such grief by your own how she joins together with poland to commemorate the plane crash which killed the polish president the country. a group of african leaders are headed to libya to try and ease the conflict between the government and rebels meanwhile nato draws even even more fire over blunders in its military operation. and a world without the dollar top economists gather to discuss where the global economy is heading and of the world of emerging countries.

broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our team we're certainly glad to have you with us it's been a year since the polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five other v.i.p.'s died in a plane crash in western russia russian officials and relatives of the victims have been taking part in memorial service is that the side of the disaster site small yeah the presidential jet went down when lech kaczynski his wife and many of the nation's elite were on their way to marking the anniversary of the nine hundred forty massacre carried out by stalin's secret police. reports from the crash scene . 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 plane

crashed a year ago carrying president he left his wife maria and many other of the country's political and military elite now to see the current polish president's wife on the come out off sky how did 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 mass observed here and then they had it to the kathleen massacre size only some twenty five kilometers from here it's very important to remember what was the parkers behind the tree which actually never happened of the polish high ranking officials last year that was to commemorate something which carried huge emotional scars for the people of poland the cut the massacre where twenty two thousand polish officers the country's elite were slaughtered by stalin secret police and covered at the beginning of world war two and today cutting is a symbol of a double tragedy for the polish people now law schools dignifies handling of the

catastrophe aftermath has been very well received by the people of poland but a year on differences over the investigations findings opens up between moscow and warsaw and they're not likely to have a quick fix april seventh twenty turn in the spring sunshine bloody mary putin and donald to ski on are victims of the pain 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 crushed tears were to fall on the soil just three days later the whole polish nation was sent into a room. their presidents government religious leaders and other members of the country's elite. 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 huge 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 the investigation was beginning to take on police vehicle 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 of. my claim. and i would personally ask the question of the traffic controller why there were not so hard to press the group the transcript of the pilots last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in cork and had to reserve their kilt they couldn't for b. the plane from landing because that would have been against international aviation law poland disputes russia's findings and is holding its own investigation diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us facts are the most important. it's true suggests russian 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 it even skeptics realise it

would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating feeling the pressure of our tea cup team the smiley inscription efforts for improved relations between moscow and warsaw have been affected by a political factors within poland that's the view of professor. of leisure university who's an expert on russia and eurasia. after the kind of frequency lives from the start it's a wrong decision for instance to have the inquiry to get to accept from the russian side to move more intensively into question the captain and so on and so on the relation has been hijacked by internal policy and that's why i think the main problem it has nothing to do with it was a busy clear fight for poor work inside so poor and of course as you know they were when you have a difficult electoral campaign and when you have political forces well there are

going to speak especially towards from the brotherhood before the presidents towards the prime minister tusk you have just not you can before seen it means of the tragedy was used to see that one was too soft. and for the other party to actually use the broader culture is going to be too hard and coming back digging constantly into a kind of parallel your thoughts. continue across this week and our reporting team 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 the investigation into the causes of the crash. when the news is not enough. when 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 two nations in grief. if . question more on. the libyan leader colonel gadhafi has appeared in public for the first time in five days he was shown on state t.v. visiting the school in the capital tripoli where pupils greeted him with anti western slogans his forces have launched a massive offensive to oust rebels from the city of. the last stop before their stronghold of benghazi meanwhile african leaders are meeting in mauritania in an attempt to mediate in the pan flute if there were. more and more questions like these policy or have the greatest comfort. made his 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 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 cheekily because the nato secretary general and why regretting the loss of life has not come out and said that he is sorry for these air strikes essentially what nato is arguing is that i was not aware that the rebel fighters were using tanks prior to these airstrikes and that if mistook the fighters for being gadhafi is 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 frontline around the city of baghdad year and little bit towards a greater with those tanks it also seems rather questionable why nato was not aware that the rebel fighters had tanks because there has been footage circulating now for weeks or showing these opposition fighters with heavy weaponry that includes

tanks and the other argument that nature is putting forward is that the situation on the ground is extremely fluid it says that the frontline keeps the seesawing forwards and backwards that there is a constant flow of heavy machinery of tanks and it's coming so difficult for them to. we 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 and 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 convince the duffys forces from advancing something one hundred miles into the rebel territory right why and that is true because right at the moment the duffys forces are holding the at their hands in terms of fighting on the ground party's policy we are reporting from the capital now earlier we talked to lourdes davidson a professor of middle east history at west chester university in pennsylvania he

says that if nato is intending to help the rebels its tactics need to change or the operation will end in disaster. if the goal. was to facilitate the victory of the rebels rather than say to protect civilians and i suspect that regime change was in fact a goal then they haven't succeeded and they're not going to succeed unless they can turn the rebel force into a viable fighting unit can you can take around the darkies already if they can they've got a stalemate at best i think there's a lot of confusion and when you get a conspiracy like. you have even on the ground in libya you're going to start to look for scapegoats so i think that it leaves them in the near future unless someone can take this in hand you can imagine here and sort of french or british or whoever you know somebody can take us in hand i think in the near future you're

going to see a lot of name calling and finger pointing i think is going to get really embarrassing. still to come on what has become of the space race. saying it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space well it's also more to do what is it worth doing. as man become to weighed down by terrestrial troubles to care about the final frontier resident reporter in new york finds out coming up in the program. also argued visits of the north stream up project construction in its final stages bringing closer to reality the pipeline which will pump russian gas guy right you and me and big changes in energy ties between the two. major financial players from around the world are discussing the future of the global economy the historic venue of bretton woods in the u.s. the event hosted by billionaire philanthropist george soros is exploring what role

emerging powers will take in a new world economic order more lister has been covering the conference for us. we heard from a former prime minister gordon brown at lunch he addressed the crowd talking about the role of bric nations brazil russia india and china their growth as ours in the globe and how this needs to be addressed and needs to be global governing bodies need to adjust to this if the west in europe and the united states are not going to decline he said does the rise of these nations mean that europe in the united states will decline and said well that all depends on how they adjust if they're able to change your free will to invest more in education in science but he did say that this is going to take reform and so one as one gets pointed out that the emerging economies the bric nations are kind of the one high point at a conference where many people are talking about what needs to change in terms of the western banking reforms monetary tools and the u.s.

dollar is the reserve currency some of the ideas of some of the gas that we've heard from involve more of a state role in capital markets the financial crisis being there evidence that that didn't work there's a lot of concern that too big to fail still exists that banks could still. bring down the system we create another crisis and that are rules are going to place there is not a lot of confidence from any of the guests here that i've spoken to that dodd frank or the rules go far enough so that's another issue another concern is that over the you as i mentioned the u.s. dollar is the reserve currency and in fact george soros said that other currencies it no longer really is there for and sees are filling not role as well the euro being one of diversification of currencies and something that was really blamed on although nobody really knows the alternative is a number of factors in the us economy and a debt to g.d.p. ratio that's really grown and i think as i spoke to earlier said he attributes that

and a large part to bailing out this thing bailing out wall street not the public which it's just her revenues in the united. further and turned it further into something that we didn't see dealt with as right here in the united states we saw the government barely avert a shutdown and we saw them essentially only cutting thirty eight billion dollars from the budget which is nothing more than one trillion dollar deficit so really you can tackle the deficit or that if you at all people are concerned about you if economy. lauren lyster reporting there well as we mentioned at the conference in bretton woods is being led by george soros is institute for new economic thinking its executive director robert johnson told us the first thing the financial elite should do is restore public trust in the system. i do not think people trust the government after the financial bailouts i do not think they trust experts and by and large we have to take that seriously we have to grow out of my regaining the trust. concept to look at themselves in

a kind of incentives are they embrace and what kind of social responsibility do they think is the role of an expert on a particular concern about the united states which is in the center of the world system the middle class in the united states is feeling compressed they're experiencing what you might call a social death while some three percent most are doing very very well almost all of the games 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 trust people can take what you call a look at your ideas your ideology but the proof of the pudding is in the eating and when everybody at the top makes a lot of experts seem to spiles their point of view or they're not taken care of the entire society and then you won't be really interested and so you start reflecting the interests of everyone. of course you can get more on the bretton woods conference as well as commentary and analysis from our washington bureau archie dot com. economic experts here america's financial crisis could worsen as

massive u.s. corporations get creative with their accounting to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes. also online at the computer hackers who are hacked off a with the state of the gaming industry find out why they're taking on sony and its best selling playstation. and in the mix our t. has the recipe for a special cosmic cocktail to mark the fiftieth anniversary of your dad becoming the first man in space blast off to our t.v. dot com learn how to make. at over one hundred thousand kilometers in length on the seabed and called one of the most ambitious marine engineering feats ever the north stream pipeline project

to pump russian gas to the e.u. is rapidly nearing completion with supplies scheduled to start late this year actually if you go to has been to see the construction first hand as it enters its final stages might look like carbon a middle of a muddy building site but behind me is the key point and one of the most ambitious engineering projects undertaken anywhere in the world over the last few years but which you can see just going into the ground and then out to see behind me as the north stream pipe is the world's longest underwater gas pipe of the world and it's also an 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 going to cost over seven billion years at least. russia is now proving that it is capable of initialising and carrying out such large scale projects taking part in all their phases starting from modeling to

constructing and operating. 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 the moment is being laid down on a ship about a thousand kilometers away near the coast of germany the world's 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 type of objection was from viral mentalists those in sweden and finland two of the country through the which the project will go through

well worried about the impact of the project on the seabed and also what might have happened if there were any kind of seismic emergencies well in this respect gazprom under the contract has not only gone and done everything to make sure that there are no nothing happened so the point would have gone beyond certain of the seabed of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars pollution and actually going out of their way to restore the condition of direction was political pressure already supplies nearly a third of europe's carrots but russia has this new pipeline was going to bring a new level of security to kind of conflicts which have transit countries with ukraine and the past basically held the whole of europe hostage to the demands of a 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 our visit to europe needs north stream more. reporting for us there now let's have

a closer look at some other headlines from around the world. at least one person has been killed in new clashes between egypt's progress former protesters and the ruling military in cairo soldiers the protesters with clubs in a free dawn raid square before breaking up a group of demonstrators camped out there hundreds of thousands took part in fresh protests protests on friday with demonstrators growing impatient with the military which took over from ousted president hosni mubarak they want the prosecution of the toppled multibillion dictator and his family for corruption. tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of spain's at capital madrid to protest against the basque separatist group demonstrators are demanding that anyone who links to the organization be banned from running for public office the demo is in response to ed's decision to launch a new party source too and run for office in regional elections in may the supreme

court has denied sorts to legal status but an appeal has got people. in japan a steel wall and a fence are being installed around the fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent more radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean the operator tepco has been criticized by the fishing industry and by neighboring south korea for dumping a low level radioactive water into the sea tepco says it will start to transfer highly radioactive water from reactor number two on sunday. six people have been shot dead and fifteen have been wounded by a gunman near amsterdam the man ran through a shopping mall randomly firing a machine gun killing himself after the shooting rampage police identified the gunman as a twenty four year old dutchman who had previous run ins with the law just a week ago there was another shootout in the same town in which two people were killed and two more wounded either as russia and the world get ready to commemorate

mankind's first journey into space by yuri gagarin fifty years ago the u.s. prepares to retire it's a fleet of space shuttles with no replacement planes in sight so what has become of the space race that's the question our resident reporter in new york has been asking on the streets. this month marks the fifth year anniversary of the first human has not yuri gagarin to ever fly into space so whatever happened to this 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 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 anywhere is that sad you know i think we've done it seen it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space well there's

also more to do but is it worth doing if you don't think it is i don't know why it's a why did why the culture used to think it was so important and now or like been there done being here barry is for but we you know we've got all 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 it would was far too many problems on the earth now to be even thinking about social space but weren't there just as many problems back then. 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 anymore i think it was it was a new a new or new presidency and who administrator you know everything was new so that kind of what obama ran on right so see what must be a great time for him to stay let's learn it be something better than nothing you

see that happening no no no barfield obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space program really get out there really for the more more zoom you know remote. 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. facebook or internet so what's changed is 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. telescopes and other resources so but we haven't been to mars you know but we know it's there are a lot of ways we haven't you know that will require time travel no we haven't but how do 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 dumbing ourselves down unless you're one of those people that believe man in space with their hopes 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. staying with space and coming your way in just a few minutes of moscow our team has to star city for russia's most illustrious cause not we're offering it's on the outskirts of the capital and host martin andrews got the chance to prove he's got the right stuff. such as standing by overhead wire and police a simple pressurized to the same pressure as it would be in the vacuum of space myself in the hospitals learn basic emergency procedures and how to operate the airlocks in normal emergency situations so far so good. we're walking. one hundred kilograms in the.

country between five and three hours. microgravity. you have to get. that program coming up in just a bit but meanwhile in sports a new football team in the russian top flight was also reaching for the stars and went top of the table one back in a quarter of an hour with a partridge but first we'll take a look at the main news headlines right after this.

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