poland and russia hold memorial services one year on from the polish presidential plane crash near smolensk which killed president lech kaczynski and ninety five others a tragedy which has however brought both countries closer together. nato faces questions over its no fly zone in force meant over libya after reports that colonel gadhafi forces have shot down to rebel helicopters. also this week a finnish a priest is charged with inciting racial hatred and faces expulsion from the church after an interview with r.t.

in which he spoke out against one of the world's most wanted terrorists chechen doku umarov. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our team we're glad to have you with us one year on and poland is remembering the victims of the presidential plane crash in western russia in which many of the country's political elite perished including the head of state president like kaczynski commemoration of events have been held in russia and in poland where more take place this week the tragedy however ignited a warming in historically frosty relations between moscow and warsaw but as the reports of some politicians are trying to politicize the tragedy well it certainly has been one a very emotional and very tragic day for poland 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 being thousands of thousands have been coming here to the square in front of the presidential palace in warsaw to commemorate those who died. in that tragic plane crash nearby the russian city of silence 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 roots 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 even there it was even a vigil held at the runway other v.i.p.'s port from where the presidential plane to call for twelve months ago and never returned now is 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 right in front of the presidential palace and now this rally has turned political with the remaining several thousand people here in the square chanting some political slogans in fact asking for of 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 a 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 fact had the feeling that the people who gathered here there were still more about mourning the dead that 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 they were holding photographs and candles trying to remember what exactly happened twelve months ago and how difficult this loss has been for this central rypien country. reporting there from warsaw now commemoration services have also taken place at the side of the disaster or he's alice hebert has been keeping across developments there. ten fool she one am local time that's the exact time that the plane crashed down a small remembrance service was held just behind me at the actual subway solve the crash through throughout the day mourners here in smolinski both russian and polish have been coming here to pay their respects in the russian capital moscow the

russian first lady said nan in the dead of the late her own flowers and paid respects sell side the polish embassy and this of course follows on from yesterday's events when the wife of the british president at an uncommon all 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 scene memorial site a very similar timetable to that would be followed by a president who did it and called off he on monday big to help these very united the public help poor use of grief from great the russian and polish sides we do understand that some in poland had to state suppress their concern at the news that the memorial plaque at the crash site behind me was replaced on friday nights we have not heard from the russian foreign ministry on this and we understand that locals med school authorities changed up because they say commission was door granted for the original plan and they also wanted

a plaque in both russian and polish the old plug that was up the side was worse and purely in polish i'd also made dress moves to the canteen a memorial to which that kaczynski was flying home that fateful day his new cap 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 cat scene 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 won and died. that time with ten forty one am on 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. ground control star there were no conditions to land mass requests with 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 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 lee entered 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 or 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 tall birch ripped 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 there was a crash we now have something wrong so from the hero we took it back and we came here as a as fast 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 as the news began to spread that in a single moment poland had suffered what its prime minister would later died of its worst tragedy since world war two alice have it r.t.

silence creature. many of the wounds of the tragedy have yet to heal and in poland there is still the bait about the circumstances of the crash but aviation expert david lereah from the flight international magazine says the main facts are clear and praise the integrity of the russian 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 of accidents this was an accident of a type which one fortunately has gloated aviation history 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 and it's an

absolute gold mine for conspiracy theorists. when the eaves is not enough. when it's something really crucial. what you want to get down to brass tacks we bring you our special coverage. in a place already seen all of this tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left the country devastated. and united two nations in grief. question more on. and moving on to libya now where colonel gadhafi his forces have shot down to rebel helicopters in the east of the country it's raising questions over the effectiveness of the no fly zone imposed by the united nations last month meanwhile african union president jacob zuma says it could r.t.

has agreed to an immediate cease fire agreement the libyan leader's forces have been trying to retake the frontline city of daraa from the position who've been recovering positions with the help of nato airstrikes but while the western alliance says it's destroyed significant stockpiles of life is thanks in munitions across the country rebels are growing disillusioned over the rising toll of friendly fire casualties says nato took control of the no fly zone and there are strikes have killed at least twenty anti gadhafi fighters and injured dozens more peace can often spoken to rebels in the city of benghazi. there are an awful libyan army moved any service all the way to retirement but now he's fighting for the revolution and is among a few rubles at the front with military training and experience. their forces are not given we are ready to fight to the death 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 the u.n. screens around a third of that have these forces have now been destroyed we displayed help from the skerries on the ground and the rebels are still taking a pounding. only two or three old there are civilians in a strike and we do really have the main monitors. but. just a week ago he was with the rebels to me seems the entire seat please support because he probably keeps to that list of people missing everybody it seems. for you it was six he's raising as well. this one are becoming uncommon seen mean or accusing need of feeling to protect civilians they are asking for help anymore the demanding it.

was a way to fall for gadhafi to kill or still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow us. to see all mean the rebels all wouldn't helps when war with the rebels needed is not so much. training being anything. else servicing the us in egypt. forces. the un resolution that established. you board is going off in libya as the coalition is reportedly considering arming the rebels in libya the u.k. government has been criticized by its own m.p.'s for selling emulation to authoritarian regimes. in the reports it appears britain was happy to put profit before principle in the way it was doing its business. security forces put down and rest in the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other irritant ammunition

and they've got plenty the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people with government 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 the equipment supplied to colonel gadhafi would and could be used in the brutal crackdown to suppress protesters are highly critical reports by m.p.'s exposes. 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 ports 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 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 and 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 about trying to stimulate to me see we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come down democracy when the on rest started it least the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it closed the stable

door long walk to the force of both states when 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 sticking 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 still to come on the program searching for solutions. financial minds gather to discuss the future of the global economy but will emerging markets of be the driver of the economic recovery. to finland now where a priest there is facing criminal charges for speaking out against doku umarov one of the world's most wanted terrorists. could actually face being defrocked but

after receiving death threats the cleric told r.t. why he's considering moving to russia first homeland because it ended up children vesta gets. your of these may be the last days the so man wears his pastas color you hum while the re faces been defrocked for speaking out against i use the word terrorist a used word president musharraf and his international peace become our center the site was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the taxi claims the nafs ski express and also 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 guy. it's a hundred percent through it came from bogus the c.p.i. this what does the letters you slow the the evil i don't stop to five. people got my head away from work on the real thing you home all are we want to police but instead and it are being prosecuted himself being sued for criticizing what phil and calls illegally operating organizations the same people who are promoting. russia they are promoting public opinion against the warriors or resistance to. racists. caucasus people or the chechens which is of course not the truth because maurice all you represent thing the internationally acknowledged. 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 so lucky. a troll it's only a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call biting are good for a minority of strong minority and want to do terrible things. and it is disturbing. but. where are. we 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 her

dress and divorced his wife to avoid putting her and his children at risk is now considering a move to russia it's in a grouch over our tea house in key finland we spoke about are you after he was questioned by the finnish police and you can watch that interview as well as many other stories on our website r.t. dot com. with emerging economies taking a new leading role a new era could be dawning in the world of global economics that's one of the main topics on the table at the bretton woods conference hosted by billionaire philanthropist george soros artes or in mr is at the gathering. if these hills could talk the economic theory they would expound upon. ladies and gentlemen please welcome ideas they could change the world of futures not 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 formed the international monetary fund the world bank and established the u.s. 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 gotten together to try to rethink that very framework to reflect a different world we've got to have a serious problem to restructure the internationally reconstruct the international institutions for the times that we were in or 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 outwith the old

orthodoxy of bretton woods the i.m.f. for one i think. 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 u.s. 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 you would lose confidence in u.s. institutions which is happened to some degree since two thousand as well with the of the dollar and the quality of new york and so forth interests are coming to tour very markedly 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 a 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 of bretton 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 sphere have had very important effects 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 is actually workable there's plenty of conversations particularly around the role of the dollar and a lot of hollywood 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. moving on to some other international news making headlines around the world right now. the people of iceland have rejected a government proposal to use their taxes to repay bank losses from the two thousand and eight financial crash which sunk the country's financial sector around sixty

percent voted no in a referendum opposing the payment of five billion us dollars to the british and dutch governments both compensated their citizens who lost money in icelandic accounts the two governments are now to sue iceland in an international court after the no vote. in his first speech since being ousted from the egyptian presidency hosni mubarak has hit back at accusations he illegally amassed a personal fortune while in office the statement from a tape recording was broadcast on t.v. it comes as public pressure intensifies for the prosecution of the former leader and his inner circle over the alleged theft of billions of dollars from the state egyptian authorities have stepped up investigations into corruption by the former regime with the former prime minister and mr mubarak's two sons being summoned for questioning. next to the international space station where a russian soyuz rocket has a brought three new crew members doubling the size of the team in orbit

a mission set off from the same launch pad is here again tonight in sixty one just days before the fiftieth anniversary of the historic flight the new crew will spend five months in space and have been tasked with conducting forty scientific experiments as part of a one hundred billion dollars program. arsole report. astronauts spend most of their lives preparing for the possibility of going to space now russian cosmonaut for example takes about two hundred fifty. and that's in addition to water there's a cold frame that they have to go through well aside from all the hard work was not put into their profession and one of the thing they share is something a little more about and that's an unwavering a childhood dream of literally reach for something big aspiring cosmonaut sergei that retired was just intently as a so you see him a. twenty one spacecraft is hoisted 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 cosmonauts train in somalia when the plane was going up i thought the food weight 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 fate 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 but which for this hotel project there will be four rooms at the station with enough room for seven people there will be too big a limited 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 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 bishops 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 no mark i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well you see 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 cilia r.t.

baikonur in kazakhstan. coming up next i'll be back with the headlines and then an interview with filmmaker and activist peter joseph in which he gives his views on the underlying faults of modern economic systems. to. all.

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