we've heard from the russian prime minister, dmitri medvedev, who said that this was a tragedy. the crew on board the flight could be offered compensation. the families of the crew on board would be offered compensation for their loss. >> reports are that one of the black boxes have been found. what do we know about the search and rescue operations in the sinai. the russians quibbled about how many of these black boxes have been found. they were believing of the reports that they have been. what they said was when they turn up. they want them deferred. the first part is it will have to take place in egypt and russia dispatched a number of investigators, including the minister to undertake investigations. there is another investigation, that is domestic, inside russia. it's been set up, an investigation into the company itself, and will establish whether there were impropriet s improprieties, or flaws in their handling. flights. we uds officers have been searched, the main airport in moscow has been searched. >> thank you, live for us in the russian capital moscow >>> israeli for

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and the period when he had stepped down into this isn't appreciated at the time, dmitry medvedev are very close to putin in a lot of ways and inseparable with most policies. but not as striking or paranoid as a figure to be honest. he was persuaded by the united states, joe biden in particular of the need to intervene in libya with what began as a peaceful uprising and became quite violent and eventually led to the intervention of the government towards the protesters and benghazi area. they didn't endorse the united nations both but instructed to russia's representative to abstain and putin was infuriated as being a resolute and allowing essentially yet another march of western forces overthrowing legitimate governments and we saw what happened in egypt and the chaos that followed and the restoration now under the general. even today the the chief of staff gave an interview and talked about thank god they have restored order again. they see this as a fundamentally different problem going on in the world and i think that in the case in this area it was a red line for putin and the so

using,the way, they are of all people, dmitry medvedev again, guy that nobody even remembers anymore, even within russia it seems. medvedev made a big manifesto to himself a couple of weeks ago and it attracted a lot of mocking comments in social media. but he said the same thing that these guys are saying. and we have to assume not that player, is a serious but that -- back to my point, these scenarios are alive and and we should always keep them in mind. all options, in a way, are open. that is why i hope this little paper that we wrote can be a begin toline as people think forward. i mean, obviously, track current events, but think forward five to 15 years in which our as we talk our side about responding with our own military planning, we can take this into account. we have a little scorecard and an outline, and it is like at a ballgame. you have to fill in the scorecard. but it is a handy way to think about these issues. --micheal: thank you. i will focus on the minimalist russia, the reaganoff russia and the besieged russia. if you had to rate the odds of each of those being the

dmitry medvedev, a much more mild figure, though very close to putin in a lot of way, inseparable, i think, in terms of most policies, but not as strident or as paranoid a figure, to be honest. he was persuaded by the united states, joe biden in particular, of the need to intervene in libya when what began as a peaceful uprising became quite violent. and then eventually led to the intervention of the libyan government towards the protesters in benghazi area and medvedev, he didn't endorse the united nations' vote, but he instructed russia's representative to abstain. and putin was infuriated by this because he saw it as medvedev as being irresolute and allowing essentially yet another march of western forces overthrowing, you know, legitimate governments and we've all seen what's happening in libya since. we saw what happened in egypt, and the chaos that followed, the fall of mubarak and the restoration now under general sisi of even today putin's chief of staff gave a long interview to itar-tass and he talked about, thank god that sisi is back in power and has restored order again.