a day out of remembrance one year on from the tragedy of poland and russia remember the late president lech kaczynski gehman ninety five other victims of a fatal plane crash near my downs. nato is accused of letting libyan rebels ignore the no fly zone after reports to opposition helicopters put down by the toughness forces. also this week a fitness craze to start with inciting racial hatred after an interview with r t in which he speaks out against the man behind every teller in the last hour.

live from moscow here with our two yemenis and now with our top story this sunday poland is marking a national tragedy and years since the presidential plane crash in heavy fog in western russia killing everyone on board including head of state. at the time the shared sense of shock saw moscow in warsaw experience a thaw in historically frosty relations commemoration events have been held in russia and are still going in poland let's cross to our correspondent on the ground alexis have ski in warsaw and alice had my downscale like say to you first the square in front of the presidential palace there in warsaw absolutely packed with people like huge national al gore and of grief you witnessed there today. indeed i was here at the very same spot is a year ago at the presidential palace in front of the presidential palace and the scenes which i see today remind me of what happened twelve months ago an endless

crowds of people have been arriving here since the early morning and i would say that in the past several hours the number of the people has dramatically increased i would say maybe somewhere closer between two and three thousand people are now in this very same spot but we are expecting at least one hundred thousand people to take part in the. commemoration ceremony across the city and to take part in fact in a commemoration march across the streets of warsaw now exactly eight forty one am local time a million minutes of silence was absurd because we understand that it was the time exactly minutes when the presidential plane went down in the russian city of smolensk a year ago now we know that civil services and vigils are being held everywhere across the polish capital in different churches and even the central control is having a very colorful vigil right now as we speak i witnessed this service on a large l.c.d. screen about one hundred meters from where i'm standing right now politicians are speaking to the crowds here trying to find words to explain the loss which of the

country suffered a year ago the crowd is now expecting a speech by the late of the by the brother of the late president also pushing steve who is due to arrive here any minute and we just heard a loud applause from the crowd that was because relatives of those people who died in the plane crash a year ago arrived here to lay flowers in regions that's what they've been doing in fact old route can say a different cemeteries across war so because most of the people who died in a plane crash where buried everywhere across the polish capital indeed this is all about emotions today the polls have been very emotional and very mindful of what happened a year ago and in fact the mourning period lost here last for a week and this is what we're expecting this time as well the mourning will last until until the next weekend obviously will culminate in a large mourning ceremony in the city of krakow that's where the presidential

couple was buried a year ago indeed what is happening now is in poland some experts just describe it as a disgrace because some of the political forces are using this tragedy in their means to gain electorate in the political runoff in the presidential campaign last year in particular saying. using very strong and solid russian rhetoric using some conspiracy theories like the death of the polish president was in fact a mysterious plan by warsaw by the ruling powers awards and the ones in moscow something which of course only five to seven percent of the polish population believe in but definitely today it's all about the tragedy all about the commemoration and i have the feeling that the people who have gathered here in the central city square of war so have that on their mind instead of any political discourse commemorations of course also taking place in alice hebert is at the scene of the crash in southwestern russia alice take us through the memorial events that have been happening throughout the day where you are. well it cannot fool she

one am local time that's the exact stealing the plane crash down a small remembrance service was held at just behind me at the actual size hole of the crash through throughout the day mourners here in smolensk both russian and polish should be coming here to pay their respects in the russian capital moscow the russian first lady said non-image vetiver laid her own flowers and paid her own respects outside the polish embassy and this of course follows on from yesterday's events when the wife of the british president at an a common all sky came here with the families of the victims to attend a memorial service here at the smiths care field before moving on to the top the memorial site a very similar timetable to that would be followed by presidents with their lives and come out off key on monday but to help these poor united them public help organs of grief from both the russian and who decides we do understand that some in poland have states press their concern at the news that the memorial plaque at the

crash site behind me was replaced on friday nights we have heard from the russian foreign ministry on this and we understand that locals are. changed up because they say permission was not granted for the original plaque and they also wanted a plaque in both russian and polish the old plug that was up the side was recent purely in polish i'd also made to the cantina memorial to which lech kaczynski was flying on that fateful day its new class is in both english and russian as ministers here they say they want people from both countries to feel welcome to morning here and it makes no reference to the cattiness but let's cost our minds back now remember the details that led to you got a plane crashing on april the ten twenty ten. there are there.

the final moments within seconds all ninety six on board flight one zero one dead. the time was ten forty one am for the tenth. i was outside when i heard the plane it was flying really low with one of its wings pointing down it crashed into the trees and burst into a ball of fire it was obvious that no one was going to survive the flames were as high as a five story house. crowd control star for there were no conditions to land requests were still made to attempt a trial approach transcripts from the plane's black box flight recorder revealed the crew were acutely aware of the rapidly decreasing visibility and also a pressure to land as soon as possible. crazy yeah we do know who he is what we do know is that a senior minister periodically enter the cockpit throughout the flight and at the

chief of the air force himself was present at the time of the crash under these conditions the pilots continued their approach well having passed the point of no return the president's plane began its final descent but the dense fog and poor visibility meant that the crew had in fact already missed their target is coming in to land some fifty meters below the runway where the base of the aircraft began to raise the tops of these trees and one particularly told a huge hole out of the left wing causing the aircraft to roll and within just five seconds that those at the top of one five four had hit the ground hard at first we didn't know about there was a crash we know something has something wrong so from copping out here we see and and we came here as it was possible none of that believe it happened we were talking about that it was. incredible that sense of

shock and disbelief reverberated around the world is the news that began to spread but in a single move it poland had suffered its prime minister would later dump its worst tragedy since world war two and a snippet r.t. . well many of the wounds of the tragedy have yet to heal and in poland there's still debate about the circumstances of the crash but invasion expert david near mount from flight international magazine says the main facts are clear and praise the integrity of the investigation the m a k is a very very good agency which it didn't merely do a good investigation of this accident it always does very thorough investigations about citizens this was an accident of a type which unfortunately has blighted aviation history and we could see more in the future it's very simple the pilots broke the procedural rules that they should

have stuck to for safety they went lower than they knew they should have done probably because they felt under such high pressure to deliver these very important people to such an important event it's such a tragedy for poland that people literally don't want to see the truth it's an absolute gold mine for conspiracy theorists we continue our special coverage of the commemoration ceremonies remembering how the fatal crash happened and taking you through the subsequent investigation stay with us throughout the day for the. when the news is not enough. when it's something really crucial. when you want to get down to brass tacks we bring you our special coverage here on in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that

left the country devastated. and united two nations in grief. question more on. now to developments in libya where government officials say its forces have shot down to rebel helicopters in the east of the country it's much questions over the effectiveness of nato as un mandated no fly zone adopted last month meanwhile the key city of pasto is the focus of a major on sparked by the gaffer's forces doctor say at least eight rebels have been killed and as nato announces it's destroyed a significant amount of government i mean it's a near the capital tripoli tanks around misrata and in other parts of the country rather there's growing rebel disillusionment at the level of nato assistance and up the scale of friendly fire casualties since the alliance took over the no fly zone twenty and to get thousands fighters have been killed and dozens injured by their

grades and sees you go to skin all the spoken to some rebels in the city of benghazi. veteran of the libyan army moved any service all the way to return it but now he's fighting for the revolution it is a moment if you rebels at the front with military training and experience. their forces are not even we are ready to fight to the death but with these weapons we don't stand a chance against gadhafi since meeting to control the north winds on operation it's going to mean more than one thousand sorties into maybe the un's queens around a third of that at least forces have now been destroyed with the support of help from the skerries on the ground the rebels are still digging abounding. and later israel there are civilians an astrologer daily here grainy more interest.

just a week ago because it was a revolutionary period seems to be internal siddiqui sneezed on for its support because the proclaimed pretense to back the list of girls killed or missing everything it seems. preacher the morning meal calls over to you life has been tactics it's a crazy as well protests like this one are becoming common seen me using media off feeling to protect civilians they are asking for help anymore the are demanding it i don't know that i do i do it well are they way too full for gadhafi to kill or still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow us. but experts say arming the rebels alone wouldn't help us win the war with the rebels need is not so much arms they can use arms with trailing not really being anything before star now servicing that the us and egypt are called retreat anti that if you forces going beyond the mandate of the un

resolution that established do nothing i thought you were just going off guard as the media. well as the call the shin is reportedly considering arming rebels in libya the u.k. government has been criticized by its own m.p.'s for selling a new nation to authoritarian regimes because it is more and records it appears britain was happy to put profit before principle in the way it was doing business. security forces put down on rest of the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other irritant ammunition and they've got plenty of the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just four months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people the government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets and take out. there are very strict guidelines that say where where it is likely the human rights violations might take place you are not supposed to solve the weapons and i would say looking back through

a number of credible sources including amnesty international but it was always likely always very very likely the equipment supplied to colonel gadhafi would and could be used in the brutal crackdown of protesters by highly critical report by m.p.'s exposes the scale of u.k. arms sales to some of the world's most brutal regimes the libyan export licenses were some of the most valuable according to the reports the u.k. sold nearly three hundred fifty million dollars worth of arms there in two thousand and ten in the same year egypt bought twenty seven million dollars worth of small guns and electronic warfare equipment from the u.k. and paul rein ordered more than ten million dollars of guns and crowd control agents days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron later junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares of british arms dealers reports also say the government misjudged the risk of

selling on to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen is a characteristic of british around the world over the last ten years. has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector so exactly the opposite of what of trying to stimulate we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come tell them democracy will be on rest started it least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it closed the stable door after the fall to both states when british weapons were probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn't ruled out oh make the rebels in libya everybody has to be seen whether these downing revelations will make them think twice the pressure on western governments to arm the rebels is growing with colonel gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move so far the

u.k. is officially off telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your end it. still to come on the program searching for solutions the best financial minds together to discuss the future of the global economy but will emerging markets be the driver of canonical coverage. and find out how the new crew at the international space station plans to mark the inspiring. regard are in fifty years on. now in most countries it's standard practice to denounce terror but it seems not and some limbs there are priests is facing charges of inciting racial hatred after he spoke out against the man behind the moscow metro airport bombings which is causing a question over reports from helsinki. these may be the last days these man whereas he's posterous color you hum waller faces being defrocked for speaking out against

i use the word would appear raised us word but it didn't look. and his internet mouth piece center the site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the taxi cleans the nafs ski express a matter of war means and most recently the idea devour was attack the website is banned in russia but in finland it enjoys quite a comfortable standing and not only on the internet but also in downtown helsinki the priest was the first openly say this was an outrage and the reaction was quick to follow. this guy. is hundred percent. of us what does the letters say is a load of the evil i don't stop to fight. to cut my hair away from wife on wheels you home all are we want to police but instead of being

prosecuted himself being sued for criticizing bush finland calls illegally operating organization. people who are promoting. russia they are promoting public opinion against more easily recent. recent statements about orchestras actions which is of course not the truth because maurice only representing the internationally acknowledged opinion about. international terrorist people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets may be unaware of the disturbing case of you harm or the rich they're used to thinking of their country as fair and politically correct but would they remain just as neutral if tragedy knocks on their door here in helsinki people travel on public

transport without fear their neighbors in russia only four hundred kilometers away aren't quite so lucky. a troll it's only as. step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call. good for a minority group minority who want to do terrible things. and. it. will rock. the world. there is quite a team after the pastor now finland's prosecutor's office the church and some of the world's most determined terrorists you home all the way has already changed address and divorced his wife. and his children at risk is now considering a move to russia exceeding the pressure of our tea house in key finland. we spoke to pastor you home all the reactor he was questioned by the finnish police and can

watch the full interview with him as well as many other stories on our website r.t. dot com. the financial dominance of europe and america is coming from an end with developing economies now taking the leading role that's one of the main themes of a summit being hosted by billionaire tycoon george soros in the american town of press and woods and his loyalists are doing to us now live from the forum where opportunities for russia and other bric nations have been heavily discussed lauren can you flesh out for us some of the details of the main proposals that have been pushed forward at the summit. well anything i just want to say that is i think take a very influential economists and some former policymakers that are very much tied to policy or there won't be per se a roadmap for policy coming out of this that will be decisive this is a bunch of bankers getting together trying to figure out how to navigate new terrain that is completely different than it was decades ago during the forty's

when the original institutions that came out of the original bretton woods conference came to be which are still in place today things like the i.m.f. things like the u.s. reserve currency as the dollar so it's not exactly clear what the exact direction will be going forward but there is a main point which is the need to dramatically change thinking dramatically change economic thinking in the wake of a crisis in the wake of globalization in a situation where for a lot of the people here that are focused on the problems of western countries of the u.s. in europe the key question is in an era where now they are no longer dominant they're being out produced out exported out invested by the rest of the world what is that going to look like with the rise of as you mentioned bric nations the emerging markets which now are driving growth and which as former u.k. prime minister gordon brown said yesterday when he addressed the group they now are probably going to be the key to the rebalancing of the global economy and also what a number of people that i've spoken to here that are that are economists ph d.'s

very smart people trying to solve these problems is that there needs to be a much greater role for bric countries in global governing economic bodies such as the i.m.f. such as these organizations that were set up decades ago which are outdated now in the wake of what is now completely changed to rein in the global economy and so. certainly a lot of talk about the future certainly but what about more pressing problems in the here and now is verney's kind of talk about the issues that people are worried about today. you definitely hear that i mean one of the main reasons why a lot of these people are very concerned about the united states dollars a reserve currency in issues like that the problems in western countries in the united states stems from the fact that the economy has not responded that unemployment is still so high that wall street got bailed out and that the top one percent of the united states are making so much more money while wages have stagnated for the last thirty years for the middle class and for the lower class and that this is going to cause real problems and already is causing problems like

we saw with protests by public sector unions in wisconsin so i think this is driving part of this conversation forward to rethink what this is going to look like and we also see it in terms of the problem with debt and deficits and a con an economist i was just talking to you said there are actually having to rethink the mainstream view of dealing with crisis that actually didn't deal with a financial crisis and how to navigate through that it only really dealt with what were like during good times and one issue which really comes into play there is that issue of debt there was no way for economists to really think through mainstream economists at least what you do when cash flows all of a sudden what they were and you couldn't repay your debts and now you see the toll in trillion dollar deficits held by countries like the united states which is driving away with fourteen trillion dollars in debt and you also hear this come into play when you hear about a crisis in confidence of political leadership which you just saw in the united states the government come to a near shutdown because they could not get a budget passed and they did at the very last minute and they cut thirty eight

billion dollars from the rest of two thousand and eleven this is nothing to dent the united states deficit problem and they can candidates runs a more than a one trillion dollar deficit each fiscal year adding up to mention more than fifty fourteen trillion dollars in debt which isn't being dealt with by political leaders and it's just this crisis of faith in leaders and politicians which many people here say did not navigate the financial crisis well and that are still not really able to deal with the continuing effects of this crisis which some say has not. trying to recover yet many millions of americans and for people in other countries as well if that really hasn't been dealt with and so that's one of the things that are on mr saying they're trying to put forward new thinking in order to deal with the threat of the national debt growing cost minus four billion dollars a day more and mr reporting live from the u.s. town of bretton woods where hopefully some of this talk will turn into action thanks for that. well now we go to the international space station where

a russian spacecraft has brought three new crew members to the cosmic outpost the mission was dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the first human spaceflight and set off from the same launch pad as harry garden in one nine hundred sixty one well after orbiting for two days around the planet the rocket docked at the compliment and the crew of three with two cosmonauts and an american astronaut they're due to stay at the space station until september and have been tasked with conducting forty scientific experiments as part of a hundred billion dollar program artie's tests are silly i was at the baikonur launch pad as the mission was preparing to set off. astronauts for most of their lives preparing for the possibility of going to space now russian cosmonauts for example takes about two hundred fifty exams a year and that's a different world of physical training they have to go through all the hard put into their professions one of the things they fear is probably a little more romantic and that's an unwavering a childhood dream of literally reaching for something big aspiring cosmonauts.

intently as a so you see i'm a twenty one spacecraft is poised to do it's vertical position i only fourteen he's so certain about his future that he's already made headway and went to the u.s. and became the first youngster to sketch fifteen minutes floating of the zero gravity environment house with all its training so my look. i took the food of my buddy. this early start is something the first man in space utica got in could himself have related to and his feet fifty years ago marked the beginning of a long list of achievements in manned space exploration. from walking on the route. to building the massive international space station. but it doesn't stop there next possibly a hotel in orbit yet another space dream which that if you for this photo project

there will be forums at the station with enough food for seven people there will be tribute alumina it is so that everyone could observe the stars i've always wanted to become a cosmonaut that didn't happen pronounce sure that one day i'll travel to space a tourist price tag is a hefty thirty five to forty million dollars but there is a cheaper alternative another project aims to send space tourists to lower earth orbit where they'll spend five minutes of zero gravity and see the planet in its entirety for two hundred thousand dollars to do this they plan to use the ability of this plane to carry cargo on its body the plane will take off with a small space shuttle which will be released at a certain altitude but arguably the most a bishops of space projects is the mars five hundred experiment simulating a voyage to the red planet in the event this global ambitions becomes reality and when that time comes young sergei is certain he'll be ready to take on the

challenge no mars for the i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well they say you can leave there in future. and like many space men and women he believes it will only be a matter of time that's our silly arty baikonur in kazakhstan. or authority live from moscow i'll be back with headlines after this short break.