interest is always at the water's edge. and there should. be. the remains of all forty one people killed after a russian plane burst into flames during an emergency landing in moscow that has now been recovered from the crash site twelve year old girl and the flight attendants who died helping passengers to escape the inferno are among the victims first the gate is a currently looking at three possible causes of the tragedy of pilot error system on function and bad weather. we focused on real politics versus foreign minister sergei lavrov talks with the u.s. secretary of state saying he's found no support for any military intervention in

venezuela including among u.s. officials. and israel reportedly agrees to a truce with palestinian militant group hamas after a weekend of deadly exchanges we see more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale strikes a missile attacks. so joining us this evening this is r.t. international. there remains all forty one people killed in sunday's plane far in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the air flight that crashed these are the latest images from the crash site that metaphor airport the wreckage of the aircraft has now been removed from the scene and taken away for further. just to remind you during its attempted landing the super super

jet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the seventy eight people on board survived the tragedy people have been laying flowers and tributes at sheremetyevo airport in more months where the plane was supposed to land some people came simply to pay their respects is how the tragedy unfolded just to warn you you may find some of these scenes coming up now the. plane was in the air i saw a white flash it must have been lightning. and

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. to get out. and. with an investigation underway three main theories are being focused on pilot error systems malfunction and bad weather the latest his ideas were i guess the. there's a lot of testimony a lot of witness accounts that are coming out now important not to jump to conclusions but the most reliable source is the captain for example he has. made

comments he said that during the takeoff there was no hint of trouble winning 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's electronic systems seemingly one of them for example it. would circuited the radio communications gear and even the backups didn't work. we had no communication we managed to restore it 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 two pilot guidance in 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. ford waste time they went for the landing and unfortunately as you see the. tragedy struck the bomb the rear of the aircraft bumped against the concrete and the fuel tanks ruptured fuel spilled and poured 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 their gratefulness thanks to the cabin crew to the stewardess colleagues who stayed behind she said she grabbed people by the cuffs of the necks and dragged them out of the aircraft there's another shooting the back is it's a 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 pilots they've 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 man. only with it being so heavy via the thing that they're looking at ease the weather how the weather may have caused this this incident and the last thing is that the aircraft may have malfunction and

something may have been wrong with it before it took off something may have happened. in the air we shouldn't jump to conclusions the investigation is still ongoing speculate it's too early to speculate and to guess probably wait for the official findings they recovered both black boxes and they've also recovered the bodies of all forty one died in this tragedy. efficient safety investigator vaguely says that the restoration will pursue a number of avenues to the cools 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

more. electronic 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 has gone up slightly recently but not significantly so we haven't gone back ten to or twenty years anything like that 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. here's a seating plan of the plane indicating what happened to its occupants the inferno mostly affected those sitting towards the rear of the aircraft bar a few exceptions only those towards the front and closest to the only usable exits were able to escape.

russia's health minister has visited the skiff a self ski emergency hospital where several of the crash survivors still receiving treatment don't call to reports. 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 was not published the flood if say you don't get that it's not just the victims that need psychological assistance but that relatives too including for example the one from on in critical condition think had at the institute or one 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 crewmembers 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 as the nothing occurred in 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 brought me flowers of something like this happened to me and 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 the.

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to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. israel and palestinian militant group hamas have reached after two days of intense cross border exchanges including bombing raids by the israel defense forces children are among the twenty seven thought to being 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. and palestinian militants began the missile strikes from the gaza strip on saturday morning residential areas were hit mostly in the south of israel israel's air force targeted multiple sites in gaza in the tally a tree strikes or explains. we have heard an announcement from the israeli army that it 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 fifteen 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 at four 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 indescribable people were afraid and terrified and running and everyone was looking for their children nobody was able to see others and after the first struck it hit everyone started screaming children and adults in the building collapsed nobody was able to see one another. 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 and 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 what 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 in terms of tax against terror targets in the gaza strip and to expand its presence surrounding the gaza strip with armored forces. 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 not by day which is commemorated by the palestinians and one of the culminating in. a civil 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 this major show which is a big highlight on the international calendar. let's go analyst mitchell brock give us his take on the latest escalation. the hamas and islamic jihad are excellent in using human shields you know launching their operations from schools and from apartment buildings and from civilian centers and hoping that the israelis will not retaliate or that the israelis will be concerned with possible civilian casualties every civilian casualty is certainly

a tragedy but the state of israel has to protect its citizens and has to protect its borders and for that some very very serious measures are being taken against the military infrastructure in gaza on may fourth the i.d.f. published a tweet blaming hamas for indoctrinating children with militant sentiments provoked an angry reaction.

pictures like those if they are in fact accurate or current would represent a very small minority of occurrences in palestine putting these pictures out taking them out of context the way these really army has attempted to do is not surprising at all role there are plenty of videos and images showing israeli children being trained to use live fire ammunition by their parents or by their fellow family members serve in the army children who are in the army exhibit sions for the climbing on top of tanks and commenting on what they want to do and what they deem of doing when they serve in the army remember that israeli is at the age of eighteen must serve in the army so putting this out of context is part of a trend part of an effort to further dehumanizing the palestinians and depict them

as less worthy of solidarity and compassion by the international community. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says that he hasn't seen any support around the world for military intervention in venezuela including among u.s. politicians that's where it's come after a highly anticipated meeting between the russian diplomats and does american. the pair were meeting on the sidelines of an forum in finland and as expected venezuela was the main topic of discussion with the possibility of u.s. military action the focal point the journalists at the press conference following the talks. let's go live to finda now in jordan r.t. correspondent. he's been following events or any suggestion that at this point lavrov might just see eye to eye over venezuela. hi neal well that's a difficult one so indeed the number one diplomats of america in russia have

finally met and we were hoping to understand if there is at least a slight chance that moscow and washington could be on the same page when it comes to venice well of well like. didn't speak to journalists at all after this here in finland but when. talk to the media he thought it wasn't a good idea to shed light on any of the details pretty much but he did respond to my question about mike barrows statement from this weekend that russia must get out of venezuela and also about the possibility of on call said intervening militarily. when these photos. consume troops and we tried not to concentrate on those two incidents which are publicly discussed because they are being affected by many factors the don't have anything to do was

real politics concentrators and real politics in the sense that from my contacts with the u.s. american and european colleagues i don't see any support this move to reaction. immediately after this i asked the russian foreign minister if that included america. diplomats and to that he simply answered yes but the real question right now is though whether that is really the case because many times we've heard from the most high ranking officials in america the phrase all options are on the table including the military one and when secretary of state public pale was heading to europe the journalists were reporting that on the plane he said that nicolas maduro can no longer be in charge of this country he believes he is simply not able to do

that even though he is de facto the leader of the country and i can tell you that the government in venezuela understands that they could end up having to brace for the worst case scenario just listen to what their foreign minister said when he was on moscow on sunday. to open it but oh but what good is and we are ready for scenarios the first includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and give the u.s. prefers the military possible we're ready to resist we have an army police our people and we are ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful it is. so the two most powerful influences on the opposite sides the nicolas maduro government and also the self-proclaimed president chua why do are finally in touch the presidents donald trump and vladimir to lot of our putin sorry have spoken on the phone the top diplomats have met whether that will be able to lead

to a peaceful resolution of this terrible crisis in minutes well that is still unclear well we'll wait and see. putting their life from finland on course for them to leap to trying to thank you. former british diplomat william mountain doesn't think that u.s. military intervention is a real threat for venezuela. these are empty threats and there are threats all vanity that threats of looks like the wounded bear wounded live but as long as. there's a lull in particular with russia and china as support international law i don't see the possibility of an overt us intervention at all because that would be extremely dangerous for falwell's ability and cause major problems for the american economy in fact if you look at the economic multiplier effect and other financial factors

going on at the moment whereby gold is being bought and the dollar is being turned away from except the exception so i think it's empty rhetoric rhetoric frankly. thanks thing without international the saving are always welcome i will return with updates on our top stories and often. during the great depression which are old enough to remember there was most of my family were working class there wasn't it was bad you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. of there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shade by the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy

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on a leader's words and a misunderstanding could trigger disaster the art of translation becomes crucial in global affairs what does the translator witnessed behind closed doors during one on one negotiations how do you translate those who show the world leaders cope with the risk of a mistake and do they also have their own impact on global decisions. it is so great to have you on our program welcome thank you so i want to talk about you in this and she put the most part when i go back a little bit when you first started working on the level of us so it summits did it scare you the. reagan emulate you're literally translating the words of the most powerful man in the world did it at that moment. i don't think

i was scared frankly i don't think that if you're scared of responsibility you want to do this kind of work. it is interesting that this was the first time that simultaneous interpretation was used rather than consecutive interpretation when you first listen to the speaker and in target what he has said simultaneous interpretation was first tried in helsinki at the high level in helsinki during the meeting of george shultz and what shevardnadze in the summer of nineteen eighty five years and years ago but now it has become rather common practice at that time it was very new i was thrilled i was fascinated not afraid not scared but certainly i felt the responsibility so you were on board wang.