points voiced by the commission points at the flight crew at their inadequacy and adequate decisions at their low qualification while flying this plane but some of the things they talked about were directly pointed at to russia that the air traffic controllers were reportedly misleading the pilots and that the airfield in smolensk was reportedly not suitable for such landings some experts already say that this report represents something of an attempt to please everybody both in poland and in moscow so different definitely this case has been very heavily politicized from the very first moment and will probably have some continuation of the story and in the latest news we've heard is that the country's defense minister has stepped down from his position after this report was was made published by the commission on his course one of the legs here is yes he will doubt speeding cars than on the links being made to russian air controllers in the polish report. told

r.t. the final decision is always with the flight crew. the main thing is that poland admitted with the crew wasn't prepared enough for the flight the claims concerning the airport or controllers they have nothing to do with the crash i've been a pilot for over thirty years and i know a simple rule if you don't see the runway or its lights of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport . and leading aviation analyst david lipman told r.t. the poland is trying to put some of the blame on russia because the truth is too hard to accept. the accident was a simple one it's a type of accident that followed a mistake of a type which is happened countless times before in aviation history this was such a human tragedy such a political tragedy for the polish people that they they they've been they've been

given the truth and the truth is unbearable they can't take it now i don't think that the polish investigators think they can pin the blame on anybody else but i do think that they are looking to pin some of the blame on somebody else but we're very much across developments in this story for you will bring you more coverage an expert opinion on the results of the investigations for the night we've also got details of the plane crash including a firsthand accounts of witnesses at the time it should r.t. dot com on our website. one of the big credit rating agencies is warning that it's reviewing spain's status among the main reasons is the pressure it's under over the bailouts for greece what is really the latest from madrid tonight. moody's has just announced that it wanted to downgrade spain's ratings feigns bonds have already fallen by several percent and the euro has fallen as well now this of course is

happening to the fourth largest economy in the eurozone and you would think it should be better off but spain has been plagued by some very serious economic problems there's of course the the very large outstanding debts as well as the again china unemployment we're already used to hearing about this so-called big c. countries being in economic woes and that of course is for to go arland greece and spain and now italy is also looking at some major issues as far as their economy is concerned by now also the the heavy drivers of the european economy the for france and germany are also finding themselves in sort of hot water because just recently in the i.m.f. has said that france has somewhat been too optimistic about the evaluation of its prognosis and actually may not be as well off as the french authorities have hoped to have hoped the country to be the problem is these are things that have just happened suddenly i mean the french budget deficit has been in

a deficit the french budget since nine hundred seventy four this is typical of contagion we've been talking about it for weeks we have you know when you get some degree of illness salute goes through the building ultimately you have to decide when to amputate it and the truth is. to greece from the euro zone so that leaves germany and germany is already bearing the brunt of basically pulling the entire european economic structure out of the sinking hole that is that it's finding itself in recently this is coming right when the voices of the discontent among the eurozone critics among the euro skeptics are growing louder and louder in fact they're saying that the euro. zone critics are saying that while initially the eurozone was created. hope of pulling up the we care economists quite the opposite is happening that we care economies are going down and they're dragging down the stronger economies with them so this latest out forecast for moody's is actually

very bad news for the eurozone and for the euro as well and david seems the euro crisis is drowning out some of the smaller play as we report in a bit about anger and disappointment in slovakia as one of the poorest e.u. countries is pressured to chip in to bail out its troubled neighborhoods. money troubles too in the u.s. the clock ticks towards choose day but squabbling lawmakers still can't agree and have stopped america's massive debt from falling off a cliff and maybe into default talk to what amount is an associate professor of economics of frostburg state university says it's time for american politicians to make up their minds these folks in washington are delusional you know look me give the example of. you know during the end of world war two everybody in his bunker thought they could still win the war when the russians were outside you know in already in the streets of berlin i mean we have to understand this is the situation

is not sustainable and the night that they can talk about short term solutions but they have allowed this thing to go on to a point where they either are going to have to admit defeat or defeat is going to be there for the. lingering debt crisis in america's making china see read about it america's biggest lender thinks the u.s. has been dangerously responsible investment analyst peter schiff told us we could see china dump the dollar as its main reserve currency. we can't afford bad relations with china see beijing holds the cards you know we're dancing to the tune that they play the real problem for china is that there's no way that america can pay back the money that the chinese have already loaned us politically it's just not going to happen is specially when interest rates rise i'm surprised taken the chinese so long to figure out that they've been throwing a lot of good money after bad i don't think we're going to default i think we're going to inflate which is just as bad but you know we're going to raise the debt

ceiling the problem is the debt not the ceiling the sooner the chinese start to stop enabling this phony economy that we have the sooner we as americans can begin to repair the damage and what's going to happen is when the dollar collapses americans are going to see a big reduction in our standard of living it's a big story it will come to a head on choose do we want to know what you think about it. that's a question we're asking you how do you think this will pan out this is what you're telling us right now just over half of you seem convinced there's no choice america has to agree on raising the debt ceiling so ali over a third of you this believe the political pro cross the nation will send everyone else's economy into freefall nine percent in there tonight saying times run out of focus on america's doorstep what do you think will happen tell us about tea dot com you'll find our latest news and analysis there about this big story to. the crowds and back in cairo's tahrir square five months softly i was sting of president

mubarak thousands of people there in fact in what is one of the largest demonstrations since the february uprising cairo based journalist and blogger austin mackell says the arab spring has produced a strong and divisive is in the midst movement. the protest planned for today was originally billed as the day of unity and it was a sign that liberal and islamist forces were going to come together to continue their push for sort of basic democratic rights but down in the square i was just down until later before i came here this is a huge number zero. muslim brotherhood members it's deadly to most just like me to where has been. in the time that i've been here and they there's many chance of. islamic identity and this is the islamic nature of egypt which is cause some friction with. the secular forces who are down but normally it isn't you know forces dominate entirely they're the ones who run the been running

a sit in there for a month since the clashes that happened at the end of june but today they have mounted by the islamists there's a similar show of rest in neighboring israel to public squares there are now see of demonstrators camping out calling for social justice and for prime minister netanyahu to go and make a protest planned for saturday palestinian israeli journalist as says the similarities with egypt to clear. two thirds of the poor in israel are working poor people who are working every day people who have a great jobs and still are not able to go above the poverty level so that's a reason that people are coming out of the street if you look at how the protesters started it's almost identical to how it started in egypt and internees and other places started through facebook somebody who made a post on facebook through social media that's how people organize or was organized completely in the beginning by the young people in israel students people who feel that they have no future people who feel who can't afford living here in the ten

years realizing that this is not the way to go forward and he's trying to figure out ways to deal with it because a government could definitely fall its role and these are ground and i think he is in danger especially that the process is a growing while israel has been under a building in tel aviv and haifa and all these major cities and israel is all have been overbuilding in the west bank focus of the israeli government at the moment is more sustaining the occupation and more sustaining the settlements rather than cheering for the majority of the population who actually opposed to the lands and opposed occupation and israel proper so that the problem here though is a still many israelis have not been able to make that connection and the more and the sooner israelis make that connection realize that the accusations affect their daily life affects the pennies that the government spending the money the government spending in the west bank verses and i think you will see a real revolution in israel. full coverage of all the top stories available at sea dog this is what we've got on line for you right now let's take

a look at an awful story kick off with in fact a huge blast at a coal mine in ukraine has killed seventeen with nine miners still thought being trapped a kilometer underground tonights known folding disaster our correspondent on the scene bringing us the latest update in that online tonight also this too it's like when you come home and discover somebody else's body caught sitting in the well in truth will be sent to provide your security people who's going to like that target no rushes nato envoy tells r.t. has concerns over the american missile defense program europe has exclusive interviews in full at r.t. dot com. the split may have been appearing now among libya's rebel movement is killing of the top military commanders now being blamed on one of the rebel factions in the

claim is from a special forces member who was under the command of the murdered eunice the military chief and two of his aides were gunned down hours after rebel authorities reportedly arrested him over his family suspected ties to colonel gadhafi regime he had been libya's foreign minister before defecting to the opposition the national transitional council played the killing on gadhafi supporters the consequences of the murder will depend on how deep the commanders alleged connections really ran that's according to his he's advisor to america's antiterrorism caucus. the consequences of his killing could be either short ramification or vaster mitigations if indeed he was only an individual or even a high ranking official who had still relationships with the gadhafi regime then his killing would be it would be the end of the bar the other case is that he and others inside the council the interim council of the bin ghazi power have been

in opposition to another of course a militia force it could be other little two opponents it could be the militia of the jihadist or another tribe if the case is deeper than the concern is more serious in the west that there could be more clashes in the future or what actions within the military camp at a time where the rebel seems to be on the offensive so we're going to wait and see the results of the investigations most likely the nato command would want to be part of these investigations. more top stories tonight the pakistani taliban claims that they are holding two swiss tourists who were kidnapped earlier this month the militants say they will release them if the u.s. frees imprisoned female pakistani scientist the taliban provided no proof but they say the hostages are in good health the swiss couple were seized while on holiday in the southern province on the first of july. the first funerals for the victims of norway's gun and bomb attacks have been held and also

a week after the tragedy after a memorial service in the capital crowds gathered leaving a massive floral tribute to the seventy six who died in while the man who confessed to both the massacre and bombing is being questioned for a second time by police. believe pictures this is the also of the power of a massive landslide just want everything in its path in south korea it's the result of heavy rain and floods of sweeping the country right now leaving fifty three dead so far and many women landslides also thought to send parts of north korea landmines to washington. but it's one of our top stories this hour europe's economic bailout burns affecting not only the richest but also the poorest members of the eurozone so dark is economies never been too strong but it risks being crushed now under the weight of the current crisis r.t. sarah firth reports next on whether it's your own membership is failing to live up to its promises. they say that charity starts at home while some vacuum may be one

of the poorest countries but with pressure from the e.u. to participate in the second bailout their money could soon be going to greece. i'll tell you what joining the euro zone brought responsibilities but not benefits in fact slovakian pensions a significantly lower than days in greece people here at this hey michel to tell us they barely cover their food costs with the money they receive we have to now. deal with homelessness we have to reform our pension system our health care system this never enough money. that back in two thousand and nine when slovakia joined the year is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one marker of hungary and probably polish polish people read about for the one from central europe to be you know in the zero club back the year using it seems isn't all it

was cracked up to be as we joined euro zone there was at least one three three that was saying but that's of one country liability of just this one country in may two thousand there and the rules changed dramatically days left out of the year a gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief if a neighboring nonny here is saying countries have felt the benefits slave actual players have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year a week come just across the border from the back yard to the czech republic where the superstore outlet doing a building business is more and more people make the regular journey to do their shopping because the prices here is simply much cheaper with people now shopping outside the country so vacuous retail revenues have fallen dramatically in the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results hopeful. when they first joined but every club has its leaders and what they say

apparently gates even if they're the ones who got you into trouble in the first place you see be a created this illusion that all the countries in europe on our. homeward journey the greek bonds are as good as german bonds saw. make it possible for greek to all the world so much money back in may be contributing this time it's left many of days at first so eager to join the year a gang healing they're now simply being pushed around sarah fat r.t. sit back in. time technology updates now it's got a bright idea for saving energy with light bulbs as well as other pioneering gizmos with their career and it's got the business for you in just sixty short seconds.

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are welcome to business here on r.t. thanks for joining me and for days the u.s. government will run out of money democrats and republicans are still arguing over how to cut the deficit and stalling on raising the debt ceiling the markets still believe washington will act in time to avert disaster but the maps are beginning to set in. well i think we're now getting to the stage where people are really going to be concerned that a deal may not be done a lot of economists constructed just the analysts start to be quite vocal in their criticism of washington saying come on guys it's time to sort it out i think a lot of nervousness waiting for the last minute deal i think markets will give the poor be until monday or tuesday but i just think it could turn very quickly i think you could get a run in confidence very quickly. and let's take a look at the markets now precious metals are trading high as it best to look for

safe haven due to the uncertainty over the u.s. debt resolution after republicans console's a vote on the deficit reduction plan turning to allow a new report from europe's biggest oil company world of shell time of low cost oil and gas is that in the end it says binding resources will be more complex and require more money and investment for today at least the market is down as problems in the us chip away at investor confidence flights where it is losing one dollar seventy cents trading below ninety six dollars a barrel while brand is at one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel. and it's not looking good in europe with both could see and the dax finishing in the red stocks pile up to moody's rating agency has put spain owner of you for a possible downgrade disappointing u.s. growth data is weighing on the markets banking stocks lead the fall with share as takes it down three percent and lloyd's is three percent in the red as well. as russian equity markets and the week in the red following global trends the r.t.s. and my xix lost over and under a percent respectively now let's take

a look at some individual moves on the minds ex all mages were among the main losers in mid week of crude asks lost over four percent banking stocks were also under pressure going to be has dropped over two percent bucking the trend was powered generator raul again almost four percent of his salary michael stein from a christian financial corporation wraps up today's trade. my six is down about a percent today along with most european markets on the back of news that moody's may downgrade spain's credit rating and that overshadowed the better than expected retail sales data coming out of germany and some other positive economic data that came out of the euro zone investors of course are mean edgy about the u.s. debt ceiling impasse in the market overall are quite low and with most stocks down today. russia's biggest lenders bear bank is one step closer to acquiring falls

bank international supervisory board of the european company has approved the sale the bank swished agreement oh yeah the small but no details were provided analysts estimate the takeover at around seven hundred million dollars would spare bank planning to finalize it by the end of the year the acquisition is aimed at helping the russian company expand its activity in the east european market. and oil major rossi have has boosted its second quarter net profit by ten percent year on year to two point eight billion dollars profits were held by high global cool prices are also limited by increasing taxes results with below analyst expectations. russian car giant after vos has turned a profit for its french shareholder raynal for the first time you can make a managed to squeeze thirty seven million euros out of its affiliate in the first half of the year that compares with a fifty six million euro loss the same time

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