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face. this is. all too new since. the army. is the most precious thing in the world. of self-sacrifice and heroism. but you have to live a. real life stories from. nineteen forty five. and i see some days entering its final stage the last stop by. three hundred people on is being towed to safety after almost two weeks stranded up park east coast. the world's most notorious detention center at guantanamo bay has turned nine years

old. to close it down the prison still holds almost two hundred inmates in legal limbo. the word play returns to great britain being diagnosed annually with tuberculosis infection is spreading beyond. into the wider population. around the clock around the world this is all to live here in moscow good to have you with us this hour so the end in sight for the final ship. to this being stuck off russia's far east coast more than three hundred crewmembers and enjoyed a two week ordeal with another being a scorching through the frozen seas by two ice breakers but it's no easy task parties are covering the driver can explain more now so what stage is the rescue operation that. the rescue operation has finally entered its final stage

and the two ships are really working hard the two eyes breakers to battle the top weather conditions that have made this mission so incredibly challenging we know that the admiral crossin and mike caro eyes breakers are now in the seal beholds gretzky in the larger of the two eyes breakers which got stuck in prison warders the far eastern coast of russia almost two weeks ago while it's been really challenging to tow it to safety is so far in the first attempts to tow it was not quite successful according to russia's fishing agency well the rescue operation the smallest ship with thirty by crewmembers on board was more successful now it's in a safety area an area with being our eyes and to fulfill the mission the toys break there's no need to get the largest ship to beat up the small want to wait and

finally had four open waters all rushes to officially agency expects that weather could worsen throughout the day but they hope that the mission could be fulfilled within the next twenty four hours so by thursday afternoon they could finally get to open waters. where. we're expecting the ice breakers and the supply ship to reach the refrigerator vessel within the next twenty four hours of the vessels moving continue towards the open ice soon we will have to be patient and i believe we should consider creating a system for what it would help counter such emergencies in this case we have to wait for several days used for the operators of the ice breakers to coordinate their actions. grew dramatically over those days before told to the pool. hall just a recap of how these rescue operation have proceeded the cross and i's breaker reached the small of us with thirty five crew members on board two days ago we joined the admiral mike caro icebreaker already working at the scene together they

were trying to help the two vessels get out of the icy trap to get through this incredibly thick layer of ice normally it's up to two meters but these here it's like that slicing pie with layers of ice have gone on top of one another and in some places the pekinese of ice which is so cool metres it was extremely hard for the larger vessel which has some three hundred people on board and heavy cargo the sheep and the car get together would some a combined thirty two million dollars and the problem was that these sheep was actually wider than any of the toys breaker so they had to join in on the effort to make up the large channel the white channel symbol tiniest it's been quite a long time isn't it the ships have been stranded for what two weeks now and how all the crew coping and and who's actually paying for the rescue operation.

well as of now there is no immediate danger to any of the three hundred crew members on board the supply ship and thirty five crew members on board the smaller regenerator ship they have enough supplies of food and drinking water on it the question being is who's going to cover up those extremely high have to price tag of these rescue opal ration so far it's been local authorities that have been paying but once the sheets are home and the sailors are also home and trial these will be the private companies the owners of those vessels will have to pay out the costs long in december of last year will be the federation federal fishing agency and russia's transportation ministry had been sounding alarm calls for stalest in that area not to have for any adventurous voyages there because the c.e.o. behold scan the civilian bay in particular very very difficult place for sailors to navigate in the winter and this year in particular extremely freezing temperatures below thirty degrees celsius and

a very strong all the little green surf complicated matters further and still five ships got stranded in freezing waters off russia's far east coast one of the montreaux managed to free itself on its own and other was towed by an icebreaker and now these two vessels will have to finally be rescued and how to open waters. catarina thanks very much indeed for that update that's all over there. will come to you live from the russian capital here twenty four hours a day more news to come for you including the important illness that's blighting britain. i was so ashamed for stooping to me and maybe because i come from sri lanka originally it was a disease of opportunity. she is back and spreading through the u.k. ranking of the worst in western europe victims and doctors give us. this story.

the twenty first century's most infamous detention center still holding inmates despite president obama's election promise to get it closed guantanamo bay has become a trademark for human rights abuses since taking its first prisoner nine years ago and as you have these reports cuba is far from happy at having america's dirty work still carried out on its soil. it's a place forever immortalized by images of torture known by its abbreviation get america's notorious detention facility in guantanamo bay cuba has been the source of world condemnation where abuse lack of legal recourse and indefinite detention is the norm it's also been the subject of decades of strife with cuban authorities who argue the forty five square mile military base violates cuban sovereignty and amounts to a military occupation the agreement under which the u.s. has to be on cuban soil to kuantan a moment let's hear

a piece. from earlier earliest years of the twentieth century the plot amendment was imposed following the u.s. occupation of cuba after the spanish american war in one thousand nine hundred three was extracted from the den tube and government under under threat under duress and in clear contravention of international laws like the vienna convention the us government threatened to continue its occupation of cuba unless cuban authorities agreed to lease the land for america's military base indefinitely or for as long as it paid the cubans it's nearly runs the rent check four thousand and eighty three dollars after the cuban revolution swept the island nation one nine hundred sixty it's revolutionary leader fidel castro cashed only one check and he insists it was an accident no checks have been cashed sense and protest no such she would ever be signed today knows a treaty signed today would never be internationally recognized today the united

states. will hunt down. and part of those responsible after nine eleven the bush administration swiftly turned its military base into a detention facility declassified documents show the u.s. government used cuban soil to evade national and international law to interrogate terror suspects a strategy journalist pepe escobar argues is convenience you can ship to cuba and never bring them to the u.s. mainland and they are going to live there for ever in a state of legal limbo most of the remaining one hundred seventy three prisoners at guantanamo bay have been detained there since the facility opened nine years ago awaiting trial. president obama recently signed away his right to bring detainees to u.s. soil making it unlikely that any of them will see a trial or freedom any time soon some argue the u.s.

that violates cuba's sovereignty for this reason because this is the only latin american country for the past over this past fifty years has said you know then you straight to the eye of the american government or as they would say the american empire a country cubans believe should give rights to its detainees and give back the land that's rightfully there is to have profits are t. washington d.c. . and human rights activists have been holding a symbolic demonstration in front of the white house calling for guantanamo bay to close for good they wore black hoods and orange jumpsuits to represent his inmates and christine was there. they call themselves anti torture or with a group called witness against torture and made its yearly pilgrimage here to washington d.c. to bring attention to the fact that the detention facility at guantanamo bay is

still open there are in fact one hundred seventy three men still detained there and they're represented by people here and jump you know they started the rally in front of the white house the home of u.s. president barack obama who started off his presidency with a pledge to close down the detention facility at guantanamo bay and yet two years later it is still open and nearly fifty of those one hundred seventy three men inside are considered too dangerous to release but too difficult to prosecute so what that they stay until they die. so they've come out here for the last several years there is a slight change this year to the prison uniform many here are wearing stickers with the image of private first class bradley manning he's accused of leaking those secret documents to whistleblower website wiki leaks he's being held in solitary confinement we hasn't been charged and a lot of people here say this is torture in the same way that the prisoners being

held at guantanamo bay are also tortured reporting in washington christine for our team. and colonel morris davis who served as the third chief prosecutor in the military commissions says president obama doesn't have enough to resist congress and keep promises. but my policy for two years had been we would not use any evidence of taking about waterboarding or any of the other enhanced interrogation techniques were building the cases independent of anything the detainees said while they were being tortured suddenly i knew officials appointed above me that said look president bush said we don't torture and he said we don't and who are you to question the president so you quickly here in washington you know congress you know over on capitol hill i think for years and years they were cowards and let the executive branch let the bush administration have their way now when president obama comes in and says he wants to close guantanamo suddenly they get a backbone on capitol hill and want to stop him it's been

a real disappointment for me with the obama administration you know he said in january of two thousand and nine within one year will close guantanamo that was two years ago so he needs some backbone as well to stand up to congress and tell him that he's the executive that is his decision and to wrap this problem up it's been nine years which is just far too long so we're hypocrites you know to condemn others for upholding the rule of law maybe not the way we would but we've got one hundred seventy three people that we have to an opportunity to plead their case. international investigators have handed poland their final report on last april's plane crash which killed the polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five others the document is due to be made public later today and is expected to shed light on previously unknown facts about the tragedy and also it will bring you full coverage when it happens. the tragedy.

or is it. revealed. in the kitchen see plane crash. coming your way shortly here on r.t. known as the white plague in nineteenth century england tuberculosis is no increasingly a modern day minutes for those living in the u.k. viewed as the capital of western europe the illness outbreak in britain has been connected to both poverty and immigration but as i discovered the infection is not spreading beyond those high risk groups. it's a fatal illness most common in the victorian era as a result of badly ventilated damp living conditions but tuberculosis is alive and kicking in twenty first century london a recent study shows tb has hit

a thirty year high in the u.k. with more than nine thousand cases diagnosed annually the reasons for this increase is largely due to the number of people who arrive in the u.k. with infection tb infection who usually would have acquired the disease because of their association of having lived in a country with a high incidence of t.v. . and also because of travel to to those countries britain has become known as the tb capital of europe pull some of felt from tb alerts which aims to draw attention to the threat of tuberculosis thinks that's a bit strong but still it is the one country in western europe where the numbers are continuing to roy it can affect everybody but most commonly it affects people who are poor and that's to do with. close proximity of poor immune systems and so on it's a shocking indictment of the way poor people live in the u.k.

particularly those who originally come from abroad but unlike in other countries where tb is a problem in the u.k. it's no longer limited to the poor or those with chaotic lifestyles stemming from drug or alcohol abuse or homelessness sharma pereira is a middle class journalist who's. lived in the u.k. since childhood she was ill for five years weaken tired with debilitating night sweats before doctors finally diagnosed tuberculosis deep in my heart i knew something was wrong i stopped working i stopped doing all the things that i normally do a movie a full of energy. but i've become the sort of role of the tired grumpy middle aged woman doctors aren't sure where pereira picked up the illness but say she could just have been standing next to the wrong person on london's public transport network i was so ashamed because tb to me maybe because i come from sri lanka originally was a disease of poverty and it's. not deliberate but

a lack of cleanliness a lack of hygiene in iran too. to me. it was consumption it was what mimi dies of a lot. it was what it was to do with sort of dampness it was d.h. lawrence it was not comfortable me in my nice little move west london home pereira now has to take antibiotics for six months and will then be well statistically she's much more likely to take the whole course of treatment than someone poverty stricken or addicted to drugs or alcohol not finishing treatment leads to drug resistant tuberculosis already on the rise in the u.k. in the late one nine hundred eighty s. the us had a similar cases of tuberculosis the way they solved that problem was by pumping vast sums of money into its ironically the u.k.'s one of the world's largest foreign aid with huge investments in fighting tb abroad but in austerity hit

britain it's unclear whether the money will be available to stop the spread of the disease. it's artsy london. restaurant you had online for updates and analysis on. like you've just seen there with many others here's a quick scan for you through some of what's available at all. at the moment the no holds barred story the first man in space fifty years after year to guarantee a pioneering flight of british comic book tells of the triumphs and turbulence in making history. and also there online behind the scenes of the big c. a ringside seat. to see how one of the greatest shows on earth makes its magic all available the military dot com. fish fish fish. fish.

portugal were trying to raise much needed cash on the bond market on wednesday while trying to convince the world it doesn't need to solve its debt problems it's a critical period for the country at a time of year when governments raise crucial funds by getting investors to buy in but it could come quite a price portugal's likely to pay high interest rates with investors jittery of the country's stability problems the says it won't need bailouts like greece and ireland who thought the major europe currency countries of france and germany want to plan money in that's because they're worried the debt crisis will spread to neighboring spain which is by far a larger economy and where a collapse would be deeply destructive for financial advisor marco as a political risk it wouldn't solve the fundamental flaws in the euro zone concept. this is not in any kind a way

a final solution for the european debt crisis it is just buying time for these countries so that hopefully they will be able to get control of their fiscal situation and the markets will start to to believe in them again that they are able to service their debt moving forward in reality what's happening is burden in this country with these countries a lot more debt to service and the jury is still out on whether they can actually turn their fiscal position around over the next few years you can't save all the banks and save all the countries because at some point someone's got to all which is the other option which we've been pursuing so far is that we just carry on printing money and everybody carry on printing money and we end up with hyperinflation and most currencies then become worthless so at some stage someone's got to fail but what we're doing is patching up patching up patrick up hoping that the issue's going to go away pushing the can further down the road now the

europeans have to start thinking about complete reform of the european structure. well as we'll hear next hour produce your m.p. has been telling us that no matter how much the eurozone circles its wagons the prospects are bleak. it is extremely dangerous as we've seen with the euro to force such divergent nations together i think the tensions you create economic and political opera fairly dangerous i think personally i think the euro will collapse and soon i think it could be down really february collapse. i mean really you cannot i saw the strange rate mechanism the fall rather to the euro you cannot buck the markets as mrs thatcher said about time. affectively what's the e.u. is trying to do with this massive bailout package seven hundred fifty billion euros is to try and buck the markets but you can't do that national governors never have enough money to actually out maneuver and out bid

a bond markets or private markets they have more money available. and it's not going to work. some other world news headlines now for you this hour a suicide bomb blast in the capital kabul has left eight dead and over twenty nine others injured attacker is said to have been riding a motorbike when you blew himself up alongside a bus explosion happened close to the parliament building in offices run by foreign companies. fourteen people have died and ninety and missing in australia's worst flooding for a century thousands of residents in britain cover the evacuated their homes of massive floods hit the central business district the water levels expected to reach their peak in the region by thursday many residents stocked up on food supplies and headed to emergency shelters. the world update at a moment haiti is marking the one year anniversary of the massive earthquake that

devastated the country over two hundred thousand people lost their lives and over a million are still homeless the country's president led the ceremony which was held at the site of a mass grave and former u.s. president bill clinton attended the commemoration to. sure of the reconstruction effort part of which is oversee. the recently on earth dari of a girl who lived in stalin soviet union office a unique insight into a time when fear was part of daily life full of the remarkable experiences of an adolescent during a period of political uncertainty that's in our special report at ten thirty am g.m.t. . was filled with joy with parades and marches. inspiring people with enthusiasm. but it was everything really that good and the loud feel to speak out.

though she shared her thoughts only with her diary it all became evidence in the trial for counter-revolutionary activity. the evidence which condemned to a label. the diary of a soviet school on t.v. . all coming up in just a few moments for t.v. business update with stay with us. please. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program oil disputes between russia have reared their head again with russian oil producers halting deliveries while pricing

negotiations drag on by the russian refineries still have a not for south of courage to last until the end of the month according to the better mr newspaper of russian oil producers are insisting on a crossing the price of a ton of oil by forty five dollars a cost which minsters not want to pay russia's move comes in response to its neighbors decision to increase the transit target for its charges for shipping oil to europe five twelve and a half percent despite the arguments deliveries to european countries on normal levels. and oil prices have risen to a row ninety dollars a barrel the highest for more than two years and the court can assume that oil and gas analyst from rural saves says a father shot cries hi could happen in the coming weeks but it's likely to be short lived there's a chance. through the rally by continued and even. when we see

a short term. spike to one hundred dollars per barrel. by some. maybe as much as. i just don't think. this is playing well in the short term obviously could exporters benefit from this. if you extend this beyond. three to six months high prices sensually a sort of net tax on all my drawer consumer economy. the ruble has jumped to a twenty two month high against the euro and to one. its target basket the currency has continued to appreciate on wednesday after jumping two percent against the euro on tuesday and that suggest local investors saw the money and become so slick your debt crisis will worsen the rubble is little changed against the dollar. it's not

so much story about but all boys for the main will book out on six white door on your own. so while one by one can't speak away the door is going to be weakening at least first quarter of this year on the back of that will get him to go to get stronger to the point where russian central bank converted to appreciate . well some people call thirty or even twenty nine seventeen as a benchmark for the first three months. deposit interest rates are continuing to decline in russia as people add to their saving to banks saving savings the interest rate among the country's top ten members is now eight point twenty five percent on the average bank deposits kerttu more than two hundred ninety billion dollars last year and russia's ten largest lentulus hold seventy percent of all deposits.