the other maidens hotels believe that was a movie done reticent it was punished but they protest pumice. this week's top stories here on our tragedy dispute the final report on last april's plane crash that killed a poland's president sparks debate as warsaw says it leaves many questions unanswered. to oil giants team up as russia. says in a deal to jointly explore the arctic's potential energy treasury. and the landmark nuclear arms cuts treaty between moscow and washington moves another step forward as russia's parliament approved the second of three readings. with the top stories of the week and off today this is r.t.

the final report on the last outpost plane crash in western russia which killed the polish president lech kaczynski has caused some controversy this week or so says the interstate aviation committee report is incomplete while the agency insists it's given the polish side all the relevant information and he said now reports. for the first time in the last seconds are heard before polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed newsman downstream on one doing the right. right. right yes. the crew ignored warnings from the aircraft on. 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 lesson of my failure to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airports based on multiple becoming day sions of all 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 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 who was in the cockpit and later alcohol found in his blood and 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 and which is the international standard for accident investigation 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. meantime prime minister donald tusk has an l. stern rather acknowledge that part of the blame doesn't lie with the polish side however warsaw intends to carry out its own investigation and is currently setting out a formal response to the findings but as artie's covering us out of our reports even in poland opinions on the tragic plane crash remain divided. 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 mind games from rational disbelief so let me shift. the goal is not a compromise but a complete disclosure of the truth of diplomacy and politics cannot the moon not hamper the presentation of the facts our efforts are not to alter the facts facts are facts of the rule polish investigators are working on adding the parts of the report to the missing not changing what is already. too emotional outrage. but

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. all these could be the 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 vision is a very complicated matter the simple people. interested in so sometimes it's easy for. conclusions poured in my opinion. both poland and russia have insisted on keeping this debate from influencing the recent fall in ties but with a 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 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 r.t. warsaw poland. security expert chris gates told us here at r.t. that the official report presents a complete picture of what happened. there is nothing more to be said quite frankly i think they. the committee that did this investigation has done next to read job and they've they've they found what they found which is that the primary blame should be only one of the truth. you know there is more important lie in the transcript of the conversations between pilots ground during the. final approach of the aircraft into the airport. that is that there is no condition for landing at this airport

and quite frankly with that sort of information being given to the pilot the pilot should then have made the judgment to follow traffic instruction and transferred to another airport nearby where better visibility better conditions for the landing might well have persisted. here with r.t. live from moscow now b.p. has dubbed as historic its multibillion dollar joint venture with russia's oil from the aft the companies will now join forces to exploit potentially shews deposits of oil and gas buried under russia's arctic continental shelf now or am a report from london where the deal was signed. 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 send to be paid in exchange for a nine and a half percent share in the russian oil made. 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 holder 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 are competent and have strong experience of russian companies the aim is that b.p. will team up to develop three areas on the russian 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 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 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 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 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 million 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 recent home which is the optics a highly contentious area with many parties wanting a slice of the potentially lucrative pie but experts agree this deal to trigger a muddy but what lies beneath the exploration area they're talking about is in the south carra 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 the third best by not 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 still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. cuban fury the notorious guantanamo bay is once again the subject of strife between cuba and the u.s. as are vanno says it wants its land back. and a happy ending to an icy saga as three hundred people are safety after being stranded off russia's far east coast for over two weeks. and the pivotal deal between moscow and washington to cut arms is now one step closer to reality russian lawmakers promised to ratify start by the end of the month after it was approved in the second of three readings the treaty that would see the

country's nuclear arsenals slashed by a third was signed by president's men together and obama last year it was given the go ahead by the u.s. senate just before the new year after months of debate congress congressman added to several key changes forcing russia to counter-balance those amendments to keep the treaty intact the head of the state duma's foreign affairs committee told r.t. that washington is responsible for the long drawn out ratification process but he also expressed fears that the u.s. may one day pull out of the deal. with the amended with the senate resolution just the very dramatically they left us no other option but to amend our decisions on that plane to feebs of january we are going to rectify the treaty these and. to to add two more statements by the state duma which are to be included in the british. document but the story may believe the risk is

quite obvious on the american side that they will proceed with the strategic not a regional but strategic. defense system small not the current president not the current government but probably the next president the next government to reach. there's a completely different strategy on this issue and then case it happens yes the treaty may be damaged and yes there may arise conditions for us to to to pull out of this treaty but again we are not there yet and we still have time to to make better agreements and to avoid any misunderstandings and that will be our ambition . this week portugal's prime minister repeatedly insisted that his country can deal with its own financial problems and doesn't need a bailout socrates' to continue with strict austerity measures such as pension cuts and tax increases portugal managed to relieve some concerns as it raised over

a billion euros in a bond auction but this might not be enough for it to escape the fate of bankrupt greece and ireland and experts fear portugal's demise could trigger spain's collapse which in its turn could be too big to bail out but financial advisor. says any survival package just wouldn't solve the fundamental flaws in the concept of the euro zone and the more. 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 control of their fiscal situation and the markets will start to to believe in them again that they are able to service their debt moving forward in reality what's happening is burden in 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

a fire or 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 at some stage someone's got to fail but what we're doing is patching up patching up patches 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. the guantanamo bay detention center has entered the tenth year of its controversial existence and there are no signs that u.s. president obama will be shutting it down anytime soon with the american presence that follows a deal struck a century ago but calls are growing stronger from havana to the u.s. is violating cuba. shihan half its reports. 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 agreement under which the u.s. has to be. kuantan ammonia literary piece. from earlier earliest years of the twentieth century the plot amendment was imposed following the us occupation of cuba after the spanish american war in one thousand nine hundred three was extracted from the den tube and government under under threat under dress and 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 cuban it's nearly ran 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 it's no checks have been cashed tents in protest no such he would never be signed today knows the treaty signed today will 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 happy 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. that violates cuba's sovereignty for this reason because this is the only latin american country for the past over this past fifty years has said you know then you straight to the eye of the american government or as they would say the american empire a country cubans believe she'd give rights to its detainees and give back the land that's right believe there is jan hottest aren t. washington d.c. and it's not just turning out twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian

capital you with r.t. and the music of a metal band rage against the machine was played for up to seventy two hours nonstop during interrogations at guantanamo bay but ironically the band has always try to fight the system that kept those prisoners incarcerated as its guitarist tom morello explains. when we learned that the united states government was using rage against machines music to torture people guantanamo bay we sued the state department to go to a stop and we were unsuccessful in that suit and pursued over the course of a couple of years and i think it's a thing of the crime my only hope. but on that day hopefully at some point not in the too distant future when the war criminals of the bush administration are brought to trial are one day wearing their yellow jumpsuits and black hoods it will be the music of rage against the machine that is pumped out of their cells twenty four hours a day. and you can see the full interview with the rage against the machine guitarist tom morello in about an

hour's time here on r.t. . now the maritime drama is almost over for an ice bound ship that had been stuck. closed for two weeks more than three hundred people were trapped on board the vessel that is now being a schoolteacher through the frozen sea used by two ice breakers a pair of other smaller ships have already been towed to safer waters the three vessels got trapped in ice in the sea or hots before the new year extreme weather conditions and technical failures have been hampering the operation. well wiki leaks founder julian assange could end up facing the death penalty in the u.s. if he's extradited to sweden well that's the fear of his lawyers according to legal papers released on tuesday one attorney said if a songe went to sweden it will be easier for washington to extradite him to the u.s. washington wants to prosecute him for espionage relating to the release of classified government documents sanj claims sexual assault charges against him in the

scandinavian country are politically motivated one european politician told r.t. that the case is becoming over politicized. i'm sure there's lots of political maneuvering inside the powers that be a very difficult position the americans want to get their hands on the silence the authorities now think the game's up people can see what european arrest warrants are about we don't want to either so my guess is our car 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 either to go back to australia or possibly to go back voluntarily to sweden or some kind of deal is done about what charges will be laid against him but what we'll want to do i'm sure is put to bed this whole. media publicity about the european arrest 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. well there are always many more stories for you on our website that is r t dot com available for you twenty

four seven and here are some of the good beautiful beauties we have for you waiting on line right now if you don't call the economic crisis in the u.s. has brought many businesses to their knees and left millions unemployed but find out how government workers in washington have managed to flourish during the recession. and welcome to cardboard here this is a new game community it has only a tyrant and invites guests to build their own identity using cardboard find out more on our website party dot com. well let's get to some other world news in brief this hour here on r.t. two new zealand political leaders are to resume crucial talks over the formation of a unity government after weeks of widespread violence forced the former leader from office and comes a day after the country's parliament speaker was sworn in as interim leader security forces are patrolling the streets trying to restore law and order amid chaos and looting in the capital tunis on friday president ben ali fled to saudi

arabia where he will reportedly not return. and more than six hundred people have now been confirmed dead following severe flooding and landslides across southeastern brazil soldiers and the military doctors are also taking part in the rescue operations to find survivors forecasters say heavy rain will continue for several days in areas already submerged president dilma rousseff has declared three days of national mourning for the victims in the wake of the country's worst natural disaster in four decades. and early results suggest southern sudan has overwhelmingly voted in a referendum in favor of splitting from the north full results will not be announced in till next month but the region is widely expected to succeed earlier ninety seven percent of the southern sudanese diaspora in europe voted for the split its hope to end a cycle. devastating civil war and would create the world's newest states. where

the shooting massacre in tucson arizona that killed a nine year old and put a congresswoman in a critical condition has led to calls for gun control laws in the u.s. to be reexamined laurie happiness to also known as the president took to the streets of new york city so find out how people really feel about guns in today's society. do guns kill people or do people kill people this week let's talk about that i think it's ok you know god's not concealed weapons with the difference. walking around in public with a gun is probably not a good thing but i don't have anything it's hunting so how do we prevent people who have guns for hunting from taking them out in public. you have laws against say people can't walk around nude in public what about the argument that you should be

able to have a gun for protection you can use other objects for protection i think among guns you have the more you're able to use them actually in d.c. it's to have it the more you were you would use it i can't believe how free you are to have guns here in america but what about the argument that if guns are outlawed then only criminals have guns. yeah i guess my own go underground but i still think they should be a lot more legislation on he can and can have guns is that possible in a violent society though. it was like politics you know people don't agree with policies but you know. we've done laws that need to. think politics or guns are more violent and deadly i think politics are more. you know it's part of humanity's constant struggle to figure out how to. before the bad thing happens prevent it. it comes down to education whatever the topic as i say yes

whether you think guns or people kill people i think we can all agree on the bottom line that violence is rarely the answer. to every couple of our top stories in just a few minutes. children

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