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go. cool still want to do a little toto keep a promise it is cool just moto twist. into. the story of a culture in the city. schools malls. may do as a good job until he strove for mr to become the hutto. new details emerge after russian pilots save everyone aboard a crippled passenger plane by crash landing at a short airstrip in a remote woodland. the pilots increasingly being called heroes for that conduct find out why just a minute. a joke too close for comfort a u.s.

soldier facing condemnation for planting grenades in the cars of a rockies for a lot. if you stand in that cool excused of something which might be totally upset there is nothing that a british cool can do to stop an expert on the u.k. readies to review its controversial extradition laws as they allow one sided deals where brits are set for a trial abroad with no proof of guilt. eleven pm in moscow why matras are good to have you with us here on r t our top story prosecutors are investigating the crash landing of a crippled russian airliner in the northwest of the country all eighty one people aboard had a miraculous escape when the plane overshot an abandoned airstrip on tuesday and slammed into trees artie's tabard and has the details. but first we just heard that

there had been a crash landing these new details revealed an astonishing story in the air really the flight the to pull of t.v. one five four was on a six hour flight from the far east of russia into moscow for four hours into that flight at a height of thirty thousand feet ten thousand meters a huge electrical failure struck the plane which knocked out its navigation systems its communications systems the fuel pumps taking fuel to the the fuel tank for the engine and also the flight brakes the flaps on the on the wings that left the pilots with a very difficult job finding and have placed in very quickly. they have looked around in the komi region where they were currently over in northwest russia and they found an old disused airstrip they then circled three times to try and get the right approach using only their engines with no electrical assistance and then

managed to put the plane down on the runway the runway being too short for the plane however so it overshot into trees beyond the runway amazingly after all of this no one was hurt out of the eighty one passengers and crew on board and they all got off the plane all the passengers are now safely back in moscow moose even bulls will any ever in history and ended up in the routes emergency crews arrived to find a week everything was organized very fast asleep you know if you look for the professionalism of the crew we would not be standing here. the representative the company that owns the plane has said in the in the investigations afterwards and as far as they know currently nothing was wrong with the with the plane as we can hear someone a professional to the investigation committees working out the site to find out what really happened before the flight the plane was functioning normally. it it on

the go on planned technical maintenance and preflight checks out of seventy two passengers only two people a married couple refused to continue their journey by plane they went by train there was no real panic when the plane landed there was slight nervousness because there were emergency slides and everyone was anxious to leave the plane as soon as possible but the stewards did everything well and the evacuation was done in a normal manner. people are saying that these two pilots who managed to cause plane in safely should be given awards when they returned to moscow after day briefing the authorities said calling them heroes really an aviation expert said just that and and sort of expressed what a difficult task these two really faced given the look of course it's not being used for what it was intended because it's a helicopter airdrome the ground was too hard and without any runway markings but you have to be a monster to land the plane like this would is most important is the insurance and

ability and professionalism of the whole crew if the whole crew listens to their pilot and he really acts with responsibility for the whole plane this is the main thing this means it's a professional crew the proof is that no one was injured on board the plane the investigators now have a ride to the site and they're going to go over there see this plane and look at the whole situation to try and find out what happened with this electronics failure the two pilots currently helping them with their investigations will only know the full and says when the investigation comes back but for the moment when the pilots return it's undoubted they're going to be met with a hero's welcome. artie's tom bart reporting. a former u.s. sergeant who served in iraq secretly planted grenades in the cars of iraqis at checkpoints for a prank he found himself and the reaction of the driver is a joke and posted it all on you tube but as artie's policy reports most iraqis see nothing funny about life in a conflict zone. manning

a checkpoint all day must get boring which is perhaps why sergeant dunson and his partner admit they passed the time playing jokes on unsuspecting drivers in the future to posting done some describes how they planted a grenade in an iraqi man's car a few seconds of confusion all's explained and the perplexed but very relieved driver is sent on his way. you know because. our our it was just one of those things where you know it happened. on a guy like that on but for most iraqis this is not fun and life here is very far from being a joke. i think it's only for them to laugh for us it's not funny but very scary. we're used to car bombs explosions research is happening every day but if someone did this to me i would be so scared. as would most people in a country where

a checkpoint can often mean the difference between life and death it's not uncommon to have your car take at least a dozen times a day if you had people with what you've seen here bring they will be arrested on the. terrorism. and some american military personnel are not seeing the funny side of sergeant dunstan's antics i would not tolerate that and my organization. i don't think that's conducive to gaining. you know into the partnership with with the federal police or certainly in trusting their confidence. or the people for that matter and trusting the. trusting in the federal police talk to fight him out but that army has never been pranked himself that claims to have witnessed american soldiers displaying even more alarming behavior. and i personally know of many cases where soldiers would take

a bet and for example hey it's an iraqi citizen just for fun there were cases where people died from the so-called sun we had about one hundred fifty thousand american soldiers here and although some were professional there were many who were not. but i want to a local t.v. stations you know picked up on the idea. that it takes well known local celebrities to iraq each. points and plays pranks on them in much the same way as dunson and he's called weeks but you said. says it's a way to lighten the situation. we're not making fun of the iraqi forces they are very brave and frightened but we wanted to preserve them in a unique and different way we also want to present weapons as something people can laugh about even if. there's mixed reaction to the iraqi show but still iraqis making fun of iraqis is very different according to most people here to americans

getting in on the act and with people still being killed in iraq every day it was a constant reminder that terrorism is no laughing matter. back to. staying with iraq at least six people have been killed thirty five wounded in separate attacks in baghdad today a civilian and three policemen were killed when twin car bomber the car bombs exploded in the south of the city two people were killed in a simultaneous double blast near a bus station in eastern baghdad and on tuesday a gunman wearing a walkie army uniform shot dead two u.s. soldiers coming up later here on our team battle on the scene. we tried to shoot them to stop them with a fire back. law enforcement tries to stop poachers that are pushing the sturgeon towards extinction in the hunt for black gold. but first britain has announced it will take fresh stock of its extradition laws which currently allow u.k.

citizens to be shipped for trial abroad with little or no evidence of guilt the overhaul is expected to focus on the treaty with the u.s. as campaigners say it's biased against britain but the home office says the independent review will not impact any cases already being processed as artie's or emmet reports. reclaiming some of its lost power britain set to review controversial extradition treaties with the us and european union. under the current laws countries that want to extradite british citizens don't have to provide any evidence that they're guilty of the crime they're wanted for if you stand in that course choose to do something which might be totally absurd there is nothing that a british court can to stop you being extradited i have very very limited powers to stop you being extorted and we've seen this in a number of cases now where there's no real evidence against somebody and if the court was allowed to look at the evidence they would say sorry doesn't justify tradition we're not going to allow it after years of fighting it's a small victory for john this shop her son is gary mckinnon who's wanted in the us

perhaps into the pentagon's computers he's been granted a stay of extradition and if the review gives precedence legal system more power to protect its citizens he may not have to face decades in an american jail the we really really difficult because there is every second is that i hate and stress and it's very difficult. of prepared that it may be a longer way he agrees as long as it is good and also if there's a treaty is changed and helps everybody then only something's been achieved and you feel that it was an offer nothing that we went through the hill with some the treaty with the us was put into place following nine eleven to make it easier to extradite terrorists critics say it's one sided because britain can't extradite us citizens without proving the individual has probably committed the crime and so far only one person is believed to have been handed over on suspicion of terror the

treaty has been mainly used against businessmen accused of fraud and minor offenders current top is one of the u.k.'s top extradition lawyers involved in most recent high profile cases but i think it has been appears that the i mean the irony of it is that the one type of people we do not terrorists i do believe that america takes advantage of the very weak position the u.k. is in is in relation to this extradition. more than a thousand people was seized by u.k. police last year on orders from the e.u. or united states fifty percent from the year before british lawyers say many european states have imposed conditions on extradition to protect their citizens whereas the u.k. has no saw jumped out a large proportion of extradition is to the e.u. often minor offenses which aren't necessarily considered crimes in the u.k. cool spirit view of the situation intensified last year off to germany refused to extradite a doctor who had accidentally killed a patient whilst working in the u.k.

the reviewing panel made up of lawyers and international relations experts is due to report next summer but until the situation changes british citizens will still be at risk of being extradited with no evidence. even the man who signed it for behaving secretary david blunkett now admits gives too much away your abbott oh it's. turning back to russia now up to forty homes have gone up in flames in a village in southern siberia as wildfires continue their trace of destruction across the country locals have been taken to safety authorities say seventy firefighters are battling to keep the fires from reaching another village near by blazes across the country this summer have claimed more than fifty lives russia's president dmitri medvedev has blamed the negligence of local authorities that if it happens again those responsible will lose their jobs. it sort of is that the

current laws in level of organization of full risk management are not good enough current laws give responsibility to the regions but it doesn't allow for that responsibility to be withdrawn who does the duty if it happens it should lead to the instant firing of officials up to the governor remember you can always find this and much more on our web site r t v dot com here's a taste of what's online right now. anti imagery of the sentiment still sweeping parts of the u.s. despite recent polls suggesting the inflow of migrants fell by more than half in the last few years. and the birth of the north korean leader is shrouded in mystery but evidence suggests kim jong il may have been born in a small village in russia's far east for all of us and more surf on over to our t. dot com. the u.s. is keen to promote relations with russia to the benefit of the rest of the world

hillary clinton made these comments during a speech to the council on foreign relations in washington the secretary of state says it's vital that past differences are finally set aside with russia when we took office it was amid cooling to cold relations and a return to cold war suspicion now this may have invigorated spy novelists and armchair strategists but anyone serious about solving global problems such as nuclear proliferation knew that without russia and the united states working together little would be achieved so we refocused the relationship. we offered a relationship based on not only mutual respect but also mutual responsibility and in the course of the last eighteen months we have a historic new arms reduction treaty which the senate will take up next week cooperation with china in the u.n. security council on tough new sanctions against both iran and north korea

a transit agreement to support our efforts in afghanistan a new bilateral presidential commission and civil society exchange that are forging closer people to people ties and of course as we were reminded this past summer the spy novel is still have plenty to write about so it's kind of a win win. switching gears now poachers hunting for black caviar are pushing the sturgeon population towards extinction in russia's southern caspian sea while authorities have been battling to stop them it's only led the legal fisherman to take guns along with their fishing rods authorities either over the nerve reports of a weekly raid on poaches in the volga delta. pic caviar in each one of these jars is worth fifteen thousand dollars fishing world sturgeon is highly illegal but the ban has simply driven the prices up making poaching ever more lucrative poaches supply forty nine out of every fifty jars of caviar consumed. colonel gets in below shows

the equipment he seized in just the last few months were just all around there are hundreds of foremen cruising speed boats equipped with remote is satellite navigation and weapons we try to shoot their motors to stop them but they fire back and we can't get them all. the caspian sea produces the vast majority of the world's black caviar but the population of sturgeon in it has dropped by forty times in just two decades the local university is now simply trying to save the genetic samples before it's too late when you think without scientists and fish breeders the sturgeon would have become extinct already what i would be seen only in aquariums this is a catastrophe. the government subsidizes breeding farms such as this one to try and avoid the extinction successful breeding is difficult even here it takes sturgeon until they're nearly ten to start reproducing but at least i'm dysphoric their

offspring and not just them for the dinner table. they release about one million fish every single year but then as soon as the sturgeon free most of them are legally fished again meaning that the population is not likely at the recover put decades despite installing millions of dollars of new demand to just say only better regulation can change the situation. but the problem isn't the people here on the ground the problem is corruption at a higher level a whole system has been constructed to make sure that those who break the law do not pay. meanwhile colonel gets in below goes out on another rate he knows that the generous catch of poachers awaits him. even if you arrest them to date those will replace them tomorrow. stricken. turning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe a b.p.

investigation into the gulf of mexico oil spill says the oil company was to blame along with a number of its contractors the report that took around five months to compile pointed to a chain of failures involving various parties in the biggest environmental disaster to hit the u.s. b.p. says it accepts all recommendations in the report and will implement them worldwide the rig explosion in april left eleven workers dead and caused a massive oil leak. in the u.s. a small church in florida says it says it will burn the koran despite international condemnation the dove world outreach center plans to mark saturday's anniversary of the september eleventh attacks by burning copies of the islamic holy book it's meant to be a warning to all radical muslims but a top muslim cleric and prominent members of the obama administration have also. it could do permanent damage to thais. hundreds of people took to the streets of los angeles to protest police shooting of a guatemalan immigrant protesters threw rocks and eggs at

a local police station and officers responded by firing rubber bullets more than twenty demonstrators were arrested earlier about three hundred people blocked in nearby intersection as part of their protests. well in less than twenty four hours our extensive live coverage begins of the global policy forum in russia's city of jaroslav it's attracted a vast political crowd from some thirty nations as well as several heads of state the press attache for the russian president natalia to mco of us as everyone's looking forward to some wide ranging dialogue. this forum is taking place only for the second time but it has already attracted a lot of interest from our foreign partners as well as political circles aside from the russian president italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi and south korea's president lee myung bak will take place in the forum a large number of prominent florida and russian political analysts will participate and work in different fields i'm sure will draw lots of interesting conclusions

during the forum president medvedev will meet his foreign colleagues and make an address but will also separately meet with russian and foreign political experts to discuss the problems and achievements during the year. when it's something really. to get down to. the latest. round. discussions on the. security and stability of the present day world. question. stay with us here on our to business news coming your way next where stephanie monday after this short break. every month we give you the future the best in science and technology from across russia and

around the world. join us our technology update on our jeep. with i.b.m. . is data data generated from an electrical grid. the data you can do what they're doing in california. alternative energy sources helpless and black and. that's going to spark a. follow and welcome to the business bulletin russia's find that alexei kudrin has issued a warning on growth and inflation in the country so that's only. a good returns if it's economic growth this year it will be lower than expected we forecasted to be closer to five percent but today we expected to be eroding four percent and inflation is higher because food prices are rising we expected it to be around six percent but neither we're looking at sort of in. moscow as an international

financial center that's the focus of a conference underway in the russian capital and our correspondent there tell you how clever is that the event. project aimed at developing most going into an international financial center is designed to not only to attract more foreign investment into the russian capital but also to help russia's financial system to become more globally competitive however this idea has already sparked some curtis's munda some analysts are saying that this goal is hard to achieve in the near future they say that russia still a lacks the financial stability that its a domestic financial markets are very much under developed and that there was almost no track record of a low and stable inflation in the country and they say that more feasible goal to achieve into the future for moscow is to become a regional financial hub from the already existing lead some of the areas that

result no financial center for all that is going to be the for the future you know from this point of view right through with the full beef i disapprove of it already has some serious character some. for the girl looking to show no interest. in the felicitously short term solution to the supervision or ability for the financial markets in the summer for the business because shortly before the financial markets i think initially there from the future of france to the super storm markets russia's economy has a long way to go before the ruble becomes an international reserve currency that's the dominant view from a conference focused on the prospects for the russian currency he steps according to analysts should be to boost the government bond market stabilize and diversify the russian economy and lower the inflation rate however the president of the my sex exchange says russia is making progress. between ruble to be accepted in subtle

see this is important stuff this is the first step towards to. make a polluters of cars boy and for my cup says the ruble is already attracting international interest. the trading that we're seeing on the plant form is growing month by month so that all sort of three to six months we've seen huge increases in volumes we would expect those volumes to double over the next six months so there's a massive october we see in counter parties in hong kong and singapore in new york and chicago in particular all looking at the root of most of more inquiries and they're all about ruble are actually coming from north america and asia. my sex to start trading the yuan ruble cross by the end of this year analysts say the trade will boost the profile of both currencies my sex as the initiative came from the russians central bank and the people's bank of china is expected to launch the same trade. now let's have

a look at how the russian actually markets formed on whether to stay if the r.t.s. under my sex finished high up back to our form with fabric gaining a hefty two point seven percent and as the major sports events of course mustapha is more than two percent higher at clothes. washing all companies are increasingly looking east several producers want to expand or establish operations in china within several years were presented to told a conference they could build new oil refineries jointly with the chinese meanwhile plans to sell more oil products to china vice president you need but do so if you cause priority is to expand to asia as the fastest growing region. global stock markets took a breather on tuesday after a five day rally business r.t. spoke to several analysts about their forecasts for the russian markets for the rest of this year. well typically we have a very quiet summer in russia where volume is very weak and that's definitely the case this year as we come out into the final quarter of the year volumes do tend to

pick up trading activity picks up and generally historically the market tends to rally so most of the gains investors make tends to be towards the end of the year so yes we are starting to see that dynamic right now we're starting to see from flows coming back i'm a starting to see volumes pick up private investors in russia have started trading a lot more on their own account rather than using mutual funds or similar structures to invest in the market so the russian money is here and there it is very active in the russian market but the extra money that we want to hold to drive the markets higher will probably before and fortunately we don't see these liquidity globally community which is very good unfortunate we don't see in the russian market the flows in russian fans are russian or into france are very very low so still we're treating so you we seen the range and unfortunately right now i don't see the major drivers for the russian market to briggs.