the splined entire truth wins if you tell me touch your group the fictional a good girl i would international house to cheat every green loafer killed in toll who. publishes the conversation between ground control and the cockpit of the jets which crashed killing the polish president continues to refute the official report and make a statement later. media freedoms in that under threat for a series of raids on the rooms of journalists who are going to investigate two it's a high ranking officials. communities in the us say it's a case of profits over people claiming that was drilling major gas companies on damaging health and risking lives. and and business b.p. says it will bear the burden of the initial investment into developing the us not excel for exploration work in the car seems to start in two thousand level details

coming up in twenty minutes. well news twenty four seven you're watching r.t. ponens parliament will gather later on wednesday to discuss the final report on last april's crash in western russia which killed president elect kaczynski the official findings of the moscow based interstate aviation committee cited the prudes refusal to music different affianced as one of the main reasons for the tragedy russia has now released the full transcript of the air traffic controllers conversation with the crew to criticize the report as incomplete. and the so now way can cross the better. we do know that the parliament will be reviewing this report by the interstate aviation committee in detail. of course it found that

inexperienced polish crew bad weather as well as pressure from high ranking officials on board the flight all ultimately led to the tragedy so far we've had mixed reaction from poland we understand they're going to try to get on the same page and find consensus from the prime minister donald to this guerrilla typically diplomatic reaction from the current president borderline anti russian rhetoric and from the late president's family blake blaming russia for the crash we've heard from experts and have understood from reaction that there seems to be a bit of an internal battle inside the country as to how they should usually react to this report but it is expected from these hints that we've had that the reaction could be less than positive but we heard from the polish interior minister as well as other high ranking polish officials on tuesday and basically they're looking to put the blame with russian air traffic controllers now that's despite international aviation laws which basically state that any final decision to land lies with the

pilot and his crew but also that air traffic controllers can never denied a landing they can only advise to land at an alternate airport which we know from the cockpit recordings that was done several times in this incident in reaction to what we heard out of poland on tuesday the interstate aviation committee took an unprecedented move they published new transcripts of recordings that took place during that flight here's a piece of one of the conversations that was revealed. four hundred meters visibility i see what are the weather conditions four hundred meters visibility temperature pressure please temperatures plus two pressures seven forty five there's no opportunity for landing thank you but if it's possible we'll try a landing approach weather permitting if not we'll proceed to the second circle one o one will you have enough fuel for the second circle to the landing. approach yes

we will make sure it's the captain's decision there are one hundred meters before you have to make a decision. it will be requested for us to track. your field of course polish one one two one hundred meters be ready to proceed to the second circle yes sir make a second circle make a second circle make a second circle where is it make a second circle one hundred one hopefully that will add to poland who perhaps accepting this report we do know that the committee is confident that they have the evidence to prove their findings are accurate and thorough and that's also been deemed internationally by experts from around the world the family of the late polish president lech kaczynski has denied all the findings of the interstate aviation committee and pretty much blatantly said that they believe russia is responsible for the death of lech kaczynski his son in law to be more specific claims that the plane crash was a planned assassination in revenge for kaczynski and rhetoric also to prevent him

from being reelected but many experts around the world that we've been speaking to in the past couple of weeks believe that first of all not all of poland believes that second of all that people in the country who do support these kind of accusations obviously have had a hard time trying to break with the old stereotypes of russia as the enemy and it's certainly hoped at least diplomatically that that will be what the polish parliament concludes today as they review this official report. to come in the program promoting a peace president get it to support. this president who thinks we should do to help plus. it's about money this fifteen here the air temperature in moscow close for apparently the temperature of the world to see i guess it's going to be a little bit when there's nothing left to do now but we'll get in. yes you can

see our fearless reporter gets out in temperatures of minus fifteen goes for chile did together with thousands of russians marking. it used to have a strong reputation for press freedom but now international wanted to say independent reporting that media is under serious threat has been prompted by a series of incidents involving raids on the homes of journalists who have been trying to investigate senior government officials. the story. with professional persistence latvian t.v. reporter. interviews a local politician in twenty years as a journalist she has done hundreds but one of them got her in serious trouble an expose on a security breach in latvia state revenue body and that with police in her apartment was forced they opened their doors and went into my flat and then they showed that

they had a security search they had a search warrant one say took my computer and information and i got they also acquired information on all of them my information sources which by a law i am allowed to protect and that was the biggest problem for me as a journalist because i could not protect my information sources is a story shocked many in lot we're a country not used to press scrutiny just a couple of years ago latvia boasted one of the highest freedom of press ratings in all of europe being placed seventh on the annual reporters without borders index but for one reason or another in twenty two this country is down on the very same list this incident is far from an isolated case say experts this one received a lot of public attention but it is not the only one this call from the. current school an economist was charged but the secret police and she was actually arrested for two days for disseminating alternative opinions of all to the future of the local currency. devaluation of lot was imminent we are losing the last.

support the alternative information the liberal information. among the press saltless in this country lot of. other journalists who defined the insist freedom of the press is not being deliberately strangled he believes the reason is down to economics. newspapers when ben crap to the recession he others turn to they are all to survive so the older started singlehandedly shifting the paper's editorial policies to their own preference simply for the sake of hurting a healthy dollar in there has directly heat press freedom. there are other theories however some believe that latvia is spearing down the freedom of the press writings simply because the people behind the index are biased and reagan has fallen out of favor geo politically but not global leaders that as long as nobody has been

punished over the forceful search of her apartment concerns about pressure on the press may not be groundless. ski reporting from brega in latvia. president middle east tour has reached jordan where talks will be healed by potential energy deals has already spent time in western women discussing russia's role in the middle east peace talks. russia's commitment to an independent state capital in east jerusalem was also supposed to visit israel but a walkout of the foreign ministry was cancelled despite that the offer to host peace talks in russia speaking exclusively to watch teen sex and other palestinians expect from moscow. russia already recognize palestine in one thousand nine hundred eight it was also recognized by ninety other countries what do we expect from russia now but there are two things the first concerns the middle east quartet it's

necessary to do everything possible to boost its activity so that it's similar to the role of say the european union we would like russia to convince the us because it's the only country that is against the final statement containing new conclusions it will help us to have a better substantiated discussion with israel while promoting the peace process russia could also insist on its position in stopping the settlement activity in its relationship with the us and israel and on getting back to the negotiations table i think that russia is ready for that that's what president medvedev has reaffirmed during this visit. her.

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download the official ante up location to i phone oh i pod touch from the i choose ops to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand ati's minefield costs and already says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. as the price of oil claims world wide some energy companies are switching to natural gas as a cheaper and more effective alternative want it so that the corporate profits the methods of extraction are joining far from those who convinces you say their health and potentially that lives are at risk as christine has our reports from the us

people are finding it hard to make their voices heard. first there was big oil heavily relied on by big boys big toys and big business. now it seems that big gas is next with scenes like this popping up all over the country where companies drill for natural gas by fracturing the shale below the earth. and extracting the natural gas from it it's told by many as the best option compared to coal and oil natural gas story is an american most of our oil is reported now or sixty five percent are sort of the reason it's green burning so it's greener than either coal or oil and it's affordable this is lee fuller of the independent petroleum association of america speaking on this panel at the heritage foundation to protect his industry and its huge profits from regulation and oversight. he says public disclosure of the toxic chemicals pumped into the earth

will only lead to public misunderstanding and panic people can be scared of chemicals if you give them enough fear they can be responsive to fracking became exempt from the federal safe drinking water act of the energy policy act of two thousand and five largely with the help of then vice president dick cheney the former c.e.o. of halliburton a corporation deeply involved in the fracking industry many lawmakers here on capitol hill have fought to try to get the fracking industry regulated but time and time again they have. faced fierce opposition from other lawmakers and lobbyists and whose best interests it is to have those industries secrets to think that someone here in washington knows better about what needs to be done in pennsylvania or colorado or texas is a real tough sell so why regulate this wonderful practice especially when there's been so much talk about the shelia nair's and others who have benefited from

natural gas drilling i've got a copy of the check. oh my look at that four hundred thirty four thousand dollars just like that and it fell out of the sky but less has been said about the polluted drinking water of hundreds of other people people like pat for not only endemic pennsylvania this is a catastrophe you know we're basically living at ground zero for a catastrophe and everyone is overlooking it because they're listening to the gas well companies who are saying everything is fine this is great we have such a wonderful opportunity this is going to bring your depressed area jobs some residents save their water to show others what they're dealing with others so they can light it on fire and in louisiana seventeen cows grazing near a drilling site were found dead after the fracking fluid runoff got into their drinking water the issue has raised red flags around the country some celebrities are even jumping on board to raise awareness of the dangers of fracking. someone

apparently didn't think actor mark ruffle was doing it right he just discovered he's been placed on a terror alert watch list after his actions caught the eye of the pennsylvania department of homeland security here in new york as they work you know we don't have to do this here and we can slow it down and we can make sure that we do this right. a clue the government is involved too so how much power does big business really have. when it's the oil and gas industry it seems they will allow nothing to stand in the way of their quest for a. freer hand and a quicker profit in washington christine for our tea. but our debate show crosstalk is heading to the south to the valves guests argue over whether the energy sector is dangerously overheating. the one hundred dollar question the rising price of oil the cost of petroleum has been increasing steadily over the past few weeks and months are market forces at work and recovery at risk.

small international headlines for you now chinese president hu jintao is in the u.s. for a four day state visit the leaders of the world's two biggest rival economies held a private welcome dinner on tuesday night at the white house among many business economics trade and human rights policies china's currency is also likely to be discussed at beijing's recent suggestions that it's timely the confidence that the world should rely on the dollar. the seven point two magnitude earthquake has hit southwest pakistan and spun off the populated area near the borders with iran and then stop officials say several houses were damaged in the

movie. the aftershocks were felt as far away as dubai and danny and similar intensity in pakistan is to killed more than seventy thousand people in two thousand. haiti's former dictator duvalier has been charged with corruption during his years in office he will between one hundred seventy one and one hundred eighty six under the brutal military regime he's accused of embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars from state funds during that time but here is also says. to the torturing thousands of haitians who had spent nearly twenty five miles in exile the force of return which he claims was to help the country after the massive earthquake. now off the docks christians are marking epiphany one of them most important religious holidays the tradition sees many people braved ice cold water as they hope to wash away this since. packed

his swimming trunks and plucked up the courage to have a got himself. in the tradition of the old church here in russia the nineteenth of january is the date of the epitome now what that means to people who worship the orthodox church is that is the date that jesus was baptized into the christian faith now to celebrate that here they jump into the freezing cold rivers of russia now here in moscow where i am at least could a hole in the ice on the mosque of all river to make sure that bush who isn't people can jump into the river and celebrate the feast day of the epiphany no it's not just a religious thing this is now become something of a health kick if you will for people that want to come into the water believe that the the icy temperatures can have some health properties for you can make you feel better in yourself the way it works in the religious sense is that it will see you again it will cleanse you of your sins and it will set you up for the new year your

life to the blessing over the ice who by your priest has had it essentially into a form it is simulation all of the. cases christ is god it's a place where i take my own turn getting in the world to say it's about money miss fifteen here the air temperature in moscow plus four apparently the temperature of the world is so i guess it's going to be a little bit warmer there's nothing left to do now but we'll get him. see how this course. who. already. had that the first day put that heart when he read mission that the russian wind is uncool to their existence. i can tell you i'm feeling very exhilarated right now.

well. choosing to take the plunge into ice cold russian waters for orthodox rights for many others it's the day to indulge in fortune telling and has been since ancient times even though the church considers it a sin not to use it and overcover headed into the countryside to see hostel we all know that journalists are incredibly curious people well at least this is an excuse i'm using for myself today to join this traditional session of fortune telling it's usually done on the last day of. which last for two weeks after the orthodox christmas traditionally women gather around the same ball and perform different kinds of fortune telling procedures to find out what awaits for them during the year whether they will meet their fiancé or simply to make a wish. the easiest way to tell your fortune is about making your wish come true. take a handful of beans and count. or even even even your

wish will come true the next one is the most mysterious one what i have to do is to take this scandal to spill the axe in the water let it cool down and see what shapes it takes and try to understand what could it mean potentially for me in the next year. you have a ring which means that in a year to come you have a new soulmate well i didn't see that coming but apparently this is what all girls wished for when they do fortune telling on the last day of sciatica so i guess i'm lucky. well you can see that story online as well that dot com and while you're there take a look at some of the other stories we play for you just a click the russian orthodox church weighs in on what drugs as a senior cleric accuses the country's women. may soon be resting in peace in a zero sum

a treat to turn the. society. out on the business news so far today. thanks for joining me with an exclusive for the first time ever b.p. says it will bear the burden of a national investment into russia's arctic development the exploration is to be carried out together with all snapped the work in the car see will take five to seven years starting in two thousand. what we've agreed is the. world complete the exploration license obligations that are in the licenses now for

the three blocks and there is we expect there to be in the neighborhood of a billion dollars the first billion dollars will be financed by b.p. . and then that will be paid back out of the proceeds from an exploration development. the board of mobile communications major vimpel com has approved the purchase of the telecom assets owned by egyptian billionaire not jeeps a view is for a total of six and a half billion dollars now that's despite opposition from norwegian shareholder telling or the second biggest mobile phone operator wants to take over so there's his italian operator wind and his fifty one point seven percent stake in egypt's telecom it would create the world's sixth largest phone company will calm signed a new agreement after telling all rejected and only at six point eight billion dollars proposal altoona which owns over forty percent of the book says it is disappointed by telling our position. we're disappointed by their ground there is

still a geisha and some made in their statement. we are the position that. difference in views on business development shouldn't be an obstacle to effective were developed into common to one of the leading global typical operators . until an hour says it will fight the approval by the green book on board at the company shareholder meeting suggesting shareholders will face considerable additional delusion if the acquisition is completed on its current terms to the no warns the deal could make room to call me less attractive to investors. tell us look at the markets most european stocks gain after apple and international business machines corp reported profit that beat estimates energy and metal shares are also higher in longer the shares of parsons jumped five point four percent appears and five point four percent after lifting its outlook supporting the

footsie up point two percent german dax is also high this hour and russian markets are gaining for a second there was day the r.t.s. is up over over half a percent i'm isaacs is gaining less than a quarter or over a quarter percent this hour brosnan up to still the biggest gainer advancing one point seven percent after it struck a deal with b.p. on the arctic drilling spare bank while cutting and gas from also up over half a percent. because asians for russia's entry to the world trade organization could be completed this april that optimism comes from the head of the country's delegation to the talks like cement that cough also addressed existing doubts that accession will have a positive impact on russia's small businesses there could be progress there is some companies because it's true there's competition. conditions really. cherished and respect to refill influence marketplace but it's close and to prepare for. this new situation is in no way being home

to big chunks of help session for many years and the investigators. consumer spending in russia has increased in two thousand and ten people spent mostly on mobile phones repairing their apartments and paying for education of the popular choices war computers cars and gym membership compared to two thousand and nine the number of russians who bought cars or spent on travel increased by two percent meanwhile only one percent of the population bought an apartment with a stake in rural areas or shares last year. that's all for this hour joining in about fifteen minutes from now for more here on this hockey.

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