it will. relieve the early. settlers from. the future. u.s. armed drones are poised supplied missions over libya but after months involvement in the campaign many are questioning whether nato is getting entrenched in another open ended conflict. as more school warns the coalition that sending a military advisors to libya is in the grecian of the u.n. resolution the bodies chief is in the russian capital discussing the ongoing crisis in the arab world. a leading al qaida militant has been a killed by russian security forces in the north caucasus. the man is thought to

have played a key role in almost every terror attack in the country in recent years more details just to have. kidnapped mystery reports claimed the son of a russian software tycoon is released after fears that he had been abducted for a three billion euro ransom. russia's and the giant try and state owned rosner as an independent blue court have signed it all through exploration agreements and long drawn business on sea in twenty minutes time. he watching r t live from moscow thanks for joining us for 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 leaders arsenal of the allied forces have been engaged in the. the civil conflict

for more than a month now but with little to show for it the deadlocked war is causing widespread concern about its cost archies lore ever reports. the libyans it's been a long hard month airstrike after airstrike 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 think the situation is deepening probably got rather worse the african union attempted to cease fire was scuppered i believe quite western interests and their britain is putting troops on the ground his advisors i think it's very dangerous we're involved in a civil war for which there is no problem interest or ship 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 it could. really and dollars a day that means

a month's offensive me of course the u.k. as much as the hundred fifty million dollars and counting and this at a time when the u.k. is slashing spending on public services leading to widespread often violent demonstrations this is an incredible amounts 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. and. we could be doing

a little drawer. trying. one hundred million. and for all that investment defense 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 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 see libya turning into another ghana started ten years and counting. hearty london all the

coalition's decision to send military advisors to libya is not exactly being all comes with open arms in russia moscow is warning the move is directly against the u.n. resolution that bans all kinds of military aid to the north african country or u.n. chief ban ki-moon is in the capital right now and has held talks with the russian leadership let's cross live to oregon sorry for for the details so libya was certainly a hot topic was there a meeting of the minds. well the president and the u.n. secretary general have held a joint press conference after the talks at detailing some of the topics of discussion and top of the agenda today was the on going conflict in libya and they've agreed on the necessity. for this thursday to stick within the mandate the u.n. mandate and international operations there's been a lot of concern as certainly from. the allied forces acting outside.

of the u.n. resolution that was something that was the stuff. from the very beginning everybody focused on calling for a diplomatic resolution. creating concern about the civilian. who was supposed to protect civilians and the decision the recent decision by the u.k. and france to send a military voices has been criticized the foreign minister sergei lavrov saying that was a clear launch of ground conflict i think these are some of the topics the words does today and have been highlighted in the press but what else was on the table at that meeting. well they've also discussed the importance of the nuclear safety becoming an international topic of concern after the earthquake and tsunami in japan devastated the fukushima nuclear power plants say that was something that was

discussed they also agreed to hold a conference on the ongoing conflict in the middle east and most others not too many more details on that at the moment but that was something else there was such a possibility that top of the agenda stay the own going conflict in libya thank you very much for that report or to use our first reporting there from moscow. paula sergei struck on a political analyst from the moscow based company sun newspaper says it's not only russia that insists the coalition is why waiting for u.n. resolution and it's impossible to predict what this breach will mean. well there's a growing frustration in the world of how the nato led operation in libya is going on and definitely they go in for the u.n. resolution which was installed just to produce a no fly zone so what's going on now it's totally different story coalition definitely is taken sides and. now they're considering another step just the stuff

that led to permission which can really unpredictable results for the country so that's why this is not only russia's stance on this is concern of part of international community initially by adopting this resolution united nations was also trying to sort of reinvent itself to show that it is important you can play play a decisive role i don't agree with lucian came out as a result of carefully worded compromise iris that when you go beyond the resolution it means that your own credibility is at stake you see it can be jeopardized simply and this is what's happening in libya now and still ahead for you this hour our coverage a soviet state secret. right now for the first time ever on international television will be trying to look inside the chernobyl to facility almost twenty five years after the chernobyl nuclear disaster r.t. delve deep into the exclusion zone to enter a classified military installation. and

a koran burning american pastor who caused the shock waves around the world plus a protest outside the largest mosque in the u.s. . the security forces in russia's republic of chechnya have killed a talk all cargo leader in the north caucasus well he was targeted in a special security raid in the region our north caucasus correspondent medina courtship of our house the details after almost six hours so seeing an error strikes three militants were killed and one of these militants a war as soon identified as a chief agent of the international into. arista group you know north caucasus you know russians antiterrorist committee says that he was in charge of all cash flows of funds that paid for terrorist activities in russia i do a version of one of those killed was a donor for it as an agent of carter's network in the north caucasus

a native of saudi arabia. he's been grazed in the north caucasus since nineteen ninety nine and it was also a key guarantor and coordinator of the funds coming from a group to fuel the militancy network in russia alongside. who is russia's most wanted terrorist was the most notorious figure i am on terrorists and was also received as saying absolute religious authority as well as influential field commander here in the north caucasus now russia's anti terrorist committee. he was also identified of why the militants as a rival to dog as the main leader of islamic militants in of the north caucasus he was also believed to be involved in almost every terror attack that happened across russia over the last year or so and indeed russia was wrong why in number of terror attacks the latest twin suicide moscow metro warnings last yeah and i'm also told

them i did the airport terror attack that happened this year and claimed thirty eight lives now russia's security of course is bad for them and my grandmother was the top priority target and that's why he had gone deep into high day as soon as the russian security forces began a constant search for him currently our ways on anti terrorist operations are underway here in the north caucasus is specially in chechnya in english idea. now the son of one of russia's richest people has reportedly been released after it was claimed he had been kidnapped for around. some twenty year old avon the youngest child of software type will give get a custom a ski had been missing since tuesday art is easy to go to show reports the reason why there is so far has been no official confirmation of the up duction or the release of the batteries because the customers the family has preferred to keep mum

about the whole ordeal we do know that the boy was reportedly abducted on the nineteenth of this month just outside of his work his father you get into specific has reportedly flown in from england where he has been residing recently and has contacted his sources at the federal security bureau so he has not even gone to police apparently because he still has some of the acquaintances left over from when he has done some work for russia's federal security service the abductors of again these are just reports situations coming from the russian media who have their own sources within the security sources or the police apparently the abductors have demanded and three million euro ram some again according to the latest reports that read the branson has been paid but the amounts of money that was paid for by the young males release is unknown in fact because thursday family has asked the journalist to leave this story alone and stop not release the family has not released any information on the boy's does states even despairs to her

leave was eight eight hundred million dollar estate stolen see if anything he was the man who would pay that money however there are also speaking lesions that this doesn't concern it just the financial side of the matter because the cost first to allow the forces creating the knowledge is down to virus software but that's also done a lot of work for security services and not just for russian security services but for the u.s. security of the europeans and also has done with some work for china so if there are some situations that the reason for they've done since is because the cyber criminals are trying to show that they are. god help you with all of the various software that has been created which of course prohibits them from accessing either top security files within these security facilities we're visiting from stealing money i suppose that from banks so the details of this disappears are still are just separate words and it remains to be seen whether or not because first the

family will come forth and make any official announcements on this peculiar case. it was the world's worst nuclear disaster but twenty five years on of the battle to contain it continues well building a new circus over the church noble site was the most pressing issue as the meeting of donor countries was held in ukraine parties on executive chef ski reports from the capital kiev. twenty five years ago when the trouble 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 that 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. just coming here to ukraine to attend these services internet enjoyable and different called france is related to that sense now all of them most of them have been speaking out in defense of nuclear energy 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 your novel radioactive threat and in fact the still this area indeed crane needs some financial attention as he of has already managed to persuade the governments of different countries to invest more than five hundred million euros into building the new circuits which would last for more than one hundred years was spent almost a week inside the chernobyl exclusion zone filming a documentary which was will be able to see on the twenty sixth of april which is of course the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl nuclear fallout we so we've managed to get into the darkest and the most secret parts of the exclusion zone including one of the biggest secrets of the soviet union a radial acacias station called the should noble to the whole world knows that your

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 degree or a more technical name to be on the horizon 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 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 chernobyl nuclear power plant just fifteen kilometers from here even getting this close to the fence of this 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. spite the official claims that it was decommissioned and put out of service straight out to the trouble for 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 fusing psychotropic radiation that would enable malicious forces to control people however there is no such thing as psychotropic radiation it was just another me feel of 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 of which we could have got access to as the other two are still remain still remain as classified facilities and there's no access whatsoever to those facilities. that was artie's alexei ownerships give reporting from ukraine. afford us koran burning pastor is out courting controversy yet again he's using the holy easter weekend to stage a protest outside the largest mosque in the u.s. terry jones was unknown until he torched the book of islam which outraged the muslim brotherhood triggered violence in afghanistan artie's christine frisell reports. of sunni christian. residents and there are certain periods one right center of america one reason i 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 what we believe easier to start some trouble. later they gathered outside the mosque and formed a human chain in a show of solidarity many engineer born say the pastor is not welcome but this is how they will fight back clearly he does not represent the beauty of god's teachings and so whatever has made it are going to preannounce 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 so 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 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 and it is for this reason pastor terry jones spent the majority of the day here at the one nine hundred

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 and he said he didn't want to and without them to pay one hundred thousand dollars bond. 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 and christine for is now for our team in dearborn michigan. well don't forget our web site is only a click away at our t. dot com there's always more stories on offer including a bitter pill to swallow america's leaders grace is coming over the counter with a doctor's prescription. plus a russian spy is on a new assignment for the government but her latest mission will be so covered find out all about it on our web site. and other news stories in brief this hour

twenty five people have been killed in a u.s. drone attack in a pakistan's tribal region of north waziristan on the afghan border also reports say militants and civilians could be among the casualties meanwhile hundreds of insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the northwest of the country killing fourteen the security forces reportedly happened in a region where tell about fighters have been gaining strength. british petroleum has announced it's giving one a billion dollars towards the restoration of the u.s. gulf coast the funds will go to the states of florida louisiana mississippi and texas and a federal agencies well money will be used to clean up down there she said once and build recreation areas last year more than seven hundred million tons of or oil spills into the gulf of mexico after an explosion at the rig platform that killed eleven people. after

a huge protest turkey's top election board has reversed an earlier decision to bar twelve kurdish politicians from standing in the national elections will the original banner brought tens of thousands onto the streets in protest across the mainly kurdish southeast of the. country clash one being shot dead and dozens of others. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes but first all the latest business news with you're. playing step and welcome to business and see in just four months russian initial public offerings have raised over two billion dollars compared to five point five billion for the whole of last year but the dynamics are mixed while some companies a list excess from the other strangle and cancel their multi-billion flotations and tom blackwell from the communications explains what's causing the jitters and looks

at the prospects for the market. there is a lot of nervousness in the market about it driven by what's happening globally and that certainly fits in filters into the russian market as well and so i think it is in a more benign environment you may see a wider range of companies being able to close to being able to get deals the way right now there's a lot more scrutiny around stories investors their criteria and their sort of sit ups and grabbed up with. it is still possible to do right here in this market and if you've got the right story you meet the right criteria it's still possible to do it right now if you look at all of. the listed russian companies in actual fact they cover a very wide range of sectors already and now you see three toilet paper helicopters you've got a lot of deals that are potentially out there that if they meet the right criteria they're very there will be demand not just the largest oil companies state owns all snapped and independent lukoil have signed a deal over offshore exploration under the agreement of open its licensed oil and

gas offshore fields to look oil this marks a new cause for us offshore deal while ross never has initiated a host of such participant partnerships with ford majors like the piece chevron and x. and the deal looks promising for the quarter which has seen alfred decline as the company struggled to gain on shore deposits. let's have a look at the global markets crude oil prices are a dream high as the dollar continues to fall and strong corporate results in the u.s. boost expectations so high all of the mind as i think almost two percent while brant is just about in line. precious metals are catching their breath after a strong rally hitting new record highs earlier this week who is modestly out zero point two percent while silver is trading at around forty seven dollars. let's have a look at the stock markets now the european says are closed due to the easter holidays meanwhile here in russia the r.t.s. and license continue their days with other two majors and you do the growth. let's take

a look at something to be true. oil is that will stronger crude bucking the trend is rosneft which is almost one hundred percent down on the aussie has made a wild card in metal is more than three percent up amid high pressures metal prices . russian all company has more than tripled its net profit to one point two billion dollars last year i think is almost a third of our analysts forecasts the company says the result was watered supported by increased output and world prices. the world's largest coal maker toyota says its production line will slowly recover by december the company's suffered shop it from disruptions to supplies of people it's produced a wait is japan it's also urging supplies to set up production of the seas to diversify risks. coffee prices have hit a thirty four year high topping three dollars a pound a poor harvest and growing demand in emerging markets has been the main reasons for

the sharp rise cotton prices have more than doubled in the past seven months. russia is considering easing the tax regime for energy companies so they spend more modernization without having to raise prices for consumers but dimitris grabbing from the chiba and believes the move also will have the company's improve their investment attractive. they think they are the current price of russian asa so why cheaper than the market price of the sheriffs and so on why cheaper their relative to emerging markets around i developed market more over russia grazes and there's growth story and if you're looking for your opinion charity is the most annoying girls and their wings and consumption and so on so all the russians go in conference or press because it's so interesting for the long run for the rest of us and. on the other parent i would say that the more and so we have sort of lead from us so for the attractiveness of the story for the long run for the investor so i guess the government should think about keeping previous promises saying keeping

through this also the game means x. number of troops keep their interest in the sector otherwise the e.u. for even a yemeni government change the rules of the game each year so it will diminish the potential interests to offer the sector. up to date joining us from north and south . i live in a country the gun understand that there's more violence in the streets of this

country than there are in the streets in afghanistan or baghdad. one night in the spring become a bracelet. as the best team is to come home from. a crowd gathers no moss beyond. the streets of the. culture is that so much diminished musician behind the mark when we're told the music off you must go but the royal family of the rainbow state is a double standard is freedom allowed for some well. wealthy british style. sometimes it's like playing a little card.