more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operations rule the day. this is the r t twenty four hour news channel from moscow these top stories from kevin of a better russian authorities say destabilizing the country country was the main objective of the terrorist attack on the capital subway which killed twelve well injured more than two hundred last half of the cheering evening rush hour and is the first deadly attack in the country's modern history. and warnings of cancer and physical mutations in libya as war veterans accuse allied forces of using poisonous

depleted uranium in the two campaigns the u.n. human rights commission has called for a band of the substance become trees like the u.s. and u.k. are against it. plus the travel to space and landed in the pages of history russia is the place fifty years since a submarine caused them overcome the first man to join the stars. completed its orbit of the earth on april twelfth one hundred sixty. next r.t. so we should talk to one of the guardians fellow space trainees got a call he says the pilot his journey into orbit was no piece of cake. the residence test and press the wrong place for that about course thank you for

being with us today you were part of the group of fluffing sers who are preparing for the first manned space flight how many of you where when you quit can tell us about how the first cost not was picked for ferris that you were. the decision to enlist fighter pilots into the first group of trainee cosmonauts was made by sergey curry law of the soviet union's head aerospace engineer who developed in launched sputnik and the first manned space flight defense ministry and a top soviet authorities approved that decision so the air force and the main air force hospital are assigned to pick the candidates for the first manned space flight and it will start from the hospital started traveling around regiments mainly in the central soviet union they picked out the profiles of three thousand five hundred fighter pilots four hundred fifty of them were sent to the hospital and so if that four hundred fifty get falls hospital selected twenty pilots who became the first regiment of soviet cosmonauts. a cocoon by which criteria were the pilots chosen. but. when people came to the regiment they looked at the pilot's

professional reports they had to be good pilots they had to be in the party of course and be recommended by the deputy commander little affairs then i would hide it when i walked into the political offices office the first for my regiments there was a man from the military counterintelligence unit standing by his side and gave me a paper to sign that said everything i was about to learn was national security information that could not be sprayed i signed it they sent me to see a doctor and i saw that the doctor had three medical reports in mind you have guinea comrades he would pilot the latest base fight and glorious a router we had a long talk and they also see how i would feel if they recommended me for a medical commission to check if i could fly higher than one hundred kilometers i understood straight away what it was all about. how did you feel when you learned you were possibly going to space. when they told me i was going to fly it above one

hundred kilometers i asked them if i was to write a satellite there's no such thing as a cosmonaut in those days because it didn't even exist satellites were the only things to fly to space at the time the first one having been launched in one nine hundred fifty seven was you get scared and you. know i agree straight away it was voluntary by the way we were stationed in camps essentially a field we were station was closed for repairs so we were sent to camps after we had our talk they told me i could go home it was three hundred kilometers away and force my wife about it but i only needed to think for a minutes at most before i agreed. i would give a breath right how long did the final group of twenty pilots train together. were to group was put together in march nine hundred sixty we met with sergey corona of insects. they were eighteen of us by that time two of us were eliminated

because their health was not good enough they didn't split us into several groups as there was only one centrifuge to train on and it was in juco ski the first six pilots were sent there to train we were to be sent there after they get done. and what did your training consist of. we attended lectures on medicine higher mathematics astronomy and so on. can you tell me about how you first matt got in. i was the first to the coast most to me he said i was sent to a military hospital ward was empty when i arrived two days later he walked in he was stocky and smiled along he was wearing hospital clothes he introduced himself i introduced myself that was how we met but the problem is you become friends straight away no it's our relations were very good even though we were all very worried i would do me you know must have had your doubts did you share them with each other. yes that was that they were forty five of us in the hospital after all

every single day one of us was eliminated from the competition some were even decommissioned there were four of us in the wards myself guarin the owner of another pilot whom the doctors told he could only ever be allowed to pilot a helicopter some of the pilots decided to leave before they would be commissioned we had our doubts too of course but i remember one time we all got together and said you're a setback too but we should go through the commission to the end it doesn't depend on us but let's give the medics all we can and see what happens. after all this time what is your opinion of. what you heard. i liked him and i paid off him was and remains very good he was the sort of man that would not let you down in battle or in normal life he had a talent for organization and good heads he had more experience than us in life he had been through a school a college the aviation club and the academy before it even started serving in the

northern battalion one of his positive qualities was that his superiors his friends and his subordinates likes him that was important he had a strong sense of jujitsu he set off in his fight that his goal was for every pilot who came with him to fly to space he did his best to make that happen every pilot from the group of twelve who were not eliminated you to pull health will pull. discipline they all got to make this space flight. how did he deal with all the popularity and people's love after the flight. i think he dealt with it just fine he never became stuck all star struck like even some sportsman do today i never saw that in him in that sense he stated a good level and tried to perform his real duty as a citizen and a cosmonaut he loved children he was a man who embraced his work his publicist he and his family he wanted to make a second flight suit we even trained together when i was preparing for my first

flight and he was planning to make his second we want to be in the same crew would go on the cover and what did he tell you about his first flight. or. he told me how zero gravity felt and said that space could and should be explored that was all he said pretty much. but. he will say that once you've made your first spaceflight it's like a truck who want to go back constantly or through. you know even today when i meet people from star city or other cosmonauts when i visit launch pads i think i will come back to the launch pad this year old a regrettably i won't be able to fly myself so i'll be sending others i always dream of space when i come back home i was in the lunar program you know and i still sometimes fight to the moon in my dreams i very sorry that it will never

happen i did it catered many years of my life to this profession starting from nine hundred sixty and quitting in one thousand eighty two i left my crew at the same time i left mission control of. our earth when you were in space. my flights were always so short during my second flight i even asked mission control to prolong my mission it was supposed to last eighteen days but our landing was postponed due to bad weather in kazakstan i think you'd better ask this question to those who have been on six months or longer missions i was not tired of it i wanted to keep working. how does the earth look from space which you've written where with no it was beautiful i was especially impressed with the sunrise and sunset during my second flight we actually followed the sun on one of our orbit passes it was like the sun never sets off it was in the earth's shadow and we could see the other half it was beyond words the earth itself is beautiful

to the seas and oceans have the most beautiful color they had dark blue in the middle in cremation the shores when you look down you see mountainous desert cities huge rivers everything that there is on earth. you could have there were you could i think do you believe in god yes. i believe in destiny whatever your destiny is it will happen you have to fight for it of course it doesn't just come to you. are practical to put on your how do your spaceflight change your life on earth what figures were negative were the flights have had an effect on my life of course i don't know how far along i would get in my career if i refused the offer to become a cosmonaut i was a group commander and certified for deputy commander at the time i was going to attend the academy to switch to more advanced aircraft i was piloting to make seventeen at a time nineteen's were already in use and the introduction of the make twenty one

had begun it was my dream to pilot those planes i don't know how that would have turned out overall i'm grateful i can say i've made a huge career but that was never my goal the only unfulfilled dream i had was to go on one more space mission i can't complain about my life anything is that my wife died very early we got married when i was still a pilot we started out together and stayed together until one thousand nine hundred seventy. one. oh my goodness me heart to me because when art's wife. will never again miss what she said after my second flight she got too worried you know although only three years later they offered me to go on another mission when i came home and told her that she never said no. hugs or thank you very much for this interview that although she has thank you and i wish you good health and happiness today in the fiftieth anniversary of yuri gagarin's flight i would like to tell the viewers that we will continue exploring space just like when we started

a nine hundred sixty one copy people can count them out as if they want to use it is a. position not enough. when it's something really crucial. what you want to get down to brass tacks we bring you our special coverage years of research under construction . all to hear the famous. for the first human blasting off into space. and returning as they hear a. question more on.

going to. space is about all of our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military dominance in space. the bombs on target time bell minimums closure a little about when the us will leave you are able to look through space to see him dead or. to build a missile interceptor look out her place.

and we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of outer space. obviously incredible investment from the united states and from the european union to canada other countries like this all of this stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting reference in outer space.

stories from other teams and i'd been a russian authorities say destabilize. in the country was the main objective of the terrorist attack on the subways capital subway which killed twelve and injured more than two hundred blast happened during evening rush hour it was the first deadly attack in the country no. warnings of cancer and physical mutations in libya as war veterans accuse allied forces of using poisonous depleted uranium the political you any rights commission has called for a ban on the substance with countries like the us a face to face meeting. plus

a troubled space and landed in the pages of history at the same time russia celebrates fifty years since a song because we all became the first man to journey to the stars you're a good guardian completely people a bit of the what they call the twelve months six people. i'll be back with headlines for you in fifty minutes time but sketch of the latest sport now on the telly. thank you kevin you're watching live sports and playing our team and that's a look at the top stories this hour. the live taking of confounding three zero lead indicate child finals are the first in yet another narrow victory over long in game three of the best of seven series. tales of two cities second quarter final action gets going in the champions league today with chelsea and manchester united again

taking to the pitch. and we're back at the weekend the cost in the russian premier league and bring you a complete builds round up in our weekly goals galore section. hockey's where we get started as the good god and cup finals continued on tuesday the series has moved to the moscow region where you live beat up lawn for the third time in a row making the overall school three nothing in their best of seven finals series sergei's in the view of matter which was love goes love shot in for the open ah well your us law option made it level all the hosts do in the end winning period and leave the second that next up breaking gave some of all the two one lead but you gagne. did once again and patrick durham sound them made the difference in the final period sealing the deal for the visitors so it's now three zero to some of the author in the series with all due to take place in the moscow region on thursday. and early of a cage fell over to the decision that sought long forward for the field of some

talk during the second game of the finals the incident took place in the second period of sunday's match a collision between further up on some of us were deemed unsafe of soul the home sides will were forced to leave the eyes with a serious knee injury the most subsequently ruled him out for at least the rest of the finals while thought of picked up a five plus twenty minute penalty but it was ruled out later as well. when you jersey devil is now available for the rest of the series. disciplinary committee has reversed you would have to either of those twenty minute penalty the judge's decision has been recorded as an unintentional mystery this episode is very difficult in terms of interpretation of had lost control of the boat just moments before and she was trying to possess it this type of accident is part of the game. i want to the champions league next and tonight chelsea face an uphill task of overturning a deficit against premier league rivals manchester united the glues are at old

trafford for the second leg of their cool final question as we speak wayne rooney made the difference a week ago when the striker he's back for united missing saturday's two nil victory over for them the first of a two game domestic ground for swearing at a t.v. camera real person and also returns well good news for on the pressure chelsea boss car launch lot is that he has a call it's called to choose from for the first time this season in the meantime barcelona have a massive full goal lead over shots or better yet scheme the other match the other couple of quarters will be played on plans these those involved shall give us his aims and told you have against real madrid. reality trained in a good mood early on tuesday the spanish giants big favorites to reach the last four to scoring four times without reply last week but read have two other important matches i had as they take on barcelona in their league burning because of the rain in the arctic so she's a marine you could dress some of his key players to morrow has taught him certain

to be fighting for pride rather than a spot in the seventies. and the team a person of the biggest surprise in the champions league so far said to hold on to their first leg advantage on dancing shall be prepared to face holders in some alarm having beaten them five two in the previous meeting despite some comfortable advantage players avoid making forecasts. head of the second leg held. rights of women it is a team to gain a good head start and to learn but it's a new game which will last for ninety minutes and we want to start off in a way that nothing can happen so we will attempt to get a goal and not just wait to see what's going to will do we want to play our game and then we'll see what happens. now in town is the monte carlo masters is gaining momentum well roger federer is getting used to his less favorite surface the call a season opening event this was stunning philipp kohlschreiber in the second round on tuesday federer again to nearly break of seven added another one before securing

the process by six games to two the second was even quicker the german only evil to win once in the six one part of fate second seeded sealing victory means that points to progress into the stands agent. in formula one ferarri bosses have plenty to do after the team's poor performances in the opening two races following the australian and the malaysian grand prix yes there are he said that in the constructor standings far behind main rivals mcclaren and red bull team principals the final of the many colleagues set to solve the car problems though before the next stop in shanghai this weekend. we need to push a lot of people that will be in big. over there with over because of all these are a little bit of it into them over global performance and the other thing is keep all of this to the bush we can use that because he's a bit of research into the race that makes the difference. to see the other people

admit it to be bring always the way that it matters the threat that i think of at this point we were. all ok. moving stateside and the miami heat have sealed their seating in the fast approaching n.b.a. playoffs after holding on for victory against the hawks le bron james nine hundred thirty four points to help this team lock up the number two spot in the east the two time defending the legality holding facility and excellent consecrate leading to going way down there the heat up forty one thirty one midway through the second quarter plan to go full back against the star studded starters of miami demian will commence bringing the hawks to within just three points of the fourth but james jones dashed any combat. team with a pair of late three pointers but he too gets ninety eight to ninety and a florida man will now be number two in the east thanks to a boston defeat. meanwhile tiger woods is in china this way

due to promote the game of golf in asia and hold the skills clinic for youngsters tiger is set to visit beijing on wednesday and had just sold while the planned stop in tokyo was postponed the former world bask errantly ranked way of coming off a fourth place finish at augusta last sunday marking his grade he'll return to that list or yelling drought. played well and unfortunately just came up a little short on the back nine but as for the front i'm on the subway i was on. a blast and it was fun being in the mix it really start to feel pretty good. this week it was a pretty good week i hit the ball really well in the weekend and. has some shots. of the shots that i know i can hit and back to football finally there were just nine goals in old school during the latest weekend of russian prime a league action but still a potential shot of the season wasn't on them here is our weekly goals go lower.

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