conflict lodge on od. see the breaking news and as are by john airlines, a plane crashes in western conflicts done with dozens of passengers reportedly rescued. so far, 2 children are said to be among the survivors. recruiting scammers, calling in thousands of bomb threats and even hiring minors to kill a russian defense manufacturer. archie, dig deeper into these ro, ukrainian son also. i had said grieving a sub moment for gaza full pallet sky, but what they tried to find for some courage to be happy. as people around the world joyfully observed christmas and bethlehem, the city christians consider the birthplace of jesus,

the grief of fellow palestinians in gaza. overshadows the celebrations the live in moscow. i'm rachel ruble. this is our t international. we begin with breaking news from catholics. don, we're in azerbaijan. airlines plane has crashed with 69 people. reportedly on board emergency services say at least 29 survivors have been rescued, including 2 children. right to our seas. maureen, a customer of us here in the studio with we know some rain, a lot of moving parts to the store. a lot of new information coming in every minute . what do we know so far about the crash? yes. well, uh, what happened was the plane was actually traveling was supposed to travel from buck was or by john and it was heading to touch me as gross me when apparently it collided with a flock of birds. and now we're here in this hour that, that collision actually caused an oxygen tank on board to explode. and apparently,

passengers lost consciousness, the plane sent out. and that's how i signal over the caspian sea. and the pilot apparently decided to divert the plan and go to the closest airport, which was a call in cosmic stock. and then as it was landed, and we can see from the footage that as the plane was landing, when it hit the ground, it caught on fire. and of course, emergency services where there are some 150 people working on the scene. but from the crash, we can see that it started spinning around and the front of the plane fall apart really. and i presume that for most of the casualties were still conflict and reports are regarding casualties and how many people made it out our lives at the moment. we know it's 2129 people survived among them 2 children. and we actually have a video that was taking moments after the class. heartbreaking video showing what happened of the time i looked at the question,

the, the, the, the of the now the contact ministry of transport has since confirmed the citizenship of those who were on board. now again, it was 67 people, including crew members. now who was on board and we had 37 eyes are based on the citizens of 16 russians. 6 cause locks and 3 curtis citizens and this hour we time confirmed that. 14 eyes are by johnny survive. 10 russians survive. so target citizens and 3, we don't know, the citizenship is yet, so makes up $29.00 and total and we are hearing that both pilots night. okay. and, and the russian federal air transport agency has no commented on potential the

causes of this crash. well, you said it was a bird strike. what more details can you tell us? will they seem to confirm that it was indeed caused by a collision with a flock of birds and that the pilot then made the decision to divert the plane and go to the closest airport which was in a how caustic started. but of course, with the landing there, we saw that there was an issue there. we actually spoke to a navy ation export, trying to figure out what could have gone wrong and what happened. and this is what they had say. i have an impression that the plane was almost out of control and it was descending and seemed ready for landing. but in reality, the descent was too steep. only at the very last moment there seemed to be an attempt to level the playing off. it didn't seem right to me. there could be a number of reasons such as control systems failure. it's like reading tea leaves. there can be a lot of reasons, but we can see that the plane was almost uncontrollable. this hour were also

hearing that all sorts these are looking into a violation of safety rules during an aircraft operation. whatever that means we're expecting to find out more about that. okay, interesting. what about the official reaction to the crash it's we're getting a lot of reaction, especially this hour as obviously people are waking up to this and using various parts of the world for russia's part the most of them, the csr by john said that it's of course in contact with authorities in both countries, and they're trying to clarify the circumstances of the crash russian consulate in azerbaijan. nearby has actually set up a crisis headquarters and sunsets employees to the scene of the crash. we also heard from maria's a harbor. this pokes person for our process for an ministry who said that the russian diplomats are in contact with contact officials as well as trying to establish also the state of the russian citizens on board. but no, this, our about 10 russians survived. that was 16 point originally, so we're still waiting to find out what happened to those 6 more here. some more from her. as she's group also is the russian embassy and cosmic style,

as well as our representative offices in the country are in contact with local authorities regarding assistance to victims of the ocean disaster information about the hotline of the ministry of emergency situations of causing stun, which relatives that the deceased can contact has also been published on the website and accounts of the russian embassy in a star, and that person diplomats working and cause x time will monitor the situation and promptly inform on this issue. and we also heard from kremlin spokespersons been to the best golf who set the platinum of hoops and expressed his condolences to the eyes or by john the president by phone. then he confirmed that mister r live was indeed in st. petersburg for an informal summit, but of course he had to cut his trip short, then he has since returned back to his country. and also he set up a states delegation and census they delegation to cause exxon to investigate the causes of the crash. likewise, the touching leader, i'm sorry,

a bit of expresses condolences and so that he's praying for a speedy recovery of those for survived. similarly with the concept of presidents who also instructed that a commission be set up looking into what happened without played and why it resulted in this project crash. now they had the rushes darkest on, expressed his condolences and offered any assistance possible that he could offer. and the georgia for ministry said that it stands in solidarity with a strategic partner at this difficult time. and we also heard from sir b as president and the pocket study prime minister, expressing their condolences and finally this hour. we also heard from the united states who are saying that they're willing to help by sir, by john and any way possible. all right, and our case manifest way to marina. thank you. the war against the russians continues on and off the battlefield. 7 people, including 3 miners, have been detained by russian security services for the attempt of the car bombing

attack in the moscow region. the suspects to confess that they were coordinated by ukrainian forces. russia has also been shocked by a series of sabotage incidents try it out by civilians who been duped by scammers or port or they from the crane. and what appears to be a highly coordinated campaign, a number of citizens had been persuaded to set fire to police cars as well as governments and bank offices, or to senior correspondent, raw guys the of dig deeper. the kinds scam is call centers make up the country's lives pro for the black sport scout, know of a country in the world comes close, i nearly pension is all over europe, but russian and all over the world, the stem, the life savings. so the june of a billions of dollars a year when you have new more of the new ethics, it doesn't matter who is a big to me, is a pensioner or a kid?

the, every yeah, ukrainian scott was cooling files on the bottom thread stair russian schools, and i'm keeping the gardens alone closes. i suppose it the free time between scamming vulnerable pension is it's hard to stop. technically, what it takes is a so called same box, literally a box the can house store. so he would hundreds of a legal sim cards and allow you premium co centers, which they're all believed to be hundreds old to make direct clues to victims in, in germany or in britain. no. russia, the

russian law enforcement of the seas. 320000, a legal sim cards. the owners and operators rested anything serious scale time. but as things get worse on the front blinds for you, right. this guy, most of time to recruiting kids, teenagers to become kayla's the largest moment i last. why were detained for attempting to blow up a car? 7 suspect it'd be detained. is an attempt to cons. carbone under

a vehicle soon by the head of a russian defense manufacturer. 3 of them were mine is under age promised $5.00 to $10000.00 to kill somebody. what is the result of an f? as the operation, the suspects when detained as they belong to the call booms. all the cell sticks involved have been charged. it always starts to the victim, is jed t lead us to savannah, that track and eventually to mother named literally from the 3 book up the fluid, the change while preparing to blow up a car, which we had tracked before hand. so yes, it's about a they asked us to drive to the parking lot and located land cruise abrazzo, what dean called me and said he had put together an improvised explosive device. that's when i realized that our handler was involved with ukraine. ukraine makes no

secret of it. they have on, on numerous occasions, admitted to assassinations, of, of journalists and activities, and politicians, blowing up civilians. according to you prayed all over the world, is neither terrorism nor crazy. what they call terrorism. we call liberation. and this didn't happen because i went crazy and started killing people in moscow. all i will say is that we've been killing russians and will continue killing russians all over the world until ukraine's complete victory. it's seems like please the sky being in the bombings that are the way to the americans and europeans up regarding the nature of ukraine's rule is the spot, the, the propaganda or yeah, it's of cnn, bbc and i'm down to a so the outlets school on your side to time and time again, people, people stop and pause of to find the gas about you credit and slaves of sun. they

lost themselves the simple question, how on us could this be the good guys? all right, back to that breaking news from a cause like stand where and as are by john airlines plane has crashed with 67 people reported la on board emergency services say at least 28 survivors had been rescued including 2 children. all right, we have 50 the luxury and innovation expert and global security analyst who's here in the studio with me now. so we'll certainly some really tragic news coming out of kind of like stand and i know you've seen the videos of this plane crashing. what do you get from watching these videos? are you able to get any information on what may have happened? yeah, well, i will explain this as an exile and kept in myself because there are many things to say and also

a lot of interrogations on the 1st we do. and i've been able to see if we can see the crowd coming in the way, how you have to do it for a landing. um, also on the very steep bank angle. but the thing is that i was not able to hear anything about engines. i mean, there is no, almost no sound, nothing. so the, the new approach and for that craft, uh, for a landing is uh, you can see that the aircraft has the landing gear down. was not built in to see the run out to a bind to be extended. in this case it would have means that they have the both engine off. i would say they need to make a call back. uh, you know, to generate the energy to have a little bit of tricity in the hydraulic system for the flight control because this across, these are fly by wire, like this is in some buildings also. so it's, it's, there is no really information. um,

i would say strong enough to explain exec the what i have. i'm the only thing the only way to have a strong informations is to analyze the could be both with carter and the flight of that recorder. but what we know so far as has been said before, is that across the west lane from blackwood, rosie the weather was fine. i did pick up from back who there was some fug expected in gross me. and then for any given reason, these craft has been diverted to the, to you, it's out in at about across the caspian sea. some reports have said that there was a flock of birds, but i mean, the aircraft flew in a flock of birds. but once again, it all depends what were the damages caused by those birds? if you lose one engine, this aircraft, as full online aircraft,

are well capable enough land on that single engine. even sometimes you get 3 operation which means by 5. so and then comes after the human fact or what was the reaction of the prove. unfortunately, both pilot has been killed, so they won't be able to, to testify them to explain what happened. but you, crash is never one big thing. there is a chain of crashing the chain of prize. she is one thing plus one thing, plus what think and when you take off with more than 3 of them, then the flights is at risk. ok, right. so um, it's that it's an absolute tragedy, but they are. um yeah, the i pressed the was flying any way because it flew flawlessly from destination apple throughout the night. i a problem in which the weather west find the best selling was fine. you have some wind for uh, from 040 degrees to 60,

not something. i mean, nothing really special, nothing special. okay. and you pointed out something, interest thing before we started this interview about the door here on this image and the emergency slide. can you tell our viewers what you yeah, it is there? yeah. and normally i'm on all sides when the finger is coming of the aircraft and when the craft is going to be pushed back from the gates, the crew is getting all those to the cabin crew to the emergency slide right on the door like this. if you have an emergency, then as soon as you open the door, the slides are being deployed and then passengers scan exit. the problem, what you can see and those um systems are to be deactivated only when you are on the final darn or close to very close to the gate almost when the practice stop by the same order given by the flight crew. to do this, just to prevent anything happening when you open the door. so when i look at this

picture here effectively, we can see that the re, a left door of the aircraft on the, in the tail section is up and, and the emergency slide right is not deployed. which means that the a 's, or one of the cabin crew in the rear of the craft, decided to deactivate the system because it was completely upside down. and by basically preventing the passengers to, to, to electra the craft. and so we decided to deactivated, or maybe it was for any given reason, inoperable or interesting not been activated or it's been the, the did the flight for the can improve. and the rest of it was not in a position to do anything for any given reason. because of the price, and then the normal passenger did open the door, but passengers with no training, they don't know how to deactivate the system. it's not that complicated. you have

a safety pin. uh, you need to deactivate the system and put the say, put back the safety pin. i are in another place. so, oh, i have to have to have the system, but it's mainly flawlessly mean mentally the, the same system. so that's a, that's an interesting picture. but it does, it does not explain the pressure for absolutely not sure. there's also these media reports about a possible oxygen container explosion um the, again, offline before this interview you said you didn't quite believe that. what, why is that? well, because if you have 3 different kind of oxygen, you have medical excision, which is pure me over to you have subsistence oxygen. uh, and mainly the system of folks engine that you have on board aircraft in terms of the compression. they are not a big bottles, they are in canisters that are just above you've had with the oxygen mask. and when you have a compression, the oxygen has got pulling down them by themselves. you just need to grab one,

pull on it, and then then it will trigger in the small canister. that is just above you have a chemical reaction that will, um, how would i explain this? it's chemical reaction by heating system that will give you a mix between oxygen and normal. okay? or that you're breathing. so if the aircraft west carrying some medical oxygen has car though it is, consider as dental as good. and then that will be seen in the cargo manifesto but so far a big bought a like this pro, booking this i, i don't really believe in this. you're going to have a decompression. yes. if we have a lot of people that the, that the spoke about, a flock of birds, we don't know which altitude they flew in into those parts. it can be a low altitude or it can be a higher altitude. you have some good sometimes that are flying very,

very high. but that we, we do not know. yes, that's also a possibility. right? so far it's an unknown. so how, how common is the risk for bird strikes? is that something that happens often, and is it something that actually poses danger? a real danger to aircraft? oh yes, yes. uh, flooded words can be very dangerous in, in fact take off and landing, for example, we have seen in the past. i remember that in france, probably 2025 years ago. almost the whole crew of the sugar a company died. you had to seal the peaches you older, proved that in an act, rough crash taking of the from the boys a they. they flew with it's, it was a file gun, the feeling to into birds, and then the crew tried to come back to them, but there was a fire. and the, i mean it's been a terrific crash. but of course,

all those l line us with whether they are russian allies, were destroyed, a super just $100.00 the m as $121.00 abas and bryan, which is from brazil. boeing whatsoever, those aircraft are capable to fly when they are tween engines on a single engine. and, and some of them are even capable to come back and allow me to check in category 3 landing, which is the medical ending even in single engine operations. by gambles at $320.00 . so a flock of birds could have provoked an engine failure. and it also in very rail situation, good promo for also a double engine failure. but if you have double engine failure, we would be able to see the run out to a bind to be being deployed, or the a p u, which is in the, in the into tell of the crafted z o j r a pro, a unit should have been started and that would have given uh energy to the airport . so once again, it's my questions, not a question still very early. all right,

thank you. those are the level of of security on the list and aviation experts. you're welcome. the whole christmas is a very special day for billions of believers, and especially so in bethlehem where the story of jesus began. but this december is the 2nd ear of subdued celebrations in the west bank city that has been overshadowed by the ongoing war in gaza. and is rarely rates across the palestinian territories. ortiz mary of an ocean of reports from the sacred city. a. we are a best let him metalli's student, sweet and the occupied westbank believed to be the birthplace of jesus christ. then traditionally of course, the heart of christmas celebrations for millions and millions of questions around the world. but tonight it's hard to find any sign of passivity. here the manger square behind me usually dominated by a towering bright elite, beautiful christmas trees fence. there are no tree, no lights,

no decorations. typically the square is full of vendors selling street photo gates, children running around 2 rooms singing carols, taurus, so clean in this period of the holidays. now it's all gone for the 2nd year in a row. bethlehem has cancelled as christmas celebrations, and the reason of this they and they were in jobs on, has cost a dark shadow of college canoes in the west bank. and here in bethlehem, who say guys was all like family to them. brothers and sisters who's suffering is deeply shared. church leaders and local officials council facilities as an act of solidarity with those in guys, endearing, unimaginable hardship. with more than 45000 lives lost in the palestine and in slave and thousands and thousands more wounded or missing. the grief is in tens earlier and the catholic churches, lesson patriarch, who is attending the midnight mess at the church of the tv to to night he visits

a gaza and here's what he said upon his return from god's vice also. so so you also, we also meant to it's nice the war to cancel our life and that's the biggest reason us 3 i was hearing best left him 2 years ago during the 1st christmas off the cold wind blow downs and the square i have to tell you and the c t look very different back then we have finally invest, let him. if mother mary would make it here today,

she would find the state to reach the decorated for christmas and full of celebrating crowds for the 1st time in 3 years. the town believes to be the birthplace of jesus, accepts christians from all over the globe earlier his really prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed wish turns worldwide. same thing, van, for support in israel's fight against what he called, the forces of evolve. we spoke with some people here about beaver's speech. palestinians refused to talk on camera for security reasons, adding it smelled hard for ideas to come here and arrest them. but they told us they believed. nathan, yahoo is the evil one. some foreigners who share their vision allowed us to report them, is trying to get the chris them bolts from like the western world, from europe on from the us. but also like the christians here and they don't feel safe. they don't feel like they can celebrate christmas and the way that they should be able to as a christian,

i believe in fees. and i believe i know 1000 goals. i b as in love because i just looked at tells us that love you. your neighbors love yourself, and i just realized that the only lights in the square of flashing from police cars security is very tight with more officers visible here than civilians. the atmosphere is very tense reflecting. they broke the security situation all across the west bank. that is marked by escalating violence and deepening divisions. takes the northern city of jeanine, for example, a long on time center of resistance to is wally occupation. that is an golf in conflict with questions this time ranging between forces loyal to the palestinian authority and milton groups including the mass and these lumnick jihad who accused the po, collaboration with a israel. palestinian authorities responds with deadly raids. gunfire and explosions have become daily routine. they're leaving residents for us to the cycle

of fear and violence and beyond security. the west bank economic crisis is deepening. unemployment has claimed i'm relatively above 25 percent, and many families are struggling to make ends meet. and some parents here earlier told us they didn't bring the children to the square of these here as they can not even afford a balloon. the cancellation of christmas celebrations has put another burden on the local economy, which is obviously have only depending on torres, some hotels a m team. in the one we are saying tonight we are the only gas shops shorter and the mood is one of despair. it's going to be hard, especially here because it, every year i came to here as a citizen of the with the him on the i see i don't the separation and people from different the country is it to be? yeah, i think nearly multiple years, we are not so very thing to hear from because us do wish. and so i, yeah,

i just wish to finish this war because the still wishing the is misery and i, i hope people to came here and again, next year, maybe uh on saturdays uh, with the people here. definitely not in the mood to celebrate this year. not last year, it was one of my favorite periods. it's throughout the whole year, i would look forward to this period because it would be so full. you would see so many people. again, it's itself so spiritual and so celebratory. and today it's empty. i know, at least for me, i can imagine myself celebrating no, not any time soon. so i can imagine that most people are feeling very similarly. i moved a little bit so that you could see the entrance to the church inside these walls. christmas isn't completely from boston. this is weird. christmas survives in quiet moments of prayer within the walls of the nativity church. the midnight mess has

just started. hundreds of people have gathered inside already. you can see they're lining the outside. they're trying to get in right now. how is teen is some foreigners inside there? is this frank draw sense of peas, a stark contrast to the turmoil outside, and we can see people's faces all this smiling and they're happy. so and this moment they're grieving as the said moments of gaza for palestine, but what they tried to find for some courage to be happy. and even here are the weight of gaza and this trundles across the west bank. all it is capable gets people gather lights and candles whispering prayers, hoping the next christmas maybe my bring and brightest story. and of course. ringback everyone's so raising tonight merry, merry christmas from bethlehem in palestine. all right.