the children of each college. but you know what you know. to make their children killed their ability to enjoy more time. in serbia letters available in britain hyatt regency going to. be here smiles over the future of egypt where the archive a range of muslim brotherhood movement is voiced a pledge victory in the coming election. the son of russia's antivirus software a good you get got your fears that you would be kidnapped for and some in moscow why not all the details in just a few minutes. doctors warned that the people exposed to the gulf of mexico oil spill could face a greater risk of cancer a year on and many who took part of the cleanup operation are seriously ill while of the shoals tried to sweep the story under the rug.

and watching r t coming to you live from moscow thanks for joining us now ahead of september's election egyptians are erasing the memory of ousted president hosni mubarak by destroying icons and renaming streets and while the west is cheering for democracy in egypt there are fears the vote could bring about another on wanted regime artie's lore and that explains. the more things change the more they stay the same certainly that's how it seems in egypt where the army is clearing qarase tahrir square of demonstrators to show everything's back to normal and they're not wrong after months of up people it's very much the same people in charge as before if you can say that they may believe the dictator they have a duty to dictatorship but deep concerns as to what the reforms are going forward.

whether the restrictions on the role of the military is still too great for true freedom in egypt and that is the debate this calmly polarizing society but without the army a power vacuum and poised to step into that vacuum the muslim brotherhood links to al-qaeda the brotherhood is understood to be multiplying and organizing from the mosques according to their spokesperson they expect to win seventy five percent of the electoral seats they contest in september's election some expect something more sinister there might be a deal. between the army and between the muslim brotherhood to share power and basically hijack the whole revolution this is the all those and the best organized political movement in the opposition and of course if the field is more or less been leveled now after mubarak has gone they have more chances than others who are not well organized back at the beginning of the year european leaders appeared to

adopt a hands off approach to supporting democracy in egypt but the these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now for greater freedom and democracy in egypt . but americans are now arriving in droves to exert their influence over the democratization process it's very worrying to see so many advisers from washington arrive in cairo and perhaps try and hijack the revolution for washington but we must always remember that egypt was a strategic lynchpin of washington foreign policy that all important sue is going to hell and the nile river basin so we'll see the forces aligned against any leader that does a regime egypt washington with their free try and get it on. but what if it's the muslim brotherhood the west has had some dealings with the brotherhood has been acting very differently towards its roots organizing. classified by some countries

as a terrorist organization in two thousand and six how mass won a democratic election in the palestinian authority in response the middle east quartet improves severe sanctions according to the merriam webster dictionary the definition of democracy is government by the people but what will happen if european corridors of power if the people of egypt choose what's perceived abroad to be the role of government the world awaits the results of september's election you're. going to. be in while libya an arab nation inspired by egypt's example is struggling to overthrow gadhafi regime after two months of fighting well nato allies have announced plans to send military advisors to the rebels have quarters to help the opposition break the stalemate with pro-government forces well russia's foreign minister has warned that putting international bodies on the ground could have unpredictable consequences. we have those are the latest developments in libya

are not making us happy it's a clear launch of the ground conflict we consider these moves extremely risky which could lead to unpredictable consequences there's been cases in history when it all started with sending in military advisors and then it drags out for years and resulted in hundreds and thousands dates on both sides we call on everyone to respect the u.n. resolution and solving this conflict because i'm a libyan rebels armed with heavy weaponry are moving further arrests from their base in benghazi towards the capital who reports suggest over ten thousand people have died since the uprising began in february france has promised to intensify the tell that airstrikes to cut off these offensive well as the war activist brian becker told r.t. the escalation of force by the allies could eventually reach full scale thing. the real goal from the beginning has been to topple the regime they never say we're

going in to take oil that would not be a very popular cause they have to give the mission some sort of noble cause in this case protecting civilians in other cases protecting democracy or freedom or stopping terrorism i think a lot of people see through this in the american people by the way they see the war in afghanistan ten years in the war in iraq eight years in another war in a muslim country the american people don't want this they are being told that there's no money for nurses and teachers and firefighters because the country is broke but soon seemingly endless funds for another war in another muslim country can ruin sarkozy and obama say khadafi must go in the family doesn't work doesn't back then mean in order not to feel that there has to be endless escalation an escalation ultimately lead to a military invasion if they can't stop or oust gadhafi i think that's where this is going even though they say it'll never happen. and still to come in the program combating terror. being a policeman in russia's north caucasus region is

a notoriously dangerous job we go on patrol in turbulent darkest hour on the front lines of the fight against islamic insurgents join us in our special report in just a few minutes. oh we turn now to moscow where the son of russia's most prominent antivirus guru you have garry kasparov ski has reportedly been kidnapped for ransom a correspondent you've got this kind of is standing by with the latest on this how they're years or so is a manhunt underway right now what are the authorities say. while the alleged kidnapping happened a few days ago it's only on thursday that these news came out and according to reports twenty year old. he was kidnapped right next to his work in moscow and on the same day his father you gain just yes he who is the founder of one of the biggest antivirus software production companies in the world he reportedly received a phone call from the kidnappers who demanded three million euros in ransom this is

not yet been confirmed by the authorities although he did confirm that if one just yes he is missing there are also reports that you go on the head of both his home address and his work address posted on the wall of these social networks or perhaps that could have helped organize this alleged kidnapping when it comes to his father you get you got to be a ski he founded his company back in one thousand nine hundred seventy his wife is asking you to be worth around eight hundred million u.s. dollars at the moment police and the federal security service are searching for his son so we know for now of course we'll be monitoring this story as it develops we certainly will thanks very much for that update artie's you're going to skin up. and coming up a blast from the past streaks across. siberia will find out by thousands of russians a volunteer to build a new railway system in a remote region of the country which is still going strong today. a

year after one of the worst environmental disasters in history the gulf of mexico oil spill b.p. is trying to shift the blame by suing its contractors for millions of gallons of oil spill from the deepwater rig following an explosion which killed eleven people and while b.p. fights over big bucks in court it's the locals that are bearing the brunt. has a story. five million barrels of oil in combination with almost two million gallons of highly toxic chemical dispersants used to fight the oil spill a cocktail that contaminated not just the water in the gulf but found its way into people's blood a year after the disaster an environmental group tested the blood of dozens of cleanup workers as well as residents of coastal areas they found levels of benzene thirty six times higher than normal. shader

truly want to work in the open a bottle or even. clayton mathur and worked as a boat and you near he says he was in perfect health before he was exposed to the toxic chemicals in the gulf now he's fighting a bouquet of illnesses gardasil flugel the plot allegedly for pollution from clayton is not alone in his fight george price owns a small boat yard in louisiana perfectly healthy just a year ago he has lost thirty pounds in the last few months george was diagnosed with severe anaemia a sinner and must kill both of his story and we. know you really know dr michael robbie chom who's been practicing medicine in louisiana for forty years says he's never have such an influx of patients with respiratory and blood issues he fears the worst it soon as it's true but so are his for cause robbie cha is one of a few doctors who is outspoken about gulf coast residents same times connection with

the toxic chemicals that they've been exposed to many other doctors refuse to recognize the cause as dr robert shaw says either because they don't have the necessary training or they don't want to be called a coworker. and environmental justice group told residents in several coastal communities almost half said they had experienced health problems like coughing skin and eye irritation or headaches that are consistent with common symptoms of chemical exposure doctors say the consequences of having for example benzene in the blood could be a lot more serious it can cause a decreasing red blood cells leading to a need or cancer of the blood forming organs it's very when you look at be ingredients. which is considered so. it is considered as rather it as it was material how to live with the ingredients in the toxic dispersants. and when you

mix those together it actually creates a substance or a times more toxic in these are exactly the types of chemicals that are truly not literally in people's blood many of these back to the gulf coast residents and those involved in the cleanup of the gulf say they're alone in their fight with the consequences of last year disaster many of them likely don't even have health coverage through. your version of worship every day marine biologists are saying it's going to take at least twenty years for the gulf ecosystem to recover president obama signed the country's environmental agency to investigate health effects of the spill but many gulf coast residents are sure the agency will do its best to sweep the findings under the rug i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . well it seems that no lessons have been learned since last year's calamitous gulf of mexico oil spill filmmaker scott roberts says that oil corporations are more concerned with making profits than regulating the industry i think

a lot of really has to do with the fact that the oil companies really don't. care about the consumer you know it's business as usual they're making billions billions of dollars in profits like a big choice we really don't want to sacrifice our lifestyle for the better of the long term good it seems in the car companies are producing cars that s.u.v.s trucks things that really aren't that great on fuel economy with consumers are buying them so they're going to keep making them i think it comes down to money i think well companies they throw some money towards the alternative fuel industry and doing research you know a lot of that is green washing but why change business as usual when you're making billions of dollars we need powerful leadership in washington d.c. who is not afraid to point the finger at the oil industry create new legislation consumers need to find you know we live in a society where people know more about the american idol contestants than they do

their own representatives we all have to get involved we have to push legislation and we have to vote in the people that are going to make a difference and do something about it. russia so why superjet one hundred has made its first passenger flight from get involved in armenia to moscow it's the first russian commercial plane produced in two decades let's cross live to our business to ask for more on this now dimitri how significant is this for russia's aviation industry it is very significant because there were many delays in the launch of the super super super jet one hundred play and as you mentioned is the first plane to be manufactured in russia in the past two decades the very big expectations and high hopes that this plane would mark the revival of russia's aircraft industry which was pretty massive in soviet times before the collapse of the soviet union so therefore because this plane has quite a big market and it has the competitive advantage in terms of its economic efficiency very high hopes for this plane and this first flight is pretty important

. all right thank you very much for that update dimitri. now do you want to voice any of your opinion on the stories we're covering you can just go to our website and have your say that's our dot com and there's plenty of things for us all waiting to be discovered around the clock so here's a quick look at what's on life right now be careful where you go your i phone is tracking you researchers are reading their privacy a lot after discovering that i phones trace and store their users every movement. it cost the u.s. house or the roads to infamy by burning a koran is now planning an armed rally outside the largest mosque in america all the details on our team call.

dozens of militants have been killed and many terrorist attacks prevented the following recent security raids in russia or the country's southern republic of dagestan still remains a hotbed for extremists but police putting their lives on the line hoping to put an end to the violence. that reports from the north caucuses. in the from going line in darkest and southern russia but this isn't a battlefield of tanks and missiles but of daily skirmishes. and hit and run attacks on american trade centers. i'm afraid there has to be someone to do this job and recently the dangers of the job will burn. as this easy t.v. footage shows militants troy them firing from a kalashnikov into the police station before speeding off. five minutes later a second car left behind explodes seven policemen wanted it and local prosecutor's

office and federal security service building took the brunt of the blast. the local police chief isms no illusions about the viciousness of their opponents. as police we have to use only legal means to fight these militant however there is one birth here when these bad things like blowing up cars in busy street must fight them in their own way the town of kids will get itself is a modest trading center surrounded by villages many of which are friendly to the hard line with the form of islam and militants it's typical of many such places throughout much of the north caucasus which is struggling with a radical islamic insurgency and locals refer to people joining the militants as having gone to the forest but can't understand how they justify their acts. it's crucial to find a common language when those in a forest but there should be a way to reach some compromise you know that question others sometimes it feels

like i live in not in dagestan but in afghanistan where real muslims wouldn't go to the forest is on is a social religion and the forest is real animals not people it was obvious the bruce i knew would not want hers the hard beasts they're killing their brothers they're not real muslims new muslim ones those that are not towns five hundred police are mostly muslim just like the militants even so they are usually the main tera target but they're keen to distinguish between hardened terrorists and new recruits i tell you of course young people who made a mistake and went to the forest should be given a chance to mend their ways but those who persisted killing civilians and policeman will destroy them afterward seen enough of his opponents to know about them nothing to motives however dangerous they are he doesn't think he faces a special threat. and those who go to. forests are just. they're

just scum and it's awful that we use islam to disguise the. fact that the police station they're reinforcing the concrete barricades they want to be prepared for the next wave of kalashnikovs car bombs were at the checkpoint on the outskirts of the town police say their life here over the past decade has been one of the true parties on me and yet nobody seem to be able to answer those two most obvious questions when it might spend time boxen our three kids and get. a quick look at some other news stories from around the world now asylum seekers. immigration detention center during the riots in the sydney they threw roof tiles and other objects of firefighters who were called in to put out the blaze but the riots started with detainees protesting over rejected asylum application notes police say that no injuries suffered reporter that order has been restored australia has recently seen an increase in the number of asylum seekers arriving

from sri lanka afghanistan and iraq. japan has declared the twenty kilometer evacuation area around the stricken the fukushima nuclear plant and official no entries are on the bad comes after police found more than sixty families still living inside the affected area following the march disaster however the authorities would arrange a brief visits for over as it is allowing them to return for up to two hours to collect michael belongings paralyze a lot of crippled by both the earthquake and tsunami has been hit by a series of explosions and radiation leaks for you six weeks now this footage is attained by a remote controlled robot of japan's crippled fukushima nuclear facility the robot is exploring damaged buildings and taking radiation readings in areas considered too dangerous for. humans to enter all the plants on the north eastern coast was

devastated by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit japan in march. two cargo ships are believed to have been hijacked by somali pirates in the indian ocean and italian vessel has been seized about four hundred miles off of coast but no demand for ransom has yet been made and the second us all a south korean cargo ship is carrying a crew of fourteen south koreans and six indonesia's saw a warship to the scene to help locate the vessel piracy is at an all time high in the area despite multinational control efforts. oh now it's sorry for something a little bit different as we join our closer team for a new journey through russia's most exciting locations and the hot swap this time around is the mountainous region in eastern siberia.

it lies some six thousand kilometers away from moscow and borders trying to go yeah well this location became the bedrock for one of the if not the most ambitious projects of the soviet union construction of the so-called railway line a began over seventy years ago when people from different parts of the country are at least a c. but it's talk to some of those people who dropped everything and headed east. young and optimistic they came from different soviet republics they unified in the same belief that if they built more mainline regional prosperity will come known as the bam it was meant to protect the country's border with china to support the trans iberian railroad and to transport the area's natural resources patriotic romanticism fueled the project but it also diversified the region by bringing indigenous people together with newcomers like bam crewmembers like jr in libya shandor. we don't regret coming here will love the beauty of the north in one

thousand nine hundred ninety two during the collapse of the u.s.s.r. we moved back to gaza stand for a while but then returned in july will mark our thirty first anniversary living here prison labor early the first tracks in one nine hundred thirty eight building back in one nine hundred seventy four with a so-called secretary general famously declaring the only clear hand to build a band the recruitment of members of a communist you and of you but politics to plans after course the soviet union. the construction of a century ago a word processor matters feel that many fail to fruition with the fall of the u.s.s.r. came the start of mining projects companies simply stop investing in the exploration of natural resources so with little to no product to transport and a peaceful relationship with china critics challenge the band's worthiness of its.

price tag retire geologist alexander has mixed feelings he's proud of what he and his colleagues accomplished however he's also disillusioned by time and really benefits dried up when the nation transition to democracy. with romantic notions didn't search for any personal benefits or profits in that period of time when we were young and healthy our older not. decaying temporary homes during the picturesque landscape and visually reminds locals that economic prosperity has not yet come but a new patient hands and the real world that was a really traveled has increase in passenger and cargo commutes companies are investing in mining exploration and weaving up hope that the real will be key in transporting natural resources in bringing new lift to the local economy picture book on it's came to work again from ukraine. in my native tomb they think it is

the road to nowhere but i think it's the road to the future we did the best we could and we were not paid much but most for the whole want that's how we lived. to build a long lasting legacy for the nation that he this chandan and many who worked in mine believe will finally reap the benefits of their sacrifices to civilians aren't teaching. authors the right sports of just over twenty minutes but first the business. bank staten island welcomes him business outside moscow sheremetyevo airport has played host to be a rival of the first commercial flight of the new sea horse super jet. craft named after the first man in space. was carrying its full capacity of passengers on the trip from get out of the first russian passenger plane produced twenty years the service yard and standard to be a competitor to rival medium range aircraft manufactured by kind of the. results

and grab. skirts of the markets now u.s. stocks opened slightly positive after a strong wednesday session driven today by apple and morgan stanley who said first quarter earnings with blowout sales of its. stock is up to half a sec. and in europe stocks mixed the south seas down by just the not so that is up point seven percent. knology sector stocks leading the gains with chip equipment maker s. and l. holding up more than one percent also chemical group x. so noble is gaining four percent after reported a jump in the first quarter profits. here in russia the markets are also mixed with this pretty flat the obvious is up zero point two percent in my six is down point three percent investors are getting ready for easter holiday it's take a look at some individual stalks gas problem is up twenty one percent lukoil is down one percent so really there's

a mixed feeling about energy stocks polymaths one of the biggest losers despite high precious metal prices that's after the company published a disappointing results at its output twenty eleven would go down. well is slightly lower a vis with the four percent again so far this month following a ten percent rise in march crude prices are keeping their heads up however light sweet crude is that how did leaven dollars in the heart of brant one hundred twenty three dollars fifty four cents a barrel. and gold prices yet again advancing to a new all time record price topping of fifteen hundred and four dollars per troy ounce this out silver is also high it's almost a forty six dollars per ounce worldwide inflation and that concerns are causing investors to look at precious metals cepeda instruments. economic news now consumer prices in russia grew as much as four point one percent this year so

far the pace of growth has accelerated compared to last year when it reached three point four percent in the same period however prime minister as you know professor pledged to take the annual inflation rate to seven and a half percent. russian international reserves jumped to their highest level in more than two years helped by a rising europe euro denominated assets account for forty percent of the reserves which now top five hundred billion dollars but that's still lower than china and japan. the ruble is a new record as high oil prices are fueling prospects of faster economic growth in the country the russian currency gained almost one percent of a dollar on wednesday the greenback now costs around twenty seven point nine rubles that's a low some twenty some months primus uprootedness calling to further strengthen the ruble known as make it a reserve currency in the post so be it space. and russian pipeline monopoly transnet says it may file a lawsuit against china in london over under payments for oil supplies the ground

from legal action lies in chinese part the c n p c's failure to meet the agreed price for another before going to court both companies have to settle the issue for negotiations transnet says it's not only losses are valued around twenty million dollars well over all that has exceeded one hundred million. and we will be back next hour stay with us even headlines what's.