well as prime minister calls for opposition to end the blame game over the investigation of the polish president. internet freedom is questioned in europe as a swiss banker is found guilty of breaking banking secrecy rules for help breaking needs exposed massive tax evasion schemes. superpowers in talks as a trial he's president meets his u.s. counterpart the streets of washington over the gentiles a growing influence on the poor and. pursuit there's no need to separate us within the culture its strength is a new unity dimitri medvedev reaffirms russia's commitment to the middle east peace

process as new wrapped up his tour of the region. you're watching r t six in the morning here in moscow welcome to the program the polish prime minister donald tusk has said that politics should not affect the search for truth in the investigation into the plane crash that killed the former president he was speaking to his country's parliament which is evaluating the final official report published in moscow into the tragedy in which ninety six people died that's when their polish government plane came down in russia last april artie's got that he knows a lot of our reports from moscow. there's been a lot of reaction of course to the investigation into the presidential plane crash that happened in april last year just outside the russian city of smiley and a lot of outrage was initially heard from poland but today's address by the polish

prime minister actually comes as the voice of reason the polish prime minister. mentioning to his colleagues that it is unwise to try and politicize this tragedy the quest for truth should be more political mind games in sight and that opposition members should keep that in mind when they sensationalize the investigation because he made it clear that politicizing this tragedy is not influenced benefits. the truth to be complete and we realized that it would be inconvenient for many there is a complex number of causes for the crash it's convenient to blame the pilots that burn depression and others it will be convenient to game the russians but it be the whole truth the organization that seeks the truth must not be influenced by forces in poland that wanted to be convenient for them there are more and more people

specifically within poland's political elite that do believe that politicizing all this tragedy should be put aside and that the truth and no matter how bitter will be very hard to accept for the polish side what needs to be in order for both sides to move on. to handle the difficult truth and this is a difficult truth we have. things in this report which help us to shift some responsibility away from the situation in our state a nation committee would publish the entire transcript all that the entire conversation between the pilots of the polish presidential plane and the air traffic controllers and those recordings it is evident air traffic controllers did . morning pilots again for landing they did offer them to use a back up airport as it was in their schedule they warned them about the life and missions let's have a listen to the recording what are the weather conditions four hundred meters

visibility temperature and pressure please temperatures plus two pressure seven forty five seven for fun if there's no opportunity for landing thank you but if it's passing train landing approach weather permitting if not we will proceed to the second circle when we have enough fuel for a second circle after the landing approach yes we will making a landing approach is the captain's decision at the height of one hundred meters you have to make a decision minsk and will be requested for a sidetrack how do you have to go to military airfield course polish one to one and one hundred meters be ready to proceed to a second circle yes or flaps and wheels down i control horizon make a second circle make a second circle make a second circle where is it make the second circle what i would call emergency crews it has been said by many of the already figures both in russia and poland and within the international aviation committee that no air traffic controller has that

authority that at the end of the day it is the pilot's decision and therefore the pilot's responsibility to make a choice about where the landing will take place and specifically of course with the pilot of a presidential plane and it does appear that those pilots who made a decision a decision of course that ended in tragedy. now swiss police have arrested a former banker on new charges of breaching bank secrecy laws after he passed confidential financial details to weekend weeks well just hours earlier rudolf elmer was fined over seven thousand dollars by a swiss court on related charges british investigative journalist tony gosling believes the swiss authorities want to deter future whistleblowers from uncovering the truth. the reason is to try to make sure that any bankers who are thinking of leaking information whether to investigative journalists or wiki leaks on the internet anywhere have a second thought and that's the whole point of this case i think this case is going

to send shock waves across the swiss banking system because this chap rudolf has come up with some incredible information it looks like we have forty politicians and many other business people around the world who have literally been hiding large amounts of their assets in these swiss bank accounts i mean this is something that they've been getting away with for decades and he is really the first person you ever come in. and leak this information out to the public i don't think there's much doubt here that there's massive tax evasion been going on and the swiss authorities have been too relaxed on it for far too long and now they're going to get their comeuppance. leaks revelations are set to continue the website is running shortly to reveal diplomatic cables cover u.s. russia relations will be the first to find out what's in there or will be covering the story and for your art. and also coming up in a few minutes restrained reporting in europe find out more of the journalist e.u.

member state law theo who press freedom rating has dropped the world rankings. american president barack obama has been a pushing china to increase the value of its currency as the host chinese president hu jintao is on a four day visit to the united states well the thorny subject of human rights has also been raised the may dispute between the u.s. and china over the one which america says is undervalued to help chinese exporters is far from resolved obama said china supports nearly a half a million u.s. jobs adding it's important for the two nations to cooperate while remaining competitive well the two leaders also discussed human rights with hu jintao saying that china is willing to continue a conversation on the basis of mutual respect and non inter for incident turtle affairs artie's kalian ford reports on the two countries next relationship. i went

in to burger king with my son and i thought of this. think it's a z. z z z h u z s u and recognize the that is chinese for some americans the word china elicits fear recognizing china's rise means recognizing america's decline and now we are getting. our toys and our things in our little happy meals which should be banned there so dangerous. not just our toys in the bag we made in china. but the image and everything else culture coming from china. for others china elicits feelings of inferiority according to the pew research center forty seven percent of americans think china is the world's leading economic power well only thirty one percent think america is. that's certainly the opinion among students at millinocket school in maine which will welcome paying chinese students to close its budget gap next year i think the chinese are going to be

total shock i think about high tech in a way more advanced than us but ten times more money alike than a better society and then you look at eisenhower away hor and nuffin as hu jintao towards the u.s. capitol american officials are eager to quell fears about what a rising china could mean for the world's only superpower still some analysts say that the united states should be focusing on what it can learn from china rather than merely containing it china knows how to develop they're doing it we are spending boring and consuming rather than saving and investing for the future a sentiment echoed by many we spoke to a lot to learn terms of productivity organizational resources and also having a culture that values hard work. i think they're trying to develop their economy and cheer some of the wealth with the folks economically politically militarily china is on the rise and while the u.s. put education on the chopping block this year china invested four percent of its

g.d.p. in primary and secondary schools in poor rural areas chinese universities are mushroom in all across the country and increasingly attracting prestigious foreign professors and even american students like philadelphia native zachary franklin seem. just a better decision to be in a country learning about economics where so much is happening economically getting a master's in shanghai doesn't mean crippling student loans chinese students themselves you know plain. amounts of money for an education in this country. china is also speeding ahead on high speed rail lines in massive infrastructure chinese officials say they will complete the first eco city by two thousand and twenty which will be home to three hundred fifty thousand as u.s. lawmakers squabble for years over who will foot the bill for every high speed rail link bridge or metro expansion america instead. we've got the whole interstate

system where you gigantic infrastructure projects in u.s. history this is a more unified as a people are moving in a positive direction and i wish we could say this president obama has plenty to put on the table as he hosts his chinese counterpart at the first u.s. china state dinner but will the white house be equally eager to learn from its guests and forward our t. washington d.c. . ilana mercer a columnist with world net daily dot com says that america should think less about competing with china he says it's a race it's clearly losing and put more effort into solving real real problems at home we blame our debts on the on the chinese currency and obama wishes to to flex his muscle there but i think that we have our own tyrants at home that we should worry about and leave the chinese to their prosperity which is there and out of there are on the rise and worry about our debt our national deficit on national debt which you know we're running a national debt that equals our g.d.p.

at fourteen trillion. it's frightening so i don't think we should be flexing muscle with chinese. economist isiah cohen says the two countries are so intertwined that neither can make a major decision unilaterally without affecting itself with possible dire consequences something president obama has to understand well i think not only he should be willing to listen to be doing work that he needs to listen to between because for instance china holds one of the most. significant amounts of research in dollars. consequently it's a relationship that the united states has to be very well aware of and they are. therefore there are mutual interests to try to keep this relationship stable because if ever there is any kind of unilateral move on each side that we've heard

the other one that will be very disturbing. both economies so they need to keep their relationships stable ground in order to be able to and dissipate what exactly is going to happen in that relationship how the russian president has returned from his short middle east tour where oil and gas and politics dominated talks during the visit dmitri medvedev voiced his support of an independent palestinian state with a capital in east jerusalem he also signed an agreement for russian exploration of oil and gas deposits in jordan r.t.c. katina correction over has been following the visit for us. of course jordan for russia is more than just a middle east partner in this region they have a very close very special relationship a visit is pause major breakthroughs for the russian jordan economic summit which is due to take place in march this here and the two leaders will see them talk how

they go into wall street konami ties their cooperation and added just here today they also discussed plans for the construction of a nuclear power plant in jordan which several countries are beating to build and russia among those countries but of course all of that was on the sidelines of talks on the major on the top priority subject regional developments in the middle east and the israeli palestinian conflict. there's no need to separate us within the culture its strength is in our unity only in this way can we try to find a compromise which will satisfy both sides palestinians as well as israelis dmitri medvedev has a reason rated one in palestine russia's position on the conflict which actually hasn't changed since nine hundred eighty one than soviet union recognize palestine as an independent state today dmitry medvedev was looking for a month from the middle east peace process is obviously stalled after three other members of the middle east quartet washington brussels and the united nations have

so far been unable to persuade israel to make any form of concessions and russia is very keen to get engaged in talks with israel and palestine and palestinian president mahmoud abbas in an exclusive interview to set that russia had very good chances to become a key. peace negotiator. really recognize palestine in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 the european union we would like russia to convince the u. . yes because it's the only country that's 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. also the visit out the russian president to jordan coin sides will be orthodox church celebrations of it before any of this is one of the twelve major orthodox holy days and this side forty kilometers outside of amman the capital of jordan where we are now is the place where thousands of christians applause every year because it is believed to be the site we're joined by jesus christ this is the first stand to make from a very of is making pilgrimage to this side as an orthodox christian is known to celebrate all those with all the days that he was always very keen on visiting the holy orthodox christian sites across the world. well let's now take a closer look at some other headlines from around the world word of suicide attacks in iraq a bomber has driven an ambulance packed with explosives into a police headquarters killing at least fourteen people more than sixty seven were

wounded as the blast flattened part of the building in a city north of baghdad the attacks come a month after the formation of a new coalition government following months of political paralysis in the wake of inconclusive elections last spring it's yet to appoint ministers of security or national defense. the u.n. security council has voted unanimously to send another two thousand peacekeeping troops to ivory coast to boost a contingent of ten thousand already there secretary general ban ki moon cited the hostile environment in ivory coast as peacekeepers face threats from forces loyal. to refuses to step down from the presidency international observers agree that his rival of. the november election the security council will also send military equipment from neighboring liberia to aid the peacekeepers. that need your freedom

is on its way out in the baltic states of the european union that's according to the international press organization reporters without borders its annual review shows that in the baltic countries journalists face pressure from their governments and or even a sometimes forced to reveal their sources lothian press freedom ranking has dropped significantly from where are. the reports. 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 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 i had i got they also acquired information know all of the my information sources which by

a law i am allowed to protect that was the biggest problem for me as a journalist because i could not protect my information sources use a story shocked many in law to be a country more 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 ten this country is down on the very same list this incident is far from an isolated case of say experts this one received a lot of public attention but it is not the only one a skull of from the first bills cars school and economists was charged but a secret police and she was actually arrested for two days for disseminating alternative opinions of all to the future of the local currency. devaluation a lot was imminent we are losing the last. support the alternative information the liberal information. among the trust saltless in this country lotta

love is and the other journalist who defined the insists freedom of the press is not being deliberately strangled he believes the reason is down to economics. newspapers went bankrupt or to the recession hit others to ensure they were all for money to survive so the oldest. did singlehandedly shift from 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 but not globalise 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 r.t. reporting from brega in latvia. and next our talks to one of america's leading

a civil rights activist the reverend jesse jackson explains why his country's on the verge of moral and spiritual bankruptcy and what needs to be done to save it that's next here on r.t. .

my first question to you is about supergirl wall street project's economic summit what is the main goal of this gathering what are you looking to do and whom do you hope this message will reach in the quest for justice and racial justice. are those promises we bail out the banks who were in tool crisis because. because of greed because of marco oversight so the bill out there is all this home foreclosures on the rise result is through the loan that is not where the credit card. in the column is a big deal has been over two years now that the economic crisis really reached its peak seems that no one was quite held accountable in this time do you think it's something that's like. to happen well not like that because it seems as if we made

the decision to bail out the makes now they are all washing papel they were said to be too big to fail and so they have been protected by the big to fail as a nation community banks have been put out of business we have a health care bill. and without the public options not after the man made america have without health insurance and the fees of insurance companies continue to rise economic polarization in the very wealthy and the second most class and the poor continues to grow there must be some restructuring of our economy if that gap continues to grow and we know that the official unemployment numbers have been at over nine point five percent for over a year numbers you cite is forty nine percent of americans living in poverty while we continue to hear that the country has recovered because those loans so poverty have not been addressed and the direct way to put it is the mountains of apple

a show rural alabama in america we have some notion that if you bail out the top it will lift all boats. some people cannot even get in the boat to bail out plus as a disconnect between the yucks been allowed on the top in the bush took to the bottom in the first place you come by. and you'll advise war in iraq and afghanistan a war of choice without justification but with all the expenditure and these differential deals with the banks and insurance companies then them on the social uplift and to sustain them employment is being denied the king said when you keep going out of the country and i left there was police in the world and subset of the wealthiest without money for social uplift you approach your moral and spiritual bank reps and that's where we are today and i think about for them too about health insurance and. one minute and won't tell if the rate is high and life expect us to

show them all the crippling diseases people just don't have the money for them even without in poverty when the homeless shelter about a month ago and everybody in the had a job. or couldn't afford to pay rent for the one million them. on food stamps that number is growing there must be some direct intervention to address zones of need if we talk a little bit more about money if we consider the billions of dollars that the united states pumps into its wars. doesn't that mean that there is this money to be pumped into whatever the us government deems necessary and why is it that this money is not being pumped into common americans who need it the wrong way is the great hype about the sense of security that we will lead by president george bush into iraq you know chasing. the wrong target with a war of choice we cannot recall the money spent we cannot recall the lives lost my

even get an apology at the make and. the mistakes that led to the war and into afghanistan and while we have this expanded military budget going for iraq afghanistan that the pakistan given these huge tax cuts to the wealthiest americans will still bleeding williams over homes and foreclosures means a very able to those who cannot afford a student loan a graduate that's guaranteed bit. about a guaranteed job i want to ask you about african-american unemployment in the united states which is over over fifteen percent right now what do you make of this as a protracted patterns of race tribulation and employment we remain number one an infant mortality number one in a short life expectancy more than the high unemployment number one in. the home foreclosures and the. one. pop of it in the prisms of our country.

half the nation's prisoners and across the south you look at the relationship it is taking away the franchise let me say this alabama twin a six percent black prison instead of five percent bloody blues and mississippi in the thirty percent like prison seventy six percent like them in the blacks and put them in prison you take with all them and take with their vote you little access to a job a little bit critical or so it's a kind of and civil rights tween and the pop of one of justice is much to an active in the process to us of this rather blatant padam of racial injustice what about the president because many people are beginning to say that considering this is the first african-american president in the united states he should be putting in place more targeted policies towards african-americans to help out with this situation do you do you agree with that boss to target those zones of need if you have. a

left foot this is him playing you know you know address the right hand good rest of the foot and the left foot being addressed not meaningful there that zones of pain in the black latino male white and you lay off teachers and trash workers would a lot of people out of these ghettos and barrios there must be some focus on job training. on access to jobs and transportation there must be some talk that focus only on education how much time do you think it will take for the united states to fully recover from the economic crisis for a difficult because we keep digging the hole i mean more expenditure of those in iraq and afghanistan where the military budget is that is a step in their own direction keep giving deference to the wealthiest americans thinking they will reinvest but they will not leave bail out the banks but they have not mending them. reinvesting in the printing manufacturing so i don't know

how long it will take but i do know that we all have a shared interest in in a new. paradigm for. economic growth. in the. mornings today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. repairing a broken. highway construction and humanitarian eight. bucks as shady officials look at the spoils of war.