it is yes. breaking news thirteen people have been confirmed dead including two children playing in the gulf by fire as it made an emergency landing in moscow. russia's investigative committee has launched a criminal probe into the incident both the russian president and prime minister have expressed condolences to the families of the victims.

and other news the israeli prime minister vows to carry on a campaign of as strikes targeting combust positions in gaza as a major flare up of cross border violence continues for a second day. on the venezuelan and russian foreign ministers discussed u.s. threats of military force after an attempted coup by the opposition leader one goh i don't feel. anything welcome your watching r.t. and tonight. we start this hour with breaking news thirteen people have been killed including two children after a passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at one of moscow's main international at. old.

if to. the feel. like to be out yeah. yeah i'm just showing you the pictures there of a terrible tragedy that some folded at sheremetyevo airport and our correspondent is star of is on location and a mentioned earlier is kind of an airy quiet obviously business hugely affected what's the latest information you're gathering from sheremeta.

well neil eries the exactly the right word that you could use to describe the situation here to share airport it has been largely closed to only one runway one emergency runway operates for now after the incident now here's what we know about the emergency about the tragedy so far the timeline looks as follows the plane took off and shortly after that it apparently got hit by lightning that sent the communications systems all over the jet offline basically the pilots has had absolutely no connection with the services on the ground this is what we're hearing here so far so they decided to make an emergency landing back at the airport and so the emergency landing turned into a crash landing some information suggests that the speed that they were going in to land it was too high to me they were going into fast. he couldn't land from

a first straw i and the final try when they eventually landed it basically broke the shasta's so they went into the fuel tanks so they caught fire and so all the fuel and i mean mind it all of that happened about thirty to forty minutes after the takeoff this means that the fuel tanks were full and it was a bit of a it wasn't a long flight but still there was plenty of fuel to burn their hands all the thick black cloud of clouds of smoke that we can see in the videos from the scene now i talked to one of the witnesses who saw the tragedy unfold from the airport is what he told me. it was quite unexpected we had a flight to you catherine went to the gate a little earlier so as not to be late so we certainly had the window i just turned my head and all of a sudden i saw the burning plane with huge plumes of black smoke forces arrived at

the scene within two minutes they started fighting the fire they didn't show signs of panic as the plane was too close to those that were waiting on the runways we didn't know it was landing it looked like it was just fifty metres from the nearest aircraft. now the spokesperson of the company that operated the plane told the media basically he said they said. the evacuation that the emergency evacuation from the plane was done in just under one minutes while the norm the sort of the protocol time for that the deadline is about ninety seconds or so according to the vacuum ration was done to all bull better than all the standards are dictating it to be done now but still more than a dozen people dead including children but you could see as for yourself in the video that just. basically the whole tail of the plane was engulfed in flames now

when it comes to this airport again you can you can just take a look behind me it's empty and the crowd of you that you may be seeing just over there it's journalists who are waiting for the eyewitnesses and passengers and so on and so forth mostly here are just some very very few people who are hoping to see a very who still have hope to leave from this airport or who are waiting for their loved ones to land here but i mean here with all the almost all the all but one runways closed we've heard the announcement over the over the speakers saying that all flights have been redirected and while some of them indeed did land in the other moscow airports some flights that didn't even make it to the russian capital with her than them being landed in russian cities as well as even abroad for instance in the city of minsk the capital of belarus and in helsinki of finland

also we've seen literally motorcades over emergency services of emergency services flocking in here from medics to the police security services the investigative committee really you name it in fact some of the loads are still stationed just outside this terminal waiting to except wherever may need their attention so the so far this is the situation in the airport but at least the fire has been put out and the investigators are speaking with those who got caught up in this tragedy and lived to tell their stories so the investigation is ongoing as to what exactly caused the whole thing. seems like from the information you've got these pictures become a little bit clearer as to what exactly transpired in this accident many think is that of their. port. now to bring you some more information about the. plane involved the s.s.

j one hundred a sukhoi superjet is a short to medium haul passenger plane now this particular bottle was manufactured last year it can carry up to ninety eight passengers the range is up to four thousand six hundred kilometers one hundred ninety six such super jets are currently in service with various lines. let's bring in our the wall who's an aviation attorney and the jet pilot good to have you on appreciate your expertise on this particular story things become a little bit clearer now there had been reports coming in that the lightning strike might have been involved in our correspondent now just saying the information coming from official sources now is saying that it was a lightning strike that seemingly caused the loss of communication with air traffic control which was the immediate problem that they faced in the first instance forcing them to turn back just how well equipped are planes these days is there like a uniform. infrastructure equipment on board every plane to deal with such

a strike of lightning. well normally a lightning strike should. it cause the fire cause a loss of communications airplanes or hardy and electronically so strange be no big deal it's not clear to me looking at the radar that i just looked there was a situation where the cause of lightning strike would do this damage to the airplane that doesn't mean it is. but it certainly is not apparent from the radar just and another report that we heard earlier suggested some kind of technical problem that caused the loss of communication will still keep that as a possibility i have seen i can say i can tell you i've seen some subsequent videos that we haven't released publicly yet they've yet to be very fired. they do seem plausible and they seem to suggest that the fire broke out when the plane landed this i've seen video seeing the plane land it bounces very heavily and then the

there's an explosion and fire on the second impact when the plane lands. if that was the case what would that suggest to you the plane could burst into flames upon landing. at all it is heavy enough that it would have to really be. very very hard landing the landing gear itself could go through the structure the fuel is just above it so theoretically you could have a fire from that of the reports are unclear at the moment whether the fire heard in slight and that's what causes the crew to turn the airplane around or whether it occurred just on landing it certainly appears from the video that the landing gear had collapse and it was literally riding on the back part of the airplane down the runway. yeah it seems as great a job as clearly the pilots have done in this case they managed to circle around to get back into the airport they clearly had some problems on board we don't know

what they were in the case of far on the on the plane just how much equipment is that to deal with it basically nothing a handheld fire extinguisher maybe a fire on an airliner is is really one of the worst possible of this for the crew because they have no way to fight it the materials in the airplane are largely plastic and fabric and they burn readily even if they're protected in some small way from propagation and so it's a extremely dangerous emergency and requires an immediately jerk or i will tell you that according to the information again it's very preliminary the pilots had had put on what's called seventy seven hundred one their electronic equipment necessary bill especially if communications are lost that there's an emergency the other thing i noticed looking at the radar was the airplane made

a circle first not two approaches to the airport but a circle away from the airport to lose altitude before it landed that tells me there was at least in the crew's mine a very serious emergency requiring them to get on the ground quickly or. yeah and again fascinating analysis just suggesting that you know it could have clarified the picture do some kind of serious problem on board prior to the making that emergency landing as yet we don't know if the exact details but fascinating speak to arthur was my guess thank you aviation expert an owner of an aviation focused law firm. in other news israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip of now killed twenty people twenty two people i should say that's according to palestinian health officials that says israel claims that four of its civilians have died following a massive barrage of rockets fired from palestinian territory the sudden spike in violence between the two neighboring states is now seen two days of missiles being

exchanged. the impact of the windows on these trucks from outside the three that was found as a result of the explosion. the i.d.f. also claims a prominent a mass leader was killed as a result of an airstrike his car was reportedly hit by rockets in an attack that also climbed a number of other lives amassed blames the i.d.f. killing two pregnant women and a toddler television denies the claims and the sudden escalation of violence

between the states is what locals from both sides had to say about the flare up. that there was a lot of bombing at the neighborhood worked back to a lot of this street scene was indescribable people were afraid and terrified and run in and everyone was looking for their children nobody was able to see others and after the first truck it hit everyone started screaming children and adults when the building collapsed nobody was able to see one another. and learn to leave it to those bigger than me to the generals that know the situation to do what they know and all we can do is to cross our fingers and that they will succeed and we're not commenting more we do trust the army we do hope benjamin netanyahu will take care of it but we are really worried from the rockets. the bombardment of rockets from the gaza strip began saturday morning several residential areas were hit mostly in israel south most sites in palestine were targeted in retaliatory strikes policy clear expects. israeli airstrikes continue to bombard gaza the israelis say

that they targeting hamas and islamic jihad targets but among the offices that have been hit was the headquarters belonging to the case state run media agency now the turkish president added one has slammed the incident and no doubt this will increase tensions between israel and turkey at the same time israel has resumed its policy of targeted assassinations killing the person responsible in the gaza strip for distributing you brainy and funds that are donated to gaza this comes as israel saw on sunday its deadliest day in terms of casualties since the last israel gaza war back in two thousand and fourteen the south of the country is in a state of high alert businesses and schools will remain closed on monday and ways that ins have been ordered to remain inside the bomb shelters here in tel aviv where i am with some eighty kilometers to the north the municipality has opened

public bomb shelters and this comes as hamas threatens that if israel doesn't stop what it says is its aggression it will target tel aviv in the coming hours now we do expect to see some kind of mediation efforts conducted by egypt in the coming hours this comes as israel stops all fuel supplies to the gaza strip now this will have a diary faked on electricity inside the gaza don't forget that on monday morning the holy month of ramadan begins and for gazans this is reminiscent of the last gaza war which saw a large part of the wall happening during the month of ramadan on sunday night an israeli security cabinet meeting wrapped up with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu telling the i.d.f. soldiers to keep up their attacks. this morning i instructed the i.d.f. to continue in terms of turning against terror targets in the gaza strip and to experiment its presence surrounding the gaza strip with

a. armored forces artillery and troops we are operating and we will continue to do so to restore peace and security to residents in the south of the country and all of this common aids on the fourteenth of may with the u.n. vision song festival where some twenty thousand tourists are expected to arrive in the country the festival will be held here in tel aviv so every very very tense situation here on both sides of the border coming as the united nations envoy to the region urges calm and calls on both sides to lay down arms. i condemn the continuing to get rockets from gaza anough palestinian israeli lives have been lost people injured houses damaged and destroyed it is time to deescalate and return to the understanding that the past few months before it's too late. for this oil and russian foreign ministers met today and discussed u.s. threats to use military force after an attempted coup by the country's opposition

leader one failed the diplomat said the only way out of the crisis is dialogue not force. we and our venezuelan partners agree that any use of force circumventing the un charter and the un security council may have catastrophic consequences for the entire structure of modern global security as any nation venezuelans themselves could only decide their own fate through peaceful dialogue within the scope of the constitution this was another attempt at violence by the venezuelan opposition president nicolas maduro insists that dialogue remains the only option on like those who voice the u.s. position which says all options are on the table we believe the only way is to respect the un charter preserve peace in venezuela and not violent or for school overthrow of the regime and the meeting comes after venezuela was rocked by violent protests over the last week in which more than a hundred people were injured president nicolas maduro said an attempted coup by opposition leader won by dole was put down and choose take why don't he claims to

be venezuela's legitimate president announced the final phase of ending the duros rule and called on people to rise up against the government. this was today brave soldiers and brave treating some of the brave people are following our constitution and answering the call you today the armed forces are standing behind the people and the constitution and. so we're going to recover and rebuild and as we look at that that's what venezuela needs today is that us not.

by defeating this terrible coup attempt. with the truth with loyalty with on. the country's crisis will be also discussed by russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and the u.s. secretary of state might bump in finland next week on the sidelines of the arctic council summit in washington and why don't deny plotting a military overthrow with america's national security adviser john bolton insisting it's an internal matter for the people of venezuela. we need men is well ruled by the people of venezuela not by external forces it's the bolton was done his damnedest to ensure regime change in venezuela whose country has championed

regime change sanctioned venezuela frozen billions in state funds threatened it with invasion now he's saying no one should meddle that it's up to the days whelan's to decide course not what he meant is no one but america all options remain on the table we said it would be a big mistake for me doro and those supporting him to use force against innocent civilians mr bolton's deficient of innocent i think defers from the classic meaning look at these demonstrators with guns shooting at troops and police i suppose the bullets of full of love too if you bear hold these innocents accountable says mr bolton we might invade between the lines it's the most going to stay with you america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored.

today interim president announced the start of a pressure on libya time the us government fully supports the venezuelan people in their quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated. what do you know they stand with the people never mind the sanctions and the misery for millions that they've caused i question is which people exactly did you say you stand with the few hundred machete gun wielding fellows that tried to stage a violent coup or the thousands upon thousands who concurrently marched in support of the venezuelan president maduro against this coup this is clearly not a coup we recognize one goh i don't know as the legitimate interim president of venezuela and just as it's not a coup when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of

defense it's not a coup for wind why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military you're in fire mr bolton one guy who was never elected doesn't control the military or ministries or anything he is the president but nicolas maduro the actual president supported by millions the military the ministries he's not the president see what i mean by strange it's almost like the bitter and the nile things didn't go according to plan. and finally a reminder for you of our top story this hour thirteen people have been killed including two children after a passenger plane burst into flames on making an emergency landing at one of moscow's main international falls warning that you may find this video coming up now disturbing.

feel. the feel. like to be yeah. i. aeroflot flight as you warm for nine to a sukhoi superjet says j. one hundred plane had taken off from sharon mehta airport in the russian capital headed to ski in the north of the country however shortly after takeoff last

election with the air traffic control in london with no communication with traffic controllers whatsoever the plane had reportedly aborted its first attempt to land. and they without anything continued coverage and latest updates on that breaking news story of it back with more at the top of the. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know world big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to

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