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back you're watching r.t. live from moscow i'm marina joshie these are the top stories fighting against time the u.s. congress tries to approve the arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington before a new members are sworn in and many suspects have ulterior motives the new congressmen are seen as likely to separate the deal just to score points against president obama. human rights activists demand transparency in u.s. detention practices and again a stand to ensure washington is cleaned up its act all in flames of detainee torture and abuse one of the places in the focus of the parwan detention facility

formally known as bug rom were two detainees were beaten to death in two thousand and two. a brutal mass murder that shocked russian authorities arrested a gang leader following the slaughter of twelve people in the southern region of krasnodar investigators suspect the attackers of rock record tearing local official it's also been taken into questioning. six months after the oil spill in the gulf of mexico b.p. selling its assets to cover the cost of the disaster meanwhile the u.s. reports its federal waters are once again open for fishing and what america claims to be one of the most promising signs of environmental recovery however bob kamber who wrote a book on the catastrophes not so optimistic are his marina said down with the oil industry insider. six months ago the worst environmental disaster took place in the us a b.p. oil spill unleashing more than two hundred million gallons of oil into the gulf

coast how could this disaster have been prevented and why has this story fallen from the front pages joining me now to talk more about this topic is bob cavanaugh our author of disaster on the horizon and c o of a look at technologies thank you very much for sitting down to speak with r.t. happy to be here mr cavanaugh are you say that the b.p. oil spill was not an accident it was a tragedy that didn't have to happen why did it happen the problem with the industry has and has had for years is that it's essentially been on regulated in the us our regulations are our self and forced we sort of to the government that we're doing what we're supposed to be doing there are very few inspectors that actually come out to start to to see if we're actually following all the rules and regulations and because of the deregulation of our industry at least in federal

waters over the last ten years that the problems that we have a big getting worse and worse and there's been no one forced me to correct them mr governor from what i understand one of the many reasons you wrote your book is because you believe that americans still don't understand the extent of this tragedy a tragedy that is considered the greatest environmental disaster in u.s. history how bad is it we don't know how bad it is the problem is that the vast majority of the oil never came to the surface it's in the oceans still today now some of it's being bugged degraded there is microbial degradation where some of the oil does get eaten but we don't know how long that takes and in cold war. water three thousand four thousand feet deep there could be vast plumes of oil that we can't see this destroying the food chain and the scientists that i've read and talked to will say that this oil gets and gets into the food chain and could cause

damage all the way up it to to humans eating eating the seafood to come in from the gulf and it's a huge concern six months of past we have not seen congress act on any legislation that's exist story has basically fallen off the radar every u.s. news channel and major newspaper how nobody is talking about this you know it's tragic the u.s. government and b.p. both wanted this story off the television because it was twenty four seventh's with the. feeds the b.p. had where you could actually watch the well flow and all of the reporting it was going on the government desperately wanted to get that off the off of the television so they actually worked with b.p. to make that happen i believe and that's what that's what i concluded in my book exactly you actually dated it you said on june sixteenth there was a twenty billion dollar merger between the obama administration and b.p.

that's exactly right government an oil industry in bed together what exactly do you mean by that if you go back to the first weeks of the blowout between congressman markey and the pin in the. obama administration the rhetoric became sharper and sharper sharper against against b.p. to the point where even in london they were saying that we were bashing the brits and when in fact we were we were worried about the gulf of mexico. the rhetoric escalated until the meeting in the white house on june sixteenth where b.p. agreed to put twenty billion dollars in escrow to pay all the damages everything changed instantly the rhetoric toned down the government. were working more with the with the b.p. and other other contractors in the gulf and all of a sudden they were speaking with one voice there were a few disagreements here along the way but admiral allen began speaking for b.p.

and for the government and so all of a sudden the decision making all merged and. from there on they were there their interest were aligned the government wanted to keep b.p. afloat so they could pay the twenty billion so they wanted to get this story off the television as fast as possible so b.p. could recover what does that say about accountability that says there's not any what you're describing sounds quite similar to the type of conversation that was taking place fine following the two thousand and eight financial collapse in the us a lot of people are saying it was because wall street was working under no regulations they were playing by their own rules and more than two years later americans and possibly people all over the world are still looking for accountability i mean are there parallels between both incidents there absolutely are if you look at the new drilling rules that are being proposed by the department

of interior nothing has really changed and the changes that have happened are all basically putting another set of rules that are self certified on to the oil and gas companies there's no redesign of blowout preventers there's no redesign of systems there's no redesign of drilling rigs required so all of a sudden we're going to go back doing the same thing that we were doing before now secretary salazar talks about extending the permit review period from a statutory thirty days to ninety days but that requires congressional action and in after this midterm election that's not going to happen they're not going to change that law you're right about lobbyists in your book what role do lobbyists play in this situation the huge mistake that the industry makes is that they allow paid lobbyists to speak for us. there are some executives who go to capitol hill but they only talk to republicans they don't talk to the to the democratic side

most of the time and so we have lobbyists who make money by stirring up controversy so lobbyists don't want the rules to be fixed they don't want to head to to make progress because the more conflict there is the more negotiations there are the more money they make you have lobbyists that fight every word of every new regulation you say that there was a collusion between the obama administration and b.p. hi the severity of the spill key committee tells us the fines in the in the u.s. are determined by the number of barrels that are put in the water so it was really important for us to know how much oil was put in the water b.p. during this entire time never disclosed what the flow was even to this day they've never admitted what the flow was at the beginning it remember the coast guard said the well it's tough flowing was flowing zero will be pieced on the stage with

admiral landry while she was saying that knowing they had our ovies on the bottom at that moment trying to shut the blowout preventer in because it was flowing only forty feet above them after b.p. had agreed to the twenty billion dollar payment then the government stopped pushing for that that that flow right once the if you recall the middle of july about july thirteenth or so they set the capping stack on the well that allowed them to collect oil and take it to the surface instead of doing that they decided with the government to shut the well in which was a very risky move because they had no idea what the condition of the casing was below but they decided to shut it in so they could so they could get hit keep from falling more oil into the water but also to keep from having to measure the flow discover uses of the energy security of the united. states relies on moving away from fossil fuels tell words alternative sources of energy right we've seen other

countries work this way and work this way successfully in this is something that u.s. candidates and u.s. elected officials promise to do if the us administration does not finally and fulfill the promises of moving away from fossil fuels where does that leave energy security in the united states it leaves it in saudi arabia. the challenge we have is that we're importing seventy percent of our oil today from other countries about half of it from countries who just hate us and so we're actually giving money to countries that fund terrorism or at least allow terrorist terrorists to reside there and because we're not taking any steps any material steps to reduce that importation like strong fuel standards conservation more solar wind biofuels because we're not really taking any of those steps we we continue to stay

out of control we've lost control of our own destiny france does eighty percent of their electricity with nuclear we do something like less than twenty and we haven't built a nuclear reactor in the u.s. for over twenty years but we don't provide any long term investment support for wind or solar or any of the other renewables we need a long term comprehensive plan but that takes political capital and with the oil and gas industry pumping in the last ten years hundred twenty plus million dollars in campaign funds as long as they have that strong support in congress. i don't see a solution to this that this this takes this takes courage why would you want to be dependent on so many other countries the people in congress are focused on one thing getting reelected and as long as it's not right in their face they'll continue to look the other way they'll talk about doing something but when it comes

down the taking the hard tough steps they will do that until forced what is going to take is a crisis in the us a severe crisis to get congress to move what do you mean by severe crisis fuel shortages. people freezing up north in the winter time could be huge blackouts electrical blackouts i'm talking about serious things like happened in california back in two thousand two thousand and one where you think that could happen throughout the country absolutely. i'm very worried about it how soon do you think what you just don't know see the problem is with seventy percent of our oil being imported from other countries saudi arabia or opec could decide to cut imports by half it would be if it happened quickly it would happen in a day if they decided to do that now it's it's a bit of a standoff because we have all that money going to them so they they enjoy the money but they also control the price they control the supply the other challenge

is that. many of us believe that saudi arabia and the other opec countries don't have nearly the oil supply that they want everybody to think they did and so they may be struggling to deliver the amount of oil that they're delivering today and not have the flexibility they had thirty years ago so if you hit that supply curve that demand it's the supply curve the next barrel of oil was worth a zillion dollars because everybody needs a barrel of oil because the demand is not very flexible thank you very much for happy to be with you. are you. comfortable. with. just. observing.

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memory is still. post. breaking news this hour the thai government has approved the extradition of russian businessman viktor bullet to the u.s. accused by washington of arms trafficking is expected to be handed over to u.s. officials in a thai airport later on tuesday faces life in jail if found guilty will keep you updated with the latest on the story. time the u.s. congress tries to approve the arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington before new members are sworn in but many suspect have ulterior motives congressman are seen as likely to just to score points against president obama. human rights activists demand transparency in u.s. detention practices in afghanistan to ensure washington's wind up its ads following

claims of detainee torture and abuse one of the places in focus is a detention facility formerly known as book the wrong word to detainees were beaten to death in two thousand and two. mass murder that shocked russian authorities arrested gang leader following the slaughter of twelve people in the southern region of cross and our investigators suspect the attackers of records here and a local official has also been taken into questioning. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more updates for you the meantime and bring you the latest from the world of sports. hello welcome to the sports news for you joining me and here the top story is. simply the best coach speech on ice pellets he hails his stars has been explaining the russian crime really tied up in style with two games to go. while talking to

pull pride was ethics committee meets to discuss allegations of payments for world cup votes. read last fly home for male ones youngest ever champion sebastian vettel is victorious red bull team arrived back in austria. the start was vocal and . he has praised his players and their fans off to his side to change the russian premier league title and in fact take five nowhere overall stuff in st petersburg ensured the home side were champions with two games left to play however as it had to wait until the fortieth minute to get the first goal of each was brought down in the box that's a toss up to school from the penalty spot and then with fifteen minutes to go before the final rehearsal the floodgates open inside again so much in the seconds and seven minutes later the minister off again on the right wing with the crossfire next on the country cough to make it through no. and then former regime and xander who caught off netted twice to the death after the split he said to the pressure of

being on zip it to win the title for the last four months i've only lost twice in the league so i fought against the season in charge there so when the russia comes back in may. to have extended off to being held to a one one draw at spotlight now checked the love got them in front after he was awarded a penalty after that but the first equalized with three minutes to go through us and the shock of to keep in the europa league place while the all the that and i'm fighting to the second it's not such awesome expose it's that place for being. able to sit. meanwhile relegated despite coming back to door one wanted locomotive to be just a child's cave like the late in the sixty fourth minute the place where he wants to move to reload gave themselves again more of hope at the eighty six minute equaliser which makes most free kick but it wasn't enough to be guaranteed to finish bottom off just four wins all season. and the like then spacek moscow slim

hopes of champions league football ended with the coldest draw time to clear so that clary coppins by side and i left scrapping to clear a path to expose well clearly have slipped balls from bottom to still in the relegation battle. and with two games to go two point separate test and group b. in the battle for the second automatic champions league spot on third place because the champions league guided qualifying rounds in fourth and fifth place at secure you were a police action out of the balsam survey have now gone but any one of the six teams above them could also go down with six points left to play for. meanwhile thief is ethics committee has begun street a meeting in zurich to investigate allegations of corruption in the bidding processes for the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cups reynolds tomorrow and a most damage seen here carney suspended from feed his twenty four strong executive committee following media reports they would accept in juice and in return for their votes the outcome of the race to host the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty

two world cups will be decided if his headquarters in zurich of the next three days with russia one of the strong contenders to host the twenty eighteen tournament the fate of to mari and adama will also be determined at the meeting in addition the ethics committee will examine further allegations of collusion between some of the bit is. probably the first time that there are kind of evidence that the extra members are all created for bright star or star and it's really serious for for fee. mr. having a problem because he wanted money for himself i think mr temari. will remain an ex-con member as he was talking about projects in new zealand where he is from terry so. i expect to fix a commission to say that jim moret didn't want money for his so. he is

going to be cleared meanwhile the new formula one world champion sebastian vettel and his red bull racing team have arrived back in the austrian city of salzburg that'll became the youngest ever champion at the age of twenty three years and one hundred thirty seven days after winning abu dabi can play on sunday to pick the rise and i'm the lone star to title that result produced a clean sweep for red bow after they'd already secured the constructors title the german had won four races over the season but had not let the championship at any stage until the recent the checkered flag on sunday as a battle hasn't really sunk in while his astray and teammate finished third he also won four races and could have taken the title himself was ultimately driven by his partner but about as. leader for trying to get some sleep on the plane now we're here again so at the moment everything is going very fast but i

think we need some time like ahead in the plane to realise the whole thing a bit better so it's really crazy in some way for. the supporters of course but. it was a great great battle. sebastian fully deserved the chairmanship we drove very well and we had some good races a year the team has come a long way in such a short period of time so a lot of positives of course to look at obviously for me it's still a little bit disappointing at the moment but look back at this year being still with a lot of positive memories moving on and russia's women have won the volleyball championships in japan. the squad beat brazil in a tough five sets and now they are the size of tiebreaker fifteen eleven to secure their seventh world title because when i got my last one the twenty most valuable player award last year comes to the bronze medal. in tennis robin sidling is up to fourth in the world rankings after beating down long ceased to take the paris masters title the swede who has lost two french open finals in paris storm to the

first set six one but he meant a lot more resistance in the second with face forcing that to a tie break was so telling rattled straight seven want to take the match in just over an hour and afterwards he admitted his history of failure that makes him even more determined to get victory in the french capital. yeah i will say it was great i mean the first step was to read it i started out really well. i was very very very sad. no i am a bit nervous for a lot of my defense or final areas but it's now third time you know i really wanted to win this round them really get out of the way says let's get some action now from the n.f.l. where the new york jets left late against cleveland grabbing a winning touchdown in overtime with just sixteen seconds left it was nip and tuck throughout this game the jets pulled level here in the second ten or twenty five yard touchdown from junk enculturated cleveland's them found themselves playing

catch up as twenty two thirteen down to just a couple of minutes left out the two quarterbacks coach mccoy and one hundred massaquoi to tie the game so it went into overtime and it just seconds after last mark sanchez through this touchdown pass to some tourney of holmes to give the jets a twenty six twenty victory. and let's have a look at how the games on sunday nights where they were going to tampa indianapolis buffalo jacksonville and chicago. and also taking out victories where miami and dallas beat the new york giants thirty three twenty eight this was a big win for seattle over hours. sometimes discover absently was in overtime and new england. and gulf robert guest and robert thatcher have kept their p.g.a. tour cards for next season after they finished first and second respectively at the children's miracle network classic in florida that just saw his four shot lead from the start of the day slowly fall away while. he went top of the leaderboard with

this parts on the seventeenth and he kept his head on the eighteenth to win by three shots with that chair it was good news for them both there as a result in a post on the p.g.a. tour next season as for the shot of the day davis love the third fancy hole you want on the two hundred yard par three. he finished nineteenth. while the rain delays tore open was won by australian adam scott it's the third time he's won the tournament and he did it three straight margin this time so often i. find it a cricket and australia have named their expanded seventeen man squad for the ashes as the first test against england starts in brisbane another end of the twenty fifth surely as recent run of losses and concerns over form around players such as spinner nathan hauritz may have caused a strain selectors to hedge their bets on their first test choices or it is likely to retain his place as australia's specialist spin at the gabba but the selectors

have also named the left arm off spinner have a dhoti and leg spinner steve smith young batsman calendar ferguson was man what i'd middle order variety as well as coverage for simon cattish who returns to first class cricket this week after a thumb injury with ice captain michael clarke who has a sore back. would be a far away from from playing our best cricket the loss of a period it's all about others there's been a bit of doom and gloom around this driver about about the performances of the two in the last little bit but. happy to see some of the younger guys standing up in first class cricket looking for this this week's rout of matches getting on the wires saying some more great performances and you know when the actual orders the squads actually trim back into bruce been preparing the best way we can to make sure we start the series very very well so we've got really excited at work out wait for the ashes to get on the wire. and that's all the sports news for this business and by thunder.

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