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

midnight here in moscow are you watching the weekly from r t around about the top stories of the past seven days with me kevin allen and first poland is marking a national tragedy a year on since the presidential plane crashed in heavy fog in western russia killing everyone on board at the time including the head of state like a chin ski at the time shared sense of shock saw in moscow in warsaw experiencer thought and storage frosty relations commemoration of events of been held here in russia and this still ongoing in poland let's cross them live to our correspondent and he has been bringing us up to date with events all day. have been watching those pictures all day witnessing a vast turnout across the country some very moving scenes how would you sum up the day. well it certainly has been one a very emotional and very tragic day for cold just like exactly twelve months ago

when i was here at the very same spot i saw huge crowds of people gathered here and so is the story so has the story of today also be thousands of thousands have been coming here to this. square in front of the presidential palace in warsaw to commemorate those who died in that tragic plane crash near by the russian city of smolensk where most of the polish political elite perished alongside with the country's president and his wife indeed we have seen lots of different services and vigils held across the city at the cemeteries where the people who died in the in the plane crash were buried a year ago their relatives came there to lay flowers in greece certainly the vigils that the most important cathedrals and churches across the capital and indeed across the whole country as well that's also was broadcasted on l.c.d. screens across the central polish capital if there is even a vigil held at the runway of a v.i.p. airport from where the presidential plane to call twelve months ago and never

returned now the rally here of the mass rally at the central square has had different colors all throughout the day first it was all about mourning the dead then it became like a religious gathering with a vigil held right here in front of the presidential palace now this rally has turned political with the remaining several thousand people here in the square chanting some political slogans in fact asking for the government for the prime minister's head and for the president's head believing that there have been inadequate in investigating this story many experts note that this has been the sentiment of the last several months in poland with the radical nationalist forces saying using very harsh and side russian rhetoric and even going as far as creating conspiracy theories that the death of the polish president lech kaczynski was in fact according to them between the power circles in warsaw and the ones in moscow

something of course very few in poland actually believe in but nevertheless it has been all about emotion today and i had the five had the feeling that the people who gathered here there were still more about mourning. rather than going into the political discourse and having been walking through the crowd all throughout the day i've seen tears in the eyes of the people that were holding photographs and candles trying to remember what exactly happened twelve months ago and how difficult this loss has been for this. correspondent thank you for bringing you some today tonight from warsaw. well the disaster has also been remembered at the actual site in western russia where the plane went down it's been following events live for us. ten no fool she one am local time that's the exact time that the plane crashed down a small remember in service was held just behind me at the actual song i solve the crash through throughout the day more days here and smolinski both russian and

polish have been coming here to pay their respects in the russian capital moscow the russian first lady said non-image head of the late her own flowers and paid her room respects cell size kodesh embassy and this of course follows on from yesterday's events when the wife of the british president get on a commodore sky 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 prisoners who did it and come out all ski on monday to help these united and public health cords of grief from great the russian and polish sides we do understand that some in colin's have states press their concern is the news that the memorial plaque at the crash site behind me was replaced on friday night's we have now heard from the russian foreign ministry on this and we understand that local school authorities changed up because

they say for misha was or granted for the original plaque and they also wanted a plaque in both russian and polish the old prague that was off the site it was recent clearly in polish i'd also made pressman's cantina a memorial to which that kaczynski was flying on that fateful day its new cat 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 katsina but let's cost all minds back now remember the details that led to that plane crashing on a ten twenty ten. the final moments within seconds all ninety six on board flight one i was dead.

the time was ten forty one am. your. i was outside when i heard when it was flying really low we want to get swings 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 pool there were no conditions to land requests were still made to attempt a trial approach transcripts from the plane's black box flight recorder reveal the crew were acutely aware of the rapidly increasing 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 into 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 descent but the dense fog and poor visibility meant that the crew had in fact already missed their targets were coming in to 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 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 had hit the ground hard at first we didn't know that there was a crash we know thumping has something wrong so from copying or here we parked and we came here as it was possible none of that believe it happened we were talking about. but it was under 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 tell its worst

tragedy since world war two alice had it r.t. so. many of the wounds of the tragedy have yet to heal and in poland the still debate about the circumstances of the crash journalist david kaminski mario told me it would be hard for poland to contest the findings by the russian investigators the facts of this case 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 to what the in-state 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 and i think it depends on where the wooden wants to start with evidence and finish with a conclusion or whether it wants to start with the conclusion and cherry pick the evidence. and the polish parliament is no brought in measures to prevent top

officials from taking the same flight baby ation security consultant chris yates said it's a safeguard which should have been introduced before. but one of the overriding see was that i thought still long and hard about in respect to this crash is why so many high level delegates from poland were flying together on the same plane it shouldn't have been the case you know commonsense itself or dictates that when you have. such a law. traveling long distances that you separate out those people across one or two aircraft such that it in the event that something does go wrong. that there is a succession in the chain of command. that still left behind and. says not enough. what if something really crucial. what you want to get down to

process as we bring you our special coverage here. you know place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastate. that united two nations in a great. question . now to developers in libya where government officials say its forces of shot down to rebel helicopters in the east of the country and that's led to questions over the effectiveness of nato as un mandated no fly zone adopted last month meantime in the q. city of baghdad be aired nato forces have been bombarding gadhafi as army and pro-government forces are big trying to retake the area from the opposition doctors said least eight rebels have been killed that's as nato announces it's destroyed

a significant amount of government i mean mission 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 least twenty antica daffy fighters have been killed and dozens injured by their raids has been outspoken to something about this in the city of benghazi. a very me an army moved any service 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 the. forces are not even we are ready to face the death with these weapons we don't stand a chance against gadhafi since needing to control the north winds on operation it's me more than one thousand sorties into the u.n. screens around god every sports is have now been destroyed but despite help from

the skerries on the ground the rebels are still taking a pounding. lead to his fields there are civilians in a strike zone and we do really have a green more interest. just of we could go because the rebels to me seems the entire city police it's work he probably gets to. the list of girls killed or missing. it would be it seems to me all good u.i. is coming back to it's crazy that's why. this one are comparable in feet i mean are you feeling to the tracks of you in the arm for helping be demanding. what are they waiting for gadhafi to kill or still we demand a new u.n.

resolution which would. say arming the rebels on wouldn't help us win the war with the rebels need. in which you can use arms training he said before spinal servicing that the u.s. and egypt. forces on the main legal view and as a musician is down with. people he's going off guard in libya. as the coalition is reportedly considering arming rebels in libya the u.k. government's pretty criticized by its own pays for selling i mean ition to authoritarian regimes that is out is there am a report next it appears that 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 on the mission and they've got plenty of the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just four months before colonel gadhafi turned on

his. ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets and take out. there a very strict set of guidelines that say where it where it is likely that human rights violations might take place you're not supposed to sell 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 that equipment supplied to colonel gadhafi would and could be used in the brutal crackdown of the protesters are highly critical reports by. m.p.c. 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 bahrain ordered more than ten million dollars of guns and crowd control agents days into unrest in cairo u.k. prime minister david cameron led a junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares 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 we've seen this occur it's a risk to the british aid around the world in the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sectors exactly the opposite about trying to stimulate some of prosy we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come tell them democracy will be on rest started it at least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it clears the stable door long after the forces bolted with british weapons were 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 damning revelations will make them think twice the pressure on western governments to arm the rebels is growing with colonel gadhafi sitting in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move so far the ukase officially offered telecommunications equipment to the rebels but many suspect help of a different kind may be on the way to your am it r.t. london. and coming up in the program searching for. solutions the best financial advice gathered to discuss the future of the global economy but will it markets we drive for economic recovery we gauge opinion but later in the program. and find out how the new crew of the international space station plans to mark your good garlands orbital adventure fifty years ago. though in most countries it's standard practice to denounce terror but not so it seems right now in finland verse

a priest is facing charges for inciting racial hatred after he spoke out against the man behind the moscow metro airport bombings he's a country go to over reports now from helsinki juris and these may be the last days these man whereas he is posterous color you hum while the face is being defrocked for speaking out against i use the word terrorist to use word. not to morrow and his international peace conference center the sun it was the first of the terrorists words on the tax claims ski express the matter of warnings and most recently the idea of a water tank 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 see this was an outrage and the reaction was quick

to form. this guy. it's hard to process through it give. us what does the letters you slow the evil i don't stop to fight. their. way out of. you home although we want to please but instead booker and without being prosecuted himself for being sued for criticizing what finland calls illegally oh prating organization the same people who are promoting. they are promoting public opinion against war replaying over mori he's a racist who is a. racist the. caucasus people of the chechens which is of course not the truth because maurice only because scenting the internationally acknowledged opinion about. international terrorist people walking down these quiet and prosperous

streets may be unaware of the disturbing case of you her more than there used to thinking of their country as a spare and politically correct but would they remain just as neutral in tragedy not on their door here in helsinki people travel on public transport without fear of their neighbors in russia only four hundred kilometers away aren't quite so lucky. troll it's only a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call with by a good for a minority i've heard strong minority and want to do terrible things. if. there are only one thing there were but. 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 holloway has already changed address and

divorced his wife to avoid putting your and his children at risk is now considering a move to russia exceeding the pressure over our tea house in key finland. if you'd like to follow more about this story moby in his nose spoke at length the past after he was questioned by the finnish police the full interview streaming online for you anytime you want to see it as well as hear the stories as well of course we present at r.t. popcorn. the financial dominance of europe and america's coming through with developing economies no taking the leading role that is one of the main themes indeed of some of this being hosted by the billionaire george soros in the american town of bretton woods mr reports from the venue. if these hills could harm. the economic theory they would expound upon. ladies and gentlemen please welcome our ideas they could change the world of

futures. predetermined 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 hoping they will. it was here allied nations came during world war two in crisis searching for stability they form 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 the financial crisis a group of influence all economist and former policymakers have got together to try to rethink that very framework to reflect a different world we've got to harvest serious plan to restructure the international reconstruct the international institutions for the times that we were in not for the past times but have gone the bygone 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 and 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 a has mostly played a very distraught. 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. and you would lose confidence in us institutions which. quality of the dollar and the quality of new yorkers or for their interests are. very markedly ended tyria rationing political will for tougher banking reform has some concerned we may be headed for another crisis turns on what is about crisis but i have to say 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 of great words 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 skier after steer have had very important facts effects hard for some to see at this point in this fear whereas the political will for reshaping the world economy who has a proposal that is actually workable there's plenty of conversations particularly around the role of the dollar in the global economy but no consensus at all on how to replace. just consensus on a need for change they hope will reverberate beyond these hills lauren mr r t u hampshire. news from the international space station our russian spacecraft sport three new crew members to the cosmic outpost the rocket docked. for two days around

the planet a new crew being tossed ruth conducting forty scientific experiments as part of a one hundred billion dollars program and missions dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the first human spaceflight. set off from the same launch pad as your car and one thousand six hundred of these terrorists and reports. after all spend most of their lives preparing for the possibility of going to space now russian cosmonaut for example takes about two hundred pounds a year and that's in addition to what the physical training they have to go through all the hard work man and woman put into their professions one of the base fare is something a little more about it and that's an unwavering a part of their dream of literally reach for something big aspiring cosmonauts thirty eight of retired watches intently as the so you see i'm a twenty one spacecraft is poised to do its vertical position at 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 step fifteen minutes floating in the zero gravity

environment possible not strain him so my look at the plane was going up i thought the food we eat of my body i could hardly move my hands 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. for walking on the route. to building the massive international space station. is but it doesn't stop there next possibly a hotel in orbit yet another space dream which they did you for this photo project and they'll be full rooms at the station with enough food for seven people there will be to be illuminated so that everyone could 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

tourist price tag is a hefty thirty five to forty billion dollars but there is a cheaper alternative another project aims to send space tourists to lower earth orbit where they'll spend five minutes it's. 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 bishop's 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 didn't believe i want to be the first to travel to mars i'm sure the 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 archie baikonur in kazakhstan. with bigger

ambitions in less than twenty minutes away tonight for his sport here on this channel our team from moscow kate's got news of a frustrating day for war from sick finale in formula one and some familiar faces flourishing that i saw here and i'm scared of it thank you for bringing it up to.

space use a bit more secure there is no substance and there is no. military space. bombs on target little time element that's will the us will either able to go through a space ship or. better. move out of the frame. of the film her past our right. and we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of outer space. and this incredible invest.