that's geysers financial survival they say money the. blood of jesus this is a central plank support diatom is the problem right now so he stopped. the remains of forty one people killed after a russian plane burst into flames during an emergency landing in moscow now recovered from the crash site twelve year old girl on the flight attendant who died helping passengers escape the inferno are among the victims. investigators are currently looking at three possible causes of the tragedy pilot error a system malfunction and bad weather. we focused on real politics russia's foreign minister holds talks with the u.s. secretary of state saying he's found no support for any military intervention in

venezuela or including among u.s. officials. and israel reportedly agrees to a truce with palestinian militant group hamas following a weekend of deadly exchanges you see more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale strikes missile attacks. joining us this evening this is r.t. international. news just in the russian defense ministry has reported two attacks on its base in western syria syrian militants fired a total of thirty six rockets including from a drone on monday both attacks were repelled by a defense systems no damage was caused. points from where the rockets were fired

were reportedly detected and destroyed by russian air forces and artillery fire from syrian government troops. the remains of all forty one people killed in sunday's plane fire in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the air of aircraft these are latest images from the crash site at sheremetyevo airport the wreckage of the aircraft has now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation just to remind you during its attempted landing the sukhoi superjet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the seventy eight people on board survived the tragedy people been laying flowers and tributes sheremetyevo airport and at the airport in morons where the plane was supposed to land some people came simply to pay their respects you saw the tragedy unfolded and just the morning you may find some scenes here upsetting.

at the door when the plane was in the air i saw a white flash they must have been lightning. because. 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. it. looked like to be out to be yes.

it was still. i never thought this could happen to normal sixty children my heart is just breaking from this terrible tragedy is the business of george and usually it's very hard work and we couldn't even imagine a tragedy like this would come to our city where people die children died people probably just coming back from a holiday celebrations and the fact they've come back in coffins is just horrendous it's so difficult to even think about in dispute we're not slipping we were worried oh night together with more men square in morning take care of each other people. with an investigation underway three main theories are being focused on pilot error systems malfunction and bad weather with the latest threat against the if joins my colleague jacqueline vogue. there's a lot of testimony a lot of witnesses. coming out now important not to jump to conclusions but the

movie reliable sources the captain for example he has. made comments he said that during the takeoff there was no hint of trouble reading 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 should circuited the 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 you 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 then. unfortunately as you see the. tragedy struck the bump 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 behind she said she grabbed people by the cuffs of the necks and dragged them out of the aircraft there's another should in 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 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. looking at 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 guess probably wait for the official findings they've recovered both black boxes and they've also recovered the bodies of all forty one died in this tragedy aviation safety investigator david gleave 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 particular

software mode there have been some recent accidents some of them seem to be the modern level of electronics and 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. well here is a seating plan for the plane indicating what happened to the inferno mostly affected those who were sitting towards the rear of the act craft bar just a few exceptions under those tools the front and closest to the only usable exits were able to escape.

forces health minister has visited the skiff a self ski emergency hospital several of the crash survivors are being treated auntie's donald cool 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 fully schticks like if say you don't get that sleep it's not just the victims that need psychological. assistance but that relatives too including for example the wife or man in critical condition i think had 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 as the murderer was one of them used to it could have happened a new one so how tragic one thing 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 in the flowers or something like this happen to me that's 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. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says that he hasn't seen any support around the world for military intervention in venezuela including among u.s. politicians his words come after a highly anticipated meeting between the russian diplomat and is american counterpart mike pompei of our meeting on the sidelines of an for in finland is expected in venezuela was the main topic of discussion with the possibility of u.s. military action the whole topic the journalists following the talks between the hospital. the number one diplomats of america and 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 off well it's like the pale didn't speak to journalists at all after this here in finland but when. you 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 cole said intervening militarily things that are loose. on some truths and we tried not to concentrate on those statements which are publicly discussed because they are being affected by many factors the don't have anything to do was real politics we concentrated on real politics incentives from my contacts with the u.s. late an american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved to reaction immediately after this i asked the russian foreign minister if that

included american 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 pump aoe 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. still 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 in the russian capital on sunday no sort of put it but

i'll put a quote get us if we are ready for all scenarios the first includes diplomacy dialogue and peace if the u.s. prefers the military path we are ready to resist to have an army police our people and we are ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful it is so essentially the most influential powers on the opposite sides here the government at any cost door and the self-proclaimed president one quite though are finally in touch on this president donald trump how spoken to president vladimir putin's the top diplomats have met but it is unclear whether that would still lead to a peaceful resolution of this longstanding venezuelan crisis. former british diplomat when he mallinson doesn't think that the u.s. military intervention is a real threat for venezuela. these are empty threats and there are threats all vanity that threats of of looks like the wounded bear wounded line

but as long as. there's a lull in particular with russia and china support international law i don't see the possibility of an overt u.s. intervention at all because that would be extremely dangerous for the world stability and cause major problems all 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 exception so i think it's empty rhetoric rhetoric frankly. a truce has been reached between israel and militants in palestine after two days of cross border exchanges with more on that story and others after the break.

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welcome back israel and palestinian militant group hamas have 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 being killed in gaza four people were also killed in israel. you can see the impact of the windows from the explosion took place from outside their freedoms for as a result of the explosion. well

palestinian militants began their 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 retaliatory strikes on his policy. 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 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. 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 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 intense attacks against terror targets in the gaza strip and to expand its presence surrounding the gaza strip with 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. a political analyst gave us his take on this latest escalation both 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. might force the i.d.f. purpose to tweet blaming hamas for indoctrinating children with militant sentiments

although it 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 only 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. ok the wraps of this news are you watching our team to national i'll be back with updates at the top of the hour see it.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

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 evolution former well 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 dilma governments of a professor a bit longer about how neo 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 dine out we all schools are in filmmaker who boxer about how he tricked those very same elites into eating microwave meals in a shed and coming back for more gold a simple coming up in today's going on the ground but first british elites is 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.

not 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 on what it is and what it means for serving soldiers' families veterans and relatives of the fall and 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 a device that it removes disadvantage the disadvantages of service life and puts servicemen on a equal plane with their peers and in life well his new boss british defense secretary penny mordant voted against that government to end this all comes after

two previous as went for allegedly breaking the law rather leaking to journalists or sexually harassing them not the mordant is arguably too up on the lore she has been slammed for appearing to lie about european union access and 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 there i got to talk about our 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 well i haven't read the letter and it seems that the prime minister thought she had very strong evidence she also adds in the next

sentence there's no occurred.