call in the brush or hold the morrill services to barky years since the plane crash that killed the polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five others. nato faces questions over the effectiveness of its u.n. back no fly zone in libya reports the two rebel helicopters were shot down by gadhafi forces. and also this week you're finnish priest is charged with inciting racial hatred of the interview with r.t. in which he spoke out against russia's most wanted terrorist.

it's nine pm sunday night here in moscow you're watching the weekly from r.t. around to the top stories from the past seven days with me kevin zero but first poland is marking a national tragedy a year since the presidential plane crashed in heavy fog in western russia killing everyone on board including the head of state like ski at the time the shared sense of shock saw moscow and warsaw experience a thaw and historically frosty relations commemoration of events have been held here in russia still going on in poland jesse is watching those events in warsaw for us. poland today has one of the most tragic and saddest days since last year when the country lost most of its political elites indeed there are very emotional about what happened a year ago and the commemorations here prove that. the polls are still very mindful

of their tragic loss twelve months ago i took a stroll through this crowd you can see in the background here it's a very emotional crowd people are singing the songs and anthems in one voice with tears in the eyes and you know very emotional side that is from the top floor of my hotel i witnessed huge a long march become a ripple commemoration march with several thousand people walking down the streets of war so carrying national flags and photographs of the political elite with black ribbons on them now at exactly eight twenty eight forty one am in the morning a minute of silence was observed in warsaw that is exactly the time when the presidential plane went down a year ago in nearby the russian city of smolensk the commemoration services and vigils have been held all throughout the day everywhere in warsaw in different cemeteries where those who died in this man's plane crash were buried a year ago so throughout the day it's been very emotional including the service special service which was what held up the runway of the movie idea airport in

warsaw that is exactly the wrong way to be from where the presidential plane took off and never returned so it's all about emotion here in warsaw that's what we've been managed to see here and despite the fact that many experts observe these emotions being used in a political way the some iraqi nationalist movements are using strong and side russian rhetoric with even calling the death of the coast president a conspiracy between the ruling powers circles in warsaw and the ones in moscow still this day is all about emotions and that's what we've been managed to see here from the people in the central square of the polish capital. like seriously there will be disasters also been remembered at the actual site in western russia where the plane went out sees alice habits being keeping across developments there. ten fool she one am local time that's the exact line that the plane crashed down a small remembrance service was held in just behind me at the actual sun i solve the crash through throughout the day more days here and smolinski both russian and

polish should be coming here to pay their respects in the russian capital moscow the russian first lady said lawn in the dead of the late her own flowers and pays her room respects outside the polish embassy and this is of course follows on from yesterday's events when the wife of the kurdish president get an a comet also came here with the families of the victims to attend a memorial service here at the smith's care field before moving on to the county memorial site a very similar timetable to that would be followed by president's move it is unclear at all ski on monday but to help these very united and public help poor use 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 local authorities changed up because they

say permission was granted for the original plan and they also wanted a plaque in both russian and polish the old plaque that was up the side was worse in purely in polish i'd also made dress moves into the canteen a memorial to which lech kaczynski was flying on that fateful day this new crack is in both english and russian as ministers here they say they want people from both countries to feel welcome to mourn here and it makes no reference to me kathy but let's cost our minds back now remember the details that led to that plane crashing on a ten twenty ten. yes. the final moments within seconds all ninety six on board flight one zero one with the dead. the time with

ten forty one am on april tenth. i was outside when i heard the plane it was flying really low with one of its wings pointing down its crashed into the trees and burst into a ball of fire it was obvious that no one was going to survive if waves were as high as a five story house. crowd control song there were no conditions to lounge bass a request was still made to attempt a trial approach transcripts from the plane's black thoughts flight recorder revealed the crew were acutely aware of the rapidly decreasing visibility but also of the pressure to land as soon as possible to go crazy yeah we don't know who he is what we do know is that a senior minister periodic the end to the cockpit throughout the flight and that the chief of the air force himself was present at the time 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 the said that the dense fog could pull visibility and that the crew had in fact already missed their targets were coming into land some fifty meters below the runway where the base of the aircraft began to graze the tops of these trees and one particularly tool birch rich a huge hole out of the left wing causing the aircraft to roll and within just five seconds the nose about to pull of one five four has hit the ground hard at far we didn't know there was a crash we know thumping has happened at something wrong so from copying or here we took it back and we came here as soon as it was possible none of that believe it happened we were talking about the. it was unrealistic incredible that sense of shock and disbelief reverberated around the world is the news that began to spread but in

a single moment poland had suffered its prime minister would later tell its west since world war two alice habits r.t. smolensk region. for the causes and consequences of the tragedy will join o b aviation journalist david kaminski morrow is in london tonight for us a very good evening from spain on the program this pre-show to the majority of aviation specialists all across the globe. official russian investigation a great point the same place that it was pilot error that led to the tragedy warsaw still isn't satisfied with that do you see it they have any grounds to be dissatisfied with the result. frankly kevin no i don't think they do have any grounds to criticize aside the facts in this case are fairly fairly straightforward this airplane took off heading for an airport where the visibility will be visibility was too low to be landing. it's very clear that there was no way this

aircraft should be making this approach and should have thought about it elsewhere had pilots dislike nevertheless to the approach and as it was made from the approach wasn't following the standard operating procedure to be sure. it was warmed by automated systems in the cockpit it was approaching the ground the pilots persisted with the approach instead of aborting it and the result is that a perfectly flyable aircraft was perfectly flown right into the forest i mean it's no it's pretty unequivocal what happened i mean you can quibble about the details on whether individual procedures were i thought if they wanted to put it this is a open and shut case really david one of the main bones of contention as far as some of the polish side are concerned is the air traffic controllers on the russian side the polish representative at the interstate the asian community saying it is

country's defense minister pressured him as well and demanded evidence suggesting that russia's air traffic controllers were in some way at fault why would poland want russia to share a portion of the blame for this tragedy. well i think the the the sensitivity of the surrounding this whole flight to catch in the history between russia and poland you talk about an air accident. in the worst possible time of the worst possible place and thankfully this is that the elites of the polish air force the presidential flights as indeed up in a thousand pieces in a forest and they appear at the head of state i mean it's it's not an easy pill for the polish like to swallow. the natural the want to share the blame they don't want to take all of the blame for this they want to see is. if they can spread that

blame around provoking us can be very very difficult for the post-flight sujit russia published transcript from a traffic control by david we saw a little bit of it graphically there in our corresponds report just now. close take illustrating what the pilots were saying in the cockpit and they provided poland to with all the necessary help for its own investigation what do you think poland could come but without taking everything you've said so far but they're hoping to publish something no doubt in october what what could they likely say. yes i think it depends on where the president wants to start with evidence and finish with the conclusion or whether it wants to start with the conclusion and cherry pick the evidence be as i said earlier this is the facts of this case are fairly unequivocal you can it would take a fairly elaborate reinterpretation of an awful lot of hard factual data. to come up with an alternative so what's the state of aviation committee has

already published i mean there may be minor differences in what happened there's always room for a certain amount of interpretation because ultimately you can't reconstruct every single bit of my critique. on the flight but the fact is that this is a controlled flight into terrain accidently it's no mystery it's something which happens often enough that it has a term that's applied to a controlled flight into terrain is sadly still a major cause of airline accidents and if there's been any other aircraft operating any other flights been then i think this the russian conclusions would have simply been accepted and. the fact is that it's part of the reason that this attracts so much attention is because it was president kaczynski on board because it was a high level delegation and because of the nature of the flight and destination it

was going and david briefly if you can the question that's kept cropping up over the last twelve months is it possible to have a guarantee that a plane won't crash so why a year ago were there so many polish high ranking officials all on one single aircraft are there not standard procedures to be sure that color thing couldn't happen obviously not i guess where you were you think there ought to be but ultimately that's an interim matter for any for any government and any. and any education is. no international rules saying what you can and can't transport onboard an aircraft if we are grafted landed safely in smolensk that. question wouldn't even have come up but what's happened my cause the polish government to rethink what it does in the future because other governments to rethink how they transfer their officials but there's no regulation to say if you can or can't transport everyone and anyone ok david can escape journalist thanks

for your insights appreciate. pleasure. 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 a year. in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastated. but united two nations in grief. question more on the party. now the latest development in libya where government officials say its forces are shot down to rebel helicopters in the east of the country it's led to questions over the effectiveness of nato as un mandated no fly zone adopted last month meanwhile the p.c.c. of. nato forces have been bombarding to pass his army pro-government forces have

been trying to retake the area from the opposition doctors say least eight rebels have been killed as nato announces it's destroyed a significant amount of government ammunition and tanks across the country however there's growing rebel disillusionment at the level of nato assistance and of the scale of friendly fire casualties since the alliance took over the no fly zone twenty one to get down fighters have been killed and dozens injured by the raids as he got his can offer spoken to some of the rebels in the city of benghazi. veteran of the libyan army. only served his country all the way to retirement but now he's fighting for the revolution and is among the few rebels of the brunt with military training and experience in the. air forces for not even we are ready to face the test but with these weapons we don't stand a chance against gadhafi since needing to control the north winds on operation it's going to need more than one thousand sorties into maybe the u.n.

screens around a third of that every sports is have now been destroyed but despite the help from the skies on the ground the rebels are still taking abounding. later as triodes there are civilians in a strike on a daily or green of more interest. just a week ago because it was a revolution the theory seems to be entire cd police need for its support but the probe i think it's too bad for the list of girls killed or missing can't be the it seems to reach a meet locals call the u.s. district tactics is crazy as well although it's like this one are becoming in common scene mean or accusing me of your feeling to protect civilians they are asking for help anymore be by demanding it. i don't get

all the way to fall for gadhafi to kill 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 training anything before it's on our servicing that the u.s. and egypt are called really training and even if you force is going beyond the mandate of the one there's aleutian that established new northway tell you what is going on in jazz the media. but elsewhere the region syria yemen and egypt all saw outbreaks of protests this weekend as nato forces have bogged down in libya some experts suggest destabilization in the arab world is part of a strategy led by the u.s. to weaken iran and when walk low to the region and he's going to get you can find out who might be next on the list. as waves of public rage sweep through north africa and the middle east world powers jump on them as many analysts say in an

attempt to direct the waves of unrest in a way that's north they were able for that in libya forging relationship with the opposition so that if gadhafi goes there are people there to do business with as syria popular raphe gather steam some experts say western powers might see the advantages of getting involved there to these three countries iran and syria are the main countries that will not align themselves or the manically to the global power elite or the western powers interested objectives in more powerful in the middle east as for example egypt will do or used to do with hosni mubarak and definitely kuwait and saudi arabia syria is iran's closest ally in the region and the cost to support the remark in syria after income was mentions of you ran syria is obviously a strategic ally for iran in the in the region and without syria iran loses their

their bridge their land bridge to lebanon and they're hit hezbollah in force and so of course hezbollah would suffer if the syrian regime was to fall and that would be stabilizing iran and weaken its power in the region which would be an obvious benefit to be in all american forces some expert even believe that destabilize ation is part of a strategy the west perceives in the region we're seeing reflect a strategy which includes our mom's other points the generalized weakening of the sovereign nation states of the sovereign genes in the arab world in order to try to isolate iran. with very few perhaps no friendly countries in the region and that will then leave iran pretty much alone at least in the arab world and we facilitate further turmoil inside iran although the u.s. secretary of state has ruled out america's involvement in syria for now the country's pick and secretary card for the syrian army to quote empower arab revolution and follow the example of egypt's military syria. any.

rate. thank you just the way in libya. iran though would be a tough heart and no matter how much washington would want the regime there to fall for now it's seen as a mission impossible i'm sure that there are some in the u.s. who would love to attack iran and there are others who would like to take over the iranian opposition i think they know that the iranian opposition is not so fond of the united states they have a long memory in iran people remember the role of the united states in overthrowing the precursor to the shah of iran overthrowing the democratically elected government of mossad there back in one hundred fifty three so i don't think the u.s. would be welcomed and i think many in washington know that would leave you being torn apart by the war and anti-government protests gaining momentum in syria the

question on everyone's mind is who might be next and then to check our reporting from washington r.t. . and still to come in the program searching for solutions the best financial minds gathered to discuss the future of the global economy but will merging markets be the driver of economic recovery all revealed a bit later and find out how the new crew of the international space station plans to mark the inspiring more brutal all to see of your regard fifty years ago. in most countries it's standard practice to denounce terror but it seems not in finland there a priest is facing charges of inciting racial hatred after he spoke out against the man behind the moscow metro airport bombings of his a country groucho the reports next from helsinki. juris knees may be the last days these man wears his pastas color you hum waller faces being defrocked for speaking out against i use the word terrorist to use word. your kumar

and his international peace become cost center the site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the taxi claims the netsky express mosque a matter of war means and most recently the idea that our ports 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 by email it's how to preserve through it gave. us what does the letters the slow the the evil i don't stop the fight. so that they will cut my hair or way i will promise on the heels you home all are we want of police but instead ended up being prosecuted himself being sued for

criticizing bush finland calls illegally operating organization the same people who are promoting. russia they are promoting public opinion against war reclaiming the mauri user release and. racist statements or causes people of the church ads which is of course not the truth because maurice all you represent thing the internationally acknowledged opinion about an international terrorist people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets may be unaware of the disturbing case of you harm or the there 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 thought. a troll it's only

a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call we're fighting against a minority drop minority who want to do terrible things. being. it but. there are only one. but we're going there is quite a team after the pasta 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 to avoid putting hurin and his children at risk is now considering a move to russia exceeding the pressure of r r t how stinky finland's well we spoke to pastor your mle ari after he was questioned by the finnish police and you can watch that interview as well as many others on our web site r.t. dot com. the financial dominance of europe and america is coming to an end with

developing economies no taking the leading role that is one of the main themes of a summit being hosted by billionaire tycoon george soros in american terms of bretton woods but is there a list or reports from that for. if these hills could hark. the economic theory they will expound upon. ladies and gentlemen please welcome ideas they could change the world the future is not predetermined or at least billionaire george soros bringing together ph d.'s and nobel prize winners but the backdrop of historical bretton woods would suggest someone is hoping they will. it was here allied nations came during world war two in crisis searching for stability they formed the international monetary fund the world bank and established the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency. it's here that decades later in the wake of

a financial crisis a group of employees the economist and former policymakers have brought together to try to rethink that very framework to reflect i differ world we've got to have a serious plan to restructure the internationally reconstruct the international institutions for the times that we were in not for the past times but of course bygone times says brown are the centuries of american and european dominance with the bric nations of brazil russia india and china fueling more of global growth they need a bigger seat at the table critics say in with the new should mean out with the old orthodoxy of bretton woods the i.m.f. for one i think i am. has mostly played a very destructive role by promoting financial liberalization in many parts of the world which contributed tremendously to the financial meltdown and the handling of that meltdown in the us with the billions to bail out banks that are still too big

to fail is just one reason some of these critics give for questioning the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency if you have clearly capitalism and you lose confidence in u.s. institutions which has happened to some degree since two thousand the quality of the dollar and the quality of new yorkers a financial center the true currently and deterioration in political will for tougher banking reform has some concerned we may be headed for another crisis turns on what one says about crisis but i have to say yes the concentration of power in finance is greater today than it was before this crisis but here it's mostly western academics talking shop a new road map won't be drawn up this time it's right and woods according to the man who still has obama's ear his former top economic aide no one is going to run to washington to pass legislation next week but over time these kinds of ideas in sphere after severe have had very important effect effects hard for some to see at this point and this fear. where's the political will for reshaping the world

economy who has a proposal that's actually. there's plenty of conversations particularly around the role of the dollar and what would a candidate but no consensus at all on are. just consensus on a need for change they hope will reverberate beyond these hills boring mr r.t. new hampshire. next the international space station a russian spacecraft has board three new crew members to the cause may go post the soyuz rocket docked at the i assess after orbiting for two days around the planet the new crew is due to stay at the space stations on september they've been tasked with conducting forty scientific experiments as part of a hundred billion dollar program for missions dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the first human spaceflight some set off from the same guard and one hundred sixty one. if you're the next one are to watch more adventures and take its more sights and sounds if you will from central russia this time around in a few minutes and i'll recap the headlines to just before that live from moscow

this sunday night the tenth of april. the. season not enough. something really control. what you want to get down to brass tacks we bring you our special coverage.