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 helping passengers escape the for now are among the. best looking at possible causes of the tragedy pilot error. and. he focused on the real politics. minister sergey lavrov holding talks with the u.s. secretary of state. saying he has found no support for any military intervention in venezuela including among american officials.

this is r.t. international certainly glad to have you with us now 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 aircraft as you can see the entire rear section the plane was destroyed by the fire. there you go the remains of the jet have now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation then just a reminder during its intended landing. 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. airport which has since returned to a full flight schedule. airport where the plane was flying two candles have been

lit to honor the victims some people coming simply just say to pay their respects here's how the tragedy unfolded and just to warn you you may find some of the scenes a bit upsetting. when the plane was in the air i saw a white flash. near the window i just turned my head and all of a sudden the burning plane with huge plumes of black smoke.

above the most likely to be a yes. i noticed all this could happen to. the children my heart is just breaking from this terrible tragedy. his nature which in digital it's very hard to manage it we couldn't even imagine a tragedy like this would come to all cities where people died children died people probably just coming back from a going to do some i ration is it one fact we've come back in coffins is just around us it's so difficult to even think about you can just feel 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. with an investigation underway three main theories

are being focused on pilot error a systems malfunction and bad weather for the latest here is art his broadcast. 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 sending climbing higher and higher they were struck by lightning. the lightning caused wrecked havoc on the system on the aircraft's 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 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 help 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 it is. 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 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 should this colleagues who stayed behind she said she grabbed people by the

cuffs of the next 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 pilot 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 that 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 manually 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. was who has who project 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 is the first passenger plane to be built in modern russia and

you heard me mention a lightning strike in the plane systems are supposedly isolated from said it lightning strikes side from sunday's crash in moscow there have been three other safety and 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 other cases involved a wheel mechanism failure and overshooting the runway with several crew being injured in that incident 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 regular maintenance 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 more. equipment of 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 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 is a seating plan of the plame 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.

russia's health minister has visited the hospital where several of the crash survivors are receiving treatment artie's almost 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 to play 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 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 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 another member of a sort of a mystery that could have happened a new one how tragic when fate takes an unexpected turn like this 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 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.

you know world of big. lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back this is our team international now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says he has not seen any support around the world for military intervention in venezuela including on u.s. politicians his words come after

a highly anticipated meeting between the russian diplomat and his american counterpart mike. the pair were meeting on the sidelines of an arctic forum in finland as expected when israel was the main subject of discussion with the possibility of u.s. military action in the hot topic for journalists following the tongue. he's flipped the tranquil 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 when. i 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 poem barrow's statement from this weekend that russia must

get out of venezuela and also about the possibility of cole said intervening militarily when you start a loose. consent to do this 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 and we concentrated on the politics in a sense from my contacts with the u.s. american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved to reaction and media at the 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 air 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 don't put it but oh but what good is it 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 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 at any cost dural

and the self-proclaimed president one are finally in touch on this president donald trump has spoken to president flot amar pollutant the top diplomats have met but it is unclear whether that would still lead to a peaceful resolution of this longstanding venezuelan crisis in his speech at the conference u.s. state u.s. state secretary excuse me secretary of state my pump a zero issued warnings to china and russia here to the two countries to respect washington's interests in the arctic or face consequences. beijing claims to be a near arctic state yet the shortest distance between china in the arctic is nine hundred miles. there are only arctic states and not arctic states no third category exists and claiming otherwise entitles china to exactly nothing but concerned about russia's claim over the international waters of the northern sea

route including its newly announced plans to connect it with china's maritime so growth it's actually says or special attention special attention of this council in part because of their sheer scale. you know i did not discuss the northern sea routes the nor the sea route is a russian national transport ansari we is it coastal states acting in full compliance with international law all responsible for the safe operation over this route just as canadians are responsible for the functioning of the northwest passage there's the northern sea route is a shipping route running along of the russian arctic coast within the country's exclusive economic zone and while china does not border the arctic it holds observer status on the arctic council new shipping routes through the arctic ocean are expected to open as polar ice melts in the coming years last month russian president vladimir putin at a meeting with his chinese counterpart suggested linking russia's northern sea

route to china's maritime silk road. cross live to political analyst to dave perkins and for more about this david as always it's good to have you with us here. so pump aoe seems troubled by both china's and to russia's presence in the arctic speaking about russia first how legitimate is it for pump to warn russia considering its entire northern coastline borders the arctic ocean. well it seems like he's warning russia. in the framework of its proposed participation with china there's a un law it's called the convention actually that lists five nations that international law permits to bargain with each other over arctic resources like oil and gas and gold and diamonds and uranium which is extremely important in the world today due to nuclear weapons or nuclear power and the fact that no new raynier ms

is able to be made so finding sources of it is a pretty big deal but the convention does not have china on the list of five nations and so russia is causing a potential problem in international law in pompei you are certainly aware of that china has no claim as pompei zero said and i think anybody can justify that russia is a popular. i'm going to use the word punching bag although is overstated diplomatically making russia an adversary and standing up to them is a pretty big deal for president donald trump in light of the last two years as you can imagine so what do you think about pompei a warning beijing not to use the arctic in china's maritime silk route i mean beijing shouldn't really have a stake there should they i mean could the arctic become another political battlefield between china and the u.s. or a proxy if you will. well it's a rare thing in the twenty first century world to find millions of square miles with no people in it and no sovereignty and no problem just moving in and taking

a piece of it and starting mining operations technology has gotten us to the point where the resources there are easy to get annoyed got to do is stake a claim and defend it and international law supports the united states and russia but not china and so i think you have to be aware that the chinese tend to creep they built seven artificial islands in the south china sea in the first thing they did was put a military base on one of them with the runway so they extended their military ability in coverage in the south china sea which is definitely an anti-american provocation given that taiwan is an ally of ours and the chinese have never given up their claim to taiwan so i think you can assume if they build a route through there that they will somehow manage to creep their way to establishing a foothold on some ice packs somewhere and starting an operation and essentially challenging america to do something about it warning them up front we will do it before you get there so if you look over the past few years both russia and the us

have demonstrated their power in the region nato's exercise in norway last year was the alliance's biggest drill in more than a decade. is it possible that the us itself is being a bit too provocative the arctic. well there are those who would say so but president donald trump ironically the first time i think in my lifetime even ronald reagan wasn't as well prepared to defend american interests as trump is and i think it suits trump's audience back home to behave this way and it suits his understanding of what america is and should be in the world to stand up for our rights and to stand up for what is good for america it's a very unusual thing and the world is so far removed from having a president of the united states that will do that they really don't know how to respond so. we're talking about this on t.v. and all around the world people are asking questions of what does this mean it's going to mean i think that american sovereignty will extend as far as international

law permits america to put up a hand and say china doesn't get to participate here that's against international law. you would touch on this a little bit earlier i want to go back to it if you don't mind the arctic ocean is believed to contain large untapped oil and gas reserves as well as other resources as well that also turns out to be a point of conflict down the line. it's possible you never know there are very few untapped resources left on this globe as i said and the arctic circle being millions of square miles with no people and no sovereignty and no government and it's unnecessary to conquer or go to war with anyone there anyway and hopefully there will be enough for everybody and within the confines of international law we'll be able to use diplomacy and work out who gets what there is that possibility that is not even talked about because people want to go straight to the competitiveness of it i think there are answers to be found in sitting down at the

table and talking and i think they will be found i think pompei o is just putting up a hand and saying let's follow the law all the way here shall we and you bring up a good point about the cooperation aspect there's a lot of cooperation down in the antarctic region briefly we only have about forty five seconds left do you believe countries will ultimately find a way to cooperate in developing the region or will there be a clash of interests in the arctic. i do believe cooperation is in the future i think we live in an age where large countries developed countries going to war we just with each other is pretty much out of the question because it's so damaging and destructive on so many levels i really don't see military confrontation at the end of this i think it can all be sorted out at the table. a political analyst thanks for being with us here on earth international thank you sean. all right you're watching arch international more news in let's say thirty three minutes in fifteen seconds.

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