other spears. a terrorist attack wreaks havoc on the metro in the center of the belorussian capital a powerful bomb blast killed twelve and injured more than two hundred people. radioactive wasteland in libya claims emerge at allied forces have been bombing the country moved me to do re mi of the poison which causes cancer patients that are denies the allegations. done celebrating half a century of manned space exploration exactly two years ago russian personal its name and the agency becoming the first man to reach out to the stars. russian

deputy prime minister resigns as chairman of the following present image that is also full state officials to leave all the state companies from war joining in twenty minutes. costing lives in the heart of the russian capital this is out but it started out as any other normal monday in the better russian capital minsk but ended in college and or a terrorist bomb blast ripped through the metro at the peak of the evening rush hour killing twelve and injuring more than two hundred police say they have now compiled effects of two suspects need to be involved in the attack. reports from. as we arrived in the early hours i was so candles and the piles of flowers laid around the entrance to their terrorists shows 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 an explosion tore through a key stop we did a show in the russian capital of minsk during late evening rush hour dozens of those injured are still in hospitals intensive care units across the city i reporters who arrived at the scene minutes after the blast told us that they saw. people being carried out of the. patrol station including those with missing limbs i would mrs also told us the seconds of the passengers steps on for a train explosion hit the station as the police were so reported they don't think stand or banter on the station's platform we saw a flush everything began to shatter people were lying everywhere some had lost arms and legs i was very scared it was smoke all around and i couldn't see anything you so much given the train shattered people were falling passengers started to shout

don't panic don't panic when i was get you know the train i thought people nine of the jurors it was really hard and were moaning i wanted to call them up stairs but there was no one to help me because they were just injured people around me. if 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 up stairs it was very dark and were afraid and suffocate because of the smoke except disconnections station is the busiest one on the. subway system as it has only two metro line stand the station is where 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 after the blast president unsubtle cautioned to hold an emergency meeting with. law enforcement agencies. security agencies.

rush for help in terms as russia has the past experience in dealing with the aftermath so similar tragedies and investigating in an even terrorist attacks it was the first last and that means much shown it fails harris etc the country's history. of origins in battery say the metro blast was aimed at undermining peace and stability in the country this summit from the british conflict resolution 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 other places and so this would obviously be a number of alarm bells amongst your authority is. a lot of questions because. there's not an obvious target. and i would dismiss that this is somehow

connected with internal bit of russian political situation because. of the situation moves in a different way and we have never seen examples of this crime of violence so it could be that this is something very specific when i think we did something very specific and this will perhaps emerge in the course of the next. explosion ripped through a metro station which is just meters away from. the main office and residence alexander negaunee a political expert from a russian newspaper 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 domestic 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 law. has a very strong security system and within maybe several weeks they will find out their major sources of this terrorist attack. and accordingly that political experts from the russian state as of course will be following developments in school to bring you the latest updates throughout the day and spent about the story today in this hour including making crisis plans. next mistake of mediation continues to spread. and i think. this will not stop the stop the world celebrates unity of god's historic out of this world achievement. with the libyan rebels rejecting an african union peace plan seems to me they went inside for the conflict in

a country position is still with coalition forces to help its course but it seems it could prove more of a hindrance it's been a claim to the allies who used to play to do re mi a substance which causes cancer patients and those affected chicken 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 benign is 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 was the thing you read on i'm about eighty nine percent sure there was a you around that's really stupid anybody who is on it is going to grow boring is your exposure to the world all the wind blowing. that means the

particles are in the air. so all those 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 battle fields in kuwait back then the u.s. dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of depleted uranium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seem all too familiar you see how those touches of red. see how. instead of a cold we'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.n. human rights commission has called for a then countries who have refused to sign out include the u.s. the u.k.

france and this will the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the blood and to spreading to any organ including the heart brain liver the cardinals penetrate your cell tissue this is when you get all kinds of kinetic mutations and people in iraq for example grieving that contaminated air every day and experts say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq where the u.s. dropped thousands of concluded uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous and 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 five for a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal

medical confirmation all around pollute. a rock at the health approach of the radium earlier we should throw out a rock or saudi arabia or kuwait have chaosium 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 i was going to remember around a lot about health and environmental protection or a mission he in south 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 and i think happens in. expecting just because an instant find it has. little to start saying hey look everybody is going here. nations and so forth i don't think anyone

depleted uranium has a half life of four and a house billion years hence its description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. japan has upgraded the severity rating of a paralyzed for question and you can certain that will only have a previously assigned to the chernobyl disaster official say it's been raised because high radiation has been recorded in the ocean the entire water that's a pan's nuclear safety agencies to the docks and to compare the dangers what happened the same the radiation is still smaller and powerful aftershocks shook eastern o'kane exactly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami the country killing more than thirteen thousand people jacobs from the machine he sensed a few leaves the authorities have been keeping it there to breaking it never talk

boys panic. the danger is extremely severe right now and one of the problems is that the level of danger and severity is still uncertain unknown you still have three plants in the corps and partial meltdown you have a fourth plant with the spent fuel on just not 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 we put if 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 in a good scenario at this point i think that from the start they are going to been very close to some trying to make it appear as though that since it is smaller than an oval. they kept the evacuation zone to smaller than that of chernobyl they tried to people not to lower than that explosion and i think that had largely to do with

public perception. but ultimately because the situation was not controllable and events forced all two. 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 effort i believe that it's entirely public relations reasons that did not raise the level i think they have and they raise the level to a five which is equivalent of the three mile island accident in the united states it was clearly all right in a sudden hit but by that i mean even raised it to five there was an extremely large influx of radiation into the environment that fukushima. well it was robert from the university discussing the rising radiation levels. fifty years ago hardly imagine would one day be able to stand out from above but on april twelfth night in sixty one he was propelled not only to the stars but also to global fame came the first man in space. it's

a place where history was made i'm here in baikonur where many significant events in space history have taken place not least of which was the first successful manned space flight well it all began here because on this day fifty years ago cosmonaut you to go got aboard his vast dock one capsule and blasted off into space well that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the good garden start it's the very same launch pad used by the a so used to be twenty one crew when they left for space on april five you go into 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 different countries have done in that field but we have been speaking to the astronauts and for them one of the biggest progress they've seen really is the a co-op aeration among countries the international space station 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 marquee have diverse array here in baikonur famous personalities are expected to be here both course we shouldn't forget the crew in space they will be joining in on the celebrations holding a live a teleconference with us earthlings and also a special guest who will be joining in the celebrations for a variety of reasons is a man called you to go got it. i have the honor of taking the vostok a great strange 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 utica 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 national of course my school but for this man it was also the day his name shot to the thing you noted in your parish 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 regard being sent into space they soon goodness me janice came to our house the infeed my parents but 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. the ask me what month i was born i said march and it seemed to me like he's going to collapse i even stretched 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 advocate of scale was a doctor who compared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. one big zone gary looked more pale than usual he was unsociable and quiet which was not like him and all he would answer by nodding or a short yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy or in would you want him up and hunt and i sound yury everything will be fine and he nodded back while you're busy with and. 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 what we were playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed it was very surprised he said what's up

mostly together those who played against him were giving way and are not a citizen it was offended he said let's play fair ok. you'd be hard pressed to find someone he knew who got in and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just raise abilities as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this got in there sorry celia r.t. . but in just over an hour's time we take you to new york to see help people there are market gardens one little journey a massive un exhibition. i thought it was fantastic and i thought it was about time and i was very jealous of the thousand images and films detailing the kites lost off into space elsewhere in the big apple of space fans done their best to go back to good first step down spotting that's that's kind of next out of the.

cold weather so that pilot in training of the current was among the first cosmonauts he gave out here inside on to those pioneering days of space travel into the character of the first manned space. it was the sort of man that would not let you down and baccalaureate normal life he had a talent for guys they should be good heads he had more experience than us in life he had been through a school a college b. 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 light save that was important he had a strong sense of jujitsu he set off for his fights 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 will pour discipline they all got to make their space flight.

that full interview is coming your way to stay for now it's time to. get more about the current on our website www dot com and see the results of our awesomeness wealth competition. it's raising engines actually created from which to news paper the story and surprisingly there were many more from one of them well everything cautions charcoal such as exclusive pictures made by. yourself. brief check now on some other news making headlines around the world in our very first international recognize that leader of the sun and author of a search piece of his rivals on the track should. have been refusing to cede power since last november's elections fronting the country into

a conflict which has claimed almost a thousand lives and closed on a million to flee the violence a criminal investigation reopened them rather than his wife on their own to rush to see mr. president is now facing a huge task of uniting the country. in aruba a presidential election or take a second round in the directory for mommy officers against the truth of jailed ex-president blunter one of the first round but didn't you send for me to outright victory a runoff or not take place june fifth. round two women wearing islamic veils having rested in paris softer taking part in the north was protest against the ban on the wendy collins and public places because of bush and gore came into force on monday and even the pope flouting the will bond two hundred fifty euro and cents to special citizenship classes critics say the move right person sarkozy has

to win over voters in the months. ahead for you this hour special reports about the first remarkable flight rate and a record daryn for if you look at all the latest in the business world as you're. welcome to business r.c. thanks for joining us the deputy prime minister igor sachin has decided to step down as chairman of the country all may tell us that he's the first to follow the presidential order that top officials should leave the goals of state companies. of course now from their all staff of course. but because of his role as deputy prime minister igor search in his heart to step down from the port of los never know this was because of a presidential really meaning that note senior government officials could be on the boards of major companies now just how this will affect the major deal the sixteen billion dollars share swap deal between russia left and p.p.

remains to be seen section was one of the key architect of that deal he'll now be replaced by surrogate who's the senior vice president at v.t. b bank it's now mr shushan job to try and make sure that that deal goes through but this wasn't the only news coming out of the ross left a key piece saga today we've also heard the t m k d t b t's official partner here in russia that they are looking to sue p.p. put chain of billion dollars should this deal go ahead. and it's an enormous session resignation now joined by leadin a russian cost me from north council but even thank you very much indeed for the time so do you expect mr session to maintain influence in all sniffed absent needing the board. yeah i don't think it's a new sort of act of the prevail towards mr sage and because it's he was there it's really difficult for him to combine the two cheers let us not forget that he's also

chairman of the into raw energy systems and he'll also combine in there are several other top positions in the government corporate so-called corporate government sector and therefore i don't think it was there are painful decision for him it's especially for he's going to maintain his cheer until a late june so he's going to be watching the process of transferring of his power to his successor so that's that's what i think i don't think it's a big tragedy for him personally that's why you just mentioned that search and we'll stay on the board until the end of june. time in order to get the deal with b.p. done. you know obviously it was this certain kind of overreaction here at least his initial comments reflected that there. allow me he was not

exactly fully in this situation particularly harsh was critics towards b.p. even some sort of intimidation allow me that if this deal doesn't go through there will be certain sanctions i don't think it was a timely action to talk like this therefore obviously he needs to smoothly transfer this process to use success for success and this is an easy deal he needs to pass forms all documentation. legal documentation of his successor i think this is a very important deal for all sniffed at the same time our president will be added he announced that basically government companies need certain cleanup they need to get a read of the state official seal their board of directors and i think it's not just the act of goodwill this is a jury ology i mean this is kind of down to earth decision because the lesson here

is one of the companies which were announced for their privatization this year or probably the next year the time in each stream we will force near before their finish or there will be easing program in the states and there are a lot of cash in the market and given that the oil is skyrocketing right now or could be potentially very possible it could be a simple and morsel for foreign buyers for for for those who are packages going to be sold to therefore it has to be done very quickly and i think this is a very timely action. right and with that presidential order you just mentioned just told us about that are we going to see any major changes another state run companies those top officials resigning. right this is the kind of the shills circle because obviously the states under two major privatization of the state

owned companies this is a generally very difficult task however the biggest challenge is that it has to meet certain criteria as otherwise there wouldn't be successful in selling their packages to overseas to foreign investors foreign investors they're kind of upset there seem so many state officials in the board of directors so basically. a certain cleanup of heart and this cleanup needs to be done sooner rather than later . therefore i feel i believe. the cop would use with the suit. our right to return call ski from north capitol thank you very much indeed for sharing your views with us. but the business update for you for now well some more local into our website that's all you got called flashback.

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