more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. today. a terror attack in the very heart of the better russian capital kills twelve and injures more than one hundred twenty as a powerful blast drops the metro in minutes. turning libya into a radioactive desert claims emerged that coalition forces have been bombing the country to causes cancer patients and then to do noise the allegations. of knocking off a century of space travel we look at how the russian was the first to jump starts.

asking around the world twenty four hours a day this is r.t. welcome to the program. it started out as any other normal monday in the bed of russian capital minsk but ended in carnage and horror a terrorist bomb blast ripped through the metro at the peak of the evening rush hour killing twelve and injuring more than one hundred twenty. is in minutes. as we arrived in the early hours of candles and the piles of flowers laid around the entrance to the exhibits connection as. well of course they'll be more people coming to the site of the tragedy throughout the day to pay their respects to those killed and motions and feelings run deep as people here in minsk feel they want to be together on this day many of those who made their way home on monday evening shortly after the blast in the natural system and start at the start of the tragedy

to observe a minute of silence an explosion tore through a key so we did a show in the russian capital of means during evening rush hour and dozens of those injured are still in hospital's intensive care units across the city reporters who arrived at the scene minutes after the blast told us that they saw hardly wounded people being carried out of the. patrol station including those with missing limbs i would this is also told us that seconds after passengers stepped off the train the explosion hit the station it was not immediately immediately clear whether be explosive device was inside a carriage were 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 it was fixed on the station's platform we saw a flash everything begin to shatter people were lying everywhere some had lost arms

and legs i was very scary there was smoke all around and i couldn't see anything. we do when the train shouted people were pulling passengers started to shout don't panic don't panic when i was getting on the train i thought people mind if you do think it worth really hard and were moaning i wanted to pull them up stairs but there was no one to help me because there were just injured people around me. there was a lot of blood the whole thing. it was covered with blood stains it was a horrible scene we helped one man to get upstairs it was very dark we were afraid of acute because of the smoke. translation is the easiest one on the. subway system as it has only two metro line send the station is where these two lines intersect obviously it was packed with passengers so you can see our now the main version being considered by investigators that it was a terrorist attack an hour after the blast the president unsettled all should hold

an emergency meeting with the law enforcement agencies. security agencies. russia were helping hands as russia has the past experience in dealing with the after months of similar tragedies and investigate and in and stick it in terrorist attacks where a man but that also was hit twice march last year and sort of being on the moscow metro system and then these attacks on the country's largest of course my idea that now as we understand it proper russia though he also is well and u.k. assisting those in. the tragedy it was the first last and that means matchroom it but first fatal terrorist attack in the country's more than history. or thor it is in got to say the metro blast was aimed at undermining peace and stability in the country then this summit from the british conflict resolution group thinks of london says the 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 and in other places and so this would obviously ways a number of alarm bells amongst your priorities it would raise a lot of questions because. there's not an obvious target. and i would dismiss that this is somehow connected with 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. when the explosion ripped through a metro station which is just meters away from president and sinkers main office

and residence alexander going to me. the question that says this appears to be an attempt to oust authorities. i think it will force external groups which is trying to when you feel a domestic situation and valorous of course it's not very clear. who these people are in reality. in my view this as a radical extremist group who are thinking of. imposing a new regime in belarus and ousting mr luker builders has a very strong security system and greedy and maybe several weeks they will find out their major sources of this terrorist attack. other news now with a libyan rebels rejecting an african union peace plan seems to be no end in sight

for the conflict in the country the opposition is still relying on coalition forces to help schools it seems it could prove more of a hindrance it's been claimed the lives of these depleted uranium and substance which causes cancer patients and those affected i think this to get. these levy and men cheer on top of a tank hit by coalition forces unaware of the silent killer they could be breathing 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. there's a really good chance it was a do you around. ninety percent sure there was a you around. anybody was on it. getting a little richie exposure some who will love all the wind blowing. that means the

particles are in the air. so all these people in cars you. know lisa siri served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine east 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 seen all too familiar and see how others such as a red that's the burning see how it shoots out instead of a cold street and you've got the flare at the bottom of the day 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 then countries who have refused to sign up include the u.s. the u.k.

friends and this will the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the glut and can spread into any organ including the heart grain liver once the particles penetrate your cell tissue this is when you get all kinds of kinetic new patients and people in iraq for example gribbin 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 ever normalities higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the it tommy bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in buying bosnia in one thousand. ninety five for a legacy today with can certain leukemia rates several times higher than normal got

toward medical confirmation all round pollution or rock that the health approach of the radio and we see it throughout iraq or shortly radio kuwait and afghanistan somalia the balkans. again now we're going to move into a libya dr dog rocky who was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i was given a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental mission he unself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some fear that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed happens in. i suspect you just because you just don't find it and. just saying hey look everybody here they've got fences. with nations and so forth i don't think anyone listens depleted

uranium has a hof life of four and a house billion years hence it's this production by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. . also they have reaching crisis points japan's and battled nuclear facility to clear the same state of alert as radiation in use to spread. fifty years ago rankine could hardly imagine we would one day be able to stare down at our planet from above what they call twelve hundred sixty one your car it was propelled not only to the stars but also to global fame when he became the first in space to sell so you know 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 man to space flight well it all began here

because on this day fifty years ago cosmonaut yuri gagarin boarded his bus dock 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 v a so used to your mates when you want to crew when they left for space on april five going to be a international space station they were of course in a spacecraft that had the image of god and 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 died in that field well we have been speaking to the astronauts and for their one of the biggest progress they've seen really is the a cooperation among countries the international space station this is an example a clear example if you will of the global efforts in that regard now of course there are a lot of celebrations planned to two of mark the anniversary here in baikonur famous personalities are expected to be here well 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 band called utica got it. and i have the honor of taking the vostok a great strace craft to space first i was very happy to have got on and it was only the beginning. april twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one the day you got it blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe. it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened the last challenge. but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you're right it is not paris didn't know where i

was serving barely knew our graduation from a pilot's academy i'm at the facility was working it was top secret when they heard that you regard it being sent into space they soon it was me journalist came to our house to intervene with parents but they mean nothing though i think they could have had a heart attack earlier he had met lee utica god in one thousand nine hundred sixty three while working at the launchpad he ended up face to face with a man and introduced himself purple necessitated the ask me what month i was born i said march and it seemed to me like he's going to collapse or even stretch out my hands to hold him up it turned out he was born in march as well moments like this one will serve as a reminder for future generations of man's first journey into space but for now there are still those who can tell the story of eureka got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history adequate off scale was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day

fifty years ago. when. gary looked more pale than usual he was unsociable and quiet which was not like human oh he would answer by nodding or a short yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy in your team up and hunt and i said 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. and we were playing volleyball in the garden and a little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed it was very surprised he said what's up was put together those who played against him were giving way to govern noticed is that he was offended he said let's play fair ok. he'd be hard pressed to find someone he knew who got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just for his abilities as

a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this year he got it this are silly our arty. farty caught up with your daughter who shared some memories of education. as soon as he stepped out anywhere he was immediately recognised whenever here arrived at any place crowds of people would gather around him asking questions or greeting him and even today people that i've never seen in my life come up to me with stories about my dad how and where they met him and what a cheery impression he always made. the need for me to get over says he's proud it was a soviet cosmonaut who was the first to fly into outer space. riddance that i do it was a truly revolutionary that and a highly symbolic line it was a tremendous achievement of savita cause markets which divided history into before

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 guardian's flight will be remembered as a fundamental landmark in the evolution of human genius but as we just go again you're. going to go about was a soviet pilot who trained with the guard and was among the first cosmonauts and gave our team insight into those pioneering days of space travel and the character of the first night in space. the for the video it was the sort of man that would not let you down in battle or in normal life he had a talent for an isolation good heads 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 like that was important he had

a strong sense of jujitsu he said after his flight that he's 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 you were not eliminated huge poor health poor discipline they all got to make this space flight. that full interview is coming your way in around ten minutes time here and our team of course you can always get more like a car in for an interview you can head to our website r.t. got com there's a whole host of information waiting and then there's the other heard stories about the person. with the guys that was miss that the man with the. right stuff. also see a striking gallery of photos of this from some well known others even before.

the fire has upgraded the severity rating of a paralyzed seaman nuclear plants to seven levels of the ever previously assigned to the chernobyl disaster officials say it was raised because high radiation was recorded in the ocean and water pans a safe haven system with ducks and to compare the dangers of the flood so it's really a powerful aftershocks shook eastern japan exactly about after devastating earthquake and. tsunami hit the country killing more than fourteen thousand. jacobs . is the thought to have been keeping officials. there to warn. the danger is extremely severe right now and one of the problems is that the level of danger in syria he is still uncertain unknown you still have three clance in the corps in partial meltdown you have

a fourth plant which he 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 remain extremely 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 out even scenario at this point i think that from the start they are going to completely trying to make it appear as though that since it is smaller they are noble. they kept the evacuation zone two smaller than that of chernobyl they tried to keep it not to lower than that of snow and i think that it largely to do with public perception. but ultimately because the situation was not controllable and events forced the whole to. up to see what i know is that a lot of radiation was entering the environment of the japanese government was no longer able to contain this with public relations efforts i believe it's entirely

public relations reasons that did not raise the level i think they raised the level to a five which is equivalent of the three mile island accident in the united states it was clearly over. but by the time they even raised it to five there was an extremely large and radiation into the environment if cheema. were briefed check now and all that is making headlines around the world in ivory coast national recognized south africa as it paints is finally catching flown by. had been refusing to see her since last november's elections running the country into a conflict which has claimed almost a thousand lives of course around me and about its criminal investigation will be opened on his wife and daughter and has promised in a fair trial the president is now facing a huge task of uniting the country. in peru the presidential

election in a very to a second round to consider that all the army officer against the daughter of a jailed ex-president for the. first round of the fifty percent needed outright victory the runoff will not take place on june fifth. two women are wearing islamic grails were arrested taking part in authorised protests against a barrel there you go out into public places controversial goal came into force on monday when court allows unusual before and up to one hundred fifty euro cents a special citizenship since it's accepted or presents as east of goods as from the right. but in just a few minutes we talk about those really ground breaking missions to the stars cosmonauts and the rest is the latest business news and you got a short break stay with us.

this is assays business update thanks for joining us the deputy prime minister igor suchan has stepped down as chairman of the country's state run all major ones that is the first to follow the presidential not of the top official should leave the balls of state companies like this have to comply with the ruling by the first of july the search of a child since two thousand and four i have been a key architect of the company's landmark alliance with british petroleum. the russian have holders of. planning another lawsuit against the claim in the company of breach the joint branches agreement now t.i.n.k. he will seek damages of up to ten billion dollars saying it lost but hugely to

explore the russian option because of the actions of the british company on monday the financial times said b.p. is preparing to buy out its russian partners and repeat as it's trying to save its deal with russian oil major ross never to explore the architecture of how about christine from standard and poor's strains it makes more sense for me to sell out of ten k. to a set of by the way. i think that probably has made it clear that he wants to try to get this deal through you know mono 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 came k b p on the contrary people here in london are saying wait a minute why should be by k b p maybe b.p. should fail its share on p. and k b p the problem is who would both of them be proven to be a very different. partner so i doubt there will be many offers nevertheless that if

they allow another option it would 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 start on a clean slate it's a big chunk b.p. represented thirty six percent of two thousand and ten production and with the gulf of mexico down it would be a big but it also i knew we knew would repeat although out of north scale the only problem with that is that of course you always have the takeover target rumors going around and that will make b.p. more attractive for a takeover. and the markets now tripoli's stocks have fallen sharply with fresh concerns over the close quick recovery with an significant aftershocks and the news of the had to finish in the hands of talk to the is also a very good toyota one point three percent after recall that the company wanted us to do is quote significantly impacted supply this summer shares of hong kong banks

have poured down after the city is a money tree also recently said it will step up monitoring of the lenders business plans and funding strategies for the rest of the year as credit was surging at a much faster rate than the growth in deposits. and here in moscow the aussie has has just started trading has continued yet stays losses and us currency over at the center of the red under my six well over the next few minutes is because you see at the moment yesterday's just closed half a percent down monday with energy and not all sectors in these and. looking ahead to the day's trade in russia eagle clive from trying to dialogue good news the recent correction will be short lived as international buys into the market. the markets showed very good. volumes yesterday we saw some profit taking what these profit taking was mostly from russian investors as for international restaurants by event of last week and yesterday we saw still very

good boys we saw ones brain russian stops and i think after maybe a. slight correction we will continue to go up. and finally a german truck they caught and i am is expected to announce a plan to launch production in russia saying this is bad investment agreement between and i add that other regions officials expect it to be signs later this week and they say that qantas likely to assemble the truss and he's already existing infrastructure which will cope with it with stock right now. and that's the business news for not so well known top side that's also got calls large business.

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