more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of kandahar. operation. pilot error a psychological pressure in the crew's 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 and ten fear protests held in the u.s.

calling on president obama to finally deliver on his promise to shut it down. and upsurge of tuberculosis in the u.k. the country that's pumping huge sums to fight the white plague abroad proves unable to tackle it's a lovely spread in the home. this is our t. it's midnight here in moscow now around the world ten pm in zagreb two thirty am in new delhi welcome wherever you are watching our top story the immediate cause of the polish presidential plane crash last april was the crew's refusal to land an alternative airfield the investigative committee has presented its final report on the accident which killed the late polish leader lech kaczynski and ninety five others of his illness and now i reports. for the first time the last seconds are

heard before polish president lech kaczynski his plane crashed near small grounds killing all on board. the crew ignored warnings from the aircraft's automated system to call up and advice from air traffic controllers to land at an alternate airport plus were inexperienced 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 airport 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 automatic 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 concrete have. the difference in the findings my

experience with the russian investigators has been very good there are very high quality organization that i believe that it was the investigation was generally cured out in accordance with the international civil aviation organization and 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 zero 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 sad 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. head of the polish interior ministry's 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 established brought us closer to the next stage finding out the circumstances that led to the tragedy that's. we've commented earlier from the head of the polish interior ministry on the final report into the small and 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 it still holding inmates despite president obama's election promise to close it the prisons become synonymous with human rights abuses r.t.g.

hunt halfassed reports next 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 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 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 it's nearly runs 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 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 a 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 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 jan hottest r e t washington d.c. . human rights groups of held a rally of the white house calling for gun tell them about a person to be close to the march to represent the one hundred seventy three men still being held captive at his christian for. it was the best. of all they call themselves anti torture is 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 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 although 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. good which is a former chief prosecutor of the you told us 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 he said we don't know who are you to question the president so you should be using that information to prosecute these people and that's what 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 needs some backbone as well to stand up to congress and tell him that he's the executive it 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 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've got one hundred seventy three people that we have to an opportunity to plead their case. for sickles breathing a faint sigh of relief tonight after raising over one of the whole billion dollars in its yearly bond auction but it's come with a price with investors demanding high interest rates are risking their money in the debt strain country is being seen as a test of whether portugal will need a eurozone bailout like a struggling currency is greece and ireland so to marcus kerber is a political science is from barely a university told us portugal would cope much better with its problems if it wasn't an e.u. member. today portugal is totally trapped by the situation. if we thought you would know it in view of the country would simply devaluate you know to 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 again on the path of growth this is the problem we cannot solve by new bailouts by funding portugal was probably needs a more fundamental treatment and i don't know where this treatment can be given within the eurozone next to burkill there's no there's the disease of poverty in dirt it was widespread in europe in the nineteenth century but now 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 the world's major a provider is 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 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 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 pulls 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 reuters 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 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 stopped working i stopped doing all the things that i normally do a movie of all of energy. but i've become this sort of role 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 barfed sons of money into it ironically the u.k. is 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 abbott's r.t. london. rescue operation to free a final ship stranded in ice off russia's far east coast my other few days to ice breakers are making a second term to tow the coming factory ship to safety experts saying tonight deteriorating weather conditions could hamper rescue efforts the three hundred people who remain trapped on board supplies of food and water rescue operation of so far freed two other vessels three russian ships became trapped in the sea of reports go most to read. more international news in brief now the lebanese unity government collapsed and hezbollah ministers and their allies resigned from their posts they've been angered over the handling of an investigation into the assassination of former premier of freakery the findings were widely expected to

include several hezbollah are officials the dear old unity government have been plagued with tensions from the start but all but paralyzed in recent months. the capitol hill strain is queensland is inundated with rising waters tonight with the most devastating peak hitting brisbane floodings already swamp thirty five suburbs with muddy torrid several meters high sweeping through the city center thousands of residents have been forced to leave their homes and relocate evacuation centers at least twenty two people have died and more than forty of missing what is the story of 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 more than a million a still homeless today the country's president led the ceremony which was held at the site of a mass grave u.s. president bill clinton attended the commemorations and to the reconstruction efforts a large part of which he's personally overseeing. and as haiti struggles to recover

from the disastrous quake much of the aid promised to the poverty stricken nation never materialized next our people of ellen is guess 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 we construction 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. kerry. to he meets on trees have room as an ideological problem because his problem are not ideological going to solve is

a failure you should tell now you show your actual world where you have your you need is now that. you need to tell them to the. full version of cross-talk much more of a pick of the next for you here and back to the present though there's a growing line of critics warning countries who are embracing the euro that they're boarding a sinking ship one of them is pretty sure to be david campbell bottom of the talks to r.t. now. thanks

very much for talking. now do you compare the european union to the former yugoslavia where do you think the similarity. i think what it's about is actually trying to force a very different countries together very different economies together under one state to state effectively the united states of europe with quite an element the so he. i am a member of the european parliament but i think european parliament is not a true parliament is a bit like a supreme soviet or as bad as the former soviet union but there are elements all of this so there are all parallels with yugoslavia i'm afraid but 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 found the dangerous but

surely you're not predicting that the will end in a pleasant concert i certainly hope not but you know i've been involved in the peace process in northern ireland i worked in government and i've seen what happens when democracy fails and i believe democracy is failing in the european union because national sensitivities are being overridden we saw it in our learned how they said no to the treaty and then they were invited to get the right and they had to have another referendum and they said yes and. look at the mess that does now in two thousand and ten saw europe as an economic bloc mind in difficulty let's look forward to the future what are you seeing this year in two thousand and eleven person i think the euro will collapse and soon i think it could be generally february it could collapse i saw the strange rate mechanism the forerunner to the euro you cannot buck the markets as mrs thatcher said about time and 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 governments never have enough money to actually out maneuver and out bid bond markets or private markets they have more money available and it's not going to work i mean spade i believe will bring down the euro some time early the new here and why is that because spain the load will need a bailout package equivalent to half the entire bailout package which already has a hole in it for arland hundred billion proximately and portugal is in trouble and greece is still in trouble so i don't think it's going to work on the course of the german constitutional court challenge as well which may well the germans from backing any rescue package you know under their own legal rules many economists now doing to agree with e.j. they're saying that they won't collapse imminently and that germany has such a vested political interest in supporting it that it will keep on doing that is

that the view from inside the european parliament well i mean the german has a lot of political interest in euro's a political project it was in fact i became ukip when i was sitting next to george osborne in the former german during the former air ministry of berlin which is now the finance ministry and it worried me there in those many years ago just before the euro was was launched because they were denying it was a political project and it's 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 if they see through it they will bring it down and that's what's going to happen. column is there are different views different overtones of what could happen but what i'm saying is a euro in its current form i believe will collapse i think you may get another euro rewrite easing but with the stronger nations such as germany possibly france

belgium may be working together a different euro for the future but i think the euro in its current form will collapse you cannot push water uphill you can't make pigs fly you know your own really is fundamentally unsound you're trying to force very divergent economies together germany is very powerful doing very well with their exports greece's very weak spain is very weak it has been has one and a half million homes unsold it's in serious trouble as is our and you cannot force all these countries and economies together and force them into this this euro it doesn't work and let's talk about sustaining it which of course is the newest member of the. just at the beginning of the yeah there are posters up in estonia comparing the euro to the titanic and comparing the stage said titanic and what's going to happen to countries like that but i do worry for them i think it could be the shortest lived you know membership of the euro or wall you know i do fear the economic costs of the euro collapsing you know countries having to reinvent

currencies which they will have to do that is going to be very serious and i fear for us tonia titanic is a good metaphor i think because you know they could find it's just got the last ticket for the titanic the ship is holed below the waterline the euro it is fundamentally unsound you cannot support it through just throwing money at it it will not float and you and your colleagues that you can't often talk about the collapse of the year a with a measure of. but europe is the u.k.'s biggest trading partner wouldn't it be a huge blow for british prosperity if the eurozone were to fall apart there will be a big economic cost for all the verse our banks will be hit in the u.k. and i don't welcome but i think politically it will liberate these countries to have their own currency is they will be able to float they'll be able to get their economies moving again at the moment they're stuck in a free within the straitjacket we call the euro many are saying that we've only

seen the beginning of protests against austerity measures on the streets are you one of them or do you think it's going to fizzle out in two thousand and eleven i think it will get worse and i do fear you know you have some extreme problems in greece in spades in portugal or very high unemployment where like in spain you're almost approaching you know one in every two young people is unemployed that is not sustainable within a democratic society i think it will lead to serious problems but i think the route to solving this is to get out the euro have a free floating currency again and actually to be able to attract people back to spain in terms of holidaymakers for example because it's cheaper to go there that's a major issue just to get the economy moving again i mean when we left the exchange rate mechanism which was the forerunner of your owed by.