b.p.'ternal review largely says "don't blame us, blame them." halliburton and transocean, two of its subcontractors on the doomed by what b.p. called a complex and inter-linked series of failures. on its web site today, b.p. said halliburton botched sealing the well. >> halliburton did not conduct comprehensive lab tests. >> reporter: in b.p.'s version of events, halliburton's bad cement job allowed natural gas to seep into the well which eventually blew out right through the center of its pipe. but other analysts suspect the well's outer casing chosen by b.p. despite knowing it was cheaper and riskier. b.p.'s report also faults transocean, the rig's owner, for misreading a pressure test that showed the well was volatile. but b.p. concedes its own representative on board also agreed to go ahead anyway. and once the well's crisis began, b.p. blames transocean for routing leaking gas on to the rig rather than venting it safely over board. and lastly, for maintaining a faulty blowout preventer

b.p. began its investigation immediately after the explosion and released the results today in a 200-page report. stephanie dhue has more. >> reporter: today's report says the problem started with a bad cement job that caused dangerous gases to leak into the well undetected. crew members misread tests and thought the well was under control, and didn't act until it was too late. the blowout preventer, which should have sealed the well, failed. b.p. took responsibility for its decisions on the rig, but also blamed halliburton for the cement job and rig operator transocean, which maintained the blowout preventer. transocean called b.p.'s report a "self-serving attempt to conceal... b.p.'s fatally flawed well design." b.p. says the well design is sound and consistent with other wells in the area. halliburton says it completed the well under b.p.'s specifications. it also says it's confident its contract with b.p. protects it from lawsuits. the 50-person b.p. investigation team found no proof t

b.p. internal report, which blames the largest offshore oil spill in history on a series of human and mechanical failures. >> lehrer: and, global post reporter solana pyne looks at dhaka, bangladesh-- the fastest growing of the world's mega- cities and one of the poorest. >> i think if you simply project the present into the future, then we are headed no good place. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this is the engine that connects zero emission technologies to breathing a little easier, while taking 4.6 million truckloads off the road every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you

itself admitted this huge litany of problems and b.p. is one of the top oil companies in the world the rigs that they hired trans ocean owns it they're the top per rig owner in the world and halliburton these are very very blue chip companies and they got it horribly wrong in very many ways and certainly i have got enormous reservations about the likes of cairn energy which is drilling off the coast of greenland at the moment. you know there aren't all the vessels available there if something goes wrong that they were able to call on in the gulf of mexico and as greenpeace is more than happy to point out or oil breaks up much more slowly in the arctic area than it would in the gulf large large you want to jump in here really jump in and say that. there is first of all most annoying is on the shallow shelf in your think they're also the one that we people will explore in the future but they may be child this is of course that we some should you actually try to take it out i think they will take them and i will and it's something that the

where are the areas of penalties that are possible for b.p.? guest: b.p.'s version of events and what other people might say -- what b.p. has said that's culpable is well site leaders on the well misinterpreted this well integrity test. they didn't pick up on the fact that pressure readings were inaccurate. where other people might say b.p. has liability is, for example, when you test the cement to make sure that it's going to hold, there's a final test that you can do called the cement bog line test. b.p. opted not to do that and halliburton has said it was really b.p.'s responsibility to do that. so that's one example of where b.p. could be found culpable. host: but they would be found culpable in civil court in the basis of lawsuits, is that really -- guest: it's lawsuits, it's civil but then it's also criminal. host: and the justice department is investigating whether or not there's enough grounds for criminal charges? guest: the justice department is investigating that. host: next is palm beach, florida. keith, republican line. caller: thank you for be

well i think that's true i mean priscilla mentioned the way b.p. was cooperating with a russian company but it was only. about two years ago the chief executive of that company who was a b.p. man who was american as it happens and now he's going to head up b.p. bob dudley was affectively chased out of russia and there's been a lot of comically and we have to point out it was over a shareholder in corporate corporate governance i mean there was a lot of issues on both sides here in the and made it very clear that this is a russian company and not one who would be run by b.p. i'm not saying it's a very complicated thing but your point is taken i mean partnerships can break down very well i think also when when we're talking more widely about the arctic i mean . people. has been quite passive as it were about that about carm about what he sees happening in the arctic and hopes that that can be corporations but equally we're in a period where nobody's actually put forward their claims to particular areas and so people can afford to be. rather sort of f

b.p. is aiming to further expand its operations beyond russia's borders head of alpha group friedman says the company is ready to buy fields in venezuela vietnam and other countries which b.p. is selling to cover the cost of its scope of mexico oil spill over the weekend is concerned b.p. has completely killed the leaking well is looking to sell thirty billion dollars of oil and gas production assets in the next eighteen months to pay for the cleanup take a b.p.'s board to consider buying b.p. asset is the end of the moment the meeting will be the first to include tony hayward appointed director of tank a b.p. after he resigned as b.p. c.e.o. because of the u.s. . now the italian industrial group fin monika is to open a joint helicopter pilot in russia the company's representative is exclusively told r.t. about the plan venture the plant itself will be here only thirty million so the thirty million euros to be a realize that but then it has to grow its foreseen already a double eagle that

so shocking about that report that came out i mean the only real report that's come out was done by b.p. itself so far we'll get a raft of other reports but the self admitted this huge litany of problems and b.p. is one of the top oil companies in the world the rigs that they hired trans ocean owns it they're the top per rig owner in the world and halliburton these are very very blue chip companies and they got it horribly wrong in very many ways and certainly i have got enormous reservations about the likes of cairn energy which is drilling off the coast of greenland at the moment. you know there aren't all the vessels available there if something goes wrong that they were able to call on in

you know b.p. decided to dump you know one point eight million gallons of the stuff on the oil spill both below the surface and on and at the surface basically for this reason to keep the oil up below the water and you know if anything these are ports about how much oil is below the surface really validate the fact that that these dispersants were quite effective at keeping it below the surface that said they're still out of concerns about you know what it means to have dumped nearly two million gallons of these chemicals into the ocean. and scientists have acknowledged that we don't really understand what that means in terms of long term consequences for the gulf of mexico we dumped a lot more chemicals in there and then we really knew what that meant ok so two million gallons of carex it how many millions of gallons of oil is the estimate that has been dumped into the gulf. the estimate was about four point one million barrels of oil were were dumped into the gulf another. a hundred thousand were

interbrand says b.p.'s mistake was focusing on clean-up tactics in the gulf, instead of emphasizing company values like environmental leadership. erika miller, "nightly business report," new york. >> suzanne: hewlett-packard was number ten on interbrand's list. h.p. has been making news with a series of acquisitions and the abrupt departure of its c.e.o. mark hurd. yesterday, that turmoil in the executive suite had the c.e.o. of rival i.b.m. talking down h.p. today, h.p.'s chief marketing officer, michael mendenhall, took on big blue. he talked with our scott gurvey, who began by asking if mendenhall was a candidate for h.p.'s top job. >> no, my hat is not in the ring, but, it is very kind of people to sort of suggest that. the board is out doing a search. i am not -- i did not put my hand up. i'm not interested in that role at this point. i still haven't finished all i've set out to do as a chief marketing officer for hewlett-packard. >> does it present -- hewlett-packard just had two c.e.o.s now who have

plus, now that the b.p. oil well is officially sealed, we turn to the brewing environmental and legal fights. we round up a list of issues to watch on the rundown. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at tennessee's plan to reward teachers when students perform well. i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org service to its auto insuranceg customers for over 70 years. more information on auto insurance at geico.com or 1-800-947-auto any time of the day o

both considered buying b.p. assets the end of the meeting will be the first to me tony hayward appointed to direct a tank a b.p. after he resigned as b b c o because of the u.s. . now russia's biggest carmaker after all of us is looking to expand exports speaking exclusively to business all t. the company's vice president admits that a lot of brand has an image quality problem in europe so after vials were targeting of unlock it. when you manage this you must know because we do understand that we suffer certain difficulties in european markets with the car series we have today so we're concentrating on three key markets to develop exports those are latin america north africa and the middle east our target is to export fifty thousand cars this year and i hope we'll be able to sell fifty to fifty five thousand vehicles right say the country next year you know it's now in other news the building of an intercity highway between moscow and same pages but i've raised a significant social response this summer and initi

b.p. or another company could still retap the well for the 100 million barrels below. in afghanistan votes from yesterday's parliamentary election are being counted. it was marred by a series of violent attacks. one taliban attack at a polling place was caught on tape by a danish television crew. this was one of 294 reported insurgent attacks yesterday in an effort to keep the vote down. just ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news", are modern football helmets actually making head injuries worse? >> mitchell: as we mentioned erlier from the nfl to college campuss to high schools, the 2010 football season has begun. and so as a new round of concern overhead injuries to players, ironically enough, it's a piece of equipment intended for safety that's coming under particular scrutiny. cynthia bowers has more. >> reporter: a moment of silence at saturday's pen la fayette football game to remember owen, a star defensive end who stunned his family friend and teammates by committing sue sight last springness this week there were norrell revelations when autopsy reports reveals s

board and consider buying the b.p. assets at the end of the month meeting will be the first to include tony hayward appointed a director of to be paid after he resigned as b.p. c.e.o. calls at the u.s. orders but. the italian industrial group finmeccanica is to open a joint helicopter plant in russia the company's representative has exclusively told r.t. about the planned venture the plant itself will be here i believe the thirty million so the thirty million euros to be realized that but then it has to grow it's fourteen already a double eagle the plant in the market for the helicopter so we have been bringing all the technology and such so we do the assembly line of the helicopter search and that we be a gradual technology transfer at the very beginning it will be just an assembly nobody got hurt and then they may be more and more parts of the helicopter itself would be built in russia. now in other news the building of an intercity highway between moscow and st petersburg raises significant social response to summer

new today, b.p.'will be permanently sealed by 3) >>shepard: and now studio b, a case that drew national attention to bullying in schools. and today it is back in court. the hearing involves two of the six accuses of harassing this girl, then 15 years old, to the point where prosecutors say they finally killed herself. the teens in court today are two teens. prosecutors say one was a popular football player with a brief relationship with phoebe and we are toll it ended and when it did, he get back together with his ex who is on the left hand side of the screen. prosecutors say the day price died, rathers phoebe prince diesed, the two teens called her obscene names in the school library and again later as she left school. investigators say when she got home she hanged herself in the bedroom in the closet. the defense attorneys say there is no evidence that proves that bullying led to her suicide? >> they are shaping up to argue at the trial for all the teens, that her suicide may have had nothing whate

b.p. and petro vietnam have signed a contract on crude deliveries so saying from november to cave b.p. will supply at least one hundred thousand tons of oil each month to vietnam vietnam has also offered to pay b.p. to set up a party joint venture it will include a three and a half billion dollar oil refinery in vietnam and some of russia's oil fields tank a b.p. says it's considering buying new fields in vietnam as it looks to expand its operations outside russia. it opens a new partnership to be one of the most dynamic you're going to view this of the world the east is that you are a quarter of the. growth in vietnam is one of the most dynamic economies in the east by two thousand it would be for this it would be the most economy ever going to go to ten percent but you know it's a partnership with them it's for the system to are valuable. i'm not sure update for now but of course you can always find the stories if you log on to our web site that's r t dot com slash business. news today v

consider buying the b.p. assets at the end of the meeting will be the first to include tony hayward director of team k p p that he was signed as b.p.'s c.e.o. because of the u.s. . now another company looking to expand fraud is russia's biggest call maker after about speaking exclusively to business on the company's vice president admits the lot of brands has an image quality problem in europe so after balls we're talking all the lockets. when you manage the stream of the big we do understand that we suffer certain difficulties in european markets with the car series we have today so we're concentrating on three key markets to develop exports those are locked in america north africa and the middle east our target is to export fifty thousand cars this year and i hope we'll be able to sell fifty to fifty five thousand vehicles i'd say the country next year you know it's now another new german conglomerates be i.s.f. is in talks to join the cell stream natural gas pipeline according to sources close to the proje

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. >> b.p.eleased an internal report today on the causes of last april's deadly explosion and oil spill into the gulf. in that report, b.p. blames itself, rig owner transocean and cement contractor halliburton for a complex series of failures for the incident. the did he vice should have cut off the flow of oil from the ruptured well but didn't. analysts say the report is far from the definitive ruling on the explosion's cause but may provide a hint of b.p.'s legal strategy. it killed 11 workers and sent 2006 million gallons of oil into the gulf. >> in a new conference said to have no plans to cancel the burning of the muslim religious book the karan in spite of international outcry that has now reached into afghanistan. the top u.s. commander there talked with the afghan president karzai and they agree the karan burning by the florida pastor would undermine u.s. efforts in afghanistan. also today the u.s. secretary of state added her voice. >> the planned karan burning by a tiny florida church