more news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter all day. tonight the russian authorities say destabilizing the country was the main objective of the terrorist attack on the capital subway killed twelve and injured more than two hundred. probably lots of rocks the much so here it meets all the latest details and reaction following monday's bloody violence are coming up in just a few months. also warnings of cancer and physical mutations in libya as war veterans accuse allied forces of using poisonous to feed if you read any of the military campaign. and he traveled the space and landed in the pages of history

russia celebrates fifty years since he regards became the first glance a journey into the star. business deputy prime minister he says his steps down as chairman of ross never following president medvedev order top official said leave the boards of state companies details coming up in our business. this is our team from moscow it's ten pm choose date nights here now welcome to futures joins us my name is kevin owen and the top story says that the security and stability for the main targets of the attack that killed twelve people and left over two hundred injured by the russian special forces has confirmed the man whose photo if it was leaked on the internet is the main suspect of his country approach

over talk to some of the witnesses of monday's metro terror. it is a day to remember solemnly here and means the morning after the tragedy you can see piles of flowers candles and i comes later ran to the entrance so that station here by the explosion during evening rush hours on monday obviously emotions and feelings are running high as people want to be together on the stand maybe before going to work make a stop over here to observe a minute of silence. get a good 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. that we woke up thinking that i have to pay tribute to those who died and wish a speedy recovery to those who are currently in hospital and among those who remember solemnly on the stair also witnesses of the attack some of them how those injured the first minutes after the tragedy by that was one of them. i will give

you how give first aid how many did you assist. there were a lot to help one person to get upstairs three others joined boom but person was seriously wounded he was all covered with blood it was also a man who walked five people to get out there was blood all around i still have it on my. witnesses say minutes after the blast they saw hardly wounded people being carried out of this natural station including those with missing limbs now those injured remain many of them remain in intensive care units in hospitals across the city and to give you an idea this blast happened during evening rush hours where there were so many commuters on the macho system this natural station is the busiest in the capital of meals this is where too much oil lines intersect so this is why there's 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 an hour after the after this blast president alexander lukashenko start but a terrorist attack was the main 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 blast to hit the means camacho and it's also the first fatal terrorist attack in the country's more than history crisscross so i'm going to fill reseason expert on terrorism try to get his perspective on the mystery screeding too thanks for being on the program from your experience what can you say about this specific attack you've seen the pictures you've heard about the about the

damage that was done how sophisticated do you think this attack was and how sophisticated the people behind it indeed. it appears to be quite a sophisticated attack at first glance. obviously we haven't yet had information about the explosives used. in the other forensic information has not been released first glance this looks like a very sophisticated attack and that's what makes it very very mysterious because probably no experience of this and there are no obvious people who would wish to strike a printer it's well investigators they're working on three scenarios are they behind the bombing the to destabilize the state or attack by your own extremists or the single handed out of somebody who's mentally unstable which one sounds more realistic to you if you had to take a pic well i think you can rule out the last one in this you believe that anybody who wishes to kill large numbers of people are unstable i would say that without

it's probably the first but that doesn't necessarily suggest it's members of the opposition. could be a lot more complex than that. this is the first fatal attack in bellerose there was an explosion back on the metro there in two thousand and eight no one died and now of course the security services will be on a very high state of alert but i guess the general public in the country is going after look at things very differently from now on as well and be more alert about the potential for terrorist attacks because i guess it's the general public that has a duty to look after everyone else to notice and identified by a flight that of anything particularly going on the air. no doubt that will be the case that there will be a heightened state of alert and that's why members of the opposition claim that it is elements of the government that are behind this now you know just because it's a conspiracy theory doesn't mean that it's necessarily wrong because the president

looked at franco one highly disputed election in december and there is a deeply disgruntled opposition but in saying that the opposition has never showed any signs of being able to be involved in something like this nor have the sophisticated methods that are needed moreover some people have told me that most members of the no no position of either been in jail or under a twenty four hour observation from the k.g.b. so that they would be able to plan something as complicated and sophisticated as this just corrected herself. back in two thousand they read a bit more about it now it was in a park on the metro yeah but again at that point nobody died but it was a terrorist attack on the nose of a broad support for it whether it is there anything more that could have been done by the authorities to prevent this can you have a stop of palmer from taking on a soft target like a crowded metro during rush hour. i don't think they could've because there

was no indication that such an attack would take place and medicaid means that probably the eight like us are looking into a hall of mirrors my belief if one is asking about who's behind it and he evidently that's right question is that maybe there are certain elements within the regime itself that are allied with themselves with members of the opposition or indeed are angry at the president seems to have a clear road ahead so you know who is behind it we don't know but in terms of preventing a nobel things will change and i think already given announcements and security measures that will be in place and public spaces and all that and the type of things we see in america and europe and indeed in russia will now be in place in belarus. expert on terrorism thanks for joining us to give us your insight from london tonight. you will see still ahead on high alert the countries raise the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest level

putting the emergency now on par with the novel disaster got more details on that development today. first though military experts are accusing coalition forces in libya of using depleted uranium in their own strikes the deadly substance can cause cancer and physical mutations and those who come into close contact with it it claims are surfacing as the ongoing nato led campaign is being stepped up with no clear end in sight and he's going to shoot you can investigate must tell you you might find some of the images coming up 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 denies using depleted uranium in bombings in the country others say there is a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous review active element have been used that kind of damage. has a really good chance it was

a deal you around i'm about a ninety percent sure there was a new round but you do this to anybody who's on it who's getting a little radiation exposure some do a little the wind blowing. the particles are in the air. so all these people in cars are being released this theory 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 completed new rhenium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seen all too familiar you see how there's touches of red that's the burning see how it. instead of a cone straight up 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 e.u. and human rights commission has called for a ban countries who 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 ten spreading to any organ including the heart brain liver once the particles penetrate your cell tissue this is when you get all kinds of. that's people in iraq for example we've seen 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 completed uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous as normality higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the it 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 felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal got toward medical confirmation all round pollution a rock the health approach of the radium earlier and we see it throughout iraq are shorter arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're going to move it into a libya dr doug rockey who was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i was given a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection or a mission he unself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. libya

i suspect just because it is that you don't find it and. you start saying hey look everybody is still here they were offensive. against enough nations and so forth i don't think anyone will listen to it pleaded you rhenium as the hoff 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. . well who are these accusations of depleted uranium being used by coalition forces in libya let's talk to investigative journalist dave lindorff to find full veil and i just learned of hi thanks for being on the program so far the countries admit it is it to using defeated uranium bombs through the nato led campaign but nonetheless a ten planes have been seen flying over libya they often employ that type of warfare are likely is it do you think really that depleted uranium has already been

used in libya well we have to go back to that back that the u.s. never admits that it's using the stuff i've been reading about its use in iraq. they keep denying that it was used for example in fallujah the government keeps refusing to say that it used nuclear material in shells that were fired during that you know the two invasion strew assaults on fallujah yet we know that. they were used as you mentioned in your report you know there is all these groups of parents which are hard to explain anything else and depleted uranium so now that the government's denying that it's using depleted uranium and it's ten rounds in. the forces. i don't put any more credence in those reports than i did in the original i also about iraq but if it is being widely used as you say at times surely somebody must have blown the whistle before now could the various

governments people knowing that they're doing it. well the only people who could blow the whistle would be the pilots and the the people that aren't actually putting the ammunition into the planes and you know they're in the military and they're not really they're not talking and so. you know it's a fairly limited number of people that actually are loading them onto these planes and the people who fly them but what about the effects of these the pay uranium bomb the what effects do they have on civilians. well it's a devastating thing it also impacts any. any soldiers that come on the site you know when i see these pictures of the kind of what i was alluding to just kiss no you know every soldier's got a son the official think we're back to whatever however we know that when there are lots of reports that many soldiers' lives have been reported as you say i say it's just surprising that more people who blow the whistle if this is true well i'm talking about the rebel forces who come and stands cheering on burned out can't see

you know the nato forces of and torched you know are supposedly supporting or i guess we're not supporting really we're only protecting civilians supposedly but the reality is the american forces are supporting these rebels who are. defending themselves against gadhafi take so then when take explo no you see pictures of them standing on the smoking really and you know standing around a smoking room and sort of these vehicles cheering and pretty inhaling the smoke and i thinking while you're gone or it's you know if they're breathing smoke from you know that scrimmage a both of these things isn't it isn't it isn't always a media that it's a it's a long term effect long ill health the uranium and other materials that are also you know radioactive compounds that are in these shells is inhaled in lodges down deep in the smaller alveoli inside your lungs and it goes into the kidneys and

other. places and it sits there and the you get yourselves get bombarded with alpha cortical. can't even really be detected from outside your body because you're so weak but very large particles and you do a lot of genetic damage in the immediate vicinity of the particle and eventually you get cancer and spreads and you die well taking what you saying the nonetheless from gene and the us have refused to back a battle these are depleted uranium why is that how they justifying it well. if efficient and as you mentioned cheap. weapon for destroying armor and also for penetrating bunkers you know it can be concrete fortifications and things like that it's because it's the insistent interior well known to man. and because it burns on contact when it and when it hits it burns at about five thousand degrees so q you first of all you get this incredible punch through armor and in you get this very

intense fire on the inside of whatever you punched into so it's the perfect weapon for. blowing up cakes trunks. reinforce bunkers and so on but looking more broadly at the nato led count by the libyan rebels rejecting an african unity in place plan we know that this thing is there for now no end in sight at the moment at least to the libyan conflict what is your prediction of how long the coalition will remain involved in a country whether it is going to go. well now you know you're going into an area where i wouldn't claim any expertise and i'm certainly not a military strike if you say. i could not say i mean i'm amazed that he holds on as long as he can because he's pretty well blocked from getting any resupply. you know the french and italian and american and

british planes knocking out equipment to go over these launches which trenches the washington post so i mean is that he's able to hold it together. on the other hand this war is not popular much arab league particular in france or britain or even the u.s. so you know it's really a question of who gives the truest word and who wins all right thanks very much a program vesey of journalists to dave lindorff on the line from pennsylvania thanks very much i thank you. fifty years ago today mon kind opened a grand new chapter of its history by sharing in the manned exploration of space and the people across the grover crow globe are marking the anniversary of eureka and pioneering flight today he says from similar reports from the cosmodrome 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 utica got aboard his last 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 launch pad used by the a so used to it may twenty one crew when they left for space on april five were going to the international space station they were of course in a spacecraft that had the image of eureka 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 cooperation among countries the international space station 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 a 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 you to go got it. and by how the owner of taken the vostok a great spacecraft to space first i was very happy to have that on and it was only the beginning april twelve one thousand nine hundred sixty one good 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 course nice thing but for this man it was also the day his name shot thing you know didn't it is not paris didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots academy and that the

facility is working it was top secret when they heard that you're eager garnett being sent into space they soon it was me janice came to our house to envy my parents with a new nothing i think they could have had a heart attack. he had never leave because god in one thousand nine hundred sixty three while working at the launchpad he ended up face to face with a man and introduced himself purple necessity you asked me what month i was born i said march and it seemed to me like he's going to collapse even stretched out my hands to hold him up it's 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. of scale was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. and larry looked more pale than usual he was unsociable and

quiet which was not like him and i know he would answer by not in or a short yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy in produce him up and hugged and i said i'd yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back. over to think as soon as he got in return so worth he was a superstar a hero for his compatriots those who knew him admit they weren't quite sure how to act around him. and we were playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached us we all moved away and dearest he was very surprised he said what's up . with those who played against him were giving way to govern noticed this and it was offended he said let's play fair ok but. you'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 for his abilities as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not

a bad reputation to be associated with for this he got in this are silly our party . a man who changed the world in just twenty minutes away tonight from truth denied sports all the latest in the russian hockey finals coming up with italian a bit but let's get across the base business next with kurt america. our markets our business update here at r.t. thanks for joining me every prime minister intercessions steps down as chairman of the country's state run oil lage our ross yet he is the first of all the presidential or other top officials to leave the boards of state companies. has more. eagar such an announce to shareholders that he will step down as the head of the company no this is due to a presidential ruling here in russia that 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 now although they have known that this was going to happen it was expected but presidential ruling only came in around two weeks ago so it hasn't given much time to settle in for this because it could cause some uncertainty surrounding the sixteen billion dollars share swap deal between next and be paid now this deal hasn't had many many snags in the past t m k t p p p's russian partners at the moment to try to oppose it it's at every turn and they've even suggested that. they take a billion dollar lawsuit could be filed by t.i.n.k. b.p. against b.p. its loss of earnings that they could make from the expiration of oil fields and b.p. and its russian partners who are widely expected to hold an extraordinary meeting

on wednesday to try to resolve their differences but he is now saying the meeting will not take place the dispute is causing a heading for the government that has a strong interest in the exploration of the arctic but corporate lawyer believes there's also a silver lining for russia. but i think the point that you 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 policies are the contracts and the course aside you could have contracts you must obey this. the fact that you have a common you trying to do something with the snatched 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 is a bit stuffy it's a great day for russian you know system. officials are leaving the boards of other big state companies economic development minister leader libya would have presidential aide coverage would be stepping down from spare bags i supervise

a recount so there are still a number of state companies with top officials on their boards among them finance minister called in who is that diamond producer and energy minister call who is at the gas pump. now let's take a look at the markets u.s. stocks dropped on tuesday after japan's increases nuclear crisis level stocks are also down after alcoa kicked off earnings like cluster sales alcoa said late on monday a return to first quarter profit but said revenue was short about us that spectate shots in europe markets finished the day lower mining stocks dragged you case forty below the six thousand level on tuesday travel stocks and drug makers were the strong performers commodity related stocks were other pressure on lower oil and metal prices because a mess was the biggest decline or all the forty dropping four point six percent and here in moscow the markets finished in the red denies it slid two and a half percent on tuesday the lowest level since march twenty ninth the r.c.

has lost two point four percent now let's take a look at some individual share moves and if you may just met significant losses probably declines the most after the biggest two day drop in forty months rossi have lost over three percent back in stocks finished in the red as well with square bank chatting over three percent of my sick. ukraine could see a benefit of six and i have to nine billion dollars a year if it joined the customs union with russia belarus stuff that's the estimates put forward by prime minister putin who is visiting kiev over a course in warns that if you crane forms a free trade zone with the european union russia would have to take protective measures against commodities coming across the border on a separate issue ukraine's prime minister as that of has once again raised the subject of gas prices say wants a baby discount as car. that's our business out there for this hour but you can always log on to our web site that's r t dot com plus business i'd like more

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