a terror attack in the very heart of a belorussian cattle kills twelve and injures more than one hundred twenty. the math shows he remains cold elise's details that we action to monday's blood coming up in just a few seconds. turning libya into radioactive desert claims emerge that coalition forces have been bombing the country depleted uranium causes cancer new tensions nato denies the allegations. and marking half

a century of space travel we look at how the russian man who was the first to reach out to the star also became an agent. you know you're watching our team live from moscow welcome to the program it started out as any other normal monday in the belorussian capital and ended in carnage and horror of a terrorist bomb blast ripped through the metro at the peak of the evening rush hour the country's security forces have now confirmed to r.t. twelve people were killed and one hundred twenty engines which over joins us now live from. going to do says waking this morning following the shock of the night before bruce up to date with the latest. carol will be a day of mourning here to remember those killed in the police attack solemnly as we

arrived in the city of means going the early hours on tuesday was so calls that flowers and candles laid around the entrance to their natural station or at least eleven people were killed and over one hundred injured this is the latest we're receiving now and all people will be of course coming to the site of the tragedy through up there to emotions run deep and we obviously want to be together on this thing many of those returning from work. late hours on monday shortly after the stops at least. to observe a minute of so. explosion tore through a key stop we station the exodus going to trial station this is the easiest stopover on the. metro system. and. many in critical condition are still are in hospitals across the city or means and the number of casualties as we know there. the explosive was stopped with

shrapnel this is actually a typical style open in terrorist attack something what we saw in moscow back in twenty when twins who said bombing took place in the moscow metro system injuring so many people dozens of people now reporters at the scene shortly after the tragedy where the first to arrive at the side of the these sort of bombing told us that they were so many injured people being carried out of the metro station and including those with missing limbs now several witnesses also told us that the explosion hit the station seconds after passengers stepped off the train and it's still not clear whether the explosive the bomb hit the carriage of the train or whether it hit a mass collator when elders and ask. a collapsed shortly after the blast injuring causing more injuries and one witness also told us that at least part of the

station's ceiling collapsed after the blast i was getting off the train when there was a large flash and explosion and heavy smoke i fell on my knees and holds what is what piled on on each other witnesses report sounds pretty much the same of those who we talked to all that said was the metro station is where the two lines underground system intersect and this is why it's the busiest besides it was six pm six in the evening local time and of course it was packed with passengers. we saw a flush everything began to shatter people were lying everywhere some had lost arms and legs i was very scared there was smoke all around and i couldn't see anything usually reducing the train shouted people were pulling passengers started to shout don't panic don't cannick when i was getting on the train i thought people nine of the jurors it was really hard and were moaning i wanted to call them but there was

no one to help me because they were just injured people around me. so yes it was a lot of blood the whole floor was covered with blood stains it was a horrible scene we helped one man to get up stairs it was very dark we were afraid would suffocate because of the smoke. the terrible scenes there and catherine are we any closer to finding out who was behind this atrocity. well there was no immediate indication of whether it was a terrorist attack or just an accident happened but shortly after the blast in a call to now we heard official reports from the president of the rules that a terrorist act is the main gershon as i've said the explosive was stopped with stuffed with shrapnel which is a signature style of terrorist attack similar to the ones who are still in most every year ago and many of those who are now in hospital in critical. condition

however now after the attack. gathered. how the emergency talks with the country's law enforcement agencies and with security agents and he pledged to bring to justice those behind the attack shortly after the tampa know that washington for its help and assistance in investigating the tragedy and as we understand it up from russia it will be also israel and the u.k. assisting by the recent rise of those was actually has been largely peaceful over the past two years except for several clashes with the opposition shortly after the election presidential election here and the only attack taking place here recently was in two thousand and eight. concert question good standard but no one was killed there and something few people were injured and we don't have any records or a restful when that piece. thank you put out.

well then a songwriter from the british conflict resolution group thinks of london says the minutes and retro explosion could be part of a pattern of attacks across european capitals. clearly. is not immune to these kind of incidents that we've seen in moscow that we've seen in london that we've seen in mother weird and in other places and so this would obviously be a number of alarm bells amongst the authorities it would raise a lot of questions because. this is not an obvious target. and i would dismiss this is somehow connected with the internal belorussian political situation because the political situation moves in a different way and we have never seen examples of this kind of violence so it could be that this is something very specific connected with something very

specific and this will perhaps emerge in the course of the next days. examine a political expert the russians that says this appears to be an attempt to oust the authority. i think it's no of course external groups which are which is trying to when you feel a domestic situation in belarus of course it's not very clear. who these people are in reality but in my view this as a radical extremist or a group who are thinking of. imposing annual game in belarus and posting history will present a builders has a very strong security system and rhydian maybe several greeks they will find out the major sources of this terrorist attack. of unease now with the libyan

rebels rejecting an african union peace plan that seems to be their wendel site for the conflict the opposition is still relying on coalition forces to help its cause it seems it could prove more of a hindrance it's been claimed the allies have used depleted uranium substance which causes cancer patients and those affected i think if you can just get. these levy and men cheer on top of the tank hit by coalition forces unaware of the silent killer they could be breathing in as they celebrate though the western coalition denies using depleted uranium in bombings in the country others say there is a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous radioactive element have been used that kind of damage. as a really good cancer it was a day when you were around i'm about ninety percent sure that was do you around that's really still anybody was on it was getting radiation exposure.

of all the wind blowing. the particles are in the air. so all these people in those cars. malise us theory served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out battle fields in kuwait back then the u.s. dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of depleted uranium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seen all too familiar you see how those touches of red that's the. see how it. instead of the cones and you get a flare at the bottom that's the new explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to penetrate the heaviest armor nato flatly denies it's using leave yet even though the u.n. human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refused to sign out include the u.s. the u.k.

france and this will the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the blood and can spread into any organ including the heart brain liver lungs the particles penetrate yourself issue this is when you get all kinds of kinetic mutations and people in iraq for example grieving that contaminated air every day and experts say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or anywhere where the u.s. dropped thousands of depleted uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous ever normality higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing boston a nine hundred ninety five

a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal medical confirmation all around pollute. iraq but the help of picture the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans. again now we're moving into a libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i will give it a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he himself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead the first gulf war left one in four american soldiers they say will only around two hundred sixty veterans were tested for depleted uranium out of almost seven hundred thousand deployed for the war every time of asked to be tested for exposure to the. people have refused to give me the test some fear that

the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed depleted uranium has a half life of four and a half billion years hence its description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. going to check on our chief washington d.c. . also the head reaching crisis point to plans a battle of the facility was declared in the next state of the earth as radiation continues to spread. fifty years ago rankine could hardly imagine we will one day be able to stare down a top of it on april twelfth one hundred sixty one year ago guarin was propelled them to the stars but also to global fame. first manned space cell so here is a place where space history began. i'm here in baikonur where many significant

events in space history had taken place not least of which was the first successful manned space flight well it all began here because on this day fifty years ago cosmonaut you to go got aboard and his boss took one capsule and blasted off into space well that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the garden start it's the very same launch pad used by the is so used to i'm a twenty one crew when they left for space on april five we go into the international space station they were of course in a spacecraft that had the image of god into mark this anniversary well since then a lot of there's a long list of achievements in terms of space exploration what's different countries have died in that field but we have been speaking to the astronauts and for them one of the biggest progress they've seen really is the a corporation among countries the international space station is an example a clear example if you will of the a global effort in that regard now of course there are

a lot of celebrations fly under two of mark the anniversary here in baikonur famous personalities are expected to be here of course we shouldn't forget the crew in space they will be joining in on the celebrations holding a live a teleconference with us earthlings and also a special guest who will be joining in the celebrations for a variety of reasons is a man called you to go got it. through the window i have the owner of taken with a great space craft constraints first i was very happy to hold out on it it was only the good. april twelve one thousand nine hundred sixty one good day utica got it blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe. the surely it was incredible it was hard to believe that this. actually happened. but for this man it was also the day

his name shot thing you know you did it is not paris didn't know where i was serving barely knew i graduated from pilots academy and at the facility at work it was top secret you're only heard that you regarded being sent into space for a c.v. it was me journalist came to our house to interview my parents but they mean nothing though i think they could have had a part attach. he had met leave because god in one thousand nine hundred sixty three while working at the launch pad he ended up face to face with a man and introduced himself to her calmness as if there were the asking what month i was born i said and it seems i mean ok it's going to collapse even stretched out my hands to hold him up it turned out he was born in march as well while i was like this will serve as a reminder for future generations of man's first journey into space but for now there are still those who could tell the story of you to go got a member that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history

adequate of scale was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. the garden looked more pale than usual he was unsociable and quiet which was not like him and i know he would answer by nodding or a short yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy or in a month and hugged me and i sound yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back. as soon as he got in return to worth he was a superstar a hero for his compatriots those who knew him admit they weren't quite sure how to act around him. volleyball in the garden and little guy approached the william dearest he was very surprised he said what song together those who played against him were giving way to govern noticed is that he was offended who said it was a plea for. ok for me. in the hard times to find someone he knew who got it and has

a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just reason abilities as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with previous regarding. this are silly on our team. but i caught up with yuri gagarin's daughter who shared some memories can recover. from this is kept us any rank you have immediately recognized much at any place. but i'm sure that's not her voice or her fuehrer technical problems that will come back that will care. for presently credit has said he's proud it was a soviet cosmonaut was the first man to fly into space. village that i view it was a truly revolutionary that and a highly symbolic line and it was

a tremendous achievement of salvia cause marks which divided history into before and after the flood and started what has been termed the space era i'm very proud of the fact that it was my country and it made this first step the guardian's flied will be remembered as a fundamental landmark in the evolution of human genius i was. here. there was a soviet pilot in train the current that was among the first cosmonauts gave us insight into those pioneering days of space travel and character first time space. he was the sort of man that would not let you down in battle or in normal life he had a talent for organization a good head he had more experience than us in life he had been through a school or 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 liked him that was of course that he had

a strong sense of jujitsu he said after his flight that his goal was for every pilot who came with him to fly to space but he did his best to make that happen every pilot from the group of twelve who were not eliminated due to poor health book or discipline they all got to make this space flight. that political was coming your way in around ten minutes time. of course i concur that long for more guarding thrown in to be examined head to our web sites com where there's a whole host of information for you including previously on stories about the first nine states. competes with the guardian's loved ones. a fifty year supply of the stuff. you also see a striking a gallery of photos of some well. never reveal.

i think is japan has upgraded the severity rating paralyzed from plant to second level only ever previously assigned to the chernobyl disaster official say it was raised because high radiation was recorded in the ocean water. safety agencies to conduct to come dangerous what happened to no avail it was too small. a power for all to show up at least in japan came second month after stating that tsunami come from. some people what jacobs the from a nice institute in the forty's keeping officials to very tightly the sea level to avoid panic. this is an ongoing debate that's nowhere near resolution you still there of. course impartial not only. each one.

of quite a bit of radiation and at this point there is no clear path towards resolving it ending this situation so it's really extremely dangerous as we could end up with a complete meltdown of several of the reactors or we could end up with just an ongoing release of radiation for a few months in a good scenario at this point i think that from the start they are. has been trying to make it appear as though that since it is smaller they are noble. they kept the evacuation zone too small and that appear normal they try to keep a lower than that exploded and i think that it largely to do with public perception . but ultimately because the situation was not controllable events forced all to. seek it out is that a lot of radiation is entering the environment of the japanese government is no longer able to contain this with relations effort i believe it's entirely public

relations reasons that did not raise the level i think and they raised the level to a five which is equivalent of the three mile island accident in the united states it was clearly all right. but they didn't raise the debt there was an extremely large incidence of radiation into the environment if you so clearly that many people had been calling it is said and done officially for several weeks now. trying to update you on the business is happening. this is all seen as business thanks for joining us the deficit prime minister igor subchannel has stuck down as chairman of the country's oil rate are also met he is the first to follow the presidential order but top officials should leave the volatile stage companies others have to comply with diverting by july to finance the secession charter also have since two thousand and four on how brightly offset from the company's run not aligned with british petroleum. b.p.

is preparing to buy out its russian partners in t.n. paid according to the financial times the british companies trying to save its deal with russia all major also have to explore the ark's accel how about christine some standard and poor's things it makes more sense for b.p. to some out of the team here and sort of buying. i think that probably has made it clear that he wants to try to get this deal through you know manner that's acceptable to all parties involved now this is appealed there will be very beneficial for russia it's a deal that's beneficial for b.p. and the people standing in the way of ten k d p on the contrary people here in london nothing wait a minute why should they buy here in k b p maybe b.p. should sell its share on. the problem is who would buy them they've proven to be a very difficult partner soit out there would be many offers never the less there is still another option it will be a harsh option for b.p.

and i'm sure a lot of shareholders would not approve of it but it will secure the long term of b.p. it will allow it to go forward with the deal and start on a clean slate it's a big chunk represented thirty six percent of two thousand and ten production and with the gulf of mexico down he would be a big if but it's also a new new b.p. although out of smaller scale the only problem with that is that of course you always have the take over target rumors going around and that will make b.p. more attractive for a takeover. of markets are japanese stocks have fallen sharply with russia concerns over the quake we cover it with an significant aftershocks and the news of the fire the fukushima plant shows a top japanese automaker toyota one point four percent after a report that the company warned us dealers of quote significantly impacted supply this summer. and here in moscow the markets will start trading in two hours time

both the r.c.a.'s and the my stocks closed around half a percent down on monday with energy and metal sectors in these in the fall. and looking ahead to the day's trading russia a good point kieth from troika dialog believes the recent correction will be short lived as international buyers enter the market. the markets showed very good. volumes yesterday we saw some profit taking but these profit taking was mostly from russian investors as for international best there is why event of last week and yesterday we saw still were very good boys and we saw his friends buying russians gold and i think of the maybe a. slight correction and we will continue gold up. and finally from a truck maker and they and is expected to announce a plan to launch production in russia st petersburg the investment agreement between am and the region's officials is expected to be signed later this week and

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coverage years of research and construction for all to hear the famous. for the first human blasting off into space. and returning as the hero. of the first question the mole on the potty. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. and became the first ever man in outer space. hero of the soviet union one of the best known persons in the whole world. all his thoughts were focused on flight to could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his life.