president medvedev flies into the city of smolensko to commemorate a year since poland's president and many of the countries from the plane crash. here at the very soul i saw the tragedy of the presidents of russia rym poland all of you just said so attend the special with commemoration ceremonies a little bit later joining me from smolensk with police. colonel gadhafi agrees to a cease fire plan proposed by the african union but the stalemate is unlikely to be

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site of last year's crash. both countries were shocked at the disaster but they also came closer together as a result. well a president made that a verb russia has just landed a few moments ago here in the. head of the commemoration ceremonies that he'll be attending here today together with the polish president komorowski president made that it has chosen to fly into meaning that he did land these tibetan the airfield behind me which of course is the exact site that let each inskeep died a year ago the polish president komorowski has an instead chastened to come here by train now sunday april tenth that did mark the one year on of streets of the day that led kitchen ski died on board that ship rolled on five fulfilling the rules and it's a must go together with all ninety five passengers who were on board they included his wife potence first lady and chief of the polish our foods and the chief of its

army and many leading polish and kings and historians now the tragic irony of all that is that the polish delegation was coming to swell lengths to mock the seventieth anniversary of the cantina massacre when a between two thousand poles were shot twice obit secret police of the soviet union had previously denied say that surveillance was being billed as a symbolic miles stone in the easing of a previously tense russia polish relations but since that tragic crash a politicians and a code in russia have been very keen to stress to the all the time and to keep the polish russia's relationship on cools and certainly since the crash we see in a very public and united outpouring of grief from both sides and that was demonstrated today when the presidents of the dead and komorowski together that attends a commemoration ceremony to be held here at the site hold

a plane crash before they move on to another short ceremony to be held at the camp the memorial but at this russia says the investigation into the plane crash is over so will that be it now. well all of the twelve of january the interstate aviation commission which was a group set up by president medvedev and headed by prime minister putin in the immediate aftermath of the crash and included aviation experts from russia and poland and the united states concluded its report in delivered their results and they concluded that pilot error was to blame for that tragic crash obviously severely compounded by very poor weather conditions dense fog reduced visibility. as it is psychological pressure coming from many of the passengers on board to land the plane as soon as possible but the overriding inclusion is that pilots are was to blame so as far as russia is concerned in the international community those are

the results but many in poland i refute those conclusions or at least say that's a question mark still remain over the conditions of the airfield here incentives but also over the role played by grounds they have done more perhaps prevent the land from the plane coming in that's a land the i.e.c. report underlines that according to normal aviation practice grounds do not touch the rights to overrule a pilot he was stated his who has intention to land so from the polish side they are still. conducting an investigation into the causes of the crash we've been expecting those results yesterday on the tenth of april one year on from the plane crash but the polish i did ask for a six month extension so we will be expecting those results sometime in october but aside from that some politicians and leaders from both prudent and russia do stress

that on the political basis poland and russia to continue to work together you're going forwards. thank you very much. well as we've just heard it's a year into the investigation that was sore still finding it difficult to accept the results in aviation journalist david kaminski more of these that simply because it was such a high profile tragedy. the sensitivity of the surrounding this whole flight to catch in the history between russia and poland you talking about an air accident on. the worst possible time of the worst possible place and the fact is that the elite of the polish air force the presidential flights both ended up in a thousand pieces in a forest and the death of the head of state i mean it's it's not an easy pill for

the polish swallow. i think it's only natural that they don't want to take all of the blame for this they want to see if there is. if they can spread that blame around but the fact is that this is a controlled flight into terrain accidents and if this had been any other aircraft operating any other flights been a plane i think this the russian conclusions would have simply been accepted and. the fact is that it's part of the reason of this attract so much attention is because it was president kaczynski on board because it was a high level delegation and because of the nature of the flights and the destination it was going. to be asian journalist david kaminski morrow from london there and there will be bringing you more from story and scott throughout the day and don't forget you can always log on to r.t. dot com for further coverage. when the news is not enough.

when something really crucial. when you want to get down to brass tacks we'll bring you our special coverage here on in a place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastated. and united two nations in grief. question more on the. to libya now where colonel gadhafi has accepted the peace proposal from the african union that's a several hours of talks in the capital tripoli the plan has yet to be approved by the opposition so validation of the next stop is helping so african president jacob zuma said when i was ational call on the latest bombing ceasefire charts spiker the full force is aiding the opposition. rebels are growing disillusion of the rising

number of so-called friendly fire incidents. school reports now not easy to change . hasn't spoken with his wife once she is in misrata and telling the west surrounded by gaddafi forces and he is in the east i can't even call my wife i don't know whether she's alive or dad the front has been moving in both directions was become clear is that without needle support the rebels don't stand a chance against gaddafi superior firepower but after antigovernment fighters were killed by mistake in need or interest rates trust in the alliance was good as one. the african union has sent a top level go lesion to tripoli which proposed a road map for peace he calls for an immediate cease fire and political reform which surprisingly gaddafi has supported me that there's not there is give the

ation let me guess you can't even if it was never said. richard roth you may have as good place. to take a view even though the road map includes plans for reform it's not clear whether it also calls for gadhafi and his family to abandon power the way the political system in libya works is that officially is not the head of the state he's more of a formal figure or a moral leader as he called himself in reality this man. build a giant power web which is wrapped around a business and a government and it's built on a circle of trolls and people goals personally calls to our feet and his family. also because at least one which was rejected by the opposition even though even visit the elections the deal did not rule out the sun he can pour in them. we

couldn't agree with the initiative because it didn't guarantee to get darby's entire family would leave without that guarantee negotiations are pointless. but the african union's delegation is due in the rebel stronghold in the on monday if the opposition leadership good pledge to listen to their proposal it doesn't seem the rebels are ready to put their guns down how can we live in peace with this bloody tyrant sharpened with more civilians rebels and he's troops killed each year a cease fire is needed fast but unless the latest roadmaps plans involve considerable changes to libya's political system this deadlock is unlikely to end anytime soon you go to school of r g being guys we leave here but still ahead this hour getting hot under the collar by the warders i think isn't is leaving sunk into left out in the cold. and on the side where the i.m.f.

and world bank quickly if you form hopes to reshape wells become it landscape. in the past ten years dozens of russian children have been the blacktip least seventeen guiding the care of their american parents and the agreements regulating the process between the two countries maybe signed as soon as may both are now at the well being of hundreds of foster children across the us remains unknown. what things look like to me. was a tape which caused outrage across america and beyond an american mother recorded a video of how she punishes her adopted washing board and sent it to a popular t.v. show. but ramming hot sauce into a seven year old christophe's mouth it not seem enough for jessica beagley a freezing shower was next. and right now.

we've turned a lot of different things to punish the kids spanking we've learned does not work with a star it was only after the television troll that authorities looked into the well being of the kid washington jessica beagley was charged with child abuse they'd option system in the us is such that once a child is adopted by american parents the government does not provide any oversight as to how they are doing some believe because of the absence of supervision the suffering of many adoptive children remains on her adoption agencies in hungary are set up as a business because your chilling with human lawyers here they're not selling cars or toasters it certainly seems it should be a lot more oversight more than sixty thousand russian children have been adopted by u.s. parents since one thousand nine hundred one fortunately most of these children live in. was a new american family was. sealants and their children dozens harmed and

hundreds who disappeared as the losses which cannot be just a lot one of the recent incidents that sent shock waves throughout the world was the killing of the seven year old even scarab i got that was beaten to death by his american adoptive parents last year the russian authorities suspended adoptions by u.s. parents after an american woman put the russian boy should adopted on a plane back to moscow on his own with a note saying she will. longer wanted him now russia and the u.s. are working towards an agreement which would provide better government oversight on the wellbeing of adopted russian children in american families something that would mean regular visits to the families by social workers from both countries some say the biggest obstacle to an agreement is the overall secrecy surrounding adoptions in the u.s. in the united states of america once an adoption is finalized that child is considered the same as it or to hear talk to parents of birth certificate get

reissued the adoptive parents they never even have to tell the child that they were a cop but russia says americans privacy issues should not be an argument for leaving thousands of adopted children without any oversight and protection and you were of the stance that you cannot turns poor you in the peterson cross the border resulted in a contract but small children will be taken by thousands without any relevance in the u.s. people wanting to adopt pay private agencies for assessments as to their suitability as parents is of course raises questions as to how objective those assessments can actually be and once a child is abducted there is no follow up on power they are doing it jessica beagley had not sent her video to a t.v. show would have not have known about her punishment methods just as we don't know about how many other it up to children are now subject to the message violence in the u.s. i'm going to shut down our t. washington d.c.

. to france now where women now officially banned from wearing full face veils and public but a controversial law came into effect the government says using that help down to the local community critics accuse president sarkozy of committing islam to win back the right country with europe's biggest population the risks igniting social tensions. just because. criminal from today new french law bans covering your face in public is designed to make integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says he's had the opposite effect when. my friends have simply started going out at all the new rulings made some scared to speak out but many not to change the way they dress the move undermines what the french republic stands for says this business when he pledges to pay the hundred

fifty point for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking the dispute further that we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. that man was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month after criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims to wear a similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis did. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with accusations deliberately stirring into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the streets the government the building of basic public prayer rooms more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population. has seen riots in

recent years against government policies there are signs of more brewing whether it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together those foreign events have also reached partners in europe joining us from these illegal they're called titian of room up and send the north africa graffiti. back to italy in the freeze the international ngo that splits the franco german exists but drives the. axis as as it has been called sometimes is not functioning and lists fear france cannot longer lakesha muslim regimes when it picks all its own ethnic minorities why should we stop persecuting christians if you are prosecuting muslims saying you have absolutely no credibility of the reliability to tell us what we should do

let's create so all the french government over its hardline policies simple point true for politicians in the ruling people of the last week quit and all are expected to do the same in the coming days only because you see paris. can always find more stories and indefinite asis on our website r.t. come online today since most of the lovers seem to the dreaded hackers are not the reason us. you can be a very own karate kid even though you might not be a kid it's actually called. the center aggressor flying in a unique series of weekly lessons. of the gods or some other internationals that making headlines around the world to sell. in ivory coast u.n. and french helicopters are fog rockets an incumbent president going bugger's residence

in the capital three hundred up in a bunker there. un said the strikes would retaliate for next month's forces and civilians has lost his grip on the country over the last two weeks by supporters of the international record high for a number of vendors control strongholds u.n. and french forces into being last week and storing much of his heavy weapons. in japan that some months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami which killed thousands and one hundred fifty thousand homeless summer ceremonies in the minute's silence around the country meanwhile japan plans to extend the evacuation zone around that stricken nuclear plants due to increasing radiation levels it comes off the engineers it wouldn't closer to restoring the cooling systems. in peru a leftwing x. only officer is on course to win the first round of the country's presidential

election i don't most of the ballots counted about as twenty seven percent of the votes are from around sinister the daughter of the jailed ex-president are not far behind despite an economic third of peruvians live in poverty for many but it hides its promise to share the nation's wealth. of the virgin economies taking a leading role a new era could be dawning in the world of global economics that was one of the main topics on the table the bretton woods conference in the us i used to buy their unit under mr george soros is there in the stars or. if these hills could talk the economic theory they would expound upon. ladies and gentlemen please welcome ideas that could change the world in futures not pre-determined 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 the thin anshul crisis a group of influential economists and former policymakers have brought 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 were 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. has mostly played a very destructive role 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 then you would lose confidence in us institutions which has happened to some degree since two thousand because well with the of the dollar and the quality of new yorkers a financial center can deter 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 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 up this time it's right and woods according to the man who still has obama's ear his former top economic aide no one is going to run to washington to pass legislation next week but over time these kinds of ideas in severe after severe have had very important effect effects hard for some to see at this point and this fear. 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 just consensus on the need for change they hope will reverberate beyond these hills. r.t. you hampshire. well in a few minutes we discuss whether the unrest in north africa and the middle east could bring islamic extremists to europe first though it's played with here.

thanks gary hello and welcome to our seas business subject thanks for being with us b.p. is preparing to buy out its russian partners in time case b.p. according to a report in the financial times their own source also called the f.t.c. says the british oil major could finance the deal alone all together with state owned ralston at the stake may be worth up to thirty billion dollars a piece trying to save the oxygen exploration and shut small deal it signed with ross after january after repeated quote rulings found in favor of b.p.'s current russian partners are the big deal broker shareholder agreement. buster has of calling gas supplies to japan in the wake of its earthquake but analysts say demand for many other russian produced commodities but also increase as they were construction of the world's third largest economy gathers pace. if we look at the void that's going to be created from the nuclear power industry because that slows down. energy demand doesn't slow down has to come from other sources so we're

talking about electricity generation and that can only come from either wind solar tiny i mean de minimus core fission of production so what's left coal and natural gas from elegy and that's coming from russia to japan and indeed if you look at the actual cost of the rebuilding right we're talking about apartment buildings whole city that's right there just destroyed that is iron ore that is rebar that is timber and forest products that is all the raw materials that russia exports to asia will grow exponentially. oil prices have eased slightly amid reports that libyan leader moammar gadhafi has accepted the peace plans and the conflict in the country brant crude is trading around one hundred twenty six dollars a barrel while the light sweet a third of one hundred and twelve dollars a barrel this. prices for purchase metals have reached another record and major concerns over fast growing inflation in the world gold is currently trading

at around one thousand four hundred and seventy five dollars per ounce while silver is about thirty one dollars per ounce which is the highest for three decades. let's have a look at how the stock markets are performing asian shares trading in the red this hour in tokyo those stocks are weighed by concerns of a pause for a resumption of production shop corp is down more than one percent of the companies that it will trim out good of liquid crystal display screens jujutsu this importance from the quake. and the european markets and makes this sound the german dax is down point two percent as high oil prices here with concern over the local growers meanwhile mining shares are rising along with metal prices with b.h.p. billiton up over two percent. and hitting more these markets have opened the blinds the r.t.s. is currently gaining around point one percent with banking and energy sector

leading the crowd. and let's take a look at something to be jewel schirmer moves in the interest like the gas problem is gaining more than point seven percent on the high energy prices on a metal is adding three quarters of a percent i still bought hits a fresh called highs tank a b.p. is up more than three point five percent after those reports in the f.t. that b.p. is raising of biology of its russian partners in the company. so for now more stories coming up in about fifty minutes time stay with us.

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