now bronislaw komorowski has been officially sworn in as poland's new president it comes as four months after the tragic death of the late leader lech kaczynski along with a delegation of polish officials in a plane crash now today sort of signified a new beginning it has been marked by protest our correspondent alexei or seven he explains. it's a big day for poland now that he has been sworn in as the country's new president you know gratian was quite long and begin again in the morning here in. where he took an oath to become the country's new leader then the whole ceremony moved on to one of the central cathedrals in warsaw where a mass was held to mark this fact that he is now the country's new president and then as we speak now the final stage of the ceremony in the world is being held where all the attributes of the presidential power are being handed over to bernie's of coming of ski then it is expected that the new president of poland will move on to his residence the presidential palace in central warsaw but it is a question of whether he will actually be able to get inside thi

closely to forming some sort of core group in the street in closer or a from well on the president komorowski has actually suggested that russia really needs poland in order to. cement those better relations with the e.u. do you think that he was right in the hands. well absolutely russia needs poland but russia also needs all other european countries because what i'm worried a little bit right now is that what we have seen the russian policy towards poland back five years ago or so we see more and more towards countries such as the romania where the relations between russia and romania today sharply deteriorate so we need to recognize that and russians need to recognize that it's not only and it's not enough to improve relations with poland to have stable and secure relations with the entire european union but with all nations are the relations individually have to be stable in order to have real deep improvement between you and russia and not despite what you said earlier about really tons of an improvement in relations between russia and poland there is also a lingering and russian sentime

and as the new polish president bronislaw komorowski is sworn in the late leader lech kaczynski comes back into the picture hundreds of people gathered in front of the presidential palace to protest against the moving of a memorial call spilt in his honor. now last spring a state controlled t.v. channel in georgia something nation into panic by reporting fresh whole still lives with washed up but the government stayed calm find out what really happened up next here on our city. he day always insisted on telling the truth and that's what he spent his life doing before he had to flee his home country in georgia on february tenth two thousand and ten the independent journalist asked swiss authorities to grant him political asylum his greatest worries are now for his family back home in georgia. good here all right are you ok any problems so. simply tries to help anyone who asks people often bring their problems to him as the editor of a regional georgia newspaper he looks into the cases identifies those guilty and sums up his findings in newspaper reports some of tried to intimidate him

now in his first major interview poland's a new president bronislaw komorowski said he wants to improve relations with russia and has advice surprise them advantage of that to visit walsall it comes as polish experts are wrongly been in moscow to continue a probe into the plane crash which killed the previous president and move the ninety opposite what they hear to see the reports and documents from the investigation into april's design stay in russia as this million. a joint investigation group was formed to look into the accident while they were interested in whether the pilots were pressured to landed heavy weather conditions the doomed delegation was traveling its mark a seventy years since twenty thousand polish offices well massah kids gets a team. of them on a russian polish relations are now joined by political experts and almost fall off from the radio station voice of russia many thanks for speaking to us now president about asking as i was just saying wants to improve relations with moscow that's what he said so if president made a bed of dollars with it was a what do you thi

and hold a new president bronislaw komorowski sworn in to a five year term he succeeds lech kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash in russia in april. six am here in moscow i match reza thanks for joining us here on r t our top story with the summer heat wave now fueling wildfires in twenty two regions across russia the death toll has risen to fifty two more than thirty five hundred people have been left homeless meanwhile the capital is shrouded in dense smog the worse the city has ever experienced stacey bivins has more. the small just really has come in and has blanketed no matter how healthy you may be doctors are saying to stay indoors and if you have to from any reason they're urging you to wear a mask it's awful outside and it hurts to breathe this stuff and then once you do taste it for hours after you've gone inside your homes are also getting reports that in certain areas throughout moscow the air quality is twenty times poorer than usual so this is a very serious situation this is all going down as firefighters continue to battle blazes throughout the country six hundred

the new polish president bronislaw komorowski sworn in for a five year term he succeeds lech kaczynski was killed in a plane crash in russia in april. poland's fourth democratically elected president since the fall of communism in poland twenty years ago meanwhile protests have broken out over a plan to move a memorial cross that was dedicated to the former president. and russia's president dmitri medvedev calls for further reforms to the country's law enforcement bodies he's also suggested a name change known as the movies he has since nine hundred seventeen he's proposed a return to the use of the term police force according to the president new legislation is needed to reflect public demand for a limit on police powers trust in the force has been marred by recent high level corruption cases and rogue officers involved in shooting sprees. next peter lavelle os his guess if the world is drifting into a clash of civilizations and whether culture may have surpassed ideology as a source of conflict stay tuned cross talk is next here on r.t. . and you can. still. live. hello and welcome t

and bronislaw komorowski has been sworn in as poland's new leader but crowds in warsaw are protesting his decision to remove a memorial dedicated to the former president is killed in a plane crash in april. next peter the vals cross talks guess whole part some of the week's biggest issues. one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me a foreigner. who pays for the news. how dependent business independent media. and who is behind the t.v. start. chargin media fiction and reality. t.v. . hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle in one thousand nine hundred six the late samuel huntington suggested that post cold war conflicts would occur because of cultural rather than ideological differences is culture more powerful than ideology today.

poland's new president bronislaw komorowski is sworn in for a five year term he succeeds like speed who was killed in a tragic plane crash in russia in april. russian president medvedev calls for further reforms to the country's law enforcement agencies is also suggested a name change known as the middle east see it since nine hundred seventeen he's proposed to return for the use of the term police force. the first time in sixty five years america has sent an official to the annual ceremony to remember the victims of the hiroshima bomb up next to me alone to show we take a look at the accusations that the visit was the wrong move and even an apology that discussion coming up next here on r.t. . good evening welcome to the alona show where you get the real headlines with none of the mersey we're coming live out of washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster in for alona today japan celebrated the sixty fifth anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima and it's the very first time that the u.s. has sent a representative to attend this somber ceremony will debate whether or not the u.s. should be going

now the former speaker of polish parliament bernice live komorowski is due to be inaugurated as poland's new president after gaining a victory with a narrow margin on july the fourth in the second round of the polish presidential election over the brother of the twin brother of the late polish president lech kaczynski it was love now we understand the ceremony will kick off at ten o'clock local time in the polish parliament where the new president will will take an oath becoming the country's new leader and then the ceremony will move on to one of the central cathedrals in warsaw where mass will be held to mark the fact that but he said coming off he has become the country's new president and then the whole soul and ceremony will move on to the royal castle where the final stage where the all the regulars all the tributes of the presidential power will be handed over to the coming of steve then he will move on to his new residence the presidential palace here in warsaw but the fact is the question is where they're going to come out of it will be able to make it inside the presidential pa

as we run down the week's top stories bronislaw komorowski was officially sworn in as poland's new president on friday it comes four months after the previous leader lech kaczynski died in a plane crash in russia the integration wasn't altogether smooth as one of the new president's first initiatives sparked protests in warsaw hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace to boycott his decision to move a memorial to the crash crash victims the wooden cross was erected in the central square shortly after the accident in which more than one thousand people died and you president wanted to move the memorial to church grounds but after the protests the transfer has now been postponed. hip hop star white cliffs join this weekend to the running for haiti's president x. few g.'s member was born on the caribbean island where he's been involved in rebuilding efforts following the devastating earthquake earlier this year he's a resident laurie hof honest i asked people in the big apple if pop stars and politics should mix. john an american music celebrity is running for president of the haiti do

poland's new president bronislaw komorowski is sworn in for a five year term he succeeds lech kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash in the russia in april he's poland's fourth democratically elected president since the fall of communism twenty years ago while the protests are broken out over a plan to move a memorial was dedicated to the former president. russian president dmitry medvedev calls for a further reforms to the country's law enforcement bodies is also suggested a name change known as the lead c.s. and one hundred seventeen he's proposed a return to the use of the term police force according to the president new legislation is needed to reflect public demand for a limit on police power trust in the force has been marred by recent high level corruption cases and a rogue officer is involved in shooting sprees. in march of this year georgian state media aired a story appearing to show fresh hostilities between georgia and russia the program led to panic across georgia and outrage in russia find out who and what was behind the broadcast up next here on r t. insisted on tellin

points of komorowski has officially been sworn in as poland's new president comes just four months after the tragic death of the former leader lech kaczynski along with a delegation of polish officials in a plane crash while the inauguration should have signified a new beginning it was marred by protests hundreds of people gathered outside the presidential palace to boycott the moving of memorial would have been set up the wooden cross was erected in honor of the late leader along with everyone else killed in the crash demonstrators are opposed to it being transferred from state to church grounds but the new president claims the symbol should not remain in front of a government building party's election or jet ski gives his round up of the inauguration from here so. it's a big day for poland now that bernie has been sworn in as the country's new president you know gratian was quite long and begin began in the morning here in the polish parliament where he took an oath to become the country's new leader then the whole ceremony moved on to one of the central cathedrals in warsaw where mass

ninety five others president elect bernie slip komorowski had said he didn't want to really just symbol outside a government building but palace officials eventually relented saying the cross shouldn't become part of a political game. and it's really army officer three lebanese soldiers and a journalist have been killed and the exchange of fire between troops on the israeli lebanon border the clash appears to have been sparked when israeli soldiers tried to cut down a tree along the frontier fence gunfire escalated into israeli tank helicopter and artillery strikes the united nations has urged both sides to show my. maximum restraint to avoid a repeat of the bloody ball two thousand and six hezbollah has threatened to get involved if israeli troops attack lebanese forces again. there's been a surge of violence in iraq a car bomb has ripped through an outdoor market in the southern mainly shiite city of crude killing at least fifteen and wounding sixty in the capital suspected al-qaeda militants have shot dead five iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint in the west of baghdad and iraq a soldier

bronislaw komorowski was officially sworn in as poland's new president on friday it comes just four months after their previous leader lech kaczynski died in a plane crash in russia and one of the new president's first initiatives has sparked protests in warsaw hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace decision to move a memorial to the crash victims the wooden cross was erected in the central square shortly after the accident in which more than one thousand died the new president wanted to move the memorial to a church ground but after the protests the transfer has been around. well u.s. hip hop star of gene has formally entered the presidential race in haiti born on the island he's been actively involved in reconstruction efforts softer a deadly earthquake devastated the caribbean nation this yeah web journalist laura huff missed asked people in the big what they think of celebrities switching from entertainment to politics. like cliff john an american music celebrity is running for president of the haiti do you think pop culture and politics should ever make this week let's talk

in his first major interview poland's new president bronislaw komorowski said he wants to improve relations with russia and has invited president medvedev to visit warsaw. kocinski from the center for european policy studies says the move is part of a new geo political triangle involving russia poland and germany the relations between poland and russia to improve we have moved away from the so-called cold war situation into more working correlations where both poles and russians do recognize the importance of one another and for example there is a new emerging triangle between poland germany and russia working closely to forming some sort of core group initiating closer e.u. russia relations. experts from poland are in moscow to continue investigations into april's plane crash which killed the country's president and ninety other senior officials enveloping the delegation had been travelling to a ceremony to mark seventy years since the massacre of thousands of poles by the soviet secret police that get in the atrocity had been a major historical stumbling block in bilateral relations but a

now in his first major interview poland's new president branislav komorowski said he wants to improve relations with russia and has invited president advantage of to visit war so it comes as the polish experts arrive in moscow to continue a probe into the plane crash which killed the previous president and more than ninety others on board they had to see the reports and documents from the investigation into april's air disaster in russia smolinski region a joint investigation group was formed to look into the answer didn't they're interested in whether the pilots were pressured to land in heavy weather conditions that doomed delegation was traveling to mark seventy years since twenty thousand polish officers were massacred gatty. well for many foreigners an american passport promises all other better life but an increasing number of u.s. citizens have become disillusioned with a country where last year alone over seven hundred people were now also citizenship three times as many as the year before auntie's nor emmett's almost one expatriate why he did it. can o'keefe grew up an americ

as the new polish president bronislaw komorowski is sworn in the late leader lech kaczynski comes back into the picture hundreds of people gathered in front of the presidential palace protesting against the removal of a memorial built in his honor. the russian president dmitri medvedev calls for a name change for law enforcement agencies as well as a law to limit their use of force recent high level corruption cases in the rogue officers involved in shooting sprees have dented the public's trust in the police. up next russia is building the equivalent of silicon valley in the village of skolkovo in your moscow the new project will get the biggest tax breaks and incentives available anywhere in the country but will this be enough to turn russia into a supplier of world class technology nobel prize winners or as alpha rob will try to answer this question next in spotlight with al gore and i'll stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. for. the. polo again they're welcome to spotlight the intervi

nuclear weapons through their experience stories and memory sean thomas r t hiroshima japan bronislaw komorowski has been officially sworn in as poland's new leader this comes just four months after the tragic death of late president lech kaczynski and a delegation of paul the sophists officials rather in a plane crash and well today said have signified a new beginning it has been marred by protests for more let's cross to our correspondent alexei yourself who will then warsaw hi there alexei how is poland marking the event first of all and what's happening where you are now gone. well indeed it's a big day for poland now that he has been sworn in as the country's new president you know gratian was quite long and begin began in the morning here in. where he took an oath to become the country's new leader then the whole ceremony moved on to one of the central cathedrals in warsaw where a mass was held to mark this fact that he is now the country's new president and then as we speak now the final stage of the ceremony in the world is being held where all the attributes of the presidential power ar

but only slough komorowski. has been sworn in as president but the ceremony. my decision to remove the memorial dedicated to the former president who was killed in a plane crash in april. and sixty five. remembering over one hundred fourteen of the victims the well atomic bomb in the seventy nations joined the solemn ceremony the first attended by the usa which draw back and. staying with the commemorations. to the last remaining american crewman he took part in that infamous bombing stay with us. today only one of these twelve crew members of the you know again lived to tell the story i'm joined by that man today theodore van kirk so if you could now take us through the steps of that fateful day well that day wasn't the important because because the bomb was dropped by nine fifteen and eight fifteen in the morning time nine fifteen tinian time eight fifteen hiroshima so it was all over. but the day before because. you have to go back and realize what happened during this period the bomb was developed by the manhattan project there were hundreds of thousands o

in his first major interview ponens new president komorowski said he wants to improve relations with russia and has invited president medvedev to visit will sort this is all part of a new geo political triangle involving russia poland and germany that's according to. the center for european policy studies. the relations between poland and russia do improve we have moved away from the so-called cold war situation into more working correlations where both poles and russians do recognize the importance of one another and for example there is a new emerging triangle between poland germany and russia working closely to forming some sort of core group in the street in closer e.u. russia relations. polish experts are mosco to continue a probe into the plane crash which killed the previous president and more than ninety fischer was travelling to mark seventy years since the cutting massacre of twenty thousand poles by the soviets in russia's smolensk region was seen as a major historical stumbling block but april's crash appeared to begin a kind of healing process as the two nations mourned

ceremony sometime in the future or to visit hiroshima sometime during his presidency bronislaw komorowski was officially sworn in as poland's new president on friday this comes four months after the previous leader lech kaczynski was killed in a plane crash in russia you know gratian wasn't altogether smooth though was one of the new president's first initiatives sparked protests in warsaw hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace to boycott his decision to move a memorial to the crash victims the wooden cross was erected on the central square shortly after the accident in which more than ninety died the new president wanted to move the memorial to church ground but after the protests the transfer has been postponed. the world famous flying beach donkey was rest who was rescued by a british tabloid and currently enjoying all the trappings of her newfound celebrity status could be an impostor that's according to a russian newspaper or report claims a local farmer tricked the son into buying i'm not a similar looking at a mole for an inflated price or as the donkey that actually too