here with our to you live from moscow our top stories russia and poland told morial events to commemorate a plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others near sundowns a year ago the country's leader in a large part of the political elite were on their way to events marking another tragedy the continuance of our one thousand nine hundred. rebel disillusionment with nato and its actions in libya turns to anger after an alliance

general refuses to apologize for the so-called friendly fire airstrikes which killed opposition fighters. and u.s. lawmakers scraped together an agreement on billions in spending cuts not only averting the first government shutdown in fifteen years if the shutdown can happen hundreds of thousands of public employees including some firms and many teachers would have not been paid. back since moscow kiran r t this week martin andrews explores what the russian capital can offer to anyone with a taste for space. hello

and welcome to the show no i'm standing on the floor of the highest and most famous monuments here in the russian capital but why but because of this research i will be exploring the subject of space directly in one thousand sixty four celebrate the soviet achievements of 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 eureka garin successfully completed the first manned space flight unable 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. a saw him beating the u.s. into space and over it sixty year history the soviet space program was responsible for a number of pining accomplishments during the first satellite sputnik one the first

space station the u.s.s.r. was on a mission in every possible way. one case essential 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 received only school for cosmonauts and i've been asked and i like to try out the training program mostly but here we go. thank you now in the soviet times the society 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 this building centrifuge here that's the most important thing any cosmonauts should. aim to recreate the dramatic experience of a blastoff if you can't withstand the simulated g. forces of this make a machine and the cosmonaut can't continue any further training. straps in i'm kathleen loaded into the center seat cause.

we have it chris the. building up tremendous speed this really pushes you to your limits. i feel. moving for the commonwealth of h two o. now i'm time for eva training course will speak for space walk and that means training. neutral buoyancy is the only effective means of simulating weightlessness for extended periods. now this pool is forty and

holds a mass of five thousand cubic metres of water four has to admit that i am a little scared. i have previous starting experience. such as suspended by overhead while i'm pleased to simply i was pressurized to the same question as it would be in the vacuum of space safety is a priority during a training session and the seven thought i was going to be to make sure everything goes ok. myself in the cosmonauts learned basic emergency procedures and how to operate the airlocks in normal emergency situations. good.

will won't be worth a lot one hundred kilograms in the uk. but between five and alan on the micro cloete. that you have again. it's possible for anyone to take a tool a stock sixty say in two hours you'll be able to get an idea of the made space simulates is you also get to see how difficult dangerous at the same time how interesting looking based basically ration and trading is in russia and with no one american astronauts visiting the facility here brings us to this week's guest. michael ovitz media great to meet you so tell me how did you get involved in space exploration oh space has been part of my whole life i was born two months after

sputnik launched and just grew up or can be early days of the space program and dreaming you know what it could i really do know what it would be like and you've been on two space missions that's right i've been to space shuttle missions one part of the return to flight after the accident to prove their body to inspect and repair even 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 preparing for a launch i want in on a soyuz rocket out of kazakhstan with the cosmonaut commander only and so use sergei volkov and a japanese astronaut in a situation for a cow or launching to join the space station crew and what on earth do you do and your free time in space i personally would miss the internet facebook twitter i've noticed we have a limited ability right now it's fairly new to access the internet and scott kelly who's up there is a fairly early frequent posting pictures and things from his experian. unfaced put the actually on her lip and some guy's problem is only right now is sending twitter

messages every day so he's astro paulo astro underscore pablo so it's at says pretty good at first they want to those just like the one and two with a few of the earth going by daytime and nighttime oceans conference it's just amazing to see the geography rolling underneath you know and i saw walking in russia that means you have to learn russian right i was not going to that's probably the most challenging part of my kind of things hyping it really is but i also love it and i think i like i really like being here i don't feel like a predator coming i enjoy coming here i have many friends here i enjoy that and opportunity and i have a son that visited last summer he came out to visit and he was so intrigued he started taking russian language at the university and he's spending six weeks there the summer and self as part of a school program. forthwith maybe he'll follow your footsteps and end up with. is it smart to learn the language which is the reason you can google your work that's

why. the children is the flights above the ground you don't necessarily need to go into space controlled flying in special cheap is comparable to free falling when skydiving it's a fact viable to anyone the training before the flight last about half an hour and then you put into a let me tie cheap in flight for a couple of minutes one session costs one thousand four hundred rubles which is a value that enjoys. a different area and is one of the world's largest and the oldest of its kind in russia. opens in one hundred twenty nine you can fancy infinitary and in the world it's pretty close a major reconstruction and has plans to reopen in the summer. while the venues

maintains the fountain ride from knowledge of space to businesses of all ages there's also an observatory she can get a closer look at objects in space. gave her a lost the tiniest space and today in the u.s.s.r. police service spacecraft designer. is high on it and his house must has been turned into a museum celebrating the scientists life and work to see the house in the present from the governments of the first satellite was successfully launched and lived back in the one nine hundred sixty s. place it was turned into a museum the current us library collection of art and personal belongings among the exhibits. memorial museum a cosmonaut six in moscow is located at the base of a man. as dedicated to space explorers looks like last off the idea to start with

museum belongs to still going strong well that was opened years after his death in one nine hundred eighty one the question features models of space equipment personal belongings of cosmonauts who saw a car documents friends across videos. the highlights of the school is in this next school the breakup of the soviet union the realization that space exploration doesn't have to be competitive in this 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's simulates the exact working conditions cosmonauts for experience in space sometimes up to six months out of key features include the word area pitching is something happens to this equipment and 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 you work you can china india and other countries joining in the new cooperation in space exploration has truly become global the fastness of space is only matched by man's endless ambition to explore its. trade with our. company. make a little. money corporate or. a reality. program that really is. the heart. of all it's really about how we have hundred great

program on. how bill i'll tell you we get a story i think we can sell them for. a life so that you can hear the docking just for that seven hundred three pm central time again it's actually the international space station. just so you excuse for bakaly. clamor. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. twenty years ago in the largest country. to certain places of the.

us how did you try. to teach began the journey. where did it take them. we'll. bring you the latest in the science team signaling from around the world. we've dumped a few jerks coverage. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission to. the mission he successfully accomplished. became the first ever begin outer space. of the soviet union one of the. the best known persons in the world. were focused

on. could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his life. one happened in those few seconds. and once you could see these sealed barrels still. you're ignoring the. party's top stories russia and poland told morial events to commemorate the plane crash that killed the post president and ninety five others near small down sometimes year ago the country's leader in a large part of the political elite were on their way to events marking another tragedy the contin massacre of one thousand nine hundred fourteen. in other news rebel disillusionment with nato actions in libya turns to anger after an alliance general refuses to apologize for so-called friendly fire air strikes which killed opposition fighters. and u.s.

lawmakers together in agreement on billions in spending cost nearly averting the first government sucked out in fifteen years if the shutdown had happened hundreds of thousands of public employees including soldiers and many teachers would not have been paid. more details and all those stories coming up at the top of the hour up next sports news with anger. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up the latest on the russian crimea where new voice could ban could any from top. red bull sebastian vettel to the polls in the regime draw on parade. magic magical roy stays in front of the u.s. market is this tiger also on the spot so. let's go straight to the russian probably

go where action has got underway of yet of hosting local motif in search of their first win and it is gold on the plate in the links could put them level on points of need is there meet any criteria scott tomorrow and that if the chance of steven top spot today if they did in all of moscow that kicks off a little later than the other guy in fifth place was in a dark. and english premier league manchester united could go ten points clear at the top if they follow him at all trafford they would have to do so without star striker wayne rooney he was seeded too much banned after swearing into a t.v. camera after scoring a hat trick against west ham last week united manager sir alex ferguson plays referee mason to replace match report that led to the ban but believes the absence of rooney will spur his side i. think that's a good month his record i suppose for us but when i feel sort of as we miss him i feel really sorry for the y. because of terms of material possession i think obviously he's going to pressure is

going to have a satirized i'm going to put it all for school know how to trick you know and some optimizes not but you know prove yourself in the small way if you're just going to put off of course we're on the creation of leaders of your double standards that's a really difficult position or words and. emaar chelsea face rock bottom we're going the blues playing manchester united in the second leg of their champions league quarter final next week but that won't stop coach carlo ancelotti from picking his strongest side on saturday afternoon for. the want to put to rest the more complex a ball game players would be important to morrow would have good performance with a good spirit we were good to do good and i want to put up a screen on that we were growing it was denied and so it's something we are afraid to say good sampling of not be able to play one hundred percent but you have to stay out of elsewhere will have its own people place burning and bolton face

pressed and sunderland go up against west brom the tottenham hope to finish their top four hundred is against the red not believing they still every chance of a champions league spot and it's a tough talk for to break into we managed it last year. you know we finished about main city last year and their main city going to spend an average of forty million to try to make sure a good little for this year said difficult to make that top four but we're right there at the chance that some people are hard to play cell about your life coach i just love because has criticised his side despite winning the first game the garn cup final against atlanta two one i would time victory on home ice is how it ended but because claims his players powerplay conversion should have been better will sell about put themselves in front just one leading italy project in a man on target but underdogs after all to go back to early in the talks for thirty min yakin. and that extra for. the second lead of

a time andre viking the winner to give the home side you've gone through this best of seven conference they played the sunday. now the news red bull continue to dominate the new formula one season with their world champion sebastian vettel claiming pole position. for tomorrow's malaysian grand prix after winning in a straight vettel qualified a tenth of a second ahead of mclaren first and with an. read both not webber will be third on the grid alongside. golf's rest mass as it is still nor the knowledge or mcelroy who sat in front but coming up behind him is tiger woods who had a storming finish to his second round take a joint third carried on from where he left off finishing his second round on ten under overall and i could see him a t. shirt lead over a strange jason day here just make these debut at the masses but isn't showing him is finding the best barring the best friend the truth so far for the night in the

park but they will be wary of what is happening behind them tiger woods has shot up the leaderboard for burnings on the front nine sixteen with some bogus study. but a further run of five birdies on the back nine saw him caught a six under par a long psychogenic three shots off the lead so everything to play for i have to stay patient with all of those transliteration. there are many mistakes seven three putting seven and always trying to do says make shows even par for the day and on a par for the terminator and this other stuff is put. on a part of like my soul i've been right there a ballgame. i got subsequent to be a lot of fun out there tomorrow but at the same time you know i'm going to be nervous. but you know that's that's not shown you know you're welcome you know for i can i can deal with them pretty well i've been able to feel them pretty well for

and just. enjoy. also in the states russian lena best mean are has reached her first twenty semifinal in almost seven months getting past germany's junior gorgas at the family circle cut in charleston vesting our discovery ranks siva top fifteen has a battled back to my set downs winning just over two hours to be making her first last or appearance since losing in the final tashkent open last september next up to her china spain shadow who knocked out indian qualifier stanley mears there by the same scoreline show taking her record this season to twenty five wins more than anyone else. on the tasty semifinal has been lined up in the other half of the draw proper rank caroline wozniacki faces former world number one you lean again kitchenettes that will be at the upright kind of person who will be nina whitmire the current world number one loss the opening set and trail three one in the second thank you to come from behind in the third most delighted with her hard

for. her it was a real tough match truth played very well in our hour through happen i was able to stay in there on and just take my chances are she went how much time to recover before you can give each clash the serve should be fresher to you after picking up yet another seemingly effortless win by the number three reason because you get the sixty six. action from the n.b.a. now and in new york knicks have beaten prostate rivals the new jersey nets on the road and the next will be that their star forward a much better margin still struggling with an ankle injury like to make melo anthony talks to the twenty five points and use a grab fourteen read bands and three point shooting was the case in new york he wanted one hundred sixty to ninety three they have an impressive six match winning streak and holding on to six place in the eastern conference. also on friday night

indiana support a playoff place with a win over land certainly granger top scoring there were twenty eight points also wins for philadelphia boston detroit and miami. elsewhere memphis also made sure they have a postseason with victory over sacramento new orleans got in the playoffs are the bear to think of phoenix chicago oklahoma dallas and portland with the other winners on friday night. and finally russia hasn't enjoyed the best of times in winter sports over the last couple of years but there is one area where russia is leading the world and it is the sport of paris it might not be. actually with mark but top of the shed some light on this spectacular discipline. it's not likely to become an olympic event any time soon but russia proving to be a good leaders in the news media paris. which is a clue was parachuting onto a piece in building the skis and slowing once we got into the bottom of a slope. part of its behavior coach of the russian national team and he explained

how it evolved. this. competition was born in. eighty eight in. competition between the risk of services in a big. man's will this. must be a very good model. or a good person because. women compete with the ultimate aim to championships sports is popular with russia's military personnel to learn how to parachute during that service. oh the type of emphasizes it is risking discipline which is the more important of the two but despite the interest in the country or lack of training facilities at the moment fortunately in present russia we have not many many places for training and our.

country is you know we're a beacon and. training in your own mountains for. now i think we will have good facilities and new possibilities in sorting. change out of such a games and the main aim for the sport of piracy is to eventually become a little big event and want out of hopes one day this will happen as the only way to continue to help the sport develop. into sport and. where it. came. in the drive to shore up our nice and very visible sport i lived with before. paul thousand and fourteen and also the driver organize. championships there because all international

community were interested about it and asking will always be competition and channel software. piracy certainly is not many people have heard about our it has plenty of potential to develop in russia especially with a number of new ski resorts popping up around the country and given the success of the russian team leaders this can only help to increase its popularity which monkey fleet artsy now brings to the end of the sport for the moment so we've got the weather coming. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around plus. we've done the future coverage.

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