a terrorist attack wreaks havoc on a metro in the center of belorussian a powerful bomb blast killed twelve and injured more than two hundred people. radioactive wasteland in libya claims emerged that allied forces have been roaming the country need to do radio poison which causes cancer mutations they said you know as the allegations. and celebrating half a century of manned space exploration exactly fifty years ago. made his name and

legend first man to reach out to the stars. you're watching artie on terra johnston a lot top story now it started out as any other normal monday in the bed of russian capital minsk but ended in college for a terrorist bomb blast ripped through the metro at the peak of the evening rush hour killing twelve people and injuring more than two hundred but they say they've now compiled two suspects believed to be involved in the attack. reports fraud mints. as we arrived in the early hours i was so candles and the piles of flowers laid around the entrance to their terrorists station 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 deeper people will hear in news feel

they want to be together on this stage many of those who made their way home on monday evening shortly after the blast hit metro system start at the start of the tragedy to observe a minute of silence an explosion tore through a key. asian in the russian capsule of means during late evening rush hour dozens of those injured are still in hospitals intensive care units across the city reporters who are up at the scene minutes after the blast told us that they saw other wounded people being carried out of 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 the explosive device was inside a carriage or under an escalator as the escalator collapsed as a result of the blast which resulted in war injuries but as the police

reported the ground was fixed and were on the station's platform we saw a flash everything began to shatter people were lying everywhere some had lost arms and legs i was very scared bill smoke all around and i couldn't see anything. given the train shouted people were pulling path and you started to shout don't panic don't panic when i was getting on the train i thought people nine of the do with it was the really had and were moaning i wanted to call them are steady but there was no one to help me because they were just injured people around me. it was a lot of blood the whole thing. always 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 of the smoke except his commercial station is the busiest one on the. subway system as it has only two metro line send the station is one of

these two lines intersect obviously it was packed with passengers so you can sell it now the main version being considered by investigators is that it was a terrorist attack and now we're up to the last president i'm totally cautioned to harden the knowledge and see. the law enforcement agencies sound to. the security agencies. turn to russia for help in cannes as russia has a past experience in dealing with the after months of similar tragedies and investigating in and stick it in terrorist attacks were mad but there also was hit twice in march last in suicide bombing on the most unnatural system and then these attack on the country's largest outpost but my idea. now is we have to send a proper russia though he also is well and u.k. a sustained by those in investigating the tragedy it was the first ever lost in the means not shown it's the first fatal terrorist attack in the country's more than history. for more reaction on the minsk attack and its talk to.

political analyst on the moscow state university international relations thanks for joining us today here on r.t. who do you think may have been behind this attack. well it's a worry card question it's public possible to find anybody who can benefit from these terrorists in means good side build of course an. opposition could be declined because that's the whole way it's regex's the problem millions and secondly it's the paid there as well paul ways also can be interested in such an idea because the. shray should also be careful sapporo what is going to be a dizzy interest of any defector. not president lukashenko said the attack might even organized by people from abroad so still on that subject who do you think he meant by that. well i i don't think anybody would take responsibility for sr with

that they're all but already it's not on said see the main the people what's being . georgians who are presumably. ten it's basic insulation all the reason for the regime vs before we seized it and i feel fresh and separate it was declared to be the means progress will be more rationed while interesting you say that it's the first a fatal terrorist attack involving misses or fear that this could be the start of something sustained you say something something more could happen. well you see bill rocio used to be quite can't comprehend such an attack is totally not in stylistical russian politics so we can calmly delegate zeus' truth be. it could you nishan are such a terrorist that there is something unusual and usually a bell that such as this is going to tell us of our what had not exist all of any political force and bromates beginning of the new iraq but probably still want

justice and exclusion less so for this of course it's always very difficult to a legislator against this kind of attack but how well prepared is a country like that against something like this. well over the last. legs the. basin means you always eat it was three years ago and the decisions. they made. calls to cancel last. measure miles off take a long vacation. z.-e. developments we will be quite similar. you mention what happened three years ago is there any significance in the timing of what happened here today this time.

well the last time three years ago. it was deliberately paid way. too much. to watch losses actually nobody was killed and this is a. totally different. from the. international nations' thank you for joining us live. thank you. well we'll be following developments in the sky to bring you the latest updates throughout the day there are plenty of other stories in this hour including reaching crisis point her hands and battled nuclear facility has declared a state of alert as radiation used to spread. in fifteen years since my first lawsuit after the star's world celebrates hugo garlands historic also this will achieve and. with the libyan rebels

rejecting an african union peace plan that seems to be no end in sight for the conflict in the country opposition is still relying on coalition forces to its cause but it seems it could prove engines it's been claimed the allies have used depleted uranium substance which causes cancer mutations and those affected by nature and investigates. 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 that country others say there is a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous review active element have been used that kind of damage. there's a really good chance that was the deal you around. eighty nine percent sure there was do you. really still anybody who was on it was given an inch of exposure.

of all the wind were in. the particles or in the air. so all these people in those cars would be. lisa siri served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine 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 to see how those totals are read that's the burning see how. instead of a cold street and you've got the flare at 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. when human rights commission has called for

a ban countries who refused to sign up include 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 lot until spreading to any organ including the hard 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 breathing that contaminated air every day and experts say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq where the u.s. blocked 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 tomic 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 felf today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal medical coverage an all round pollute. but through your help a picture of the radium earlier and we see it throughout iraq or shortly radio kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans. again now we're moving into world 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 that will give it a written memoranda lie about the health and environment approach you are a mission he in south was exposed to deplete your rhenium almost all of the members of his team are now there some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed now if it happens in. i suspect you just don't find it and. you start saying hey look everybody is

here. with nations and so i don't think anyone depleted uranium has a half life of four and a house dealing in the years hence it's this production by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our chief washington d.c. japan has upgraded the severity rating of paralyzed. to seven a level in the other previously assigned to the chernobyl disaster fishel states we raise because highway the nation has been recorded in the air ocean and water pads nuclear safety agency student not sent to compare the dangers to the other. nation instance smaller but earlier a powerful aftershocks shook the east in japan and exactly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the country than fourteen thousand. jacobs

from the peace institute. in your initial severity of a typical shima no panic. the danger is extremely severe right now and one of the problems is that the level of change in severe and he is still uncertain unknown you still have three plants in the corps in partial meltdown you have four thousand with each spent fuel on. not quite a bit of radiation and at this point there is no clear path towards resolving it ending this situation so it's really the street only dangerously close 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 it's going to been 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 with a lower than that of trouble and i think that it largely to do with public perception. but ultimately because the situation was not controllable and events forced the whole two. to see is that a lot of radiation was entering the environment the japanese government was no longer able to contain this with public relations efforts i believe that it's entirely public relations reasons that did not raise the level i think that when 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 get a seven but by the time they even raised it to five there was an extremely large influx of radiation into the environment if jima. that was what it take us on hiroshima police investigate a single rising. from the clouds. for four years ago kind could hardly imagine we could one day be able to stand on a top planet from above. earth nine hundred sixty one current was propelled to the

stars but also it's a global fame and he became the first man in space so it's a place where history was made. i mean 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 utica got aboard his bus took one capsule and blasted off into space well that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the good god start it's the very same launch pad used by the a so used to it may twenty one crew when they left for space on april five going to the international space station they were of course in a spacecraft that had the image of god to 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 done in bad field will have been speaking to the astronauts and for that one of the biggest progress they've seen really is the

a cooperative among countries now of course there are a lot of celebrations plans a two hour mark the anniversary here in baikonur famous personalities are expected to be here if not so he will be holding one of big yuri's night party that where you got it made that flight in one nine hundred sixty one he made a name not just of russia but all over the world. as your accomplishment by one brave sylvia cause you know commemorated at united nations fifty years later get in the first man in space for the exhibit unveiled to a crowd of roughly one hundred guests among them americans honoring a cold war era flow whose achievements in becoming the first man in orbit delivered a huge space research victory to the u.s.s.r. i thought it was fantastic and i thought it was about and i was very jealous that this is a showcase for soviet science and technology and it's nice. from the russian perspective absolutely that the russians opened up space with the rest of the world still

images and film document yuri gagarin's preparation for the first flight the world famous hunt his return and the. for further sylvia victories that followed over the next three decades it was the first cosmonaut is russian and first person to go into space is ours the first is ours there really are things to be proud it is the basis in the. guernsey monumental achievement is now officially marked worldwide the u.n. general assembly has adopted a resolution declaring april twelfth the international day of human spaceflight just south of the international stage. new york is hosting a yuri's night dance party to mark the anniversary american fans clad in costumes. gary and lactic jury 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 officials attending a gathering at the russian embassy spoke of goren's inspirational feat now as a result we have become incredible partners on the international space station i think you know where he started we now try to finish with the international space station and then subsequently 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 would have been him be the first person here you garlands courage and curiosity blazed the path for cars menards 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 or enough artsy new york. caught up with daughter who shared some memories of their country father. who. as soon as he stepped out anywhere he was immediately recognized when they were 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 want to cheer impression he always made. me feel bad weather says he's proud it was a soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to fly into outer space. video i believe it was a truly revolutionary that and a highly symbolic won and it was a tremendous achievement of savita cause i'm arctics which divided history into before and after the flight and started what has been termed the space you are very

proud of the fact that it was my country that made this first step gardens fly it will be remembered as a fundamental learn marking the evolution of human gene it's. got about. pilot training with regard that was among the first cosmonauts gave r.t. an insight into his pioneering days of space travel with a character 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 guys they should good had 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 to see that was important 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 into space but he did his best to make that happen every

pilot from the group of twelve you were not eliminated due to poor health bill poor discipline they all got to make this space flight. put it was coming your way in around ten minutes time here now to. get more about the current on a website that's r.t. dot com there's a whole host of information there previously on stories about personal space read interviews with you with darren's loved ones i mean this about is what about one hundred fifty years supply of stuff. we also see striking a gallery of photos of the man who made this some well known how to do before. or brief technology some other news making headlines around the world. in ivory coast internationally recognized. to this after his rivals finally captured.

have no reason to see her since last november's elections under a country into a conflict that has claimed almost a thousand lives. and that's a criminal investigation will be opened on friday again for the. promise that. the president is now facing a huge task of managing the country. in peru the presidential election will go to a second round between a left wing. against the door to the jailed ex president and move on the first round didn't get fifty percent needed to treat the run up and down to things. to women wearing islamic veils have been arrested in paris taking part in a motorized protest against the ban on women the government and public places controversial bill came into force on monday and one quarter flouting the rule could be fined up to

a hundred fifty euro and sent to special citizenship classes critics say the move by present sarcasm is to the native voters on the right. the business news is next here. thank you kerry this is also is the thanks for joining us but if the prime minister it was such a step down as chairman of the country's state run all right ross not his but threats to follow the presidential nod at that top officials should leave the boards of state companies also one of the reports now from there also has courses in moscow. because of his role as deputy prime minister igor search in his heart to step down from the board of ross never know this was because of a presidential ruling meaning that no senior government officials could be on the boards of major companies now just how this will affect the major deal if sixteen billion dollars share swap deal between rosneft and b p remains to be seen section

was one of the key architect of that deal he'll now be replaced by thirty ish ition who's the senior vice president at v.t. b. bank it's no mystery shushan job to try and make sure that deal goes through but this is the only news coming out of the ross they have to be piece saga today we've also heard the t.n. k b p. p p's official partner here in russia that they are looking to sue b.p. for ten of billion dollars should this deal go ahead. peter all of the reporting that and just to remind you on monday the financial times said b.p.'s preparing to buy out its russian partners in ten k. people as it's trying to save its deal with a russian or major loss net to explore the arctic shelf however christine to scurry from standard and poor's makes more sense for people to sell out of ten instead of buying for the real. i think that probably has made it clear that he wants to try

to get this deal through in a 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 or to be on the contrary people here in london are saying wait a minute why should they have id and k b p maybe bt should sell its share on p. and k b p the problem is who would buying them they're proving to be a very difficult partner so i doubt there will be many offers nevertheless 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 kincaide b.p. represented thirty six percent of two thousand and ten production and with the gulf of mexico down it would be a big heap but it also i knew i knew would be p. although it was a smaller scale period 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. of markets and our japanese stocks have closed in the negative with fresh concerns over the coast quake recovery recent significant aftershocks and the news of the fire at the fukushima mines shares of twelve japanese automaker toyota one point four percent after report that the company wanted us dealers of quote significantly impacts of supply this summer shows of hong kong banks have 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 that's great it was surging at a much faster rate than the growth in deposits. and european markets are also down this hour european stocks dropped after japan to raise the severity level of its nuclear crisis commodity related stocks are coming into the heaviest pressure as all that metal prices keep falling. and here in north korea the markets are

extending yesterday's losses by the r.c.s. and the moist excess shouting nearly two percent on negative news from a broader lower price of the blue chips are trading in the red with ross now down more than two percent. and finally truck maker and a and is expected to announce a plan to launch production in russia same speed as by the investment agreement between every end of the region's officials is expected to be sung later this week and they say the longest license to assemble the truck and transcends he's already existing infrastructure let's all hope that it would stop production. well that's the business news for now more for more local i'm told what size that's called slash best guess.

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