burn coal so if it's else until a grandson call him specifically children call him brant who told michael those events and even called a real meridian. the latest news on the week's top stories here in r t a russian led investigation that includes pilot error was mostly to blame for the plane crash that killed the polish president last year calls the internationally backed findings income point. russia and the u.k. look to the north as well giants rossley have the b.p. c.e.o. a multi-billion dollar deal to extract the untapped riches of the arctic together. and russian lawmakers approve a key nuclear arms reduction deal with washington they'll ratify it before the end of the month after counterbalancing changes made by the u.s. senate to the new start treaty.

this is r t coming to you live from moscow with marina joshie the report on the causes of a plane crash in western russia which killed president lech kaczynski a west april has caused outrage in poland warsaw has launched its own probe in an attempt to prove some of the blame lies with russia the interstate aviation committee found the polish crew bad weather and pressure to land were to blame for the tragedy artes and he said no way has more. for the first time the last seconds are heard before polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed near smolensk in one group.

the crew ignored warnings from the aircraft's automated system to pull up and advice from air traffic controllers to land at an alternate airport plus were inexperienced and flying in bad weather the interstate aviation committee highlighted what they found to be the main causes behind the tragedy in their final report lesson of my failure to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airports based on multiple becoming day sions about poor weather conditions at smolensk airport descending lower than the safe minimum height necessary to make a second line to an attempt failure to react properly to the magic amongst those are the reasons which led to the tragic crash of the aircraft into the land and the death of those on board. the findings also claimed 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 within 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 that 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 out 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 yet the case is far from closed as the next chapter to find those accountable for the tragedy is no point. the committee concluded that no single person can be blamed for the accident but now that the final investigation report has been delivered a criminal investigation can be launched and perhaps more light shed on the crash that killed the polish president his wife and most of the country's political elite and he's now a r.t. moscow but polish reaction to the findings was not all negative some thousand the conclusions fair and sour are to his country as are the looks of the political reasons behind the differing opinions. to bring closure to a very painful chapter in recent russian polish history the final report has opened

a pandora's box of doubt denial and political mind games from rational disbelief the brackets to let up on the investigation is incomplete the chicago convention gives us the right to settle on a joint conclusion and the opportunity to strive for the acceptance of our comments the convention guarantees us the opportunity for discussions to find a common ground and we plan to ask moscow for consultations that would lead to a joint report acceptable to both countries to emotional outrage. today we see the consequences in the shape of the report blaming polish pilots in poland in general for this catastrophe and making it a one sided matter without any evidence we're dealing with speculation without any basis. but is this grief talking or shrewd political experience some believe mr kaczynski the twin brother of the deceased president and himself a failed presidential candidate could be attempting to use this tragedy to his

political advantage. in poland is hard for many reasons. and first of all we are approaching the parliamentary elections i am afraid that frankly speaking all this. may this debate. in the moral court and could be the main or one of the most important goals of contention between major political forces well some of owning our political leverage in their sights others say the cause of the disaster is clear cut the. stakes the. reason that they were all. of that he's. not the pleasure. but the. failures were the reason that both poland and russia have insisted on keeping this

debate from influencing the recent thaw in ties but with the story far from over it looks like some in poland are keen to keep things for. polish newspapers and fill their front pages with strong action minded words war against the report for us this the committee we will find out the truth and so on but these headlines that are how catchy are just words what actions the polish government will choose to undertake and how they will affect relations between russia remains to be written. catherine as r.t. warsaw poland. aviation security expert chris yates as the investigation was there and carried out to a high standard there is nothing more to be said quite frankly i think they. the committee that did this investigation. job.

they found. that the primary blame should be some of the truth. from the. you know there is more important line in the transcript of the conversations between pilots. during the. final approach to the aircraft into the airport. that is that there is no condition for this airport and quite frankly with that sort of information being given to the pilots the pilot should then made the judgment to follow traffic instruction transferred to another airport nearby where better visibility better conditions might well have persisted coming out here in our nine years of pain and torture was no and inside find out why the infamous center and guantanamo bay is still open and

water is doing on cuban soil in the first place. we've got the latest on we can be found or join us on this fighting extradition from the u.k. to sweden figuring he might eventually end up in an american prison. now b.p. may be less than popular in the u.s. after the gulf of mexico oil spill but it's still doing big business elsewhere the british based all giant has secured a multi-billion dollar contract with russia's ross now after the two companies have agreed to explore and extract the vast untapped natural resources of the arctic artie's lore and reports. it's a deal that both parties a calling a groundbreaking strategic global alliance russia's biggest oil company has signed a deal with b.p. it's the first major partnership between a national and international oil company when it's done after the stand to be paid

in exchange for a nine and a half percent share in the russian oil. ross next chairman deputy prime minister. told r.t. it's the beginning of a new direction for the company. which is working on a new strategy aimed at transforming the company into an international energy holding our deal with b.p. is of course part of the strategy they've gained a great deal of experience including the gulf of mexico oil spill cleanup operation b.p. has learned from this experience and our joint venture will be carried out with the greatest level of measures aimed at protecting the environment we've been working with b.p. for many years they're competent and have strong experience of russian companies the aim is that b.p. will team up to develop three areas on the russian arctic shelf that's potentially a lot of oil and gas down the which rosneft owns the license to exploit it's a huge area around one hundred twenty five thousand square kilometers and it will

be easy to extract the resources the arctic the highly inhospitable environments and requires sophisticated technology and billions of dollars of investment but aside from the cash b.p. c.e.o. bob dudley says they've got the life experience has been working with us now for twelve years now and we've been working for us since two thousand and five working with. expression. and i think to be honest we learned a lot about what happened in the gulf of mexico and the company of the core focus on safety and response. for environmental care what we do the russian government's behind the deal and prime minister putin says all parties are ready for the challenge. i would like to let you know that the government of the russian federation supports this joint operation this is a project and could become global and have a significant influence on the world's oil and gas industry russian's arctic

reserves are estimated to be five billion tons of oil and ten trillion cubic meters of gas such a project may require tens of billions of dollars of investment and state of the art technology and we are fully aware of the restraint from which is the optics a highly contentious area with many parties wanting a slice of the potentially lucrative pie but experts agree this deal will trigger a muddy down beneath the exploration area that they're talking about is in the south car sea it's off the north coast of russia as far as i'm aware it's not territory that is disputed by anybody so i don't see this as being contentious in that sense it's being branded around the world as a breakthrough deal opening russia up to billions of dollars of investment now and opening a potential door to similar ventures in the future arguably this deal improves the u.k. energy security and it also puts b.p.

on a server financial footing following the massive losses it sustained from the gulf of mexico oil spill it's also a huge vote of confidence for the russian oil exploration industry you are at it. and russian lawmakers have broad the new strategic arms reduction treaty with the us one step closer to ratification they gave the deal a green light during a second of three readings in the state duma the start treaty was signed between presidents medvedev and obama a pro last year and should slash the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third was ratified by the u.s. senate in december after months of heated debate on capitol hill congressman added several key changes forcing russian lawmakers to counterbalance those amendments to keep the treaty intact have a state duma's foreign affairs committee told r.t. that the us is responsible for the lengthy ratification process cousin cousin also expressed fears washington could tear pito the agreement in the future. amended with the senate resolution just the very dramatically they left no other

option but to amend our decisions on that minted fiefs of january and we are going to. be treated as if these two. do to add two more statements by the state duma which would be included in the british occasion document at the start of my believe the risk is quite overt on the american side that they will proceed with the strategic not a regional but strategic aren't in the so defense system small not the current president not the current government but probably the next president the next government each has a completely different strategy on this issue and in case it happens here so the treaty may be damaged and yes there may in the conditions for russia to do to pull out of this treaty but begin to be are not there yet and we still have time to make

better agreements and to avoid any misunderstandings and that will be our will to be. well you're watching r t live from moscow and over yeah there's a lot more on our web site twenty four seven and here are some of what's online right now at our t.v. dot com. propaganda sunday january the sixteenth marks the twenty year anniversary of the first gulf war was it a fight to free kuwait or to secure access to the country's oil reserves take a look back on our oil website. plus an easy way of getting around during winter gerry's lets you glide through the snow or any other terrain check it out i.r.t. dot com. this week portugal's prime minister repeatedly insisted he's country won't be

asking for a bailout from the e.u. because it doesn't need one shows a soccer this the country was on track to restoring its economy and vowed to continue with stricter stare the measures such as pension cuts and tax increases his comments follow speculation that portugal is next in line for a loan after greece and ireland the eurozone is currently in the grip of a debt crisis that is threatening to block financial stability and experts fear portugal's demise could worsen the spanish economy financial advisor marco pierre as a bailout would solve the fundamental flaws in the concept of the eurozone. this is not in any calling the way a final solution for the european debt crisis it is just buying time for these countries so that hopefully they will be able to get in control of their fiscal situation and the markets will start to to believe in them again that they're able to service that moving forward in reality what's happening is burdening this

country with. a lot more debt to service and the jury. still out on whether they can actually turn their fiscal position around over the next few years you can't save all the banks and save all the countries because at some point someone's got to file or which is the other option which we've been pursuing so far is that we just carry on printing money and everybody carry on printing money and we end up with hyperinflation and most currencies then become worthless so at some stage someone's got to fail but what we're doing is patching up patching up patching up hoping that the issue's going to go away pushing the can further down the road now the europeans have to start thinking about a complete reform of the european structure. several international envoys are taking part in a tour of iran's nuclear sites despite many key powers including russia turning down tehran's invitation russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov insisted such visits should be substitutes for official u.n.

inspections western powers say the are firm which was expanded to have representatives of many members of the un's nuclear watchdog but not the u.s. was an attempt to divide down its international concern over iran's nuclear ambitions but tehran insists its program is peaceful and the offer was merely a goodwill gesture but experts believe any attempt to cause a rift will i'll timidly fail. do so from ever there has been a start in negotiations or talks or whatever and didn't have a verdict out certainly there may be some people who thought that they could create the fish are already if but. they never managed to really break up. the peace five plus one formula. the behavior of russia and china just shows once again that it doesn't work i think it's half expected such a reaction however the iranians wanted to show two things to their own domestic

public that this we are ready to negotiate you have to see it with a second step the iranians did it again to which their own public namely the blast about their own newly achieved technological progress but just not true but again it sends a message to do also of course inside iran who are highly critical of any engagement with the international community that both things iran can to solve comfort them it wants to negotiate important. and this week marked nine years since the opening of the twenty first century's most infamous u.s. prison in guantanamo bay cuba despite president barack obama's election promise to shut it down the detention center is still holding inmates the prison has become an unwelcome icon for human rights abuses and as jan half his reports he was far from happy 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 to green under which the u.s. has to be. 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 bench you've been governing 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 its yearly runs after the cuban revolution swept the island nation one nine hundred sixty its revolutionary leader fidel castro cashed only one check and he insists it was an accident no checks had been cashed sense and protest no such he would ever be signed today knows the treaty signed today would never be internationally recognized the united states. will hunt down. and punish those responsible after nine eleven the bush administration swiftly turned its military base into a detention facility declassified documents show the u.s. government used cuban soil to evade national and international law to interrogate terror suspects a strategy during this debate 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 opened 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 sovereignty for this reason because this is the only latin america 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 believe there is to have this our t. washington d.c. . the fans lawyers for we get leaks founder julian assange claim he could be santa

guantanamo bay or even face the death penalty if tried in the u.s. that's according to legal papers released on tuesday along court has set the date for the hearing of a sergeant case for the beginning of february he's fighting extradition to sweden over sexual assault accusations a sanch claims the charges have been fabricated in order to eventually prosecute him for aspin in the u.s. over the release of classified government documents one european m.p. told r.t. the case has become more politicized. i'm sure there's a lot so. political maneuvering so the powers that be a very difficult position the americans want to get their hands on a silenced authorities now think the game's up people can see what european arrest warrants are about we don't want so my guess is our cars quite know what they're going to do but i'm fairly confident that they're going to come up with come sometime in a cynical fix that will allow him are the to go back to australia or possibly to go back momentarily to sweden if some kind of deal is done about what charges will be

laid against him but what they want to do i'm sure is put to bed this whole pub media publicity about the european arrest warrant because this is just this there are other legal instruments coming through which remove our freedoms in other areas of life all done in the name of integrating europe's legal systems where the champions have worn tens of thousands of asylum seekers are untraceable after a home office blunder one in seven may be left to live illegally in the u.k. because a border agency has built up a backlog of unsolved files robin simcox from the center for social cohesion says e.u. regulations make managing the situation near impossible. britain has essentially lost control of who is coming into the country and once you can secure your borders you can't secure your country this is a outrageous situation that's allowed to develop i think is a huge problem with the britain's inability to deport generally. being part of the european union we often can't deport people but country of origin because it may

contravene the european convention on human rights on top of this there's a systemic problem where the huge backlog of cases and we have something to haul off a million backlog of cases simply can't be processed and can't be dealt with quickly enough so you have a lot of people and that's immigration last year into the u.k. was around two hundred thousand people more coming to the u.k. than leave it to any out on top of the asylum seekers and the backlog and of course we're going to have a massive problem we just need to be much stricter laydown much stricter criteria on who should be allowed into the u.k. and i don't think we've got it in control in any. amount enough because it is a very. what you are to live from moscow let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world today warning it's parliamentary speaker as interim president after weeks of widespread and rest for the former leader from power as his first act in charge for hold on the prime minister to form a unity government hundreds of security forces are patrolling the streets in an

attempt to restore order and chaos and moving on the streets of the capital on friday president ben ali fled to saudi arabia and officials say he won't return to office. the first official vote count from the sudanese referendum to decide whether the south will seek independence from the north has gone in favor of a new state ninety seven percent of the country's diaspora in europe voted for the session for results from inside the country will be announced at the beginning of next month it's hoped the vote will land a cycle devastating civil war. in brazil troops have joined rescue workers in desperate search for survivors as floods continue to devastate the southeast of the country efforts are being hampered by renewed heavy rains more than six hundred people have died in what's become the country's worst natural disaster in forty years and we have national mourning has been declared for the victims. commander

and his bodyguard have been kidnapped by gunmen in eastern mexico officials say the motive behind the abduction is unclear but it comes a day after a deadly shootout with a drug gang in the same state fourteen people were killed after authorities surrounded a property being used as a safe house by alleged gang members thirty four thousand people have died in drug related violence in mexico over the past four years alone. well later this hour here actually we report on a media phenomenon that makes viewers believe the world is more dangerous that it actually is that's coming your way in just a few moments after a recap of our top stories at half past the hour.

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