so how often here in a moscow now the headlines are not see the french president is facing opposition to his leading role in the intervention in libya as the situation threatens to descend into stalemate as a criticism of it nicola sarkozy's actions have been driven by imperial ambition. nato forces also see support full after they refused to apologize for a botched strike which killed several anti government fighters. and

a hairy situation for prince harry the british royal is stranded in the arctic regions cherokee expedition there has been extended crack was found on the ice runway a russian place to. start and now it's our show must go out and this week monitors explores what russia can offer for those obsessed with space and shooting for the stars. hello and welcome to the show know i'm standing on the floor of the highest and

most famous monuments here in the russian capital but why but because of this week's program we'll be exploring the subject of space erected in one thousand sixty four to celebrate the soviet achievements on the space race today's european space program join me as we find out why russia is so obsessed with everything that's literally out of this world the world watched when yuri gagarin successfully completed the first manned space flight been able to twelve nine hundred sixty one gary became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals on his including hero of the soviet union it was a huge achievement for the u.s.s.r. had beaten the u.s. into space and everett sixty a history to say the space program was responsible for a number of planning accomplishments including the first satellite sputnik one the first space station the u.s.s.r. was on a mission in every possible way. one case sensual to development of

education star city the cosmonaut training facility today russia and america welcome projects here together. originating as a natural society it was russia's only school for cosmonauts and i've been asked but i'd like to try out the training program. here we go. thank you now in the soviet times this facility was a highly secret area restricted from the rest of the country and indeed the entire world and that's the training where the first stage of the process is the spinning centrifuge here that's the most important thing in any cosmonauts to. aim to recreate the dramatic experience of a blastoff if you can't withstand the simulated g. forces of this make a machine gun the cosmonaut contacts and you any further training. struck him i'm kathleen loaded into the centrifuge because.

i was there we have it. in the. building up tremendous speed this really pushes you to your limits. high for the. commonwealth of h two o. now and time for eva training course will speak for space school and that means training and the. neutral buoyancy is the only effective means of simulating witness this for extended periods. of this hole is forty meters deep and holds a mass of five thousand cubic metres for for i have to admit that i am

a little scared but i have previous experience. such as suspended by overhead while i'm a police system i was pressurized to the same pressure as it would be in the vacuum of space safety is a priority during the training session at least seven divers will be in the water to make sure everything. myself in the cosmonauts learn basic image and see procedures and how to operate the airlocks in emergency situations. so fox. well won't be. one hundred kilograms in the one.

hundred not to mention between five and alan. michael. thank you i guess. it's possible for anyone to take school a style city each day in two hours you'll be able to get an idea of the great space simulates his you also get to see how difficult dangerous at the same time how interesting looking to a space exploration and training is in russia and with no one american astronauts visiting the facility here brings us to this week's guest. michael of its immediate great to meet you so tell me how did you get involved in space exploration oh space is home when i was born two months after sputnik launched and just grew up watching the early days of the space program and you know what could i really do that would be like and you've been on to space missions that's right i've been to special

missions one part of the return to flight after the accident to prove our porter and expected repair some kinds of damage and the second one to ten years ago to and the japanese laboratory to the space station and what are you currently doing here in moscow i'm current for a launch i want you know the soyuz rocket out of kazakhstan with a and a cousin up to commander only and so use a certain book off and it japanese astronaut in a situation for account we're launching to join the space station crew and what on earth you do in your free time in space i personally would miss the internet facebook twitter at there's we have a limited ability right now it's fairly new to access the internet and scott kelly has it there is a fairly fairly frequent posting pictures and things from the spirit. on facebook actually i'm very late and some guy's problem is police right now is sending twitter messages every day so his astro polo astro underscore paolo it's oh it's

that's pretty neat the first thing you want to do it was just look out the window and to him you would think i recall him by daytime nighttime oceans continents it's just amazing to see the geography rolling underneath you know and i saw walking here in russia that means you have to learn russian right i was not going that's probably the most challenging part of what i have been typing it really is but i also love it and i think i like i really like being here i don't feel like i dread coming i enjoy coming here i have many friends here i enjoy the opportunity and i have a son that visited last summer he came out to visit and he was so intrigued he started taking on the russian language at the university and he's spreading six weeks here this summer myself as part of a school program. for you maybe he'll follow your footsteps and of course see. if you're smart to learn the language. is the reason you can google your work thanks for.

the children the supplies above the ground you don't necessarily need to go into space if you enjoy flying in special cheap is comparable to free falling when skies are think it's safe and vital to anyone the training before the flight last about half an hour and then you put into an eleven meter high she can fly for a couple of minutes one session costs one thousand four hundred rubles which is a valve that enjoys. the description of terry and is one of the world's largest and the oldest it's car in russia. opens in one hundred twenty nine became offensive military in the world is currently closer major reconstruction and is planned to reopen in the summer. when the venue is made aims to popularise knowledge of space to visit of all ages there's also an observatory to get a closer look at objects in space. carlos

the pioneer space and city in the us is an elite service space craft designer. is high on is this house must has been turned into a museum celebrating the scientists like. to receive the house as a present from the government of the first satellite was successfully launched and lived in the one nine hundred sixty s. place it was turned into a museum because library collection of art and pastoral belongings among the exhibits. memorial museum of course with all six in moscow is like a could have the face of a man. it's delegated to space explorers that looks like the last of the idea to stop this museum belongs to steal your car all of that was opened years after his death in one nine hundred eighty one the creation features models of space

equipment. of course follow through so all car documents fancy graphs and videos. of. the highlights of the school is in this next school the breakup of the soviet union was a realization that space exploration doesn't have to be competitive it's house americans and russians develop the expertise to build and maintain the international space station the largest international science cooperation in space inside this where you can see a life sized model of the international space station it simulates the exact working conditions cosmonauts experience in space sometimes of the six months other key features include the world areas kitchens happens to this equipment impressive hygiene products. doesn't finish my tour inside the space station i really was training russian cosmonauts going through the lifestyle has been lost and the dedication brush and still gives to space exploration in the early days of

spaceflight the united states and russia were rivals and now with projects like the international space station they've become partners with your of japan china india and other countries joining in the new cooperation in space exploration has truly become global the vastness of space is very much my man's endless ambition to explore its. training. by companies that offer. very corporate or. i realize. it really is kind of hard. but somewhat silly example of how we have this great program and. i feel we have a story i think we can sell them for the bates iraq the kurds. and. the

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more. headlines here on r t but french president is facing opposition to his leading role in the intervention in libya as the situation threatens to descend into stalemate there's a criticism that nicolas sarkozy is actions have been driven by imperial ambitions . and nato forces also see the support for tougher they refused to apologize for a botched air strike which killed several mc government fighters. and a hairy situation for prince harry the british royal is stranded in the arctic nutrients his charity expedition there has been extended after

a crack was found on the ice on the ice runway that is a russian ice. talk now it's time for the sporting news. hello welcome to the sports news live from our see here in australia country the headline is final countdown still a bottom up plans are just minutes away from facing off in fact i think a little daryn car. while still reeling spots up a regrouping after losing five want to also in the quarterfinals of the i don't believe. i'm going to war in iraq war time a lot of us whether want to catch a head of the second day the u.s. masters at augusta. all thought one goal is to come but let's start on the ice as the first game of the goran cup final series gets underway in just a few minutes with pirates hosting surprise package atlanta in new far so that's

a fancy from me off for the title finished runners up in the regular season but that's a start because men were taking the distance in the semifinal series against much world eagle grigorenko is their leading man it said so far too. many for a glance but there is the arc in itself however that have to do that their goaltender it's all about we still enjoy. the current cup it's not just mates the thousand kilometer journey least on paper trails headquarters in last night's republican it'll be there for the first two games of the best of seven series will then be taken to the home of atlanta to share this north of moscow with the contest which is the news if the cardinals go the distance the deciding game was played on a list once here. so a fascinating contest in store but now let's have a quick look at how both teams made it into the final the best moments from the last fall.

football now in spots like moscow coach larry culkin says he takes full responsibility for thursday night's crushing five one defeat a quarter in the europa league muscovites looks a little as it was in the first leg of the quarter final unfortunate talking says he couldn't explain to cite something that you like the bright they were trying to run him out so it's like the colombian renaissance you can places have tricked out to miss silvester one clung on to the other as the truth comes out of dropping the gold perhaps as i said i don't think it's also possible to toss the time like alex well but i also claim based on. one winning against that champions of sixpence

a benefit that also gets the short of a place in last fall and fall one defeat at this hearing time but. true going on with virtually side braga. and signed that's another four whole world cup winner this close to. the only triple fee for world player of the city's are down as a return fan and one football stadium goes on the night right the president's michel platini is also expected to take past so many closely follows last month's exhibition match between brazil legends and team chechnya where the likes of a mario better and stronger world because they're in. a while in the russian premier league new boys who bang could go top if they win it dhamma moscow on saturday and on the have a last scene of the match is also an action office place because the bathroom times come you can't exactly it's about soft light yet to read our time to look out of moscow. while in the english premier league match tonight if that stretch their

meeting ten points both with them to follow them both by shall see trial united by eleven points a game in hand to make his bottom side wigan displaced tottenham bottom stay. ahead of shortfall for the sochi winter olympics in twenty fourteen according to the man in charge to me. the presence of the organizing committee met i.o.c. officials on a visit to london which is hosting a summit games next year and he made the point that sochi which is building owns venues from scratch is on track a couple of big sponsorship deals including one with the gas giant gazprom recently formed through from shanghai it says commercial contracts worth more than a billion dollars are still being signed and the games will be a success. if you look at it with pleasure. for me in some areas where even there had to fall in addition to and this is the biggest exertion. site in the world yesterday and is it fair to during the venue to

really get part of a phone number where consoles and concerts are so know him that well and so sure the again for you to solve some constructors working days in that if you try to deliver our commission project the most compact and i and if you from the olympic i'm so fucking infrastructure in the world what. golf now and as the second day of play gets underway at the u.s. masters at augusta northern ireland's rory mcilroy and of our kid austin spain were out in front by two shots it was not the royal you have the club has made for most of the first day and sizzling starts saw him thirty three of the first four holes as he kind of seven under par round of sixty five but whatever feet it pierced much to the spine he had playing in the last group of the day this approach is in the pen. is not ten shots off his previous rest on the old course.

and our south koreans y.-e. chang and k.j. choi seen here with a sweet but were a couple of shots back. and. mickelson struggles to take in the bushes here at the thirteenth and relied on his short game to keep him in contention with the seventy. tiger woods wasn't blaming either a further shot back in seventy one when the touch shown by the two leaders. i thought i drove the ball really good and then when you drive a well you know you have a chance to to give yourself opportunities for varies and i felt like. i had my parents really good but i just stayed committed to the targets i was playing and i wasn't trying to get over aggressive i was you know plants martin you know and really just trying to leave myself in the best possible place i did a good job and today looked like everything was looking pretty properly you know even the bar church. far away from the fact that i would be able to make them but

the important thing. formula one and red bull continue their early dominance of the new season mark webber the quickest in practice for this sunday's malaysian grand prix the australian was a fraction of a second ahead of mclaren's jenson button still to bowl champion sebastian vettel who won the first race of the season in a stroller was false because his rego is the type of product crashed his winner in first practice first the thirteenth fastest time in the second session in a five sunday's race takes place on saturday. funny boxing and one of the best and fighters in the sports history roy jones jr is on a visit to moscow this week writing his upcoming branch with russian cruiserweight the next level of the fight was initially showed us in may the twenty second is a day earlier due to broadcasting agreements although there's no world trifle up for grabs again still sees the fight as

a perfect opportunity to win the cruiserweight back for the first time in his amazing fria meanwhile live it is regarded as one of the top boxes in this category despite losing his last to w b o child marco huck trust that decision. and that's all sports news blog back in less than two hours with another update for you then. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've dumped the future of coverage. wealthy british style. time.

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