it's. such a great year on russia joins together with poland to commemorate the plane crash which killed the polish president many of the country's police colleagues. fighting in libya moves closer to the rebel stronghold of benghazi as forces loyal to gadhafi launch a major offensive to oust insurgents from a nearby city meanwhile a group of african leaders are meeting to try to use the conflict. and the top dogs from economics finance and. gathered to discuss the future of the global economy and the growing power of the emerging country.

bringing you the top news in headlines from around the world live from moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us it has been a year since the polish president lech kaczynski ended 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 site of the disaster. a presidential jet went down when lech kaczynski and his wife and many of the nation's elite work their way to market ever story of eight thousand nine hundred forty kenya massacre carried out by stalin secret police are cheesy company approach over reports from the crash scene. it was a days remember solemnly here in somalia and still had some a geisha not hundred people mostly something. himself the catastrophe gathered at

the side where the polish to believe one fifty four plane crashed a year ago carrying president live his wife maria and many other of the country's political and military elite now today becoming polish presidents wife on the come out all 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 bin massacre site only some twenty five kilometers from here it's very important to remember what was that part of the treaty actually never happens of the polish high ranking officials last year that was to corroborate something which carried huge emotional scars for the people of poland the cut the massacre for twenty two thousand polish officers the country's elite who were slaughtered by stalin's secret police and covered at the beginning of world war two and to take up being is a symbol of

a double tragedy for the polish people now what skills dignifies handling of the catastrophe aftermath has been very well received by the people of poland a year on differences over the best a geisha 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. one are victims of the country massacre and many find it hard to believe as a two hundred years of mutual amity between russia and poland had been washed away with tears. what branch tears were to fall on the sword just three days later the whole polish nation was sent into their president government religious leaders and other members of the country's elite gun 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 he would 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 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 police to call overtones with attempts in poland to push the blame onto russia this report is

a joke for the moment exploiting this admitted an attitude of the government of going to. my claim my trade my. and i would personally ask that question to air traffic controllers and why there were not so hard the press 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 so had to reserve their guilt they couldn't 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. facts of the most important of history 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 even skeptics realize it would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating it fit in with their children r t. the smiley and screech and the results of the polish probe into the grass 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 we're says the russian report was a fair and accurate. i in my over 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 minded 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 atavistic 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 condemnation 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. this is not enough. when it's something really crucial. what you want to get down to brass. we bring you our special coverage here. in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastated. that united nations in a great. 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 a school in the capital tripoli where peoples greeted him with anti western slogans his forces have launched a massive offensive to oust rebels from the city of the buyer the last stop before their stronghold in gaza meanwhile african leaders are meeting in mauritania in an attempt to mediate the conflict they're trying to step up their were afraid of libyan trappings of more and more questions of these policy or have the word of something. they don't need a ship over its military operations here in libya are coming under more and more fire for being ineffective and for creating mistakes it is now nine days since nato took over command of military operations here and in the last week alone we've witnessed two separate nato is strikes that have left in total more than twenty opposition fighters did and several dozen injured now as you can well imagine the mood and the tensions here are running high and she killed early because he nato secretary general why were grating the loss of life has not come out and said that

he is sorry for these airstrikes essentially what nato is arguing is that i was not aware that the rebel fighters were using tanks prior to these airstrikes and that of course took the fighters in gadhafi his command now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they said. that they did notify measure beforehand that they had some twenty tanks in their position and that they were moving to the front going around the city of a w a little bit towards a grader with those tanks it also seems it was a questionable why major 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 says that the front line keeps seesawing forwards and backwards at there is 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 major is not doing enough it's making a lot of mistakes and it's also immigrating its operations here they said it did not understand why nato has not been able to convince khadafi its forces from advancing some one hundred miles into rebel territory and that is true because right at the moment duffy's forces off holding the at their hands in terms of fighting on the ground. he's polish we're reporting from the libyan capital now earlier we talked to lawrence davidson 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 be changed or the operation will end in disaster if the goal. was to facilitate the victory of the rebels proud every day 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 take a one piece only if they can they've got a stalemate at best i think there's a lot of confusion and when you get a computer like. you have even on the ground in libya you're going to start to move . so i think they didn't lose their men in the near future unless someone can take this in hand you can imagine here and so the french or british or whoever the most somebody can take this in hand i think in the next 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 what is become of the great space race. we now see it is too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space well as those

more to do but is it worth doing it. has a man become truly weighed down by terrestrial troubles to care about the final frontier our resident reporter in new york finds out coming up and. also our team visits of the nord stream of project construction in its final stages bringing closer to reality the pipeline which will pump russian gas directly to the middle and mean big changes in energy ties between the two. major financial players from. around the world are discussing the future of the global economy by 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 growing mr has been covering the conference for us. we heard u.k. 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 he said well that all depends on how they adjust if they're able to change or if they're able to invest more in education in science but he did say that this is going to take reform and so as one gets pointed out the emerging economies the bric nations are kind of the high point at a conference where many people are talking about what needs to change in terms of the western that thinking reforms monetary tools and the u.s. dollar is the reserve currency some of the ideas and some of the gas that we've heard from involve more of it the 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 and create another crisis and federal rules are plentiful ace there

is not a lot of confidence from any of the guests here that i've spoken to that dodd frank or the basil rules go far enough so that's another issue another concern is over the u. 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 how their currencies are filling not a role as well as a euro being one of diversification of currencies and something that was really blames on although you know that he 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 the thing bailing out wall street and not the public which has just hurt revenues in the united. further and further into that something that we didn't see dealt with as right here in the united states we saw the government barely ever shut down 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 doesn't happen the deficit or that issue at all if people are concerned about you on the. list are reporting from the actual conference as we mentioned the conference in bretton woods is being led by george soros institute for new economic thinking its executive director robert johnson told us the first thing the financial leaders 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 serious and we have to grow out of that by regaining trust. concept and look at themselves what kind of incentives are they embrace of the kind of social responsibility to really think it's the role of an expert on to be concerned about the united states which is that center of the world since the middle class in the united states is really compressed they're experiencing what you might call a social well three percent of that most are doing very very will almost all of the

gains from one hundred seventy nine to the present perhaps more than a hundred percent are gone to the top one percent and that's just not that's not sustainable and that is not inspiring of trust and consider what you might call a look at your ideas your ideology the proof of the pudding is in the eating and when everybody makes a lot of experts seem to espouse their point of view they're not so you care of the entire society is you what they're doing trust until 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 of arts. economic experts and here america's financial crisis proportions as massive u.s. corporations get creative with their accounting for avoid paying billions of dollars in tax. cuts online the computer hackers who are actually off with the state of the gaming industry find out why they're taking on sony and its best

selling playstation. and in the mix r.t. has the recipe for a special cosmic cocktail to mark the fiftieth anniversary of yuri gagarin becoming the first man in space blastoff artsy dot com to learn to make. i don't for one thousand kilometers in length on the seabed it's been called one of the most ambitious marine engineering feats ever the nord stream pipeline project to pump russian gas to the e.u. is rapidly nearing completion with supplies scheduled to start late this year but he got all got it has been to see the construction firsthand as it enters its final stages might look like carbon a 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 then out to sea to find me as the north stream pipe is the world's longest underwater gas supply of the world's thickets life 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 and it's going to cost over seven billion euros. proving it is capable of initialising and carry on social projects taking part in phases starting from modeling to constructing and operating and. 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 in fact the moment is big laid down on a ship about a thousand kilometers away near the coast of germany the world's most powerful compressor station which is just one kilometer back there will be forcing the gas to go at huge pressure so you don't need any kind of 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 kind of objection was from. those in sweden and finland too of the country do you see by the words the project will go through well worried about the impact of the project on the seabed and also what might have happened if any kind of seismic emergencies well in this respect gazprom under the contract has gone and done everything to make sure that there are no. sort of point . beyond that they start to see bad of the baltic has been damaged already by

previous wars on previous pollution and they are actually going out of their way to restore starting with the condition the other objection was political russia already supplies nearly a third of europe's scout's. blood was going to bring a new level of security because of conflicts which happened with transit countries with ukraine and yes part that 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 business stream more than. you've got a lot of reporting for today now let's have a closer look at some other headlines from around the world. least one person has been killed in new clashes between egypt's foreign protesters and the ruling military in cairo soldiers the protesters with clubs and predawn raid in tahrir

square before breaking up a group of demonstrators camped out there hundreds of thousands took part in flash protests on friday with demonstrators growing impatient with the military which took over from the 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. answered them through a shopping mall randomly firing a machine gun killing himself after the shooting rampage police identified the gunman as. twenty five to twenty four year old excuse me. who had previously 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. tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of spain's capital madrid to protest against the basque separatist group eta demonstrators are demanding that anyone believed to be organisation be banned from

running for public office. is in response to any decision to launch parties or to and run for office in regional elections in may the supreme court has denied sorts of legal status but an appeal has yet to be heard. in japan a steel wall and a fence are being installed around the fukushima nuclear power plants and prevent more radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean the operator tepco has been criticised by the fishing industry and by neighboring south korea for dumping a low level radioactive water into the sea top go says it will start to transfer highly radioactive water from reactor number two on sunday. as russia and the world get ready to commemorate mankind's first journey into space by year again fifty years ago the u.s. prepares to retire its fleet of space shuttles with no replacement plans in sight so what's become of the space race that's the question for resident reporter in new york as been asking on the streets.

this month marks the fifty year anniversary of the first human caused by 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 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 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 but is it worth doing if you don't think it is i don't know why if i did it why did the culture used to think it was so important and now are like they're been there done being here barry is for 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 it would i suppose the hardship many problems on the earth you can thinking of as actual 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 a new administration you know everything was new so that's kind of what obama ran on right so sure what must be a great time for him to stay let's read floor it would be something better than nothing do you see that happening no no no let him know barack obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space program really gets out there really. more as you know promote.

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 focus on facebook and it's enough so what's changed is that we used to focus on it and now we don't seem to care and on a couple of technology we understand a lot more about the universe through our telescopes and other resources so but we haven't been to mars i don't but we know with stereo waterways we haven't you know that will reveal time travel you know we have but how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate and that's when i will say why are we more focused on things like the internet and facebook because we're dumb yourselves 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 this hour and we'll take a look at the main headlines in just

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it or. leave. the building. and we must. be. other investment in the peaceful uses of space. and this incredible investment from the united states and from the european union to canada other countries like this this is completely in jeopardy if we start putting we have been seen outer space. wealthy british.

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