With a texas showdown between the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs as sharpshooter look at don church comes back with a bit. So an airliner has crashed on takeoff in kazakhstan killing at least 12 people the back jet came down near the airport smashing through a wall before hitting a house rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to reach the 98 people aboard well start with this report from alexia brown. Emergency crews calm the wreckage of the airline a torn in half the main body of the back a jet barely recognizable its ria resting in a field the flight had just taken off from the airport bound for the capital no so tom survivors say passengers screamed as the plane started shaking then tilted a full smashing into a concrete faints and slamming into a 2 story house race queue. As worked in subzero temperatures to save dozens of injured including 8 children president kasim caiaphas formed a Government Commission and says anyone responsible for the crash will be in his words severely punished hes also declared a day of National Mourning on saturday because the plane itself is so rugged and well built that they are in very high demand and its very difficult to get a good for 100 today. And their life seems to go on because theyre if theyre well mine timed theyve got a very long structural lot the governments ordered the airline to ground its fleet of dutch built jets which are more than 20 years old only back air flights have been suspended until crash investigators can work out how this happened alexia brian al jazeera. More now with alex on forgot for laurent joining us from moscow so we know what happened i guess the questions now is is there anything about why it happened that the timing to take off the weather conditions. Well the also to that crucial question at this point we still dont have what we have are versions these versions are voiced by the vice Prime Minister of kazakhstan hes a member of the Government Commission formed to investigate this case what he says his name is onslaught he says that there is still basic regimes one is a mistake made about by a pilot while staking off the other speaks of technical problems of the display in they did recover a black boxes that they will be the best to get in the following the base to come hoping that they will reveal more about why this this accident happened what we do know he said is that there is traces on the runway that the plane twice with its tail hits the wrong waves whilst trying to takeoff so what he sees basically saying that there were problems during the very moment plane started taking off any words on some of the survivors and what they saw i mean in itself its unusual sometimes to have survivors from a large plane crash what are they saying. Well i was not really paying attention to whats there i mean there of course they were in the you know huge distressed a lot of them were 60 people have been brought to the hospitals hospital skep 50 of them because they are severely injured mostly it is broken broken bones are of them like a dozen is in Critical Condition so people are by now lining up that we could see on social networks of kazakhstan lining up to donate blood for all of them this must have been horrifying experience if specially with take into account that if the plane indeed hits twice there on way whilst it was taking off so from the very moment to this unfortunate flight started it was a pretty scary experience i believe yes very much ok alex ana thank you for all of that information and now with us on skype from salzburg is code hoffman whos an aviation journalist of air transport World Magazine thanks for your time. I would say the Aviation Industry in kazakhstan is one that we dont know a huge amount about what can you tell us about i guess levels of safety competitiveness all these sorts of things well because its tone changed a lot in terms of aviation its not a straight 5. 00 to 6. 00 alliance which dominating the market especially in the domestic market you see a lot of price war a lot of competitive low Cost Carriers like you have to be getting like aristotle not really looking like. The alliance doesnt care to look very competitive environment for all these elements and some of them fight for financial strains the currency is weak their economy is not that strong at the moment but theres a big amount of travelling inside because it starts a huge country so quite a competitive market for the island just. The plane itself kurt it was a focal 100 now those planes gosh i remember those from my childhood thats going back a bit now i didnt know they were still flying is that it is it considered still to be a safe airplane well i think of us built in 1906 and received many aircrafts with the station around the world flying especially in australia you see a lot of fog up 70 spoke of 100 flying bits to a very good job its a very common its a handy aircraft to pilots like operating this aircraft and there is every all the air out of course maintenance is always the issue to keep on in your life it works you for a long time certainly if they maintenance is good so also for 100 well still flying the next 10 to 15 years for sure especially in australia ok one other thing i wanted to ask you about is just and this is a involving a little bit of speculation but based on what youve heard the reports youve seen so far about about this crash a is there anything popping up in your mind as to why this could have happened any red flags what i guess was in the morning and went down east the icing necessary for the aircraft and we had same we have seen some scenario issue some thought or d issue 9 aircrafts where on the wing are on the on the lower center of the body when did the icing is maybe not very well mate and some ice breaks during the takeoff coming into an engine this can cause great problems for the takeoff from but of course we can just speculate also if there is be a bird strike work take bigger issues Something Like that so it is very important for the investigation im gonna believe that bank you know bill can survive this financially in the long term when im older also think around the now so its not easy for them to operate in the future there is also the fact that weve got survivors in this plane crash doesnt always happen quite often you hear about everyone on board being killed i guess their testimony could be quite important. Yes and of course as you say so and here we see on a takeoff an airplane crash its very important where you see it in the near perfect of course its always a situation where the accident exactly happened this was very traumatic it was running into our house after it were all so lets say you want those survivors of the aircraft so you know and in general i want to say that it is simply because of a lot of your success ok kind of and thank you for your time to appreciate that all of that information pleasure lets move on to other news more antigovernment protests planned across iraq as the political crisis deepens demonstrations erupted on thursday at the president but him salah submitted his resignation to parliament instead of naming outside. A downy as leader downing was nominated by iraqs biggest parliamentary block which is backed by iran protesters are demanding. An independent candidates lets talk to simona 14 whos in not jeff for is interested to know. Grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani who has been lets say more vocal on Political Developments recently apparently deciding not to include political remarks in todays sermon friday obviously the religious day why is that. Well indeed he did not deliver any remarks on the Political Developments through his representative during the friday sermon but there was still a hint why that might have been what he said was that when people make a decision there should be wise if they should consult other people and consider all of the consequences and of course this isnt in direct criticism of iraqs political elites and specifically the nomination of danny as the Prime Minister by the iranian backed in our coalition about Ali Al Sistani here feels is that he is not being listened to throughout the past weeks he has offered advice many times on how the government should respond to protesters demands he has asked for meaningful reforms he has asked for early elections and based on what a cleric that is very close to us is funny told me earlier today he just feels that this advice is not being followed now this is not the 1st time that his tiny has stopped giving political remarks he has done so in 2013 he has done so in 2016 the question remains how long will this silence last and what that cleric who i spoke to seemed to suggest that he will not again speak about Political Developments until the parliament calls early elections. Move widely speaking some want to what are the implications for this whole political crisis that has been going on for months hundreds of people have died and the political reaction seems to only actually be making things worse. Yes this decision to not comment on the Political Developments comes at a very critical moment president barham styler yesterday took a very strong stance with the demonstrators in his letter he threatened to resign because he felt that the candidate who was put forth by the be not coalition did not represent the peoples choice he rejected a southerly donnie as the nominee for the Prime Minister and said that if he accepted him this would risk further escalation of course what the president hopes was that this decision this very strong stance that he took would be backed today by Ali Al Sistani and that was not the case at least in public but i was told that his decision was very much appreciated in here in not just what Ali Al Sistani silence today means is an effort to put more pressure on the Political Parties to actually meet protesters demand sort of ball is now very much in the court of parliament it remains to be seen whether day will put forth another candidate who represents the interests of the protesters and also how parliament will respond to barham solace for it to resign and how the protesters respond as well some on any thoughts on how this will be received by them. Well a grand ayatollah sistani officially he carries a lot of weight many people look to him for guidance not just on religious and social matters but also on the Political Developments so his silence today will certainly be met with both criticism as well as support people feel like he is basically protesting the lack of responsiveness by the government on the other hand there are also protesters who feel that he should have 6 spoken out more strongly against the government he should have been more direct in his critique because many times what he says is misinterpreted by the Political Parties for their own gains of people feel that he has not been direct and Strong Enough in his criticism of the governments response to was this protest so we have to wait and see because of course the crowds turn out in the streets a few hours after the friday sermon so well be monitoring the situation both here and not just as well as in baghdad to see what the response will be and we will talk to you about that again later simona 14 in not job. His what weve got coming up for you on this new mexico appeals to the u. N. Court as a diplomatic crisis with bolivia intensifies well also look at why japan is sending warships and planes to the gulf region. And in sport argentinas favorite footballing son Diego Maradona gets president ial custom. They will have that and more. Right now look at israel though where the leader Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked his the could Party Members and promised to lead them to an election victory after fending off a leadership challenge rival gideon saw hopes to convince members that it was time to change but they stuck with netanyahu despite his indictment for corruption but i am reports now from western who saw them. For the 1st time in 5 years likud members had the chance to elect someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu as their leader on thursday they chose him again solidifying his nickname as the magician because of his ability to pull off victory after victory netanyahu campaigned heavily to beat his challenger former interior and Education Minister gideon sar i know who can be going to be brought about great things to the country and in order for us to continue bringing about great things to the country we need to go vote for me for you why. Even though netanyahu is the 1st sitting Prime Minister to be indicted on corruption charges his popularity has remained steady among his right wing base a feeling. Sars pics of sitting on the bench and not trying to do anything active in in the public fields is wrong i prefer people who take action. Sourced pitch to voters is that netanyahu failed to form a government twice why would he be able to reach a different outcome a 3rd time he warned maintaining the status quo could mean likud loses power in National Elections in march. Sars supporters cited concerns over the corruption charges trailing netanyahu charges he calls a politically motivated witchhunt the saar camp has also alleged election meddling and voter intimidation theres a bit involved decay in the democracy from within the party and generally in israel israel is in the midst of an unprecedented political crisis netanyahu has until january 1st to ask the knesset to grant him immunity hell need a 61 majority vote he was unable to get that same number of seats to form a government in the last 2 elections and on tuesday the Supreme Court is expected to rule if an indicted sitting Prime Minister is allowed to form a government natasha going to aljazeera west jerusalem golf is with us now chief Political Correspondent for the Jerusalem Post with us on skype from west jerusalem jill does this result for mr netanyahu say more about his popularity or is it given sods lack of popularity because really for a Prime Minister to not be able to form a government twice and still get reelected by his party hes doing something right. Well he definitely understands his constituents and what they want he has spent the last 2 weeks campaigning vigorously for a 70 year old man he had 34 Campaign Rallies every single night in different communities around the country he all together came into contact with 10000 people in 2 weeks and made sure that they would bring out the vote and this is the same strategy that hes going to be using ahead of the march 2nd election against benny gantz and his competition hes going to be there in the field trying to win over voters and that proved successful in this campaign but is there anything to suggest a different result in this next election 2 already that with so close same would likely happen again would it not what is einsteins the mission of insanity to do something over and over and over again and expecting different results exactly. This is different in one way there are plenty of missing now supporters would agree with his policies and even agree with him when he calls the charges against him a witch hunt who wont end up voting d for him for one simple reason these indictments could force him to step down at one time or another and people are sick and tired of having elections after elections after elections so if theyre concerned that netanyahu would be brought down by the end of his or decided a certain point he has to focus on his trial and not about running the country they might decide to vote for someone else just because theyre putting stability 1st so actually more could be in the hands of the Supreme Court than anyone else because that thats the ruling we really have to look for them finding out where the. Sitting and indicted sitting Prime Minister can be allowed to carry on. And thats absolutely right the laws in israel are not only unclear they havent really been made yet there has been a verdict that a knesset member or a cabinet minister cannot sit after an indictment there is no such ruling about a Prime Ministers weve never had a Prime Minister indicted on office before and so thats going to be up to the Supreme Court to decide and they could make such a decision and then its now is to get the support of 61 knesset members and then well have what would be called a constitutional crisis in a country with no constitution funny what are your feelings about the electorate itself the israeli people who must be i would think sick of elections by now im wondering why they cannot get a functioning government i think the Political Correspondents are who are sick in the public about that weve been working very hard for more than a year now kemal the people did not protest enough and they should have gone out on the streets demanding that there not be a 3rd election demanding that our politicians compromise and reach some kind of agreement and the people i guess didnt get their message through enough to the politicians and now were all stuck together in doing this all over again and you never tell in his body politics is that gil huffman from the Jerusalem Post thank you for joining us but you. 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