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deputy prime minister igor ascension resigns as chairman of rosehips calling present preventives order to leave both of states companies. it's eleven am here in the russian capital you're watching r t welcome to the program it started out as any other normal monday in the better brushing capital minsk and in college and horror the terrorist a bomb blast ripped through the metro at the peak of the evening rush hour killing twelve people injuring more than one hundred different groups over is in minsk. as we arrived in the early hours it was the candles and the piles of flowers laid around the entrance to their natural state. 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 new feel they want to be together on this day many of those who made their way home on monday evening shortly after the blast. metro system stopped at the start of the tragedy to observe a minute of silence an explosion tore through a key to asian in the russian capital of means during. rush hour dozens of those injured are still in hospital's intensive care units across the city reporters who are out 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 is also told us that seconds after passengers stepped off the train the explosion hit the station it was not immediately immediately clear whether it be explosive device was inside a carriage were under an escalator as the escalator collapsed as

a result of the blast which. resulted in war injuries but as the police release a reported the. banter on the station's platform we saw a flash everything begin to show other people lying everywhere some of last arms and legs i was very scared it was smoke all around and i couldn't see anything. when do the new train shouted people were pulling passengers carted to shout don't hanna don't panic when i was given your butchery my three people nine of the do think it was really bad and were moaning i wanted to call them up stairs but there was no one to help me because there were just injured people around. us there was a lot of blood the whole thing. was covered with blood stains it was a horrible scene we helped one man to get upstairs it was very dark we were afraid would suffocate because it was one of the exhibits connections station is the busiest one on the. subway system as it has only two metro line sometimes the

station is where these two lines intersect obviously it was packed with passengers they can sour now them a version being considered by investigators suspect it was a terrorist attack and now after the blast the president on sunday will caution to harden and margins and meeting with the law enforcement agencies and. security agencies. russia are helping hands as russia has a past experience in dealing with the after months of similar tragedies and investigating in and stick it in terrorist attacks where a man who was hit twice march last year and sort of being on a bus and matches this and then these attacks on the country's largest airport that my idea. now as we understand it up for russia though he also is well and u.k. assisting in. the tragedy it was lost in the news show and it's

fatal terrorist attack in the country's history. authorities in by the who say the metro blast was aimed at undermining peace and stability in the country then this summit from the british conflict resolution group of links of london says an explosion could be part of a crowd of attacks of course you. clearly. is not immune to these kind of incidents that we've seen in moscow that we've seen in london but we've seen in other places and so this would obviously be a number of alarm bells among the authorities raise a lot of questions because. there's not an obvious target for. dismiss that this is somehow connected with the internal belorussian political situation because diversion 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 probably explosion ripped through a metro station which is just meters away from presidents and interesting main office and residence and xander goni a political expert on the russians says it appears to be an attempt to oust the authorities. i think it's north korea's external groups which is trying to when you peel a did a mystic situation in belarus of course it's not very clear. who these people are in reality but in my view this is a radical extremist group who are thinking of. imposing a new all. being used. as a very strong security system and within maybe several weeks they will find

the major sources of this terrorist attack. that was not examine the quality of political experts from the russian newspapers that course i will be following developments in scope to bring you the latest updates throughout the day there's a plenty of other stories for you this hour including reaching crisis point hands battled nuclear facility to head back some state of the radiation spread. and fifty years since the first class to go to the start of world celebrates its historic out of this world achievement. with the libyan rebels rejecting an african union peace plan seems to their end in sight to the conflict in the country opposition they still are dying on coalition forces to help its cause but it seems it could prove a hindrance claim the allies have used depleted uranium

a substance which causes cancer patients and those affected by the change you can investigate. if. these leave young 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 that there's a really good chance that with a deal you around i am about eighty ninety percent sure that was do you around that's really stupid anybody who is on it is getting low level radiation exposure to the world all the wind blowing. that means the particles are in the air. all these people in those cars you. know lisa stary served in the u.s.

military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out 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 to see how those touches of red that's the burning see how it shoots out instead of a cold street and you've got the flare at the bottom that's a do you expose 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 advanced countries who refused to sign up 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 that's the particles penetrate you are selfish and this is when you get all kinds of kinetic replacements and people in iraq for example gribbin that contaminated air every day and experts say there's 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 as normality 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 bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five for a legacy south today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal it got toward medical confirmation all around pollute. arac the health effects of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq are saudi arabia

kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing a movement 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 i was given a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection or a mission he unself was exposed to depleted 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. i suspect you just because you stand there and find that and the people there and they didn't just start saying hey look everybody is dying here they will put fences and he's going to come up with nations and so forth i don't think anyone will listen depleted uranium has a hoff life of four and a house dealing in years hands it's the scription by some as the silent killer that

will never stop killing. going to check on our t. washington d.c. . japan has operated the severity rate to get the paralyzed fukushima nuclear plants to seven level ever previously assigned to general disaster officials say it's been raised because high radiation according. to japan's. system of the don't have the things to which a novel saying the radio is for me was too small a. power for offshore shipley's to came exactly a month after a devastating tsunami hit the country putting more than one thousand people straight comes from the hiroshima institute. to avoid panic. the danger is extremely severe right now and one of the problems is that the level of cager and severity is still uncertain unknown you still have

three plants in the corps in partial meltdown you go for the plant with each state fuel on kicking off quite a bit of variation and at this point there is no clear path towards resolving it ending this situation so. it's really strongly dangerous heat 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 a good scenario at this point i think that from the start that we're going to going very close to trying to make it appear as though that since it is smaller than that although. they kept the evacuation zone two smaller than that of chernobyl they tried to keep it up a lower than that it doubled i think that they had largely to do with public perception. but ultimately because the situation was not controllable and events forced. to see is that

a lot of radiation was entering the environment or the japanese government is no longer able to contain this with public relations out there i believe that it's entirely. relations reasons that did not raise the level i think there and they raise the level to avoid which is equivalent of the three mile island accident in the united states it was clearly already. but it's only been raised there was an extremely large. relationship environment in fukushima. that was robert jacobs from there he was a piece in the west discussing the rising radiation levels of a plant. fifty years ago and mankind could hardly imagine we would one day be able to stare down from above well april twelfth one hundred sixty running guarin was propelled person to the stars but also to global fame he became the first manned space so it's a 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 vast dock one capsule and blasted off into space well that large crowd where he had taken off from is now called the garden start it's the very same launch pad used by the years so used to make 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 you to go got 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 bad fields well we have been speaking to the astronauts and for them a lot of the biggest progress they've seen really is the cooperation among countries the international space station this is an example a clear example if you will of the global effort in that regard now of course there are a lot of celebrations planned to to a 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 band called you to go got it. of them i have the honor of taking the vostok a great spacecraft to space first i was very happy to have got on it it was only the beginning of april twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one good day utica got in blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history was. a feat celebrated across the globe. it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened to the national. but for this man it was also

the day his name shot to fame you noted it is not paris didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots academy and that the facility is working it was top secret when they heard that you regarded being sent into space based c.v. it was me janice came to our house to envy my parents when they knew nothing i think they could have had a heart attack. he had met the 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 necessity you asked me what month i was born i said march and it seemed to me like he was going to collapse i even stretched out my hands to hold him up it turned out he was born in march as well one of us 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 can tell the story of eureka got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history adequate oh say i 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 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 in your two month and hunt and i said i'd 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 admits they weren't quite sure how to act around him. and we were playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached us we all moved away and dearest it was very surprised he said what's up to those who played against him were giving way to govern noticed this and it was offended he said let's play fair ok for. you the hard pressed to find someone who

knew 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 unique about him this are silly our party. caught up with daughter share some memories of her father. who. 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 when a cheery impression he always made me welcome says he's proud it was a soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to fly into outer space. a year video that i believe it was a truly revolutionary that and

a highly symbolic line it was a tremendous achievement of salvia cause marks which divided history into before and after the flight and started what has been termed the space era and very proud of the fact that it was my country that made this first step the guardian's flight will be remember is that fundamental landmark in the evolution of human genius but as we just go with the year. was a soviet pilot training of the guard by those among the first cosmonauts he gave our team insight into this pioneering days are space travel and into the character the first manned space. if we do it it was the sort of man that would not let you down in battle or in normal life he had a talent for guys they should have 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 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 if every pilot from the group of twelve you would not eliminated due to poor health poor discipline they all got to make this space flight. but what if he was coming your way in just a real hour's time here in ottawa and of course you can get more about the car and on our website r.t. dot com it's a whole host of information for you including previously heard stories about a first round space. something you love wants to reminisce about is remarkable to hear something like this. also see a striking gallery of photos of the man who made history well others.

but check out some other news making headlines around the world this hour. in the ivory coast international. after his rivals finally captured. this into some last elections in the country into a conflict that has claimed almost a thousand lives. and. a criminal investigation opened up his wife. but who has promised them a third trial first it's a united country. the presidential election will go to the second round it's in the next coming for more on the officer against the daughter of a jailed ex president. without the first one home but didn't get the fifty percent needed for an outright victory run off without a price on june fifth. two minute wearing islamic veils have been

arrested in paris after taking part in only thrice protests against the banned anywhere in makati places the controversial bill came into force on monday and one court of them could be fined up to one hundred fifty euro and sent to special citizenship classes critics say the move like rice and sarkozy is to win a vote and get. a few moments we'll bring you business news. this is his business on display and welcome to the program the deficit prime

minister has stepped down as chairman of the cultural center on all major assets is the first a former the presidential order that top officials should leave the boards of state companies and some more now trying to live our correspondent peter on the job that he says this expected what such an. action should step down. yes we have known for a couple of weeks now that searching would have to leave his post as the head of rosneft this is following the presidential ruling saying that no members of the of the government should be on the boards of major corporations actually cause deputy prime minister here in russia so we knew he had to go but we only really know him that he had to go for sure until weeks now so this deal involving b.p. and the sixteen billion share swap deal that is involved with that has been in the pipeline for for much longer than not i'm searchin was one of the key architects of it so his leaving the company and leaving involvement in that deal how that will

affect that deal going through is one of those that we just really have to wait and see what will happen now he'll be replaced by surrogate shish and who is the he's the senior vice president at v t v bank and he'll be taking over that role and he'll be had taking the helm to see him try and steer through that that massive deal with b.p. involving ross involved with rosneft in between i say a sixteen billion dollars share swap now in the hands of mr shushan right peter and this is not the only announcement today that will concern b.p. is it. well know really still between rosneft down b.p. has it many stumbling blocks throughout its generation is processing it was still of course. to get official ruling from the from the arbitrators on whether the deal would inflict upon the the right hold b.p. official partner in russia to you until you do you create and we're hearing today

that b.p. are planning to just to be either parent company that's being reported in the british press as well as in the business media here in russia or there are probably seeking around ten billion dollars in compensation should this deal go ahead. peter all of the reporting there live he said many thanks indeed. also a german truck maker. and is expected to announce a plan to launch production in russia st petersburg the investment agreement between me and the region's officials is expected to be signed later this week and they say the plant is likely to assemble the tracks and use a great existing infrastructure with the hope of a point start to production. markets now japanese stocks have fallen sharply with fresh concerns over the post quake recovery christmas significant aftershocks and the news of the fire at the fukushima plant shares of top japanese also make a toyota one point four percent after report that the company wanted us dealers of

significantly impacted supply this summer shows of hong kong banks has fallen down after the city's monetary authority said it will stop up monitoring of the lenders business plans and funding strategies for the rest of the year as credit was searching at a much faster rate than the growth in deposits. and he lost good in the markets as expected expect extending its days and losses and by the r.c.s. on the nice excess shedding more than one and a half percent on negative news on the grid and oil price all the blue chips are trading in the red with rosneft down more than two percent. and looking ahead to the day's trade in russia higher from troika dialog believes the correction will be short lived as international guys and the market. the markets showed very good. volumes yesterday we saw some profit taking but some of these profit so he was mostly from russian investors as for international investors why

a vandal from last week and yesterday we saw still will very good boys will sort these funds why the russians close and i think after. the slight correction we will continue to call them. and that's the business news for now the morning.

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