the performance always attracts a full house each time the actors receive a standing ovation. but it should hardly comes a surprise nearly every russian family had to endure in the form of stalin's repressions.

pilot error and psychological pressure the primary causes of the plane crash that killed the polish president and most of the country's political elite as air crash investigators deliver a. as america's most notorious prison guantanamo bay in cuba

a decade of operation pressure mounts on president obama to keep his election promise to close the. deal despite spending millions to fight. this excuse me abroad the number of cases in the u.k. reaches a worrying levels with fears of. home. testing live from our studios in central moscow this is our t.v. i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us inexperienced a crew member of a lack of bad weather readiness pressure from passengers to land quickly and of the pilots refusal to look for an alternative landing site those are listed as the main reasons behind april's deadly crash which killed the polish president lech kaczynski investigative committee has presented its final report on the accidents

causes to poland where he's got that he is in the polish capital warsaw. this is the biggest news story in poland today of course every single news channel devoting a lot of coverage to the story to the reaction of course reaction to the report released by the committee has of course mixed some are saying that it is a truthful report and a necessary all be painful steps in relations between moscow and warsaw that it is a necessary step that will allow the two sides to close this tragic and painful chapter of their shared past and hopefully move on others of course including the former polish president lech kaczynski his brother are saying that the report is nothing but a joke that it is presenting the polish side with falsified data many here and poland do agree this report does accurately reflect the causes and the consequences and

the reasons behind the tragic plane crash on april tenth. we all agree that these reports exists this is a step closer to the next stage finding the circumstances that led to the tragedy. i must admit did the russians are right again i don't want to agree with the russians but this is the truth of course you can look for guilt and blame someone else all this report of course was not only awaited in russia and in poland but also within the international community everybody of course waiting to see what the special committee would list as the causes for that tragic plane crash and admittedly a lot of the experts within the international community do seem to agree with the committee's findings some of them even going as far as to say that whatever of the circumstances be it tough weather conditions difficult airplanes

a little preparation basically the bottom line according to some is the. i like it is his responsibility that plane and the people on board are the pilots responsibility and therefore whatever happens to those passengers and the plane itself flies on the shoulders of the pilot there is no argument about who is in charge when the situation that arises in the pilot is in charge and the facts speak for themselves but we should not go chasing after people to blame just because. we don't like the result and we've had numerous examples in the past of people. i have got to get into a certain place have got to land in a certain place it's happened in america many many times with business when the big boss is on board and the pilot feels that he's got to get the boss to the next important place it is understandable of course that many are not satisfied with the

reports the cli as it is a very emotional subject for most polish people they are therefore attempting to find other reasons and factors to blame than perhaps the pilots it is of course a somewhat. dark factor of course blaming the dead for some for such a horrific tragedy but as my colleague in a cinelli now reports the understanding of such a tragedy and finding out exactly who is to blame and what has happened is never quite as straightforward as it might appear for the first time the last seconds are heard before polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed newsman nantz during 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 flying in bad weather the interstate aviation committee highlighted what they found to be the main causes behind the tragedy in their final report you know when i feel your to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airports based on multiple we coming days shin's 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 mounts 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 blind 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 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 opened. 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. 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 prison has become synonymous with human rights abuse and as its reports cuba is far from happy and 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 greenland under which the u.s. has to be on cuban soil to kuantan ammonia literary 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 early 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 today 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 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 opens nine years ago awaiting a trial that afternoon 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 rightfully there is office r t washington d.c. . for some other news making headlines around the world. the capital of australia as a queensland is it being inundated by rising waters with the most devastating peak hitting brisbane flooding has already swamped 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 and more than seventy are missing in australia worst flooding for a century. police in northwest pakistan say a suicide bomber has killed eleven. people and wounded thirty others the attack in the town of bannu targeted of police station and

a neighboring mosque many of the victims including security officers and civilians were taken to nearby hospitals in a separate incident in the region two female teachers were killed and several pupils wounded when two bombs went off close to their van. more than two hundred fifty people have died in the floods and mudslides in the state of rio de janeiro brazil the death toll is expected to rise as rescue efforts continue to cause a number of landslides in at least three villages hundreds of people were buried alive as they slept rescuers struggled to move tons of mud sometimes with their bare hands to reach survivors. as haiti marks the first anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the country protests have taken place across the capital port au prince demonstrators marched demanding justice for quake victims and a greater effort to rebuild the caribbean state the haitian government estimates that three hundred sixty thousand people died and over

a million were made homeless by the earthquake earlier the country's president led a memorial ceremony at the side of the mass grave former u.s. president bill clinton also attended the commemorations and toured the reconstruction efforts. to work in los known as the disease of poverty and dirt and was widespread in europe in the nineteenth century but in the u.k. it's on the rise again and 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 back at home or to laura and it explains. 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 reuters it can affect everybody but most commonly it affects people who are poor much to do with perils ring 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 doctors. 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. you know what a lack of cleanliness

a lack of hygiene in iran due. to me was. it was consumption it was what mimi dies over 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 it ironically the u.k. is 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. or abbott's r.t. . of course there are more stories on our website at r.t. dot com. find out why at 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 and europe. and behind the scenes of the big top are to get you a ringside seat at the moscow state circus to see how one of the greatest shows on earth makes it's magic. with the recent a spy scandal between russia and america still firmly in people's minds some advertisers are keen to cash in on the affair. they say oh

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were not in in the month when you knew the country would simply devaluate in order to gain some time into real big noise to the economy with the current parity all for you it is almost impossible. policy good to put the country together 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 and british euro m.p. david campbell bannerman is warning countries who are embracing the euro that they're boarding a sinking ship he talks to r.t. coming up next.

thanks very much for talking to you now if you compare the european union to the former yugoslavia where do you think the similarities. 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 soviet union to it i'm a member of 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 watch 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 own how they said no to those in treaty and then they were invited to get the right answer and they had to have another referendum and they said yes and look at the mess that under is now. when two thousand and ten saw europe as an economic bloc myatt 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 ardent hundred billion proximately and portugal is in trouble and greece is still in trouble so i don't think it's going to work and of course as the german constitutional court challenge as well which may well there's a loud 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 the euro 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 the euro's a political project it was in fact i became ukip when i was sitting next to george osborne in the former german girl rings 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 the. indians even after a political project the markets aren't interested they see through it they will bring it down and that's what's going to happen. colum is there are different views different over towson's 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 re arising 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 us erick sports greece is 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 year and they're all posters up in estonia comparing the year rates of the titanic and comparing stadium sites 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 a stone year titanic is a good metaphor i think because you know a study could find it's just got to last ticket for the titanic the ship is whole below the water law of the euro it is fundamentally unsound you cannot support it through just throwing money at it it will not float you and your colleagues that you kept often talk about the collapse of the year a with a measure of but europe is the u.k.'s big. it's trading partner wouldn't it be a huge blow for british prosperity if the euro zone were to fall apart there will be a big economic cost for all of earth's 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 their will be able to get their economies moving again the moment they're stuck in a free within the straitjacket called 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 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 that 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.