video on demand. my old. street with the palm of your. american. it's more than a month since operation started with allied forces and trenched many are saying the cost of the campaign is going nowhere. and small scale warns the coalition of sending military advisors to libya breaks the u.n. resolution chief is in the russian capital to this is just the situation in that are also. right now for the first time ever on international television will be trying to look inside the chernobyl to facility. almost twenty five years of nuclear catastrophe games exclusive access to a secret military facility. deep in exclusion zone.

around the world and around the clock this is good to have you with us today the coalition is turning up the heat on colonel gadhafi u.s. predator drones have joined the mission to seek and destroy the embattled leader is also the allied forces have been engaged in the country's civil conflict for more than a month that. the show for its deadlocked war is causing widespread concern about its cost reports. philippians it's been a long hard month and 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 by seeing the situation is deepening and probably of rather worse the african

union tempted to see straws that i believe quite 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 column interest or shit 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 suggested the bill could run to five million dollars a day that means a month of pensive may of course the u.k. as much as a 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 but 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 and 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. the areas and. we could be doing a little drop. down time. and over six months that would cost us approximately one hundred million which is one chance. and for all that investment defense strategists are calling the situation a stalemate the daffy 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 advisors to libya to organize the rebels this is seen by many as the most significant step so far towards deploying ground troops and once that happens many seen libya turning into another afghanistan ten years and counting your and it's hard to see london well journalists on our staff says it's nato goes beyond the u.n. mandate it has nothing to do with the rebels request for help. i think the original demand from the rebels inside of eastern libya and the area in the cities in western libya was to the no fly zone to stop 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. critical arrival of foreign or foreign forces that is this 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're making very very difficult for the revolutions succeed. the coalition's decision to send the money for advisors to me is not exactly being welcomed with open arms and russia is warning that the move is directly. country. chief. sir for. russia has to be. the magic solution to the conflicts that has been up from the very beginning cautious about foreign

intervention in libya is it. now there have been increasing concerns about actions taken by allied forces and whether they fall beyond the terms of the un resolutions that russia expressed concerns about the civilians by nature take stock of the way to protect civilians and the recent decision by ek and probably to send in military advisers has been criticizing russia saying that that could have unpredictable consequences but her minister sergei lavrov has said that it's. of a complex now another topic of discussion is going to be the situation in the ivory case the u.n. the rising the standing in peacekeeping troops that the decision to pull the president by place president was seen as taking sides in the conflicts and russia is going to be pulling for it to explanation about the use of most of the certainly gains be frank dozens to be had today this is the u.n.

secretary general is going to be discussing with president with the issue of security a. set of tools being the stakes of international attention since the tsunami and earthquake devastated japan sick she. was so the president paid a visit she getting sleepy and not the finish it is aimed at preventing. the solstice in the feature. the topic is who's a fool to be the issue. the u.n. security council. we actually initiated by. presenting the party of the basis of. some of the topics is discussed today at the . top of the agenda is case b. the conflict in the ports is a big. part of it isn't acting outside the u.n. resolution. still ahead midwest collides with the middle east

on burning. plans of protest just last. modern world in russia's far east. taking close up. russian police are investigating whether the son know one of the country's richest people may have been kidnapped but softer media reports that the three million euro grandson going on the return of software tycoon. youngest child when she wrote has been missing since tuesday while a search is underway it's not officially a kidnap case his father wasn't part of a complaint of any conspiracy among the top two hundred wealthiest people in russia he founded an international company that produces virus and for security products. it was the world's worst nuclear disaster twenty five years on the battle to contain it continues building

a new song over the chernobyl sites is the most pressing issue as a meeting of the country's health in ukraine let's get more from our correspondent in the capital here for us so the debate over the safe use of nuclear powers very much still alive today isn't it. indeed see the history seems to be repeating itself in that sense twenty five years ago when the chernobyl fallout happened in the soviet ukraine the world saw a large debate on the safety of nuclear energy the same thing is happening now a days with the fukushima nuclear disaster unraveling in japan now the anniversary of the chernobyl nuclear disaster twenty five years ago i see lots of events in ukraine with lots of international v.i.p. guests coming here to ukraine to attend the services internet in trouble and different conferences related to that sense now all of them most of them have been speaking out in defense of nuclear energy and putting the head of the international

atomic energy agency who upon visitor nobile said that still the world has no alternative to nuclear energy despite the events which are happening for question when he said that the nuclear energy in the right hands should be safe and should be used and nothing compared to what the nuclear energy has to offer in terms of electricity to the masses to the people around the planet now another thing which is happening now in our days and it also seems to be something of a history repeating is the investment which is the jet the japanese government is ready to put into the liquidation of the fukushima nuclear disaster now we've heard latest reports that the japanese government tokyo is ready to invest almost fifty billion u.s. dollars into trying to contain the contamination around the fukushima plant the same thing which what was happening in chernobyl twenty five years ago when the soviet government to was spared no effort and money to trying to contain this

chernobyl radioactive threat and in fact still this place this area indeed crane needs some financial attention as key of has already managed to persuade the governments of different countries to invest more than five hundred million euros into building the new circle for goods which would last for more than one hundred years. but definitely this would cover the lid of the chernobyl reactor this would probably save guard the area for another hundred years or so but the area itself the exclusion zone in chernobyl would never be inhabited again as the fallout period of the nuclear particles would last for several thousand years alexei you recently gained access to the chernobyl exclusion zone what do you see the first time. indeed was spent almost a week inside the chernobyl exclusion zone filming a documentary which r.t.s. viewers will be able to see on the twenty sixth of of april which is of course the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl nuclear fallout we've seen we've managed

to get into the darkest and the most secret parts of the exclusion zone some of them have never been seen before by t.v. journalists including the one of the very interesting location which was one of the biggest secrets of the soviet union in fact this is a regular cation station called assured noble too and i would like now our viewers to see this report we brought from the exclusion zone. the whole world knows that short of noble nuclear power plant and the thirty kilometer exclusion zone which surrounds it but few are aware that this area holds a secret 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 dog or a more technical name beyond the horizon radio location facility its prime prime goal was to detect a missile launch anywhere on the european continent but it's test launch in nine

hundred eighty 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 even getting this close to the fans of the stop 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. the theory was put forward that it wasn't really an over the horizon radar station but rather

a special facility for influencing people's minds and using psychotropic radiation that would enable malicious forces to control people however there is no such things like attribute radiation use just another me. all the technicians all the people behind this technology were describing it as their pride as something the soviet union and 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 have access to as the other two are still remain still remain as classified facilities and there is no access whatsoever to those facilities. that was our correspondent let's see ourselves the reporting from. the easter weekend maybe upon us but thoughts of peace and goodwill are far from the mind of florida's controversial koran burning pastor terry jones was unknown to me towards the book of islam which helped raise the

muslim world. don't stop. demonstrations in front of the largest mosques in the u.s. christian. sunni christian. residents there are certain periods right center of america for one reason they want to spread the image of unity nearly a thousand people came for that 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 with. these. 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 but this is how

they will fight back clearly he does not represent. any of god's teachings as a whatever has him tormented i want 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. reason so i would pastor jones come to dearborn michigan well despite 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 of 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 and said you could protest freely outside of city hall and he said he didn't want to and was asked then 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 his 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. well with more ports beaches just

a click away at r.t. dot com it's a taste of just some of the stories online right now the new a gold rush this is control the price is reaching record highs for the reasons thousand dot com. and all aboard have been snowing earlier in the week in the russian capital but spring is definitely come to moscow as the city's opened up sailing for me here. some other news stories are making international headlines this hour. at least twenty two militants have reportedly been killed in a u.s. drone attack in pakistan's tribal region of the afghan border meanwhile hundreds of militants attacked a checkpoint in the northwest of the country killing fourteen security forces that reportedly happened in a region where taliban fighters have been gaining strength. he has announced it's giving one billion dollars towards the restoration of the u.s. gulf coast the funds are going to the states of florida we see under mississippi

and texas and federal agencies money will be used to clean up damage zones and build recreation areas last year seven hundred million tons of oil spilled into the gulf of mexico off an explosion at a rig them killed eleven people. after a huge protests turkey's top election board has reversed an early decision to bought twelve kurdish politicians and standing in national elections eight candidates are now down to enter the race with two others still awaiting decision which you got tens of thousands on the streets in protest across the many kurdish southeast of the country clashes in that shot dead and dozens of others were. not and pack your bags as we take you on a trip across russia with. today

we make. region in eastern siberia ok to the some six thousand kilometers from. margaret. in the largest group to where it stood just run from banks i don't live side by side book options and toys a lot of these sorts of things discovered how they keep this customs alive. the transfer i 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 while money still holds on to old traditions and customs they also embrace russian culture and the closer. closer to work and to indigenous people two groups are particular in the various ways that they deal with integration and a chance to call reaching. once a nomadic people who run ancestors hail from china and mongolia but the land where

they settled became russian in the seventeenth century. and russians have lived side by side from generation to generation and peace and. borer were from us as harmony. those harmony influenced by buddhism i will live in which has also been instrumental in connecting borat's to values and teachings centuries old. it isn't in the burial 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. they make up the largest ethnic minority group in russia's trans by car region at sixty six thousand keeping the cultural conservation network strong. even people are also indigenous to the region

even clairton has of the two brothers who came so obsessed with their fight to the vida goal that they have neglected their families and their people to punish them the guards turned them into mountain ranges could are to the east and to the west quest for riches and the onset of the industrial age has placed a heavy burden on even 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 even look just like russians i prefer learning russian they no longer have pride in their people all the native language. philip over didn't become proficient in the art of making bullets from reindeer hide until after she had children a skill wasn't passed down by family but taught by teachers the booths are

a way to make money but also a way to put a think style under splay slavic russians are her biggest customers in a magical tolbert teaches a key applied art and folklore she believes that while love brings people together it is also work against people the ways of the elders of life and many of aches 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 trends russia's indigenous cultures seceded and r.t. the trans i call region. where up next the latest business news for you here in just a few words. this

is business aussie hello and welcome to the program in just a month russian companies raised over two billion dollars in their i.p.o. as compared to five point five of the in the whole of last year but the dynamics is next while some companies list successfully others struggle and console them not to pronounce notations. by tom cole from communications russia thank you very much for your time. and. it's a little risky from your point of view for russia to list such market conditions i think you are going to certainly there's a lot of nervousness in the market around the world and some about reaches into

russia so it is there or is it risky i think you have to start to look at these things a bit more case by case and i think what seems like there are as you said still pinching a billion dollars it's been great so far this year there are some companies that sort of meet the criteria that are able to get their stories away and find others have others have struggled and partially that's really that's influenced by the market conditions partly that's influenced by more company specific aspects. to the russian economy. was the most interest for foreign investors and why well i think that if you look at how the russian i.p.o. market is involved over the last few years you've now you've had a lot of bad press occasion where various previously in the early days it was maybe more the natural resource stories were dominated capital markets then you moved out into the consumer area retail consumer goods and what have you at this stage you actually have a lot of the sectors that are quite well represented and so there is has been proven right but. more or less any sector of the economy that sort of meets a certain investor criteria i mean if you look at the deals that are in the money

in the pipeline at the moment and coming up next year you can you know anything from from toilet paper to shoes to cold to manufacturing maybe even helicopters to pretty big range and i think it's if we can within that particular supply the companies. to present the right kind of story. is a good approach for investors why i think it's been a lot of skepticism generally when people have thought have looked at the performance of russian i.p.o.'s and russian companies that have listed in where they're trading today versus their listing day and i think it's true that if you look at where everyone by and large where the majority are trading it's perhaps not quite as impressive as many would have hoped at the times when they were buying into these deals but i think you have to add a bit of perspective into that when you attest to looking at the performance of russian i.p.o.'s of the last several years and that it's the capital i.p.o. market is really only existed for about five or six years now and luncheon within that time period you've had some fairly major things happening in the global

economy including the worst crisis since a living memory and and that that obviously all russian stocks like many others took were hit were hit very substantially and many now recovering again getting back into their pre-crisis levels but you have to factor that in when you look at the performance of russia specifically it. yeah what's behind the thing is a retail. superstars unit north of here where they were they all seem to not well i think it's where they ask you too much that's one of the question so valuation of price is always going to be one of the key questions that investors are looking at but i think in fact if you look at the concerns in considerations of investors today they're fundamentally no different than they were five or six years ago and there's always been the key themes that investors look at one is obviously the price that we've discussed but also they want to see a reasonable split between primary and secondary eye it's not just a case of a. so shareholders selling out completely but some of the money is going to company they don't mind seeing some of the money going in to pay down debt but would prefer

not to say that an entire would look at written story and so on and so if those have always been a criteria the beginning and they remain so today and perhaps they even more or there's even more scrutiny but it's still going to be around those core areas so if you look at the deals that didn't happen you would probably be able to see why it is still couldn't get away or why they didn't get the demand based on those because she put a criteria i mentioned tom many thanks indeed for sharing your views tom blackwell managing director said something occasions russia right thank you and europe today to join it's the moon and star on the latest headlines this carrier coming up next . the be. the best.

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