from. the future covered. such grief by your own how she joins together with poland to commemorate the plane crash which killed the polish president the country's. fighting in libya moves closer to the rebel stronghold of benghazi as forces loyal to gadhafi launched 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 top dogs from economics finance and i could damia gathered to discuss the future of the global economy and the growing power of emerging countries.

bringing you the top news and headlines from around the world we're 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. 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 one nine hundred forty but in a massacre carried out by stalin secret police are piece of property and reports from the crash site. it was a day to remember solemnly here in somalians i delegate over one hundred people mostly relatives of the victims of the catastrophe gathered at the side where the

polish to pull of one fifty four plane crashed a year ago carrying president his wife maria and many other of the country's political and military elite well today the current polish president's wife on the come out off 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 cut the massacre site 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 corroborate something which carries huge emotional scars for the people of poland the cut the massacre where twenty two paos and 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 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. order of the terms of the have been massacred many find it hard to believe as a two hundred years of mutual amity between russia and poland had been washed away with tears. ah. ah but fresh tears were to fall on the soil just three days later the whole polish nation was sent into mourning their president government religious leaders and other members of the country's elite gun that 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 shows our generation of russians and poles those who didn't witness the second world war how it is to suffer a national tragedy. there was however a twister fire or any it was these new catastrophe that healed 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 they're 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 political overtones with attempts in poland to push the blame on to russia this report is

a joke for poland exploiting the submissive and shoot of the government of. my claim my play my accusation and i would a person ask the question to the traffic controller why don't we're not so hard to press the crew the transcript of the pilot's last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in the fog and to had to reserve the airfield they couldn't for be the plane from landing because that would have been against international aviation. poland disputes russia's findings and it's holding its own investigation. diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us facts are the most important. history 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 it even skeptics realise it

would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating feeling the pressure of r t but the the silence creature an. average for improved relations between moscow and warsaw have been affected by a political factors within poland that's the view of professor new cut of leeds university who's an expert on russia and eurasia. after the kind of frequency of usual stilted around the decision for instance to have the inquiry together to accept from the russian side to look more intensively in the question of captain and so on and so on and the relation has been hijacked by cornish internal party scene and the thai thing the main problem it has nothing to do with it was basically a fight for power worth inside kokura and of course as you know very well when you have a difficult electoral campaign and when you have political forces while victims are

going to speak especially towards from the brother of the former presidents towards the prime minister tusk you have just what you can before seen it means of the tragedy was used to sit up one was too soft on russia and for the other part watching news brought the whole catchin skit to be too hard and are digging constantly incurring into a kind of paranoia thoughts were. continually crossed 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. is not enough. well it's something which crucial. to get down to brass as 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 two nations great. question . 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 . least thirty rebels were killed in a massive offensive by gadhafi forces on the city of. the last stop before their strong garvie meanwhile african leaders are meeting in mauritania in an attempt. to translate trying to stamp out there we have made over libyan. after. the latest from. nato has made 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 tensions here are running high cheekily because the 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 of 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 major beforehand that they had some twenty times in their position and that they were moving to the frontline around the city of baghdad near a little bit towards a greater with those tanks and also seems rather questionable why nature was not aware that the rebel fighters had tanks because there has been footage circulating

now for weeks showing these opposition fighters with heavy weaponry that includes tanks the other argument that nature is putting forward is that the situation on the ground is extremely fluid it says that the front line keeps seesawing forwards and backwards at least a constant flow of heavy machinery. tanks and it's coming so difficult for them to actually tell who's on the ground now for days now we have been witnessing a demobilization and mung 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 say that they do not understand why nato has not been able to prevent his forces from advancing some one hundred miles into rebel territory why and that is true because right at the moment the death his forces are holding the upper hand in terms of fighting on the ground. they are reporting from the libyan capital 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 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 around these already if 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 haven't even on the ground in libya you're going to start to move. so i think that it leaves them in the near future unless someone can take this inherent you could imagine

here and so the french or british or whoever it was somebody could take this in hand i think in the near future you're going to see a lot of name calling and finger pointing and i think it is going to get really embarrassing still to come what has become of the space race. be the. see it it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space those more to do but is it worth doing has become too weighed down by terrestrial troubles to care about the final frontier resident reporter in new york finds out coming up on the program. also our t.v. is it's the nordstrom projects construction in its final stages bringing closer to reality the pipeline which will pump russian gas direct to the e.u. 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 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 a lister 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 will 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 as one gets pointed out at 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 it's to roll 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 in the place there is not a lot of confidence from any of the guests here that i've spoken to job training 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 work for us said that other currencies it no longer really is the other currencies are filling that role as well the euro being one of diversification of currencies and something that was really blames on although nobody really knows the alternative is the number of tractors 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

and a large part to bailing out the thing bailing out wall street not the public which has just hurt revenues in the united. further and further into debt something that we didn't see dealt with as right here in the united states we saw the government barely of birth to 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 they can tackle the deficit or that issue at all if people are concerned about me with economy artie's lauren lyster reporting from new hampshire it's called an economics professor gerald epstein of the university of massachusetts at amherst 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 bill and so forth the political power of finance remains so strong both in the united states and in europe and other international for us that they are trying to block the implementation of the

regulations 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 that 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 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 bric countries are going to have to play a role in both of those respects police car 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 the rest of europe and the united states seems to be mired in in crisis of course you can get more of the bretton woods conference as well as commentary 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 with their computer hackers who are happy with the state of the gaming industry. taking on sony at its best selling place. and in the mix he has a recipe for special cosmic cocktails that mark the fiftieth anniversary of your becoming the first space blastoff to. learn how to make.

the. right over one thousand kilometers in length on the seabed it's been called one of the most ambitious engineering feats ever the nord stream pipeline project is to pump russian gas to the e.u. and it'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. carman a middle of a month the building side 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 as the world's thickets and it's also one operating

under the most pressure it's a flagship project for russia that for over ten years before construction could actually begin here going to cost over seven billion euros at least. russia is now proving that it is capable of initialising in carrying out such a large scale projects taking part in all their 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 there 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 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 lation the north stream project faced a lot of objections now one type of objection was from vajra mentalists those in sweden and finland three of the country for you to see by the which the project will go through all worried about the impact of the project on the seabed and also what might have happened if there are any kind of seismic emergencies well in this respect gazprom under contract has not only gone and done everything to make sure that the wrong. nothing happened sort of point but it is going to spread beyond a certain seabed of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars on previous pollution i don't actually going out of their way to restore their condition but other objection was political pressure already supplied nearly a third of europe's gas. blood was going to bring

a new level of security void in the kind of conflicts which are good transit countries with ukraine and you have passed that basically held the whole of europe hostage to the demands of one transit country and recent events in our world are playing into the hands of those behind this project with the instability that. needs north stream more. parties you go to reporting 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 pro-reform protesters and the ruling military in cairo soldiers the protesters with clubs and we don't raid into your square before breaking up a group of demonstrators camped out there hundreds of thousands took part in a fresh protest on friday with demonstrators growing impatient with the military which took over from ousted president hosni mubarak they want the prosecution of the top of that multibillion. and his family for corruption. six people have been

shot dead and fifteen have been wounded by a new amsterdam the man that ran through a shopping mall randomly firing a machine gun killing himself after the shooting rampage police identified because as a twenty four year old 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. 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 lead. two the organization be banned from running for public office the demo is in response to at his decision to launch a new party source to run for office in regional elections in may at the supreme court has denied soar to 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 mankind's first journey into space by yuri gagarin fifty years ago the u.s. prepares to retire its fleet of space shuttles so what's become of the space race that's the question our resident reporter in new york has been asking on the city streets. this month marks the fifty year anniversary of the first human has been out 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 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 about going into space anymore 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 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 there been there done it being here barry is before you know we've got up areas 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 suppose that far too many problems on the earth go to be even thinking of us actual space but aren't there just as many problems back than. perhaps there were and we're just so used to it. as television. cinema. to show social space all the time so it doesn't seem to be so strict the

tour and more i think it was it was a new a new or new presidency a new administration you know everything was new so that's kind of what obama ran on right fellowship what must be a great time for him just a let's really explore it would be something better than nothing do you see that happening no now and him no barack obama should do what john kennedy did start a whole new space or groom really gets out there really for the more more zoom 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 spoke softly as we're going to know 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 our telescopes and other resources so but we

haven't been to mars you know but we know what's there are waterways we haven't you know time travel no we haven't but how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate i guess but i will say why are we more focused on things like the internet and facebook because we're dumb yourselves down 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. but of course there's the news from moscow for now i'll be back in a few minutes with a recap of our main stories. space

is one of our national security there is no subs and there is no. military space live bombs on target time belin that's will us will be able to go through space should be. dead or.

leave. the building. and we must. leave. so much. of this in the peaceful uses of the outer space. of this incredible investment from the united states and from the european union to canada other countries like this this stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space.

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