committees in both new and herzegovina cheese available in. the children of each college. but you know who to put you. to make the children living in. hotels and you're like towns. in serbia is available in clinton's lead we can see. the russian authorities on the hunt for the mastermind behind a terrorist attack on the capital's metro that killed twelve people and injured more than two hundred. and probably the last rocks i'm not so hearing me listen details and reaction to polling monday's lucky times that coming up in just a few moments. war veterans warn of looming danger in libya claiming the western coalition's been using depleted uranium poison that has been deployed in many other military campaigns. and

a trip to remember russia marks fifty years since the first human spaceflight that turned soviet cosmos yuri gagarin into a legend and a household name around the world. four pm in moscow live match reza very good to have you with us here on r t our top story the goal of the metro attack in minsk was to destroy stability in the country that's according to the bella russian prosecutor's office the explosion that rocked the subways busiest station at rush hour killed twelve people and left more than two hundred injured several suspects have been detained in connection with the blast or he's a catherine mcgrath show the talk to those who witnessed the bloodbath in the heart of mints. it is a day to remember solemnly here in minsk the morning after the tragedy you can see

piles of flowers candles and icons laid around the entrance to that tempest in metro station hit by the explosion during evening rush hours on monday obviously emotions and feelings are running high as people want to be together on this day and many before going to work make a stop over here to observe a minute of silence here's a good feeling this morning after the blast terrible feelings i couldn't expect anything like that happening in this country it's such a crime the social system was new coke thinking that i have to pay tribute to those who died and wish a speedy recovery can those who are currently in hospital among those who remember solemnly on this day are also witnesses of the attack some of them how those injured the first minutes after the tragedy i was one of them. do you call give eight how many did you see. there were a lot one person to get ups which three others joined in person was seriously

it was all covered with blood it was also a man who had five people to get out of it was. i still have a. witness the same minutes after the last day so horribly wounded people being carried out of these natural stations including those with missing limbs and all those injured remain many of them remain in intensive care units and hospitals across the city to actually give you an idea of this blast happened during evening rush hour was where there were so many commuters on the macho system and the station is the busiest in means this is well two lies interest so there was so many passengers that this hour after these blasts president aleksander the question that a terrorist attack was the may version being considered he also said that he would turn to russia for a helping hand with all that russia has

a huge experience in dealing with the after months of similar tragedies well if the first bloss to hit the means it's also the first fatal terrorist attack in the country's more than history for more on this i'm joined now by dmitry babich a political analyst from russia's real news agency could tell you with so the country's two curity and stability the main target of the attack what do you think is seeking to undermine that. well. i'm not in a position to tell you exactly who did it because. belarus has righted itself on not been a victim of terrorist attacks for many years. obviously there is someone who really wants to make mr gresham call on him that there could be some extremist groups inside the country or there could be some people from outside as well but anger actually said in his speech right after the blast well we know that we're going to

supplied are a lot of various regimes in the world including believe it may be a sound one which is like the sheep could sort of take the stand over you bang on because but there is a very the chance of any of these gases to which you have to leave and what the investigation reveals this is the first terrorist attack in modern day deloris the second after two thousand eight there was a mine attack which qualified north said terrorists as i said who did an act or not. a small amount of exposure explored it had a concept that it was he didn't. pick at all for jewels and about fifty people there goes my nickname trees so can you comment on the timing in place of this attack. well i wouldn't i mean there is

a big temptation to pull back and go to blame it on the legal opinion i don't think it's possible because most of the you know really prominent members of the legal opposition are in jail or they're going through a trial right now because of the ban or the december two thousand attack. so all these these people have no interest in having this kind of a disaster happening and they're not evil people i mean some of them may be nationalists some of them may be confident but i'm not. so everyone i think that is lost in doubt. and lost and get this right now not only means muddles not a neighboring country do you think that the system in bella ruse their military judicial apparatus and so forth is able to bring the perpetrators of this to justice. we'll see what happens because in two thousand and eight i mean the investigated it for two years and they missed a game and it was not more impressing than be investigations we have in russia

because. of a supposed. you know were distributed all over the country you could see them in villages and they missed a geisha and you know like a nationwide search for the criminal continued for two years after what happened. unfortunately no definite answer to the question was found. this will this government will be more successful and this time certainly the amount of the terrorist attack was much greater and probably that will make it easier to reveal things members of the opposition feel that they may be targeted in the investigation do you think that's a fair assessment do you think that the leadership may go that route. mr gresham just become predictable so this is also possible but i hope it doesn't happen because they told you know most of their position members they started their

careers still under the soviet union. you know they have been known all this isn't political fight. but most of them are peaceful people in general bill russians are peaceful people and i don't expect any of these position numbers to get as desperate as i'm only. saying we do you think that this could be the start of a new kind of era of terrorism striking doris but i hope it won't be true i hope it will remain an isolated incident but certainly mr bush and co will make every effort to make an investigation and correct it and certainly a life will change for tens of thousands of people after two thousand and eight attack one of our media and bill russians had their fingerprints taken in dollars so all the time i think the russian close or much for all right anything about it from the real news agency thanks for joining us. stay with us here on our

t.v. lots more headed your way this hour including japan on a high alert the country raises the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest level putting the emergency on par with a sure noble disaster. but first military experts are accusing coalition forces in libya using depleted uranium as part of their airstrikes the deadly substance can lead to cancer and physical mutations and those who come in close contact with it claims are surfacing as the ongoing nato led campaign is being stepped up with no clear end in sight or he's got a shipyard investigates just a warning viewers may find some of the images in this report disturbing. 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 the nice using depleted uranium

in our means in that country others say there is a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous radioactive element have be used that kind of damage that there's a really good chance that with the new round i'm about ninety percent sure that was . just. on it was getting a little radiation exposure somebody who will level with the wind blowing. the particles are in the air. so all these people in these cars you. know lisa syria 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 you see how those touches are red that's the burning see how it shoots out instead of

a cone straight out and you get the flare at the bottom that's a new 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 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 until spreading to any organ including the heart grain liver consecrate or cell tissue this is when you get all kinds of kinetic new patients and people in iraq for example grieving 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 ever normalities higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality of being found here then after the it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five where a legacy today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal we've gotten medical confirmation all round pollute. iraq there through your health a picture of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing the 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 there was given a written memoranda lie about the health and environmental protection remission 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 bombs in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed. i suspect just because it is to find out that and. everybody's. nations and so forth i don't think anyone depleted uranium has a half life of four and a house billion years hence it's description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. r.t. launching to n.b.c. japan has raised the nuclear alert level at their quake at fukushima plant to the maximum limit of seven is post emergency on par with a sure noble disaster decision was based on new data showing that more radiation

have leaked from the damaged plant than previously thought officials say that the upgrade does not mean the situation has become more critical the operator of the fukushima plant appears to be no closer to restoring the cooling systems at the reactors and other powerful aftershock across eastern japan forced the operators who have backed the way that staff this comes a month after a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country leaving more than thirteen thousand people dead clocker jacobs from the hiroshima peace institute says there is no clear path toward resolving the scituate. the danger is extremely severe right now and one of the problems is that the level of danger in syria he is still uncertain and unknown you still have three plants in the cores and partial meltdown you have a fourth plant with the spent fuel. if not quite a bit of radiation and at this point there is no clear path towards resolving it ending this situation so. it's remained only dangerous 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 that the good scenario at this point i think that from the start they are going to be 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 a normal they tried to keeping up lower than that it's over and i think that it largely to do with public perceptions 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 japanese stuff is 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 there and they raised the level to a five which is equivalent to three mile island accident in the united states it was clearly our budget a sudden but by the time they even raised it to five there was an extremely large

instance of radiation into the environment that jima. commentary from robert jacobs with her ocean of peace institute talking with us from japan let's turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe nato is quote not doing enough so we're going to strike heavy weaponry used by moammar gadhafi forces in libya that according to the french and british foreign ministers libyan civilians remain at risk france's allan's you pay said that despite the ongoing nato led bombing campaign the u.k.'s really in the hague called on colonel gadhafi to step down libyan rebels opposing khadafi have been pushed back in despite the foreign bombing raids the country's been ravaged by civil war since february with thousands dead and injured. palestinian authority is now largely ready to govern a state according to a un report the findings will be submitted to palestinian donor nations meeting in brussels wednesday but the report warned it would be difficult for the palestinian

authority to make any additional progress while you israeli occupation continued in peace talks remain stalled dialogue between both sides has been on hold since last year over the issue of jewish settlements in the west bank. and i have reposed internationally recognized leader allison a what tara has urged peace after his rival was finally captured iran had been refusing to step down since last november's elections leading to a conflict that claimed almost a thousand lives a criminal investigation will be opened into the actions of bobbo his wife and their entourage president ouattara is now faced with the task of reuniting his country. pakistan has asked the u.s. to reduce the number of cia agents in the country and to limit drone strikes along the afghan border according to u.s. media reports quote unnamed officials income as u.s. and pakistani spy chiefs meet at the cia headquarters in virginia relations have

been between the countries have struggled to recover after a u.s. intelligence operative killed two local men in the city of lahore earlier this year it was one small flight for man but one giant leap for mankind the world marks fifty years since your garance historic first flight tests are sillier reports from the cosmos drone that propelled the first man into space. 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 you to go got aboard his vostok 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 u.s. so used to have a twenty one 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 issue of gods and mark this anniversary well since then

a lot of there's a long list of achievements in terms of a space exploration what's different countries have died on that field who 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 flying to to a marquee adversity here in baikonur famous personalities are expected to be here in the not so they will be holding one of the big yuri's night party but where you got it made that flight one thousand nine hundred sixty one he made a name watch just in russia but all over the world. i store accomplishment by one brave soviet kuzma commemorated at the united nations fifty years later i get it first man in space for the exhibit unveiled to a crowd of roughly one hundred guests among them americans honoring a cold war era flow with achievements in becoming the first man in orbit delivered a huge space race 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 absolutely a showcase for soviet science and technology and it's nice. from the russian perspective absolutely out of 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 game of hundreds return and the. you ready for further sylvia victories not followed over the next three decades because the first. person to go into space is ours first is ours so there really are things to be introduced he says in the instance along with. 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 game dance party to mark the anniversary american fans clad in costumes. are gathering a laugh to 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 the current inspirational feat now as a result we have become incredible partners on the international space station i think you know what 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 and having him be the first person here you garlands courage

and curiosity blazed the path for cosman arts around the globe while outer space odyssey may seem like something of a common occurrence today five decades ago the world was rejoicing as a soviet legend went where no man and before were in a fortnight artsy new york. stay with r t is we're covering the fiftieth anniversary of yuri gagarin's first flight throughout the day our correspondent tess are a silly i will bring you more in about an hour. she's the looking into the story of the man behind the legend stay with us to find out what she's garrett was really like from the people who knew him best plus we've got the story of that mistaken for yuri gagarin whose front door open to the countries opened to the country's waiting media all your way in an hour that you're on our team. if you have anniversary of manned spaceflight also being celebrated high above the

earth aboard the international space station the russian president stopped by mission control center near moscow for a special phone call for that to the people in orbit that is congratulated the five men and one woman a woman of war d.i.'s says praising them for carrying on what they've gotten started med says the flight program remains one of russia's top priorities and added that mankind should keep moving into space later epigram when the president headed out awards to a number of russian and foreign space explorers with their achievements in reaching the stars. later this hour stay with us for more on the news we're covering and lot on to our web site r t v dot com here's what's online right now. heading to cannes a short film made by a russian teen dressed in just one day makes it big with a screening at the famous film festival. and just friends for a russian woman

a link to the allegations dogging mentality in prime minister silvio berlusconi says it's all a lie describing their relationship strictly platonic. as the. korean american joins us now with all the latest business news. hello because no matter his stand there may be some new troubles ahead for b.p. tell us more about that one that's right matthew p.p.s. russin partners are planning to sue it because they didn't buy tanky b.p. to participate in that arctic exploration deal with last acting on that in just a moment hello and welcome to business not a thanks for joining me deputy prime minister has decided to step down as chairman of the country's state run well major role snapped he's the first to fall the presidential order the top official should leave the board the boys of state

companies are seize peter all of the reports from the headquarters and. well because of his role as deputy prime minister igor searchin has had to step down from the board of gross national this was because of a presidential really meaning that no senior government officials could feel the force of major companies now just how this will affect the major deal the sixteen billion dollars share swap deal between last there can be the remains to be seen searching was one of the key architects of that deal he'll now be replaced by sir who's the senior vice president at v.t. bank it's now mr shushan job to try and make sure that deal goes through and why top officials are removing themselves from the boards of big state companies russia's economic development minister and here have you in an presidential call it will be stepping down from the board of spare bank the country's biggest lender there's still a number of state companies with top officials on their boards among them finance

minister called trimble and diamond producer and energy minister and gas problem. but in return koskie from north capital says it's the right time for officials to quit the boards of state run companies given the upcoming privatisation program. obviously the states under to keep a major privatisation of the state owned companies this is a generally very difficult task however the biggest challenge is that it has to meet certain criteria so 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 if. a certain cleanup of wouldn't heart and this cleanup needs to be done sooner rather than later therefore i think i believe. other companies will pull the suit.

other stories now there are potentially additional problems for b.p. is russian partners are planning to sue the oil major for up to ten billion dollars for its failure to invite tainted b.p. to participate in the arctic exploration deal with ross net that's according to reports in the business press and both london and moscow but corporate lawyer in ivory believes the dispute does have a silver lining for the russian government. i think that the point that i missed in western circles is this is actually great news for russia and great news for a legal system because. you have a great example here of where the parties are contracts in the course of said you've got a contracts you must obey. the fact that you have to come you're trying to do something with back by the russian government is irrelevant the reality is you have a contract we have a rule of law russia so actually i think this is a point that western media so it was a bit stuffing it's a great day for russian leaders as. well as have a look at how the markets are doing for us europe where the markets dropped after

japan raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis commodity related stocks are under pressure is all in metal prices keep falling shares in total pro one point six percent in paris a. drop three point six percent in london and here in moscow the markets are extending yesterday's losses of the r.c.s. and my xox are shedding one point six percent on negative news from abroad and the role of oil prices. now let's take a look at some individual share most energy majors mean significant losses with both gazprom and last may have down more than two percent this hour banking stocks are also in the red with sperm bank losing over one and a half percent of my sex. as a business update for now i'll be sure to join us in less than one hour when we'll be discussing the possible effects of a purge of officials from state run companies.

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