the remains of all forty one people killed after a russian plane burst into flames during an emergency landing in moscow and have now been recovered from the crash site twelve year old girl and the flight attendant who died helping passengers skate the inferno are among the. investigators are currently looking at three possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction and bad weather. focused on real politics russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov holds talks with the u.s. secretary of state my comp aoe saying he has found no support for any military

intervention in venezuela including among american officials. and israel reportedly agrees to a truce with palestinian militant group hamas after a weekend of deadly exchanges which sees more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale air strikes and missile attacks. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our national i'm sean thomas 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.

the aeroflot aircraft as you can see the entire rear section of the plane was destroyed by the fire the remains of the jet have now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation and 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 tragedy and people have been laying flowers and tributes. which has since returned to a full flight schedule at port where the plane was flying two candles have been lit to honor the victims with some people coming simply just to pay their respects here is how the tragedy unfolded in just two more new you may find some of the scenes upset. 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 plane with huge plumes of black smoke. rose above the my city bound to be yes. i know all of this happened to. the children. my heart is just breaking from this

terrible tragedy has the who visited you which in just little 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 out from may want to ration it when the fact we've come back in coffins is just around us it's so difficult to even think about you can dispute we're not slipping that we were worried oh no it's together with more men square in mourning take care of each other people. with an investigation underway three main theories are being focused on pilot error a systems malfunction and a bad weather with the latest here's art is what i've got. 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 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 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 dispatchers 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 were fall. ill advised to land an aircraft with the fuel tanks for what aircraft 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 they bumped the rear of the aircraft bumped against the concrete 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 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 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 and 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 so let's look at the plane itself the suhoor super jet 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 it alluded to a lightning strike there the plane's systems are supposedly isolated from lightning strikes of course that will be looked into now aside from sunday's crash in moscow there have been three other safety incidents involving the super jet itself 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 several crew members were injured in that incident now 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 in fact just last month 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. 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 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 have occasion committee what should happen to the airplane here is the seating plan of the plane indicating what happened to the occupants inferno mostly affected those sitting towards the rear of the aircraft only those towards the front end closest to the only usable exits were able to escape.

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around. russia's health minister has visited the hospital where several of the crash survivors are receiving treatment talkies donald 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 those not to flood which they 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 i think had at the institute or are in a state of shock ican 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 murder this time the mystery that could have happened to anyone 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 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.

russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says he has not seen any support around the world for military intervention in venezuela including among us. titian's his words come after a highly anticipated meeting between the russian diplomat and his american counterpart mike pompei o and the pair were meeting on the sidelines of an arctic forum in finland as expected venezuela was the main subject of discussion with the possibility of u.s. military action a hot topic for journalists following of the talks trying to comment. 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 that as well off when. i 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. intervening militarily when you start to loose. we tried not to concentrate on those two incidents which are publicly discussed because they are being affected by many factors that you don't have anything to do was real politics and we concentrated on the politics in the sense from my contacts with the u.s. american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose this move 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 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 in the russian capital on sunday no sort o. put it but i'll put a quote get us in we are ready for all scenarios the first includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and i think if the u.s. prefers the military path we are ready to resist to have an army police where 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 go are finally in touch on this president donald trump how spoken to president fly out of our potent the top diplomats have met but it is unclear whether that would still lead to a peaceful resolution of this longstanding venezuelan crisis. all right former british diplomat william mallinson does not think u.s. military intervention is a real threat to venezuela. these are empty threats and there are threats over vanity that threats of looks like the wounded bear wounded line but as long as you've been as well in particular with russia and china as support

international law i don't see the possibility of an overt u.s. intervention a tool because that would be extremely dangerous for all will 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. israel and palestinian militant groups mosques have reached a truce after two days of intense cross border violence 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 took place from outside to prevent this from 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 and retaliate tory strikes artie's 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 pouring out it was brokered by

egypt and the united nations press has been the bloodiest weekend of violence on the israeli side that for israelis were killed which is the highest fatality israel has suffered since they lost control of gaza who was back in two thousand and thirteen but on the palestinian side twenty four palestinians were killed including a pregnant woman and a child a street scene mostly described. terrified. and everyone was looking for their children nobody was able to see ya there and after the first rocket hit everyone started screaming children and adults when the building collapsed nobody was able to see why they are going to. leave it to those big of them to the generals that know the situation to do what they know we can do is to cross our fingers they will succeed or 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 muscles the 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 don't want to know where it's all is believed to house its nuclear arsenals and 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 instructed the i.d.f. to continue its intense time against terror targets in the gaza strip to expand its presence surrounding the gaza strip with forces troops we operate and we will continue to do something to restore peace and security to residents in the south 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 only thing in the funk festival vision on the fourteenth of may many israelis i speak to say that they believe it would 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. for a journalist rami. political analyst mitchell barak gave us their conflicting views on the latest escalation between israel and girls. these are either response is always disproportionate. palestinian rocket fire is really attacks on the palestinians are very destructive and very ruining for the population how rises are being reduced and rubble people in the streets are being hit well while they are on

motorcycles or whether they are on cars even on the ground in the fields including mothers and their toddlers both the hamas and islamic jihad or 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 of the i.d.f. published a tweet blaming hamas for indoctrinating indoctrinating children with milton sentiments and provoked an angry reaction.

hamas is wrapping children of god of their future and attempts to rob the children of israel fears we won't let them. 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 ervin the army children who are in the army exhibit sions climbing on top of tanks and commenting on what they want to do and what they do ye of doing when they serve in the army remember that israelis 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 dehumanizing the palestinians and depict them as less worthy of solidarity and compassion by the international community or the desire for mel b. back with headlines and let's say thirty four minutes you watching are trashing.

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. greetings from sal you take. its may walk watchers and now that spring has sprung here in the united states of america allergy season is in full gear. a true terrible watcher and while for most of us that means a little sneezing some watery eyes maybe even the chinos or two but for the boys on team spring allergy season brings a sudden onset of well trigger fingers because. this weekend we saw both u.s.

national security adviser john bolton and u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe put their allergy to peace and common sense on display as they bang the drums for war with both iran and venezuela mr bolton declared to reporters on sunday evening that the u.s. is deploying the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the middle east in order to quote send a clear and unmistakable message to the iranian regime that any attack on united states interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force under relenting force you say as opposed to golly gee whiz relenting force we normally reserved for helping allies. meanwhile over in the state department could be a was rattling the saber over venezuela's refusal to allow the united states to decide its leader when asked about his recent visit to the pentagon on friday pompei zero told a.b.c. news chief white house correspondent jonathan karl that he was there to quote make

sure that the president has a full scale set of options diplomatic options political options options with our allies and then ultimately a set of options that would involve the use of the u.s. military we're preparing those for him so that when the situation arises we're not flatfooted. when he says not if that's an interesting choice of words there mikey but is there any weight behind these w w e stop political promos for war or is this nothing more than sunday talk show bravado by the resident chicken hawks of capitol hill let's find out as we start watching the hawks. get the. real deal it's really. easy to just sit. there like you know that i got. this.