but the russian authorities say destabilizing the country would have made the objective of the terrorist attack on the capital subway killed twelve or the injured more than two hundred. have probably lost drugs the macho here let me call it some details and reaction following monday's bloody violence are coming up in just a few moments. also warnings of cancer and physical mutations in libya as war veterans accuse our live forces of using poisonous depletes if you break the link up. and the travel to space and landed in the pages of

history at the same time russia celebrates fifteen years since you regard it became the first planted journey to the star. hello this is our team from moscow it is eleven pm choose the night here now my name is kevin zero in on the top story minsk says that security and stability of better roofs but the main targets of the attack that killed twelve people and left over two hundred injured but the russian special forces have confirmed a man whose photo that was leaked onto the internet is the main suspect capturing a great show 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 icons later on to the entrance so that the metro

station here by the explosion during evening rush hours on monday all 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 it's not just it was 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 among those who remember solemnly on these they are also witnesses of the attack some of them how those injured the first minutes after the tragedy by those one of them. did you how give person eight how many did your sister mostly thrown in which there were a lot i hope one person to get upstairs and three others joined in person was seriously

wounded he was all covered with blood it was also a man who had five people to get out 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 metro 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 our lines intersect so this is why there was so many passengers during this evening rush hour also it's only one hundred meters from the republican palace where a lot of state ceremonies take place from the central square of means an hour after

the after those last president ballots that are looking for suffered a terrorist attack was the made 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 bellerose in investigating into the causes of this bombing well it's the first blast to hit the means to matter and it's also the first fatal terrorist attack in the country's more than history. phil reese is a terrorism expert based in london he told me it's unlikely that look at his political opposition had anything to do with. members of the opposition. it is elements within government that are behind this now just because it's a conspiracy theory doesn't mean that it's necessarily wrong because the president

look at anker one disputed election in december and there is a deeply disgruntled opposition saying that the opposition is never showed any signs of being able to be involved in something like this nor the sophisticated methods that are needed and moreover some people are probably the most members of the known opposition and 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 coming up on the program and on high alert the countries raise the severity rating of its nuclear crisis now to the highest level putting the emergency on a par with the chernobyl disaster we got reaction to that coming up live just ahead . first though military experts are accusing coalition forces in libya of using depleted uranium in their airstrikes their deadly substance can cause cancer and physical mutations and those who come into close contact with the close are

surfacing as the ongoing nato led campaign is being stepped up with no clear end in sight out he's going to teach you can investigate and must warn you you may find some of the images coming up in this next 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 radioactive element have been used that kind of damage. is a really good here as it was when you were around. in ninety percent sure there was do you around. to anybody who is on it. it's going to. expose or who the world or the wind blowing. the rules the particles are in the air.

all these people in those cars you expose know lisa siri served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out 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 seem all too familiar you see how those touches of red that's the burning see how it shoots out instead of a cone straight up and you've got the flare at the bottom that's a do you explosion it put it you rein him 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 including 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 can spread into any organ including the heart brain liver once the particles penetrate your cell tissue this is when you get all kinds of kinetic new patients and people in iraq for example 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 depleted uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous ever normalities higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in nineteen. ninety five a legacy today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal we've got trouble medical confirmation all round pollution or rock but the health

approach of the radio and we should throw out a record or shoddy radio kuwait and afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're going to move 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 there was given a written memoranda lie about the health and environmental protection or a mission he himself 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. base thank you just because you stand there and find that and the people then you start saying hey look everybody's here they don't put fences. with nations and so forth i don't think anyone listening depleted uranium has a half life of four and

a house dealing in years hands it's description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. a little earlier i spoke to u.s. cheerless cohen alan about all this he says washington is selling depleted uranium bombs to its nato allies and the ill effects of the controversial weapon will be felt in libya for decades to come. it's spectacularly effective i mean it essentially turns four inches of hardened armor into margarine it just goes right through it they're in their essential is no defense against depleted uranium shells so of course if you're a war you want to have depleted uranium emulation and the united states is now trading and selling depleted uranium ammunition to a large number of its nato allies are not only the allies but twenty five countries across the world this last as long as the earth is been around is four point four

billion years that's about forever essentially and the danger to it is the curse it's very heavy rain was extremely heavy it sinks down low into the ground and it gets into the water so the problem will be that twenty thirty forty years from now on you're going to be have this steady leakage of both toxic metals and you reign them into the water tables of these villages i really don't know where this is going in a long time this was a very ill thought out war. he who controls the lot to the battle of how to deal with the massive influx of north african refugees it's a leap but inundated with tens of thousands of kidneys the ins and libyans following uprisings and their homelands germany's now slammed italy's decision to hand a six month resident permits to the migrants and it's refusing to hell because of a them as the danish m.e.p. morton question smitty told me of the border control system of e.u. countries should be reformed. reality is really striking here i mean for now ten

years my party and equivalence to my past you have been crying out loud against the open borders because it's created so many problems with illegal migration with with international crime and so on which the average population of europe is on a daily basis suffering under now because of this flood of migrants we have a pressing situation which is pressing out in the s.s.a. for national border control the entire shingle idea has failed and therefore we need to step back until into the situation which we had ten years ago where there was actually national border control because it is for the benefit of the national status for the benefit of the populations of europe we need to realize that and i think slowly the elites the bureaucrats of e.u. is realizing these facts. japan has raised the nuclear alert level of the quake at fukushima plant to the maximum of seven and this puts the crisis on a par with the chernobyl disaster the decision was based on new data showing that more radiation of leaked from the damaged plant than previously thought but

officials say that the upgrade doesn't mean the situation has become more critical the operator of the fukushima plant appears to be no closer to restoring cooling system is another powerful aftershock across eastern japan forced the operator to evacuate it stuff it becomes a month after that massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country leaving over thirteen thousand people there let's try and gauge more for you on this what it actually means this new maximum level that's been rated at forty nuclear engineer arnold gundersen he's in one in u.s. mr gundersen thanks for being on r.t. and you described yourself before this the fukushima disaster as chernobyl on steroids now how worried should the world be that this disaster is now officially rated as highly as what we saw in ukraine twenty five years ago. well the thing is that it should have been recognized three weeks ago more people should have been evacuated out sooner but i think it is an indication now that the japanese rules

that going to go in and the government understand how severe the action is but it is really. three weeks too late so why is it taken so long why is it taking the government this long to put this official status on it may feel like it's a really jumped out once before and it. i think you know there's a lot of things for the japanese are really committed to nuclear and so the result of a lot of the first interest that wanted to downplay or which you know i study the three mile island accident history chernobyl and now this one and it is pretty sheer a practice when things are breaking you do seem to. look for the best turn of as opposed to the most realistic one and i think the japanese wanted a nice outcome and believed whatever insurance no indication so what are we looking at here i mean taking what you said earlier on the comment you made of a chain of

a lot of steroids i mean are we likely to see you gerri as of wasteland the around the fukushima plant that no one's going to be able to eat out of it for decades and japan's a very densely populated country it's kind of a huge impact if that's the case isn't it well we're lucky if there's any luck here and really there isn't if there's any luck here it's been that most of the time the wind has been going out to sea and the wind been going the other way i think we see the scenario you just described already. the worst case is the unit for a fuel pool which is enormous amounts of petroleum and depleting uranium like you had in the last segment if that catches fire it could give a. little larger and. now they've got power back so that plant is there a danger that that could still happen that the things still very not in control there as you see it you know really don't have power to the fuel pool cooling

systems in any of the reactors in uniform is the worst because that if you will cool has the freshest fuel it's the most physically higher and in addition uniform it's got a crack in the side of it so they can even if they have water really cool it it's going to run out the crack that's the top of the top as problem and say great now what's your view over who is the best person to deal with this initially and have bad as the weeks have gone by should it have been tepco after all i guess the other people would know all about it but there again they i guess one of their profits as well though they and they want had they were the best outcome for the company should the government maybe have done more and stepped in and diverted more central resources and it's easy for us to sit here and say that now. because japan was in a heck of a state at the time you know it's hard to second guess who merges here but again i think. you're right he had a big house tsunami to worry about too but the government should have stepped in sooner and more aggressively we are live data we were getting out of. was was not

good you know were wrong numbers kept coming out for weeks it is hard to make good decisions when you have bad data. a lot of the something special program nuclear engineer as you are talking to us from of the us there. thank you. nato is not doing enough to destroy heavy weaponry used by moammar gadhafi forces in libya that is according to the french and british foreign ministers they called on colonel gadhafi indeed to step down and said that civilians remain at risk despite nato's actions rebels opposing gadhafi have been pushed back in spite the fall of bombing raids the country's been ravaged by civil war since february with thousands dead and engine. world news in brief the palestinian authority is now largely ready to govern a state according to the united nations report on it the findings will be submitted to palestinian donor nations meeting in brussels on wednesday but the report was

that it would be difficult for the palestinian authority to make any additional progress while the israeli occupation continues and peace talks from install dialogue between the two sides has been on hold since last year old mission jewish settlements in the west bank. now closed internationally recognized leader of the sun would urged peace out of his rival was finally captured lost by both been refusing to step down since last november's elections leading to a conflict that claimed almost a thousand lives he's now been moved out of the city of abidjan the u.n. troops supervision a criminal investigation would be open if the actions of by both his wife and their entourages president the terrible times now faced with the task of reuniting with country. fifty years ago today mankind opened a grand new chapter of its history by assuring in the manned exploration of space people across the globe are marking the anniversary of europe could be our inspiring flight test recently reports next from because woodrow propelled the

first man in this space. 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 bus stuck one capsule and blasted off into space well that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the good god and start it's the very same launch pad used by the a so used to have a twenty one crew when they left for space on april fly and 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 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 cooperation 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 band called unity god it. and i have the honor of taking the vostok a great spacecraft to space first i was very happy to have that on it was only the beginning. april twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one the day utica got in 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 and that's truly course my school but for this

man it was also the day his name shot to fame you know i didn't use knowledge parents didn't know where i was serving they only knew our graduation from pilots academy and at the facility as working it was top secret only heard that you regarded being sent into space they soon it was me janice came to our house to infere my parents but they knew nothing i think they could have had a heart attack. he had met lee 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 carefulness as if they were the r.c. 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 turned out he's gone 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 you to 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. when we. were going to look more pale than usual he was unsociable and 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 guy in gear him up and hugged and i sound yury everything will be fine and he nodded back. as soon as he got in return to 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. we were playing volleyball on the garden and little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed he was very surprised he said what song was truly good or those who played against him were giving way to govern noticed this and was offended he said let's play fair ok. 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 reasonability s. as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this duty god in this hour celia artie. change the world the last kaiser looking at the scandals the latest financial airlines fee in just a couple of minutes time i was a good watch that program but created with a change in our business before. thanks for joining us our deputy prime minister igor session steps down as chairman of the country's state or major ross nast is the first of all the presidential order top officials should leave the boards of state governments are. he go to such an announce to ross next 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 that position as the head of rosneft now although 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 settle in for rosneft this could cause some uncertainty surrounding the sixteen billion dollars share swap deal between us next and be paid 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 n k p p against b.p.

and the loss of earnings that they could make from the expiration of oil fields. the pain as russian partners were widely expected to hold an extraordinary meeting on wednesday to try to resolve their differences but thank you b.p. is now saying the meeting will not take place the dispute is causing a headache for the government that has a strong interest and exploration. but capital where an artery believes there's also a silver lining for russia. but i think that the point that that's been missed in western circles is this is such a great news for russia and great news for legal system because. you have a great example here of where the parties have contracts and the courts are said you've got to contracts you must obey is. the fact that you have a you're trying to do something with that by the russian government is irrelevant the reality is you have a contract we have a rule of law russia so actually and i think this is a point that western media services missed i think it's a great day for russian legal system. talk officials are leading the boards of

other big state companies economic development minister if you are in the building and presidential aide our coverage will be stepping down from the supervisory council there's still a number of state companies with top officials on their boards among them finance minister putin who is at the. energy minister call. now let's take a look at how the markets are doing yes dogs dropped on tuesday after japan's increases after you're planning creased nuclear crisis level stocks are also down after alcoa kicked off wordings lackluster sales because said late on monday if we turn to first quarter profit said revenue was shorter than us expectations in europe markets british lower on tuesday as well nineteen stalls drag you case would see below the six thousand level trouble stocks and drug makers were the strong performers commodity related stocks were under pressure on lower oil and metal prices and because of this was the biggest decline on the footsie dropping four

point six percent. here in moscow the markets ended in the red slid to the half percent the lowest level since march twenty ninth he has lost two point four percent now let's take a look at some individual share moves energy majors met significant losses gas palm declined and most after the world fell its biggest today drop and pushed months glossed over three percent banking stocks finished in the red as well would spread bank setting over three percent of the months. ukraine could see a benefit of six and a half to nine billion dollars a year if they join the customs union with russia and kazakhstan that's the estimate put forward by prime minister putin who is visiting kiev overcoats and once that if ukraine forms a free trade zone with the european union russia would have to take protective measures against keep coming out of these coming across the border on a separate issue ukraine's prime minister has once again raised the subject of gas

processing was a bigger discount that it's cut because. that's all for me and the business did here at r t but don't forget you can always read more stories on our websites to dot com slash business headlines are next up i'm going. to the.

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