a passenger plane with seventy one people on board crashes shortly after takeoff from moscow leaving no survivors the cause of the tragedy is so far unclear. one of the aircraft's black boxes is recovered from the crash site where a massive search operation is ongoing. in the russian city of the four school where the ill fated plane that should have landed distraught relatives grieve the loss of their loved ones. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our international now we start with.

a developing story sad news a plane with sixty five passengers and six crew members on board has crashed outside moscow shortly after takeoff leaving no survivors. we haven't seen him for three months he was working. we want. wasn't where. i was a way to help nephew just like certain other men that won the same feel so sorry for her daughter's terribly sad. yes and my what i'm trying not to teach my sound.

i didn't. always wanted to be a pilot he loved everything related to flying he was in love with the sky. these are the first images of the crash side that emerged online after the tragedy the footage was apparently shot by locals and the plane came down near a village about sixty kilometers southeast of moscow on the plane it was heading to or city close to the russian border with kazakhstan it took off from airport in the russian capital about four minutes later the plane disappeared from radar investigators say the crew did not report any irregularities to air traffic control before tragedy struck. this is a bird's eye view of the crash site which is spread over

a large area around six hundred people are involved in the search effort record snowfall over the past week has made their task especially difficult our correspondent broadcast you have reports. rescuers here working in shifts there are dozens and dozens of not hundreds of them but one part of one group works at the crash sites another group breasts and then they switch. rescuers a also making use of snowmobiles ferrying supplies to and from the crash site itself because there's a lot of snow at the crash site that the jet crashed into a field more trucks and the equipment to arriving every hour heavier stuff the conditions at the crash site are first be there. because of this though because of the worry and. obviously they want to get this crash site in order quickly

here is another ambulance moved likely carrying the remains of another victim or perhaps victims judging by the frequency by which these are passing us the rescue operation is proceeding rapidly lugol's have also been describing what they've seen. my friend say the bang was so loud when days almost shouted. the others watching the t.v. and the band everyone. yes i heard a loud cluck i was lining the whole badly that up and my cats hit it was really loud new york schools and i would see it sounded like an explosion our house bounced. reports initially were contradictory some people said that the aircraft was. on fire while in the air others described

a huge explosion when it crashed about a kilometer from here. tractors clearing away the snow on the roads there's already been a lot of speculation a lot of discussion as to the potential possible causes of this crash books investigators say they'll be looking at everything from possible technical malfunctions to human error to weather conditions and it's probably best to let the men and woman digging through the wreckage do their job and to give us a definitive conclusive on system what caused this tragedy the plane was a russian made. by said out of airlines it was eight years old and had a maximum speed of eight hundred twenty kilometers per hour and one forty eight is capable of carrying up to eighty passengers the airline is now being examined by be authorities but the company claims it carried out all the necessary technical maintenance however this particularly plane was previously involved in several

security incidents including the engine and chassis problems as the investigation continues we discussed the tragedy with three aviation experts who shared their thoughts on some possible causes. like to extend my thoughts and prayers to all the families of the passengers and crew and the airline staff in the wake of this tragedy the weather is probably the primary factor that depends a lot on the rate of the snowfall or precipitation and how long the airplane had been sitting on the ground collecting all that material so if the airplane had only been on the ground maybe thirty minutes maybe not so much accumulated if had been there a couple of hours obviously a lot more could have accumulated in that case if the airplane was not sprayed with the icing fluid there would be a more serious. result you know so the fact that the airplane became airborne and climbed to six thousand feet tells me that probably the airplane was in pretty good

shape at the time of the takeoff we're dealing with a great great tragedy i feel very badly and we're communicating in such a context with the tragedy there are common protocols for an investigation through various aspects of security and safety factor. a few things really briefly would be the structural integrity of the aircraft the fuselage the engines and so on then you look at various energy sources whether we're talking a lecture called systems hour for the engine and things of that smart. trains are really anomalies external to any aircraft that could include anything from up bird strike a missile strike a collision with another aircraft interaction with unusual weather phenomena and then lastly you have to look you know about human issues that could possibly think

the thing they call when shit where the wind just suddenly goes straight up and is the kind of tryst the plane also we have to consider whether it is icy weather they probably the plane before and that. could be that size built very quickly on the wings and that might affect the flying ability of the plane so these are all considerations that have to be part of the overall investigation. morals have been set up across the or in berg region or sixty of the passengers were from local authorities have declared monday a day of mourning parties monday in a question of reports now from moscow airport. the aircraft that crashed just outside moscow departed from this very airport the why did the lease one off the three major air transport hubs in the capital and after the tragedy it remains fully operational but over and the small city of course the airport there tells

a very different story the shock has paralyzed it most of the sixty five passengers on board of that plane were from bad reach and dozens of family and friends were waiting for them there are scenes of absolute grief a speed will come to terms with what has happened emergency crews are present at the airport and psychologists are ready to help those trying to cope with their loss the passengers who were due to fly back to moscow on the crashed aircraft are handing back their tickets and even the here at this fast paced airport which is forced to keep moving this tragedy has hit hard. one man had a lock on his side after he canceled his ticket one day before the flight coleman itself who turned thirty seven this sunday was it due to fly back to or sick to celebrate his birthday with his family but changed his plans he says he still can't grasp what happened. so i saw the news and what can i say i felt

a chill down my spine and everyone says i was born under a lucky star that's not true just a coincidence. my sorrow deeply sympathies to the relatives of the pirates and you know it's scary because when you. over the past a decade almost four hundred lives have been lost in russian plane crashes and the tragedies still weigh heavy for many. the and. the

on. the other a quick recap a passenger plane with a seventy one people on board crashed to shortly after takeoff from moscow meant the end of the airport even no survivors most of the victims were from the orenburg region of russia where the plane was heading the cause of the tragedy is so far unknown of course we will keep you updated as the information becomes available.

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i want to magna watch march international and the weekly and around seven hundred fifty thousand children lack basic medical care in the war torn iraqi city of mosul this is according to the u.n. children's rights body unicef seven months after the liberation of mosul from islamic state the city is struggling to get back on its feet. you 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 and 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. long after the iraqi army declared victory in mosul the city remains strewn with corpses and a warning you may find the following scenes for distress. and 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 unicef's representative in iraq peter hawkins says mosul cannot rebuild without international support. 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 been an enormous challenge for everybody to try and clear everything up and get

the people working again. south korea kicked off the winter olympics on friday with a lavish opening ceremony most of three thousand athletes from ninety two countries took part in the event in chiang however before the celebrations there were demonstrations and scuffles outside the venue some activists objected to the presence of north korean officials and the ceremony. if. it. was. was. at the stadium the north and south korean teams marched together under a unified flag and the olympic torch together it was seen as a major milestone on the way to overcoming decades of tension in the south korean president says he is ready to accept even the taishan to visit the north when the

right conditions are in place that potentially sets up the first meeting between the country's leaders in more than a decade the invitation was handed to him by kim jong un sr is the first member of north korea's ruling family to visit the south since the one nine hundred fifty s. . now russian hopes were dashed just hours before events got underway in south korea a last minute appeal from forty five russian athletes and two coaches against a doping related ban failed their lawyers branded the decision sanctions in disguise well this was the official announcement made by sports highest court. just arbitrators of considered that the process created by the i.o.c. to establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete. from russia would 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. 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 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 the merchant the need. for reforms in the internal structure of the 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 held the sanctions 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 chance would rule in our same right now i don't know what to do i'm disappointed in what of

course and i won't give up on suborning that's not 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. and would go in our favor now i feel sadness and so rule and i will compete in every competition i can do i have enough strength and the opportunity to compete in the next olympics and i will prove that. i have no emotions left we had all our bags packed you were just waiting for it it is the only thing so just situations make you stronger emotionally. three of the world's biggest of social media companies were grilled on thursday by british lawmakers they took the unusual step of conducting a parliamentary hearing outside britain and they tried to pin down the organizations over alleged russian interference in the break that referendum. we 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 less than point normal five percent of the total number of accounts these are very low level things until we complete this investigation we won't know but what we haven't had this. information that enable those 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 find out the truth about russia and any brecht 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 a frustration it seems and that was thick in the atmosphere investigative journalism for instance as it led to suggestion that there are lots of campaigns going to have it looks like you haven't looked at you that's the thing you haven't looked this economy. going on in the horror well it seems who did look with twitter and what they said they found was that they were only fourteen nine accounts connected to russia during the time of the bracks it referendum again i'm no mathematician so correct me if i'm wrong perhaps but it seems that there is and 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 collins 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 ghost. think continuing in the committee keeping asking the executives to look harder it seems now for the results so far. there is

seemingly a huge appetite for russian meddling stories in the medium and take a look at some of the headlines this one reads twitter has finally conceded that russian accounts tried to influence bragg's it but the article goes on to admit this is based on just a few dozen twitter accounts meanwhile a london times headline says twitter admits russian trolls posted about brags that the first paragraph then reveals there were only forty nine suspicious accounts radio talk show host john gaunt told us that the meddling claims may be just a wild goose chase this is a farce these employees went all the way to washington to question to that honest about how the internet works they could've got them on a skype call a question and it's. an issue a waste of my taxpayers' money and it's very very annoying it's a joke they at children almost kangaroo court fashion firing questions at you and

heart of the waiting to listen to the answers you know well i don't think the british public care they know why people voted for let's just get over it and accept democracy or they're watching and it's your birthday and how indiana or from the peak of kilimanjaro this is our international we're glad to have you with us this is the week we will be back at the top the hour. tens of billions hundreds of billions probably a trillion dollars of u.s. government subsidies a seat on the energy industry yes government can subsidize mining big brother crept up currencies and put those into the wall it's called american citizens going to each have an automatic wallet tied to this also security account and they can get a daily and weekly or monthly air drop points that they can then years to boost the

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