this needs top stories on our wall street and a catastrophe the final official report in moscow one last april school if day the plane crash in russia links pilot error there's aggro and political reaction in warsaw. two of the world's energy giants are joining forces russia's roughly half dead piece while billions of dollars worth of shares as they plan to jointly explore the vast undiscovered riches of the russian arctic continental shelf. plus the new start nuclear on three duction treaty between moscow and washington or some final approval as russia's parliament passes the agreement in the second of three meetings.

were coming to you live from central moscow six in the morning here welcome to the program the final report on last april's plane crash in western russia which killed the polish president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political elite spark more controversy this week while the moscow headquarters interstate aviation committee blamed the tragedy for the actions of the polish crew bad weather and pressure on the pilots so lad from some v.i.p. passengers but warsaw says the report is incomplete as artie's and the so now reports. for the first time last seconds are heard before polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed.

the crew ignored warnings from the aircraft's automated system to the hole up and advice from air traffic controllers to land at an alternate airport classes 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 let's let my failure to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airports based on multiple becoming day sions of our poor weather conditions at smolensk airport descending lower than the safe minimum height necessary to make a second line to attempt failure to react properly to its magic 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 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's. prime minister donald tusk has acknowledged that part of the blame lies with the polish side however warsaw is currently setting out a formal response to the findings. of our reports opinions on the tragic plane crash are divided poland. 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 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 investigators will add to the report the parts that are missing but will not change

what is already there the strategic tester free was not and does not have to be a blowtorch to good polish russian relations. to emotional outrage. today we see the consequences in the shape of the report blaming polish toilets 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 as 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 balls of. contention between the

major forces well some of only got political leverage in their sights others say the cause of the disaster is clear cut vision is a very complicated. 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 to us first is 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. david lear mouth from flight global magazine says poland may be eager to distance itself from the blame but he can't find fault with the official report i think that the polish government is i think desperate to put at least some of the blame in somebody else's direction but incidentally i completely go along with the russian verdict on the on the air traffic controllers powers incidentally the air traffic controller did not clear this aircraft to land he had with withheld clearance for the aircraft to land and he wouldn't have had permission to stop an international flight like this one anyway if it had been

a russian air force aircraft the controller could have told it to divert an international flight especially of this status the controller would simply go along and do everything that he could to help the captain achieve a safe approach but it's a very very emotive happening for for the polish people however i can tell you this if they try to carry out their own report in order to allocate a little more of the blame in the russian direction i think apart from some minor technicalities they will totally fail to do that. now a huge multi-billion dollar deal between b.p. and rusty after will see both jointly develop potential massive oil and gas deposits along russia's arctic continental shelf or the two petrochemical giants take stakes in each other in a share swap as part of the partnership which was described by b.p. as historic lore ever looks at the agreement and how it could change the future of

energy production. it's a deal that both parties a calling a groundbreaking strategic global alliance russia's biggest oil company rosneft has signed a 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. 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 staffed and 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 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 of the core

we're going to renewed focus on safety and respond. 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 and from which the optics are highly contentious area with many parties wanting a slice of the potentially lucrative piii but experts agree this deal went to trigger a mud. beneath the exploration area 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 thorough 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 advocates r.t. . and still ahead for you this hour cuban clearly this one tom brady is once again the subject of strife in iraq and big blast as we got assess it wants its land back. and a happy ending when i see saddam as three hundred people are told me after being

stranded off russia's foreign schools for over. now the breakthrough through breakthrough that is treaty between moscow and washington to cut nuclear arms is now just one step away from reality russian lawmakers are set to approve the start agreement by the twenty fifth january passed the second of three problem and three readings in the duma the treaty was signed by presidents but get it and obama in april last year it was see the two countries nuclear arsenal slashed by a third within seven years the start was passed by the u.s. senate just before the new year after being strongly opposed by republicans congressman added several changes was invited to counterbalance 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 you also expressed fears that the u.s. may one day pull out of the deal. they amended with the

senate resolution just the very dramatically and of a lift no other option of blood to amend our decisions on the twenty fifth of january and we are going to. be treated as if these arrogant. to more statements by the state duma. are to be included in the british. document but the story might believe the reason is quite obvious on the american side that 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 has a completely different strategy on this issue and in case it happens years of it may be damage to years. the conditions for us are to to to pull out of this treaty

both begin with we are not there yet and we still have time to make better agreements and to avoid any misunderstandings and that we will be out of a vision. now this week of portugal's prime minister repeatedly insisted his country can deal with its own financial problems and does not need a bailout so they socrates' valid to continue with strict austerity measures such as pension cuts or tax increases portugal vanished to relieve some concerns as it raised over a billion euros in a bond auction but this might not be there for it to escape the fate of bad and our want this fear that portugal's demise could trigger spain's collapse an economy which could be simply too big to bailout but that ash will advise our mark opiates are poorly says any survival package would not solve the fundamental flaws in the concept of the you are selling. this is not in any kind of 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 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 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. the controversial u.s. military facility at guantanamo bay has entered its tenth year as a detention center now with nearly two hundred prisoners locked up in harsh conditions there's little sign that president obama plans to shutter its stores anytime soon america's presence there follows a century old deal that cuba claims is not only invalid but threatens its sovereignty john house's 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 u.s.

has to be. kuantan ammonia literary 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 then you've been governing under under threat under dress 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 cuban 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 tents in protest no such

he would never 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't 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 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 should give rights to its detainees and give back the land that's right fully there is jan hopkins our t. washington d.c. . the music of rap metal band rage against the machine was played for days on end at high volume as a weapon of torture during interrogations at guantanamo bay well that's despite the band's message fighting the very system which keeps those prisoners captive as 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 is that hopefully at some point not. 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. well you can see the full interview with rage against the machine guitarist tom morello in ten minutes time here on r.t. . now there is an end in sight for the last ice bound ship that has been stuck off the coast of russia east for two weeks now more than three hundred people were trapped aboard the vessel now being escorted to safety through the furrows in seas by two ice breakers two smaller ships also stock have already been towed to safer waters the three vessels got trapped in ice in the sea of a halts before the new year extreme weather conditions and technical failure have

been hampering the operation. now wiki leaks founder julian assange could face a death penalty in the u.s. if he's eventually extradited there that's the fear of his lawyers according to legal papers released on tuesday assad she is currently on bail in england sweden seeks him for trial on sex charges which were previously dropped but which he says are politically driven one of his lawyer says it would be easier for washington to have a song extradited to the u.s. if he was sent to sweden some american politicians want him prosecuted over the release of classified government documents 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 with. the flow which is now thing that people can see what european arrest.

want know what they're going to do are fairly confident that they're going to come up with some tone of cynical shakes that will allow him to go back to us. or possibly to go back voluntarily to sweden if some kind of deal is done about what charges will be laid against him but what they want today i'm sure is put to bed this whole pub media publicity about the european arrest one 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 let's take a closer look at some other top stories from around the world gunfights other robbed at a loss it's an illusion capital as security forces try to restore order in the country police clashed with gunmen near the main opposition party's headquarters and at the interior ministry new wave of violence comes political leaders hold talks to form a unity government after weeks of chaos and did it the president to saudi arabia

dozens have been arrested in recent days including members of the former president's guard under suspicion of using public vehicles for drive by shootings. more than six hundred people are confirmed dead following severe flooding and mudslides across southeastern brazil since wednesday well all in here cost of bringing on sunday a lot of rescue helicopters to deliver food and water to isolated areas the military is also involved in frantic rescue operations with fear so wherever the death toll will rise president dilma rousseff has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the worst natural disaster to strike brazil in four decades. to live in area results suggest a southern sudan has overwhelmingly approved to separate from the north in a weeklong referendum that ended saturday official results won't be announced until next month but most believe the referendum will split africa's largest country into

earlier ninety seven percent of the southern sudanese diaspora in europe voted for the split the independence referendum was promised to the south as part of a peace referendum with the north in two thousand that swallowing twenty years of civil war in which two million died. now the shooting rampage in tucson arizona that killed six and critically wounded a congresswoman has reignited the debate over u.s. gun control laws. as the reporter called the. president has been on the streets of new york to find the views on an emotive issue once again of making headlines. 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 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 they're you able to use them actually and you see 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. need to be done with laws that need to be so do you think

politics or guns are more violent and deadly i think politics or move out of leaving guns you know it's part of humanity's constant struggle to figure out how to. before the bad thing happens prevent it it comes on to education well whatever the topic as i think yes whether you think guns or people kill people i think we can all agree on the bottom line that violence is rarely the ends there. and those are the week's top stories i'll be back with the headline suggests a few moments.

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