that's really pulls the tone with her revealing the tone the crime scene trying to tell me. the latest news at the week's top stories here in r.t.e. a russian led investigation think lose pilot error was mostly to blame for the plane crash that killed the polish president last year but warsaw calls internationally backed findings incomplete. russia and the u.k. look to the north as all jains ross nafta and b.p.c. were multibillion dollar deals to extract the untapped riches of the art of together. and russian lawmakers approved 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.

which is a live from moscow i'm marina joshua into the program the report on the causes of the plane crash in western russia which killed president lech kaczynski last 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 at a polish crew bad weather and pressure to weigh and word of blame for the tragedy. has more. for the first time the last seconds are heard before polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed down securing all onboard.

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 flying in bad weather the interstate aviation committee highlighted what they found to be the main causes behind the tragedy in their final report. a failure to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airport based on multiple recurring day sions about poor weather conditions at smolensk airport descending lower than the safe minimum height necessary to make a second landing attempt failure to react properly to automatic amounts 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 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 to politics one car 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. how is reaction to the findings was not all negative some found the conclusions fair and so are as our looks at the political reasons behind the differing opinions. state of bringing 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 mindgames from rational disbelief. 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 reports blaming polish pilots and 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. frankly speaking all these. occurred over. more court and could be the main one of the most important battles of contention between the major political forces well some of owning our political leverage in their sights others say the cause of the disaster is clear cut the. mistakes and failures were the reason that they were also some. mistakes and failures were the reason that both poland and russia have insisted on

keeping this debate from influencing the recent fine ties but with the story far from over it looks like some in poland are keen to keep things for. polish newspapers of their front pages with strong action minded words war against the report tossed curses the aviation 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 poland remains to be written. catherine as our team warsaw poland. aviation security expert chris yates says the investigation was and carried out to high standards there is nothing more to be said quite frankly i think they. the committee that did this investigation. job.

they found what they found which is that the primary blame should be. true. but you know there is more important ally in the transcript of the conversations between pilots. during the. final approach of the aircraft into the airport. that is that there is a 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 and transfer to another airport nearby where better visibility better conditions for the landing might well have persisted. coming up in the program here in r t nine years of pain and torture with now an inside find out why the infamous u.s. tension center in guantanamo bay is still open and what is doing on cuban soil in

the first place. we've got the latest saw wiki leaks founder julian assange on issues fighting extradition from the u.k. to sweden fearing he might eventually and operate in an american prison. 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 oil giant has secured a multi-billion dollar contract with russia's rosneft the two companies have agreed to explore and extract the vast untapped natural resources of the arctic artie's lore and it reports. it's a deal that both parties a calling a groundbreaking strategic global alliance russia's biggest oil company rosneft has signed swap deal with b.p. it's the first major equity linked partnership between a national and international oil company when it's done in five percent of b.p.

in exchange for a nine and a half percent share in the russian oil major ross next chairman deputy prime minister told r.t. it's the beginning of a new direction for the company. 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 roast after b.p. will team up to develop three areas on the russian arctic shelf that's potentially a lot of oil and gas down there which rosneft owns the license to exploit it's a huge area around one hundred twenty five thousand square kilometers and it won't

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 also got the life experience has been working with us now for twelve years now and we've been working on the arctic for since two thousand and five with ross staff working with our capabilities our expression capabilities and i think to be honest we learned a lot about what happened in the gulf of mexico shaken the company to the core we're going to renewed focus on safety and respond as. 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 but. i would like to let you know that the government of the russian federation supports this joint operation this is a project that 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 risks involved which is the optics the highly contentious area with many parties wanting a slice of the potentially lucrative piii but experts agree this deal wouldn't trigger a month but what lies beneath the exploration area that they're talking about is in the south corus 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 earth earth 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're at it. and russian lawmakers have brought the new strategic arms reduction treaty was the us one step closer to ratification they gave a deal or greenlaw i during a second of three readings in the state duma the start treaty was signed between president obama in april last year and should slash the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third it was ratified by the u.s. senate in the sand bar after months of heated debate on capitol hill. been at several key changes forcing russian lawmakers to carroll balance those amendments to keep the treaty intact they have a state duma's foreign affairs committee told r.t. that the us is responsible for the lengthy ratification process constantine kasich also expressed fears washington could repeat of the agreement in the future. the

amended with the senate resolution just the very dramatically of a lift no other option but to amend our decisions on the twenty fifth of january and we are going to. be treated as if these. two more statements by the state duma. would be included in the. document but the story might believe the risk is quite obvious on the american side they will proceed with the strategic not regional but strategic. defense system small not the current president not the current government but probably the next president the next government which has a completely different strategy on this issue and in case it happens yes of the treaty may be damaged and yes there may be conditions for russia to to to pull out of this treaty but again we are not there yet and we still have time to make better

agreements and to avoid any misunderstandings and that will be our way to be. and we are watching our get there is a lot more on our website twenty four seventh's here's some of what's on line right now at r t v dot com gulf propaganda sunday january sixteenth marks the twentieth year anniversary of the first gulf war but it was a fight to free kuwait or to secure access to the country's oil reserves take a look back on our website. plus an easy way of getting around during winter gerri slats you glide through the snow or any other terrain. get out. now this week portugal's prime minister repeatedly insisted his country won't be

asking for a bailout from the e.u. because it doesn't need one shows a socrates said the country was on track to restoring its economy and vowed to continue with strict austerity 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 eurozone is currently in the grip of a debt crisis that is threatening walks financial stability and experts fear portugal's demise could worsen the spanish economy. financial advisor marco pierre says a bailout wouldn't solve the fundamental flaws in the concept of the eurozone. this is not in any kind a 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 their debt moving forward in reality what's happening is burdening this

country with these countries a lot more debt to service and the jury is 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 all 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 some states someone's got to go but what we're doing is patching up patching up patrick 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 the tour of iran's nuclear sites despite many key powers including russia turning down tehran's invitation russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov insisted such visits should be substitutes for official u.n.

inspections western powers say the offer which was extended to representatives of many members of the un's nuclear watchdog but not the u.s. was an attempt to divide them and there isn't a national concern over iran's nuclear ambitions but tim ryan says its program is peaceful and the offer was merely and goodwill gesture. but experts believe any attempt to cause a rift will ultimately fail to do so from ever there has been a starting to go. talks or whatever and it never worked out certainly there may be some people who thought that they could create a fish or already but. they never managed to really break up. 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 but a second step the iranians did it again to which their own public namely the last about their own newly achieved technological progress which is 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 be solved comfort them it wants to negotiate are 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 down the detention center is still holding inmates the prison has become an unwelcome i can for human rights abuses and as you can have his reports he was far from happy at having america's dirty work carried out on its soil. its 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 abuse lack of legal recourse and indefinite detention is the norm it's also been the subject of decades of strife with cuban authorities who argue the forty five square mile military base violates cuban sovereignty and amounts to a military occupation the green under which the u.s. has to be. from earliest 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 it was extracted from the dense human government under under threat under duress and in clear contravention of international laws like the vienna convention the u.s. government threatened to continue its occupation of cuba unless cuban authorities

agreed to lease the land for america's military base indefinitely or for as long as it paid the cubans the early runs after the cuban revolution swept the island nation one nine hundred sixty it's revolutionary leader fidel castro cashed only one check and he insists it was an accident no checks have been cashed sense and protest no such he would ever be signing today knows a 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 opened nine years ago awaiting trial. president obama recently signed away his right to bring detainees to u.s. soil making it unlikely that any of them will see a trial or freedom any time soon some argue the u.s. violates cuba'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 straight to the eye of the american government or as they would say the american empire a country cubans believe should give rights to its detainees and give back the land that's right fully there is this our t. washington d.c. defense lawyers for wiki leaks founder julian assange claim he could be sent to

guantanamo bay or even say he's a death penalty if tried in the u.s. that's according to legal papers released on tuesday along in court has set the date for the hearing of a sonorous case for the beginning of february he's fighting extradition to sweden over sexual assault accusations songe 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 over politicized. i'm sure there's lots of political maneuvering so. the powers that be a very difficult position the americans want to get their hands on or some authorities now think the game's up people can see what the european arrest warrants are. so my guesses are quite know what they're going to do but are fairly confident that they're going to come up with come some kind of cynical fix that will allow him are there to go back to australia or possibly to go back well until early to sweden if some kind of deal is done about what charges will be laid

against it but what we'll want to do i'm sure is put this whole problem media probably 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. and british m.p.'s have warranty hands of thousands of asylum seekers are untraceable after a home office wonder one in seven may be left to live illegally in the u.k. because the border agency has built up a backlog of unsold files robin simcox from the center for social cohesion says e.u. regulations make maddening 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 and this is a outrageous situation that's allowed to develop i think is a huge problem with the britain's inability to deport generally. who have been part of the european union we often can 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 like a half 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 net immigration last year into the u.k. was around two hundred thousand people more coming to the u.k. than leaving it. 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 later. much stricter criteria on who should be allowed into the u.k. and i don't think we've got it in control in anywhere near enough there's a. look at some other stories from around the world and tunisia has sworn in its problem and interim president after weeks of widespread unrest forced the former leader from power as his first act in charge. called 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 looting 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 afghan government says six people have been killed after the minivan they were traveling in struck their roadside bomb women and children were among the dead there were three others wounded the eastern district office again has been a center for insurgent violence with international forces there taking having casualties. 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 seven percent of the country's diaspora europe voted for secession full results from inside the country will be announced at the beginning of next month it's hoped a vote will and a cycle devastated by civil war. in brazil troops have joined of rescue workers in the desperate search for survivors as floods continue to

devastate the southeast of the country efforts are being hampered by renewed having rains more than six hundred people have died in what's become the country's worst natural disaster in forty years we have national mourning has been declared for the victims'. families 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. rage against the machine's influential guitarist tall morello turns his talent to the five gas quintile bay and that's coming your way in just a few moments right after recap of our top stories.

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