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in china you can see all of t. and sensors. in the shema colors also tell you sort of the sun. would result. riviera the. citrus hotel with. poland and russia hold a memorial service is one year on from the polish presidential plane crash near smolensk which killed president elect ninety five others a tragedy which however broad both countries closer together. nato faces questions over its a no fly zone enforcement over libya after reports that colonel gadhafi his forces have shot down to rebel helicopters. also this week a finnish 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.
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six o'clock in the morning on a monday from moscow russia's capital this is our team have you with us one year on and poland is still 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 lech kaczynski commemoration 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. reports some politicians are trying to politicize the tragedy. well it certainly has been one a very. very tragic day for poland just exactly twelve months ago when i was here at the very same spot eyes. so huge crowds of people gathered here and so is the
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story so has been 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 near by the russian city of slavyansk 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 reach certainly the vigils at 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 there it was even a vigil held at the runway of a v.i.p. airport from where the presidential plane to call for twelve months ago and never returned now at the rally here of the mass rally at the central square has had
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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 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 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 noting 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 post president lech kaczynski was in fact according to them applets between the power circles in warsaw and the ones in moscow something of course very few in poland actually believe in an. nevertheless
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it has been told about emotion today and i had to fight the feeling that the people who gathered here there were still more about mourning the death of that rather than going into the political discourse and having been walking through the crowd all throughout the day i've seen tiers 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 central european country that he's reporting from warsaw now commemoration services have also taken place at the side of the disaster artie's alice cooper was there. ten fool she one am local time that's the exact stealing that the plane crashed down a small remembrance service was held just behind me at the actual suddenly 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 nan amid that of the late her own flowers and page her
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room respects outside the polish embassy and this is 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 airfield before moving on to the county memorial site a very similar timetable for that would be followed by president's move it is unclear what all see on monday to help these very united and public help organs of grief from both the russian and polish sides we do understand that some in poland touch state's press their concern at the news that the memorial plaque at the crash site behind me was replaced on friday night we have now heard from the russian foreign ministry on this and we understand that locals lead school authorities changed topic because they say permission was not granted for the original plaque and they also wanted a plaque in both russian and polish the opac that was up the side was worse and
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clearly in polish i'd also made reference to the canteen a memorial to which that kaczynski was flying on that fateful day this new package 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 you can't see but let's cost all minds back now remember the details that led to that plane crashing on april the ten twenty ten. yet. the final moments within seconds all ninety six on board flight one i won but the date. the time with ten forty one am on april the tenth. i was outside when i heard the plane it was flying really low with one of its wings pointing down its crest into the trees and
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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. ground control staff warned 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 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 of the crash under these conditions the pilots continued their approach while 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 are coming
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into lands on fifty meters below the runway or 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 five seconds that knows that that one five four had hit the ground hard at first we didn't know that there was a crash. as there was something wrong so from clapping or here we took a crack and we came here as soon as it was possible none of that believe it happened we were talking about that but it was and really stick 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 down it's the worst tragedy since world war two alice hit r.t. smolensk region many of the wounds of the tragedy have yet to heal poland there is
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still debate about the circumstances of the crash but aviation expert david lee from the flight international magazine says the main facts are clear and praised the integrity of the russian investigation. the m a k is a very very good agency which it didn't merely there were a good investigation of this accident it always does very thorough investigations of accidents this was an accident of a type which unfortunately has blighted 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
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absolute goldmine for conspiracy theorists. when lives is not enough. when something really crucial. what you want to get down to brass tacks we bring you our special coverage. in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed other disaster that left a country devastated. that united two nations in grief. question . and moving to libya now where colonel gadhafi has agreed to ceasefire proposal by visiting african union officials it now waits approval from rebel forces but they say there can be no negotiations as long as gadhafi remains in power african union president jacob zuma says gadhafi has also agreed to let humanitarian aid into the country under the plan the libyan leaders or forces have
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been trying to retake the frontline city of. from the opposition who have been recovering positions with the help of nato airstrikes while the western alliance says it has destroyed significant stockpiles of the garveys tanks and conditions across the country rebels are growing it disillusioned over the rise in fall of friendly fire. since nato took control of the no fly zone its air strikes have killed at least twenty and i could off the fighters and injured dozens more. an author has spoken to rebels in the city of benghazi. a veteran of the libyan 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. their forces are not even we are ready to fight to the death but with these weapons we don't stand a chance against gadhafi since needing to control the north winds on operation it's green so you need more than one thousand sorties into the u.n.
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screens around the third of going to peace forces have now been destroyed we despite the help from the skerries on the ground the rebels are still taking a pounding. on the two or three old there are civilians in misrata with the rehab remaining meritorious. just a week ago because he was proud to be married seems the entire c.p.c. to for its work was the right like it seems to me like this was missing. it would be it seems to me the u.s. is acting it's crazy as well. this one are becoming a common scene mean or accusing need or feeling to protect civilians they are asking for help anymore by demanding it.
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all the way to fall for gadhafi to kill or still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow us. but experts say arming the rebels all wouldn't helps when war. was needed once in which. we were training. reports on our servicing of the us in egypt. forces going beyond the u.n. resolution that established. you were disgruntled or gee. maybe. as the coalition is reportedly considering arming rebels in libya the u.k. government has been criticized by its own m.p.'s for selling emulation to authoritarian regimes there's already reports it appears that britain was happy to put profit before a principle in the way it was doing business. security forces put down and rest in the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other irritant ammunition i made
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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 guidelines that say where where it is likely that human rights violations might take place you're not supposed to sell the weapon so 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. highly critical report by m.p.'s exposes the scale of u.k. arms sales to some of the world's most brutal regimes the libyan export licenses were some of the most valuable according to the reports the u.k. sold nearly three hundred fifty million dollars worth of arms there in two thousand and ten in the same year egypt bought twenty seven million dollars worth of small
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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 to junkets to the middle east to flaunt the wares of british arms dealers reports also say the government misjudged the risk of selling on's to countries like egypt and bahrain but many would go much further one of the things that you've seen is occurred to restrict of british aid around the world in the last ten years has been the provision of this highly militarized security sector is exactly the opposite about trying to stimulate to move soon we are providing the means by which those countries regimes can come tell them democracy will be under arrest started in the middle east the government scrambled to suspend arms export licenses but this report is evidence that it clears the
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stable door long after the force of gold 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 and think twice the pressure on western governments to arm the rebels is growing with colonel gadhafi taking in his heels a string of high profile figures is speaking out in favor of the move so far the u.k. 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. i was searching for solutions. the best financial minds gathered to discuss the future of the global economy but will emerging markets be the driver of economic recovery. can find out how the new crew of the international space station plans to mark euro gerunds orbital adventure fifty years ago. to finland now were
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a priest is facing criminal charges for failing ethnic hatred after speaking out against doku umarov one of the world's most wanted terrorists mori could actually be fraud and has already received death threats because i read a grouch over the rest of. your of these may be the last days the so man where is his pastas color you hum while aree faces being defrocked for speaking out against i use word for word terrorist use word. your kumar and his internet mouthpiece become a center of the sun was the first to publish the terrorists' words on the tax he 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 house in
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case the priest was the first openly say this was an outrage and the reaction was quick to follow. the sky be aware of its hundred percent through it came from dagestan to see the obvious what does the letters say is a load of the the evil eye beyond. the five ok so that people got more here or way out of from life on the walls you home all or we went to police but instead ended up being prosecuted himself been sued for criticizing what finland calls a legally oh prating organization missing people who are. pressure they are promoting public opinion against reclaiming the more easily recent always . remembering racist statements about orchestras all of the church adds which is of course not the truth because maurice only consenting the internationally
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acknowledged opinion of. an international terrorist people walking down these quiet and prosperous streets may be unaware of the disturbing case of you hung more the rate they're used to thinking of their country as fair and politically correct but it would be remain just as neutral if tragedy not 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 lucky. after all it's only a step from extremist rhetoric to action and there is seldom a warning call riding a good for minority bird brought minority who wants to do terrible thing. and it is disturbing. if. there are so many. there were but. there is quite a team out of the past and now finland's prosecutor's office the church and some of
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the world's most determined terrorists you home all the way 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 gretsch over our tea house in key foreign lands. we spoke to pastor you harm oriya after he was questioned by the finnish police 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 are words conference hosted by billionaire philanthropist george soros ortiz lauren lyster 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.
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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 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 problem to restructure the internationally reconstruct the international institutions for the times that we were 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
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growth and 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 the guy. 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 and you lose confidence in us institutions which has happened to some degree since two thousand the quality of the dollar and the quality of new yorkers and for the national center 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 the concentration of power in finance and greater today
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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 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 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 them. just consensus on a need for change they hope will reverberate beyond these hills during mr r.t. you hampshire moving on to some other international news making headlines around the world now. the people of iceland have rejected a government proposal to use their taxes to repay bank losses from the two thousand
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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 u.s. dollars to the british and the dutch both compensated their citizens who lost money in icelandic accounts and 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 a statement from a tape recording was broadcast on our radio t.v. it comes as public pressure intensifies for the prosecution of a former leader and his inner circle over the alleged theft of billions of dollars from the state the 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
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a russian soyuz rocket has brought three new crew members doubling the size of the team in orbit a mission set off from the same launch pad as the year in one thousand nine hundred sixty one just days before the fiftieth anniversary of that 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 artie's tests are sillier reports of astronauts spent. both the allies preparing for the possibility of going to space the russian cosmonaut for example takes about two hundred fifty exams a year and that's it and this is a war there's a cold frame and we have to go through all the hard work man and woman put into their professions one of the thing they fear is something a little more about it and that's an unwavering a plow degree of literally rethink for something big aspiring cosmonauts surjeet of entire watches intently as the so you see i'm a twenty one spacecraft is hoisted to its vertical position at only fourteen he's
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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. when the plane was doing ok i took the full weight of my body i could hug 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. for 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 for this hotel project there will be floor rooms at the station with enough food for seven people there will be to be the limit so that everyone can observe the earth and stars i've always wanted to
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become a cosmonaut that didn't happen but now i'm sure that one day i'll travel to space at taurus 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 bishes 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 sergei 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 who say you can leave here in future. and like many space men and women he
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believes it will only be a matter of time that's our silly r.t. baikonur in kazakhstan coming up next to the headlines and an interview with filmmaker and activist peter joseph in which he gives his views on the underlying faults of modern economic systems.
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