stupid. one woman whose husband died in that crash has been collecting the stories of other widow you so you've been telling how they deal with the pain of that loss but to tim. this documentary for us was a way to deal with the pain that hit us unexpectedly when the title of the documentary wives isn't random but while we were filming we still felt like wives it's very difficult school so for a widow we saw our husbands off on another when can travel they had several such trips a month they flew a lot and exactly really didn't come back because you come and you often well the stories which you learn are that has gathered have been put together in a program which will be shown on the r.t. documentary channel in about two hours time will also be available online if you as well but here is some of what's ahead.

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because. i mean it's always out because i've gotten sort of. bunch of so i didn't also stay on the dish then or called it the so about the last. time i just will or will it is going to be. because it's a must for truffle you can give just what you want but you. don't want to leave so you. go to the store of any stipulated shock when the government we're going to see what. the u.s. military bases on the japanese island of okinawa have long been a source of anger to locals not only over crimes committed by troops but because of cynically significant environmental damage too and now even u.s. veterans are joining the campaign to get them to clean up their act.

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just acting like this because it's ok now while i was an ok now because we had a delegation there. were supporting the local people and i know it go against the new base it's been created there and i was told that i heard reports that there was trash all over the place so i had to say with my own eyes because i was a marine that was stationed out there and i couldn't believe it because the marines when i was and we would never do that we were trained if in fact then you take it out so so that's why i went out there and just with my mind i could live where i saw all the trash in such a pristine area the claims that the u.s. military is the biggest polluter of definitely agree with the single most polluter in the world and that's not something that it's that it's up for agreement or disagreement that this can be measured. ranging from the pollutants from the field to count. usually the us. puts out into the. world that the us doesn't look into

the environmental issue. acknowledged because one big reason is the cost of rich retributions so if it's the nicest motier is destroying an area there is a college and not only that also affecting the health of other people there's a huge cost in that well another concerned us that and he's also been to okinawa told us he doesn't expect the pentagon to to an eco friendly anytime soon. i've seen a lot of issues around the bases in okinawa you know similarities in iraq and afghanistan and even bases here on u.s. soil where it's just contaminating the land that it's using there the open burn pits that is having huge effects on military personnel members and just outright consumption of fossil fuels across the pentagon of all four branches having a training center in the middle of a rain forest future ultimately come down to the people who live in or near that

rainfall so say take the young forest in northern okinawa where the us marines have been training for decades the people there on the ground who live there and have to suffer from the consequences of that training they don't want it there the us doesn't really cooperate in any investigations of environmental issues because it's a direct threat to their national security goals but the problem is environmental issues are a direct threat to our lives the us gets away with a lot of environmental issues and it's not just environmental issues that get away with a lot of things that i think if the american public knew what was going on they would demand for it to at first at least stop. international still ahead we take a look at what might make christmas merry for some of the world's major leaders that story because of his take on the way.

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sea people you've never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank very. seriously sent us an e-mail. again you with artane our son to make his way around the world today to bring toys to children what would be on the wish list for global leaders do you think. has been asking people in london for the ethical. probably was the breaks it never happened and she was never promoted to prime minister probably. it wastes is still to see how we can help donald trump. you're. probably a better way to deal with maybe north korea in some ways probably something on the

lines of. drinking. water than i do so maybe something to make that a bit easier. i guess he's always going to need. to go to spice. barris. just bring out all the cliche that it is. bigger muscles. he's pretty happy i don't need anything. more stable europe probably well with what could be on the wish list of chances for difficult his peace for all of us a month if you will that i've been able to get

a hold over the leftists his son said it was written by a mrs merkel from right seeing him live in. saying this is the german chancellor's letter to santa claus just saying. sequence aside from a. wish that they win the world cup in russia or in twenty eighteen there are a few pressing political points it seems that the chancellor is asking. for a bit of help with. disarms her please can we still tout the coalition shenanigans. we will not abandon our. policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly it's been months since the election here in germany and way in negotiations with the social democrats on forming a new grand coalition get underway in january therefore for

a done deal we are not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly room after the elections and we still stand by this angle of merkel's christian democratic union party are also changed in their negotiating stance but a bigger problem may come in the form of their berry and sister party the christian social union stepping down is horse z. hot for their long serving outspoken leader he was always almost always willing to step into line behind lynne well he is going to be replaced by marcus who's already being trying to appeal to the party's base and it's the party's base that doesn't like a lot of anglo merkel's policies particularly when it comes to refugees and asylum policy where prager with our world is accidental christian jewish humanistic islam has now made an outstanding contribution to bavaria and the last two hundred years and now we have to be clear about the roots of our own land. can you make it

say the c.s.u. did stuff this up for me. they're all those that have started to write angular merkel's political obituary heading into twenty eight thing i'd say that was bit premature for a chancellor that remains personally popular with a large proportion of the people here in germany however it's not like you couldn't benefit from a christmas wish or two coming through wishing you all a very merry christmas from all of the team here. in germany for our see in berlin i'm peter all over. there is only a couple of weeks left for applicants to put themselves forward to be in the running for next year's presidential election a few names are already in their hearts but is the u.s. forest the foreign media is concerned there's only one man they are focusing on and that's the outspoken opposition leader alexina valmy he's clocked up plenty of column inches in the western media over the years where he is often described as

a challenge to the incumbent leader vladimir putin although the valley is not eligible to stand for the election after being found guilty of embezzlement and given a five year suspended prison sentence even so he's regularly described as a kremlin critic who attracts thousands of supporters however on sunday he submitted the necessary paperwork to be a candidate for the election next march hundreds of supporters joined him but the numbers were markedly down on his last attempt in twenty twelve but more than thirty thousand turned out in moscow. me another contender will see a new name in the running for the communist party it's putting forward pavol gluten in our places and election veteran who had been trying to go in the kremlin stop job list for twenty years he was daft as more. his name doesn't say much if anything at all to the majority of russians meet pavel gruden and the new face of the russian communist party in this presidential race he's taking the place of

a man who ran for the communists in every election but one since one thousand nine hundred ninety six so who is he was he known for and why i put him on the ballot well first and foremost he's a businessman who's been building a socialist utopia in miniature for just over a decade just outside moscow nicknamed the strawberry king he governs a small community that's become a shining example of what socialism can achieve. certain . extent. these are some of the socialist dreams turned reality at the livin farm gordon has long been active in the grassroots russian politics he was one of lattimer putin campaigners back in two thousand helping him rise to power

a decade later he switched factions and backed the communists saying russia had taken a wrong turn russia's communist party of today is a very different beast from the one during the soviet union and gruden hopes to steer it more towards a swedish or german style of socialism citing his own socialist success outside moscow even of my own. after the farming community that i've led for more than twenty years we've done everything to show that if socialist ideas hadn't been abandoned but instead had been firmly adhere to we don't now be living like in our community which means free education free health care social benefits for pensioners free workshops for children and all the other things that you've seen that you know so the intrigue is now will he managed to tempt all of russia with his ideal of a socialist oasis it has done of. and that brings you up to date enjoy your christmas wherever you are well have more news to you in just.

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mainstream media has met its maker. welcome to sophie and co and so feet shevardnadze space is endless was the myriads of stars out there and chances are that we're not the only ones alive and it's a vast expanse but even if that's true should humans really be actively searching for extraterrestrial life. well a bit of downfall or civilization or the opening of a new rider iraq will talk about that today with dr douglas the president of mattie messaging extraterrestrial intelligence organization. surrounded by dust and radiation earth looks slowly hung up in the middle of lifeless space dozens of

billions of earth like planets potentially out there are determined to find extraterrestrial life how likely are we to garner a response to messages will be mounted to space. to get our signals to say they will be a danger to earth and could first contact the opening of a new era for the planet or the beginning of a. dr douglas welcome to the show great to have you on our program so your organization mattie's focus on sending out signals aimed specifically at aliens and you say that extra terrestrials need to know where ready to communicate but are we really ready to communicate i mean look at us we can hardly communicate with each other. it's true communication is one of the big challenges but it is also a defining feature of our species that we are the intelligent creatures who

love to talk with one another so our work in many is a natural extension of that desire to communicate but instead of talking with other human beings we're reaching out to life in the universe and your colleague from they search for extraterrestrial intelligence is huge sas shostak predicts that we will find intelligent alien life within the next twenty years you said that it will happen by approximately twenty thirty five watts in this next twenty years exactly well one of the things that we see in our research is the need for computing power we gather tremendous amounts of data from space and we sift through all of that cosmic static looking for radio signals that stand out as distinctly artificial and that requires tremendous computing in the great advantage that we're having right now is increases of technology so as we look at the advances of computing power you

know you can get a personal computer that's twice as powerful as the one you bought a year and a half ago for the same price when that accelerates over the course of year after year after year that gives us a huge advantage today as searches are over a trillion times more powerful than the first search conducted in one nine hundred sixty and we can continue to see that acceleration so within the next twenty years we will have looked at maybe a million stars that's a reasonable number to look at in order to actually find a signal if they're out there trying to make contact could be that we still haven't found any aliens up because technology holding us back but simply that other life forms don't want their presence to be known i mean we've been looking at the possibility of not being alone in the universe for a long time why have fun allianz in time i mean if they're out there we could have found them already know. you are raising the question that the a talian physicist

in rico for me asked in one thousand nine hundred fifty when he said where are they and so it's become known as the fermi paradox well one possibility as you say is that other civilizations are out there but they're not talking so maybe everyone is waiting for the other civilization to take the initiative and that's why mattie sends intentional messages just in case other worlds there are scientists searching for signals but they're waiting for someone else to say hello. you know they were renowned. physicist stephen hawking has warned us about mating allianz comparing it to christopher columbus meeting native americans which as we know didn't turn out so well why don't you believe him and why should we ignore professor hawking's views what we shouldn't ignore his views whenever anyone is brilliant as stephen hawking says watch out be careful you have to take it seriously but what he really has not taken into account is that the aliens that we're afraid of the ones that

can travel between the stars could already pick up our t.v. and radio signals that we have been sending out the past seventy or eighty years so there is no increased danger of an alien invasion by sending intentional signals to let the extra terrestrials know that we want to make contact now assesses scientists who actually don't like you sending signals to l.a. and say that an initiating contact isn't science but rather diplomacy to using good doing it is what they majority of people actually want. well i think that in fact sending signals to other worlds and listening for response is a much more traditional type of science than simply observing astronomers are in an unusual position among scientists because they can do experiments usually you go to your laboratory you make some changes you see what happens but astronomers and seti

scientists have to passively wait for signals to come in see if they detect them we're actually doing what's called a true experiment where we send a signal and then wait for a response back now it's true that there are seventy scientists who have said this is a very long term project most seti scientists want to focus on a search that could pay off tonight but in addition to those seti strategies which our organization also does we also have observatories in panama in the united states that were looking for signals from extraterrestrial but in addition to this potentially short term payoff of detecting the signal we're also making a long term investment by sending the signal and then waiting for a reply that could come in many years from now presence nasa has voyager it with just recently fired up its thrusters for the first time in thirty seven years floating outside the solar system with a bunch of cultural messages it brought to extra terrestrials is what you were

doing more dangerous than that. no it really isn't more dangerous but the voyager recording is an excellent example of how we want to make contact with another civilization so this golden record has greetings in fifty five languages it has music from around the world and it has a scientific tutorial along with over one hundred pictures of life on earth so it's an attempt to give a snapshot of earth to another world there's one big problem though of the voyager recording that it travels so slowly so that it's going to be seventy thousand years before the spacecraft comes even close to another star but by sending radio signals the travel at the speed of light we can reach the nearest star in just over four years so there is a tremendous time advantage of sending in electromagnetic signals whether they be radio signals or laser pulses as opposed to trying to make contact by

a spacecraft so how do you make sure that extra terrestrials will interpret our signals as an invitation to communicate rather than a challenge. well the most important thing about sending the message out is simply being clear and any civilization that has been through this process know that there's going to be some ambiguity so we can expect a certain amount of reservation on the part of the extraterrestrial that they will see what patterns we're sending and try to make sense of them and so that's why we start our messages the first messages we've sent by a focus on simple mathematical and scientific principles to make it as unambiguous as possible that we're talking about what we and the extra terrestrials have in common an understanding of our physical universe all right so here you are saying that our radio into signals are ready in space could there be like ellie is watching jerry springer reruns out there somewhere right now like light years away i mean if they base their understanding of us on our t.v.

man i mean we're in deep trouble. exactly i couldn't agree with you more that in fact we do expect if there is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer or any other sit coms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending this chaotic messages that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on our world so flaky have sat. this speed with which to signal us our send out is very slow as so the closest was sun to about eight layer light years away so there's a reply it will come in what sixteen years so we're looking at decades if any aliens are out there so. is your whole worth just sending messages in

a bottle i mean hoping that future generations will get any answer because our civilization will be completely different by that time will they even remember your role. excellent point and that i think has been the greatest obstacle within the seti community to send in intentional signals because some of said we're not ready for something that requires that long term perspective our position it may be is that we need to get ready for a long term perspective as a species in fact a lot of the problems that we encounter in our world today is because we're always looking for immediate gratification we want results by the end of the week or if we're really thinking long term the end of the next quarter but some good things take time so you're absolutely right that when we're sending our messages in a bottle we're sending many of them to many stars and it's critical that we keep track of where we've sent those and what the messages were so that if we do get

a reply back we will know what the reply was in response to how do you figure out what the aliens well understand what they won't i mean do you think human culture has something that transcends this boundary mathematical equations i don't know maybe music you know i wish that when we're communicating with the aliens they would know english or russian or spanish or arabic but there's no reason to think they would have that in common so we have to say what do we and the aliens have in common simply by virtue of being able to make contact well if they receive a radio signals we know that they can build radio antennas that requires a technical sophistication and you've got to be a good engineer you're not going to be a good engineer on any planet if you don't know something as fundamental as two plus two equals four so that's what we begin with in our message simply.