twenty years ago and the largest country in. the suit relationship with. what i've been trying. to teach began the journey. where did it take. care of art so you live from moscow our top stories this saturday common grief commemoration ceremonies take place in western russia a year after the plane crash that killed the polish president and many of the country's political and. in other news a group of african leaders are headed to libya to try to ease the conflict between the coverage of the rebels meanwhile nato draw ever more fire over blunders in its military operation there. also it's

a deal but only just feuding republicans and democrats agree on cuts to the u.s. budget narrowly averted a government shutdown and an economic meltdown. next its moscow out and just a few days ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of man's first flight in space martin andrews goes in search of an out of this world experience in the russian capital.

hello and welcome to the stereo i'm standing on the floor of the highest and most famous bollywood here in the russian capital but wife that's because in this week's program we'll be exploring the subject of space direct it in one nine hundred sixty four to celebrate the soviet achievements of the space race to 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 watch when you're a guerin successfully completed the first manned space flight been able to track 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. have beaten the u.s. into space and over its 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. place sensual to development of

education star city the cosmonaut training facility today russia and america welcome projects here together. originating as an actual society it was russia's only school who 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 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 any cosmonauts should. aim to recreate the dramatic experience of a blast off if you can 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.

i'm there we have to press the. building up tremendous speed this really push you to your limits. people i feel. moving for the commonwealth of h two o. now i'm time for eva training course will speak for space school and that means training on the wall so. neutral buoyancy is the only effective means of simulating witness this on earth for extended periods. i got to know this pool is forty to fifty and holds a mass of five thousand cubic metres of water i have to admit that i am

a little scared. i have previous diving experience. the suit is suspended by an overhead while i'm polices since i was pressurized to the same question as it would be in the vacuum of space safety is a priority during a training session at least seven times will be in the water to make sure everything goes ok. myself and the cosmonauts learned basic emergency procedures and how to operate the airlocks in normal emergency situations. well won't be. long hundred kilograms in the water. and

the ultra not buckle between five and allen on the micro approach thank you i guess. it's possible for anyone to take a tour a star city in two hours you'll be able to get an idea of the main space simulates is also good to see how difficult dangerous at the same time how interesting movement a space exploration and training is in russia and with no one. visiting the facility here brings us to this week's guest. michael it's a media great to meet you so tell me how did you get involved in space exploration off space is in my home when i was born two months after sputnik watch and i just grew up watching the early days of the space program and you know when you 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 ability to inspect and repair even some kinds of damage and the second one to two 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 to know so you drag it out of kazakhstan with no cousin up to commander only and so use and a japanese astronaut in a situation for a while we want you to join the space station crew and what on earth do you do in your free time in space i personally would miss the internet facebook twitter i think we have a limited ability right now it's fairly new to access the internet and scott kelly is up there is a fairly early frequent posting pictures and things from here to experian. one facebook thanks john really yeah and some guy's problem is only right now is sending twitter messages every day so he's astro paulo astro underscore paolo it's

oh it's that's great the first thing you want to see those just like the one and two with if you are going by daytime and 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 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 i'd 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. for the very helpful you are for the wealthy. these are smart all the way with words is the reason you can go to work that's.

your dream is the place above the ground you don't necessarily need to go into space to enjoy flying in a special cube is comparable to free falling when skydiving it's safe to have available to anyone the training before the flight last half an hour and then you put into an eleven meter high achieving flight for a couple of minutes one session costs one thousand four hundred rubles which is a vast fashion's always. different area is one of the world's largest and the oldest of its kind in russia. opens in one hundred twenty nine became thirteen fatalities hereon in the world it's pretty close a major reconstruction and a chance to reopen in the summer. when the venue is made a change the popularized the knowledge of space to exist of all ages there's also an observatory she can get a closer look at objects in space. carlos

the tiniest space and city in the u.s.s.r. in the late seventy's spacecraft designer. is high on it and his house must has been turned into a museum celebrating the scientists like. to see the houses 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. the memorial museum of course with all six in moscow is located at the base of a man. mr allocated space explorers looks like. the idea to stuff this museum belongs to stargate croft although it was opened years after his death in ninety eight one of the creation features models of space equipment custom longings of

cosmonauts who saw a car documents for the graphs and videos. the highlights of this war is in this next to 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 an exact working conditions cosmonauts will experience in space sometimes up to six months out of key features include the work areas something happens to this equipment and hygiene products. doesn't finish much cooler inside the space station i really miss training russian cosmonauts going through the lifestyle has been lost and the

dedication russia has 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 caucus with your 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 mom's endless a mission to explore it's. all right training. for companies that offer. any corporate or. i realize. it really. hard. but so it's really about what would help me how to speak for them once they see the first couple i feel we get to say i think until their first date. i'll buy

. him a docking just for that seven hundred three pm central time because it's actually the international space station. just so use continues to battle a. clear . chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission to meet the mission he successfully accomplished. became the first ever month in another space. of the

soviet union one of the best known persons in the world. all his thoughts were focused on flight. could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his life . what happened in those few seconds. and what sequence these sealed the perils still hold. your regard. on r t. m's.

the let's. remember rationing takes place in the west. after the killed the coldest president and many of the country's political. leaders are heading to libya to ease the conflict between the government. ever more fire blunders and its military operation there. and it's a deal but only feuding republicans and democrats agree on top. of the government shutdown and an economic meltdown. next week cross over to the sports desk where

kate joins us with a live update. you know what the sports news on this busy saturday conference was coming up. i thought is all the latest from the russian premier league where new boys could hours a week from the top spot. while all flying sebastian vettel heads lewis hamilton to hold for sunday's malaysian grand prix. and mcelroy the northern irishman stays in front of the us masters tiger is also on the hunt in all that stuff. so straight to the russian primary there where such those actions got on the way and really it's about off of planes their first win of the new season after a late one real high win over look i want to also so be independent when i finally deadlocked the pretty i would just call minutes remaining to make sure they rise

from sucking bottom eleven on country eight based goodbyes crossan dot com it hasn't caught up on top of the ceiling top spot little saturday i think it did i will start. and over in english premier league match tonight it's could go ten points clear at the top maybe fallen at old trafford but the red devils will have to do it without wayne rooney the striker received it too much fun for swearing in for a t.v. camera after scoring a country western a loss of a united manager sir alex ferguson blames referee mason for his post much report that led to the grand ferguson believes the absence of rooney will spoil his side on. something that's a good one his record as a person is the one i feel sort of as we mentioned i feel really sorry for the eye because it from certain characterisation i think i was always going to praise or. sowter my eyes and the referee was saying that we were all for screwing the trick and it was so optimizes not. but you know perm self in

a. way if you does end up with your first question will be your double standards as a reader of good position or ads and well meanwhile chelsea host rock bottom wigan the blues will then go to munster license for the certain leg of their champ is a quarter on a straight ice time but that big european fixture won't stop coach carlo ancelotti from picking his strongest side for saturday afternoon tomorrow want to put their best team. because we will be important to win tomorrow we have good performance with a good spirit we did without huge and i want to put the best green obviously we work very hard always being made and story of some player if i decide that some players are not able to play one hundred percent and they have to stay home. elsewhere second possibles a strain they will dance read it in a half time in the lunchtime kick off the top face in front of goals from jermaine back fit phil neville and any other yet seen off later blackburn play burning on

the bolton face west ham and sunderland against west brom no hope to use the top four ambitions against like harry redknapp leaving spurs to have every chance of finishing the season but trying to sneak spot. is a tough talk for to break into we managed it last year. you know we finished about maine city last year and in my own city when i spent about not running for a million to try to make sure i got to try out for this year they said difficult we used to make the top four. right there. i'll swear other people are hard to please some of that you live coach get as well as criticized his side despite them winning the first game of the garden but finals against afghans and so you want overtime victory on home ice was how it ended because claims his players powerplay conversion should have been better so that put themselves in front of just one when it's a valid question and one target. but underdogs atlanta will go back early

in the third through to score. in fact forced the extra frame. second minute of overtime and could take in grab the winner of the home side good politics in its best of seven contests again on sunday. now red bull continue to dominate the new formula one season with their world champion sebastian vettel claiming pole position for the second race of the season this sunday in malaysia after winning the first rights in australia better qualified a tenth of a second set of mclaren to lewis hamilton circus red bulls other driver mark webber referred only to a long side the other the foreign jenson button. now cost us masters it still nor that i was rolling mcelroy who's out in front but coming up behind him is tiger woods who had a storming finish the first second round to go joint third mcelroy carried on from

where he left off the second round on ten under our overall. two shot lead over australian jason day this making history view of the masters isn't showing any know the best round of the tournament so far it's under par but they'll both be wary about what's happening behind them tiger woods has shot up the leaderboard full bird is on the front nine weeks in the sun is disturbing. to run five burdens on the back nine saw him caught a six under par. troy three shots off the lead so it is difficult for. me just being patient with all of this trying to stay patient. in our members take the seven point three playing subtle and. always try to use his make shows even par for the day another powerful terminator and this as i said is put. due to an affordable i've not. been right there in a ball game and i got off it's going to be a lot of fun like there tomorrow but at the same time you know and i'm going to be

nervous. but you know that's that's natural and you know you welcome that and you know fully i can i can deal with them pretty well and you know belittle them pretty well before and just go out there and enjoy it. well also over in america russian delaying a business in art has reached her first tennis sunny final in almost seven months after coming back to beach germany. at the family circle cup in charleston personality is currently ranked outside the top fifty eight caps battled back from a second down to them in just over two hours rushing in my first last for the parents since losing the final at the time last september and next up for her is trying to hang schweik you knocked out. by the same score line try to do a record this is a twenty five with anyone else in the top. tasty semi final has been lined up and the other half of the draw their top ranked caroline wozniacki places for the world

number one elaine yankovic was asked. belgium's again you know require the current world number one last the opening set and trial three one in the second. and third and she was delighted with her own fault when. it was a real tough match for him to go. in or out through her powers able to stay in their arms and second chances of us knows he won't have much time to recover before the ankle which clash while the serbian should be fresher after picking up yet another comfortable when the number three seed these are. just six two six live. action from the n.b.a. now where the new york knicks beat cross state rivals the new jersey nets on the road the next where without star thought america stoudemire is still struggling financially a jury that's teammates carmelo anthony taught school twenty five points and

grabbed the king rebounds three point shooting is the key for new york one hundred sixty ninety three didn't speak to six matches and lost six in the eastern conference. i think the message is relatively simple and finally russia hasn't enjoyed the best of times in winter sports over the last couple of years but there's one area where russia is leading the world in the sport of paris which downpour caught up with. and shot some light on this spectacular display. it's not likely to become an olympic event anytime soon but russia proving to be the world leaders in the news paris. discipline involves parachuting onto a piece and donning the skis and slowing once we get on to the bottom of the slope . part of his behead coach of a russian national team and he explains how it evolved. competition

was born in the end of. competition between. services in our big. man is. a must be very good modern ski skier and a. very good person it is both men and women complete with the ultimate team to win the world championships the sport is popular with russia's military personnel who learn how to parachute during the service. oh the type of emphasizes it is the skiing discipline which is the more important of the two but despite being just in the country there are lack of training facilities at the moment it's unfortunately in present russia not many many places for ski training. our. country as you know would be.

training in your own mountains first of all and now i think we will have a good. possibility is in sochi. that could all change after the two games and the name for the sport of piracy is to eventually become a little bigger bends the top of hopes one day this will happen as the only way if you continue to help the sport develop. into a sport and. we were. to. firmly and try to shore up our nice and very visible sport and i mean big for. social. thousand and fourteen and also tried to organize world championships there because all international community were in just about it and asking you all was in competition. charles software

piracy is certainly a sport that not many people have heard about however 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 increase its popularity. please r.t. . world. do you believe just in science and technology from the realms. we've gone to the future.

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