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wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. sunscreen a year on russia joins together with poland to commemorate the plane crash which killed the polish president that so many other countries politically it's. also a group of african leaders there headed to libya to try and ease the conflict between the government and rebels meanwhile nato draws ever more fire over blunders in its military operation. around the world without the dollar top economists gather to discuss where the global economy is heading and the role of emerging countries.
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eight pm saturday night here in moscow you're watching the r.t. news channel with me kevin owen warm welcome to the top story it was a fatal flight that killed a president a ninety five others a moral service has been taking place almost a year now since the plane crash in western russia that claimed the lives of the polish lead election ski and many top officials may be on the way to a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the nineteen forty kathleen massacre carried out by starlin secret police that is a country that's been at the crash site. it was a day to remember solemnly here in somalians a delegation of over one hundred people mostly relatives of the victims of the catastrophe gathered at the site where the polish to believe one fifty four. crashed a year ago carrying president live his wife maria and many other of the country's
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political and military elite else's a the current polish president's wife on the come out all had at the delegation this polish delegation in the beginning there was a flower laying ceremony here at the side of the plane crash and there was also a mass observed here and then they had to the car the massacre site only some twenty five kilometers from here it's very important to remember what was the part of those behind the tree which actually never happened of the polish high ranking officials last year that was to commemorate something which carries huge emotional scars for the people of poland because the massacre where twenty two thousand polish officers the country's elite were slaughtered by stalin's secret police at the beginning of world war two and today caffeine is a symbol of a double tragedy for the polish people now not schools dignifies handling of the catastrophe aftermath has been very well received by the people of poland but
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a year on differences over the investigations findings opened up between moscow and warsaw and they're not likely to have a quick fix april seventh twenty turn in the spring sunshine let him or putin and. order victims of the country 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 brash tears were to fall on the sword just three days later the whole polish nation was sent into a movie. their president government religious leaders and other members of the country's elite plan cutting 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
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catastrophe shows 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 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 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 fact 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 it joe tripodi and exploiting the submissive and shoot of the government of doing. and i claim my
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close my zation and i would a person ask that question of the traffic controllers why there were not so hard to press the crew the transcript of the pilot's last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in peak and had to reserve airfield they couldn't forbid the plane from landing because that would have been against international aviation law 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. destress 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 but even skeptics realize it would be a sheen for it to be tainted once again waited bijan and scapegoating it feeling
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the pressure of r t. the smiley inscription. mr professor nina a professor at yale university an expert on russia and eurasia thanks for taking the time to be with us in our d.c. it's often said isn't it the strength comes out of adversity and possibly unity to do think that russia and poland were brought closer together in the aftermath of this terrible tragedy. i think there is no dog that the tragedy. poland not to see each other differently of course there has been ups and the on the record with the relation was difficult by a sense but obviously the we the russian leadership reacted immediately after the catastrophe was looking very sincere and not an operation of p r and among many pauls including in the leader she can see russia out of the eyes has been having
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long time effects and i think that we still feel the effects today and we will probably feel the world over the last year overall how would you assess russia's efforts to support its neighbor. i'm sorry i didn't hold with the last year just sum up for us how would you assess russia's efforts to support its neighbor. i would not say that for sure try to support its neighbors i think that is try to help in this in trying also to help personally to get rid of heavy part of his past with poor and so i think it is a typical case of very realistic approach where booth partners were in fact helping each order to set a course of the past to take profit of tragedy if i can use this terminology to build or to start to build a new type of relation we certainly better fit to the world of to be not what was existing before there was
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a fair bit of criticism was in there from some polish politicians who said that russia wasn't doing enough in the investigation into the catastrophe russia was even accused of concealing some information at the time what why is that and why would russia of done it if they had. you know i think that the relations between poor on them rasha are very special sometimes they are. a fruit of politics and i think it's not surprising that knowing this past but also knowing the kind of culture of a circus the among the russian leadership that we have to admit to they where they have a lot of groans for the problem of recrimination and i think of the problem of busy clee is that after the kind of free consolation the slow to its role the decision for instance to have the inquiry together to accept from the russian side to look more intensively in the question of cutting and so on and so on and the relation
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has been hijacked by poorish internal party scene and that's why i think the main problem it has nothing to do with it was basically a fight for power were inside poor and and of course as you know they were and when you have a difficult electoral campaign and when you have political forces well of it and are going to speak especially to watts from the broad of the former presidents towards the prime minister tusk you have just what you can foreseen it means of the tragedy was used to say that one was too soft on russia and for the order of power to i choose. to be too hard and coming back digging constantly incoming into a kind of paranoia to watch for a shot and i guess that's why than poland has decided to conduct its own investigation into the crash that's due to be released later on this year isn't it what conclusions are we likely to see from the report. i think it will be mainly
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political or i would be highly surprised if. the new inquiry by the poor inside we find something that has been this totally. today what you see in that is a way to reconciliate again for internal. reasons to try to recall ceded those who have been accused of being too soft on russia with those who want to move. their hopes to find something that has been hidden to justify their own reluctance to accept the first inquiry as such it was done so i think there is two elements in there there is some element who is between russia and poland which point they can cooperate. and trust each will do and on the other side. the part of public opinion in poland to accept the reason beyond the tragedy. of professionally as universe expert on russia and eurasia as you are thank you for
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your time and being on r.t. tonight thank you. but over the next two days our crews will bring you special coverage of the commemoration ceremonies we're looking at how both poland and russia are coming together to remember the tragedy and how details of the crash schedule like. when the news is not enough. when it's something really crucial. when you want to get down to brass tacks we'll bring you our special coverage a year all. in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left the country devastate. and united two nations in grief. question more on. the libyan leader colonel gadhafi has appeared in public for the
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first time in five days it was shown on state t.v. inspecting a school in the capital tripoli where people greeted him with anti western slogans meanwhile a group of african leaders are heading to libya in attempts to mediate a conflict between the government and the opposition it comes as nato saying its popularity waned among rebels after recent deadly airstrikes on their positions these paula slayer's got the latest for you from tripoli. writers 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 major strides 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 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
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is arguing is that it was not aware that the rebel fighters were using tanks prior to these airstrikes and that if this took the fighters in gadhafi has been 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 tanks in their position and that they were moving to the front line around the city of observe year a little bit towards a bridge with those tanks and also seems rather questionable why nature was not aware left 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 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 and that is now turning into anger
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they say that nato 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 that is true because right at the moment it after his forces are holding the upper hand in terms of fighting on the ground. more details coming through actually from the france press i'm hearing on the news wires that seven pro-government tanks have been destroyed by british airstrikes since we have more on that when of course. norman solomon of the institute of public accuracy says there are some glaring omissions in the way some media outlets are reporting washington's military campaigns abroad the assumption after implicit is through the media uncle sam has it here or is it and he's trying to do really good sometimes you screw up but basically the u.s.
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has the best of intentions now if there was no war you all you know or iraq and the main export say was to converse i think the u.s. would have invested billions of dollars in military action and what is part of the equation that's often left out or when going to explain events to us here we have a program here in our seats and our it whatever happened to the space race we are asked. to see it it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space those more to do but is it worth doing and there's a question we ask is humanity to troubled by more down to earth problems to care about the final frontier anymore or the residents gauging reaction to that also. the pipeline that's in the pipeline we travel to see the progress in the construction of north stream a project that promises to transform energy ties between russia really you sort of
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come. back to the present major financial players from around the world the debate in the future of the global economy in the iconic u.s. tele bretton woods the summit held by billionaire philanthropist george soros is focusing on the place merging nations will take in the new world order is laura listed reports them from livonia. 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 and 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 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 which is the framework that holds today and it's something that's come in under pressure and yesterday we heard george soros say that one of the big questions is
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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 place in the economy that kind of fills that role or could and so much diversification has happened with currencies and also with commodities like gold and oil and so that's one of the real questions that bankers are asking here to the u.s. dollar and the united states in its place that it had when this was a going to pull the world back in the one nine hundred forty s. that thinking that that's outdated and that a new framework needs to emerge that takes into account developing economies which have been the economies 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 fast larry summers yesterday about this about what role these kind of
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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 asked what will 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. parties lauren lyster reporting there a conference in bretton woods being led by george soros is think tank the institute for new economic thinking its executive director robert johnson told us the first thing the financial league should do is restore public trust in the system. i do not think people trust the government after the financial bailouts i do not trust experts and by and large we have to take it serious and we have to grow out of regaining the trust. himself to look at themselves in a credible or they embrace of the kind of social responsibility to rethink is the rule of their expert absolutely concerned about the united states which is in the
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center of the old system the middle class in the united states is feeling compressed they're experiencing what you might call a social growth while trying to three percent of 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 have gone to the top one percent and that's just not that's not sustainable and that is not inspiring of trust people can take with you mark or look at your ideas you argue ology or proof of the pudding is in the end when everybody at the top makes a lot of experts seem to espouse their point of view or not so you can clear of the entire society if you want really interested and so you start reflecting the interests of everyone. a little more the conference at bretton woods on our website called also have a look. at the latest from our washington bureau you'll find out why some experts believe that america is facing a revenue crisis right now as u.s.
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corporations are finding tax loopholes overseas to screw in the way of their profits that surveilled by us tonight. also online angry computer hackers take on the playstation network saying that sony is big cup monopoly but for interest to take a look online let us know what you think it is a question for and makes the fiftieth anniversary of your good car into the story space flight he's got a recipe for a special cocktail named after the man himself we do try to give you variety and learn how to make it step by step. one thousand kilometers in length from the seabed it's been dubbed as one of the most ambitious marine projects ever russia's nord stream pipeline which is rapidly
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nearing completion now will provide western europe with a new level of energy security but is it a good rodney of went to the construction site to gauge the progress for himself. like carbon in middle of the building so i 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 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 as the world's thickets by and it's also one operating under the most pressure it's a flagship project for russia for over ten years before construction could actually begin here and it's going to cost over seven billion euros at least. proving that it is capable of initialising and carry on social projects taking part in all the phases starting from modeling to constructing and operating.
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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 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 other moments 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 all of this way to realize ation the north stream project cost a lot of objections now one type of objection was from environmentalist those in sweden and finland two of the country three received by their wish the project will go through well worried about the impact of the project on the seabed and also what
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might have happened if there were any kind of so i think emergencies well in this respect gazprom under contract has not only gone and done everything to make sure that there are no. nothing happened sort of quiet it would have gone beyond that. seabed of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars and previous pollution and are actually going out of their way to restore stone but they're better condition but other objection was political russia already supplies nearly a third of europe's scout's which russia has third of the business pipeline was going to bring a new level of security by of voiding the kind of conflicts which have good transit countries with ukraine in years past but 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 it's obvious that europe needs north stream more than ever. does he go grozny reporting mail spring up to date now with some news in brief and at least two things killed
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a new twenty g.'s probe for movements and the ruling military troops. firing live ammunition into the air descended on tahrir square to disperse going protests with demonstrators angry over a lack of democratic reforms to respond. to japan and there are a steel wall and a sense of being installed around the fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent more radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean operated tepco has been criticized by the fishing industry and by neighboring south korea something low level radioactive water into the sea tepco says it will start to transfer highly radioactive water from reactor number two. in time a rare he says the start of its russian built shared nuclear power plant will begin early next month the country's foreign ministers confirmed that they've already started refueling the reactor fuel rods had to be removed in february because of a fault in a cooling pump by the russian company servicing facility. russians preparing to
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celebrate mine comes first foray into space as the u.s. retires its iconic space shuttle fleet with no replacement in sight our resident takes to the streets of new york than to find it's just what happened to america's space missions. 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 man was walked 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 sad 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
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but is it worth doing if you don't think it is i don't know why did it why did it why did the culture used to think it was so important and now or like been there done being here barry is before we you know we've got up areas now we've got our boundaries it's just too expensive you don't think the people living on another planet would be breaking a boundary well you would suppose the hardship any problems on the earth would be even thinking of a short space but 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 a new or new presidency a new administration you know everything was new so that's kind of what obama ran on right so see what must be a great time for him to stay let's really explore it be something better than
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nothing do you see that happening you know. him know barack obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new room really gets out there really. more. you know but no 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. a lot of people's focus or face we're going to know so what changed that we used to focus on it and now we don't seem to care and technology we understand a lot more about the universe through our telescopes and other resources but we haven't been to mars you know but we know what's there are a lot of ways we haven't you know over time travels no we haven't but how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate i guess but 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
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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 much forty eight minutes past eight moscow time and just fifteen minutes away from the latest sports updates neither case got used to the top of the russian premier league goals we're going out plain english football on a world champion pole position pole position on the lazier also a week at a time when god said to it's not out of this world affair or revealed a few minutes here on our team is something they're going to try to make.
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when the news 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 on in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastated. and united two nations in grief. question more.

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