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a century of space travel through the crowded russian brown who was the first to reach out to the stars became a legend. in business news this hour russian deputy prime minister sachin resigns as chairman of ross nets following president if that is to leave the boards of state companies. that are you watching r t twenty four hours a day are welcome to the program but it started out as any other normal monday in the russian capital minsk that ended in carnage and horror of a terrorist a bomb blast ripped through the metro at the peak of the evening rush out of control security forces have confirmed to r.t. twelve people were killed and more than one hundred twenty injured when catherine whichever joins us live from. better use is not really

a country that's experienced terror attacks on this scale it must have caused widespread shock and outrage across. indeed indeed carry has been relatively peaceful over decades and it is the first terrorist attack on the matter on the natural system. in its history. is the been of fish will do this we arrived in the early hours there was so candles and piles of flowers laid around the entrance to their terrorists a mattress. of course they'll be more people coming to the side of the tragedy throughout the day to pay their respects to those killed emotions and feelings run deeper as people here in minsk feel they want to be together on. many of those who make their way home on monday evening shortly after the blast hit the metro system and start at the start of the tragedy to observe a minute of silence an explosion tore through

a key with its asian in the russian capsule it means during late evening rush hour dozens of those injured are still in hospitals intensive care units across the city reporters who ran to the scene minutes after the blast told us that they saw hardly wounded people being carried out of the the. patrol station including those with missing limbs i witness has also told us that seconds of the passengers stepped off a train explosion hit the station it was not immediately immediately clear whether it be explosive device was inside a carriage or under an escalator as the escalator collapsed as a result of the blast which resulted in even more injuries but as the police release the reported the the bomb was fixed and were bantering on the station's platform. but we saw a flash 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 you should let you go in the train shouted people were falling passengers started to shout don't panic don't cannick when i was getting on the train i saw people lying of the doers the more severely hurt and were moaning i wanted to call them our stairs but there was no one to help me because there were just injured people around me. yes there was a lot of blood the whole floor was covered with blood stains it was a horrible scene we helped one man to get upstairs it was very dark who are afraid will suffocate because of the smoke. now one witness also told us that it at least part of the ceiling or the station collapsed shortly after the explosion but to give you the idea of disconnection station is the busiest one on the. subway system as it has only two metro line

stand this station is where these two lines intersect obviously it was packed with passengers have been sour and the station is also only. meters from president it's under the question cause official residence yes terrible scenes of course and this is the first fatal a terror attack in the country's long history here but do the authorities have any clues as to who's responsible. well there was no immediate indication of whether it was an accident or a terrorist attack but now a terrorist attack is the main version conceded the explosive was starved with metal shrapnel. signature style of terrorists to cause more casualties and this is what we saw for example in. moscow's natural warnings again those attacks were carried out by a suicide bomber and explosives will start in shrapnel an hour after the blast president unsubtle cautioned to hold an emergency meeting with law enforcement

agencies and. security agencies and he said he would turn to russia for help and indeed russia also. told the. bowlers that they were ready to use seized and as we understand now that apart from russia they'll be also israel and the u.k. helping in investigating. attack which is the lead to be a terrorist attack comparison has been largely peaceful as i said over. the last decades with only minor clashes taking place and police is the first terrorist attack to ever hit the capital of. syria. thank you. but authorities in better rest say the metro blast was angered at undermining peace and stability in the country there is some words from the british a conflict resolution group thinks of london says the explosion could be part of

a pattern of attacks across european capitals. clearly bellows 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 madrid 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 russian 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 when there could be something very specific and this will perhaps emerge in the course of the next days. the explosion ripped through a metro station which is just meters away from the president main office and

residence. political expert on the russian that says this appears to be an attempt to oust the authorities. i think it's of course external groups which are and which is trying to when you peel a did a mistake 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 group who are thinking of. imposing an you'll resume in gilroy being mr lucas. has a very strong security system and redeem maybe several weeks they will find out their major sources of this terrorist attack. well it may be in the rebels rejecting an african union peace pact it seems to me no end in sight to the

conflict in a country your position is still relying on the coalition forces to help its cause it seems it could prove a hindrance in claiming the allies as depleted uranium the substance which causes cancer and taisha and those affected chicken investigates. these libyan men cheer on top of a 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 chance that was being you around. in one percenter there was a dui out that's really stupid anybody who's on it is going to expose or. a level of the wind blowing. the particles are in the air.

so all these people would lose cars would expose lisa stary served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine eats clearing up battlefields 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 seem all too familiar you see how those touches of red that's the burning see how it. instead of a cold streak and you've got the flare of the bottom that's a do you explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to penetrate the heaviest armor nato flatly denies its use in libya even though the u.n. human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refused to sign out including the u.s. the u.k.

france and this world 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 bones the particles penetrate your cell tissue this is when you get all kinds of kinetic mutations and people in iraq for example grieve mean that contaminated air every day and experts say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq 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 abnormalities higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality of being 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 bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five for a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal

medical confirmation all round pollute. but the health effects of the radium are there and we're sure throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans. again now we're moving into a libya dr doug rockey was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas there will be able to remember and to lie about the health and environmental perching he himself was exposed to to clean it uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. libya i expect just because it's going to find it and the people there in the villages start saying hey look everybody here they've got fences. with nations and so forth i don't think anyone included you

rhenium has a half life of four and a house billion years hence it's description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. also ahead for you this reaching crisis point to pansy battle with the city has declared a state of alert as radiation continues to spread. to. all fifty years ago mankind could hardly imagined we would one day be able to stare down a top talent from above from april twelfth one hundred sixty one car was propelled into the stars also to global faintly making first man in space. this is the place where history was made. 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

yuri gagarin boarded his bus struck one capsule and blasted off into space all that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the garden start it's the very same large pad used by the a so used to him 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 tabby image of you to go guided to mark this anniversary well since then a lot of there's a long list of achievements in terms of space exploration what different countries have done in that field well we have been speaking to the astronauts and for them one of the biggest progress they've seen really is the cooperation among countries now of course there are a lot of celebrations planned a two hour mark the anniversary here in baikonur famous personalities are expected to be here in a not so he will be holding one of big yuri's night party there where you got in and made that flight in one nine hundred sixty one he made a name not just in russia but all over the world. i scare accomplishment by one

brave soviet cause it commemorated at the united nations fifty years later i get it first man in space for the exhibit unveiled to a crowd of roughly one hundred guests among them americans honoring a cold war era for whose achievements in becoming the first man in orbit delivered a huge space race of victory to the u.s.s.r. i got it was fantastic and i thought it was about and i was very jealous this is a showcase for science and technology and it's nice. from the russian perspective. that the russians opened up space for the rest of the world still images and film document yuri gagarin's preparation for the first flight the world fame up high on his return and the trail he lead for further victories that followed over the next three decades was the first russian the first person to go into space is ours the

first just hours so there really are things to be proud of this is an instance along with. the current some monumental achievement is now officially marked worldwide the u.n. general assembly has adopted a resolution declaring april the twelfth the international day of human spaceflight just south of the international stage. new york is hosting a yuri's night game dance party to mark the anniversary american fans clad in costumes live out of the guerin go lactic dream think he is seen as a hero because what he did with something nobody had ever done before nobody knew what would happen whether he would come back in one hundred eight minutes the twenty seven year old orbiting the planet and return to earth as an international hero in the nation's capital now officials attending a gathering at the russian embassy spoke of darren's inspirational feat now as

a reason. we have become incredible partners on the international space station i think you know when he started we now try to finish with the international space station and then subsequently will will explore beyond the earth orbit together it was a gigantic achievement for all humanity and the russians of course were very proud of their role in this and having him be the first person here you garlands courage and curiosity blazed the path for cars minutes around the globe while outer space odyssey may seem like something of a common occurrence today five decades ago the world was rejoined singh as a soviet legend went where no man went before were in a fortnight or artsy in new york. with the theme of it has said he's proud it was a serious cosmonaut who was the first man to fly into outer space. vientiane but i believe it was a truly revolutionary that and

a highly symbolic line and it was a tremendous achievement of salvia cause marks which divided he used to interview for and after the flight and started what has been termed the space era i'm very proud of the fact that it was my country that made this first step the carians flied will be remembered as a fundamental when marking the evolution of human genius i was just cool again. was a soviet pilot in trend of the guard and those among the first cosmonauts gave r.t. an insight into this pioneering space travel and into the character of the first man in space. it 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 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 important he had a strong sense of duty to he said after his flight that his goal was for every pilot who came with him to fly into space but he did his best to make that happen every pilot from the group of twelve who were not eliminated you to pull health help or discipline they all got to make this space flight. polygyny was coming your way in just over an hour's time here at r.t. . but you can't wait that long after more guardian for its things and head to our web site www dot com is a whole host of information waiting for previously unheard stories about the first space. guards loved ones the minister and the man that was the work of the chain of fifty years of the stuff. they also see of striking down over the. some well known others never review before.

pat has upgraded the severity rates paralyzed with plans to seven. ever previously assigned to the disaster official say it was raised because high radiation was recorded. that's a pan's safety agencies to reluctant to compare the davis cup and so. as to say. powerful aftershocks shook the east and japan came example month devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the country killing more than thirteen thousand people robert jacobs with some of this institute and its. interests rights in beit shean no one panic. the danger is extremely severe right now and one of the problems is that the level of agency theory is still uncertain and i know you still have three plans in the corps and partial meltdown you have

fourth spent fuel on getting off quite a bit of radiation and at this point there is no clear path towards resolving it ending this situation so. it's really streatley dangerous because 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 that would be good scenario at this point i think that from the start that it's going to going very close to trying to make it appear as though that since it is smaller and although. they kept the evacuation zone two smaller than that of chernobyl they tried to keep enough to lower the net of what i think that it largely to do with public perception. but ultimately because the situation was not controllable events forced the whole two. to see is that a lot of radiation. centering environments the japanese government is no longer able

to contain this without the relations effort. and tightly public relations reasons that did not raise the level i think there when they raised the level to all eight which is equivalent to the three mile island accident in the united states it was clearly already. made and raised there was an extremely large. radiation egypt environmental cheema. good grief check out some other news making headlines around the world. not very close to the russian recognized. as urged he said it was finally captured. in the easy to see power since last november's elections running a country with a conflict which claimed almost a thousand lives and caused rather the million to flee the violence. just occasionally open to his wife and on to others what they were promised them a fair trial for them facing a huge task of uniting the country. in peru the presidential

election will break a second round pitting the left wing on an officer against the daughter of a jailed ex-president. on the first round but didn't get the fifty percent even after i think three runoff will now take place on june fifth. two protesters wearing islamic rails were arrested a. party conference protest against the ban was roundly targeted patent ice its controversial bill came into force on monday any one court flouting the rule could be fined up to one hundred fifty euros sent to special citizenship constance six percent so it was a means to win over voters with its. what. you say this.

this is also his business update and welcome to the program the deputy prime minister igor sumption has stepped down as chairman of the country's state run oil major also now is the first to follow the presidential order that top officials should leave the board of state companies others have to comply with the ruling by driving this essentially. just a thousand flu have been a key architect of the company's landmark alliance with british petroleum. the russian shareholders of ten k. b.p. are planning another lawsuit against b.p. claiming the company breached the joint ventures agreement that's according to the financial times now tank a group he will seek damages of up to ten billion dollars saying it lost an opportunity to explore the russian because of the actions of the british company on

monday the newspaper said b.p.'s preparing to buy out its russian partners in ten k. b.p. as it's trying to save its deal with a russian oil major also have to explore the oxygen of however christine says korean from standard and poor's the things it makes more sense for b.p. to sell out of tea and cake with the sort of by the way. 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 a deal that will be very beneficial for russia it's a deal that's beneficial for b.p. and the people standing in the way i repeat on the contrary people here in london they're saying wait a minute why should be. maybe b.p. should sell its share of peat the problem is who would buy one of them they've proven to be a very difficult partner so i doubt there will be many offers nevertheless there is still another option it would be a harsh option for you key 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 you represented thirty six percent of two thousand and ten production and with the gulf of mexico down he would be a big but it also i knew i knew would repeat although i was small scale the only problem with that is that of course you always heard the takeover target rumors going around and that will make b.p. more attractive for a takeover. the market's now company stocks have fallen sharply with fresh concerns over the quick recovery and significant aftershocks on the news of the fire at the fukushima plant shares of top japanese automaker to year to one point four percent after recall the company warned us dealers have significantly impacts of supply this summer shares of hong kong banks have fallen down after this it isn't actually our sources said it will step up monitoring of the lenses business plans and funding strategies for the rest of the year as credit was surging at

a much faster rate than the growth and posits here in moscow the markets will start trading in our earthly arsenals of the my stocks closed around five percent down on monday was energy and that's what's left is leading the polls. looking ahead to the day's trade in russia he got rehired from twelve believes the recent correction will be short lived as international buyers and doesn't hit the market should really good. yesterday we saw some profit taking and what profit taking was mostly from russian investors as for international investors why very little last week and yesterday we saw still will very good boys we shortchange funds buying russians dogs and i think maybe a. slight correction and we will continue. of my. own finally germany trying to make that mam is expected to announce

a plan to launch production in russia things pushes back investment agreement between and ireland the region's officials it's ready to be signed later this week and say they want is likely to assemble the tracks and use a great existing infrastructure which will cope with it which starts a production. as the business use for another more log onto our web site as article consequentialism.

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