in the. sun great pay you're wrong that she joins together with poland's a commemoration of the plane crash which killed the polish president many of the country's political elites. 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 ease the conflict. and the top dogs from economics finance and academic have gathered to discuss the future of the global economy and the growing power of the emerging country.

direct from our studios and some from moscow to you this is r.t. 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 services up a side of the disaster site smiling at the presidential jet went down when his wife and many of the nation's elite were on their way to mark the anniversary of the nine hundred forty continue massacre carried out by stalin's elites or he said over reports from the crossing. it was a day to remember solemnly here in smiley and i tell a geisha not over a hundred people mostly relatives of the victims of the catastrophe gathered at the side where the. two clips one fifty four lead crashed

a year ago carrying president live his wife maria and many other of the country's political and military elite now today the current polish president's wife on the come out all sky how did the delegations this polish delegation in the beginning there was a flower laying ceremony here at the size of the plane crash and there was also mass observed here and then they headed to the bin massacre site only some twenty five kilometers from here but it's very important to remember what was the part of the treaty which actually never up until the polish high ranking officials last year that was to cover it something which carried huge emotional scars for the people of poland we got the massacre twenty two thousand polish officers become for this elite who were slaughtered by stalin's secret police and covered at the beginning of world war two and to take up in 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 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. one are victims of the caffeine 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 crash tears were to fall on the sword just three days later the whole polish nation was sent interim. thank 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 and national tragedy. there was however a twist of irony it was these new catastrophe that healed 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 craft is to blame for this tragedy. the facts though were hard to take for his son the investigation was beginning to take on police pull over terms with attempts in poland to push the blame on to russia this report is

a joke for poland exploiting the submissive and each unit of the government of doing it to my claim my claim my accusers asian and i would a person ask the question to the air traffic controller why there were not so hard to press the crew the transcript of the pilots last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in peak form and had to reserve their guilt they couldn't for be the plane from landing because that would have been against international aviation law poland disputes russia's findings and its holding its own investigations that huge diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of fact for us part of the most important of. history suggests russia and poland may take their time to settle their differences especially against the background of a tragedy that 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 it feel about children are cheap the smiley inscription efforts for improve relations between moscow and warsaw have been affected by political factors within poland that's the view of professor couple of leisure university was an expert on russia and eurasia . after the kind of free conciliation was started around a decision for instance to have the inquiry to get to accept from the russian side to look cool more intensively to question the captain and so on and so on and the religion has been hijacked by internal policy and that's why i think the main problem it has nothing to do with it was busy clear fired for poor work inside oh poor and and of course as you know very well when you have a difficult electoral campaign and when you have political forces who are going to speak especially towards 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 see that one was too soft. and for the other part to our choosing the broader people be from the heart and are digging constantly input into a kind of promo your thoughts. continuing across this weekend our reporting team will bring you special coverage of the commemoration ceremonies we'll 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 and when it's 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 devastate. and united two nations in grief. question more on. the libyan leader colonel gadhafi has appeared in public for the first time in five games he was shown on state t.v. it was in the school of tripoli where pupils greeted him with anti western slogans describe that as at least thirty bubbles were killed in a massive offensive by gadhafi forces. the last stop before their strong garvie meanwhile african leaders are moratoria. in the conflict they are trying to step up their well. work with. the waves from tripoli but as leadership over its military operations here in libya are coming under more and more fire for being ineffective and for creating the states 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 the nato secretary general why would grating 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 it was not aware that the rebel fighters were using tanks prior to these airstrikes and that of mistook the fighters for bin gadhafi is now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they say that they did notify nato beforehand that they had some twenty tanks in their position and that they would move into the front part of around the city of a drive year a little bit towards a break with those tanks and 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

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 that there is a constant flow of heavy machinery of tanks and it's becoming so do. because 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 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 if they do not understand why nato has not been able to prevent these forces from advancing some one hundred miles into rebel territory why and why and that is true because right at the moment these forces are holding the apple hand in terms of fighting on the ground party's policy they are 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 change or the operation will end in disaster if the goal. is to facilitate the victory of the rebels rather it is 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 one that is already very they've got a stalemate at best i think there's a lot of confusion and when you get confusion like you've got you you have to be even on the ground in libya you're going to start to look for speed so i think in the near future it was someone could take this inherent. of the french or british or whoever it was somebody could take this in hand and i think in the neck near

future you're going to see a lot of name calling and finger pointing. and it's going to get really embarrassing. still to come what has become of the space race. scene it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space well as those more to do but is it worth doing has man become too weighed down by terrestrial troubles to care about the final frontier our resident reporter in new york finds out coming up on the program. also r t visits the nord stream project construction its final stages bring in closer to reality the pipeline which will pump russian gas in direct city and that means 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 us an event hosted by billionaire philanthropist george soros is exploring what role emerging powers will

take in a new world economic order or a minister has been covering the conference for. we heard 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 said what all depends on how they adjust if they're able to change their free will to invest more in education in science but he did say that this is going to take some reform and so as one gets pointed out the emerging economies the bric nations are kind of the one i point at a conference where many people are talking about what needs to change in terms of the western that banking 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 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 and create another crisis if that or rules are put in place there is not a lot of confidence from any of the guests here that i've spoken to that job praying for 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 worse laura said that other currencies it no longer really is their friends these are feeling not well as well the girl being diversification of currencies and something that was really blamed on although nobody really knows the alternative is a number of factors in the u.s. 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 is just for revenues in the united. further and driven it further into debt 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 it really doesn't tackle the deficit or debt issue at all but people are concerned about me with economy. lauren lyster reporting there from new hampshire i can omics professor gerald epstein of the university of massachusetts at amherst and says the banking world holds way too much political sway. there's been an attempt to reregulate the financial system. even though some of the efforts of have been positive like the dodd frank bill and so forth the political power of finance remains so strong growth in the united states and in europe and other international flora's that they are trying to block the implementation of the regular ations that are really required so in till 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 we need to shore up our economies and maintain financial stability 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 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 it green transition that we need so we this is a fitting place to have a conference at this time when we have this short term challenge in this longer term challenge that requires global cooperation and the bric countries are going to have to play a role in both of those respects these are current 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 in crisis. you can get more on the bretton woods conference as well as commentary on our and analysis from our washington bureau and our. economic experts fear 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 the computer personnel are hacked off with the state of the gaming industry find out why they are taking on sony and its best selling playstation. in the mix artie has that the recipe for a special cocktail to mark the fiftieth anniversary of becoming the first man in space livestock start to learn how to make.

at over one thousand kilometers inland from the seabed it's been called one of the most ambitions ambitious excuse me engineering feat 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 or two zero going on it has been there to see the construction firsthand as it enters its final stages might look like common in middle of a muddy building site but behind me is a key point in 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 see behind me as the north stream pipe as the world's longest underwater gas pipe at the world 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 to hear i've been going to cost over seven billion euros at least. proving it is capable initialising in carrying out such large scale projects taking part in all the phases starting from modeling to constructing and operating there. 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 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 it's of 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 islands way to realize variation the north stream project faced a a lot of. actions now one type of direction was from environmentalist those in sweden and finland of the country through the seabed to which the project will go pretty well worried about the impact of the project undersea bad and also what might have happened if any kind of so i think emergencies well in this respect gazprom under contract has. done everything to make sure that. nothing happened sort of quite beyond the seabed of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars previous pollution i don't actually going out of their way to restore their back to condition the other objection was political pressure already supplied nearly a third of europe's gas but russia has this new pipeline was going to bring a new level of security void in the kind of conflicts which have transit countries

would ukraine and you have passed that basically held the whole of europe hostage put it in. the country and recent events in the arab world are playing into the hands of this project the instability the. stream. actually as you go around of reporting there 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 for reform protesters and the military in cairo soldiers of the protesters with clubs in the predawn raid in tahrir square before breaking up a group of demonstrators camped out there hundreds of thousands supporting fresh protests on friday with demonstrators growing impatient with the military which took over from ousted president hosni mubarak the prosecution of the toppled multi-billionaire dictator and his family for corruption. six people have been shot dead and fifty have been by gunmen amsterdam and 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. tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of spain's capital madrid to protest against the basque separatist group demonstrators are demanding that anyone linked to the organization be banned from running for public office is in response to his decision to launch a new party switch and one for office in breach of normal 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 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. as russia and the world get ready to commemorate man's first journey into space by your fifty years ago the u.s. prepares to retire its fleet of shuttles with some plans for replacement in sight but nowhere in the near future so what's to become of the space race that's the question of a resident reporter in new york and they've been asking the question on the streets . this month marks the fifty year anniversary of the first human. to advert fly into space so whatever happened to the space race this week let's talk about it are you proud that man once walked on the moon. my proud that man was well am i proud that

man once crossed the atlantic ocean and found america i think it's a good thing for people to do for mankind to do new things and explore and learn no one cares and. 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 the less 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 been there done being here barry is you know we've got up areas 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 suppose this far too many problems on the earth you can thinking of us as respects 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 presidency and who administration you know everything was new so that kind of what obama ran on right fellowship what must be a great time for him to stay let's read slower it be something better than nothing do you see that happening no no and him no barack obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space will really get so out there really for the more more zoom you never 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 i feel. a lot of people's focus on facebook and internet so what changed stat we used to focus on and now we don't seem to care and on the technology we understand a lot more about the universe through. telescopes and other resources so we haven't

been to mars but we know with sarah waterways we haven't you know the rubric of time travel you know we have but how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate i guess i will say my own. more focused on things like the internet and facebook because we're dumbing ourselves down i'm not 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. our programs continue shortly artie's adventures in central russia coming your way after a recap of our main news stories in just a few minutes. to

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