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pilot psychological pressure on the proves lack of experience a plane for the plane crash that killed the polish president as the official investigation delivers its verdict. as the world's most notorious prison at guantanamo bay enters its tenth year protests held in the u.s.

calling on president obama to finally deliver on his promise to shut it down. that upsurge of tuberculosis in the united kingdom the country that's pumping huge sums to fight the white played a broad proves unable to tackle it's alarming. this is r.t. it's not a welcome my name is kevin now in with this i was roundup of the day's news and first the immediate cause of the polish presidential plane crash last april was the crew's refusal to land at an alternative air field the investigative committee has presented its final report on the accident which killed the late polish meat in the kitchen skid ninety five others he's innocent now as the details. for the first time last seconds are heard for polish president lech kaczynski as plane crashed

new smog down one to. the right. yes. i mean the crew and nord warnings from the aircraft's automated system to the hall up and advice from the air traffic controllers to land at an airport last hour in experiencing flying whether the interstate aviation committee highlighted what they found to be the main causes behind the tragedy in their final report there's never any earlier does make you look decisions to land at the research airports based on multiple becoming day sions about more weather conditions at some of the airport descending lower than the safe minimum heights necessary to make

a second you've learned an attempt failure to react properly to us the magic amounts to those are the reasons which led to the tragic crash of the aircraft into the land and the death of those on board. the findings also claimed passenger pressure on the crew to land as soon as possible played a vital role in the incident here is evidence the crew was afraid of disappointing someone if they didn't land. it's not clear whether the navigator was referring to the polish president or the commander in chief of the air force was in the cockpit and later alcohol found in his blood poland was not satisfied with the draft report compiled by the i.a.c. which found pilot error was to blame and insists various factors at play caused the accident but aviation experts have confidence in the findings my experience with the russian investigators has been very good they're very high quality organization

that i believe that it was the investigation was generally carried out in accordance with the international civil aviation organization and exploiting which is the international standard for accident investigation who did russia have a turbulent history and it was hoped. we card the investigation i think what the what the polish government wants to be able to present to the polish people is that this was not purely the fault of the polish crew and that russia take some blame for it as well i don't think this is very much to do with the facts i think it's all to do with politics yet the case is far from closed as the next chapter trying those security to health was a tragedy is no political. the committee concluded that no single person can be blamed for the accident but now that the final investigation report has been delivered a criminal investigation can be launched and perhaps more light shed on the crash

that killed the polish president his wife and most of the country's political elite and he's now a r t moscow. power from the voice of russia radio station believes internal politics is pressuring the polish leadership to blame russia for the tragedy the current prime minister and president of poland are under pressure from the right wing of their embattled because they're told to be not tough enough for russia so they have to maneuver to show they're not making too many concessions to russia and will try to push their own vision of the air crash including trying to find the share of the blame of the russian air controllers you know the tidal wave of compassion that we saw after the crash was unprecedented in the polish russian relations and i hope the two sides will try to try to find a compromise on this issue and the two so scientists will not be in

a state of. hostility. no comment there for months and dispeller from the voice of russia radio station. the tragedy. the tester if you press. the plane crash. the most notorious prison of the twenty first century the guantanamo bay detention center run by the u.s. in cuba has entered its tenth year now and still holding inmates despite president obama's election promise to close it the prison has become synonymous with human rights abuse and as artie's journey of his reports cuba is far from happy at having

america's dirty work 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 green room under which the u.s. has to be on cuban soil to kuantan a moment let's hear it 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 its yearly runs after the cuban revolution swept the island nation one nine hundred sixty its revolutionary leader fidel castro cashed only one check and he insists it was an accident no checks have been cashed tents in protest no such she would never be signed today knows the treaty signed today will never be internationally recognized the united states. will hunt down. and punish 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't 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. violates cuba sovereignty for this reason because this is the only latin american country for the past over this past fifty years has said you know 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 right believe there is janet huff is our t. washington d.c. . human rights groups of a rally at the white house calling for a prison to be closed march to represent the one hundred seventy three men still held captive christine for. you of all they call themselves anti torture activists now 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. 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 to dangerous. police but too difficult to prosecute so what that they stay and how they die. 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 is accused of leaking those secret documents to whistleblower website wiki leaks he's being held in solitary confinement that we hasn't been charts 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 sound our team. morris davis a former chief prosecutor of guantanamo says he decided to walk out of his job because the u.s. military justice system is hypocritical and politically motivated my policy for two years had been we would not use any evidence of talking 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 you officials appointed above me to 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 should be using that information to prosecute these people and that's when i said enough so 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 them 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 there are one hundred seventy three men at guantanamo you may have seen recently as secretary of state hillary clinton criticize the russians for prosecuting the yukos executive for a second time he's been in court twice you've got one hundred seventy three minute guantanamo they've been there for nine years that have never set foot in a courtroom so we're hypocrites you know to condemn others for upholding the rule

of law maybe not the way we would but we. that one hundred seventy three people that we have tonight had an opportunity to plead their case. i'll just remind you can always check out more on the current debate around guantanamo bay prison on our web site r t the okami as we go along for you tonight about that we discussed the controversy surrounding the detention center with human rights lawyer courtney bush who says that torture techniques are used on the majority of inmates we're going to interview in full on lying tonight and other news find out why these sixty thousand asylum seekers will be left to live in the u.k. and what it actually means for the security of the country and europe as a whole that's online to.

portugal's breathing a faint sigh of relief tonight after raising over one and a half billion dollars in its yearly bond auction but it's come at a price with investors demanding high interest rates for risking their money in the debt strained country it's been seen as a test of whether portugal will need a eurozone bailout like its struggling currency partners greece and ireland dr marcus kerber political scientist from berlin university says portugal would cope much better if its problems with those problems if it wasn't an e.u. member. de portugal is totally trapped by the situation. if we if portugal were not in. union of the country would simply devaluate in order to to gain some time in order to reorganize the economy with the current parity for all for you it is all of this impossible. for portugal to put the country go on the path of growth this is the problem we cannot solve by new bailouts by funding portugal who is probably needs a more fundamental treatment and i don't know where this treatment can be given

within the eurozone. or bit later this hour we'll be talking to a british m.p. who says no matter how hard the eurozone paddles to stay afloat the prospects are bleak. person i think the euro will collapse and soon i think it could be down really february it could collapse its always been a political project and that is dangerous because you cannot throw billions or hundreds of billions even after a political project in the markets aren't interested they see through it they will bring it out about what's going to happen you cannot push water uphill you can't make pigs fly and you cannot force all these countries and economies together and force them into this this euro it doesn't work. next night tuberculosis is known as the disease of poverty and dirt it was widespread in europe in the nineteenth century but in the united kingdom it's on

the rise again as the country's been named europe's tb capital and while the u.k. is one of the world's major aid providers to fight the disease there are now fears it won't be able to tackle it home counties there are not reports. 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 tb. and also because of travel to to those countries britain has become known as the tb capital of western 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 rise it can affect everybody but most commonly it affects people who are poor and that's to do with perils ringing when you. 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 we can tired with debilitating night sweats before doctors finally diagnose tuberculosis deep in my heart i knew

something was wrong i'd stopped working i'd stopped doing all the things that i normally do a movie of all 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 due. 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 at. your address r.t. london. the rescue operation for a final ship stranded in i saw fresh as far east coast might take another few days to icebreakers of making a second attempt to tow the canning factory ship to safety experts say to him weather conditions might hamper rescue efforts so the three hundred people remain

trapped on board are said to have adequate supplies of food and water the rescue operation has so far freed two other versus three three russian ships became trapped in the sea of. two weeks ago. no the main world news stories to update you on the lebanese unity government collapsed after ten hezbollah ministers in the resulting posts they've been angered over the handling of an investigation into the assassination of former premier of careering the findings are widely expected to implicate several has well our officials the year old unity government been plagued with tensions from the start and all but paralyzed in recent months. rides raging in southern chile with two women killed and four others injured protesters are out in anger at gas price increases which are reportedly due to problems experienced by the state petroleum company twenty one people have been arrested with gas one of the country's main imports the price rise counts as promises made by the country's president pinera. haiti marking the first anniversary of the massive earthquake

that devastated the country over two hundred thousand people lost their lives and more than a million are still homeless the country's president led the ceremony which was held the site of a mass grave former u.s. president bill clinton. to the reconstruction efforts that is part of which is overseeing himself. well as haiti struggles to recover from the disastrous earthquake much of the a promise to the poverty stricken nation never materialized people's cross-talk gas very soon discuss who's to blame for the situation one year on. the problem the real problem is that we have a system where the united states in the international financial institutions have decided what is development for haiti and they're using right now what we call this. interim haiti reconstruction commission to bring forth policies they hadn't been able to do for a long time right now this interim reconstruction commission has basically taken

all over i want to focus here on what. i am talking. to anyone he meets one trees more room as an ideological problem because he is problem are not ideological the point is he's a failure you should tell now you should just answer the world where you have your you mean how they're actually trying you need to tell them to the things you. want . and you watch more the cross talk show later today here on this channel r.t. from moscow also coming up in the school but it takes to local darby action to enjoy a round breed of rock to businessman after but the football first of all the beats around the asia cup match that meant so much to both countries more on that hundred twenty minutes time right now though finally well yes to be treated with a business deal. the new conflict may arise between russia and belarus absolutely

right maybe not as heated as the football match but still russian oil producers are already halting deliveries to belarus while pricing negotiations are dragging on the companies want to raise the price of oil off to minsk said it would be hiking transit terrace for oil deliveries to europe r.t. is not thought of as anything else. gershon oil producers are insisting on a price rise by forty five dollars per tonne of timmins announced a twelve percent tariff rise on russian oil transits to europe russia annually delivers about twenty million tons of crude to ballerinas at a preferential price but minsk refined exports most of it to europe at a higher price in response last year russia imposed export duties on its oil however last december of two men's gratified the agreement on the creation of the single economic space of russia belarus and kazakhstan moscow finally agreed on duty free oil deliveries for bella roost on condition that minsk would return all

the duties it received from reselling the russian oil at least one analyst is saying that the russian companies have reacted disproportionately to the hike in transit. the increase of transit fees not significant that means expenditure will rise but only one dollar per ton clearwire russian companies are increasing their prices by forty five dollars per tonne it seems the companies are trying to compensate the losses they suffered from losing income from exporting oil products from billers the negotiations between russia and belarus are under way and in the meantime the russian oil transits to the european customers remain unaffected. we're going to markets now european stock markets trade of high after portugal succeeded in getting a kingly way to fortune away and u.s. futures were all positive all day and then the u.s. markets opened up positively be a d.s. was among the strongest performing it was up two point two percent. announced an

order for one hundred eighty new jets from india and budget carrier indigo h.s.b.c. continues its winning streak taken from tuesday that shares were up three point eight percent. the recommendation to boy from all u.s. stocks as mentioned followed european equity high over. positive reaction to a closely watched political action and strong. the dow is gaining more almost two percent already right now nasdaq following by point six percent financials are among the top performers with j.p. morgan chase and bank of america advancing two point four one point something. here in russia of course trading days over the r.t.s. m i six continue to rally supporters by gains in europe in the higher oil price and also news on merger and acquisition activity for moving the markets mostly on that in the second the price of oil continued to advance helping producers snap was among the leaders of the day of course as you can see there three point seven percent of the endless nickel returned to pre-crisis levels this trading news story

an expectation they would buy back six point two percent of its stock that's around two hundred fifty dollars per share growth telecom jumped over nine percent on the myself as some good news because and to exchange that temp sensor takes in national telecommunications for shares in the company. has performed it but actually been the best performing stock today but it is the commodity space that is kind of leading the team right now in terms of telecom this a number of speculations right now some are basically conspiracy theories about what's going to happen to a united resource telecom it looks to me that there are certain individuals are pushing up the stock based on liquidity. for some reason. peter weston there with his comments from russia's transit lines in other news ended the year much more much better than expected sales revenues from all operations rocketed by sixty percent to more than two billion dollars and twenty ten carriers passenger

traffic jumped by more than a third exceeding six and a half million people which is way more than it planned and that's it for now will be back in one hour's time with more you can go on to our website dot com forward slash business to find all the news over there headlines are next update. military.