time to reveal. on. this week's top stories on. the catastrophe the final report a last plane crash points to pilot error but says some aspects have been left. to the world's oil giant join forces. billions worth of shares as they agree to explore the potential energy treasures buried beneath the arctic sea but. another step forward russia's parliament approved the second of three reading.

with a look back at the week's top stories and the latest developments this is our team here in moscow good to have you with us. the final report on last april's plane crash in western russia which killed the polish president lech kaczynski has caused some controversy this week warsaw says the interstate aviation committee report is incomplete while the agency insists it's giving the polish side all the relevant information and he said now he has this report. for the first time the last seconds or heard before polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed noosed month turn on one priority.

grue 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 there is never a 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 landing 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 claim 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 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 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. prime minister donald tusk has acknowledged that part of the blame lies 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 catherine as our reports even in poland opinions on the tragic plane crash are divided. said 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 but back if there were but the investigation is incomplete diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us facts are the most important polish investigators will add to the report the parts that are missing but will not change what is already there this tragic catastrophe was not and does not have to be a blow to good polish russian relations. to emotional outrage but

today we see the consequences in the shape of the report 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 i am afraid that. all these could be one of the most important battles of. contention between major political forces well some of owning up political leverage in their sights others say the cause of the disaster is clear cut. a very complicated matter the

simple people. interested in so sometimes it's easy for. conclusions. in my opinion. both poland and russia have insisted on keeping this debate from influencing the recent thawing ties but with a 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 remains to be written. catherine as r.t. warsaw poland. and aviation security expert told r.t. the official report represents a complete picture of what happened. there is nothing more to be said quite frankly i think the. the committee that did this investigation has done next job. they've they've they found what they found which is that the primary blame should be. true. but you know there is one 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 pilot 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. b.p. has dubbed as his story gets a multibillion dollar joint venture with russia's oil. the companies will now join forces to exploit potentially huge deposits of warning gas buried under russia's arctic continental shelf more and it reports in london where the agreement was signed. it's a deal that both parties are calling a groundbreaking strategic global alliance russia's biggest oil company rosneft has signed a share swap deal with b.p. it's the first major equity linked partnership between a national and international oil company when it's done after 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. 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 russ nafta 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 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 really focus on safety and risk management technology. 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 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 and. the optics the highly contentious area with many parties wanting a slice of the potentially lucrative pie but experts agree this deal will trigger a muddy but what lies beneath the exploration area that they're talking about is in the south car a c 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 service 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 your and it's our t. . bone still ahead this hour cuban fury forest guantanamo bay is once again the subject of strife between cuba and the u.s. has have says it wants its land back. and a happy ending to a three hundred people are total safety after being stranded of russia's far east coast for over two weeks. the pivotal do. between moscow and washington to cut arms is now one step closer to reality russian lawmakers promise to ratify start by the end of the month after it was approved in the second of three readings a treaty that would see the country's nuclear arsenal slashed by a third was signed by president medvedev in a bomb a last year was given the go ahead by the u.s.

senate just before the new year after months of debate congressman and several key changes forcing russia to counter-balance those amendments to keep the treaty intact the head of the state duma as foreign affairs committee told r.t. washington is responsible for the long drawn out ratification process but he also expressed fears the u.s. may one day pull out of the deal. the amended with the senate resolution just very dramatically they left no other option of but to amend our decisions on the twenty fifth of january and we are going to rectify the treaty as it is and. to add two more statements by the state duma. to be included in the british occasion document the story might believe the risk is quite obvious on the american side that they will proceed with the strategic not

regional but strategic aren't in the 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 the treaty may be damaged and yes there may rise conditions for us 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 a mission. this week portugal's prime minister repeatedly insisted his country can deal with its own financial problems and does not need a bailout jazz's socrates valid 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 the bond auction this would be enough for it to escape the fate of bankrupt we've been on has been a political demise could trigger spain's collapse which in its turn could be too

big to bear no financial advisor market says any survival package 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 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 complete reform of the european structure. according to my bay detention center resented the tenth year of its controversial existence there are no signs that u.s. president obama will be shutting it down any time soon the american presence follows a deal struck over a century ago but calls are growing stronger from have i know that the u.s. is violating cuba's sovereignty i'll teach you how to feel reports. it's a place forever immortalized by images of torture known by its abbreviation 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 to greenland under which the us has to be. kuantan a moment let's hear it 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 den tube and government 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 the 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 have been cashed tents in protest no such she 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 us government used cuban soil to evade national and international laws to interrogate terror suspects strategy during a 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 good 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 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 she'd give rights to its detainees and give back the land that's right believe there is janet huff this aren t. washington d.c. . in the music of rap metal band rage against machine was played for up to seventy two hours nonstop during interrogations at guantanamo bay but ironically the band is always trying to fight the system that kept those prisoners incarcerated as it's guitarist tom morello now 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 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 is that hopefully at some point not 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 popular sells twenty four hours a day. and you can see the full interview with rage against the machine guitarist tom morello in an hour from now here on r.t. . the maritime drama is almost over for a nice balance ship that had been stuck off russia's far east coast for two weeks more than three hundred people were trapped on board the vessel that is now being escorted through the frozen seas 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 before the new year extreme weather

conditions and technical failure have been hampering the operation. wiki leaks founder julian assange. facing the death penalty in the u.s. if he's extradited to sweden that's the fear of his lawyers according to legal papers released on tuesday one attorney said if a soldier went to sweden it would 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. charges against him scandinavian countries are politically motivated when european politician told r.t. 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 which authorities now think. people can see what the european arrest. know what they're going to do fairly confident that they're going to come up with

some time cynical fix. the to go back to australia or possibly to go back to sweden if some kind of deal is done about what charges will be laid against him but i'm sure 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 down in the name of integrating europe's legal systems. well in addition to what you see on screen here there are always more stories for you on our website that's r.t. dot com here's some of what's online for you right now. 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 the board new role playing community has its own tyrant and invites guests to build their own identity using color board

you can find out more about that on our website artie dot com. other world news in brief police in chile is fighting for the interior ministry in the center of the country with reports saying two gunmen have been killed another wave of riots follows political leaders crucial talks over forming a unity government after weeks of violence force the former leader from office it comes a day after the country's parliament speaker was sworn in as interim leader on friday the president ben ali fled to saudi arabia where he will reportedly not return. it's. more than six hundred people have now been confirmed dead following severe flooding and landslides across southeastern brazil soldiers and military doctors are also taking part in rescue operations to find survivors forecasters say heavy rain will continue for several days in areas already submerged president dilma soft has declared three days of national mourning for the victims in the wake of the

country's worst natural disaster in four decades. early results suggest southern sudan has overwhelmingly voted in a referendum in favor of splitting from the north full results from not been announced until next month but the region is widely expected to secede ninety seven percent of the southern sudanese diaspora in europe voted for the split to end a cycle of devastating civil war and would create the world's newest state. the shooting massacre in tucson arizona has led to calls for gun control laws in the u.s. to be re-examined. and then as the resident took to the streets of new york to find out how people 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 guns not concealed weapons what's 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 the more guns you have the more you're able to use them actually. to have it the more you allude 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. people who don't agree with policies put in or.

need to be done and laws that need to be. politics or guns are more violent and deadly i think politics. 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 think yes but do you think guns or people kill people i think we can all agree on the bottom line that violence is rarely the answer. might be that with a reminder all the main stories for you in just a few moments stay with us life here in moscow.

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