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here with our to you live from moscow worth seven our top story it was a fatal flight which killed the president and ninety five others morial services are gone almost a year since a plane crash in western russia which can claimed the lives of published leader lech kaczynski and many top officials they've been on their way to work on the ration ceremony for the victims of the one nine hundred forty contin massacre carried out by stalin secret police are. at the crash scene. today it was a sideshow of a very soul them ceremony carried out here a year off a tragedy took place here on the side where the police want you to be for the polish blade crashed killing the polish president leave his wife maria there so the country. is senior political and military officials now today this

delegation of a hundred and three reality of some of the victims of the tast review was prodded by the current bush president's wife and the delegation in the beginning late flowers at the size hole the catastrophe of the crash then there was a soul of christian service held here observed here and off so that the delegation harder to cut the massacre site it's only twenty kilometers from here because you should remember what was the first flight to this region of russia so these high ranking delegation of polish officials a year ago that was to to visit the at the massacre side where some twenty two thousand pows polish officers were slaughtered by stalin secret police and to the beginning of world war two and now it appears to be that these side is a place of a double tragedy and almost goes dignified handling all because often mark has been

very well received by polls they were taken aback by the support which the russian people provided that we know you roll the differences over the investigations results aren't likely to have a quick fix. april seventh twenty turns in the spring sunshine blood in her putin and donald to step on are victims of the cut in 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. but fresh tears were to fall on the soil just three days later the whole polish nation was sent in to leave 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 seconds 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 do you still suffer and national tragedy. there was however a twist of irony it was these 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 this the commander 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 my ization and i would personally ask the question to the traffic controller why there were not so hard. the price of crude the transcript of the pilot's last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in a cork and had to reserve their bill they could be the plane from landing because that would have been against international aviation law poland disputes russia's findings and its 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 that even skeptics realize it

would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating it feel a great show r t. the smiley and screech and. well moscow based journalist fred ware says the public and politicians in both countries have been brought closer together as they tried to cope accident it was a terrible trial i don't think scrivens helpful in any way. what i would say is like adversity often does he challenged the leaders of 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 leaders and the populations on both sides i think that to some extent rise to the occasion they rethought retrenched and i think we can say that we were

asked that. the relationship is on a fairly constructive forty. now over the next two days our crews will bring you special coverage of the commemoration ceremonies where we look at how both poland and russia are coming together to remember the tragedy and how the details of the crotch came to light. when it is not enough. when it's something really crucial. what you want to get down to brass tacks we'll 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 opposition this comes as nato is seeing its popularity wane among rebels after recent deadly airstrikes on their positions parties polls here reports from tripoli. baseman's leadership over its military operations here in libya are coming under more and more fire for being ineffective and for creating the state's 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 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 particularly because the nato secretary general why regretting the loss of life has not come out and said that he is sorry for these in 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 have been made and

now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they said that they did notify major beforehand that they had some twenty tanks in their position and that they would move into the front line of around the city of a drive year a little bit towards a briger with those tanks it also seems rather questionable why no two was not aware of where the rebel fighters had tanks because there has been footage circulating now for weeks of showing these opposition fighters with heavy weaponry that includes tanks the other argument that nato is putting forward is that the situation on the ground is extremely fluid it says that the front line keeps seesawing forwards and backwards at these a 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 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 these forces from advancing

some one hundred miles into rebel territory and that is true because right at the moment the duffys forces are holding the upper hand in terms of fighting on the ground well 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 abroad. the assumption in 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 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. here with our to

you live from moscow still to come on the program whatever happened to the space race. the seat is too expensive 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 been gauging reaction. also of a pipeline back in the pipeline we've traveled to see firsthand the progress in the construction of the north stream a project that promises to transform energy ties between russia and europe. but first major financial players from around the world are debating the future of the global economy in the iconic u.s. town of bretton woods the summit held by. george soros is focusing on the place emerging nations will take in the new world order lauren listserv reports from the venue so far the themes 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 bretton woods conference held here established remember back in one thousand forty 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 which is the framework that holds today and it's something that's kind of 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 says 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 end so much diversification as happened with currencies and also with them. oddities like gold

and oil and so that's one of the real questions that bankers are asking here may be the u.s. dollar and the united states in its place that it had when this was a you know polar world back in the one nine hundred forty s. the thinking is that outdated and that a new framework needs to emerge that takes into account developing economies which have been the economies that have grown at wycliffe 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 fast 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 will these kind of things can have and he said that they do in kind of a cumulative way that they're often a precursor to the actual policy that gets pushed forward years later. of

a conference is being led by george soros think tank the institute for new economic thinking that we cannot cross live to these institutions executive director robert johnson thank you for being with us our reporter lauren has been telling us about some of the ideas being put forward out before who do you think global decision makers would be listening and not to take action. i guess i would say it was because there was an awful lot of smart people a lot of experience from the product markets experienced people both pros and from the posted community what a great job are very very children it works was good which was young so well that was old men and women so if they were not loose in the groups and there was in your opening speech i understand you question the effectiveness of the current financial governance and calls for measures to restore trust in the system who do you think people can trust to steer the economy responsibly. at this time i do

not think people trust the government after the financial bailouts i do not think their trust experts are large but. the notion of unfettered free market. interest that's the nature of the problem that's why i got was ford was in the process of regaining which michael a thirty incredible trust expertise as many in america saw the academy award winning film by charles ferguson. i saw experts use just how they say denigrated throughout that film you know the inside job you see here with michael miller conviction we have to take that seriously we have to grow out of that by regaining trust. himself to look at themselves in a part of incentives are they embrace of the kind of social responsibility of a think it's the role of an expert. will deal with that repeatedly i think that's an essential part of what our mission stands for how do you gain trust though of

those people that feel betrayed by all of these billion dollar bail outs around the world. i don't know how you get interest but you concerned about the united states which is in center of the world since the middle class in the united states is feeling compressed they're experiencing what you might call a social death. three percent at most are doing very very well almost all of the gains from one hundred seventy nine to the present perhaps more than a hundred percent of have gone to the top one percent and that's just not that's not sustainable and that is not inspiring trust people can tell you what you might call a look at your ideas your ideology but the proof of putting is in the eating and when everybody makes a lot of experts seem to espouse their point of view they're not taking care of the entire society if you will regain trust until you start reflect the interests of everyone that some experts also believe the time of the dollar as the world's

reserve currency might soon come to an end what's the view among the delegates at the conference about. we view our. diminishing in significance somewhat for natural reasons because the united states is a smaller proportion of the world economy as the emerging countries like the usual you're in china growth but at the same time the dollar may be suffering for your group which are yours the united states are not people go for potential weeks that we were under warranty economic conditions infrastructure the education the scientific research and the maintenance of demand you have very very persistent high unemployment with a very low safety net if you haven't damaged the mission you will you should do damage to infrastructure and when i say paltry a nonexistent investment you're not going to have a stronger economy of the dollar will be a reflection of that. i had robert johnson executive director from the institute

for new economic thinking thank you very much for your analysis thank you. now more on the conference in bretton woods on our web site r t dot com and you can also have a look at the latest from our washington bureau there you'll find out why some experts believe america is facing a rather new crisis as u.s. corporations are finding tax loopholes overseas to squirrel away their profits are also online angry computer hackers take on the playstation network saying sony has been a monopoly. and in the mix with the fiftieth anniversary of your regard for storage space flight r.t. has a recipe for a special cocktail named after the man himself learn how to make it step by step at artsy dot com.

more than one thousand kilometers in length on the seabed in downtown is one of the most ambitious marine projects ever russia's nordstrom pipeline which is rapidly nearing completion and will provide western europe with a new level of energy security r.t.c. grant road and went to the construction site to gauge the progress. look like carbon in middle of a muddy building site put 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 out the seat behind me is the nord stream pipe as the world's longest underwater gas pipe of the world and it's also one operating under the most pressure it's a flagship project for russia it was mooted for over thirty years before construction could actually begin to hear that it's going to cost over seven billion year as. she's now proving it is capable of initialising to

carry on social projects taking part in all the phases starting from modeling to constructing and operating. this is no ordinary methyl ploy 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 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 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 a 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 raised a lot of objections now one type objection was from environmentalist those in

sweden. and two of the countries that are you see by the words the project will go through we're worried about the impact of the project on the seabed and also what might have happened if any kind of so i think emergencies well in this respect gazprom under their contract has only gone and done everything to make sure that there are no nothing happened so the point would have gone beyond they've started to see bad of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars on previous pollution and are actually going out of their way to restore their better condition but all that objection was political pressure already supplies nearly a third of europe's gas which should have started the business part of what was going to bring a new level of security because of conflicts which have good transit countries with ukraine and you have passed that basically held the whole of europe hostage to the demands of one transit country and recent events in the arab world are playing into the hands of those behind this project with the instability of its own birth but

europe needs north stream more than ever. but look now at some world news in brief for you this hour thousands of workers from europe are marching in past hungary protest against new austerity measures the action is a response to a conference of e.u. finance ministers in the city they gathered for a new round of talks over a multi-billion palouse portugal if approved the bill could mean painful pay cuts and tax hikes for that. 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 more. human rights groups say at least three people were killed during friday's mass protests in syria against the country's authoritarian regime state t.v.

has pictures. as of an unknown gunman shooting from a view call it's now believed more than one hundred people have been killed during the nationwide demonstration last month syrian authorities however have only confirmed the doubts the policeman. russia is preparing to celebrate mankind's first foray into space as the u.s. retires its iconic space shuttle fleet with no place one and site 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 has been out 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 proud that man once crossed the atlantic ocean and failed america

i think it's a good thing for people to do for mankind to do new things and explore and learn no one cares about going into space anywhere is that fad 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 it why did it why did the culture used to think it was so important and now are like been there done that being a barrier is before we you know we caught up barriers 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 you would suppose there's far too many problems on the earth are you thinking of us as your space but weren't there just as many problems back than . perhaps there were. just so used to a. television. cinema. just shows social space all the time so it doesn't seem to be so spectacular and the more i think it was it

was a new and newer new presidency and who ministration you know everything was new so that's kind of what obama ran on right goes what must be a great time for him to stay let's really explore something better than nothing you'd see that happening now. barack obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space program. 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 to into the internet and face but i feel. a lot of people's focus on facebook and internet so what changed that we used to focus on it and now we don't seem to care and on a more 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 a lot of ways we haven't you know that will travel you know we have you know that

even possible until 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. coming your way next hour is moscow out and this time the team has a star city where russian. cosmonauts were all trained on the outskirts of the capital and host martin andrews got a chance to prove he has what it takes. such as standing by overhead wire and police is simple and it's pressurized to the same pressure as it would be in the documents. place myself in the hospitals learn basic emergency procedures and how to operate the airlocks in normal emergency situations so far

so good. or won't be sure. one hundred kilograms in the water. and the. pressure to clean and alan. microgram. they are you read again. it's. a. full version of moscow out is up for you next hour but stay with us this hour for another look at the headlines and our spotlight interference.

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