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he. led new details emerge after russian pilots saved everyone on board a crippled passenger plane by crash landing at the short airstrip in remote woodlands. the pilots increasingly being called heroes for that conduct find out why just him and. a joke too close for comfort a u.s. former soldier faces condemnation for planting grenades in the cars of the rockies

for a laugh. and to britain's special envoy to afghanistan to step down the speculation he was driven out because of his continued criticism of the military campaign. broadcasting from our studios in central moscow this is our team certainly glad to have you with us now let's look at our top stories prosecutors are investigating the crash landing of a crippled russian airliner in the northwest of the country all eighty one people on board had a miraculous escape when the plane overshot and abandon airstrip on tuesday and slammed into trees are reports. mirek elice that's what experts and passengers a calling the crash landing of this plane in the russian taiga without anyone

injured most even the most willingly ever in history and ended up in the woods and majesty crews arrived to find two weeks everything was organized very fast this time the sleeping in the bus not for the professionalism of the crew we would not be standing here. the tupolev one five four was flying at ten thousand meters on its way to moscow from russia's far east when there was a massive electrical failure the plane lost all automatic navigation and communication its fuel supply and wing flaps were crippled meaning i had to land quickly and at higher than normal speeds even the lights in the cabin and cockpit went out by sight alone the pilots found an abandoned their strip in the depths of the forest and managed to land on the third attempt but the look never brought 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 a plane like this what 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 runway was too small for the plane and it overshot plowing through two hundred meters of trees before stopping but despite the danger all eighty one people on board were evacuated to safety investigators now pondering what course such a massive electrical failure providing that w one fifty four is not what the brand you have the craft and i'm sure that that couple was manufactured probably at least twenty years ago when you were more. i believe there is a chance that they could we plant was just more of our. airlines which owns the plane says it wasn't aware of any issues with. huge investigation committees working out the site to find out what really happened before the flight the plane was functioning normally it is on the ground planned technical maintenance and

preflight checks after seventy two passengers every 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 and reduce the pilots helping investigators to examine the scene before following the passengers back to the capital in a few days but whatever the technical courses it already calls for them to receive medals for bravery and skill with the passengers now back in moscow everyone's awaiting the return of the two pilots and when they do come back it will be to a hero's welcome tom watson oxy moscow. a former us a sergeant who served in iraq secretly planted grenades in the cars of iraqis at checkpoints for a prank he filmed himself and the reaction of drivers as

a joke and posting it on you tube but as artie's policy or 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 but they pass the time and playing jokes on unsuspecting drivers in the posting dunson 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 would leave the driver is same time his way. but we had a you know caught. 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 par you know users 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 often the difference between life and death it's not uncommon to have your heart take at least a dozen times a day if you found that you need to wear what you will see the city of britain they will be arrested on the stuff and terrorism. and some american military personnel are not seeing the funny side of sergeant dunces antics i would not tolerate that in 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 up to fight him out but that army has never been pranked himself but claims to have witnessed american soldiers displaying even more alarming

behavior. and i personally know of many cases where soldiers would take offense and for example hates an iraqi citizen and justify. there were cases where people died from this. 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 his colleagues produce and not by a says it's a way to lighten the situation. in libya we're not making fun of the iraqi forces they're very brave and fight and we wanted to present them and you can different way we also want to present what happens is 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. and with people still being killed in iraq every day it was a constant reminder that terrorism is no laughing matter. r.t. back to. and staying with iraq at least six people have been killed and thirty five wounded in separate attacks in baghdad on wednesday a civilian and the three policemen were killed when twin 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 on tuesday a gunman wearing and rocking on uniform shot dead to u.s. soldiers. and coming up later battle on the scene. where he tried to shoot a motorist to stop them before they fire back. law enforcement tries to stop poachers that are pushing the sturgeon towards extinction in the hunt for black gold. the u.s.

is keen to promote relations with russia to benefit the rest of the world hillary clinton made the 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 put 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 novelist's 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. russia and the u.s. have been resetting it relations for well over a year but there's still a rift between the two countries on some issues political analyst clifford says even when presidents make friends it's only the tip of the reset iceberg. while presidents obama and medvedev. get along very well and i think they're genuinely friends. it's a very different a long hard process to make the bureaucracies trust each other so you get directions from the top and then still nothing happens once you go further and

further down there's really no constituency in the united states good strongly supports us russian relations we need business to business relationship to grow substantially before the new relationship will have a really solid foundation. and you can watch that full interview with clifford come on in just over ten minutes right here on our team. an entire village was reduced to ashes in southern siberia following the latest outbreak of wildfires to hit russia over four hundred homes were destroyed after high winds swept fires into the region from neighboring kazakhstan authorities say the affected villages were evacuated and that there were no reports of any injuries emergency services managed to extinguish a blaze at another nearby village but say at least three other residential areas are still at risk wildfires across russia this summer have claimed more than sixty lives russia's president dmitri medvedev has blamed the local authorities for

failing to deal with the situation and promised that failure to improve will be met with dismissals. which he didn't wish to do so is that the current rules and level of organization of management and not good enough current laws give responsibility to the region but it doesn't allow for that responsibility to be withdrawn if there's a fight. if it happens that we should lead to the instant firing of officials at the government but in the league it would. and of course our web site has a lot more stories for you to explore whenever you like here's a taste of what's online right now at our team dot com. anti immigrant sentiment is still sweeping parts of the u.s. despite recent polls suggesting be in full of immigrants fell by more than a house in the past few years. and of 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 more to r.t.

dot com. the u.k.'s special envoy to afghanistan who's been an outspoken critic of the military policy there has stepped down from his position but the move has fueled speculation that. coles was forced out because of his views on the conflict that is following the story for us in london. he had clashed with u.s. and nato officials his line has always been that there is no military solution to the problems that we're seeing in afghanistan and the only way forward is to open some sort of dialogue a close knit relationship with the taliban and the military solution just isn't viable he also. in june two thousand and ten he took an extended leave of absence from his post and already a couple of months ago it seemed unlikely that he would return possibly a slightly less clear cut issue is whether he jumped or was pushed he was

quite influential with david miliband who was the former foreign secretary before this new government came in four months ago but the moment the new government was appointed the new foreign secretary william hague put his position under review the question certainly is did his skepticism about u.s. foreign policy in the region mean that he had to go and his job was to coordinate strategy with the u.s. and with other countries that had troops that have troops in the region which is obviously a diplomatic position and diplomacy doesn't seem to be something that he either had much of or didn't didn't want to use this in this case and there's certainly a suggestion that he got into so many just so many different people that they rendered his position really untenable now the interesting thing is that the foreign office in the u.k. says that the position of special representative is no longer necessary and that bearing in mind that the u.k. will no longer now have

a full time special representative dealing with afghan afghanistan and pakistan that's a region that the new government itself has identified as a key foreign policy priority so that is an interesting point. time now for world news in brief an investigation into the gulf of mexico oil spill says the b.p. oil company was to blame along with a number of contractors the report that took around five months pointed to a chain of failures involving various parties in the biggest environmental disaster to hit america 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 pastor of a small church in florida says he will go ahead with burning copies of 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 book it's meant to be a warning to all radical muslims the obama administration has described the study as a disgrace fearing the act could live an endangered troops' lives. hundreds of people took to the streets of los angeles to protest against the shooting of a guatemalan immigrant by a police officer protesters threw rocks and eggs at a local police station and officers responded with rubber bullets more than twenty demonstrators were arrested earlier about three hundred people blocked a nearby intersection as part of their protests. poachers hunting for black caviar may soon force one of russia's natural treasures into extinction artie's ego to have went to russia's southern region to find out how the authorities are fighting back against illegal fisherman. a weekly rate poaches in the volga delta. that caviar in each one of these jars is worth fifteen thousand dollars fishing

wild sturgeon is highly illegal but the ban has simply driven the prices up making ever more lucrative poachers supply forty nine i think every fifty jars of caviar consumed. colonel gets in below shows the equipment he sees in just the last few months more of a chest. there are hundreds of four man cruising speed boats which with remote satellite navigation and weapons we try to shoot them oh just to stop them 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 n. it has drop by forty times in just two decades the local university is now simply trying to save the genetic samples before it's too late is that when you see without scientists and fish breeders the sturgeon would have become extinct a reading of what i would be seen only an aquarium this is

a catastrophe. the government subsidizes breeding farms such as this one to try and avoid total extinction successful breeding is difficult even here it takes sturgeon until then there are ten to start treat with d.c. but at least i'm their offspring i'm not destined for the dinner table. yeah they release about one million fish every single year but then as soon as they sturgeon free most of them are legally fished again meaning that the population is not likely to recover for decades despite installing millions of dollars of new books but the managers 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 gadson be let go. on another race he knows that the gender structure approaches awaits him

a little so that even if the rest of the day others will replace them tomorrow you go girl. that's. and we're just hours away from our extensive live coverage of the global policy forum in russia's city of ya it's attracted a vast political crowd from some thirty countries as well as several heads of state the press attache for the russian president natalya team a corba says everyone is looking forward to some wide ranging dialogue at a forum. this forum is taking place only for the second time that it has already attracted a lot of interest from our foreign partners and i want to political circles aside from the russian president italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi and south korea's president lee myung bak it will take place in the forum a large number of prominent flora's and russian political analysts will dissipate and work in different fields i'm sure will draw a lot 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 plenitude was to bits when the new season. when it's something really crucial when you want to get down to brass tacks. special coverage. this time the latest news from the. policy for live broadcasts special guest discussions on the way the modern state in providing security and stability of the present day world. questioned more. russia and the u.s. have been steaming ahead in resetting relations but there's still plenty to be done the two countries are hoping to see eye to eye on issues like the globalization geopolitics and nuclear nonproliferation r.t. sat down with political analyst clifford caption to get his take on how well this new starts been going.

the so. you're. clifford cup generous search to erect a at the eurasia group and former senior official at the u.s. state department is here with us today thank you very much for joining us mr cupples surely opinion is divided it's on the so-called recess in the u.s. russia relations how would you assess it cheap mount so far is it we need a fresh start i think it's

a fresh start and i think so far it's worked the best examples or the new start treaty. better russian cooperation with the u.s. . iran on iran policy which is probably in the obama administration's top priority we see w t o moving forward but slowly so there are modest achievements but it's a whole lot better than it was a year ago two years ago how different do you think president obama's foreign policy is to that of george w. bush i think it's very different this president. seeks to inform. our eyes and cooperate in countries he seeks to consult with them. president bush had in my view is that habit of telling us our allies and our friends and if you want to work live like russia lecturing lecturing at. and after the fact after decision was taken so i think this president seeks to build consensus i fear that president bush took unilateral action in my view too often what's the biggest

obstacle in the way of improving russian american relations for several officers the first is that while presidents obama and medvedev. get along very well and i think they're genuinely friends of the visit it's a very different a long hard process to make the bureaucracies trust each other so you get direction from the top and then still nothing happens once you go further and further down in areas like arms control in areas like b.t.o. if the inspections don't work. if the trade agreements don't get written progress really doesn't go forward so that's one obstacle the second optical is that there's really no constituency in the united states that strongly supports us regulations we need business to business relationships to grow substantially before the new relationship will have a really solid foundation how can this be tackled in order to find a workable solution tackled by the two sides frankly. american capital

american investors. who support president medvedev actually seeks as in california as in saw it on valley still don't trust the russian market so in my view steps like the international financial status center the b.t.o. accession regulatory reform are very important i mean look there's a. phrase on wall street that capital is a coward capitalist scared american capitalist over scared of russia until russia take steps to calm american capital you're not going to get the movement forward towards increasing trade flows towards building that core constituency and will the west ever become civil with russia's ambitions to increase its influence in global economic and political a fast i think is going to be a fairly slow process there's still a trust a gap. a trust a gap between russia and the west when russia and the u.s.

even met with president obama but russia is still not very popular on capitol hill in the u.s. congress there are broad segments of the american political system which still don't trust russia so that i think it will take years of russia maybe a decade being a reliable energy supplier to europe no more ukraine disruptions it will take. some years of russia working together on iran on the major nonproliferation problems i think it is it an issue that can be overcome the that i think trust can be built but we're not there yet to be sure but iran's nuclear program is now by far the hole to stop it on the international news agenda iran's fast nuclear power plant and will share went live in august do you think yes suspicions about iran's possible development all atomic weapons are justified in my view u.s. suspicions are justified there is a consensus among u.s. european union and the international atomic energy agency that iran has been taking

steps and probably currently is taking steps to develop a nuclear weapon. about but. what is frustrating is that the iranians if you can clarify. what they're doing to the international agencies and my own trip to iran and i asked many times and the answer you get is that there is a thought or a religious law against developing nuclear technology nuclear weapons in iran a lot in my view is just nonsense because that is what they're doing so so it so u.s. concerns are justified this is a very important issue which one i think the russian government now completely understands and it's one we all have to deal with is iran really suffering iran's economy outright fresh package of sanctions was introduced or not yet but it's very important that this latest. array of sanctions u.n. sanctions u.s. sanctions any use actions run press and add that in their severity iranian banks

have a great deal of trouble now doing good globally both in europe and increasingly in asia japanese banks are pulling out of. the arena in. oil industry which provides eighty percent of export revenues and fifty percent of the rand budget is on a downward trajectory how they can get away for two or three years four years five years but after that we're going to very short money so is there any economy in very bad shape right now no is the reigning economy headed for a very tough times yes how can the iranian nuclear issue be resolved the iranian issue can be resolved if both sides find newfound flexibility both sides need to find flexibility on the u.s. side to me it's very important the u.s. stop calling for your it is very important to me that the u.s. stop calling on the iranians to suspend enrichment of a.