grief a year on how she joins together with poland to commemorate the plane crash which killed the polish president and to many other countries. it's. a group of african leaders are headed to libya to try and ease the conflict between the government and rebels meanwhile nato draws even more fire over blunders in its military operation. and the top dogs from economics finance and academia have gathered to discuss the future of the global economy and the growing power of emerging countries.

broadcasting live twenty four hours a day from moscow where our headquarters are located this is r.t. glad to have you with us it has 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 services at the side of the disaster outside small the outside the presidential jet went down when like kaczynski his wife and many of the nation's elite were on their way to mark the anniversary of the nine hundred forty nine massacre carried out by stalin's a secret police. reports from the crash. it was a day to remember solemnly here in smiley and at a location of over one hundred people mostly relatives of the victims of the catastrophe gathered at the side 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 delta zeta current polish president's wife on the kemar off sky how did the delegation was polish delegation in the beginning there was a flower lane ceremony here at the size of the plane crash and there was also mass observed here and then they had it to the car the massacre site only some twenty five kilometers from here it is very important to remember what was the purpose behind the tree which actually never happens of the polish high ranking officials last year that was to corroborate 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 and covered at the beginning of world war two and today copying is a symbol of a double tragedy for the polish people now law schools dignified handling of the

catastrophe aftermath has been very well received by the people of poland but a year on differences over the best occasions 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 bloody murder putin and. on are victims of the caffeine 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 crash tears were to fall on the soil just three days later the whole polish nation was sent into new. their president government religious leaders and other members of the country's elite gun 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 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 are the ones 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 aircraft 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 a very submissive and shoot of the government of going to my claim my claim is asian and i would personally ask that question to the traffic progress of why there were not so hard to press cruel the transcript of the pilot's last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in p. hawk and so i had to reserve airfield they couldn't for be the plane from landing because that would have been against international 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 back to the most important. st 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 and even skeptics realize it

would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating. r t being the smiley and screeching the results of the polish probe into the crash are due to be released in october this year warsaw decided to conduct its own investigation after several politicians criticised the official report by russia's interstate aviation committee but moscow based journalist fred weird says the russian report was a fair and accurate one. i mean my own work i have rounded up the views of aviation experts and they seem to be of the general opinion that it was a pretty thorough. and fair. transparent investigation. but you do hear this suspicion this doubts coming from the polish side and you know they're coming from that you know edifice to historical place more than from any set of facts and figures. continuing across this weekend 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 in the investigation the causes of the crash. 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. if . question more on the. the libyan leader colonel gadhafi has appeared in public for the first time in five days he was shown on state t.v.

visiting a school in the capital tripoli where people's greeted him with anti western slogans his forces have launched a massive offensive to rebels from the city of daraa the last stop before their stronghold. meanwhile african leaders are meeting in monetary terms to mediate the conflict they are trying to stop there with. more and more questions about his policy or have deleted from. nato as 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 because you nato secretary general why would grating 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. i'm in now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they say that they didn't notify the major beforehand that they had some twenty tanks in their position and that they were moving to the front line around the city of baghdad near a little bit towards a break with those tanks it also seems rather questionable why nature was not aware that the rebel fighters had a chance because there has been footage circulating now for weeks 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's is at 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

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 rebel territory and why and that is true because right at the moment without his forces offloading the their hands in terms of fighting on the ground party's policy we are reporting from the libyan capital there now earlier we talked to lourdes davidson professor of middle east history at west chester university in pennsylvania he's 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 crowded to protect civilians and i suspect that regime change was in fact the 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 take on the darkies only if they can and they've got a stalemated yes i think there's a lot of confusion and when you get a conspiracy like you've got you you have to be even on the ground in libya but you're going to start to look for scapegoats so i think that it leaves the men in the near future unless someone can take this in hand you get americans or the french or british or whoever it was somebody can take this in hand i think in the near future you're going to see a lot of name calling and finger pointing and instead it is going to get really embarrassing still to come on our t.v. what has become of the space race. see it it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space those more to do but is it worth doing. as man become to

weighed down by the rest real troubles to care about the final frontier our resident reporter in new york finds out coming up on the program. also argued visits the north stream project construction in its final stages bringing closer to reality the pipeline which will pump russian gas direct to you and mean that big changes in energy ties between the two. major financial players from around the world are discussing the future of the global economy at 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 or 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 and mean that europe in the united states will decline said will that all depends on how they adjust if they're able to change are three able to invest more in education in science but he did say that this is going to take reform and so one has pointed out that the emerging economies the bric nations are kind of the ones i point at a conference where many people are talking about what needs to change and here and so 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 c. role in capital markets the financial crisis being there evidence that that didn't work there's a lot of concern about that too big to fail still exists that banks could still. bring down the system and create another crisis 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 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 feeling not well as well the euro being one of diversification of currencies and something that was really blamed on although nobody really knows the alternative is 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 in large part to bailing out the thing bailing out wall street and not the public which has just hurt revenues in the united. for there and driving it further into something that we didn't see dealt with as right here in the united states we saw the government barely ever 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 it really didn't happen or attack you at all but people are concerned about me with economy. lister reporting from the u.s. now continuing with our coverage of bretton woods we are joined live from the conference by gerald epstein professor and chair of economics at the university of massachusetts at amherst now professor thanks for joining us we've heard having me lots of mention at the present words of the bric group of nations of course that's brazil russia india and china what role do you think the bric countries will play in the distribution of economic power in the twenty first century when all these countries that are have been less affected by the crisis than have the european countries the united states and these are countries that are going to continue to grow. if not rapidly at least moderately while the rest of europe and the united states seems to be mired in crisis so in terms of economic growth i think these

countries are expected to do quite well and the question then is what kind of political role will they be playing in the governance of the world economy now about the world economy what does it say about the scope of the global financial crisis that george soros has convened in this modern version of the one thousand nine hundred four meeting that led to the creation of the i.m.f. and the world bank. well just as at that time we needed global cooperation to deal with a global crisis once again we need global cooperation to get us out of this current crisis but also to help us make a transition to a new type of economy a new type of economy where power is more widely dispersed around the world but also an economy that can deal with climate change and make a green transition that we need so we this is a fitting place to have a conference at this time and we have this short term challenge in this longer term

challenge that requires global cooperation and the the bric countries are going to have to play a role in both of those respects you alluded to a new economic system or a new economy if you will in your opinion what problems or even institutions in the current economic system pose the greatest threat to global stability now. well the banking system the financial system worldwide is still very vulnerable and still is likely to create similar kinds of problems in the future that we had in the recent past there's been an attempt to reregulate the financial system. even though some of the efforts of have been positive like the dodd frank bail and so forth the political power of finance so strong both in the united states than in europe and other international floors that they're trying to block the implementation of the regulations that are really required so intil we find a way to overcome the political power of finance which is still so massive in the

world we're not going to be able to implement the kinds of structural changes in the financial sector that we need to shore up our economies and maintain financial stability so that's one major problem that i still see and know that we're been talking about this weekend now the i.m.f. and the world bank both stem from a meeting just like this at the same venue what new official or bushell agreements or maybe even new institutions could we see as a result of this conference. well there won't be any new institutions as a result of this conference because after all we're mostly just academics whereas the previous conference were government officials. so we are talking where they were also doing but i think many of us feel that we need to try and transform the current institutions that we have so that there's more democratic governments and transparency within the i.m.f. and the world bank so the bric countries and others are more properly represented

there but we also need new institutions for example a global financial regulatory authority which can really impose carman regulations on the financial institutions so we don't have this race to the bottom in financial regulation where when country tries to make its banks have an advantage over other countries by loosening regulations and we get this very destructive and dangerous race to the bottom we probably need some kind of global regulatory financial regulatory institution among other things you mentioned from. theory to reality what's the next step in this conference. is trying to do a number of different things to change the way that economics education occurs so that economics education is based more on real world problems using economic history the history of economic thought so that we can gain some historical perspective as well as other other kinds of perspectives on real economic problems

that think that's one of the reasons why we came here to look back at history and to see the importance of understanding what happened in the nineteen thirties and forties how to avoid that again to also harken back to the kinds of economics that john medicaid's and others developed around that time which is now been lost to mainstream economics so moving forward we're not only have to try to transform economic policy but. economics education economic thought and that means opening up universities in the west and elsewhere where there's a very rigid very narrow type of economics that's taught primarily at the graduate level which essentially says that free markets more or less are you best approach the only approach all right thank you very much professor gerald epstein from the university of massachusetts at amherst thanks for joining us thank you thank you. i

had over one thousand kilometers in length on the seabed it's been called one of the most ambitious rina engineering feats ever the nord stream pipeline project to pump russian gas to the u.s. rapidly nearing completion with supplies scheduled to start late this year. has been to see the construction firsthand as it enters its final stages. might look like i'm in a middle of a muddy building so i put behind me is the 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 then out to sea to find me as the north stream pipe is the world's longest underwater gas pipe and the world's thickets 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 here either it's going to cost over seven billion euros at least. proving that it is capable of initialising and carrying out such

a large scale projects taking place all the phases starting from modeling to constructing and operating. this is no ordinary methyl it's got to be able to withstand extreme conditions the thickness of the walls it's four centimeters 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 most powerful compressor station which is just one kilometer back there will be forcing the gas to go at huge pressure so you don't need any kind of other compression stations in the middle of the pipe on its way to realize ation the north stream project faced a lot of objections now one type of objection was from environmentalist those in

sweden and finland to the country for you to see by their wish 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 cyclic emergencies while in disrespect gazprom under contract has not only gone and done everything to make sure that there aren't. sort of ploy to put it down that's beyond they've started to see about all the has been damaged already by previous wars on previous pollution actually going out of their way to restore their condition the other objection was political pressure already supplies nearly a third of europe's gats. it was going to bring a new level of security because of conflicts which have transit countries with ukraine and you have passed but basically 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 the instability it's all business needs no

stream more. reporting there let's have a closer look at some other headlines from around the world. at least one person has been killed in a new clashes between egypt's reform protesters and the ruling military in cairo soldiers of the protesters with clubs in a pre-dawn raid into your square before breaking up a group of demonstrators camped out there hundreds of thousands took part in fresh protests on friday 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. six people have been shot dead and fifteen have been wounded by gunmen 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 twenty four year old

a dutchman who had previous run ins with the law just a week ago there was another shoot out in the same town in which two people were killed and two more wounded. as russia and the world get ready to commemorate mankind's first journey into space by you're a good parent fifty years ago the u.s. prepares to retire its fleet of space shuttles with no replacement in sight so let's to 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 fifty year anniversary of the first human carbonite eureka card to ever fire in just 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. my proud that man was well thought of and i 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 and i'm going into space i mean boy 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 it's also 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 are like been there done being here barry is before you know we've got our barriers 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 and well it would i suppose there's far too many problems on the earth you can thinking of as actual 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 anymore i think it was it was a new a new or new president see

a new administration you know everything was new so but that's kind of what obama ran on right fellowship what must be a great time for him to stay let's really explore it would be something better than nothing he'd see that happening no no no barack obama should. start a whole new space room when he gets out there really. more as you know going to. you 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. a lot of people's votes on facebook and internet so much change stat we used to focus on it and now we don't seem to care and on the public technology we understand a lot more about the universe through you know telescopes and other resources so we haven't been to mars but we know what's there are a lot of ways we haven't you know how to overcome time travel no we haven't but how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate i guess what i will say

why are we more focused on things like the internet and facebook because we're doubling ourselves down i'm not 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. that's the news i hear from moscow i'll be back with the headlines shortly followed by an in-depth look at the polish presidential plane crash one year old.

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