publishes the conversation between ground control and the cockpit of the jets which crashed killing the president continues to refute the official reports make a statement to. the media freedoms and fear under threat after a series of raids on the homes of journalists who have been investigating to victims of crime ranking officials. communities in the u.s. base of profits over people in that. mental. health and risking lives.

around the world around the clock this is r.t. the top story now parliament will gather on wednesday to discuss the following the reports last crash in western russia which killed the president lech kaczynski findings of the moscow based interstate and nation committee the cruise refusal to use a different that's one of the main reasons for the tragedy has not released the full transcript traffic controllers conversation with the crew after walsall criticised the incomplete. sentence. we do know that the parliament will be reviewing this report by the interstate aviation committee in detail of course it found that inexperience 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 mixer. action from poland we understand they're going to

try to get on the same page and find consensus from the prime minister donald tusk gorilla to 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 at least really 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 deny 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 and 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 and 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 continue approach it's the captain's decision there are one hundred meters before you have to make a decision. the tapes will be requested for us to track. have you ever made

a landing field of course polish one hundred one x. one hundred metres 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. to poland and 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 x. berthing 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 amar 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 the people in the country who do support these kind of accusations obviously have had a hard time trying to break with 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. this week and speak to political analyst you get involved directly. thank you for joining us here in the studio enough we saw in that report the release of these transcripts is very unusual really is that likely to shift. opinion about the reasons for the crash towards those given in the report. well i believe the problem is not just the technical one not just the transcripts the problem of the air crash near smolensk became a big political problem in relations between poland and russia and in fact it is a hostage of the historic. heritage between russia and poland

which is certainly. by numerous walls blood should mistrust whatever is presented by the russian side presented by the polish side will always be interpreted through the prism of this historic mistrust. believe that the transcript would not have the crucial significance in respect of the investigation of the tragedy and you say historic mistrust there and do you think this will affect the relations between the us indeed these historical mistrust which dates back to middle ages and maybe a. very significant impact on russian polish relations and the improvement we saw last year certainly is a very positive but we shouldn't overestimate the significance the importance of

this improvement it is certainly very much subject to the domestic politics to the powers of both countries. best a geisha into this what we expect from that. in fact i don't think of that the conclusions made by the polish side will differ greatly from the outcome of russian investigators but certainly there will be differences in. all the responsibility of polish possibility of russian side and russian traffic controllers. will be inclined to blame all saw the russian traffic controllers for some mistakes and the fore.

management of the situation. family has made some pretty strong accusations about this saying that moscow was behind it why do you think they're doing that well i believe of course it's a big tragedy for. and of course they are greatly upset and they need to find someone to blame besides the polish pilots but of course there is a certain element of domestic politics and. to blame russia as always for all. suffered. suffered through. the midst of politics there i mean could this kind of rhetoric in the polish political opposition afloat well indeed opposition tries to use the tragedy near smolensk actively in its own interests and to build up its strength many. facts and certain ideas

which are related to. accident. and foundation thanks for joining us here thank you. well still to come on the program promoting peace president his support to renewing israeli palestinian on his trip to the middle east mr president turns out what he thinks russia can do to help us. it's about money this fifteen here the air temperature in moscow plus apparently the temperature of the world so i guess it's going to be a little bit warmer there's nothing left to do now but look at him. as you can see how our intrepid reporter gets on in temperatures of minus fifteen goes for three together with thousands of russians working a picnic. used to have a strong reputation for press freedom but now international monitors say

independent reporting that fears me here isn't a serious threat it's been prompted by a series of incidents involving raids on the homes of journalists who've been trying to investigate senior government officials. as a 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 it with police in her apartment was forced open the doors and went into my flat and then they showed that they had a security search they have a search warrant once a took my computer and information and i got they also acquired information all of the 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 use

a story shocked many in large we're a country 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. one reason or another in twenty in 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 a skull of from the first pills so high school an economist was charged by the secret police and she was actually arrested for two days for disseminating alternative opinions of the future of the local currency. devaluation of launch was imminent we are losing the last. support the alternative information the liberal information. among the cross altos of this country lotta love is any other journalist who defines the insists freedom of the press is not

being deliberately strangled he believes the reason is down to economics. newspapers when ben cropped up to the recession he others turn to they are all for money to survive so that all are sorted singlehandedly shifting the paper's editorial policies to their own preference simply for the sake of hurting a healthy dollar in their 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 review has fallen out of favor geo politically but not global leaves 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. dot com and i look at what else we have just

a click away russian the docs church weighs in wardrobes as a senior cleric accuses the country's dressing like strippers. while. resting in peace in zurich symmetries. that is to turn him into the life and soul society. president whether it was that middle east tour has reached jordan where talks will be fueled by potential energy deals. you're looking at the very latest pictures of the russian leader meeting jordan's ruler meeting in a man negative and king abdullah to touch upon concerns over even the basics trimix him on the prospects of russian experts constructing a nuclear power plant in jordan they will also focus on the most pressing regional

and international problems including the middle east peace talks. spend time. discussing russia's role in the process. person. in the penn state capital in east jerusalem was also supposed to visit israel walk out of the foreigners was canceled despite that medvedev renewed the offer to host peace talks in russia speaking exclusively to what. explain what the palestinians expect from moscow. mother. russia will really recognize palestine in one thousand nine hundred eight it was also recognized by ninety other countries what do we expect from russia now 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. as the price of oil climbs worldwide some energy companies are switching to natural gas that active alternative. to corporate profits the methods of extraction are drawing fire from the communities they say their health and potentially their lives at risk christine for their reports from the u.s. . 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 american most of our oil is recorded now or sixty five percent are there some of these it's green burning so it's cleaner than either coal or oil or. 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 time and time again they've faced fierce opposition from other lawmakers and lobbyists and whose best interests it is to have those industries secrets kept hidden 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. the chick. oh my look at that four hundred thirty four thousand dollars just like that and it fell out of sky but less has been said

about the polluted drinking water of hundreds of other people people like pat for in dimock 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 period jobs some residents save their water to show others what they're dealing with others say 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 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 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. was more global headlines for you know here nazi parties president tomorrow is in the u.s. for a four day state visit to the world's two biggest rival economies holding private welcome. to the white house. is mr comics trade in human rights promises china's currency is also likely to be this. just altering aging is recent suggestions but it's timely. lobel prominence that the world should rely less on the dollar. a suicide bomber driving in under the nz filled with explosives

has crashed into a security headquarters in central iraq killing more than thirteen people over sixty four others wounded it happened in the ethnically mixed city of the north of the travel ban that is the second suicide blast in the last two days on tuesday almost fifty people were killed after a bomber attacked a line of police recruits in the city of to create. their off the docks christians are marking epiphany one of their most important religious holidays the tradition sees many people braved ice cold water as they had to wash away this since ati's peter out of a packed his swimming trunks and plucked up the courage to have a go in self. in the tradition of the author talks 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 was 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 has and 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 to 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 pool by a priest is headed essentially into a front in a simulation of the season of chase's crisis as well it's a place where i take my own turn getting in the world that's 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 weird there's nothing left to do now but we'll get in. we'll see how

this goes. over. very very. close. i have to say how did that the first day pull that hard when i read mission that the russian wind is uncool to you're there exists and. i could tell you i'm feeling very exhilarated right now. please share the assy moscow. he loves it really well not everyone is that ceasing to take. plans into ice cold russian waters for orthodox for the night many others it's the day to indulge in fortune telling that's been since ancient times the church considers it a sin but are two hundred overcover headed into the countryside to see how it's done. 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 table and perform different kinds of fortune telling procedures to find out what awaits for them during the year whether they will meet their fiancée or simply to make a wish. the easiest way to tell your fortune is about making your wish come true if you take a handful of beans and count. or even order or even order or even you wish will come true the next one is the most mysterious one what i have to do is to take the scandal to spill the axe in the water let it cool down and see what shapes it takes and try to understand what could 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 strategies so i guess i'm lucky. with check out our business news now with kareena and what we have that consumer spending in russia increased in twenty ten so what world's people buying well mostly carry mobile phones repairing their apartments and paying for the tuition or we'll look at that in a moment but first let's get to our top story. the recent deal between b.p. and have could spark investor interest in other state assets that's the opinion from presidential aide arkady dvorkovich under the agreement the two companies will undertake exploration and russia's arctic shelf b.p. also says it would be looking at new areas outside the country to develop together we're whether we're asked what we'll do is look at opportunities outside of russia sure with some of the same challenges we face in the arctic so that we can begin to

work together there and develop some of the technology and know how they will need in russia later the board of mobile communications major vimpel call has approved the purchase of an egyptian billionaire as telecom assets for total of six and a half billion dollars that's despite opposition from no we share holder telling or where his second biggest mobile phone operator wants to take over various is italian mobile operator wind and his fifty one point seven percent stake in egypt or a scam telecom this would create the world's six largest phone company called signed a new agreement after telling or rejected an earlier six point eight billion dollars proposal ultimo which owns over forty percent of mental calm says it is disappointed by telling all its position. were disappointed by their groundless silly geisha made in their statement. we are the

position that. difference in views on business development shouldn't be an obstacle to effectively develop into common to one of the leading global typical operators. an hour says it will fight the approval by the book on board of a company shareholder meeting suggesting shareholders will face considerable additional dilution if the acquisition is completed on its current in its current terms tonneau warns the deal could make less attractive to investors. let's look at the market syrup in stock markets a mix this hour after street starting the day on a positive note the footsie has slid in the red while the dax is still higher technology stocks are in focus after apple and i.b.m. reported results on tuesday shares of pearson a five point four percent in london after lifting its outlook here in russia markets again ing for a second down one day is up over half a percent and mars is gaining less than a quarter of

a percent is still the biggest gainer advancing one point three percent after striking that deal with b.p. on the arctic drilling look oil and gas are also in positive territory. consumer spending in russia has grown that's according to opinion polls here in two thousand and ten people spend mostly on mobile phones pairing their apartments and tuition other popular choices were 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 only one percent of the population bought an apartment real estate in rural areas or share thoughts. and that's all the business news for now but you can always find more stories if you log on to our website that's the dot com slash business.

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