tv [untitled] January 13, 2011 10:00pm-10:30pm EST
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no more to say russia defends its report into the plane crash that killed poland's president as warsaw continues with its own probe. 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
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just a few moments. from arms reduction to a reset of u.s. relations russia's foreign minister gives his rundown of twenty tense achievements . about turn to the u.s. regimes deportations to haiti despite the humanitarian crisis still unfolding in the caribbean state. you're watching r t six in the morning here in the russian capital welcome to the program poland's prime minister says his country will carry out its own investigation into april's plane crash which killed the polish president now warsaw has been expressing anger over the official findings and claims russian air traffic controllers should have stopped the plane from landing well the authors of the report have defended their work and say no stone was left unturned artie's got that
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he thought of all reports from warsaw. poland is accepting part of the responsibility for this milans plane crash and that of course is. a different statement from those that poland has made previously saying that an investigation should be conducted into why the russian side has. just 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 not hamper the
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presentation of the facts efforts to alter the facts facts are facts of. polish investigators working on adding the parts of the report to the missing changing what is already we assume responsibility for some of the causes of the crash for this courage and commitment to fairness 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 so despite the fact that poland is calling for further investigation asking russia to cooperate perhaps even involving various international organizations in the process the interstate aviation committee which a report of course has caused this new bout of 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
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i want to underline once again that in accordance with the international laws the body. investigating aviation incidents must be absolutely impossible i must withstand political or any other interference or pressure 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 explained excepted 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 our 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 of course saying that russian air controllers are also partly
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responsible for the crash in smiling 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 dishes 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 by lidge remarks that the air controllers should have been 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 flights to take an independent decision only take off and landing you know the a traffic controller simply didn't have the right to ban the landing you see the problem is not being brave enough to admit some fracs it's much more important that
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it's an unbiased and objective investigation is carried out and so nobody. should be afraid of its findings as they are crucial for the safety of future flights and for the avoidance of disasters like that the polar 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. aviation security expert chris yates says the investigation was far oh and carried out to a high standard there is nothing more to be said quite frankly i think they. the committee that this investigation has done next period job. they they they found what they found which is that the primary blame should be.
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you know there is more important line in the transcript of the conversations between pilot and ground during the. final approach of the aircraft into the airport and that is that there is no condition for landing at this airport and quite frankly with that sort of information being given to the pilots the pilot should then have made the judgment to follow traffic instruction and transfer to another airport nearby where better visibility better conditions for the landing might well have persisted well for more polish air force pilot nicole fisher also says the crew is responsible for the tragedy. the pilot's mistakes and failures were the main reason of the accident they were also some in preparation of the visit i would say. not the prayers are. made on
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military pilots but the pilot's mistakes and failures were the main reason of the accident when you don't have enough experience because flying experience it's one thing life experience like you're thirty five years old you don't have much life experience you are still of the shoes you want to call you on the task because the president is expecting you there and you want to show him that you are able to lead such. issues not typical for fifty fifty five years because they. save you will not land not safe thirty five years old man is always very ambitious. now russia's foreign minister has outlined the main events that shaped moscow's international policy in twenty ten so
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the lover of said that he is confident russia and nato will be able to find common ground over a joint missile defense project he also said he as well as for further improvement in relations with the united states r.t. is that value of a has more. the year two thousand and ten will go down in history as the year of radical change in their laces between the two countries all says 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 washing terms of cooperation with the european union as many european leaders have expressed support in principle for that that he would be in security treaty proposed by the president would be different and russia's foreign minister sergei
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lavrov has said the dr is prepared to be patient with dialogues on that one. as opposed to 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 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 all we want is a deep discussion another problem that was in the spotlight off today's press 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 to city to every indian's home slava has said that's a russian principle agrees to the idea of international independent observers visits
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a new nuclear power plant stadia 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 over of us so that he's got high hopes. for two thousand and eleven and tourism russian major corporation and he actually sees. the stages of the relations between russia and nato changing in the near future dramatically. at the russian needle summit in lisbon we agreed to move towards a strategic partnership this is a breakthrough in relations as a first time such a goal has been set on such a high level by the leaders of russia and we would like our relations with nato to be free from stereotypes of the past two thousand and ten has also been very important here in terms of those relations because the talks began on creating a joint and sorry missile defense shield in europe with the participation of russia and nato and of course this is something that needs to be worked on
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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. and still to come on our team in just a few moments a new agent superstar of the isolate sound of that used to be the way it was spotted to go out into the cold but all is stopped what it seems the secrets later in the program. well here after the ravaging earthquake a life in haiti is racked by color of political turmoil and painfully slow reconstruction but for those who found refuge in the united states the future is no brighter as many haitian immigrants are facing deportation back to the island. spoke to one family which risks being divided. see alaska for most american women can relate to gin
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a montra built. a working wife and 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 those crime our family or family that care we make plans for the future if the u.s. government gets its way. just cya janaya and tone will become forever fatherless. engine a will enter the pool of single us mothers struggling to make ends meet after all you have the home of the cell or maybe get a little more leave. at any moment jeanne montra bill 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
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deepening humanitarian crisis. you know it would be going toward to put his. you know it's. you know. he's not he's not a good thing it's community is community. and i was more for. last year's 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 and immigrants yet last month the obama administration quietly lifted the ban resuming deportations for those with criminal convictions even those like jean montoursville who paid his debt to society serving eleven years behind bars for selling drugs in the eighty's he was released from prison in two thousand homes for morning. was.
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used to almost. 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 a lot 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 but 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
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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 are faced a 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 we believe children
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. and the lives of fathers like jean are you believe in danger if or when his home becomes haiti merino port r.t. new york. monitoring group freedom house has published a report on political and civil rights around the world according to the u.s. government backed watchdog twenty seven was the fifth consecutive year in which global freedom including that of russia suffered a decline david swanson author of war is a lie so the paper is biased and ill thought out. well anybody gets to say anything we don't have to take it seriously i think such a report can be of some value but it is heavily biased in appearance because most of the funding is from the government of one country which scores a perfect score has as do many others it's a very simplistic account you're free or you're partly free or you're not free it's hard with such a simplistic report to make sense of the scores that some countries get to
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including russia and it overlooks the policies of the countries that are getting perfect scores it clearly has a very low standard for perfection rule of law comes into play in the analysis of many countries in the united states we now have the president able to announce the policy of assassinating us citizens and anybody else by the way we have the absolute lack of the rule of law for those in power they can go on book tours writing about their crimes and we have clinician and of organizations like community groups like acorn and potentially of people like bradley manning and potentially of wiki leaks for no crime at all. well let's look at some world news in brief now to new resident ben has announced that he will not run for reelection it comes after ongoing violence that left more than twenty people dead across the country riots have been raging between protesters and police over food and fuel
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inflation and high unemployment in his televised address the president also said prices for food staples would become. almost four hundred people have died as flooding and landslides sweep across southeastern brazil thousands have been left homeless by mudslides which destroyed villages and highways rescuers are searching for survivors but officials expect the death toll to rise further. and the flood hit a strongly and city of brisbane the water is slowly beginning to recede but more than thirty suburbs are still dilute with many buildings completely washed away the reconstruction of roads and homes is currently the top priority for the government at least fifteen people have been killed by the floods since they've been in of them for. well all live to life for us r t dot call the end in sight for more than three hundred forty people on
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a ship stuck in icy waters off the roughest part in schools for two weeks now you could follow the saw go online. and also this cute creature has yet to make its debut at a german zoo but already it's taking the world by storm we'll have to r.t. dapat put more of these stories. last year's spy spat between russia and the u.s. made headlines across the globe although one american ad firm has decided to cash in on the simmering scandal by turning a russian sports celebrity into the latest star of cold war. what are you doing. filings really falling. in this ad for a us board snoozed t.v. show n.h.l. superstar alexander of a skin and his colleague pretend to do some covert spying after another session on the ice the washington capitals captain is no stranger to the advertising business
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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 started 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 contre college 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 with we're going to
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send in east is russia who gave the senate leases on hundred million dollars to fight which congress had cut off all the money from the contras so now the sandinistas had an event. reagan and bush had made me become interested pippi. 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. a particular sector 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 dinello blando on norman messes. the rest of the crew to work within the ground connection because i knew about ten to fifteen different to
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go round ones that was all inside of this contre 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 expressly the black
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man 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 floor had one hundred was was almost zero point three and now it's you know hundreds of percent more than it was a dead 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 wasn't exposed wasn't made public until journalists k.
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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 of the press should be in prison right there with me and that i should be used. you know he felt it justice should be. level you know what i'm saying not to where. you got political poor you got money or. if you can excuse justice that's how gary felt now in some speeches gay webb talked about how the d.a. told them that what he was reporting on would put people's lives at risk now do you think that was just a scare tactic and are there parallels from what was happening then to what is happening right now today in the news we hear about we eat leaks exposing all these u.s. military secrets and we also hear on the news that these secrets are supposedly putting
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people's lives at risk i mean talk about the similarities i mean our government is really out of control you know. we're really out of control of nobody. i mean like a fine line wrong doing in our cases and stuff there was nobody that we could run to and say you know this guy's doing such and such and such said you know even with the crooked cops there was nobody we could go to to. to express what was going on in these cops were beating us you know these cops busted my hero opened with flashlights they were a dog you want i was hank up. there was nobody we could go to and express what was going on ricky ross former drug kingpin hip-hop entrepreneur and multimedia executive thank you so much for joining us today and thank you for having me i mean it's wonderful you know and you know hopefully we get this message out man and save me.
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