science and technology from the realm of. the future are covered. the. united states even great russia and poland polled memorial services for a month but the plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others near smolensk a year ago. in other news a group of african leaders are headed to libya to try and ease the conflict between the government and rebels meanwhile nato draws ever more fire over the wonders and its military operation there. and it's a deal but only just feuding republicans and democrats agree on the u.s.

project an earlier version government shutdown and an economic meltdown. by from moscow you're watching our team with me and he said now it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in warsaw poland now it was a fatal flight which killed the president and ninety five others and morial services have gone almost a year since the plane crash in western russia claimed the lives of polish leader lech kaczynski and many top officials you can survive pictures now from the ceremony taking place the polish president and his delegation are on their way to a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the one nine hundred forty two massacre carried out by stalin's secret police let's cross to our correspondent who is there . at this commemoration ceremony in the somalians creature because remember the

scars from those tragedy will obviously be long lasting ones for you from what you've seen there so far has the tragedy in any way united the two nations in their grief a year on. indeed it has any sense of want to believe was the catastrophe that most turned a war story for all to turn shin's well today it was a site of a very solemn ceremony carriage out here a year after the tragedy took place here on the side where the police want you poor the polish blade crashed killing the polish president leaving his wife maria were partners of the country's senior political and military officials knowledge you see this delegation of one hundred three relatives of the victims of the past review was prodded by the current goldish president's wife and the delegation in the

beginning lay flowers at the size of the catastrophe of the crash then there was a stall of christian service held here observed here and after that the delegation harder to the cup the massacre site it's only twenty kilometers from here because you should remember what was a pup assault flights to this region of russia oh these high ranking delegation of polish officials a year ago that was to towns to visit the massacre site where some twenty two thousand police officers were slaughtered by the secret police and the beginning of world war two and now it appears to be about these sides is a place of a double tragedy. obviously the emotional impact in all of this has been huge what facts have had on the investigation. some might say that his emotions at that scene the investigation process others would call. already it's all in the

beginning shortly after the catastrophe moscow's dignified handling of the art and market crash has been very well received by the people in poland and they were literally taken aback by that time mr liddy promise to personally oversee. the investigation process but now a year on the two nations that seem to be divided over the investigations results and there doesn't seem to be a quick fix to those disputes. april seventh twenty turn in the spring sunshine. on are victims of the have been massacred many find it hard to believe as a two hundred years of mutual amity between russia and poland had been washed away with tears. what rush tears were to fall on the sword just three days later the whole polish

nation was sent into removing their president government religious leaders and other members of the country's elite. that being has become a symbol of two polish tragedies and while the first we can judge only from history books the second unfolded in front of us almost broadcast in real time the plane catastrophe showed our generation of russians and poles those who didn't witness the second world war how it is to suffer a national tragedy. there was however a twist of irony it was the least new catastrophe that huge many of the wounds of the past the symbolic heart was just the beginning a year of unprecedented joint work to find the cause of the crash followed my experience with the russian investigators has been very good they're very high quality organization there is no question about the. but. the captain of the polish

craft is to blame for this tragedy. the facts though were hard to take for some the investigation was beginning to take on political overtones with attempts in poland to push the blame on to russia this report is a joke for poland exploiting the submissive and shoot of the government of. my claim my claim by accusing and i would a person ask that question to the traffic controllers of why there were not so hard to press the group the transcript of the pilots last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in a fog and to have to reserve airfield they couldn't for b. the plane from landing because that would have been against international law poland disputes russia's findings and is holding its own investigations. diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us facts are the most

important. history suggests russian poland's may take their time to settle their differences especially against the background of a tragedy but such a high price was paid for the recent reconciliation even skeptics realize it would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating. r t cutting the somali inscription let's discuss the aftermath and development such a place after between russian and polish friend we're is joining me in the studio he is from the christian science monitor thanks for being with us this saturday what do you think about. statements that the tragedy has helped russia and poland move on from so many other difficulties that it's faced in the last couple of decades so it was a terrible trauma and i don't think you can describe it as helpful in any way what

i would say is like adversity often does. challenge the leaders on both sides to rethink their positions to get through that because it was an awful moment and it could have turned really bad. but it didn't because readers and the populations of both sides i think that to some extent rise to the occasion they rethought retrenched and i think we can see that we're remotely past that and the relationship is on a fairly constructive footing we just step away from politics for a moment talk about people both in russia and poland how has the tragedy affected their relations or the way they work at each other's countries. it's there's no radical change that i see at the time when good see a poor of sympathy of feelings. it just was one of those things

such as off historical. tragedy that people people change their views but the default mode in in russian polish relations for many centuries now has been hostility. they are slowly overcoming that it's not going to happen quickly so but i think i think things in that way but just the sense of like that you said the human spirit the feeling you know that neighbors should but that is maybe slightly better now with that said that kind of human feeling being better the polish side has regularly criticized russia for not handling or handing over information about the crash investigation and the investigation as a whole how fair do you think the investigation was well i'm not an aviation expert and i can't speak authoritatively for that but i in my own work have

rounded up the fuse of aviation experts and they seem to be of the general opinion that it was a pretty thorough and fair minded transparent investigation. but you do hear this suspicion this doubts coming from the polish side and you know they're coming from that you know atavistic historical place more than from any set of facts and figures. what do you think both sides need to do in order to move past the stalemate and essentially move on from the tragedy. for centuries the we've had a bad relationship and it has to be said that in the past recent centuries russia has been the oppressor of paul and so it seems to me he says russia to take some steps there's still a lot of things a book events that occurred security in world war two that haven't made their way out of the russian or cards yet they probably should i think that the kremlin

leaders have been pretty good at using the seventy. and of her stories of world war two you know there was the opening of the woodwork to the hitler style in fact the scotland and that awful anniversary last year there will be more coming up there is the warsaw uprising and i think forty four for instance but there's a lot of questions that russians should move to answer for the polish i think that this laying to rest the ghost of history with too much truth profile ations all right fred we are and thanks for being with us this saturday and sunday is always a pleasure. and over the next two days our crews will bring you special coverage of the commemoration ceremonies taking place when we're looking at how both hold the roughs are coming together to remember the tragedy and how the details of the crash came to light. when the news is not enough. when it's something really crucial. what you want to get down to brass tacks we bring you our

special coverage here. in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastated. and united two nations in a great. question more on. a group of african leaders is heading to libya as they try to mediate a conflict between the government and the opposition and this comes as nato is seeing its popularity reign among rebels after recent deadly air strikes on their positions have now painted the tops of their tanks pink in an attempt to avoid any repeat artist posts there has more from tripoli. mater's leadership over its military operations here in libya are coming under more and more fire for being ineffective and for creating mistakes it is now nine days since nato took over

command of military operations here and in the last week alone we've witnessed two separate nato air strikes that have left in total more than twenty opposition fighters did and several dozen injured now as you can well imagine the tensions here are running high in the chicken really because you nato secretary general why regretting the loss of life has not come out and see if there he is sorry for these airstrikes essentially what nato is arguing is that it was not aware that the rebel fighters were using tanks prior to these airstrikes americans took the fighters. from him now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they say that they did notify measure beforehand that they had some twenty times in their position and that they were moving to the front line around the city of baghdad year a little bit towards a greater with those tanks it also seems rather questionable why nature was not aware of where the rebel fighters had tanks because there has been footage circulating now for weeks showing these opposition fighters with heavy weaponry

that includes tanks the other argument that nature is putting forward is that the situation on the ground is extremely fluid it says that the front line keeps the seesawing forwards and backwards it is a constant flow of heavy machinery of tents and it's coming so difficult for them to actually tell who's on the ground now for days now we have been witnessing a demoralization among the opposition forces that is now turning into anger they say that major is not doing enough it's making a lot of mistakes and it's also neglecting its operations here they say that they do not understand why nato has not been able to convince the duffys forces from advancing something one hundred miles into rebel territory and that is true because right at the moment is forces off holding the at their hands in terms of fighting on the ground. norman solomon of the institute for public accuracy says there are some glaring omissions in the way some media outlets are reporting washington's

military campaigns across the assumption often implicit is through the media that uncle sam has a halo over his head and he's trying to do really good sometimes he screws up but basically the usa has the best of intentions now if there was no will you know libya or iraq and the main export say was cucumber as i don't think the us would have invested billions of dollars in military actions but that is part of the equation that's often left out or when the news media explain events to us. there are thirty live from moscow still to come on the program whatever happened to dispense race. the suit is too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space well as those more to do but is it worth doing is for humanity to travel by more down to earth problems to care about the final frontier anymore all the residents in reaction for you. also all the pipeline that's in the pipeline we travel

to see first hand progress in the construction of north stream a project that promises to transform energy ties between russia and europe. but first the us budget cuts have been agreed in a last minute do between republicans and democrats it means a government shutdown has been narrowly averted with spending to be slashed by around thirty eight billion dollars of the year to approve the deal would have delivered a serious blow to the country's economic recovery something eight hundred thousand state employees would have been prevented from doing their jobs short term agreement is to give both parties time for further political bargaining over this year's budget meanwhile in the iconic u.s. town of major financial players from around the world are deciding on the future of the global economy party's lauren lyster reports from the summit held by renowned billionaire george soros. holds leadership one of the main reasons why it's

gathering it's taking place is because the belief is that after the financial collapse that shook the globe and it reverberated all across the world there hasn't been anything to replace the old system that reflects a new world where the united states is not the one singular power that dictates economic policy the way that it was in the one nine hundred forty four conference when the dollar was named the reserve currency that was the historic conference that was when you did nations got together the allied countries during world war two at its peak to have this summit today it's a very different story this is billionaire george soros gathering together a two hundred. according to the think tank intellectuals this is a think tank funded by soros themselves fifty million dollars reportedly behind it gathered together to discuss where this is going next and that idea among thinkers here or at least behind its conference is that there needs to be a system that reflects that this is no longer you know polar world and this is a multi-polar world that brings developing nations into the conversation of the bric nations brazil russia india china nations that now are fueling growth and have

booming economies around the world in opposition to the developed nations such as the united states that were growth that's really stagnated and where debts have been run up yet this is still the reserve currency this is still a large force as far as monetary policy so the idea mongers here is that there really needs to be a different system and that engages and reflects the developing nations and the nations that are fueling a lot of the growth in the world that aren't as reflected in old policies that are considered by some of these thinkers according to them outdated so you can get more on the conference in bretton woods on our website or too dark call and have a look at all the latest from our washington bureau there you'll find out why some experts believe america is facing a revenue crisis in the u.s. corporations are finding tax loopholes overseas to score only their profits. on the long lines angry computer hackers take on the playstation network saying sony has become only not fully. in the

mix with the sixtieth anniversary of your ego gardens and storage space flight archie has a recipe for a special cocktail named after the man himself burned how to make it step by step are today. at more than one thousand kilometers in length on the seabed it's been dubbed as one of the most ambitious marine projects ever russia's nord stream pipeline which is rapidly nearing completion will provide western europe with a new level of energy security r.g.c. group relative went to the construction site to gauge the progress. might look like common in middle of a muddied building site but behind me is a key point and one of the most ambitious engineering projects undertaken anywhere

in the world over the last few years the point which you can see just going into the ground and then out to see behind me as the north stream pipe is the world's longest underwater gas pipe at the world's thickets pipe and it's also an operating under the most pressure it's a flagship project for russia it was mooted for over ten years before construction could actually begin here and it's going to cost over seven billion euros at least . it is capable of initialising in carrying out such large scale projects taking part in all the phases starting from modeling to constructing and the breaking of. this is no ordinary metal pipe it's got to be able to withstand extreme conditions the thickness of the walls it's four centimeters able to not break down if there is a cold temperature of more than minus fifty also it looks kind of solid but it's

actually extremely flexible it's able to swing in a range of more than a thousand meters and in fact it's the moment is being laid down on a ship about a thousand kilometers away nearly coast of germany the world's most powerful compressor station which is just one kilometer back there will be forcing the gas to go at huge pressure so you don't need any kind of other compression stations in the middle of the pipe on its way to realize ation the north stream project faced a lot of objections now one type of direction was from vajra mentalists those in sweden and finland two of the country three you see by the which the project will go pretty well worried about the impact of the project on the seabed and also what might have happened if there were any kind of cyclic emergencies well in this respect gazprom under contract has not only gone and done everything to make sure that there are no. nothing happened so the point would have gone let's go beyond. seabird of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars i agree with

pollution i don't actually going out of their way to restore. the condition the other objection was political pressure already supplies nearly a third of europe scouts were crushing a third of the business by what was going to bring a new level of security because of conflicts which are good transit countries with ukraine and you have thought of but basically held the whole of europe hostage a little bit more and a want transit country and recent events in the arab world are playing into the hands of those behind this project with the instability it's obvious that europe needs north stream more than about. here with our t.v. live from moscow let's get back to the region where commemoration ceremonies are being held to mark a year since the polish president's plane crash there are live pictures coming from the commemoration ceremony the delegation headed by. who is the wife of the new polish president has moved now from the crash scene to the continuum oriel site

a year ago we saw prime minister vladimir putin and polish prime minister. pay their commemorations to soviet and polish soldiers killed by stalin secret police just before lech kaczynski plane crash crashed in small towns with ninety six people on board most of the country's political elite of course on that plane again live pictures of this commemoration taking place at the site of the cartoon massacre. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world this hour at least two people have been killed in new clashes between egypt's program for movements and the ruling military. troops aren't. ponds and firing live ammunition into the air descended into her square just burst on both in protest demonstrators angry over

a lack of democratic reform and valley of the spots. the government in india has pledged hearts against corruption and for protester but on a four day hunger strike his actions are support from politician and hollywood stars as well as the wider public you drop the strike after legislators agree to a committee to improve a number of laws on bribery fraud and other crimes because this. process preparing to celebrate mankind's first foray into space even as the u.s. retires its iconic space shuttle fleet with no replacement in sight our resident takes to the streets now of new york to find out just what happened to america's space ambitions. this month marks the fifty year anniversary of the first human not yuri gagarin to agger fly into space so whatever happened to the space race this week let's talk

about that are you proud that man once walked on the moon. my bro that man was walking out of my proud that man once across the atlantic ocean and failed america i think it's it's a good thing for people who for mankind to do new things and explore and learn no one cares and i'm going into space is that bad no i think we've got it see that it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space well as those more to do but is it worth doing if you don't think it is i don't know why do it why did it why did the culture you think it was so important and now are like there been there done being a barrier is before we you know we've got about is now we've got our boundaries it's just too expensive you don't think of people living on another planet would be breaking a boundary well it would. many problems on the earth you can think universe actual space put weren't there just as many problems back than. perhaps there were.

just so used to a. television. cinema. to show social space all the time so it doesn't seem to be so spectacular and more i think it was it was a new and newer new presidency and who administration you know everything was new so that's kind of what obama ran on right fellowship what must be a great time for him to stay let's really explore it be something better than nothing you'd see that happening no knowledge of him no barack obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space program really gets out there really. more zoom you know how do you think people would be into that as much as they were back in the day or are they too into the internet and facebook. a lot of people spoke to no so what changed that we used to focus on and now we don't seem to care and on the

technology we understand a lot more about the universe through. telescopes and other resources but we haven't been to mars but we know what's there are a lot of ways we haven't you know who travels no we haven't but how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate i guess what i will say why are we more focused on things like the internet and facebook because we're dumbing ourselves down i must be one of those people that believe man in space was a hoax the bottom line is that no matter what happened to the space race we can always say that we did take that one giant leap for mankind. so there's no lack of interest in space and this week's moscow this time the team pays a visit to the world's oldest space center star city. well i'll go by way of training for that we try to put actual play station by companies but they said

they're off. guard. for any corporate office. or reality. program it really is. the power of. the word be you can join martin answers in space in just a couple of minutes after a recap of our top stories coming up.

that says not enough. when it's something really crucial. what you want to get down to brass tacks we bring you our special coverage a year. in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastated. and united two nations in grief. questionable .