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find out what's really happening to the global economy with max conjure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on r.t. . poland and russia hold memorial services to marty years since the plane crash which 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 of course the two rebel helicopters were shot down by gadhafi forces. and also this week a finnish priest is charged with inciting racial hatred after an interview with r.t. in which he spoke out against russia's most wanted terrorist. it's
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ten pm sunday night here in moscow are you watching the weekly from r t a round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin know it at first poland is marking a national tragedy today a year since the presidential plane crashed in heavy fog in western russia killing everyone on board including the head of state lech kaczynski at the time the shared sense of shock so what's called warsaw experience a for an historically frosty relations commemoration of events again held here in russia and the still ongoing in poland let's cross there now your correspondent in warsaw and like you i like say hi again and the streets of warsaw but absolutely packed. the scribe for us if you will at first hand this huge display of public grief and remembrance. well certainly the feeling of grief was quite visible and tangible here in the streets of warsaw all throughout the day thousands
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were here at the square all throughout the day commemorating those who died in the tragic plane crash nearby that the russian city of smolensk of the plane crash which killed most of the country's political elite eight forty one am local time the minute of silence was observed to commemorate those who died and later vigils have been held all throughout the day now. as you can probably hear through the natural sound in the background here the vigil the religious vigil has moved here to the central square in front of the presidential palace the rally which has gathered thousands here in the central square has had different colors all throughout the day first it was purely about mourning the dead then it was somehow political with banners and slogans all around the place and now as you can see and hear at history and more or less religious now all throughout the day relatives of those who died in this man's plane crash went to cemeteries across war so to lay flowers and wreaths at the grave yards of their loved ones the people who died in
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that plane crash were buried everywhere everywhere across. indeed this procession was quite long i observed from one of the skyscrapers in central warsaw a future procession of people a commemoration march through the streets of war so we managed to gather probably ten to twenty thousand people in just one line over this been happening throughout the day now this central square the rally here has more or less dispersed but definitely the emotion still stays and we understand the morning peter it will last for another week until next weekend just as it happened last year when the mourning period last the for a week and culminated with the funeral of the presidential couple in the city of krakow no indeed we're talking about emotions here and some experts are set to note that some of these emotions go directly into the political sphere of poland some political movements occluding the movement of the former president kaczynski which is now headed by his brother it also is using the anti russian rhetoric the
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rhetoric in needs of further investigation and even conspiracy theories that the death of the polish president was conspired by warsaw in moscow as their political tool during the presidential campaign this is something of course debated and speculated by the experts but today it's all about the. mourning and all about the grief of the people that's what the streets of warsaw have been filled with today a lecture is your school reporting for war so for us thank you. the disaster is also being remembered at the actual site in western russia where the plane went out easily as have been speaking across developments there for us. ten fool she one am local time that's the exact state line that the plane crashed down and a small remembrance service was held just behind me at the actual suddenly solve the crash to see throughout the day mourners here in smolensk both russian and polish have been coming here to pay their respects in the russian capital moscow
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the russian first lady's phenomena that of the late her own flowers and paid her room respects outside the polish embassy and this of course follows on from yesterday's events when the wife of the previous president get on 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 memorial site a very similar timetable for that will be followed by presidents inventive and common all see on monday to help these united and public help or disagree from both the russian and who decides we do understand that some in poland touch states press their concern at the news that the memorial plaque at the crash site behind me was replaced on friday nights we have now heard from the russian foreign ministry on this and we understand that locals med school authorities changed out because they say permission was granted for the original plaque and they also wanted
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a plaque in both russian and polish the old plug that was up the side it was recent purely in polish i'd also made reference to the canteen a memorial to which let's kaczynski was flying on that fateful day this new plaque 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 the cattiness but let's cost our minds back now remember the details that led to that plane crashing on april the ten twenty ten. the final moments within seconds all ninety six on board flight one i won out. it's time with ten forty one am pretend. i was outside when i heard the plane it
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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. ground control star there were no conditions to land mass a request was 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 but also a 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 we enter the cockpit throughout the flight and that the chief of the air force himself was present at the time of the crash under these conditions the pilots continue their approach while having passed the point of no return the president's plane began its final descent that the dense fog and poor visibility meant that the crew had in fact already missed their targets were coming
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in so land some fifty meters below the runway where the base of the aircraft began to graze the tops of these trees and one particularly tall birch ridge a huge hole out of the left wing causing the aircraft to roll and within just five seconds that those that supply one five four had hit the ground hard at first we didn't know there was a crash we now think it's. sounding wrong so from cutting out here we took a taxi and and we came here as soon as it was possible none of that believe it happened we were talking about that but it was. incredible that sense of shock and disbelief reverberated around the world is the news began to spread that in a single moment poland had suffered what its prime minister would later dump its worst tragedy since world war two alice had it r.t.
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smolensk region. many of the wounds of the tragedy of year to heal and in poland the still debate about the circumstances of the crash but aviation journalist david kaminski morrow told me it would be hard for public the contest the findings by the russian investigators the facts of this case a fairly unequivocal you can say it would take a fairly elaborate reinterpretation of an awful lot of hard factual data. to come up with an alternative to what the instate 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 i think it depends on whether poland wants to start with evidence and finish with a conclusion or whether it wants to stall with the conclusion and cherry pick we have it and. when the news is not enough. when something really crucial. what you want to get down to brass tacks we bring you special
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coverage here. in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left the country devastated. that united two nations in grief. question more on the. now developments in libya where government officials say its forces have shot down two rebel helicopters in the east of the country it's said to questions over the effectiveness of nato as un mandated no fly zone adopted last month meantime of the cases here of nato forces of guffey's army pro-government forces have been trying to retake the area from the opposition boxes least eight rebels have been killed that's as nato announces it's destroyed a significant amount of government i mean issues and tanks across the country where there's growing rebel disillusionment at the level of the nato assistance right now
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out of the scale of friendly fire casualties since the alliance took over the no fly zone at least twenty and to get off the fighters have been killed and dozens injured by their raids i think he got pissed going off spoken to some of the rebels in the city of benghazi a veteran of the libyan army moved any sort of his going all the way to retirement but now he's fighting for the revolution and is among the few rebels at the front with military training and experience with their forces for not even if we are ready to face the death but with these weapons we don't stand a chance against gadhafi since needing to control the north where. it's going to need more than one thousand sorties intermediate the u.n. screens around the period of god and his forces have now been destroyed we displayed help from the skerries on the ground the rebels are still taking a parenting. lead to a field there are civilians in
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a strike with the green meritorious. just a week ago it was a revolution seems the entire seek peace nato for its support but the front line continues to that list goes missing scabby the it seems to me all the u.s. is trying tactics is crazy as well protests like this one are becoming common seen many are accusing nato of feeling to protect civilians they are asking for help anymore are demanding it. their way to full for gadhafi to kill is still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow us. say or mean the rebels a long wooden helps when war. was needed in which aren't using arms
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training. reports or servicing of the us in egypt are we training forces going beyond the un resolution that established the north why don't you want this kind of. review. but as the coalition's reportedly considering arming rebels in libya the u.k. government spend criticized by pays for selling and we nation to authoritarian regimes as artie's lauren that reports it appears britain was happy to put profit before principle and the way it was doing business. security forces put down on rest in the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other irritants ammunition and they've got plenty the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just four months before colonel gadhafi turned on his own people with government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets and tear gas. there are very strict set of
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guidelines that say where where it is likely that human rights violations might take place for not supposed to sell the weapons and i would say looking back through a number of credible sources including amnesty international that it was always likely always very very likely that equipment supplied to colonel gadhafi would and could be used in the brutal crackdown of the protesters are 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 brought twenty seven million dollars worth of small guns and electronic warfare equipment from the u.k. and bahrain 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
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of british arms dealers reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling arms to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen this occur it's a risk because british aid around the world over the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sexes exactly the opposite approach of trying to stimulate some perceived we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come tell them democracy when we underestimate started it a bit least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it clears the stable door long enough to the force of both states which is weapons will probably already being used against civilians in bahrain and libya the government still hasn't ruled out arming the rebels in libya it remains 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
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gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move so far the u.k. has officially offered telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to lure emmett's r.t. london. looking ahead coming up in the program searching for solutions the first financial minds gathered to discuss the future of the global economy but the big question will emerge and markets be the driver of economic recovery package opinion in the next few minutes also find out how the new crew of the international space station is planning to mark the inspiring all over the world to see if you regard fifty years ago. in most countries of standard practice to denounce terror but not so in full and it seems. where a priest is facing charges of inciting racial hatred after he spoke out against the man behind the moscow metro airport bombings i think the country
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a great show over reports from helsinki. these may be the last days these man where is his pastor's call are you hummel or faces being defrocked for speaking out against i use the word terrorist to use word. no kumar and his international peace become a center assad was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the taxi claims then ask express also 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. its hundred percent through it came from bogus the
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rest what does the letters is lower the the evil eye. to five. percent better people got more hear or way from work on the real you home all are we want of police but instead ended up being prosecuted himself been sued for criticizing what finland calls illegally pope orating organization the same people who are promoting. promoting public opinion against more easily researched. recent statements of. caucasus chickens which is of course not because maurice all you were consenting internationally acknowledged. as an international terrorist people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets maybe on a were. there of the disturbing case of you have more than three they're used to thinking of their country as fair and politically correct but would they remain
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just as neutral if tragedy knocks on their door here in helsinki people travel on public transport without fear their neighbors say in russia only four hundred kilometers away aren't quite so all lucky. a troll it's only a step from exchanges stretch to action and there is seldom a warning call with biting against a minority a group strong minority and want to do terrible things. if they're being. if. there are only one thing we were going there is quite a team are to 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 to avoid putting hurin and his children at risk he's now considering
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a move to russia exiting the church over our tea house in key finland. with one of your background the story may be interested to know that we spoke at length to pass to you of malaria after question by the finnish police you see that interview in full as well as many other stories as well on our website r.t. dot com. the financial dominance of europe america's 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 turn of bretton woods a lister reports from the fore. the f.d.a. is hills could talk the economic theory they would expound upon. ladies and gentlemen please welcome ideas they really could change the world of golf. or at least billionaire george soros bringing together ph d's and nobel prize winners with the backdrop of historical bretton woods would suggest someone is
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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 us dollar is the global reserve currency. it's here that decades later in the wake of a financial crisis a group of influential economists and former policymakers have got together to try to rethink that very framework to reflect a different world we've got to have a serious plan to restructure the international reconstruct the international institutions for the times that we are in and not for the past times that have gone by gone time 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 threatened woods the i.m.f. for one i think i am. mostly played
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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 capitalism and you lose confidence in us institutions which encircled to some degree since two thousand the quality of the dollar and the quality of new york as a financial center can determine your current market 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 at this time important words according to the man who
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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 skier after severe have had very important effect effects hard for some to see at this point in this year. where's the political will for reshaping the world economy who has a proposal that's actually workable because plenty of conversations particularly around the role of the dollar in the global economy but no consensus at all on how to replace them. just consensus on a need for change they hope will reverberate beyond these hills lauren mr r.t. new hampshire. next to international space station where a russian spacecraft called three new crew members to the cosmic outpost of the soyuz rocket up to the i s s l for orbiting for two days around the planet a new crew been tasked with conducting forty scientific experiments as part of a hundred billion dollar program missions dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of
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the first human space flight and set off from the same route is guarded back in one hundred sixty one of these tests are still is following the story for us. as for our spend most of their lives preparing for the possibility of going to space now russian cosmonaut for example takes about two hundred a year and that's one of the there's a call for you know how to go through all the hard work men and women put into their professions one of the thing they fear is something a little more about it and that's an unwavering a childhood dream of literally reach for something big aspiring cosmonauts. watches intently as the so you see i'm a twenty one spacecraft is to its vertical position at only fourteen he's so certain about his future that he's already made headway he went to the u.s. and became the first youngster to spend fifteen minutes floating in a zero gravity environment hoskin arts training so my look please go out and talk to you i can hardly move my hands this early start is something the first man in
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space you regarding 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 moon. to building the massive international space station. but it doesn't stop there next possibly a hotel in orbit yet another space dream which because you for this hotel project there will be four rooms at the station with enough room for seven people there will be to be illuminated so that everyone can observe the earth and stars i've always wanted to become a cosmonaut that didn't happen but now i'm 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
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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 of vicious of space projects is the mars five hundred experiment simulating a voyage to the red planet in the event this global ambition becomes reality. and when that time comes young sergey is certain he'll be ready to take on the challenge. for the i want to be the first to travel to mars and some other planets as well you see you can leave very future. and like many space men and women he believes it will only be a matter of time that's our sylvia our t. baikonur in kazakhstan. sure we'll have more of him in the coming years that you're less than twenty minutes away from the latest something i've scored on this channel . called news of a fascinating game football also
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a frantic finale in formula one and some familiar faces flourishing and i saw. i'm kevin owen thank you for being with our team from moscow is something of a tenth of a. but
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