it's a good i would. never dream of killed in. this week's top stories on our t.v. questioning the catastrophe the final official reported in moscow of last april so polish state plane crash and rough waves pilot error but the anger and political reaction in warsaw. two of the world's energy giants joined forces. after peace billions of dollars worth of shares as they want to join to explore the vast undiscovered riches of the russian arctic part of absence fell. across the new start there are for the auction treaty between moscow and washington and here are some final approval as russia's parliament passes the agreement in the second week of meetings.

we're coming to you live from central moscow seven in the morning here welcome to the program the final report of last april's plane crash in western russia which killed the polish president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political elite sparked more controversy this week while the moscow headquartered interstate aviation committee blamed the tragedy of the actions of the polish crew bad weather added pressure on the pilots so loud that from some of the ip passengers but also says the report is incomplete and the somali reports. for the first time the last seconds are heard before polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed near small towns during one priority.

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 less than a failure to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airport based on multiple recovering 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 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 slammed. 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 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 said 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 is currently setting out a formal response to the findings. of our reports opinions of the tragic plane crash are divided in poland. to bring closure to a very painful chapter in recent russian polish history the final point has opened a pandora's box of doubt denial and political mind games from rational disbelief back if there are parts of the investigation is incomplete diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us facts are the most important.

to the report the parts that are missing but will not change what is already the strategic catastrophe was not and does not have to be a blow to good polish russian relations. to emotional outrage. 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 as political advantage. in poland is hard for many reasons. first of all. i am

a friend. of. one of the most important balls of. forces well some of owning up 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 aviation so sometimes it's easy for. conclusions. in my opinion. of the. poland and russia have insisted on keeping this debate from influencing the recent fall in time 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. are just words what actions the polish government will choose to undertake and how they will affect relations between russia. remains to be rid. poland aviation security expert told me that the official report presents a complete picture. there is nothing more to be said quite frankly i think the. committee that this investigation has done next job. they found what they found which is that the primary blame should be. true. from what you know there is more important line in the transcript of the conversations

between pilots and ground during the. final approach to four 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 made the judgment to follow traffic instruction and transferred to another airport nearby where better visibility better conditions for landing might well have persisted. a huge multi-billion dollar deal between b.p. and ross now after will see both a joy to develop the tension the massive oil and gas deposits along russia's arctic continental shelf well the two parter comical drives take stakes of each other in a share swap as part of the partnership described by b.p. as stuart lower and it looks at the agreement about how it could change the future

of energy production. 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 only 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. a new direction for the company but of. course nafta 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 a maze that b.p. will team up to develop three areas on the russian arctic shelf that's potentially a lot of oil and gas down the which 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 b.p. has been working with us now for twelve years now and we've been working on the arctic for process two thousand and five with ross staff working with and they know our capabilities are 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 the technology that's needed

for the environmental care of 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. arctic reserves are estimated to be five billion tons of oil and ten trillion cubic meters of gas so. the project may require tens of billions of dollars of investment in technology and we are fully aware of. 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 months down 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 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 by not following the massive losses in this state from the gulf of mexico oil spill it's also a huge vote of confidence for the russian oil exploration industry. and still ahead for you this hour cuban fury in the forest one tunnel is once again the subject of strife between cuba and the u.s. as a brand a says it wants its land back. and a happy ending to an icy saw that as some three hundred people are told to safety after being stranded off russia's foreign schools for over two weeks.

now the breakthrough treaty between moscow and washington to cut nuclear arms is just one step away from reality russian lawmakers are set to approve the start agreement by the twenty fifth of january the second of three parliamentary readings in the duma where the treaty was signed by president medvedev and obama in april last year it would see the two countries nuclear arsenal slashed by a third within seven years the new start was passed by the u.s. . senate just before the new year after being strongly opposed of republicans great congressman added several changes forcing russia 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 he also expressed fears the u.s. may one day pull out of the deal. but they amended the senate resolution

just the very dramatically and they left no other option but. our decisions on the twenty fifth of january we are going to rectify the treaty as it is and to. do to add two more statements by the state duma. to be included in the written. document of the story my belief that the reste destroyed all of 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 which has a completely different strategy on this issue and in case it happens yes that reka may be damaged and yes there may arise 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 invasion. now this week portugal's prime minister repeatedly insisted his country can deal with its own financial problems and does not need a bailout was a socrates vowed to continue with strict sturdy 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 back up. and the experts fear portugal's that my skirt trigger spain's collapse on a cart of the rich could be simply much too big to bailout but financial advice or marco pierre poorly says any survival package will not solve the fundamental flaws in the euro zone. 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 on 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 at some stage someone's got to. 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 complete reform of the european structure. the

controversial u.s. military facility at guantanamo bay has entered its tenth year as a detention center with nearly two hundred prisoners locked up in harsh conditions there's little sign that president obama plans to shut its doors anytime soon america's presence there follows a century old deal that cuba claims is not only invalid but threatens its sovereignty or at least john half his reports. it's a place forever immortalized by images of torture known by its breviary sheen. america's notorious detention facility in guantanamo bay cuba has been the source of world condemnation where abuse lack of legal recourse and indefinite detention is the norm it's also been the subject of decades of strife with cuban authorities who argue the forty five square mile military base violates cuban sovereignty and amounts to a military occupation the agreement under which the u.s.

has to be on cuban soil to kuantan a moment let's hear a piece. from earlier the 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 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 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 signed today knows the treaty signed today would never be internationally recognized

a 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 that they escobar argues is convenience you can ship to cuba and never bring them to the. 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 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 first ari t. washington d.c. . in addition to what you see on screen here there are always more stories for you on our website at party dot com and here's some of what's online 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 a welcome to cardboardy a town this new role playing community has its own tyrant an invited guest to build their own identity using cardboard will find out more at our website at www dot com

. now there is a net did site for the last ice bound ship that has been stuck off the coast of russia's far east for two weeks now more than three hundred people were trapped aboard the vessel escorted to safety through the frozen sousse by two ice breakers two smaller ships also stark i've already been told to see for waters three vessels got trapped in ice in the sea of cortes before the new year extreme weather conditions. technical failure had been hampering the operation. now we can leaks founder julian assange could face the death penalty in the us if he's eventually extradited there that's the fear of his lawyers according to legal papers released on tuesday assad is currently on bail in england as we don't see except for a trial on sex charges which were approved dropped but which he says are politically driven one of his lawyer says it would be easier for washington to have

extradited to the u.s. if he was sent to sweden some american politicians want to have prosecuted over the rule of classified government documents european politicians told r.t. that the case is becoming over politicized. i'm sure there's lots of political maneuvering so the powers that be are very difficult position the americans want to get their hands on a song which they authorities now think that people can see what european arrest warrants are. know what they're going to do are fairly confident that they're going to come up with some kind of cynical fix that will allow him to go back to australia or possibly to go back militarily 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 freedoms in other areas of life all

done in the name of integrating europe's legal systems. and staying with the u.k. the whereabouts of tens of thousands of asylum seekers are unknown due to a home office blunder well the border agency has simply shelved almost half a million unsolved cases some of their dating back to the ninety's robin simcox from the center for social cohesion says the u.k. has lost control of its borders to e.u. regulations britain has essentially lost control of who is coming into the country and once you can secure your borders you can't secure your country this is a outrageous situation that's a lot of what i think is a huge problem with the britain's inability to deport generally being 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 to haul off a million backlog of cases simply can't be processed and can't be dealt with quickly

enough so you have a lot of people and 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 you can have a massive problem you just need to be much stricter laydown much stricter criteria on who should be allowed into the u.k. and i don't think we've got it in control in anywhere near enough as a moment. let's now take a closer look at some other top stories from around the world gunfight several across the tunisian capital as security forces try to restore order in the country police clashed with government near the main opposition party's headquarters and the interior ministry all of this new wave of violence calls as political leaders hold talks to form a unity government after weeks of chaos and today the president to saudi arabia dozens have been arrested in recent days including members of the former president's guard were under suspicion of loosing public pools for drive by

shootings. more than six hundred people are confirmed dead following severe flooding and mudslides across southeastern brazil since wednesday a little in here cost a great on sunday allowed rescue helicopters to deliver food at water to isolated areas where the military is also involved in frantic rescue operations with fears or wherever that the death toll will rise president dilma rousseff has declared a few days of national mourning for the victims of the worst natural disaster destruction are still in for decades. preliminary results suggest southern sudan has overwhelmingly approved the sufferer from the north in a week long referendum that ended on saturday official results won't be until next month but most believe the referendum will split after its largest country to earlier ninety seven percent of the southern sudanese diaspora voted for the split

of the independence referendum was promised to the south as part of a peace referendum with the north two thousand and five and that was followed in twenty years of civil war in which two million died. the shooting rampage in tucson arizona that killed six and critically wounded a call was woman has reignited the debate over u.s. got good troll laws laurie harshness the reporter called the resident has been on the streets of new york to fight the views on the emotive issue once again 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 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 they're you able to use them actually and. 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 all 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 were policies put in or. need to be done and laws that need to be. do you think politics or guns are more violent and deadly i think politics some of the things 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 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 answer. well those were the week's top stories i'll be back with the headlines in just a. well that's.

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