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from the russian capital. with the top stories. credit rating agencies downgraded portugal's debt to junk status. high profile photographers arrested in georgia suspected of spying. the country's opposition says the government is the press to cover up its own problems. and. describes. a cynical. 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 or next we meet a russian astronomer who says we are playing host to visitors from our interstellar neighborhood a special interview next. mr finkelstein thank you very much for being with us today you have promised that and twenty years time you will have discovered life on other planets are we actually talking about aliens or merely some of the you know we're talking life forms of course from one particular form such life is

a separate question of where there is life and intelligence and civilization are a possibility but discovery of life is of primary importance in what form. of the sun 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 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 without arms molecules or macromolecules there are fundamental laws of physics that apply invariably in each case these laws have been thoroughly researched and explained and 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 that originates 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 evolution at the more that these are universal so all living things should have the same composition and living organisms should look like the ones we encounter. these life forms you're talking about develop into a civilization to work with primarily they can develop intelligence or i think it is possible because apparently there is some. regular patent 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 suitable for my forms and in fact that is how long ago initial indications of life date back to you know what evolution takes a long time homo sapien as 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. well 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 purely scientific outlook on the universe a process can either be or if there is at least one similar occurrence of then it is a regular phenomenon for some time scientists believe that the solar system is somewhat unique but nowadays we find that most stars have planets or that we furthermore the formation of planets is an inevitable process that occurs where giant molecular cloud forms into a star about a thousand planets located around different stars have been discovered to this date over five hundred stars are known to have planets a million planets are projected to be discovered within the next ten years with moreover 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 has roughly one hundred billion stars and almost all stars might have their planets we've already discovered a thousand of them and some of those when it's ten percent or one percent might be suitable for me to do a return of life of a crazy time the earth runs out of its resources and they will definitely be deeply . it's sunday perhaps in a few billionaires do you think there is a cherished at human kind of all to inhabit other planets would you if you were you 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 have been 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 the two hundred fifty million years that we're able to trace back up with up to ninety percent of living

organisms becoming extinct and earthly floor and forward with the changing completely some hypotheses maintain that it was caused by an asteroid is common. but i'm more inclined to think that the earth and the solar system or even the universe in general is something of a chemistry a giant faculty 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 i find it rather difficult to investigate that humans will be traveling to other stars or migrating to other planets on a massive scale in terms of our immediate prospects but the primary destination for human colonization will be 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 later on people might colonize mars. do you believe in

aliens when we will but in what sense do i believe they have visited us of that and their existence. if there was intelligence and a civilization outside earth then we would call that civilization extraterrestrial but the term is used quite differently by the public to refer to phenomena supposedly observed here on earth. that i do not believe then 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 the general staff had issued an order to the very same its under the defense ministries command to report any unidentified flying object they were called on identified atmosphere phenomena and the program was called up of the net it was divided into two parts the defense ministries net look at what might be traces of new types of weaponry in the oven and it's a n.

and looked for phenomena previously unknown to human kind for more than twenty years people of course one sixth of the earth's territory even move them out as we have a latina stationed outside the us is on a certain point all those people that monitored the skies for u.f.o.'s every single day they detected approximately one thousand at all unusual phenomena only two of which may explain to this day for the rest really the manmade or natural of some of them are amazing you 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 abandoned by pilots who flew on for days a missile was wants to tack to bypass the passenger jet by a mere two meters we saw something of the sort 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 and 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 are interpreted into a myth this way. we recently spoke to jill tarter who works with seti and she told us that the valley 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 fact that extra terrestrials are 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 for years to reach us it would take us centuries to devise a means of transportation 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 the b.s.a. is twenty light years away it would take us. to think of a way to get that physical star travel is impossible that's my belief it's good we

would have to revise the whole science of physics miracles do not help and sometimes they do happen but have a different sort of call to what we used to when there's an asteroid passed very close to earth several days ago actually everyone is talking about the risk of the earth colliding with another asteroid their profits 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 lab with comets and asteroids transport matter across this lot of including some suspect organic matter they have often collided with earth the earth is dotted with asteroid craters we call them of space will. 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 million years ago now their profits asteroid is not anything out of the ordinary what's

more you and i may have seen something of the sort happened twice we saw jupiter collide with an asteroid jupiter is in the earth's lucky star which is our defendant if it were not for jupiter all those asteroids would hit us the moon has a lot of asteroid imprints and a comment recently flew into the sun so there are some examples for you the science that studies asteroids on a collision trajectory with the earth which is approximately. well ten percent of all i know it'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 earth as a geostationary satellite does or doesn't win tonight it will be the brightest object in the sky then in twenty thirty two it will return but it will not cost as 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 keyhole of the earth has two of these key holes and its gravitational field each one approximately the size

of an asteroid but i do not think the opposite it will hit one we will be able to affect its trajectory after what. the. house ok would destroy it with experiments conducted on earth have demonstrated that asteroids are destructible we will need a stronger force than what we used in the experiment to destroy it however. then again we have been warned in advance which is very important as we thought we could affect its trajectory gradually pushing it into the gravity field of another planet 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 at the top with we shouldn't have a problem talking it up even at our technological level. the closer. to the republic of north the search where the area is occupied by

nature preserve. our team goes to the region where men flock from all over the world. to their self-confidence where young families are not hesitant about having a senior citizen in their family where one man's utopia turns into a real village of the shining something. well come to the gun region russia close up an arche. that's been in the year in iraq is now the trade journalist i saw some ways the u.s. contractors there is kind of wasting their time trying not to get killed. i thought all along the link to the lead about five hundred miles

a day with his team about twenty seven days in new going to publicize and people invited among those who leads people start a debate have a dialogue just. changing the slogan or way to silence means that it's.

top stories this hour on r.t. the e.u. hits out a credit rating agencies after a downgrade of portugal's debt to junk status leads the world markets panicking over a fifth plane out on the. high profile photographers arrested in georgia are 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 agrees to tell us the last of the boats headed to gaza while the un is expected to publish a long awaited report on israel's deadly assault on last year's. and russia's foreign minister describes nato's role in libya cynical saying it's coming to a higher price of civilian deaths and continued stalemate. i'll be back with more news

for you in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with the sports. welcome to the thursday evening sports nears 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 didn't always talk who solved retains the lead as yellow jersey as compared to dawson cauldron patches his maiden stage where the tour de france. and six of the best the world's only heavyweight champions the pitch called brothers show off all six of their boxing belts in the nature of ukraine the day before bringing them to moscow. start with the sad news that one person has died and thirteen have been injured after part of the stadium roof of dutch football team f.c.

twente a collapsed during building work the roof fell onto a bank of seats behind one of the goals touch me via say too good as had called no match was being played at the time as the ground was 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 the champions league qualifying match in the next few weeks. now with a european football transfer window wide open highly rated midfielder will be staying that english premier league club tottenham according to his agent nicky book sound says mortgage well although 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 club chairman daniel levy he is adamant the club will not sell the influential playmaker who joined from dynamo zagreb in two thousand and eight for twenty five million dollars spurs had recently turned down offers for more direction from london rivals chelsea. sunderland have

signed to manchester united defender was brown first on. close to three the thirty one year old has agreed a four year deal with the blackouts brown made his united debut in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and went on to make three hundred sixty one appearances winning two champions league titles five premier league winners medals two f.a. cups and truly he retired from england to see focus last year after winning twenty three caps. while elsewhere host argentina are still without a win at the copper america and were lucky to get away with a goalless draw against colombia argentina had drawn their opening game with bolivia and little messi and 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 the starboard i was missing the good which you see here. before gabriel military pullback past gave colombia another chance. and even after ramos was bundled over. open go to

a match some missed argentina can also be grateful to their keep at soldier the manner. in which we all know plenty a startup group a four point two two games. but they do use to play good football and of course if you play good football we're going to get there is also looking for and we should do our desperate for the win we have to play good football and we know we have the players that can do this the results depend not only announce but we know we have to win. well in the meantime cheney founders were in good voice during their latest training session a group c. leaders could reach the quarter finals if they beat euro one on friday four players missed the session including colgate belgravia who was sidelined for the opening win over mexico but coach cloudier expects everyone to be fit for the next game. well meanwhile the quarter final line up has been completed at the women's world cup in germany where brazil will face the usa in the last eight australia will play

sweden brazil finish top of group d. keeping their one hundred percent record into. fact is they stream away the equitorial guinea all goes in the second half arafat find another in some style. before this how did the second greek finish. very fancy some russian. and she then tucked in a penalty at the end to back out for when brazil will play two time walking as the usa lost eight on sunday. the understudy finished second in the group behind brazil after the me from behind to be no way to one east coast nest open for the norwegians early in the second half but the matildas responded within a minute here some i mean finishing off across some thought. and then three minutes left yesterday is right there without simon again recently defended by a second and the aussies next play sweden in the quarter finals.

and finally sweden finished a break seemed to be to the usa to warm the sweet finish their first from a penalty after their three match the second block list stepped up to start. the show the second was the u.k. despite that had. very big defections. thinking that if you stand in the us i did respond in the second half and went back to having one back that's what i can manage second degree. now fast rising cyclist exile boston haagen has given british team sky their maiden stage victory at the tour de france for the norwegian tour who came in third to retain the overall lead as yellow jersey for the fifth day running a.t.c. highroad rider 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 coggan who is the reigning in the wage and time trial champion as false i become

a first time winner after the tour. boxing now and olympic champion alexander ovechkin has edged closer to his maiden professional award as the unbeaten russian has entered talks about a title fight with lunch a go if the two are vying to lay their hands on the w.b. a heavyweight belt which became vacant out of laziness which go at point to david taylor last week was crowned super champion if the bat does go through perfect and formidable v.a. hold it will probably square up in airports in germany on august twenty seventh but that game has won all of these twenty one professional latches but all of them with a ratings and not for titles well this fact has yet to be agreed but elsewhere all six of the world heavyweight belts are being kept in one family and the control brothers showed off their one little collect claim capital here the older sibling the sally host the w.b.c. title with a bloody boasting all the rest of them and at thirty five has to fight on.

his aggressions but if 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 and you cream. however one man is calling it quits at the age of thirty two is for me to wait while champion 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 fight last year in the wake of allegations that he used cocaine records found forty five wins and just two losses but these only other defeat coming is a graduate. with a junior in two thousand and seven. basketball now a six time former champions take on moscow have been drawn in the same group as holders promise and i calls for the next season of europe's top competition the

euro league these are the two clubs playing each other. last season also in group b. implied. jarvis and german girls are baskets and collation trained in some club last season was one to forget the taste got as the argument to make it to the group stage for the first time in fourteen is a major turnaround just hopeful this time outs big names being brought in to play or. made us which. now a sports doctor 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 his patients and what treatments they received and i don't have pleaded guilty as a buffalo courts to bring 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 woods and baseball star alex

rodriguez they admit to being treated by the physician but deny receiving performance enhancing drugs from him and i will be sentenced on october the nineteenth and could be jailed for up to eighteen months. now is just a week to go before the third golf major of the season the british open and the head of the event well number one luke donald has secured a very important fan the sport's biggest legend jack nicklaus has to the englishman to win ahead of red hot u.s. open champion or immaculate. had a great year and every bit every dollar golf is played over here you know he's played very very well i played well at wentworth i'm i don't know where else he's played but i played another match paternity king one and so you know luke's playing 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 the chipping green and bunker play and he's there all the time and he works hard everybody out through sceneries get results. now at the end of this month russia

will host its first ever walsh championship in waterskiing that's handed them out of the moscow region was chosen ahead of venues in denmark italy and south korea and russia best just think being at home will give them the edge i want. to but 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 skeins to make it a favorite sport among the locals since the creation of the world championship in one 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 get 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 afghans are keen not to disappoint the home crowd and bring home the gold. cup i just get that must go to the fans and to not know and

understand what a scheme is a sport athletes from other countries who have already been the one of the world cup stages looking forward to the kind of cheering they will get anywhere else i hope their energy will help us trying to tell. the winners of the twenty level world waterskiing championship will be announced on the twenty fourth of july and r.t. will be there to bring you the actions highlights ramon cost r g. and that's all things most ask from. twenty years ago the largest country in the world to some degree. but had been trying. to teach began a journey. where did it take them.