it passenger plane with seventy one people on board crashed shortly after takeoff from moscow leaving no survivors the cause of the tragedy is. one of the black boxes that is recovered from the massive search operation. in the russian. plane should have landed. last. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories in our weekly program this is our international but we start with sad news

from russia a plane with sixty five passengers and six crew members onboard has crashed outside moscow shortly after takeoff leaving no survivors. you know what we haven't seen him for three months he was working now we want. to know it wasn't wery opportunistically first i was a way to help nephew people like us ok remember when the same feel so sorry for the daughters it's terribly sad. yes and mind what i'm trying not to my sound

scares me 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 site that emerged online after the tragedy of the footage was apparently shot by locals the plane came down at near a village about sixty kilometers southeast of moscow the plane was heading it to or city closer to the russian border with kazakhstan it took off from domodedovo airport in the russian capital in about four minutes later the plane disappeared from radar investigators say that the crew did not report any irregularities to air traffic control before tragedy struck and 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 but i got the report. rescue is 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 very quickly into a rising every hour heaviest stuff the conditions at the crash site are fresh the air. because of this though because of the phase three 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 panelists a louse at the windows almost shouted. others watching the t.v. anaconda band everyone. yes i heard a loud cluck i was lining the whole badly to duck and my cats hit it was really loud. i would see it sounded like an explosion or a 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 but the 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 women digging through the wreckage do their job and to give us the definitive conclusive answers to what caused this tragedy. the plane was a russian made antonov owned by said out of airlines it was eight years old and had a maximum speed of eight hundred twenty kilometers per hour the a n 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 minutes however this particular plane was previously involved in several security incidents including 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 that 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 bad and were 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 a fuselage the engines and so on then you look at various energy from isis whether we're talking on electric systems how it for the engine and things of that smart. trains are really only 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 at about human issues that could possibly think the thing they call when shit where the wind just suddenly goes straight up and alters the kind of tryst the plane also we have to consider whether it is icing whether

they probably the plane before it. could be that size built up 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. memorials have been set up across the orenburg region where sixty of the passengers were from local authorities have declared monday a day of mourning parties but in a culture of a reports now from moscow don't want your device airport. the aircraft that crashed just outside moscow departed from this very airport the my did these one off the three major air transport hubs in the capital and after the tragedy 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 that preachin dozens of family and friends were

waiting for them there they're seen as absolute grief a speech 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 crash aircraft are handing back their tickets and even to here at this fast paced airport which is forced to keep moving this tragedy has hit hard. one man had to lock on his side after he canceled his ticket one day before the flight. who turned thirty seven this sunday was due to fly back to or 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. to my sorrow but deeply sympathies to the

relative you know what is scary. over the past decade almost four hundred lives have been lost in russian plane crashes and the tragedies to weigh heavy for many. the in. the ever.

the us now quick recap a passenger plane with seventy one people on board has crashed shortly after takeoff from moscow's dome again of the airport leaving 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 we will keep you updated as the information comes in to our newsroom. when lawmakers manufacture consensus and stick to the public well. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one person.

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of walking back this is aren't international end of the weekly now around seven hundred fifty thousand children lack basic medical care in the war torn iraqi city of mosul that is according to the u.n. a 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. no. 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 and one family came in with their baby isn't two month old baby they wanted a vaccinated there was vaccine there was everything there and stuff who are 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 incubators six of which were filled with premature babies who would not have survived unless those incubators 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

strong with corpses now 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 unicef's representative in iraq. 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 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 and almost three thousand athletes from ninety two

countries took part in the event in chang however before the celebrations there were demonstrations and scuffles outside the venue some activists objected to the presence of north korean officials at the ceremony. were the it. was. i was. at the stadium of the north and south korean teams marched together under a unified flag and lit the olympic torch together it was seen as a major milestone on the way.