the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. report on r.g.p. . american drones are in action over libya it's more than a month since operation started with allied forces entrenched many are saying that because the campaign is going nowhere. as moscow was a coalition that sending military advisors to libya breaks the u.n. resolution what is cheap is in the russian capital to discuss the situation in the arab world also. right now for the first time ever on international television we'll be trying to look inside the chernobyl to facility. almost twenty five years after the chernobyl nuclear catastrophe gains exclusive access to a secret military facility lined derelict deep exclusions of.

russia's energy giant state owned rosneft independent lukoil have joined forces and signed an offshore exploration agreement for more joint business about twenty minutes. and you're watching r.t. or straight to our top story the coalition is turning up the heat on colonel gadhafi u.s. armed predator drones have joined the mission to seek and destroy the embattled leader's arsenal but allied forces have been engaged in the country's civil conflict more than a month now but with little to show for it deadlocked war is causing widespread concern about its cost but reports. philippians it's been a long hard month as strike after strike by nato forces in the middle of an

increasingly violent civil war but in the midst of all that bloodshed what's been achieved according to many not a lot i see the situation is deepening probably got rather worse the african union tempted to cease fire was scuppered i believe by western interests and their britain is putting troops in on the ground as advisors i think it's very dangerous we're involved in a civil war for which there is no policy interest or should and at what cost priceless human lives certainly but the ministry of defense refuses to release information on how much the intervention in libya is costing the british taxpayer early estimates suggest. dollars a day that means a month's offensive may of course the u.k. as much as one hundred fifty million dollars and counting and this at a time when the u.k. slashing spending on public services leading to widespread often violent demonstrations this is an incredible amount of money when they say the there is no

money available that we could every week we could be building a new hospital several new schools. we could be paying the student tuition fees which are going up to nine thousand the year next year defense cuts have already begun and the ministry of defense is expected to save nearly eight billion dollars over the next four years ironically experts say that's made the libyan war more expensive now that the u.k. no longer has an aircraft carrier every mission is longer and logistically harder. if we still have international. and. we could be doing a little drawer. and over six months that would cost us. one hundred million. what we're doing now and for all that investment to print strategists are calling the situation

a stalemate gadhafi is still in libya reportedly using illegal and indiscriminate cluster munitions on rebel forces peace seems no nearer and nato appears to be settling in for the long haul until the libyans themselves can negotiate a deal after a month of airstrikes u.k. forces look more inextricably involved in the conflict than ever just in the last week the ministry of defense committed to sending military advisers to libya to organize the rebels this is seen by many as the most significant steps a far towards deploying ground troops and once that happens many seem libya turning into another afghanistan ten years and counting your and it's hard to see london but mountain base turn the sun and say as if. the u.n. mandate has nothing to do with rebels request for help. i think the original demand from the rebels inside of libya and the area around the cities in western libya was

something no fly zone to stop the most from is coming in and some humanitarian aid the red line for them was ground troops and now we're beginning to see the first steps towards a creeping. across the creeping arrival of foreign or foreign forces that is this is exactly what happened in vietnam and in various other conflicts and it always starts with it's about humanitarian intervention and then where is that leading to and this i think is a very very dangerous move and what we're seeing in libya unfortunately is the best way to put it is really the west hijacking this revolution and in this process they are making very very difficult for the revolution to succeed. coalition's decision to send military advisers to that is not exactly being welcomed with open arms in russia moscow is warning the move is directly against the u.n. resolution bans all kinds of retreat and both african country and its u.n. chief from ki-moon will meet russian leadership in fact he's in moscow right now

let's cross to syria for more on sarah most there was a moment about the town flaunting of several you and decisions so a french exchange expected today. but it doesn't negate the top of the agenda for discussions of russia's repeats the khud the magic solution to the conflict has been from the very beginning cautious about foreign intervention in libya is an internal affair. now there have been increasing concerns about actions taken by allied forces and whether they've gone beyond the terms of the un resolutions are russia's expressed concern about. libya by nato airstrikes that way every taking civilians and the recent decision by ek and france to send in military advisers has been criticized russia steak that could have unpredictable consequences but ford minister sergei lavrov the said that it's clear launch of

a ground complex no no the topic of discussion is going to be the situation in the ivory case the u.n. the rising the standing of peacekeeping troops that the decision to pull the president by president was seen as taking sides in the conflict russia's going to be cooling effort explanation about that used to bolster this says negates be the frank russians to be had today so the crisis in libya will certainly be a key part going to most of us i'm sorry but so what else is on the table. this to say so that the u.n. secretary general is going to be discussing up with president play to be issued. security. of course being the face of international attention since the tsunami and earthquake devastated that she. now is the president made of that she can see nothing from initiatives aimed at preventing any of this in the feature.

the topic is the. un security council resolution last week that was actually initiated by. preventing the party of the cases of days some of the topics is will be discussed today. every talk of the agenda is going to be complex and the importance of ensuring the for development isn't acting outside the terms of the un resolutions ok. thank you for the update. well still ahead for you the south and midwest collides with the middle east a koran burning american. song. age old customs. far east. as we take you close up. russian police are investigating whether the son of one of the country's richest

people kidnapped and comes after media reports that three million demanded the return of software. missing since tuesday when a search is underway it's not sufficient. for the complaint. among the top two hundred wealthiest people he founded an international company that produces antivirus and other computer security products. it was the world's worst nuclear disaster twenty five years on the battle to contain. it continues building a new sarcophagus over the chernobyl site is the most pressing issue as a meeting of countries is held in ukraine construction is desperately needed to keep it radiation in. the discovered secrets of the chain of evacuations still leaking out the whole world knows that your novel nuclear power plant and the

thirty kilometer exclusion zone which surrounds it but few are aware that this area holds the secrets which had been kept hidden for many decades for the first time ever on international television r.t. is able to bring you one of the biggest secrets of the soviet union this facility behind me has many different names the chernobyl to the or more technical name of the begun to rise and radio location facility its prime prime goal was to detect a missile launch anywhere on the european continent but its test launch in one thousand eight hundred proved that its signal is so powerful that it can reach the eastern coast of the united states this facility was one of the most expensive projects of the soviet union it cost around seven billion soviet rubles which is twice as expensive as the construction of the church noble nuclear power plant just fifteen kilometers from here but. we were planning to build five instantly in the

russian far east in the center in the north and to facilities in this area as we primarily expected attacks from the west we intended placing more stations around here in belarus and ukraine all rather transit cop media and juju normal. even getting this close to the fans of the top secret facility has been impossible before for a t.v. journalist for a t.v. camera but what we've managed to find here this should be helpful this is a hole in the wall and right now for the first time ever on international television we'll be trying to look inside the chernobyl to facility. spight the official claims that it was decommissioned and put out of service straight out and after the trouble fall out in nine hundred eighty six it still remains under the protection and there are still armed guards at the security checkpoints around the area not letting anyone inside it's interesting because the officials have been claiming that most of the equipment the high tech equipment which was of course top secret of the soviet union was taken out from here since

ever since the chernobyl fallout together with the military and the staff which were operating this huge radar station still obviously there's some secret behind the fence of the chernobyl to facility and indeed the authorities do not want journalists to let the public know all of what's inside. the theory was that it wasn't really an over the horizon radar station a rather special facility for influencing people's minds and fusing circuitry with radiation that would enable militias to control people however there is no such things like attribute radiation use just another me. this facility was indeed very resourceful in its needs in fact most of the power produced at the chernobyl nuclear power plant went here ten megawatts of energy were required to run the station several hundred men operated this facility all of them were removed were evacuated when the chernobyl thought happened and to this day none of them were able to spill out any information as to their work as this still is still remains

classified for some for whatever reasons they are this raid arrays one of the biggest in history has ever seen it is at least one hundred fifty meters high and four hundred meters wide all the different nations all the people behind this technology were describing it as their pride as something the soviet union the soviet union space technology should be proud of because to that date in one thousand eight hundred none of the world's readers could have had such a strong signal as the station like this there are only three stations like this in the world. this is the only one which we could get access to as the other two are still remains still remain as classified facilities and there's no access whatsoever to those facilities. but it was all things let's see ourselves reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone. police weekends it may be upon us that thoughts of peace and goodwill are far from the minds of florida's controversial koran pastor terry jones was on name until he publicly torched the bulk of his now

which outweighs the muslim world and triple products in afghanistan he's planning a demonstration in front of one of the largest mosques in the u.s. christine for the reports. of sunni and shiite christians. who are not residents there are gathered here in the islamic center of america for one reason they want to spread the image of unity now earlier in higher room with nearly a thousand people came about the same reason they have a message for pastor terry jones he may have an issue with islam he may have some fear about islam and we understand that it may be the case but we don't believe that he's necessarily searching for the truth and therefore we believe easier to start some trouble. later they gathered outside the mosque and formed a human chain in a show of solidarity many in dearborn say the pastor is not welcome this is how

they will fight back clearly he does not represent. any of god's teachings as a whatever has implemented it i'm going to pray and as god to deliver him pastor terry jones became a well known figure after his plan to burn a qur'an this past september eleventh at his church in florida while that event was canceled he did stage a qur'an burning last month which fell under the radar of most media here in the united states but did not go unnoticed in other parts of the world. in response mass riots were held in the city of mazar e sharif in afghanistan more than a dozen people were killed and many there pointed to pastor terry jones as the reason why. would pastor jones come to dearborn michigan all this by being located in the midwest of the united states many people say this city looks more like the middle east out of the one hundred thousand residents here forty thousand are arab

american it's home to the largest muslim american population in the country and the islamic center of america you see behind me is the largest mosque but people are concerned for public safety because the where the mosque is located it's located just between two churches on the same day as good friday hundreds are expected to attend services using just this one road it is for this reason pastor terry jones spent the majority of the day here at the nineteenth district court in dearborn michigan a judge inside denied him a permit to protest where he wanted which was right outside the islamic center he was told instead you could protest really outside of city hall he said he didn't want to and would ask them to pay one hundred thousand dollars bond to pay for any damages that might occur he refused and has now been given a trial by jury trial is scheduled to take place on the same day as this planned protest we will of course bring you the very latest but for now i'm christine for

is now for our team in dearborn michigan. but there are always more reports blogs on beaches are just a click away at party dot com but here's a taste of some of the stories online if you know right now when you go to brunch that's quality process reach record highs we look for the reasons. for the board's it may have been snowing and you're in the week in the russian capital but it's a spring has definitely come to moscow city's ruben's. seeming from here. to other news stories in brief no future so. at least sixteen people have been killed the powerful ones all for the gambling start with a thirty others were wounded in the attack the explosion took place across the stones knowledge of such an action neighborhood where. warring drug gangs operate they want to scream responsibility for the blast. japanese cabinet has approved an emergency budget of almost fifty billion dollars the money is to be spent on the

reconstruction of areas devastated last month's queens make sure all the restoration of drugs fondren as well as the repair of screens and social welfare since it's just two of the proven. british petroleum has announced it's giving one billion dollars towards the restoration of the u.s. gulf coast the funds will go to the states of alabama florida it's near and mississippi and texas on federal agencies but it will use to clean up the damaged and build better ration areas last year more than seven hundred million tons of oil spilled into the gulf of mexico of an explosion at a rig or killed and people. pack your bags as we take you on a trip across russia without constructing.

yes today here in business people. ok today in the east and six thousand kilometers from. into a wide range of groups the largest community that's just come from. some of our culture has twice. thinks of even discovered one thing that centuries old customs annoyed. the transport call region has a diverse topography with wide open spaces contrast in forests and mountain ranges that encircled sand dunes but the faces faced and traditions of indigenous people also add a richness to russia's east and money still hold on to old traditions and customs they also embrace russian culture and joining me now is a proud local resident her. last name right. thank you very much for joining us to talk about how your people been able to balance holding

on traditional ways while embrace the russian culture. russian. living together for many years and of course a lot of russian culture and culture mixed in some places. but well there is a saying if there's no traditions and customs no nationality people. our parents teachers to keep our traditions and customs and our language one of the traditions i really like people is the wedding ceremony talk about how that's such a big deal and i also like the fact that it's the man didn't have to show they can provide whether it's many goats or many she. still. waiting music. very very big celebration. very big festival where about thousands of people can get. married wedding parties thousands of people

different presidents and they can she. says. ok well i'm very interested in finding myself and with many horses because i want to learn how to thank you thank you very much. and a close. close. people to groups are particular in the various ways that they deal with. once a nomadic people ancestors hail from china and mongolia. became russian in the seventeenth century and. side by side from generation to generation. of those harmony influenced by buddhism. also been

instrumental in connecting us to values and teaching centuries. it isn't in the bay area so closely intertwined because there was no temple education and the entire education was centered on the monastery people receive their first education here i mean reading writing and healing which. they make up the largest ethnic minority group in russia's trains by car region at sixty six thousand keeping the cultural conservation network strong. the even people are also indigenous to the region ivanka legend has it the two brothers became so obsessed with their fight a goal that they had neglected their families and their people to punish them the guards turned them into mountain ranges could dar to the east oticon to the west quest for riches and the onset of the industrial age has placed a heavy burden on e.g. customs like reindeer hunting time and assimilation have also reduce the population

it now stands at just under two thousand here fewer people means fewer voices can speak in the tongue of their forefathers and you actually go to check the local population is heavily mixed with russians that's why many contemporary events look just like russians that refer learning russian they no longer have pride in their people all the native language. didn't become proficient in the art of making boots from reindeer hide until after she had children at school wasn't passed down by family but taught by teachers the boots are a way to make money but also a way to put i think style on display some other questions are her biggest customers can m.l.g. catawba teaches if he applied art and folklore she believes that while love brings people together it is also work against keeping the ways of the elders of life many of aix abandon them once they marry russians. but what can i do if two people meet

and fall in love with each other it's impossible to avoid mixed marriages. it's one of many modern day realities that threatens russia's indigenous cultures seceded and r.t. a transfer i call region. but next i want to start businesses where you. you're watching business darcey hello welcome to the program russia's largest oil

companies state owned rights they have to understand and lukoil have signed a deal of offshore exploration under their greenland dross never open up to look all of its life and zones of oil and gas rich offshore failed knocks new calls first offshore deal by its partner ross that hasn't changed a whole host of such conscience withdrawing majors like b.p. and oxen the deal looks promising for the corn is out and declining as the company struggled to bring on charging. pressures considering easing the tax regime for imagery companies so they spend more of modernization about boosting turps and let's say the near will also help the companies improve their investment tractors how about demetrius clubbing from the to be behind bill exists dr will benefit more from the legal stability. differently or the current price of russian losses by cheaper market prices shot of sorts for a while she provided for relative to emerging markets around the idea of market moreover russia grazes it was

a growth story and if you look over your opinion very small goals and growing some consumption and so sold there russia is growing crime for sorters because it's so interesting for the long run for the rest or since. there are no other parent i would say that at the moment so we have a sort of lead from us so well for the attractiveness of the whole story for the long run for investors so i guess the government should think about keeping previous promises creeping through it's also the greens x. number true or keep the interest of the sector otherwise you free really i mean if we go in and change the rules of the game each year so it will diminish the potential interest for the sector. let's have a look at the global markets crude oil prices are edging higher as they don't like continues to fall and strong corporate results in the us always takes attention from higher demand definitely i think almost ten percent have brains it's floating just about the. precious metals are catching their breath after a strong rally hitting new record highs at it this week gold is modestly up around

zero point two percent or so is trading in flux a positive outcome of that and in asia the japanese government has approved an almost fifty billion dollar export budget aimed at designs to relieve it in case trading in march and may in the blind dating zero point two percent this hour a whole host of other changes closed by public holiday. in russia the markets will open and now it's time they closed to make stuff that stay with the r.c.s. around the heart of the sun top six so i think in the red. russian markets not to continue trading for us on friday as most global equity markets are shut for the easter holiday. today is the good friday so literally you know the major western financial central so closed and henceforth you know the profit taking wish both that use them for as they is more was likely to continue

today so in that sense of a london europe more school loans and grants only and wages moves by the higher ups and those who expect pretty quiet they are very low volume growth overall as i mentioned they think and i will probably drift along. the fury of the end of april may. here is sun about then will probably stage a major recovery and your rally in the second half of this year covers all his business update out as more next hour i was cause they said lines of character coming up next. to.

live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets of baghdad. then one night this spring the racial. divides them in the back.