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 bad that we're communicating in such a context with the tracks you need 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 if you use a line which the engines and so on then you look at various energies whether we're talking electrical systems. or the engine things the facts that are. going to really anomaly external to an aircraft can 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 human issues. to other news now in a full months after its liberation from islamic state people from the syrian city of raka plenty returning to what's left of their homes but many buildings in the city remain riddled with land mines and booby traps and the locals say that they've been left to take on the reconstruction by themselves.

we're still a third here and we were forced to leave our homes because weisel when we returned we found everything which used to rubble look at all the devastation wreckage is a ghost city. we're living in the midst of destruction we feel completely abandon everything around has been destroyed. life years horrible this is the lies and rubble that we have to be to remove the debris with all money there's no running water so we have to buy it in. the u.s. coalition because the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply in clearing the rubble.

i found a man on the streets near my house my friend and i tried to detonate it from a distance but it didn't go off we thought the mine didn't work and work towards it it's exploded my friend was killed i survived. similarly across the border in iraq civilians are also struggling to rebuild their homes with the country's second largest city almost completely reduced to rubble mosul was liberated by the u.s. led coalition and iraqi forces back in july after months of face fighting and airstrikes some forty thousand homes need to be rebuilt they're all repaired according to the u.n. the government says it needs up to one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction funds for areas devastated by war a summit it aims to raise at an upcoming conference in kuwait however the u.s. which is expected to attend that says it has no plans to contribute any money. but you know the u.s. government is making and now it's time to be sure that this i'm not aware of any announcements that we will be making and i can tell you overall. over the past few

years we have spent the united states government has one point seven billion dollars in humanitarian aid in iraq alone i told more about that earlier to sri ram talia who is the dean at the jindal school of international affairs he thinks that washington's more interested in maintaining its presence in iraq rather than restoring it. smacks of historical your responsibility on the part of the united states which began this slight towards absence did for you and by overthrowing saddam hussein in two thousand and three to now wants that arms are free to say you know we're going to just leave it to private sector and we lost our allies like saudi arabia if you're going to be getting the money and your star used to finance militias the us navy going to have to be told sort of. armed groups in the north of studio who don't want me for so on stability but it's more like a military base for the long prison strategy that they have the only looking good i did as a business opportunities for their companies are as appear to be destroyed you will

bomb the hell out of lives and did not take a response from the saudis or if you do a group of them didn't unfortunately. this is out to be the medals board's filling up at the winter olympics in south korea and the hospitality is in full flow the report from south korea after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. we have a great team but we need to strength for the free float. to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in

us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that winning spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last world cup. thousand zero zero zero zero zero. drive. left left left more or less ok that's really good. welcome back day three of the winter olympics in south korea has seen seven sets of medals handed out figure skating and snowboarding have winners and still ski jumping biathlon and speed skating among other sports i had today russian athletes called the second medal a silver in the figure skating with canada winning gold and the us coming third as well as the competitive side there's also the social aspect to the games with most

nations hosting their own hospitality houses as they called russia of course isn't officially represented at the olympics but this corner of p.r. chiang that feels very much russian as a new contract has been finding out. as usual there are all kinds of national houses at the olympics and young chang the likes of the hall and house near the coast the countries like austria and switzerland naturally settled a bit higher in the mountains and since team russia doesn't officially exist here the traditional russian house doesn't either or isn't that immature or sca. to make sure russian fans have a home in korea it took a few tricks after all the i.o.c. must be respected the place is called the sports house obviously you find wide blue and red in the design but never specifically in the recognizable pattern like

here's white and black in between what could appear to be flags stripes no official russian symbols the mentors because i haven't become official right other than that pure i ration fun and spirit. among the attractions here are these hockey jersey from every year at the olympics that russia one goes but this one from nine hundred ninety two like here in korea you won't find the letters russia or the u.s.s.r. also ask the guest if they know why and why did russia compete under

a neutral flag at the olympics twenty six years ago and see money i don't own voice simply. was increased. and i don't know sorry. i don't know if i got some clues for you countries take turns with that well hey. i mean respect to the i.o.c. saying it was essential you know why not i think it's not only a men's i.q. . thank patton's as in the same reason. that. it will be sunday night i think it's. rather loose to stablish is a country so being unique left russia was just established as a country that's when the soviet union. suddenly had its break up so neutral flags weren't always down to the i.o.c. sanctions. have a drink go our tea chang even travelling to say one of the world's largest sporting

events can prove to be challenging especially with similar sounding korean settings on everyone's lips.

national security advisor is warning against american strategy in neighboring afghanistan and pakistan to negotiate with the taliban we got some insight on this from the chairman of the pakistan people's party has also the son of former prime minister benazir bhutto widely tipped to be the country's next leader he told him that he thinks that the u.s. has lost its way in the long running conflict. pakistan has been a strong ally of the u.s. in the war on terror but it's been about sixteen years and there's still no end in sight how would you change pakistan's policy in afghanistan unfortunately the of the on war has turned into this for ever war with the united states has lots site of its objectives it seems that they don't know why they're there what they want to do or how they're going to get out the fact of the matter is that seventy five

percent of our gonna stand witnesses terrorist activity forty five percent of our plan is done is not in the control of the our run government we want there to be peace in afghanistan but it has to be an afghan led peace and the afghan government and nato forces need to start taking responsibility for their failures if in this long in this flare war they haven't been successful it's time for us to rethink what we're doing. i the pakistan people's party believes in non interventionist foreign policies in their change if changes to take place that has to take place domestically inorganically. and unfortunately we've seen the west get overly excited by the arab spring and didn't allow it to tick its organic conclusion and we shouldn't focus on individuals we shouldn't try and

advance political agendas states' political agendas whether it's in of honest than syria or in iran and we should let the people of syria decide their future. and we've always always in our previous government emphasized good relations with all countries particularly our neighbors i don't think it's fair to expect from pakistan that they won't maintain good relations with china who's been our all weather friend an absolutely important ally to our country or even iran who is our neighbor i'm really happy to see cooperation between pakistan and russia increasing and i'm very optimistic that this partnership will continue to increase we like to be treated with respect and the people of russia and the government of russia have been very respectful to the government and the people of pakistan.

because it's really out of the news these days given the roller coaster ride that it's giving investors but the cryptocurrency underlying technology is also making waves it's called block chain and it used to help verify transactions and also prevent them from being tampered with by linking packets of digital data in the process and for the companies behind that it's proving to be a boon with one recently raising a ten million dollar investment in just a few seconds ago francis santiago met its c.e.o. at a block chain forum in singapore. the i.c.a.o. phenomenon is breaking records and funneling we've found three projects that claim to want to make the world a better place and raising funds one of them faced her on the last day of the conference got ten million dollars in twenty seconds breaking for past records they simply created a facial recognition surveillance software with artificial intelligence on the block chain platform creating something that is affordable and easy to use for the masses people can use this for just about anything our proof of concept is we've got a working centralized solution right now you can do anything like for example in a gaming institution we had the casinos say listen here the people coming in they

want to ban themselves because they were gambling issues and then they come back in a gambling weed and haven't recognized them then they claim their money back because a big problem so we did proof of concept with them and even then in the low locking they really hitting ninety eight percent and i've got corporations around the world contacting me every day saying to integrate with you when you have your free istic a when you give you a p.r. so we can link into services to open good dad for you why you've managed to raise ten million in twenty seconds or these guys from the world big cap saying they are looking to help emerging economies to engage in commerce through augmented reality allowing you to interact with any product or service created around. arbiter the world is an augmented reality block chain application that we use in to really help emerging economies what we want to do is we want to to talk.