the whole hutto synergise some research and foolish told us that since. the radio and leave them to join the church in new delhi who took the baby who to carry conviction among the close of the maidens motown's believe that it was a movie to represent ship and it was punished but they protest permits. are russian authorities on the hunt for the mastermind behind a terror attack on the capital's metro system that killed twelve and injured more than two hundred. last approx the macho hearing means mobilise is details of reaction polling monday's bloody violence are coming up in just a few moments. war veterans warn of looming danger in libya claiming the western coalition's been using defeated uranium of poison that's been deployed in other military campaign. bus trips to members russia marks

fifty years since the first human spaceflight that turned soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin into a legend in his time and a household name the world over. and business news this hour deputy prime minister in this section steps down as chairman of poland president made it supportive for top officials to leave the board of state companies details coming out they have as poets from. seven pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our team match reza our top story the goal of the metro attack in minsk was to destroy stability in the country according to the bell 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 three cesspool. have been detained in connection with

a blast artie's a catarina grotto talk with some of those who witnessed the bloodbath in the heart of. it is a day to remember solemnly here and means the morning after the tragedy you can see piles of flowers candles and icons later on to the entrance so that metro station here by the explosion during evening rush hours on monday all over silly motions and feelings are running high as people want to be together on these day and maybe before going to work make a stop over here to observe a minute of silence my dear to the how are you feeling this morning after the blast terrible feelings i couldn't expect anything like that happening in this country it's such a crime it's not just the muslims who come thinking they don't have to pay tribute to those who died and we should speedy recovery to those who are currently in hospital among those who remember solemnly on the stair also weaknesses of the attack some of them how those injured the first minutes after the tragedy michael

is one of them. i will give you how give person eight how many did you see. there were a lot and help one person to get upstairs and three others joined boom that person was seriously wounded he was all covered with blood there was also a man who had five people to get down there was blood all around and i still have it on my. witness the same minutes after the blast they saw hardly wounded people being carried out of these natural station including those with missing limbs now those injured remain many of them remain in intensive care units in hospitals across the city to give you an idea this blast happened during evening rush hour was where there were so many commuters on the macho system this metro station is the busiest in the capital of meals this is where too much our lines

intersect so this is why those so many passengers during this evening rush hour also it's only one hundred meters from the republican palace where lots of state ceremonies take place from the central square of means and our office of the acts of these last president aleksander the question has 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 apart from russia israel and the u.k. will be also assisting belarus in investigating into the causes of this bombing well it's the first gloss to hit the means to matter and it's also the first fatal terrorist attack in the country's more than history. for more on this now we go live to london to speak with paul large from our who's in the best journalist thank you very much for being with us so with no one claiming responsibility for your

attack or question everybody's mind is who masterminded the explosion and. why what's your take. were the one claiming responsibility is quite hard to judge of this poem sir the k.g.b. books or forward three notions that a group of disaffected people or young extremists or someone with mental illness my suspicion is that it's aimed at president shango because it's only one hundred metres from his or ministration offices and of course he's a very controversial figure he's well he has ruled the roost for now for i think nineteen years he's brushed over many of the elections the last elections in december were contested and i think that what we might be seeing is a rising discontent with these authoritarian regimes i think this we might be seeing the effects of the arab spring and events in the middle east are beginning to spread outwards and affect countries any country where the population detect the dictator now some members of the opposition have already expressed concerns that

they need income the main target of the investigation how likely do you think that is. some of the move even possibly suggested that this is being got up by the. regime to mabel and to crack down before anything else happens and of course there are a number of opposition people already in jail for just expressing democratic issues so it is entirely possible this will be used as an excuse. to crack down on any kind of opposition critics of the government there say the tragedy will you in a people behind the leader with some even hinting that at last it was designed to rally support for the current president you think that is a plausible plausible theory and what is still very murky in such as we know even it's a possibility and i doubt which it will actually bring people behind you should go it may have the absolute opposite effect and actually some people may beginning to say more and more people saying why is it our countries we can have to. obviously

but not here. now why do you think here and now in belarus this is the first attack that's been classified as an act of terror what do you think about the timing and location where if you keep a tight grip on a country for a long period of time great aggressively people who rebel against it become more and more extreme in their manifestation i think not so you know you say you know it's now been many many years since personally i mean theoretically at what point so he was only you can serve a two term period but he's just you know you have got a lot of rules so the moment he is in situ for he could be difficult if you're forty years and i think quite frankly that some people obviously think the only way to express a reaction against him is going to terrorist methods that's our experts are saying this could be the beginning of a new era in which a valorous could see more terrorist activity what's your take on that. the world

when you have one terrorist attacks it barely ever stops the stars loses you know the escalates it always seems so escalate and i think unless the loucheux takes this on board and actually moves towards a more democratic and with proper supervised elections that are seen to be fair and transparent i think unfortunately the roof's may see more of this right best to get a journalist in our life for us from london facts for specter. stay with us here on our t.v. lots more headed your way this hour including japan on high alert the country's raise the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest level putting the emergency is on par with a sure noble disaster. but first military experts are accusing coalition forces in libya using depleted uranium in their airstrike i mean nation the deadly substance can cause cancer and physical mutations and those who come in close contact with it

claims are surfacing as the ongoing nato led campaign is being staffed with no clear end in sight or he's got a cheeky out investigates just a warning some viewers may find the images in this report disturbing. these leave young men cheer on top of the 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 the new round i'm about ninety percent sure there was a new round that you use to anybody who's on it who's going to a little radiation exposure. of all the wind blowing all. the particles are in the air. so all of these people in these cars are being

exposed lisa stary served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine east clearing out battlefield in kuwait back then the u.s. dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of the depleted uranium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seen all too familiar and see how those touches of red that's the burning see how it out instead of a cone straight up. the flare at the bottom that's a new explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to kind of trade the heaviest armor nato flatly denies its use in libya even though the un human rights commission has called for a ban 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 lot and ten spreading to any organ including the heart brain liver lungs the particles penetrate your selfish with this is when you get all kinds of kinetic replacements and people in iraq for example greaves mean 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 atomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal got toward medical card formation all round pollution are rare that the health care

actually remember earlier we should throw out a record or saudi arabia or kuwait if they are a sham somalia the balkans and again now we're sure to move it into a 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 and a lot about the health and environment approaching rumination he unself was exposed to depleted uranium almost. all of the members of east timor 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. was in libya expecting this because it was going to try and attack and. everybody. nations and so forth i don't think anyone depleted uranium has the hoff life of

four and a house billion years hands it's this question by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. japan has raised the nuclear alert level at the fukushima plant to the maximum limit seven this puts the disaster on par with a sure noble catastrophe the decision was based on new data showing that more radiation has leaked from the damaged plant and previously thought officials say the upgrade does not mean the situation has become more critical though the operator of the plant appears to be no closer to restoring cooling systems the reactors another powerful aftershock across eastern japan to force the operator to evacuate its staff this comes on months after a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country leaving more than thirteen thousand people dead robert jacobs from the hiroshima he sensed says there is no clear path toward resolving the situation. the dangers are extremely severe right

now and one of the problems is that the level of danger and security is still uncertain unknown you still have three plants in the corps in partial meltdown you have forth each spent fuel on getting off quite a bit of radiation and at this point there is no clear path towards resolving it ending this situation so it's really the stream only dangerous but 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 a from the start that it's going to been very close to such trying to make it appear as though that since it is smaller they are noble. they kept the evacuation zone two smaller than that of chernobyl and tried to keep it not to lower the net if you know and i think that largely to do with public perception. but ultimately because the situation was not controllable in events forced the whole two.

to see is that a lot of radiation was entering the environment of the japanese government is no longer able to contain this with a public relations effort i believe that since tightly public relations reasons that did not raise the level i think and they raise the level to a five which is equivalent to three mile island accident in the united states it was clearly all right get a sudden hit but it's fine they even raised it to five there was an extremely large instance of radiation into the environment at fukushima. as commentary from robert jacobs with erosion a piece in the city speaking with us from japan let's turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe nato was pro not doing enough to destroy heavy weaponry used by moammar gadhafi forces in libya that from the french and british foreign ministers had offered to step down and said civilians remain at risk because by nato actions rebels opposing qaddafi have been pushed back despite

foreign bombing raids the country has been a 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 a palestinian donor nations meeting in brussels wednesday but the report warned it would be difficult for the palestinian authority to make additional progress while the israeli occupation continued in peace talks stalled dialogue between the two sides has been on hold since last year over the issue of jewish settlements in the west bank. in ivory coast the internationally recognized leader on the sunday ouattara has urged peace after his rival was finally captured iran been refusing to step down since last november's elections leading to a conflict that claimed nearly a thousand lives a criminal investigation will be opened again into the actions of his wife and their entourage president ouattara is now faced with the task of reuniting his

country. and pakistan has asked the u.s. to reduce the number of cia agents in the country and limit drone strikes along the afghan border according to u.s. media reports quote unnamed officials income is the u.s. and pakistani chiefs spy chiefs meet at the cia headquarters in langley virginia relations 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 . fifty years ago today mankind opened a grand new chapter of its history by ushering in the med exploration of space people across the globe are marking today's anniversary of yuri gagarin's pioneering flight or these tests are so euro ports from the cosmic drone that propelled the first man into orbit. 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 vostok one capsule and blasted off into space well that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the garden start it's the very same large pad used by the a so used to have a 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 you to go got it to mark this anniversary well since then a lot of there's a long list of achievements in terms of space exploration what different countries have died in that field well we have been speaking to the astronauts and for them one of the biggest progress they've seen really is the a co-op aeration among countries the international space station this is an example a clear example if you will of the global efforts in that regard now of course there are a lot of celebrations planned to two and mark the anniversary here in baikonur famous personalities are expected to be here and also

a special guest who will be joining in the celebrations for a variety of reasons is a man called utica got it. i have the honor of taking the vostok a great strace craft to space first i was very happy to have that on and it was only the beginning. april twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one the day you to go got it blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe. it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened the last course of my school but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you know i didn't use knowledge but here's didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots academy and that the facility was working it was top secret only heard that you

regard it being sent into space a syringe it was me jonas came to our house that interview my parents but they knew nothing i think they could have had a heart attack. he had met me utica god in one thousand nine hundred sixty three while working at the launch pad he ended up face to face with a man and introduced himself. you asked me what month i was born i said march and it seemed to me like he's going to collapse or even stretch out my hands to hold him up it turned out he was born in march as well moments like this one will serve as a reminder for future generations of man's first journey into space but for now there are still those who can tell the story of your god and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history adequate of scale was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. and gary looked more pale than usual he was unsuitable in

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 would you want him up and hugged and i sound yury everything will be fine and he nodded back. as soon as he got in return to earth he was a superstar a hero for his compatriots and those who knew him admits they weren't quite sure how to act around him. garren and little guy approached us we all moved away and dearest he was very surprised he said what song was put together those who played against him were giving way to govern noticed is that it was offended he said let's play fair ok. he'd be hard pressed to find someone he knew who got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just reasonability s. as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not

a bad reputation to be associated with for this you got in this are celia artie stay with our tears will be covering the fiftieth anniversary of gerunds first right throughout the day our correspondent marina porton i reports from new york where the event is also being marked from a night club party dedicated to figure into a new international holiday declared i.p.u. when in his honor america once locked in a no holds barred space race with the soviet union is now with assaulting the legendary russian on his day coming your way in just over an hour here on r.t. . fiftieth anniversary of manned space flight also being celebrated high above the earth aboard the international space station russia's president stopped by mission control center near moscow for a special phone call to the people currently in orbit. between the advent of carriage waited the five men and one woman aboard the s.s. praising them for carrying on what darren started they had better have says the

flight program always remains one of russia's top priorities and added mankind should keep moving deeper into space later at the kremlin the president headed out awards to a number of russian and foreign space explorers for their achievements in a reaching for the stars soviet cars about victor got about co who train with a guarantee of r t an insight into those pioneering days of space travel right into the character of the first man in space you can watch his full interview with it hours time here's a preview. you do it it was the sort of man that would not let you down in battle or a normal life he had a talent for an isolation good he had more experience than most in life he had been through school or college the aviation club and the academy before he even started serving in the northern battalion one of his positive qualities was that his superiors and his friends and his subordinates like that was important he had a strong sense of jujitsu he said after his flight that he still was for every

pilot who came with him to fly into space but he just pushed to make that happen every pilot from the group of twelve who were not eliminated due to poor health discipline where they got to make this space flight. when americans up next with the business news stay with us here on r.t. . i would welcome to business side he thanks for joining me this hour and we're going to talk top story deputy prime minister in a second has decided to step down as trying to have a country state run well made for rosneft he's the first to fall the presidential order that top official said leave the board stay companies are all over of course from the headquarters here in moscow. they go to such an announce to snip shareholders that he will step down as the head of the company no this is due to a presidential ruling here in russia it says that no government official can also

hold a position on the board of a major company i was the surgeon is also the deputy prime minister here which means he has to step down from the position as the head of rosneft no old though they have known that this was going to happen it was expected but a presidential ruling only came in around two weeks ago so it hasn't given much time to to settle in for rosneft this because it could cause some uncertainty surrounding the sixteen billion dollars share swap deal between left and b p now this deal hasn't had many many snags in the past t.n. k p p p p's russian partners at the moment to try to oppose it at every turn and they've even suggested that. they take a billion dollar lawsuit could be filed by t h a p p against b.p. it's a loss of earnings that they could make from the expiration of all fields. and

top officials are leaving the boards of other big state companies canonical the minister to be going to be written and presidential aides are calling for coverage will be stepping down from spare banks supervisory council there are still a number of state companies with top officials on their boards among them finance minister could ring whose time and produce our office and energy minister should not call our cast down. ballots take a look at how the markets are doing here stocks fall after alcoa kicks off her innings with lackluster sales after japan raised a measure of mr verity of its nuclear crisis to the highest level of course said late on monday a return to first quarter profit but said revenue grew to just five point ninety six billion dollars instead of six point sixteen billion dollars that analysts expected in europe market strong as well commodity. related stocks were under pressure as all of metal prices keep falling she has been told all dropped over one a half percent in paris because i asked my cousin we point six percent in london.

and here in moscow the market is extended last thing a loss is an evening trading as investors chose to take golf it will be r.t.s. and eyes it's closed over two and a half percent i respect that we are negative news from abroad and lower oil prices now let's take a look at some individual share moves energy majors met significant losses with both gas common roughneck. over two percent and burbank also in the red losing over one and a half percent. the ukraine could see a benefit of six and i have to nine billion dollars a year if i join the customs union with ross i bet i was and kazakhstan that's the estimate put forward by prime minister putin who is visiting here have reports in ones that if you crane form the free trade zone with the european union also would have to take protective measures against cheap commodities coming from abroad on a separate issue ukraine's prime minister as sorry has once again raised the

subject of gas prices and said give fans a big discount and it's kind of getting. that's all for now back with more in less than one hour drive. of the.

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