green a year on russia joins together with poland to commemorate the plane crash which killed the polish president since many of the country's. fighting in libya moves closer to the rebel stronghold of benghazi as forces loyal to gadhafi launch a major often sieve 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 academics have gathered to discuss the future of the global economy and the growing power of emerging countries.

broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. we're certainly 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 service is that the site of the disaster outside smoking outside the presidential jet went down when like his wife and many of the nation's elite were on their way to mark the anniversary of the nine hundred forty massacre carried out by stalin secret police but he got them you know got children reports from the crash scene. it was a day to remember solemnly here in somalians a delegation of over one hundred people mostly relatives of the victims of the catastrophe gathered at the 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 out to say the current polish president's wife on the kemar off how did the delegation was 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 to the car the massacre site only some twenty five kilometers from here but it's very important to remember what was the park was 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 because the massacre where twenty two thousand polish officers the country's elite were slaughtered by stalin's secret police and covered there at the beginning of world war two and today kathleen is a symbol of

a double tragedy for the polish people now what goes dignified handling of the catastrophe aftermath has been very well received by the people of poland but a year on differences over be 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 and lead him or putin and donald to stay on or victims of the 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. 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 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 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 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 some been best a geisha was beginning to take on political overtones would it sampson poland to

push the blame on to russia this report is a joke for poland exploiting the submissive and shoot of the government of normal. and i claim my claim my ization and i would personally ask that question through traffic converse or why there were not so hard the press the group the transcript of the pilots last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in eight fork and to had to reserve air filters they couldn't forbid the plane from landing because that would have been against international every law poland disputes russia's findings and is holding its own investigation diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us facts are the most important. 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 even skeptics realize it would

be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating exuding a great show by our tea cup team the smiley inscription. efforts for improved relations between moscow and warsaw have been affected by political factors within poland that's the view of professor cut off at lee's university he's an expert on russia and eurasia. after the kind of free conciliation will start it's a real decision for instance to have the employee together to accept from the russian side to move more intensively in the question of cotton and so on and so on and the illusion has been hijacked by poorish internal party scene and that's why i think the main problem it has nothing to do with it was basically a fight for poor work inside poor and of course as you know very well when you have a difficult electoral campaign and when you have political forces well victims are

going to speak especially towards from the broader 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. and for the other called to i choose. to be too hard and coming back digging constantly included into a kind of paranoia thoughts. continuing across the 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. when it's something really crucial. what you want to get down to for us as we bring you our special coverage here. in a place already seen all of this tragedy the world witnessed the disaster that left

the country devastated. but united nations grief. question. three 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 slogans is comes as at least thirty rebels were killed in a massive offensive by gadhafi forces on the city of. the last stop before their stronghold in gaza meanwhile african leaders are meeting in mauritania in an attempt to mediate the conflict we are trying to scare but there were all those media. campaign draws more and more questions about its policy or the latest from tripoli they transmitted 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 air 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 particularly because the nato secretary general why regretting 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 i was not aware that the rebel fighters were using tanks prior to these airstrikes and that it mistook the fighters for being gadhafi is now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they say that they didn't notify a major beforehand that they had some twenty tanks in their position and that they were moving to the front line of around the city of ajdabiya a little bit towards 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 nato is putting forward is that the situation on the ground is extremely fluid it says that the frontline keeps seesawing forwards and backwards. that there is a constant flow of heavy machinery 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 demobilization and mung the opposition forces and that is now turning into anger and they say that nato is not doing enough it's making a lot of mistakes and it's also neglecting its operations here they said that they do not understand why nato has not been able to prevent the duffys forces from advancing some one hundred miles into rebel territory and why and that is true because right at the moment these forces are holding the upper hand in terms of fighting on the ground party's policy we are reporting from the libyan capital there 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 degree 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 unit it. can take away that is only if they can get a stalemate at best i think there's a lot of confusion and when you get confusion like you go you have to be even on the ground in libya you're going to start to move first. so i think at least in in the near future unless someone can take this inherent of the american sort of

friendship british or whoever most american figures in here and i think in the neck near future you're going to see a lot of name calling and finger pointing and it is going to get really embarrassing still to come what has become. the space race. the seat is too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space the list goes more to do but is it worth doing has man become too weighed down by trust real troubles to care about the final frontier our resident reporter in new york finds out coming up in the program. also are to visit the nord stream of project construction in its final stages bringing closer to reality the pipeline which will pump russian gas direct to the e.u. and nina 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 a venue of bretton woods in the u.s.

the event hosted by billionaire philanthropist to george soros is exploring what role emerging powers will take in a new world economic order or at least there has been covering the conference for. we heard from 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 and europe and united states are not going to decline in the same way that we had a two billion produces to the world economy over the last twenty years we are about to go consumers people who will respond to middle class incomes people who are sponsored by middle class products and services are huge groups of the middle class particularly the show that and the other bric countries which is going to transform the relationships between consumer and producer across the world that is probably

the means by which the world economy will be eventually rebalance as one gets pointed out that the emerging economies the bric nations are kind of one i point at a conference where many people are talking about what needs to change in terms of the western powers 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 involves more of a say role in capital markets the financial crisis being there evidence that that didn't work but 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 it's better rules are the place there is not a lot of confidence from any of the guests here that i've spoken to that dodd frank or the basel 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 that their currencies are feeling not well as well the euro being one of the first vacation of currencies and something that was really blamed on although nobody really knew. 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 is that he attributes that enlarged heart to bailing out the banks bailing out wall street and not the public which has just hurt revenues in the united states 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 avert a shutdown and we saw them essential we only cutting thirty eight billion dollars from the budget which is nothing more than one trillion dollar deficit so really didn't tackle the deficit or that issue at all if people are concerned about you know if economy or she's a war and lives to reporting from new hampshire in the united states economics professor gerald epstein of the university of massachusetts hearst 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 god frank bill and so forth the political power of finance remains so strong both in the united states and in europe and other international floros that they're 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 whence 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 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 but these are 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 of course you can get more of the bretton woods conference as well as commentary and analysis from our washington bureau that are typical. economic experts fear america's financial crisis could worsen as massive u.s. corporations get creative with their accounting to avoid pain billions of dollars in taxes. also online the computer hackers who are hacked off with the state of the gaming industry find out why very taking on sony and its best selling game system.

station. and in the mix our tea has the recipe for a special cause. to mark the fiftieth anniversary of your becoming a first hand experience to our team and learn how to make it. but over 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 you got a good idea it has been there to see the construction firsthand as it enters its final stages and might look like carbon a middle of

a money building side but behind me is a key point here 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 of 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 here and it's going to cost over seven billion year as at least. russia is now proving it is capable of initialising in carrying out such large scale projects taking part in all the phases starting from modeling to constructing and operating. 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 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 fact 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 quiet on its way to realize lation the north stream project faced a lot of the. actions now one type of objection was from viral mentalists those in sweden and finland two of the country for you to see by the words the project will go through all worried about the impact of the project on the sea and also what might have happened if any kind of seismic emergencies while in this respect from under contract has not only gone and done everything to make sure that there are no

nothing happened sort of point but it is going to start beyond they've started to see bad has been damaged already by previous wars and previous pollution and they're actually going out of their way to restore their better condition the other objection was political pressure already supplies nearly a third of europe's cats. but this new pipeline was going to bring a new level of security to kind of conflicts which are good transit countries with ukraine and you have to ask that basically held the whole of europe hostage put it in 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 all business europe needs north stream more. parties you've got a live report from northwestern russia now let's have a closer look at some other headlines from around the world. at least one person has been killed in new clashes between egypt's progress form protesters and the ruling military in cairo soldiers the protesters with clubs in

a pre-dawn raid in tahrir square before breaking up a group of demonstrators camped out there hundreds of thousands took part in flash protests friday with demonstrators growing impatient with the military took over from ousted president hosni mubarak and what the prosecution of the top of multibillion dictator and his family for corruption. six people have been shot dead and fifteen have been by gunmen near amsterdam the man ran through a shopping mall randomly firing a machine gun killing himself after the shooting rampage police identify. the gunman as a twenty four year old a 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 etta demonstrators are demanding that anyone linked to the organization be banned from

running for public office the demo is in response to at is a decision to launch a new party sort two and one for office in regional elections in may the supreme court has denied sorts of legal status but an appeal has yet to be heard. going to japan now a steel wall and fence are being installed around the fukushima nuclear power plants 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 a journey into space by guerin fifty years ago the u.s. prepares to retire its fleet of space shuttles so what has 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 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. and i proud that man was walked out of my proud that man once across the atlantic ocean and failed america i think it's it's a good thing for people who for mankind to do new things and explore and learn no one cares and i'm going into space 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 it why did it why did the culture used to think it was so important and now are like there been there tony being here barry is for you know we've got up areas now we've got up around greece is 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 any problems on the earth there could be even thinking of a social space put weren't there just as many problems back than. perhaps there were. just so used to it. television. cinema. just shows outer 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 it was but that's kind of what help our man on right so sure what must be a great time for him to say let's learn it would be something better than nothing he'd see that happening no now and him no barack obama should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space will groom really gets out there really for the more more zoom

you know remote. 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 i feel good nowadays 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 the public technology we understand a lot more about the universe through. telescopes and other resources so but we haven't been to mars but we know what's there are a lot of ways we haven't you know that will reveal time travel you know we haven't got it how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate and that's what i will say why are we more focused on things like the internet and facebook because we're dumb yourselves down i must be one of those people that believe man in space but the 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.

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