shallots grief a year on russia joins together with poland to commemorate the plane crash which killed the polish president since many of the country's political elite. called one r t a group of african leaders are headed to libya to try and ease the conflict between the government and rebels meanwhile nato drones ever more fire over blunders in its military operation. and it's a deal but only job using republicans and democrats agree on costs for the u.s. budget and merrily averting a government shutdown i'll swear a columnist discuss

a world without the dollar. why from our studios in central moscow you're watching are with me and he said now it's six pm here in the russian capital four pm in warsaw poland our top story it was a fatal flight which killed the president and ninety five others memorial services have begun almost a year since a plane crash in western russia claimed the lives of polish leader lech kaczynski and many top officials they've been on their way to a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the one nine hundred forty cookin massacre carried out by stalin secret police aren't easy getting a good show what is out the crash scene following the commemoration katherina a day before the first anniversary of this disaster take us through what's happening where you are. it was

a day to remember solemnly here in smiley and skewer this area where the plane crashed a year ago carrying the polish president his wife and ninety four other of the country's senior political and military officials now today there was a delegation of over one hundred people mostly reality of solve the victims of this catastrophe we came all the way from warsaw to here to smiley and. commemorated those two seized by laying flowers there was a mass held here they observed a million minutes of silence this delegation was headed by the wife of the current polish president. and shortly after the terms of the size of the tragedy they went to the cup the massacre site it is very important to remember that the what was behind that fatal flight it was to commemorate what carrot huge

emotional ways for the people of poland to motional scores the country massacre where some twenty two thousand police officers were slaughtered back in the 1940's at the beginning of world war two and of course it was very important that these delegation visits the cupping site today it is now a symbol of. polish tragedies through much. of the disaster and tell us how the two countries work together in their response to the tragedy. well ironically it was the catastrophe that helped russia and poland relieve tensions between the two countries and shortly after the catastrophe russia's dignified handling of the catastrophe aftermath has been received very well by polls they were taken aback by the prime minister vladimir putin promise to personally oversee the investigation into the causes of the

tragedy now year on the divisions over the investigations findings don't seem to have a quick fix for both moscow was. april seventh twenty turn in the spring sunshine bloody murder putin and donald owner victims of the coffee 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 but crash 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 gun cupping 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 some been bested ation was beginning to take on political overtones with attempts in poland to push the blame onto russia this report is

a joke for poland exploiting the submissive and shoot of the government is going to risk my claim my claim my. and i would personally ask that question to the air traffic control so why there were not so hard to press the crew the transcript of the pilots last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in thick fog and so had to reserve airfield they couldn't for be the plane from landing because that would have been against international aviation. poland disputes russia's findings and it's holding its own investigation. diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us 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 for the recent reconciliation is even skeptics realize it

would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating excluding the burchill r t but the a smile and and screech. well for more on some of the political repercussions of the aircraft starting in the studio paul the political commentator from voice of arsenal grady a station you've written a number of articles devoted to poland its relations with russia and this tragedy from what we've seen so far and according to you do you think poland has recovered from this tragedy. just looking at how people react now to last year's tragedy we see that there is a lot of suspicion. about the possible involvement of the russian authorities or even some plot between the russians for this and prime minister to skip so that a year ago your first reaction would not be good it was a plot to kill the polish president but unfortunately many people believe do believe in peace since the moment is that russia just recently published

a book and we see that many people from prison actually see stuff when they heard about it and use of the russian the russians culo president and it is not aspirant as it seems to us just it's just i am sure the mainstream or the political of the polish political thought of this is very worrying you know that as i would call it fee. and also a widespread view of what happened so it's a minority that think so however there are political forces that are using these these sentiments trying to. gain access to get some political gain internally in poland sure of saying now without sad. how is that particular sentiment affected relations between paul and russell since the crash well i suggest that we look at these aftermath from several angles from the foreign policy perspective.

before the crash took place there was a warming in between in relation to russian problems and the tragedy because it became a great test for them and i'm. believe the two sides have passed this test because the relations have not spoils since and. what's the diplomats from two countries have been working on still remains in force and there's still a lot of debate as to how the crash happened to the investigations you think polaroids so will ever agree well actually the results of the investigation by the russian committee the interstate emission committee are recognized to be true consistent with the facts though the polish side says not all of the facts have been included into these reports and i think that the the assassination version is not likely to emerge in future russian polish relations at the

functional level there which will remain a significant factor for the war and justice party that is trying to challenge. president komorowski hands and even more prime minister tusk so i think there is a chance that the two sides will agree on this there which is going to be held way . now the cuts in months occur of the one nine hundred forty s. has always been a stumbling block you talked a little bit about how conflicts go back decades. are there any signs now that the two countries can move on and close the book on this tragedy sure there are signs and we have seen them since last year's ceremony and celebrations of the. of the quetta massacre back in ninety forty that's russia at ease and ready to talk about it more openly written to open its archives and read it and even even publish the documents related to the massacre on the official website of what it's like i can see so i think the reason there are reasons to believe that this issue will be

overcome and will not be. as. it will not continue to torture of the two countries relations right points of russia's political commentator and to invest pollard thank you very much. over the next two days our crews will bring you special coverage of the commemoration ceremonies will be looking at how both poland and russia are coming together to remember the tragedy and how the details of the crash came to light. when there 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 in other disaster that left a country devastated. that united nations in a great. question

more. a group of african leaders are heading to libya as they try to mediate a conflict between the government and opposition as comes as nato is seeing its popularity wane among rebels i'm sure recent deadly air strikes on their positions parties publicly reports from tripoli. they didn't need to ship 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 chickie really because the nato secretary general why would grating the loss of life has not come out and said that 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 and that of mistook the fighters he's in now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they say that they did notify measured beforehand that they had some treaty tanks in their position and that they were moving to the frontline around the city of a judge here a little bit towards of brega with those tanks it also seems rather questionable why no two was not aware that 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 frontline keeps seesawing forwards and backwards at there is a constant flow of heavy machinery of tanks 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 demobilization among the opposition forces that is now turning into anger they

say that nato is not doing enough it's making a lot of mistakes and it's also neglecting its operations here they said that they do not understand why nato has not been able to prevent the duffys forces from advancing some one hundred miles into rebel territory why and that is true because right at the moment iraqi forces are holding the at their hand in terms of fighting on the ground. regards to you live from moscow still to come in the program whatever happened to the space race the suit is too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space well as those more to do but is it would do is humanity to troubled by more down to earth problems to care about the final frontier anymore the president's been gauging reaction. also the pipeline that's in the pipeline we travel to see firsthand the progress in the construction of north stream a project that promises to transform energy ties between russia and europe.

but first major financial players from around the world are just arriving on the future of the global economy in the iconic u.s. town of bretton woods the summit held by billionaire philanthropist george soros is focusing on the place here merging powers will take in the world order arches more and mr joins us live from the venue hi lauren what have been the main things to come out of the meeting so far is there any sense that they've got the ideas to forge a brighter financial future. well there's some lofty goals so far the conference has been underway since yesterday so it's just kind of gotten going and we've heard from george soros the billionaire investor who backs this think tank that is holding it and also prominent people like larry summers who was the former economic aide and the top. u.s. president obama's ear so far the things that we've heard are not so much what needs to take place going forward but that something needs to change in a new new way of thinking about the global economy and the financial order and the

tools that people have to use in that countries have to use need to change there needs to be new thinking going forward one of the main issues that we've heard from already is something that the original but conference held here stablished remember back in one thousand nine hundred four countries all met here to decide on a global economic framework and that was the time that the u.s. dollar was named the reserve currency and countries peg their exchange rate to it would. is the framework that holds today and it's something that's coming under question yesterday we heard george soros say that one of the big questions is if the u.s. dollar should still be the reserve currency and in fact he said that other currencies already are kind of taking its place that it no longer is the main reserve currency that the euro has a place in the economy that kind of fills that role or could and that so much diversification has happened with other currencies and also with commodities like gold and oil and so that's one of the real questions that bankers are asking here and and moving away from that idea that maybe the u.s.

dollar and the united states in its place that it had when this is it you know pull their world back in the one nine hundred forty s. the thinking that that's outdated and that a new framework needs to emerge that takes into account as you mentioned developing economies which have been good commies that have grown at a clip and emerged as powers over the last several years including the bric nations of brazil russia india and china and even yesterday we heard a few times about how china has weathered the financial crisis much better than others and has been the real winner out of the financial crisis and of globalization right so lots of questions obviously what strategies are being pushed forward up to this summit to change the world financial system right you know that's a really good question of and he said because we haven't really heard that yet so far it's been a lot of academic talk talk among you know top economic economist send people in the finance. and banking that are kind of theorizing and talking about you know ideas about what has gone wrong and what could be fixed but no real battle cry and

no real call for change and what that would look like yet and you know to remind these aren't the world leaders that act actual policy these are these are thinkers these are economists so it's not really clear what exact the rx action can come out of this but i asked larry summers yesterday about this about what role these kind of conferences with these major players you know. someone like soros anything he says pretty much makes news and is influential when it comes to finance when it comes to the economy so i ask what role these kind of things can have and he said that they do in kind of a cumulative way that they're often the precursor to the actual policy that gets pushed forward years later and i'll remind you that some of the policymakers here do still have a role and are closed the government even yesterday mr summers said he couldn't answer a question on japan selling treasuries because he's still selling u.s. treasuries in the wake of bear quake and tsunami and a disaster and what they'll need to repair their economy and he said he couldn't

answer that because he's still much too close to government just kind of showing that a lot of the names here do have influence still and people that are making policy when it comes to the economy or choose long list are reporting live from new hampshire thanks for that update. and more on the conference in bretton woods on our web site www dot com you can also have a look at the latest from our washington bureau and there you'll find out why in some experts believe america is facing a revenue crisis as u.s. corporations are finding tax loopholes overseas to squirrel away their profits. dollars longline angry computer hackers take on the playstation network saying sony has become home and not really. and in the mix with the fiftieth anniversary of eureka gardens historic spaceflight archie has a recipe for a special cocktail named after the men solve learn how to make it step by step that are to be done.

i 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 nord stream pipeline which is rapidly nearing completion but revived western europe with a new level of energy security or geographic road went to the construction site and gauge the progress. might look like common in middle of a multi building site but behind me is the key point where one of the most ambitious engineering projects undertaken anywhere in the world over the last few years. you can see just going into the ground and then out to see behind me is the nord stream pipe it's the world's longest underwater gas pipe it's the world's thickets boy and it's also one operating under the most pressure it's

a flagship project for russia it was mooted for over ten years before construction could actually begin to have. cost over seven billion euros at least. she's now proving it is capable of initialising in carrying out such large scale projects taking part in phases starting from moodily constructing and operating. this is no ordinary metal 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 was 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 facts are the moment is big 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 nation the north stream project costs a lot of objections now one part of objection was from environmentalist those in sweden and finland three of the country for you to 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 you know any kind of cyclic emergencies well in this respect gazprom under contract has not only gone and done everything to make sure that there aren't. nothing happened sort of point but it got us started they've started to see about of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars previous pollution i don't actually going out of their way to restore thought of what they're about the condition of that objection was political already supplied nearly a third of europe's gas but russia has started the business by what was going to bring a new level of security but avoiding the kind of conflicts which are good transit

countries with ukraine and you have both the basically held the whole of europe hostage but it is a one transit country and recent events in our world are playing into the hands of those because on this project with the instability that it's all bad that europe needs north stream wall. coming up twenty three minutes past the hour let's bring you some other world news in brief at least two people have been killed in new clashes between egypt's progress for movement and the ruling military in cairo troops armed with tons and firing live ammunition into the air descended on top here square to disperse ongoing protests the demonstrators angry over a lack of democratic reforms are vowing a response. thousands of workers from across europe are marching in budapest hungary to protest against new austerity measures and action is a response to a conference of finance ministers in the city council for a new round of talks over

a multi-billion ballad package for portugal if approved the bill could mean painful pay cuts and tax hikes for the rest of the european union. a gunman has killed six people and injured sixteen in a shooting spree near amsterdam he ran through a shopping mall randomly firing an automatic weapon before turning the gun on himself this comes just a week after another shootout in the same town where two people were killed and two were wounded. 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 a 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 caused that yuri gagarin to advert 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. and i proud that man was walked out of my proud that man once crossed 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 about going into space anymore is that bad no i think we've done it seen 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 used to think it was so important and now we're like there been there done it being here barry is before but we know we've got up areas now we've got our boundaries it's just too expensive you don't think people living on another planet would be breaking a boundary when we would i suppose there's far too many problems on the earth now to be even thinking of us actual space but weren't there just as many problems back than. perhaps there were. just so used to it.

television. cinema. to shows or space all the time so it doesn't seem to be so spectacular and the more i think it was it was a new a new or new presidency and who administration you know everything was new so that's 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 you'd see that happening no malice him no barack obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space will groom really get out there really for the more more zoom you never know do you think that 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 focus 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 what's there are a lot of ways we haven't you know time travels no we haven't but how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate i guess 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 rock of interest in space in this week's moscow out this time for team kinds of visit to the world's oldest space center star city. well i'll go over various training with our guards seem to match your pretty face and i call police

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