voiced by the commission point. the flight crew at their inadequacy medical 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 but his correspondent lecturer jet ski there were doubts being cast on the links speed made to russian air controllers in the polish report aviation expert on exhibit an off told r.t. the final decision is always with the flight crew. knew some of. the main thing is

that poland admitted with the crew wasn't prepared enough for the flight the claims concerning the airport all 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 likes of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport . where of course across developments in this ongoing story will bring you more coverage and expert opinion on the results of the investigation we've also got details of that plane crash pictures when it happened harrowing pictures too and first hand accounts of eyewitness reports that r.t. dot com a website. one of the big credit rating agencies is warning that it's reviewing spain's status among the main reasons is the pressure xander over the bailouts for greece parties when it has got the latest from madrid. moody's has just announced that it wanted to downgrade spain's ratings means 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 shown unemployment and we're already used to hearing about the so-called big c. countries. in economic woes and that of course is for to go arland greece spain and now it's 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

. 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 you know when you get some degree of goes through the boulder ultimately you have to decide when to amputate it and the truth is. to greece from the euro. 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 discontent among the eurozone criticsm on 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 great it. hope of pulling up the weaker economies 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 up work outs from moody's is actually very bad news for the eurozone and for the euro as well. because there will be seen as the euro crisis is drowning out some of the smaller players meantime a report of it later on anger and disappointment in slovakia as one of the poorest to your countries is pressured to chip in to bail out its troubled neighbors. money troubles too in the u.s. the clock ticks towards tuesday but squabbling lawmakers still can't agree on how to stop america's massive debt from falling off a cliff and into default dr william anderson is an associate professor of economics of frostburg state university he told us is time for american politicians to make up their minds these folks in washington are delusional you know look me give the example of bunker you know and you're at the end of world war two everybody in his bunker thought they could still win the war when the russians were outside you know

and already in the streets of berlin i mean we have to understand this is a situation is not sustainable and it's 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 them. and the lingering debt crisis in america is making china see red america's biggest lend thinks the u.s. is being dangerously irresponsible investment analyst peter schiff told us we could see china double 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 it's 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 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 where the dollar collapses americans are going to see a big reduction in our standards of living. big story especially building up to choose they will know what you think about it all as well as these unbends unfold you can let us know what are called this is what you've been telling us over the last couple of hours right now just over half of you are convinced that there is no choice you think america has to agree on raising the debt ceiling slightly over thirty they believe that the political progress the nation will send everyone else is a calling me into freefall that's changed it's still nine percent of you saying time is run out of medicare is all a path to default there is no other way let us know what you think it will pan out

at home all still so what if there was well he was an analysis of course as well as your chance to vote. the crowds about in the cairo's tahrir square five months out the ousting 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 michael says the arab spring has produced a strong and divisive islam is movement. the protest planned for today was originally billed as the day of unity and it was a sign that liberal and islam as 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 and before i came here there is a huge number oh. muslim brotherhood members is definitely most just to his where has been. 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 normally does it 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 unrest in neighboring israel public squares there and i see you have demonstrators camping out calling for social justice and for prime minister netanyahu to go i think a protest is planned for saturday palestinian israeli journalist as he says the similarities in egypt 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 the government could definitely fall its role and these the crown and i think he is in danger especially that the process and the only while israel has been under a building in tel aviv and haifa and all these major cities in israel is all have been overbuilding in the west bank focus of the israeli government at the moment is more sustaining the occupation more sustaining the settlements rather than cheering for the majority of the population who actually oppose that alliance and oppose occupation and israel proper so that the problem here though is the 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 to these stories going to go to me tonight a huge blast of cold modern ukraine sees seventeen killed nineteen manas still thought we tried to call in from the ground tonight it is an unfolding disaster we're covering it all online for you also got this online as well. it's like when you come home and discover somebody else's body called sitting in your bedroom. to provide your security but who's going to like that no russians nato envoy tells me is concerns over the american missile defense program europe has exclusive interview is in full it ought to go cold. is eve.

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split may be appearing among libya's rebel movement thursday's killing of the top military commanders now being blamed on one of the rebel factions the claim is from a special forces member who was under the command of the murdered abdel fattah yunus 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 for your position the national transitional council blamed the killing on gadhafi supporters the consequences of the murder will depend on how deep the commanders alleged connections really rand says while they found a seize of guys or two americas antiterrorism caucus. the consequences of his killing could be either short ramification or vast ramifications if indeed he was only an individual or even a high ranking official who had still relationships with the gadhafi regime then

his caring would be it would be the end of the thought. if it's the other case that is he and others inside the council the interim council. the bin guys the power have been in opposition to another force a militia force it could be other military 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 more tensions 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 and most likely the nato command would want to be part of these investigations also the news is friday night the pakistani taliban claim they're holding two swiss tourists who were kidnapped earlier this month the militants say the release them if the u.s. frees an imprisoned female pakistani scientist the taliban move out of no proof but say the hostages are in good health the swiss couple were seized while on holiday

in a southern province on the first of july. the first funerals of the victims of norway's gun and bomb attacks have also been held in oslo a week after the tragedy after a memorial service in the capital crowds gathered leaving a massive floral tribute to the seventy seven who died meantime the man whose confessed to both the massacre and bombing is being questioned for a second time by police. serbian protesters and causes more for blocking a convoy of nato vehicles from reaching the base hundreds had barricaded the road in response to the alliance taking control of two border crossings on kosovo's border with serbia on thursday nato moved in after course of and security forces sent special police to the checkpoints in the area the serbs there don't recognize the cause of our government or the region succession three years ago. let's return now to one of our main news stories this hour europe's economic burden affected none of the richest but also some of the poorest members of the eurozone too so vacuous economy has never been too strong but now it respond crushed under the

weight of the current crisis sarah firth reports on whether it's europe membership is failing to live up to the promises. they say that charity starts at home will soon 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 we don't 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 here is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among hungary and probably polish polish people for the one from central europe to be you know in a zero club back the year isn't it seems isn't all it was cracked up to be as we joined euro zone there was a lisbon treaty that was saying that of one country liability of just this one country in may two thousand there and the rules changed dramatically days left as of the year a gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief if a neighboring not only here is in countries have felt the benefits slave actual peers have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year and we come just across the border from the backyard to the czech republic where these super store outlets doing a building business 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 to certainly not the results hopeful. when they first joined but every club has its leaders and what they say apparently gays even if they're the ones who got you into trouble in the first place you see be created this illusion that all the countries in europe on our. homeward journo's there are the greek bonds are as good as german bonds saw. made possible for a greek. or so much money back in maybe contributing this time it's left many of days at first so eager to join the euro gang healing they're now simply being pushed around. the back in. twenty minutes sorry father are one of ice hockey is highest paid goaltenders is passing on his skills to the next generation of champions part of life isn't it that's

a sport that with kate surely below scope the latest business with kareena from moscow next. hour welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining me in four days the u.s. government will run out of money democrats and republicans are still arguing over how to cut the deficit stalling on raising the debt ceiling the market still believe washington will act in time to avert disaster but the gaps are beginning to set in. but 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 some 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 that was publicans council to vote on the deficit reduction plan turning to allow a new report from europe's biggest oil company will that 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 today at least the market is down as problems in the us chip away at investor confidence likes where it is losing one dollar seventy cents trading below ninety six dollars a barrel while brand is that one hundred sixteen dollars per barrel. and it's not looking good in europe with both pussy and the dax finishing in the red stocks pile up to moody's rating agency has put spain home of view for a possible downgrade disappointing u.s. growth date is weighing on the markets banking stocks lead the fall with share as dexie down three percent and lloyd's is three percent in the red as well. as

russian equity markets and the week in the red poland 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 ics all mages were among the main losers and then we conclude that we asked last over four percent banking stocks were also under pressure 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 p.c. financial corporation wraps up today's trade. bisects 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. better than expected to reach real 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 with most stocks down

today. russia's biggest lenders bear bank is one step closer to acquiring foldback international supervisory board of the european company has approved the sale the bank's wished 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. or a major ross you 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 called 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 a year ago the whole group reported that fifty six percent john. paul. it's all the years we have for you but remember you can always buys more stories just log on to our website r t v dot com slash business tax watch. if. you.

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a sign blank checks in athens junk bond. rival parties in the u.s. continue to wrestle over the debt deadlock as the tuesday deadline looms washington's biggest lender china is rapidly losing his patience. and thousands can protest against poor living conditions some are already drawing comparisons with the rise in egypt ousted from. coming to a good time in russia's northern capital. hello

to you. on this space program i'll be exploring the various hotels and restaurants in the city with new venues opening every single week it's certainly an exciting time. growing the glorious summer weather and the late evening life in its one true part of town it's time for me to check into my hotel. depending on your budget the city offers a bus choice of her tells ranging from comfortable small hotels to five star. today and she's going into the post bridge hotel when you arrive no doubt the hotel will take your passports and your fish registration for you this is standard practice to do worry if they keep for a few hours. very popular with tourists and business people from all over the world provides excellent service wonderful furnishings and the most up to date. will be an experience you.