it controls the algorithms and the indexes. the remains of all forty one people killed after a russian plane burst into flames it 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 passengers escape the inferno are among the victims. investigators are currently looking at three possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction and bad weather. we focused on the real politics russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov holds talks with the u.s. secretary of state might prompt peo saying he's found no support for any military intervention in venezuela including among the american officials.

israel reportedly agrees to a truce with a palestinian militant groups on mosques after a weekend of deadly exchanges we've seen more than twenty in the ins and four israelis killed in large scale air strikes and missile attacks. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us 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 a flawed aircraft these are the latest images from the crash site and share much of a. airport wreckage of the aircraft has now been removed from the scene and taken

away for further investigation just to remind you during its attempted at 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 and people have been laying flowers and tributes to measure by which has since returned to a full flight schedule at murmansk airport where the plane was flying to camels have been put to all of the victims but some people coming simply to pay their respects here is how the tragedy unfolded in just one you may find some of the scenes upsetting. the case. when the plane was in the air i saw a white flash they must have been wanting.

to. 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. rose above the mike to get out the p.d.f. cut cut. cut he. took the most. i noticed all of this could happen to. the children my heart is just breaking from this terrible tragedy his nature which and it's very hard to know. we

couldn't even imagine that a tragedy like this would come to all cities where people died children died people probably just coming back from a what to do some operations in fact we've come back in coffins is just horrendous it's so difficult to even think about the dispute we're not slipping we were worried oh no it's together with more men square in mourning take care of each other people who. are with an investigation under way three main theories are being focused on pilot error a systems malfunction and a bad weather with all the latest research is what i gusta. 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 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 all 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 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 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 and that 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 the 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 should in the back 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 courses 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. with it being so heavy the other 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 now function 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've recovered both black boxes and they've also recovered the bodies of all forty one died in this tragedy. brigette has been in commercial service since two thousand and eleven more than one hundred eighty planes have been built so far each capable of carrying up to almost one hundred passengers it's the first passenger plane to be built in modern russia the plane systems are isolated from lightning strikes and as well now aside from sunday's crash in moscow there have been three other safety incidents involving the super jet in two thousand and twelve during a demonstration flight in indonesia a super jet crashed killing all forty five people on board two of the cases involved a wheel mechanism failure and overshooting the runway with several crew being injured the plane that burst into flames on sunday had been in use since two thousand and seventeen and had no reports of previous trouble it had received

a regular maintenance or just last month but aviation safety investigator david gleave says a number of avenues as to the cause of the crash will be assessed before 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 all 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 twenty is 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 and here is a seating plan of the plane indicating what happened to the occupants the inferno mostly affected those sitting towards the rear of the aircraft only those towards the front and closest to the only usable exits were able to escape. the net one.

for men. or around. russia's health minister has visited the hospital were several of the crash survivors are receiving treatment but you don't quarter 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 for gifts that 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 being cad at the ski institute or have 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 as well as 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 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 the. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to signal from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective from i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of the slide here. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guess the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

this is international and russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says he has not 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 his american counterpart mike bump the pair were meeting on the sidelines of the arctic forum in finland as expected venezuela was the main subject of discussion with the possibility of u.s. military action the hot topic for journalists following the talks went to sleep trying to comments. 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. talked 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. intervening militarily. 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. and european colleagues i don't see any suppose us military action 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 ale 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 in

the russian capital on sunday mistletoe put it but oh but what good is it we are ready for scenarios the first includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and then give the u.s. prefers the military we're ready to resist to have an army police people and we're ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful it is so essentially the most influential powers on the opposite sides here the government of any cost dural and the self-proclaimed president one why do are finally in touch on this president donald trump has spoken to president fly out of our pollutant 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 william mullins and does not think u.s. military intervention is a real threat to them as well. these are empty threats and there are threats of

vanity that threats of of us like the wounded bear that live but as long as. one as well in particular with russia and china as support international law i don't see the possibility of an overt us intervention a top because i'd be extremely dangerous for for well stability 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 whoever by gold is being bought and the dollars being turned away from etc etc so i think it's empty rhetoric rhetoric frankly. israel and palestinian militant group hamas have reached a truce after two days of intense across border violence including bombing raids by the israel defense forces children are among the twenty seven have been killed in gaza four people were also killed in israel.

you can see the impact of the windows from the explosion took from outside. 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 hit mostly in the south of israel israel's air force targeted multiple sites in gaza in retaliatory strike sorties policy or reports. 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 press has 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 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 when the building collapsed nobody was able to see one another. big of them the generals that know the situation to do what they know we can do is to cross our

fingers and 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 the day which is commemorating the palestinians and one of the culminating in the func festival of vision on the fourteenth of may many israelis i speak to say that they believe it be 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. journalist rami garri and a political analyst mitchell barak gave us a very conflicting views on the way to start question between israel and gaza. these are either response is always disproportionate. palestinian rocket fire is

really attacks on the palestinians are a very destructive. for the population highrises are being reduced to rubble people in the streets are being hit while while they are on motorcycles. because even on the ground in the fields including mothers and their toddlers 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 must take the citizens and has to protect its borders and for that some very very serious measures are being taken against the military infrastructure in gaza. you know on may fourth of the i.d.f. published a tweet blaming hamas for indoctrinating children with militant sentiments 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 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 as part of a trend part of an effort to further dehumanised the palestinians and depict them as less worthy of solidarity and compassion by the international community or the desire for now i'll be back with more news and that's a thirty two and a half minutes search international stay with us.

you're relying on data that is not very well to find like the g.d.p. number of the gross domestic product number is notorious for being very pale and it doesn't really give a picture that you can draw any minute implosions from a that's true of almost every number that's produced by the government because it behooves them to control the data because the data controls the algorithms and the indexes. both when the first century both of. them some elements. and the moment do it isn't to the same people who would like to interact which is happening to.

their judges through facebook through to another or interacting with me but it's a good thing it's going to. be seeing the results. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter le beau the activity known as journalism is under assault and it didn't start with the trials of julian assange and wiki leaks once it was a noble op to report on the various activities. of those in power now it is being criminalized free speech is now the privileged few.

across talking journalism i'm joined by my guest john white in edinburgh he's a political commentator and writer in london we have george galloway he's a former member of parliament broadcaster and writer also in london we have michael patchett joyce he is a barrister with place chambers specializing in european international law cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i'm going to ask all three of you the same question from the very start here is journalism being criminalized george first in london yeah i think you're right to been this is a systemic problem it's not just about julian assange this is just the latest station for the cross on the via dolorosa heading to the final demise of what's called freedom of expression.