well. the remains of all forty one people killed after a russian plane burst into flames during an emergency landing in moscow have now been recovered from the crash site a twelve year old girl and a flight attendant who died helping panic passengers escape the inferno are among the victims investigators are currently looking at possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction and bad weather. also this hour israel reportedly agrees to

a truce with palestinian militant group hamas after a weekend of deadly exchanges which see more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale air strikes and missile attacks. and russia's foreign minister and his u.s. counterpart will discuss the venezuela crisis later on monday after what appears to have been a failed coup attempt by the washington backed opposition in the latin american country. very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. there are means of all forty one people killed in sunday's plane fire in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the air flow aircraft during its attempted landing the sukhoi superjet burst into flames efforts to struck the runway. plane was carrying seventy eight passengers

and crew thirty seven people survived the disaster they're being treated for smoke inhalation burns and shock people have been laying flowers and tributes at sheremetyevo airport and at the airport in more months where the plane must cross to land some people came simply to pay their respects here's how the tragedy unfolded just warn you you may find some of the scenes upsetting. when the plane was in the air i saw a white flash a most of the morning. we

certainly had the windows i just turned my head and all of a sudden i saw the burning plane with huge plumes of black smoke. like it down. with an investigation under way three main theories are being focused on pilot error systems function and bad weather but. there is a lot of testimony a lot of witness accounts that are coming out now important not to jump to conclusions but to move. the captain for example he has. made comments he has said that during. takeoff there was no hint of trouble moving was

nominal was functional not a hint of trouble and all of that changed just after takeoff as they were ascending climbing higher and higher they were struck by lightning. the lightning caused wrecked havoc on the system on the aircraft electronic systems seemingly of them for example it should circuited radio communications gear and even the backups didn't work. we had no communication we managed to restore through the emergency frequency on the second radio station and it was intermittent that is after turning on the transmitter it was only possible to say a few words before losing contact and having to reconnect with dispatches helped us they gave us directions to get to the runway that was only a part of it because the lightning strike took down other systems including navigation including pilot guidance and all of these systems help

a pilot land an aircraft especially nowadays when there's so complicated so. difficult to control manually what the pilot was left with was manual control he had to land this aircraft that had almost all of its systems offline and was incredibly heavy because the fuel tanks will fall. ill advised to land an aircraft with a fuel tank for what generally do is they circle above a city or an airport burning that excess fuel off making the aircraft lighter so it's easier to land for whatever reason they decided that they couldn't do that they couldn't afford to waste time they went for the landing and unfortunately as you see the. tragedy struck the rear of the aircraft bumped against the concrete and the fuel tanks ruptured fuel spilled. and poor all over the back

section of the aircraft given the heat here the pressure the speed the friction no surprise that it ignited it ignited or not is when the true horror began because all of these people they thought that they had made it that they had landed and suddenly they were surrounded by an inferno i mean a stewardess spoke about how people were absolutely terrified of what was happening we have heard is passengers expressing gratefulness thanks to the cabin crew to the stewardess colleagues who stayed by and she said she grabbed people by the cuffs of the next and dragged them out of the aircraft there was another shooting the back is it's very big story in russia he tried to force open a door in the back of the aircraft and he couldn't do it he tried and tried to give up and he started pushing people from the back in order to get them to the front to hurry them up he unfortunately perished he was very young in all forty one people

died in this tragedy thirty seven made it out and out of the seventy eight passengers and crew that were on board but as i say it could have been even worse. i'm grateful to this pilot they waited to crash land in this city and saved lives perhaps there was pilot error but let's wait for the official findings things could have been so much worse. they're looking at three causes for this the first one is pilot error pilot on the qualification of the pilot perhaps have hadn't had enough training to land this aircraft manually with it being so heavy via the thing that they're looking at is the weather how the weather may have caused this this incident and the last thing is that the aircraft may have malfunction something may have been wrong with it before it took all. something may have

happened. in the air we shouldn't jump to conclusions the investigation is still ongoing speculate is too early to speculate and to guess probably wait for the official findings they've recovered both black boxes and they've also recovered the bodies of will forty one the died in this tragedy the inferno mostly affected those who were sitting towards the rear of the plane including a flight attendant who trying to help passengers to the very end he. he he. says. one. one one.

one thing it. says. one. how is he. aviation safety investigator david gleave to says the investigation will pursue a number of avenues as to the cause of the crash before offering any final verdict . the airplane may have been quite difficult to land with all the electrical problems that it has i believe the flight control system was working ok but not in

the usual mode of operation so it's quite right that the investigation will take some time to look at how the pilots were trained to land the airplane in that particular software mode there have been some recent accidents some of them seem to be the malton level of. equipment and the pilot training associated with that i would say that also the media are able to pick up and report the accident much more easily so the accident rate is going up slightly recently but not significantly so we haven't gone back ten to or twenty years and you think let's get a little more evidence from the flight recorders in the cockpit voice recorder interviews of the crew and then let the interstate aviation committee discuss with the russian certification committee what should happen to the airplane. russia's health minister has visited this cliff a soft emergency hospital where several of the cross survivors are receiving

treatment artie's quarter reports from there. behind me is the hospital where two survivors are being treated in critical condition in another location the pilot copilot and a stewardess are being treated for shock as well as poisoning now in total thirty seven out of seventy eight crew and passengers survived this crash but many with serious psychological as well as physical injuries now russia's health minister says that friends and family should also seek help as many of them are most likely in a state of utter shock those not to. see and it's not just the victims that need psychological assistance but their relatives too including for example the wife of a man in critical condition being cared for at the institute all of them are in a state of shock they can't process what's happened now across social media people have released videos of passengers fleeing the burning. jet crew members quickly carried out the evacuation plan and you can see how chaotic the situation was in

these videos there were also reports that passengers scrambling for their luggage also contributed to the discord now earlier today we spoke to one man who brought flowers in tribute to the airport although he had no familial ties to the victims of his own was the third of those times a mystery that could have happened a new one so how tragic when fate takes an unexpected turn like this is what life is all a matter of luck and can and just like that i would like to have someone drop in the flowers or something like this happened to me as for the relatives about fifty of them arrived earlier this morning from water months where the city has declared a three day period of mourning for those who died emergency services met with them at the airport to help them in the painful process of identifying the bodies of those who were lost. in. israel and palestinian militant group hamas have reportedly reached a truce after two days of intense cross border exchanges including bombing raids by

the israel defense forces children are among the twenty seven thought to have been killed in gaza four people were also killed in israel. you can see the impact of the windows from the explosion from outside the three that was flung as a result of the explosion. palestinian militants began their missile strikes from the gaza strip on saturday morning residential areas were head mostly in the south of israel israel's air force

targeted multiple sites in gaza and retell tory strikes artie's puzzler reports. israeli army that is lifting all restrictions for residents of the south of israel who live within a forty kilometer radius of gaza now this does confirm that the truce that was brokered at around four thirty monday morning is holding up it was brokered by egypt and the united nations places been the bloodiest weekend of violence on the israeli side it for israelis were killed which is the highest fatality israel has suffered since the last israel gaza war back in two thousand and fourteen but on the palestinian side twenty four palestinians were killed including a pregnant woman and a child the street scene was indescribably people were afraid and terrified and running and everyone was looking for their children nobody was able to see others and after the first rocket hit everyone started screaming children and adults when the building collapsed nobody was able to see one another. so those big of them.

know the situation to do what they know we can do is to cross our fingers they will succeed we're not call many more we do trust the army we do hope benjamin netanyahu will take care of it but we are really worried from the rockets now overnight bomb shelters were opened here in tel aviv which is some eighty kilometers from the gaza border after hamas threatened that it would target the city and that's also published in hebrew the coordinates of those sites in israel if planned to attack in these include have been going on international airport and also delano where it's all is believed to house its nuclear arsenal although this of course has never been confirmed by the israeli side late last night the israeli security cabinet wrapped up with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that the israeli army would keep up its attacks. this morning i instructed the i.d.f. to continue its intense attacks against terror targets in the gaza strip and to

expand its presence surrounding the gaza strip with 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 now the next two weeks are very busy on the israeli calendar they include the israeli memorial day the independence day the one year anniversary of america moving its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem nakba day which is commemorated by the palestinians and one of the culminating in the largest sung face of all vision on the fourteenth of may many israelis i speak to say that they believe the israeli prime minister did not go ahead with a full scale invasion of gaza because he doesn't want to detract from the twenty thousand visitors who are expected to descend on israel for the major show which is a big highlight on the international calendar coming up in the program russia's foreign minister is such to discuss the crisis and as well in meetings with the u.s. secretary of state after this short break. sentenced

to public will. when the right to protect themselves.

welcome back to the program but the course isn't but as well simmering russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov is set to discuss the situation with his american counterpart later on monday on the sidelines of the arctic forum in finland on the agenda it will be the alleged coup attempt by us back to venezuela opposition leader won by doe eyed a media conference on sunday at lavrov and venezuela's top diplomat both stressed that dialogue is key. we have no 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 who voiced the u.s. position which says all options are on the table who believe the only way is to respect the u.n. charter preserve peace in venezuela and not violent or forceful overthrow of the regime. meanwhile. had been making a display of their loyalty to president maduro burning a copy of a letter from opposition leader one by doe handed to them by some of his supporters . earlier vladimir putin discussed the venezuelan crisis with donald trump by phone with the u.s. president calling the talks positive artist has more on that and efforts to break

that as well as deadlock. what if all the key stakeholders don't only talk on the phone but get to meet maybe even more than once and actually end up agreeing on something might come pale and. don't get in touch that often nowadays but just last week they were on the phone and there you have it they're meeting face to face just a few days after vladimir putin and donald trump didn't talk for about five months after the g. twenty in argentina last week it was time to get back to business the two presidents were on the phone for more than an hour he is. not looking at all to get involved in venezuela other than he'd like to see something positive happen for venezuela. and i feel the same way so we want to help with a humanitarian basis and i thought it was a very positive conversation i had with president putin on venezuela sounds quite

optimistic probably even too much was president putin able to convince him speculation over russia's involvement and venezuela is way too overblown wait only the day before we heard this from america's number one diplomat we need to make sure there's not an invasion into israel and yet there's been one. it took place that you wouldn't invaded some time ago the russians have now followed suit and in the meantime mr lab rob was saying this. we've got to keep discussing the situation in venezuela but i don't see how we can find a common approach where no policies based on the principles of international law and the u.s. line is to appoint someone as an interim president in another country threaten to use military force along with choking sanctions to overthrow the congress seems. washington is trying to convince the world the way they've been pulling the strings

in venezuela has nothing to do with the word coup yet as usual they're leaving all options on the table including the use of force. military action is possible if that's what's required that's what the united states will do those who are not venezuelan should know is all options are on the table secretary of state is in close contact with the pentagon he was among the officials who were briefed by the u.s. southern command quote unquote on a wide range of military options as the command continues to monitor activities on the ground and as well self-imposed venezuelan leader one of like bill has been hinting he would be happy if washington stepped in militarily and you don't rule out a military intervention because it's entirely clear what the madeira regime is about anyway it's clear for him that would probably be the best case scenario after several failed attempts to get the army on his side. one of why

bill called himself the president of them is well three and a half months ago and time isn't on his side giving out orders as head of state hasn't yet helped him actually become one president nicolas maduro and his supporters have so far been able to withstand most of the pressure a few more failed attempts to start a coup or energize a genuinely nationwide protest may lead to second thoughts about mr within the opposition whether he'll ever choose to back down himself. that's a tough one speaking of nicolas maduro this man doesn't look like someone who ever be the first one to raise the white flag making concessions though when he's completely pushed to the wall that's more like it. the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has announced the deployment of warplanes to the middle east in response to what he called a troubling indications and warnings coming from iran. the united states is

deploying the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group and bomb a task force to the u.s. central command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the iranian regime that any attack on united states interests will be met with unrelenting force. the iran nuclear deal impose strict limits on uranium enrichment and it required iran to export all heavy water produced above a certain limit the u.s. since quitting the around deal has imposed multiple sanctions on terror and they affect key parts of the economy including energy shipping and finance washington accuses iran of violating the deal and secretly developing nuclear weapons tehran denies both of those allegations and has threatened to block the key oil transit route of the horn of strait. now earlier the un's nuclear watchdog along with key western countries confirmed that tehran has been complying with the treaty political analysts say it must off

a crush chesham believes iran has many options at its disposal to protect itself iran has a number of options available this is not going to be a military strike. the united states or either one of its allies. when we're talking about missile a military option this doesn't mean. the united states troops in the region at least as first option this could you know it on could very easily send the poles to the united states and the europeans by you know declaring a decision about the range or of the power destruction power of new messiah as the new technologies that they could go after also tehran could exercise very strict check and inspection controls and the strait of foremost many are thinking of you know the blockade of the strait by iran but iran is not very much interested in at least starting this option this could be a last ditch you know

a last resort option. that's our global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for turning up. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race on off and spearing dramatic development the only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. seriously folks go through a period of sort of total war but somehow though it's just bush bloody. you know well the minute you did it was my job to the world of. illusion is its appeal to

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i'm actually tense here we're going underground ahead of tomorrow's u.n. torture. committee review of conditions in teresa mayes britain coming up on the show twenty years to the day of the first welsh national assembly elections the father of the evolution former welsh secretary lord morris calls for the abolition of the post he once held the knowledge economy we speak to a former brazilian minister under the lula and duma governments of a professor but it longer but how new liberal politicians like his former student barack obama incubate inequality by bailing out the rich classes britain's poorest struggle to put food on the table while wealthy elites continue to die now we have to go through and filmmaker who are about how he tricked those very same elites into eating microwave meals in a shed and coming back for more dollars or more coming up in today's going underground but first british elites are still ruminating on tourism a firing u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson for leaking state secrets for m.s.m. the shadow hanging over williamson is a daily telegraph story about five g.

north his part in killing a quarter of a million in yemen or trying to start world war three by threatening russia and china and as for new defense secretary penny mordant when it comes to britain's most defense less her voting record is for tory cuts credited with killing one hundred twenty thousand she voted against taxing bankers' bonuses and for restricting trade unions and the army the so-called military covenant is a british colonel and what it is and what it means for serving soldiers' families veterans and relatives of the fall of the military covenant is the bond between the nation on the soldier one goes to the other in times of commitment many more than voted against that government but what about the armed forces government here explained by that same colonel who now takes orders from the essential thing about it is that it removes disadvantage the distractions of service life and puts them on an equal plane with their peers and sit in the well his new boss british

defense secretary penny mordant voted against that government to end this all comes after two previous s. as went for. legibly breaking the law or either leaking to journalists or sexually harassing them not the mordant is arguably too up on the law she is being slammed for appearing to lie about european union access in law as for the e.u. breck said now threatens the break up of the united kingdom scottish nationalists one another independence referendum an island may be reunited but did road to independence actually begin twenty years ago today when scotland and wales first held devolved elections joining me now is the father of evolution britain's former attorney general and former shadow defense minister lord morris lord morris welcome back to going underground before we get to well stephen lucian though i got to talk about defense secretary gavin williamson in the resume the minority government leader sacking him in the most extreme way possible accusing him of credit being a traitor what was your take on it when i haven't read the letter and it's.