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pilot error or psychological pressure on the crew is lack of experience of blame for the plane crash that killed the polish president as the official investigation delivered. as the world's most notorious prison guantanamo bay and

ten fear protests were held in the u.s. calling on president obama to finally deliver on his promise to shut down. that upsurge of tuberculosis in the u.k. the country that's pumping huge sums to fight the white plague abroad proved unable to tackle its alarming spread out home. this is r t it's ten pm here in moscow around the world eight in the evening in prague in madrid welcome if you just joined us for a viewer watching on kevin now in our top story the immediate cause of the polish presidential plane crash last april was the crew's refusal to land as an alternative airfield the investor the committee is presented its final report on the accident which killed the late polish leader kaczynski and ninety five others in this and now it has the details. for the first time last seconds or heard before

polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed. the crew ignored warnings from the aircraft's automated system to pull up and advice from air traffic controllers to land at an alternate airport class or inexperience in flying in bad weather the interstate aviation committee highlighted what they found to be the main causes behind the tragedy in their final report less revenue per year to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airports based on multiple becoming day sions about poor weather conditions at smolensk airport descending lower than the

safe minimum height necessary to make a second landing attempt failure to react properly to its magic amounts 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 who 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 cause 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 annex thirteen which is the international standard for accident investigation who did russia have a turbulent history and it was hoped politics one car of 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 to find those accountable for the tragedy is no point. 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. earlier the head of the polish interior ministry welcomed the report saying it will pave the way for finding out the full truth about the tragedy. we are glad that this report exists this is a step has brought us closer to the next stage finding out the circumstances that led to the tragedy that's. we've come in there from the head of the polish interior ministry on the day the final report into the plane crash was released. the tragedy that shook the world. to test your feet which.

president. will be. sitting in the kitchen see plane crash. this is r.t. from moscow. the most notorious prison of the twenty first century the guantanamo bay detention center run by the u.s. and cuba presented its tense here but still holding inmates despite president obama's election promise to close it the president's prison has become synonymous with human rights abuses jihan how this reports next for cuba is far from happy and having america's dirty work carried out on its soil. its a place forever immortalized by images of torture known by its abbreviation get now america's notorious detention facility in guantanamo bay cuba has been the source of world condemnation 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 a peace on cuban soil the kuantan ammonia let's hear it peace deeds 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 there was extracted from the dense human government under under threat under duress and in clear cut. intervention 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 stands in protest no such as he would never be signed today knows the treaty signed today would 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 us government used cuban soil to evade national and international laws to interrogate terrorist suspects a strategy during this debate 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. 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 right believe there is a chance hottest are t. washington d.c. . human rights groups have held a rally of the white house calling for a prison to be closed a march to represent the one hundred seventy three men still being held captive of his christine for example was that. it was

a definite. they call themselves the anti torture there 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 in jumps 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 all 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 sound. morris davis a former chief prosecutor says he decided to walk out on the job because the u.s. military says to a hypocritical and politically motivated. my policy for two years had been we would not use any evidence obtained by waterboarding or any of the other enhanced interrogation techniques we are building the case is 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 if he said we don't then 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's enough 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 made 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 there are one hundred seventy three men act one ton of 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've got one hundred seventy three people that we have to an opportunity to plead their case. well i would be interested to know we've got more on the current debates around guantanamo bay prison on our web site of our team dog call where we discussed the whole controversial story with

human rights lawyer courtney bush who says the torture techniques are used on the majority have been mates there it's a new interview for you and it's available in full on line right now. in other news for us tonight there to find out why least sixty thousand asylum seekers will be left to live in the u.k. and what it actually means for the security of the country of europe as a whole just two stories tonight amongst many more darty dot com. next 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 dead strange country has been seen as a test of whether portugal will need a eurozone bailout like its struggling currency is greece and ireland dr marcus

kerberos a political scientist from burning university he told us portugal would cope much better with its problems if it wasn't really new member. today portugal is totally trapped by the situation. if we if portugal were not in touch with union of the country would simply devaluate in order to gain some time now to reorganize the economy with the current parity for all for you it is almost impossible for. portugal to put the country go on the path of growth this is the problem we cannot solve by new gael out 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. a bit later this will be told to pretty sure you says no matter how hard the eurozone paddles to stay afloat the prospects are bleak. i

think 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 that the markets aren't interested they see through it they will bring it out and that's 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 your oh it doesn't work. to work ulos this is known as the disease of poverty and it was widespread in europe in the nineteenth century but in the u.k. it's now on the rise again as the country's been named tb capital and while the u.k. is one of the world's major aid providers to fight the disease abroad there are fears it won't be able to tackle it home. 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 paralyzing when you. close proximity of live 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 doctor. sure where perera 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 aids 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 abbott's r.t. london. rescue operation to free a final ship still trapped in ice off russia's far east coast might take another few days yet officials are saying to our second term to try to tow a coming factory ship with three hundred people still aboard to safety but with weather conditions deteriorating it's no easy task as artie's a country overexplain. the ship rescue operation has entered its final stage while the two eyes breakers a still working hard to battle this exterior really tough weather conditions that

have made this mission so challenging the admiral mike carbon be crossin eyes breakers are now in the seal beholds rescuing the larger of the two vessels that have got stuck in freezing waters off russia's far east coast it's almost two weeks ago and has been really hard as the vessel is future it has heavy cargo on board this smaller one has been taken to a safe area to an area with been eyes where it is now waiting to fulfill the mission the two eyes break because no need to get the largest ship to pick up the smaller one the refrigerator and finally have four open waters. so world news in brief and first off the lebanese unity government collapsed after ten hezbollah ministers in the realise resigned from their posts they've been angered over the handling of an investigation into the assassination of former premier refeed careering the findings are widely expected to win several hezbollah our officials the year old unity government been plagued with tensions from the start and all but

paralyzed in recent. riots 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 troubles experienced by the state and petroleum company twenty one people have been arrested with gas one of the country's main imports the price rise counters promises made by the country's president pinera. the capital of this trail is queensland's being inundated with rising waters with the most devastating peak hitting brisbane floodings already swamp thirty five suburbs with muddy torrents several meters high sweeping the city center thousands of residents have been forced to leave their homes and relocate to evacuation centers at least twenty two people have died so far more than forty are missing tonight in australia's worst flooding for a century. haiti is 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 still homeless the country's president led the ceremony which was held

the site of a mass grave former u.s. president bill clinton attended the commemorations and toured the reconstruction effort a large part part of which he's personally overseeing. well as haiti struggles to recover from a disastrous earthquake much of the a promise to the poverty stricken nation never materialized people of his guest discuss who's to blame for the situation one year on cross-talk on air in an hour. 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. he needs more injuries have room as an ideological problem to countries problems are not ideological the point is is a failure you should tell now you show your actual world where you have your own you know that. you need to tell them to. have a term of those times and i join our team as we talk to a british m.e.p. who believes the euro will collapse and. financial matters before that of this wednesday night it's business with dmitri. i. thank very much russian oil producers are hoping delivery stability as well price negotiations are dragging on the companies want to raise the price of oil after minsk said it would be hiking transit spoiled in the breeze to europe and

others not only where the details. gershon oil producers are insisting on a price rise by forty five dollars per tonne of to men's and also a twelve percent tariff rise on russian oil transits to europe russia annually delivers about twenty million tons of crude to valerie's 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 soil however last december of two mins 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 ruse 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 turn clear when russian companies are increasing their prices by forty five dollars returned seems the companies are trying to compensate the losses they suffered from losing income from exporting oil products from bellew's the negotiations between russia and belarus are underway and in the meantime the russian oil transits to the european customers remain unaffected. deposes interest rates are continuing to decline in russia as people are adding to their bank savings the interest rate among the country's top ten lenders is now eight point two five percent on average bank deposits grew to more than two hundred ninety billion dollars last year russia's ten largest lenders hold seventeen percent of all deposits by. similar markets now u.s. stocks are stronger after the fed data show that the u.s. economy was stronger in terms of production when she was spending and employment in

the other twenty now this is meeting investors to hope for a stronger economy this year financials are among the top performers with j.p. morgan chase and bank of america advancing two and a half and one point six percent respectively european stock markets closed higher after portugal succeeded in getting a key in the awaited debt auction away h.s.b.c. continues its a winning streak taken from choose day its shares are up three point eight percent at the close after and this is citigroup lifted the group's recommendation to buy from home. and here in russia the ideas in my six continued to rally supported by gains in europe and high oil price news on mergers and acquisition activity we're moving the markets mostly secular more detail growth telecom jumped over nine percent on the my second of course as i would have to go as an re broke offer to exchange the ten percent stake in national telecommunications for shares in most ethical the price of oil continued to advance helping producers was among the leaders in gate three point seven percent today there is no call returned to

pre-crisis levels and was trading near historic highs and expectations that the company would be buying back six point two percent of its own stock at around two hundred fifty dollars a share. even though it's only the second day of trading for the russian stock market since the new year holiday it's already one of the best performers compared to other emerging markets chief strategist at own capital peter weston explains. we are up almost two percent and you're looking at the demand being mainly related to steel producers and mining companies and also ross telecom has performed 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. fall.