here and herzegovina cheese available in. the children of each college who told you big but you know who to put you know so chilled beer to show makoto you're going to go there a pretty turn and you're like toast. in serbia blue cheese available in most good one hundred regency players in the. united states even green russia and poland told me more all services for a month but the plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others near smolensk a year ago. also on our to your 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 its borders and its military operation. and it's a deal but only just shooting republicans and democrats agree on cots the u.s. budget narrowly averting government shutdown and an economic meltdown.

it's five pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on the snow white with our top story this saturday it was a fatal flight which killed the president and ninety five others morial services have begun almost a year since the plane crash in western russia which claimed the lives of published leader lech kaczynski and many top officials they've been on their way to a number ation ceremony for the victims of the nineteen forty contin massacre carried out by stalin secret police are seems. is at the crash site. today it was a side of a very solemn ceremony carried out here a year after the tragedy took place here on the side where the police want you for

the polish blade crashed killing the polish president leaves his wife maria ninety four others of the country's senior political and military officials now today this delegation of one hundred three relatives of the victims of that metacity was guarded by the current bush president's wife and the delegation in the beginning to lay flowers at the size of the catastrophe of the crash then there was a soul of christian service held here observed here and after that the delegation harder to the coffee massacre site it's only twenty kilometers from here of course you should remember what was the pup assault the flights to this region of russia oh these high ranking delegation of polish officials a year ago that was to turn to visit the happy massacre side where some twenty two thousand poles polish officers were slaughtered by stalin's secret police and for

that at the beginning of world war two and now it appears to be that these side is a place of a double tragedy almost goes dignified handling all because the aftermath has been very well received by poles they were taken aback by the support which the russian people provided that we are now a year old the differences over the investigations results aren't likely to have a quick fix april seven twenty ten in the spring sunshine blood. order victims of the cut the massacre many find it hard to believe as a two hundred years of mutual amity between russia and poland had been washed away with tears. ah ah what crash tears were to fall on the sword just three days later the whole polish nation was sent into removing their friends wouldn't government religious leaders and other members of the country's elite gun 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 these new catastrophe that healed many of the wounds of the past the symbolic hug 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 there are very high quality organization there is no question about this the commander the captain of the polish craft is to blame for this tragedy the facts though were hard to take

for sun the investigation was beginning to take on police overtones with attempts in poland to push the blame on to russia this report is a joke for poland exploiting the significant and shoot of the government of. my claim my prey my accusation and i would personally ask the question to the traffic controllers why there were not so hard to press the group the transcript of the palace last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in peak form and to had to reserve airfield they couldn't for b. the plane from landing because that would have been against international every show. poland disputes russia's findings and it's holding its own investigation. diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of fact for us the facts are the most important. history suggests russia and poland may take their time to

settle their differences especially against the background of a tragedy but such a high price was paid by the recent reconciliation but even skeptics realize it would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating excluding the great children r t. the smiley and screech of. provides edition of our interview show spotlight is also looking back at this moment of plane crash in a couple of hours the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of a polish parliament shares his views on how the tragedy is perceived in paul that. poland recovered yet from this blow of course it was a very. difficult very tough moment for all of us we lost our friends but also realize the key persons i think the most important thing for the. relations between the states and relations between the politicians and relations

between the society of the ordinary people is. politicized the tragedy. moscow based journalist fred we are says the public and politicians in both countries have been brought closer together as they tried to cope with the tragedy . it was a terrible trauma and i don't think we can scrub it it's helpful in any way. but i would say it's like adversity often does it challenge to the leaders on both sides to 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 the reader leaders and the populations and on both sides i think that to some extent rise to

the occasion they rethought retrenched and i think we can say that we're we're mostly past that and the relationship is on a fairly constructive footing. over the next year days our crews will bring you special coverage of the commemoration ceremonies but we're looking at how both poland and russia are coming together to remember the tragedy and how the details of the crash came to life. when it is not enough. when it's something really crucial. when 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 nations in great. question

. to libya now where a group of african leaders is heading to the country as they try to mediate the conflict between the government and opposition this comes as nato is seeing its popularity wane among rebels after recent deadly airstrikes on their positions they've now page of the tops of their tanks paint an attempt to avoid any repeat archies polls three reports from tripoli. it was 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 nature is 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 or to kill or leave because the nato secretary general why regretting the loss

of life has not come out and said that he is sorry for these is strikes essentially what nato is arguing is that it was not aware that the rebel fighters were using tanks prior to these airstrikes and that it mistook the fighters. i'm in now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they say that they did notify nato beforehand that they had some twenty tanks in their position and that they were moving to the front line of around the city of a job here a little bit towards of brega with those tanks it also seems rather questionable why it was not aware of where the rebel fighters had times 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 frontline keeps seesawing forwards and backwards at these the constant flow of heavy machinery of tanks and it's becoming so difficult for them to actually tell who's who on the ground now for days now we have been witnessing

a demoralization among the opposition forces there 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 nature has not been able to prevent the duffys forces from advancing some one hundred miles into rebel territory and why and that is true because right at the moment it is forces are holding the at the hand 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 approach the assumption often implicit is through the media that uncle sam has a halo rovers 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 oil in libya or

iraq and the main export say was to converse 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 when the news media explain events to us. still to come on the program whatever happened to the space race. to spread so if there's nothing more to do in outer space well as those more to do but is it worth doing is humanity to troubled by more down to earth problems to care about the final frontier anymore residents bring change and reaction for you. also the pipeline that's in the pipeline we travel to see firsthand the progress in the construction of your stream a project that promises to transform energy ties between russia and europe. u.s. budget cuts have been agreed on a last minute deal between republicans and democrats means

a government shutdown has been avoided with spending to be slashed by around thirty eight billion dollars a failure to approve the deal would it delivered a serious blow to the country's economic recovery some 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 bretton woods major financial players from around the world are deciding on the future of the global economy artie's moralists a report from the summit held by renowned billionaire george soros. one of the main reasons why this gathering is 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 united 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 two hundred according to the think tank intellectuals this is a think tank funded by soros and south fifty million dollars reportedly behind it gathered together to discuss where this is going next and the idea among thinkers here or at least behind this conference is that there needs to be a system that reflects that this is no longer going to pull the world of this is a polar world it brings developing nations into the conversation 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 growth is 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 of not being heard 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. and more on the conference and bretton woods on our website. and you can also have a look at the latest from our washington bureau there you'll find out why such words believe america is facing a revenue crisis as u.s. corporations are finding tax loopholes overseas to squirrel away their profits. also online angry computer hackers take on the playstation network saying sony has become a monopoly. and in the mix with the fiftieth anniversary of yuri gagarin's historic spaceflight artsy has a recipe for a special cocktail named after the man himself learn how to make it step by step at r.t. dot com. first

. orders are to have. 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 nordstrom pipeline which scrap would be nearing completion but provide what certainly grew up with a new level of security. in the construction site to gauge the progress. might look like common in middle of a muddy building site but behind me is a key point 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 out the see behind me as the north stream pipe is the world's longest underwater gas pipe at the world they can supply and it's also 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 years at least . proving it is capable initialising in carrying out such large scale projects taking part in all the places starting from modeling to constructing breaking. 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 it's 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 at the moment is being laid down on a ship about a thousand kilometers away near the 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 part of the action was from environmentalist those in sweden and finland two of the country through the seabed to which the project will go pretty well worried about the impact of the project undersea bad and also what might have happened if there are any kind of cyclic emergencies well in this respect gazprom under contract because of not only go on and on everything to make sure that there aren't. nothing happened so the point would have gone beyond they've started seba out of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars i agree with pollution and are actually going out of their way to restore the better condition but other objection was political pressure already supplied nearly a third of europe's yachts were crushed 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 past but basically held the whole of europe hostage but it is more of want transit country and recent events in the arab world are playing into the hands of those because in this project with the instability that it's all the needs north stream more than about. let's take a look now at some other world news in brief this hour at least two people have been killed in new clashes between egypt's progress for movements and the grueling military in cairo troops aren't we for tons and firing live ammunition into the air descended on top through square to disperse and growing protest the demonstrators angry over a lack of democratic reform are vowing spots. over two hundred firefighters are battling a huge blaze at a shopping mall in northwestern china seventeen people have been evacuated from the building but it's not known how many more are still trapped inside the tricity and gas have been shut off to the complex to stop the flames from spreading no

casualties have been reported so far in the cause of the fire is not yet known. iran has set a date for the start up of its russian built share nuclear power plant the country's foreign minister has confirmed they've started receiving the reactor fuel rods had to be removed in february after concerns of possible contamination voiced by the russian company's service and the facility there is set to start providing energy to the country early next. now russia is 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 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

ever 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 proud that man was walking out of my prose that man once crossed the atlantic ocean and found america i think it's it's a good thing for people who are mankind to do new things and explore and learn no one cares and i'm going into space anywhere is that sad no i think we've done it so you know 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 been there done being here barry is before but we you know we caught up areas now we got up there and greece is just too expensive you don't think people living on another planet would be breaking a boundary well it would suppose that far too many problems on the earth you can thinking of us actual space but aren't there just as many problems back then.

perhaps there were. just so used to a. television. cinema. just shows our spirits all the time so it doesn't seem to be so spectacular and the more i think it was it was a new a newer new presidency and who ministration you know everything was new so i got kind of what obama ran on right those it would just be a great time for him to stay let's really explore it would be something better than nothing he'd see that happening no no no garfield obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space program really get out there really. more as you know 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 i feel. a lot of people's hopes on facebook and

internet 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 we have going to mars but we know with sara waterways we haven't you know who time travels no we haven't but how do you know that even possible and so you try to speculate as well and i will say why are we more focused on things like the internet and facebook because we're dumb yourselves down unless you're 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. well there's no lack of interest in space and this response go out to some of the team president sits in the world's oldest space center star city.

strapped and carefully loaded into the centrifuge cause. and there we have it press the button we go. building up tremendous speed this really pushes you to your limits. what. people should buy for the. moscow art is coming up next hour here on our team stay with us for a recap of the main news stories in just a moment. politically

just say. space is part of our national security there is no subs and there is no alternative to military space. bombs on target time belin.

will be able to look through space ship. dead or at least. the building. and we must. be. investment in the peaceful uses of space. and this incredible investment from the united states and from the european union to canada other countries like this this stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting referencing outer space.

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