International we start with news today sad news out of moscow a plane with sixty five passengers and six crew members on board has crashed outside moscow shortly after takeoff leaving no survivors. We havent seen him for three months he was working now we want. To see the new it wasnt wery optimistic person i was ready to help you know few people like her ok i remember that one the same i feel so sorry for her daughters its a terribly sad. Yes and my im from the last its my sound. For a classmate i didnt crash. Straight. Always wanted to be a pilot he loved everything related to flying he was in love with the sky. These are the first images of the crash side that emerged online after the tragedy the footage was apparently shot by locals of the plane came down near a village about sixty kilometers southeast of moscow. The plane was heading to or ski city close to the russian border with kazakhstan it took off from the airport in the russian capital four minutes later the plane disappeared from radar investigators say the crew did not report any irregularities to air Traffic Control before tragedy struck and this is a birds eye view of the crash site which is spread over a large area around six hundred people are involved in the search effort record snowfall over the past week has made their task especially difficult question of what ive got reports of. Rescue is here working in shifts there are dozens and dozens of not hundreds of them but one part of one group works at the crash sites another group breasts and then they switch. Rescuers are also making use of sumo beals ferrying supplies to and from the crash site itself because theres a lot of snow at the crash site the jet crashed into a field more trucks and equipment to arrive really every hour heaviest stuff the conditions of the crash site are first the physical because of this though because of the way we are obviously they want to get this crash site in order quickly here is another ambulance moved likely carrying the remains of another victim or perhaps victims judging by the frequency by which these are passing the rescue operation is proceeding rapidly lugols have also been describing what theyve seen. My friend say the bang was so loud the windows almost shouted. In the t. V. And a kind of band. Yes i heard a loud. Was line in the hole gladly and might you have it was a really long. I would see it sounded like an explosion in our house bounced reports initially were contradictory some people said that the aircraft was. On fire while in the air others described a huge explosion when it crashed about a kilometer from here. Is clearing away the snow on the roads theres already been a lot of speculation a lot of discussion as to the potential possible causes of this crash investigators say theyll be looking at everything from possible technical malfunction stick human error to weather conditions and its probably best to let the men and women digging through the wreckage today and to give us a definitive or conclusive violence as to what caused this tragedy. The plane was a russian made by airlines and took its maiden flight back in two thousand and ten this specific model of plane can reach speeds of around eight hundred twenty Kilometers Per Hour and is capable of carrying up to eighty passengers the airline is being examined by authorities but the Company Claims it carried out all of the necessary technical maintenance. Now as the Investigation Continues we discussed the tragedy with three aviation experts who shared their thoughts on some possible causes. Like to send my thoughts and prayers to all the families of the passengers and crew and the Airline Staff in the wake of this tragedy the weather is probably the primary factor that depends a lot on the rate of the snowfall or precipitation and how long the airplane had been sitting on the ground collecting all that material so if the airplane had only been on the ground maybe thirty minutes maybe not so much accumulated if had been there a couple of hours obviously a lot more could have accumulated in that case if the airplane was not sprayed with the icing fluid there would be a more serious. Result you know so the fact that the airplane became airborne and climbed to six thousand feet tells me that probably the airplane was in pretty good shape at the time of the takeoff were dealing with a great great tragedy i feel very bad and were communicating in such a context with the tragedy there are common protocol for an investigation through various aspects of security and safety factor. A few things really briefly would be the Structural Integrity of the aircraft the fuselage the engines and so on then you look at various energy from isis whether were talking Electrical Systems our for the engines things of that smart. Trains are really a nominal use external to any aircraft that could include anything from up bird strike a missile strike a collision with another your craft interaction with unusual weather phenomena and then lastly you have to look you know about human issues that could possibly think the thing they call when shit where the wind just suddenly goes straight up and alters the kind of tryst the plane also we have to consider whether it is icing whether they probably the plane before it that. Could be that size built up very quickly on the wings and that might affect the flying ability of the plane so these are all considerations that have to be part of the overall investigation. But morals have been set up across the orenburg region where sixty of the passengers were from local authorities have declared monday a day of mourning medina question over reports now from moscows dont want to airport. The aircraft that crashed just outside moscow departed from this very airport the why did the lease one of the three major air transport hubs in the capital and after the tragedy remains fully operational but over at the small city of course the airport there tells a very different story the shock has paralyzed it most of the sixty five passengers on board of that plane were from that region dozens of family and friends were waiting for them there there are scenes of absolute grief a speak will come to terms with what has happened emergency crews are present at the airport and psychologists are ready to help those trying to cope with their loss the passengers who were due to fly back to moscow on the crashed aircraft are handing back their tickets and even the here at this fast paced airport which is forced to keep moving this tragedy has hit hard. One man had a lock on his side after he canceled his ticket one day before the flight. Of. Who turned thirty seven this sunday was due to fly back to or sq to celebrate his birthday with his family but changed his plans he says he still cant grasp what happened. So i saw the news and what can i say i felt a chill with. Everyone says i was born on the lucky star thats not true just a coincidence. My sorrow in the deepest sympathies to the relatives of the irish its scary. Over the past a decade almost four hundred lives have been lost in russian plane crashes and the tragedies still weigh heavy for many. The of. The of. Our quick recap a passenger plane with seventy one people on board has crashed shortly after takeoff from moscows dont land yet of the airport leaving no survivors most of the victims were from the orenburg region of russia where the plane was heading now because of the tragedy its so far unknown and of course we will keep you updated as the information comes in. To my mind more and entertainment have become glued to it in our culture and we have children grow up playing playing well games on the computer as well as somehow being to mystic cited as entertainment to russians from just theres nothing funny about oil it is so serious russia will be the last to give up Nuclear Weapons because russia regards Nuclear Weapons as a bomoh. Against inflation all walk by disappeared you have to. Coalition of. Good poses to. Put themselves on the line. To get except the reject. So when you want to be president and. Somehow want to be. Considered to be close this is what before three in the morning can people get. Interested always in the water. And welcome back watch march international and the week it will be live from moscow now around seven hundred fifty thousand children lack of basic medical care in the war torn iraqi city of mosul this is according to the u. N. Childrens rights a body unicef seven months after the liberation of mosul from Islamic State of the city is struggling to get back on its feet. But there are other shargel for it. The number of. Health care centers or hospitals is very limited the extent of the damage has affected it i was there in one of the Health Centers the other day the one family came in with their baby is a two month old baby they wanted a vaccinated there was vaccine there was everything there and starts were seeing over one hundred children a day were able to vaccinate this child but those families have to walk far i also saw the baby unit there were nine incubate has six of which which were filled with premature babies who would not have survived unless those incubate as with their its a wide area wide level of levels of devastation families have to walk enormous distances to be able to get the health care what were saying is that the Cumulative Health care that is required of any child anywhere else in the world is not available yet in mosul. Long after the iraqi army declared victory in mosul the city remains strewn with corpses a bit of warning you may find the following seems to stress. The condition of many of the bodies is making it difficult to confirm their identities most of the victims appear to be civilians women children and elderly people unicefs representative in iraq Peter Hawkins says mosul cannot rebuild without international support. I think what we need to understand is the extent of the problem this is a massive city mosul city probably faced one of the biggest urban warfare since World War Two and. Two point two million to two point four Million People affected its an enormous challenge for everybody to try and clear everything up and get the people working again. Switching gears now south korea kicked off the Winter Olympics on friday with a lavish opening ceremony. Now almost three thousand athletes from ninety two countries took part in the event in punk chang however before the celebrations there were demonstrations and scuffles outside the venue some activists objected to the presence of north korean officials at the ceremony. It was. Was. At the stadium the north and south korean teams marched together under a unified flag and lit the olympic torch together it was seen as a major milestone on the way to overcoming decades of tension. And the south korean president says he is ready to accept an invitation to visit the north when the right conditions are in place that potentially sets up the first meeting between the countrys leaders in more than a decade the invitation was handed to him by kim jong il and sister she is the first member of north koreas ruling family to visit of the south since the one nine hundred fifty s. The russian hopes were dashed just hours before events got underway in south korea a last minute appeal from forty five russian athletes and two coaches against a doping related ban failed their lawyers branded the decision sanctions in disguise while this was the official announcement made by sports highest court. Gus arbitrators of concerts the process created by the i. O. C. To establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete. At least from russia could not be described as a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision so there you have it according to the court of arbitration for sport ridding the russian athletes of their own pick invitations isnt equal to punishment and cas is perfectly happy with the criteria that the i. O. C. And mission really shows for these invitations the president of the World Antidoping Agency is pleased he says that the timing is great and that all the clean athletes should now be reassured the i. O. C. Are happy to they have applauded the verdict as you can see and this tweet though the russians are obviously totally devastated i dont know what to say im really disappointed i cant understand the cast decision first they cleared the athletes and now they say sorry you cant go to the olympics this is some kind of madness its terrible not just for fleets but for all of International Sport did i expect cas to reach this decision fifty fifty especially after thomas buck in one of his later speeches pressured the court of arbitration for sport after ruled in our favor he was literally threatening the court he was only saying he would dissolve the court if it route again in favor of russian athletes. Coach Albert Dempsey and co who was by the way one of those to sue the i. O. C. Was referring to all the things that were being said about the court of arbitration for sport ahead of the hearings including these statements by the president of the i. O. C. Kind of the decision is extremely disappointing these decision shows the merchant the need. For reforms in the internal structure of the cause here thomas bach was referring to the previous cas verdict and that requires a bit of background the forty seven russian athletes and coaches who were suing the International Olympic committee where for two groups thirty two hadnt been sanctioned by the odyssey investigators as a result of the russian doping scandal at all fifty received lifetime bans their medals were taken away by the i. O. C. A few months ago but then the very same court of arbitration for sport last week cancelled these lifetime bans due to insufficient evidence the abuse of held the sanctions and notes and the individual results achieved in such reinstated so the decision that we have right now completely contradicts the previous one and this is a real disaster for the country the athletes both the ones who are still going to compete and young saying under a neutral flag and those who are banned the coaches the fans they are baffled by how unfair it could get have no way. I was hoping that cast would rule in our favor right now i dont know what to do and im disappointed when of course i wont give up on subordinates and a lot ahead of me and i will compete and win medals for my country. And to the very end we will do. Vision would go in favor now i feel sadness and sorrow when i would meet in a recall petition i can have enough strength in the opportunity to compete in the next was a mix. I have no emotions left we had all our bags packed you were just waiting for a Decision Making such situations make you stronger emotionally. Three of the worlds biggest of social Media Companies were grilled on thursday by british lawmakers it took the unusual step of conducting a parliamentary hearing outside britain and evade tried to pin down the organizations over alleged russian interference in the bracket referendum. We looked at all advertisements with any connection to russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the classic referendum a very small number of suspects its not Research Agency link to count forty nine such accounts were active during the campaign which represents less than point normal for some of the total number of accounts these are very low level things until we complete this investigation we wont know but what we havent had this. Information thats enabled us to target on a particular page or a particular phenomenon despite all their commitment enthusiasm and hard work spanning over a period of really several months when this inquiry kick started it seems like the u. K. Parliamentary committee thats trying to find out the truth about a russian any brechts that meddling they seem to be really hitting a brick wall this week they travelled all the way to washington thousand thousands of miles presumably having spent thousands of pounds to get there and what they ended up with while questioning the executives of twitter you tube and facebook was just a frustration it seems and that was thick in the atmosphere Investigative Journalism for instance as it led to suggestion that there are lots of campaigns going to have it looks like you havent looked have you thats the thing you havent looked at this economy. Going on in the horror well it seems who did look with twitter and what they said they found was that there were only forty nine accounts connected to russia during the time of the break that referendum again im no mathematician so correct me if im wrong perhaps but it seems that there is and this is really nothing to write home about given that twitter has hundreds of millions of accounts and despite the chair of this Committee Damian Collins saying that his quote instinct tells him that the number should be higher that did not turn out to be the case so despite this goes chasing continuing in the committee keeping asking the executives to look harder it seems no fruitful results so far. Theres seemingly a huge appetite for russian meddling stories in the media lets take a look at some of the headlines this one reads twitter has finally conceded that russian accounts tried to influence bridget but the article goes on to admit this is based on just a few dozen twitter accounts meanwhile the london times headline says twitter admits that russian trolls posted about drugs that the first paragraph then reveals there were only forty nine suspicious accounts radio talk show host john gaunt told us the meddling claims may be just a wild goose chase this is a fox these m. P. s went all the way to washington to question didnt understand how the internet works they could have got them on a skype call a question the aides soko an issue a waste of my taxpayers money and its very very annoying its a joke they are almost kind of fashion firing questions and one of the waiting to listen to the answers you know well i think the British Public they know why people voted for lets just get over it and accept democracy. A recap of our top story a plane carrying sixty five passengers and six crew members has crashed outside moscow there are no survivors the aircraft operated by set off airlines was heading from moscow to orse a city close to the russian border with kazakhstan one of the planes flight data recorders has been recovered but it is so far unclear what may have brought the plane down investigators are considering adverse weather conditions human error and technical failure as possible factors. And that does it for me ill be back in a little less than thirty five minutes with a full look at your news youre watching the weekly an hour to international. Despite its title and history the soviet union i know has dominated International Sport however this is not about the lives of those champions from the. Sort of you know that go. Right on the charts number like this it that. You more moved on from the ball from the think youre going to get your brother this guy who is from the order youre like irish was the first to be reserved for your you were built the first some of your lympics team of one nine hundred fifty two when the polluted seeds of ifas concentration camp prisoners and from slime soldiers for their first baby in the us its good for me there was corruption because you a much needed an issue. Because youre more things that youre in for than one for their shots or with them but i have a flaw with you if you think that the area were going to go with. 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Cloned welcome to worlds apart for decades russians have both left and despair that the inadequacies of their system while also struggling to accept this same kind of criticism from foreign there and when russia decided to hold a mirror to the west only imperfections including by setting up this child it turned out western tolerance to criticism is even more. Why is it so difficult to communicate pointing out whats wrong with one another well to discuss that im now joined by tony cabin a former diplomat and the author of a book called return to moscow well mr cavanaugh its great to have you in the studio thank you very much for your time and happiest hardly a day thank you very much. 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