coming from the russian capital this is good to have you with us this hour top stories at half past the hour the e.u. itself a credit rating agencies after a downgrade of portugal's that to junk status means world markets panicking over a fifth plane out in the more calm effect elsewhere. high profile photographers arrested in georgia suspected of spying as nine others are convicted for espionage the country's opposition says the government is muzzling the press to cover up its own problems. and greece detains the last of the boats headed to blockade of gaza

by the un is expected to publish a long awaited report on israel's deadly assault on last year's election. and also reporting that russia's foreign minister describes nature his role in the cynical saying it's coming true high a price of civilian deaths and continued stalemate. and i've got another update from fifty minutes from now in the meantime with billions of galaxies and trillions of suns some believe we're not alone in the universe when next we meet a russian astronomer who says we are playing host to visitors from interstellar neighborhood a special interview next. mr finkelstein thank you very much for being with us today you have promised that in

twenty years time you will have discovered life on other planets are we actually talking about alan merely some bacteria we have been talking lifeforms of course and what particular form such life could be with a separate question where there is life and intelligence and civilization are a possibility but discovering life as a primary importance in what form. of birth and what i'm going to tell you is a paradox of the form will definitely be well known to us in my opinion and i believe experts generally agree on this and life and intelligence should they exist elsewhere at all should be highly human like you see essentially the origins of life follow the same pattern just as it is with atoms molecules or macromolecules there are fundamental laws of physics that apply invariably in each case these laws have been thoroughly researched and explained now all you need is the right environment that would enable a process like that to start for example an atom of hydrogen that originates in

a galaxy located millions of the past six away from us that is hundreds of millions of light years away is absolutely identical to a hydrogen atom the original is in our solar system because fundamental laws are universal and it's the same with the fundamental laws that govern the origins of life including the fundamental laws of the evolution of these are universal so all living things should have the same composition of living organisms should look like the ones we encounter. these life forms you're talking about develop into a civilization of the worth of primarily they can develop intelligence or i think it is possible because apparently there is some. regular life inevitably develops intelligence if only there's enough time intelligence leads to civilization however this is a very long process mind you the earth formed four point five billion years ago four billion years ago it was already simple for my forms and in fact that is how long ago initial indications of life date back to you have heard evolution takes

a long time homo sapiens originated two hundred thousand years ago but it was only forty thousand years ago the modern humans came about the culture bearing humans that you and i belong to you as a scientist would you guarantee one hundred percent that we will discover life yes and i will explain why you see there is this rational if not clearly scientific outlook on the universe a process can either bigger or if there is at least one similar occurrence of it is a regular phenomenon but for some time scientists believe that the solar system is somewhat a new meter but nowadays we find that most stars how planets are furthermore the formation of planets is an inevitable process that occurs where giant molecular cloud forms into a star about a thousand planets and ok to be around different stars have been discovered to this date over five hundred stars are known to have the planets a million planets are projected to be discovered within the next ten years or more

over some of the recently discovered planets not only resemble the earth by composition but also seem to have. an oxygen necessarily indicates the presence of life i mean while the universe consists of about a hundred billion galaxies each of them roughly one hundred billion stars almost all stars we might have the planets we've already discovered her thousand of them some of those we know it's ten percent. might be suitable for merely a region of life that's right the time the earth runs out of its resources and they will definitely need to clean. it's sunday perhaps in a few billion years do you think there is a chance that humankind will be able to have it other planets and evermore if you will see what you're talking about i'm not an expert on this although i do have a feeling life is generally organized in such a way of the any species exists for a certain limited period of time it is highly possible humans are no exception

environmental conditions are changed at least five times in a two hundred fifty million years they were able to trace back with up to ninety percent living organisms becoming extinct and earthly floor and for little change and completely have some hypotheses to maintain that it was caused by an asteroid is common if we live but i'm more inclined to think that the earth and the solar system even the universe general is something with chemistry a giant factor with its own working and certain species may only be designed to exist for a limited period of time and that may also be the case with humans find it rather difficult to investors that humans will be traveling toward the stars and like grating to other planets on a massive scale in terms of our immediate prospects acquire a destination for human colonization of the the moon i might not live long enough to see this but you definitely will as it will happen within the next twenty to twenty five years three global powers some of the united states the european union

and china are already competing for set up the first lunar observatory and hence the first colony on the moon there because later on people might call guys much more if they were. already believe in aliens when one of them in what sense do i believe they have visited us and all that and their existence. if there was intelligence and a civilization outside it then we would call that civilization extraterrestrial but the term is used quite differently by the public to refer to phenomena you supposedly observed here on earth. that i do not believe in when i know for a fact that it didn't happen the thing is the public might find this interesting the u.s.s.r. was the only country in its day to host a grand experiment a general staff that issued an order to the various units under the defense ministries command to report any unidentified flying objects they were called on

identified atmosphere phenomena then the program was called over the net it was divided into two parts the defense ministries and that look at what might be traces of new types of weaponry the oven and so called a n n and look for phenomena previously kind of more than twenty eight people across one sixth of the earth's territory even move them out as we are literally in a station outside the us is on a certain point all those people and knowledge of the skies from u.f.o.'s every single day a detected approximately one thousand of the usual phenomena only two which may explain the stay for the rest were either manmade or natural still and some of them were amazing i would not believe me if i told you about some of the things that were found people didn't know such things could happen airplanes are funded by pilots who flew on for days a missile was want to attempt to bypass a passenger jet by a mere two meters we saw something of assault later on in ukraine i believe it has

been proven quite convincingly that extra terrestrials never visited us it makes sense to the way the public is thinking i'm sure that if we were using horses to get around rather than planes they would think aliens were visiting us on horseback with certain phenomena or interpreted into a myth its way. and that there would be recently spoke to jill tarter who works with seti and she tell those that are there early and so indeed exist there are civilizations should be much older and more advanced than ours and she said ellen's was not contact us there is a joke we have in the back with extra terrestrials and not contacting us proves that they exist. and they're smart but seriously we know that there is no speed faster than the speed of light it takes light from the star closest to earth years to reach us it would take us centuries to devise a means of transportation and that would allow us to travel this distance we know for a fact now that the star closest to us is devoid of life the next star. is twenty

light years away it would take us. to think of a way to get there physical star travel is impossible that's my belief we would have to revise the whole science of physics miracles do not know how and sometimes they do happen but are we different so listen to what we're used to beginners or asteroid passed very close to earth several days ago everyone is talking about the risk of the earth colliding with another asteroid if they are prophets do you think this is a real threat just. first of all i want to tell you that asteroids and comets played a very important role in the birth of life remember the solar system is essentially a child chemistry comets and asteroids transport matter across this lot of including some suspected organic matter they have often collided with earth and the earth is dotted with asteroid craters we call them in space with. some scientists believe that the disappearance of entire species of plants and animals has to do

with asteroids that happened two hundred fifty million fifty million twenty five billion years ago and now their purpose asteroid is not anything out of the ordinary what's more you and i may have seen something of the sort happen twice we saw jupiter collide with an asteroid jupiter is the earth's looking star because our defendant if it were not for jupiter always asteroids when it does the moon has a lot of asteroid imprints but a comet recently flew into the sun so there are some examples for you and signs that studies asteroids on a collision trajectory with the earth which is approximately. well ten percent of all u.s. states that they do present a threat but back to apophis i think we do not have to worry about it it will come as close to the earth as a geostationary satellite does a twenty twenty night it will be the brightest object in the sky and then in twenty thirty two it will return but it will not cost us a close it is quite

a lot just about no point five kilometers in diameter so there is a chance of it striking it rich if it hits the so-called keel the earth has two of these cables on its cover taishan field and each one approximately the size of the master roy but i do not think the upper fits will hit one so we will be able to affect its trajectory after what we were going the other house ok would destroy it with with what your experiments conducted on the demonstration of the asteroids on destructible we will need a stronger force than what we used in the experiment to destroy it however. then again we have been wanted for months which is very important to us because we can affect its trajectory gradually pushing it into the gravity field of another planet and then after making several revolutions it will no longer be on a collision trajectory these ideas have never been implemented but i think they'll close up a bit with we shouldn't our problem could look even if our technological level.

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top stories this hour on r t the e.u. gets out of credit rating agencies after a downgrade of portugal's debt to junk status leads the world markets panicking over a fifth plane i'll turn the call affect elsewhere. high profile photographers arrested in georgia suspected the spying is now known as the convicted for espionage the country's opposition says the government is muzzling the press to cover up its own problems. and greece details the loss of the boats headed to blockade of gaza while the un is expected to publish a long awaited report on israel's deadly assault on last year.

and russia's foreign minister describes the nato role in libya as cynical saying it's common to higher price of civilian deaths and continued stalemate. i'll be back with more news for you in less than fifteen minutes from now the meantime kate is next with the sports. welcome to the small sneers and these other headlines. tragedy a twenty one person is killed and thirteen more injured after the roof collapses at the home stadium of the dutch side. while i did it norway tour who saw three times the leader's yellow jersey as compared to edward dawson colgan patches his maiden stage where the tour de france. and six of the best the world's only heavyweight champions the klitschko brothers show up all six of their boxing belts in the

nature of ukraine the day before bringing them to moscow. start with news that one person has died and thirteen have been injured after part of the stadium group of dutch football team spent a collapsed during building work the roof fell onto a bank of seats behind one of the goals which made us say to girders have buckled no match was being played for time as the ground is being expanded to accommodate thirty two thousand fans topside twenty one the dutch ever did easy in twenty ten and were runners up last year they were also due to host a champions league qualifying match in the next few weeks. now with a european football transfer window wide open highly rated midfielder morgridge will be staying at english premier league club tottenham according to his agent and if you book son says mortgage well on his contract which still has five years left to run the twenty five year old croatian flew back to london this week and begins pre-season training this thursday after meeting for chairman daniel levy he's

adamant the club will not sell the influential playmaker who joined from dynamos are grabbing two thousand and eight for twenty five million dollars spurs had recently turned down offers for god rich from london rivals chelsea. block sunderland have signed to manchester united defender was brian flynn under. closed feet thirty one year old has agreed a four year deal with the blackouts brown made his united debut in one nine hundred ninety eight went on to make three hundred sixty one appearances earning two champions league titles five premier league winners medals two f.a. cups and truly he retired from introducing us last year after winning twenty three caps. allows for hosts argentina still without a win at the copper america and were lucky to get away with a goalless draw against colombia argentina have drawn their opening game with bolivia and live on resi in co were hoping to get the home fans something to cheer about instead they were left holding their breath as colombia created the best chances of stardom was missing

a good try you see here. before gabriel military pulled back past colombia another chance. and even after ramos was bundled over. open goal to a match some missed argentina could also be grateful to becky but soldier the manner. in which we all know love is still top they all point to games. they do use to play good football and of course if you play good football we're going to get the results we're looking for and we should go out just great for that we will have to play good football and we know we have the players that can do this the results depend not on your knowledge but you know we have to win. well in the meantime cheney found swearing to be voiced during their latest training session a group scene leaders could reach the quarter finals if they beat europe one on friday four players missed the session including well gear who was sidelined for the opening win over mexico but coach expects everyone to be fit for the next game

. well meanwhile the quarter final line of has been completed at the women's world cup in germany where brazil will face the usa in the last eight australia. brazil finished top of great d. keeping their one hundred percent record in town. they screen over equitorial guinea bulldogs in the second half i report finds you know some stuff. before this one is the second you need to finish. three thousand russian. thank you then in a penalty at the end to back the ring because there was a tea time walking in the usa last eight on a sunday. no necessarily finish second in the group behind brazil at the coming from behind to beat no way to one east coast and that's open for the weekend only the second half but matilda's responded in a minute he assignment finishing off across some one. and then three minutes left

yesterday is right but without simon again he should and is a second because he's next play sweden in the finals. and finally sweden finished abridge they ought to be to the usa to want to sweet finish that first but i can see that if you do not like this talk just watch. the second the u.k. . had a very big defection. thinking that responded yes i did respond in the second half and we went back to one batch that i could manage second degree. now fast rising cyclist exiled boston haagen has given british team sky their maiden stage victory as the tour de france for the norwegian tour came in first to retain the overall lead as yellow jersey for the first day running

a cheesy high road right up not goss was second fastest in the sprint finish in the mostly flat six stage but the laurels go to the twenty four year old scandinavian dawson haagen who is the reigning the waiting time call champion and as for service company first i'm going to ask you to. boxing now the live picture alexander povetkin has edged closer to his maiden professional award as the unbeaten russian has entered talks about a title fight with was ruth launch a go of it there are vying to lay their hands on the w.b. a heavyweight belts which became vacant after virginia could go at quentin david taylor last week was crowned super champion if the baton does go through product and for much of the a hole that will probably square off in germany on august twenty seventh that can has won all of these twenty one professional matches all of them with a ratings and the titles well this back has yet to be agreed but elsewhere all six of the world's probably wait belts are being kept in one family and it's ok to show

off their remarkable correct claim after that period the older sibling the sally hose the doctor would be exceeds i thought with a bloody boasting all the rest of them and thirty five has to fight on. the bridges but you look at i have no thoughts of finishing my career i'm currently at my peak or i'm approaching my peak and i would like to use these possibilities more and more in the ring i have dreams and want to make them come true one of them is to fight a new cream. however one man is calling it quits and be aged thirty two is for me to wait while jogging ricky hatton has announced his long expected retirement the englishman hasn't fought since suffering a crushing defeat to manny pacquiao in an i.b.m. light welterweight world title fight in two thousand and nine had also lost his license to find last year in the wake of allegations that he used cocaine records found forty five wins and just two losses these are only other defeat communism

graduates. would achieve here in two thousand and seven. basketball now is six time former champions to have been drawn in the same group as holders promise and i calls the next season of europe's top competition the year only these are the two clubs playing each other. last season also in group b. implied. it is raining german girls are baskets uncreation transatlantic last season was one to forget to take stock of the argument to make a different stage for the first time in fourteen is a major turnaround is hopeful this time out big names be brought in. player in the us which. now is sports droplet whose high profile clients include golfer tiger woods has admitted smuggling performance enhancing drugs into the united states and has agreed to disclose the identity of all of his patients and what treatments they received and i didn't say i pleaded guilty as a buffalo cost him bringing illegal drugs into the u.s.

including human growth hormone his admission means there won't be a trial but he's agreed to cooperate with investigators and reveal details of his clients among them is former world number one words and baseball star alex rodriguez they admit to being treated by the physician that deny receiving performance enhancing drugs from him and i will be sentenced on october nineteenth he could be jailed for up to eighteen months. now just a week to go before the third goal of major of the season the british open and the head of the event world number one luke donald has secured a very important fan and sports because legends jack nicklaus has tipped the englishman to win had a red hot u.s. open champion or an apple or. luke had a great year and every bit every all the golf is played over here you know he's played very very well played well at wentworth and i don't know where else apart but i think i played another match by term i think he won and so you know on the explain well he's playing great what a worker he is he looks a member of our court my course at home and he absolutely is on the putting and

chipping green and parker play and he's there all the time and he works harder everybody out there were saying he's got results. now at the end of this monster russia will host its first ever whilst championship and waterskiing the sound of that not in the moscow region was chosen ahead of venues in denmark it's only in south korea and russia best us think being at home working on the edge and one customer has more. not has had a lot of practice in the run up to hosting the world championship this little town not far away from the russian capital has already held six world cup stages stirring up enough interest for his skates to make it a favorite sport among the locals since the creation of the world championship in nine hundred forty nine it was countries like the united states canada and france who dominated and these nations also hosted the event over the years still gives and then russian water skiers have had some success on the international scene but

until now the country has never had the chance to stage the sport's most sought after event in the local athletes are keen not to disappoint them grounds and bring home the gold. cup i guess that must have got the fans in did not know and understand water skiing is a sports athletes from other countries who have already been there it's one of the world cup stages looking forward to the kind of cheering they will get anywhere else so i hope their energy will help us trying to tell. the winners of this once eleven a world waterskiing championship will be announced on the twenty fourth of july and artsy will be there it's a bring you the actions highlights room on kos or a party. and that's all things most ask by from. twenty years ago in the largest country. to surgically sense of.

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