expected twenty years of continuous prosperity so. you're all right steve k. thanks so much for being on the kaiser report. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i want to thank my guest steve kane if you were to send me an email please do at kaiser report at r.t. t.v. dot ru until next time this is next kaiser thing. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get voice to face with the news makers.

tonight poland asks russia to carry out further investigations following publication of the official report into april's presidential plane crash but its authors hit back claiming there's nothing more to say. despite a reluctance to accept the findings of this latest report polish prime minister says this will not spoil good relations with russia all the details from warsaw in

just a few moments. also the start arms reduction treaty and russia's progress with the e.u. and nato as the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov looks back over the problems international actions of twenty ten. and haitians who've found refuge in the united states face being separated from their families and deported back to the uk and in spite of its continuing holding it together stating. this is r.t. welcome it's no midnight here in moscow my name's kevin oh in the top story poland's prime minister says his country will carry out its own investigation into april's plane crash that killed the polish president also has been expressing anger over the official findings and says that russian air traffic controllers should

have stopped the plane from landing the authors of the report though have defended their work and said no stone was left unturned catarina for r.t. reports from warsaw. poland is accepting part of the responsibility for this plane crash and that of course is. a different statement from those that poland has made previously saying an investigation should be conducted into why the russian side has. accepted responsibility that part of that part of the statement poland still hasn't changed despite the fact that the polish prime minister said that poland does accept part of their responsibility he says that it takes courage for their counterparts in this case russia of course in the investigation to do the same thing and made me the accept the other part of responsibility in the tragic plane crash so it. is not

a compromise but a complete disclosure of the truth diplomacy and politics cannot hamper the presentation of the facts efforts to alter the facts the facts are facts of the rule polish investigators working on adding the parts of the missing changing what is already we assume responsibility for some of the causes of the crash for the courage and commitment to finish the needed this doesn't know the fact that the other side too should have the courage and readiness to expose the whole picture of what happened this despite the fact that. russia could operate with perhaps even the. international organizations in the process. which. of course has caused this. diplomatic discourse has already said that its report is crying out. as mentioned in the finding of the technical commission

the investigation into the crash ended and the report is final i want to underline once again with the international laws the body. investigating aviation incidents must be absolutely impossible i must withstand political or any other interference of pressure and despite the fact that the polish prime minister's words do seem to suggest that the report published by the interstate aviation committee is not exactly well expressed accepted here in poland he was very careful to underline that this tragic incident will not be a stumbling block in the good relations between moscow and warsaw that he looks forward to working closely with russia to complete the investigation in his own words and to find out every little fact pertaining to this terrible tragedy so that every i has been dotted and every t. crossed of course this as you can imagine has been the top story in poland for the

last few days some of course saying that russian air controllers are also partly responsible for the crash in smile and that killed the polish president and his entourage saying that the air traffic controllers should have stopped the pilots from attempting to land should have forbidden them an opportunity and not granted them an opportunity to risk such a landing in such weather missions however russian ministry officials transport ministry officials and various international aviation experts have said that an air traffic controller simply doesn't have that kind of authority i'm slightly surprised mileage remarks that the controllers should have forbidden the plane to land it has been saved and proven many times that under the existing regulations it's up to the captain of the special international flight to take an independent decision only takeoff and landing you know the air traffic controller simply didn't

have the right to ban the landing you see the problem is not in being brave enough to admit some facts it's much more important that it's an unbiased and objective investigation is carried out and so nobody. should be afraid of its finding spots they are crucial for the safety of future flights and for the avoidance of disasters like that of the polish side at the moment doesn't seem to be willing to accept the report published by the interstate committee as unbiased and detailed enough to its liking of course we'll keep you updated with any developments from here the polish capital. correspondent katrina czar over there the latest spoke to david letterman from the flight global magazine who says that poland may be going to push the blame away from itself but he fired fall on the los with the official report. i think that the polish government is i think desperate to put at least some of the blame in somebody else's direction but incidentally i

completely go along with the russian verdict on the on the air traffic controllers hours incidentally the air traffic controller did not clear this aircraft to land he had with withheld clearance for the aircraft to land and he wouldn't of had permission to stop an international flight like this one anyway if it had been a russian air force aircraft the controller could have told it to divert but an international flight especially of this status the controller would simply go along and do everything that he could to help the captain achieve a safe approach the whole flight was not planned in a very professional way incidentally i'm a former military transport pilot myself so i could put myself in these guys' position they didn't conduct. top of descent approach a pre descent briefing and therefore the crew instead of acting as a crew as a group they were acting as a series of individuals and

a lot of mistakes resulted from this to be honest i don't think there is anything more that the russian controllers or the russian organizers of this event could have done one of the things that the russians would have liked the russian controllers at smolensk would have liked to have done was to offer more assistance to the pilots during their descent but the pilots never asked for that assistance and the russian controllers assumed quite correctly as it turned out that the polish crew were carrying out a descent using their own on board navigation aids and they didn't make use of all the facilities on the ground that when you consider what level of a v.i.p. flight this was it's absolutely staggering i think if the polish really try and turn this one over again they. in for nasty surprises if they haven't already had them. the russian foreign ministers outlined the main events that shaped moscow's

international policy in twenty ten so said he hopes russia or nato will be able to find common ground over a joint missile defense project that is nataly nova covers more. the year two thousand and ten will go down in history as they hear of radical change in the relations between the two countries also as the year of signing a new strategic arms reduction treaty and the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said he's very happy with the work that two countries have done in two thousand and seventeen through their relations and what it takes for another successful years simply for the two countries to fulfill to fulfill the promises they made to each other last year this year also this year has been very important for rushing terms of cooperation with the european union as many european leaders have expressed support for that that a european security treaty proposed by president would be different they expressed their support support for that in principle and today russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said the dr is prepared to be patient with dialogues and that one

. or two of the group with your bizarre russia's proposal of a new system of european security doesn't mean we're expecting our partners to prove it once we want to get together and talk about the problems of your atlantic security but we haven't yet agreed on how to solve these problems some don't want to change anything they want to keep european security nato centric others who are more far sighted realize that nothing will work with cooperation with russia as an equal partner and all we want is a deep discussion on all levels of cooperation another problem that was in the spotlight off today stress conference is iranian nuclear program last year a bush era nuclear power plant built by russia began operating in technical mode and just in a couple of weeks time it will finally start bringing out tricity to every homes today lava has said that so russia in principle agrees to the idea of international independent observers visits by iranian nuclear power plants they do that was

suggested by iran. visit to the plans for inspection in order to ensure their peaceful purposes nonetheless lover has said that. it's in no way should replace the six party talks most of us said that he's got high hopes for two thousand and eleven interest and bush major corporation has stressed that despite their speculations russia has never seen nato as a threat and say he actually sees. the status of the relations between russia and nato changing in the near future dramatic. nato is not our strategic partner however that's the russian needle summit in lisbon we agreed to move towards a strategic partnership this is a breakthrough in relations. times articles been said on such a high level by the leaders of russia and nato you would like our relations with nato to be free from stereotypes of the past we would also like to make sure nonexistent problems are not as well as deploying our relationships. so you move

into the two thousand and ten has also been very important here in terms of that there are those relations because the talks began on creating a joint anti-missile defense shield in europe with the participation of russia and nato and of course this is something that needs to be worked on a lot this year according to a russian foreign minister sergei lavrov as by achieving this anti-missile defense joint anti-missile defense system this will be a final blow to the heritage of the cold war that still remains in minds of some politicians according to law. still to come here are to just a few moments time the red hot red like debate spain is arguing over a proposed six months on the back page of the newspaper but it was that said to affect the profession we are trying to find out to also you've got to hear the russian agents no superstar of the ice it is an example of educate instead appearing though to be the latest spied to go out in the cold when all is not but

it seems the secret shortly. a year after the ravaging earthquake life on haiti is wracked by cholera political turmoil and painfully slow reconstruction but for thousands who find refuge in the united states the future is no brighter because many haitian immigrants are facing deportation back to the island of port spoke to one family that risks being divided. see a lot so for most american women can relate to gin a montra built. a working wife in busy mother home with the kids while dad is at work we lay back we work hard so we can provide the best for our children but are also this crime a family of a family that care what we make plans for the future if the u.s. government gets its way. just cya. and tone will become forever fatherless. engine a will enter the pool of single us mothers struggling to

make ends meet after all we wrap up at the home of the cell or maybe get a room a little more like the bills. at any moment jeanne montoursville the breadwinner and twenty five year u.s. resident can be torn away from his family. today the father of four works as a church custodian in manhattan tomorrow the haitian immigrant can be deported back . back to the poorest country in the western hemisphere rocked by an earthquake and deepening humanitarian crisis. going toward to port. you know it's. you know it's it's it's not it's not a good thing it's. in my one of my father's. last years seven point zero earthquake killed nearly three hundred thousand haitians and left

more than one million homeless a tragedy so grave the u.s. issued an immediate suspension on deportations for his immigrants yet last month the obama administration quietly lifted the ban resuming deportations for those with criminal convictions even those like jean montra who paid his debt to society serving a living years behind bars for selling drugs in the eighty's he was released from prison in two thousand. and. four. used to almost be you know. you know. the very same day u.s. officials resumed deportations of haitian immigrants the state department issued a warning against non-essential travel to haiti alerting americans of continued high crime limited police presence lack of medical care and

a cholera outbreak. an epidemic so bad the united nations has made a one hundred seventy four million dollar appeal to fight the outbreak it's not good it is now spread all the way across the country because as you know color is a contagious disease it's affected over one hundred thousand people so far. and over twenty five hundred people have perished from the disease. according to attorney sunita patel the deportations are a violation of the conventions against torture and the un declaration of human rights sending someone back to a situation where they are likely to die or or face situation where they are. facing the possibility of death is potentially a violation of our obligations under international law yet according to immigrations and customs enforcement up to seven hundred haitians with criminal

records will be sent back this year. to a nation wracked by violence food shortages and disease a prospect that brings a feeling of fear to this american family a family broken up not by divorce but by their own government. and obama who really needs to take a look at that consideration the separation of family. because the leave children follow. and the lives of fathers like jean are you believe in danger if or when his home becomes haiti marina port i am r t new york. next spain is divided over a proposed ban on classified sex of the response of national newspapers so much so it would protect women from going exploitation but with legal prostitution accounting for sixty percent of spanish classified ads it's also going to business

. for us to investigate the back pages. some scan the headlines other school straight to the sports section and then there are those who are simply interested in movies. so you open a newspaper in public and it may seem like you're doing some serious reading passing up with awareness political developments but you may very well be looking at a page that's causing much debate in spite of society and in most cases these classified ads serve as a cover up for the work of crime groups or the prostitution mafia to be precise. seventy percent of girls and young women were held or kept in confinement in apartments and the only way to contact them is stories poems to these ads if the ads are banned they can't be helped. but others hold a different view with some saying that banning the ads will not hurt the vice mafia but will hit those who willingly work in the sex trade and. our research shows that

most of these girls become prostitutes on their own accord banning the ads one stop human trafficking members of some feminists are going to think that prostitution is not the worst that can happen to a woman this is an issue for women sex appeal and many publishers and editors argue that because prostitution is legal in spain they are within their rights to run the ends badger's was right from el place one of spain's main newspaper says that until there is a law making it illegal to publish such ads this practice is unlikely to change if we knew that they are under these other types but where something illegal she came by ok i will fight again against it but i smell completely from parts from the information i mean we will have to wait until the government decides shunting about . this it rather touched me this week if we can do it whether or not her ties in

ban will stifle the mafia's illegal activities is being debated but for the newspaper business. it's that struggle through the arrival of new media in the decent financial crisis and ban on sex ads is most certainly. does syria syria r.t. madrid. now say we've got fewer tonight of the new look web site r.t. dot com updating in fact i'm not sure even talking about the last week could see the end in sight now for more than three hundred forty people still stuck on a ship in icy waters off russia's far east coast for the past two weeks has been a really long drawn out saga to get them we've been bringing you up to date on the latest is online from us tonight about dot com also my boss side but is in the queue for this little one as yet to make his debut at a german zoo but already it's been taking the world by storm you can kind of see why what is it more about to go on. well due to brief the two new zealand president ben ali has announced that he will not run for

reelection it comes after ongoing violence that left more than twenty dead across the country riots have been raging between protesters and police over food and fuel inflation and high unemployment in his televised address the president also said prices for food staples will be cut. more than two hundred fifty people have died in just twenty four hours now after flooding and landslides in southeastern brazil downpours called mudslides which destroyed villages and highways thousands without power officials say the death toll is expected to rise rescuers are busy searching for survivors still the number of dead across the country stands at seventy since the severe flooding began at christmas. and in the flood to destroy city of brisbane the water slowly beginning to recede now after those highs yesterday but more than thirty suburbs are still deluged with many buildings completely washed away the reconstruction of roads and homes is currently a top priority for the government but least fifteen people have been killed by the floods since the began in november. last year's spy spat between russia and the

u.s. made headlines across the globe now one american had firms decided to cash in on the simmering scandal but turning a russian sports celebrity into the latest star of cold war danger of who all be so what do you do in the dark when. filings really follow you russian spies. bring us news t.v. show an actual superstar xander of educating his colleagues pretend to do some covert late night spying for another session on the ice the washington capitals captains and stranger that we have a thousand business clever chap another commercial with featuring a so-called trick of mind goal is just impress world multitalented man now in a few moments a former drug baron who was once responsible for flooding california streets with most of its hard drugs tells r.t. about the u.s. government's role in the narcotics trade it is coming right up tonight.

freeway ricky ross is a street legit he went from being a poor illiterate aspiring tennis star to one of the biggest drug dealers in los angeles history after being part of an international drug ring and making up to two million dollars a day he's starting over from scratch and trying to build another empire this time

the legal way twenty years of prison have turned this former kingpin into a fully literate activist who is trying to make a difference by keeping kids from following in his footsteps today he says with r.t. to talk about his rise and fall and to discuss his connection to the cia contra costa oversea ricky ross thank you for joining us today what role did the u.s. government play in bringing crack cocaine into l a's poor black neighborhoods the government needed this money to fight this war over new ground. we're going to send in east is russia haig a dissenting leases on hundred million dollars to fight with congress to cut off all the money from the contras so now the sandinistas had an event. reagan and bush had made the contras to pay pete.

they fell dead if russia took over nicaragua they would be too close to america they would be in our backyard. i believe that they felt it was more valuable to sacrifice. particular secor sector of america and a race of people in america and order to save the whole country so they let these guys open up pipelines blando on norman messes and the rest of the crew did work with the new ground connection because i knew about ten to fifteen different eagle rock ones that was all inside of this unit contra organization. that was selling drugs so by the i'm allowing these guys or basically turning a blind eye because i don't think the government necessarily gave them the drugs or not but in a sense they sanctioned it because they turn

a blind eye they knew that these guys were selling drugs but they did absolutely nothing about it i also believe that had they not let these guys sell drugs. is possible i would have never become a drug dealer what does that say about our government when they're looking the other way while a deadly substance is coming into our communities for the sake of fighting a communist regime in central america. says that our government will sacrifice of people to accomplish to go and this is not the first time that they've done that we've known numerous times history where they have sacrificed expressing the bagmen in that case it's tough to hear that the ends justify the means they felt it was more valuable for them to keep russia out of america you know and for america to keep its way of life do you think that the cia or any other sort of government agency is still helping to funnel drugs into america. well i mean if we look at

afghanistan you know when taliban controlled. afghanistan the flow of heroin hundred was was almost zero point three and now it's you know hundreds of percent more than it was at that time so. it makes you wonder i mean you know what is really going on how can the taliban control drugs in america can't you know control you know heroin is on the rise and. and it's afghanistan heroin they see a connection to the contras and the huge influx of drugs into los angeles was an expose wasn't made public until journalists k. webb started to report on it gary was on a mission you know. he didn't approve what i did but he said if i was in prison all other players should be in prison right there with me and i should be used.