the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. the issues the same i understand maliana is probably the way home or some of the would be in the fires in the market one year round a catastrophic earthquake haiti remains in ruins and prospects of bleak what has gone so wrong for this impoverished.

in india she's available to move. the gateway to the ground imperial. towards west coast you can. see don't need to go and clean it brenda said the colonel was her child retreat. pilot error or psychological pressure on the crew is lack of experience and blamed for the plane crash that killed the polish president as the official investigation delivers its verdict. as the world's most notorious prison guantanamo bay enters its tenth year of protest held in the u.s.

calling on president obama to finally deliver on his promise to shut it down. on an upsurge of tuberculosis in the u.k. the country is pumping huge sums to fight the white plague abroad proves unable to tackle its alarming spread of. disease r.t. it's eleven pm now you're a moscow around the world not at night in rome seven am in sydney wherever you're watching welcome to our top story this hour with me kevin no in the immediate cause of the polish presidential plane crash last april was the crew's refusal to land at an alternative airfield the investigative committee has presented its final report about the accident which killed the late polish need to ski and one thousand five others he's innocent now i reports. for the first time last seconds are heard for

polish president lech kaczynski as plane crashed near my ground. on board. 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 plus 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 there's never any earlier 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 amongst 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 claim 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 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 curat 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 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 cross that killed the polish president his wife and most of the country's political elite and he's now a r.t. moscow. the head of the polish interior ministry has welcomed the report saying it will pave the way for finding out the full truth about the tragedy. and we are glad that this report exists this is a step has brought us closer to the next stage find in the circumstances that led to the tragedy that's the shriveling brief comment there from the head of the polish interior ministry on the day the final report into the small plane crash was released. the tragedy that shook. the catastrophe which is to try to discredit. the truth. how

i kept. changing the lines on the chin ski plane crash. this is our two from moscow the most notorious prison of the twenty first century the guantanamo bay detention center run by the u.s. and cuba has entered its tenth year it's still holding inmates despite president obama's election promise to close it the prisons become synonymous with human rights abuse. reports for the kid was far from happy and having america's dirty work curried out on its soil. its 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 us has to be. kuantan a moment let's hear it peace and peace 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 then you've been government under under threat under duress and in clear contravention of international laws like the vienna convention the u.s. 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 cuban 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 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 u.s. government used cuban soil to evade national and international law to interrogate terror suspects a strategy journalist at bay 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'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 fully there is to hand this our t. washington d.c. . he writes groups of hold a rally at the white house calling for granting the mobo prison to be closed in march to represent the one hundred seventy three men still being held captive christine for reports. 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 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 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. could morris davis a former chief prosecutor of the move 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 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 we'll 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 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 denied an opportunity to plead their case. morris davis the former chief prosecutor at guantanamo and there's more of the current debate surround going turn of a prisoner on a website artie's dot com where you discuss the whole controversial story with

human rights lawyer calling bush lately who says that torture techniques are used on the majority of inmates those give us a very recent interview you can watch it in full if you don't hold it already was yesterday on our web site r.t. dot com. now the story for you there as well tonight from the wildly sixty thousand asylum seekers will be left to live in the u.k. and what it actually means for the security of the country adding europe as a whole again to r.t. dot com. and. portugal's breathing a faint sigh of relief after raising one of the hold 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 straight country has been seen as a test of whether portugal will need a eurozone bailout like its struggling currency parties greece and ireland dr

marcus political scientist from berlin university told this portugal will cope much better if its with its problems if it wasn't any new member. the day portugal is totally trapped by the situation. if we. were not in. the country would simply devaluate in order to gain some time now to reorganize to 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 bailouts by funding portugal probably needs a more fundamental treatment and i don't know whether this treatment can be given within the eurozone. just let you know that next i'll be talking to british 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 in the markets aren't interested if 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 your oh it doesn't work. turkalo says is known as the disease of poverty and was widespread in europe in the nineteenth century but in the u.k. 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 abroad there are fears it won't be able to tackle it at 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 a life 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 have believed 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 royce 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 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. 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 in law. 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. r t london. rescue operation to free the final ship trucked in i saw freshers far east coast might take another few days officials are saying tonight to icebreakers are making a second term to tow the canning factory ship with three hundred people still aboard to safety but with weather conditions deteriorating it's no easy task. over picks up the story. the ship rescue operation has entered its final stage while the two eyes breakers are still working hard to battle this extrusion really tough weather conditions that have made this mission so challenging the admiral mike

carbon be crossin eyes breakers are now in the sea of a horse rescue in 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 within 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. catarina groucho over there some world use it briefly lebanese unity governments collapsed and hezbollah ministers and their allies resigned from their posts they'd been angered over the handling of an investigation into the assassination of former premier of figuring the findings are widely expected to implicate several hezbollah officials a year old unity government has been plagued with tension from the start at all but paralyzed in recent months. rides the rage 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 owned petroleum company twenty one people have been arrested but with gas one of the country's main imports the price rise counters promises made by the country's president pinera. to stray off of the capital of australia's queensland inundated by rising water with most devastation hitting brisbane it's hitting its peak now the next few hours flooding has already swamped thirty five suburbs with muddy torrents several meters high sweeping through the city center thousands of residents been forced to leave their homes and relocate to evacuation centers at least twenty two people have died so far more than forty are still missing tonight in australia's worst flooding of century. 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

at the site of a mass grave former u.s. president bill clinton attended the oceans and to the reconstruction efforts a large parts of which he is personally seeing. and haiti's struggles to recover from that disastrous quake much of the a promised to the poverty stricken nation never materialized the people of his guest 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 over i want to focus here on what. i am. very.

honored to he needed someone trees have room as an ideological problem because he is problem not ideological going to solve is a failure you should tell now you should know the country a world where you have your you know that. you need to tell their. course or heated debate coming your way there in ten minutes time tonight here on r.t. right now though it's the ones and i was from the tree evening dinner so the u.s. economy seems to be showing more signs of recovery what you got for us that's absolutely right there's plenty of the distance coming from the fed on consumer spending on inflation unemployment so that's all a bit later in the program not supporting the markets but first of all russian oil producers a halting delivery sabella reese well pricing negotiations drag on the companies want to raise the price of oil off to minsk said it would be hiking transit tariffs for world in the breeze to europe but that it has more. gershon oil producers are

insisting on a price rise by forty five dollars per tonne of timmins and also 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 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 and that means expenditure will rise but only one dollar per ton clearwire russian companies are increasing

their prices by forty five dollars per tonne seems the companies are trying to compensate the losses they suffered from losing income from exporting oil profits from billers the negotiations between russia and belarus are underway and in the meantime the russian oil transits to the european customers remain unaffected. deposit interest rates are continuing to decline in russia as people add 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 in one thousand nine hundred billion dollars last year russia's ten largest lenders for your information hold seventy percent of all deposits. look at the market as promised the beginning of the program u.s. stocks are stronger this after fed data showed us economy was stronger in terms of production consumer spending and employment in the end of twenty two and now this is leading investors to hope for a stronger economy this year financials are among the top performers all day with

j.p. morgan chase and bank of america advancing two point eight and one point nine percent respectively positive news from europe to where the stock markets closed higher after portugal succeeded in getting a keenly awaited debt for shit h.s.b.c. continues its winning streak taken from shoes day shares were up three point eight percent at the close of the analysts at citi group lifted the recommendation for the stock to buy from. here in russia very positive session on wednesday r.t.s. m i six continued their rally supported by gains in europe and the higher oil prices news on mergers and acquisition activity were moving the markets mostly is take a look at that more detail now as you can see there jumped more than nine percent on the my six in just one trading session after the gods and braybrook offered to exchange their ten percent stakes in national turner communications for shares in telecom now the price of oil also continued to advance helping producers like

grozny after you can see their three point eight percent gains in this session not as nickels a return to pre-crisis levels and the company stock was trading near historic highs and expectations that the company would be buying back six point two percent of their own shares at around two hundred fifty dollars per share. even though it's only the second day of trading for russian stock markets since the new year holidays so really one of the best performers compared to other emerging markets now chief strategist that on capital peter weston explains why through 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 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.