Thats already been described as proved offensive and downright embarrassing. For a good afternoon welcome to the program just turned 1 pm here in moscow this friday afternoon the 16th of august money if the next 30 minutes with a live news update for you and 1st talk about those 2 russian pilots that hailed as heroes now after they averted potential disaster yes they mourning their plane lost both engines after striking a flock of birds while taking off from Moscow International airport forcing them to really quickly make an Emergency Landing all 226 passengers on board and Airlines Flight survived is the good news. It was. The thing was it all happened so quickly the pilots werent able to return to the airport as that barely got airborne reaching altitude just about 260 metres but they acted so decisively opting to land that plane on its belly in a cornfield with the wheels up just over a kilometer from the end of the runway they just come off not having time either to empty the fuel
Being described as proof. 247 news live from moscow this is r. T. International from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story to russian pilots being hailed as heroes after they had potential disaster on thursday morning their plane lost the use of both engines after striking a flock of birds while taking off from moscow as you called ski International Airport forcing them to make an Emergency Landing all 226 passengers 7 crew members as well on board the crimea and Airlines Flight survived. Ah. Well it all happened so quickly about the pilots werent able to return to the report as they barely got are born reaching an altitude of roughly 260 meters but they acted decisively opting to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield with the wheels up just over a kilometer from the runway and without having time to empty the fuel tanks the pilot to income on 41 year old yusupov had previously been a lawyer before training as a pilot hed been flying with your all earli
India that and the headlines in my. Head of that more rain across much of Southern China quite heavy at times some strong thunderstorms and we could of course see more localized flooding but its not just there you can see this bank of cloud any fact weve got more rain in the forecast across much of taiwan having some very saturated ground so landslides and mudslides really quite a possibility about 2 millimeters of rain is expected in the next couple of days no real change perhaps drying up for the tools the east and exist shanghai its dry and warm with a high of 33 degrees celsius me want to cross in india weve got more of those monsoon rains there very widespread and of course some regions saying more heavy rain than elsewhere one of those to take in regions has been a west bank. Village and again just look at the whole villages inundated these the shops along the shopkeepers all that she trying to operate. Of water this morning forecast overstays a go through the next few days howev
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