we were talking to a rescue on off the record and with the camera. just another crash site itself he says the main side there's about one hundred fifty meters in diameter and he says it's a grizzly sight to see with all the charred limbs and unrecognizable body parts sticking to the snow there's a constant stream of ambulances driving past you know bodies to morgues in moscow but the rescue is only part of them their colleagues are in and ports in

moscow in. the. region they're psychologists they're helping the relatives the loved ones deal with this huge tragedy this loss but you know the rescue operation here it's in full swing it's going to continue into the night heavier equipment that's still being brought in them making use of snowmobiles see a lot of those obviously because again of the weather conditions the snow has let up for now but it's been snowing all day here it's very cold as well and you know these are the conditions that these rescuers have to work and there's a lot of police keeping everything in check and keeping order here. my friends say the band was so loud when days almost shouted. kill the others watching the t.v. anaconda band everyone. yes i heard a loud clock i was lining the whole gladly and my cats when it was really

loud. i would see it sounded like an explosion our house bounced. initial reports said the witnesses saw the aircraft explode on fire in the air we've talked to a number of locals here and none of them has said that they've said that they heard a huge explosion one explosion probably the explosion when the when the plane hit the ground it was also full on fuel so that's undoubtedly have contributed to it as well but as i say the operation is continuing it will continue into the night and we can speculate about the reasons for this for this crash all we want but it's probably best to wait for the men and women here working that will be working throughout the night through tomorrow to pick up the pieces again and to give us

a definitive conclusive answers to what caused this tragedy and of course just looking at pictures as you're talking it's such a vast area as well that investigation is going to take quite some time to the weather as well at morocco's the of live from the crash i think. well we discuss this situation with two aviation experts to give us their thoughts on the possible reasons behind the crash. when with a great great tragedy i feel very bad but we're communicating in such a context with the tragedy there are common protocols for an investigation through various aspects security and safety factor. a few things really briefly would be the structural integrity of the aircraft fuselage the engines and so on and then you look at various energy sources whether we're talking on electric old

systems. for the engine and things of that smart. planes are really anomalies external to any aircraft could include anything from up bird strike a missile strike a collision with another your craft interaction with an unusual weather phenomenon and then lastly you have to look you know about human issues the thing the thing they call when shit where the wind just suddenly goes straight up and. the plane also we have to consider whether it is icing whether they probably the plane before it. could be that was built on the wings and that might affect the flying of those seals the plane so these are all considerations that have to be part of the overall investigation. just a few of the many theories our third of the moment medina culture. of her poured in

moscow where they fly took off several hours ago the investigation into the crash is of course under way in a special committee looking into different possible reasons behind the crash and of course difficult bad weather conditions are one of those. very quite difficult weather conditions now it has been snowing quite how throughout the day today which makes the visibility quite slow of course but i have to mention that it is not very windy which is another quite an important aspect to end the war for the airport and the way the flights are being carried out by the captains now overall in the past couple of weeks moscow has seen some really how the snow falls even last week was a record breaking snowfall that disrupted the work of the three major airports of the capital now we do know that dozens of flights at that time were cancelled.

flights were even many airplanes were even routed to there were two other airports because it was impossible to land in moscow now at this very moment the work of the airport is is normal it is the normal mode but i have to once again mentioned weather conditions are quite complicated here at the dumb idea the airport. yeah and of course the relatives have been gathering for your reporting in or where the plane was expected to just a couple of hours after it left moscow many understandably being grieving emergency services doctors have been deployed to the airport they will help provide psychological and medical help to those coming to terms with the trial flights have been suspended and some passengers have been humbling. their tickets back in for all their flights to to depart today and in the coming days as well well our flight

six w seven zero three was due to london a run sex am local time indeed one journalist who was covering the story soon realized the tragedy of touched her personally yes i'm mindful of i'm from that city myself from what it cost me to i didn't crash a straight. one over the past eight years or so similar tragedies have impacted russians on the world taking almost four hundred lives on some plane crashes their way heavy in russia to this day.

right let's get a reminder of our breaking news on r.t. international a plane with seventy one passengers and crew on board has crushed shortly after takeoff from moscow's douma jeddah for port the ensign off one for eight operated by surats off airlines was heading to or sq a city close to the russian border with council on board sixty five passengers including three children aged five twelve and seventeen besides the passengers there were six crew on board flight number six w seven zero three. was

was. was was. ok we moved on for no scythe korea welcome the world to the winter olympics on friday a loving opening ceremony was held in the host city. nearly three thousand police from ninety two countries took part in the event however before the celebrations in the olympic arena there were demonstrations and indeed fighting outside the venue people supporting peace between north and south korea had gathered for a rally while another group protesting north korea's participation in the games clutched with police. about the olympic stadium north korea march together in an iconic move to show

their warming relations they also have a unified korean flag and that the olympic torch together the korean president say's he's ready to accept an invitation to visit the north if certain conditions are met there that potentially sets up the first meeting between the countries in more than a decade the invitation was delivered by kim jong un's sister who's attending the games she's the first member of north korea's ruling family to visit the site since the one nine hundred fifty s. . the russian hopes were dashed just hours before events got underway in south korea a last minute appeal from forty five russian affiliates and two coaches against the doping bell failed meaning they could not compete their lawyers branded the decision sanctions in disguise this was the official announcement made by sports highest court. constitute. the process created by the u.c.

to establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete. 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 own pick invitations isn't equal to punishment and cas is perfectly happy with the criteria that the i.o.c. initially 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 kass 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 only 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 some of the virtue and the need. for reform. 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 where for 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 held the sanctions and notes 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 where. i was hoping that gas 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 this. as you would go in the favor now i feel sadness and sorrow but i will compete in every competition i can if i have enough strength and the opportunity to compete in the next lympics i will prepare and. i have no emotions left we had all our bags packed you are just waiting for a decision i think such situations make you stronger emotionally. ok we are of course continuing to keep across any and all developments on our

breaking news story here this hour on r.t. international the plane crash in just outside of moscow to keep you up to date what has occurred just the background to it first seventy one passengers and crew on board has crashed shortly after takeoff from douma jennifer a port in the capital one four eight operated by serato early lines was heading to or ski city close to the russian border with council stan the risks the five passengers including three children aged five twelve and seventeen we're also hearing although we are waiting for definite verification on this that two foreign citizens were on board believed to be and this is coming from the mirror's office in or swiss or british citizens as well as sixty nine believed to be russian nationals among the passengers and crew on board flight number six w seven zero three now what you're looking at here are pictures from a village sixty kilometers southeast of moscow where that crash occurred emergency

services say about they will be recovering operations right to run the clock taking part in the indeed the number of personnel has quadrupled already you can only get to the area by fucked at the moment because of the terrible weather there you can see snow fall all around a vast big area and one of the updates since i've been on air is that we are hearing that authorities have recovered one of the black boxes it's not be confirmed that is the flight data version there are two boxes essentially within the black box so this would tell you information about the ascent what happened shortly after takeoff the other one would be the voice recorder with the pilot copilot and possibly speaking to flight controlled. and in moscow as well that has not been found among the reaction to this a lot coming internationally domestically president putin expressed his condolences

to the relatives and ordered a special commission to investigate the incident and no word as yet we should on what has caused the plane to come done investigators say that all versions are being considered at this point including as you can see there weather conditions human error possibly technical function. moving on for now again a run seven hundred fifty thousand children are struggling to get basic medical services in the war torn iraqi city of mosul that's according to the un's children's rights body unicef and the estimated seventy four million dollars are needed to rebuild health facilities for children there seven months after the euphoria that greeted the liberation of mosul from islamic state of iraq the city struggling to get back on its feet.

that they are not mature adult supervision. the number of. health care centers or hospitals is very limited the extent of the damage has affected it i was there in one of the health centers the other day the one family came in with their baby is a two month old baby they wanted a vaccinated there was vaccine there was everything there and starts were seeing over one hundred children a day were able to vaccinate this child but those families have to walk far i also saw the baby unit there were nine incubate has six of which which were filled with

premature babies who would not have survived unless those incubate as with their it's a wide area wide level of levels of devastation families have to walk enormous distances to be able to get the health care what we're saying is that the cumulative health care that is required of any child anywhere else in the world is not available yet in mosul. more than half a year since its liberation the city remains strewn with corpses warning you may find the following scenes distressing the condition of many of the bodies is making it difficult to confirm their identities most of the victims appear to be civilians women children and elderly people residents are calling on the government to do something about the situation given the risks to health unicef's representative in iraq peter hawkins describes the situation in mosul as worried. i think what we

need to understand is the extent of the problem this is a massive city mosul city probably faced one of the biggest urban warfare since world war two and. two point two million to two point four million people affected it's a an enormous challenge for everybody to try and clear everything up and get the people working again. let's just get a reminder now of our breaking news story if you're just coming in to us this is our big story today a plane with seventy one passengers and crew on board has crashed shortly after takeoff from moscow's damage out of her port against an off one four eight operated by surat off airlines was heading to a city close to the russian border with cancer there were sixty five passengers including three children aged five twelve and seventeen on board also hearing two foreign citizens were on board believed to be swiss by journey is coming

in from the orse mirrors off its two bodies we heard a round about an hour ago had been fined at the site there may be more at this stage as the investigation as the operation gathers pace with lots more rescue workers are there in the snow in the scythe east of moscow besides the passengers there also six crew on board flight number six w. seven zero three as we say everybody is presumed to be dead on board the plane crash near a village sixteen kilometers as you're seeing these pictures nice site east of moscow emergency services say that they will be carrying i'd recovery operations right around the clock and the reason why of course it's so vast there is so much to do a lot of. unfortunate corpses are right in the area a lot of the fuselage a lot of the parts of the plane just. and really buried in the snow as well you can

imagine that is going to take a long time for the operation to take some sort of togetherness to get a picture of what occurred there because at the moment there are no reasons given as to why this a court although one of the black boxes we should has been following that is just being confirmed to be the flight data box giving the. the information about the takeoff the altitude really all of those details but the one that is missing is the voice recorder between the pilot the copilot and other crew in control as of yet we believe that has not been fun that may give other clues as to why this tragedy occurred today president putin has expressed his condolences to the relatives and ordered a special commission to investigate the incident be launched out is something we'll

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out western tolerance to criticism is even more why is it so difficult to communicate pointing out what's wrong with one another well to discuss that i'm now joined by tony cab and a former diplomat and the author of a book called return to moscow well mr cavanaugh it's great to have you in the studio thank you very much for your time and happiest charlie a day thank you very much. now when you say australia in the russian context it conjures up an image of a beautiful faraway land with bright sun blue sky beautiful beaches with friendly people who spent most of that time surfing and i know it's a typical but i think it's a nice mental picture to get you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russia in their struggle and contacts. the associations are probably not so positive are they. live they can be quite negative.