years ago. close to the truth. the flu so hard to. believe coalition are grades its assault on colonel gadhafi to try and break the libyan civil war stalemate well the interventions had little success so far while the human cost and financial price tag skyrockets. the grumman and the un secretary-general take a firm stance on libya saying the coalition must act strictly when it's a mandate bunky more strongly in moscow for talks. plus russia's war on terror in the caucasus claims a high profile target after security forces kill a top al qaeda militant. the man is so it's a house and played

a key role in almost every terror attack in the country in recent years more details just a hands. on all business in syria russia's largest oil company's new core liberals never signed a cooperation agreement on offshore exploration find out warrants which are the start. of watching r t live from moscow thanks for joining us on the coalition is massing its forces over libya as the rock obama authorizes the use of the american armed predator drones well the high tech planes are stepping in a more than a month after the coalition attacks on gadhafi targets first big arab that has been finding out the escalating cost of the campaign deadlock is raising questions. philippians it's been

a long hard month 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 think the situation has deepened and probably got rather worse the african union attempted to cease fire was scuppered i believe western interests and their britain is putting troops in on the ground surprises i think it's very dangerous we're involved in a civil war for which there is no problem 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 suggest the feel. really in dollars a day that means a month's advance is me of course the u.k. as much as one 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 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. 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. carriers and. we could be doing a better job. than your area. and over six months that would cause. one hundred million. oh.

and for all that investment 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 strikes 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 say far towards deploying ground troops and once that happens many see libya turning into another afghanistan ten years and counting. see london. well many have expressed frustration over a nato operation in libya and its lack of compliance with the u.n. resolution political analyst certainly struck on told r.t.

that the alliance is clearly taking sides in the civil conflict but there's a growing frustration in the world on how the nato led operation in libya is going on and definitely they are going far beyond the u.n. resolution which initially was installed just to produce a no fly zone so so what's going on now we go to a different story coalition definitely has taken sides. and now they're considering another. operation which can really great unpredictable results for the perks. as a result of care for me a word of compromise well all possible discuss and your own credibility is at stake you see it can be jeopardized and this is what's happening in libya. well as nato intensifies its actions in the region russia is raising concerns over the legitimacy of the campaign moscow is warning that the allies have gone beyond the no fly zone resolution an issue broached by the russian leadership during

a meeting with the u.n. chief in moscow let's cross lives are to see for more on this. topic today stocks and what's been said about nato action over there. both the russian president and the u.n. secretary general have strengthened their calls on the call isn't a state strictly within its mandate which was given by the u.n. nor fly zone a resolution its goal is to protect civilians but nato's operation in libya has been going on for over a month and every day more civilians are killed i just personally. recently spent two weeks there saw various commemorations services in memory of the victims of this of violence and of course all this is a reason for concern among the international community and now that you asked is planning to use the man's predator drones in libya and they do have quite an

unpleasant history in afghanistan when it comes to civilian deaths all of this makes it highly likely that people will believe that the real goal of nino's operation in libya is to protect civilians but other international issues were discussed today at the meeting. a wide range of other international issues has also been discussed like the middle of the peace process in the middle east the two sides agreed to that the next middle east peace conference will be held in moscow we haven't heard the exact date yet but should be looking forward for that also nuclear safety was touched upon as laws bashfully in light of the nuclear crisis in japan of the russian president then the u. . and secretary general have said that more effort needs to be taken when it comes to that perhaps new standards new c.-c. standards to the international atomic energy agency should play an active role in

that all in all this is not the first visit by ban ki moon to moscow but this is the one i had off the election of the united states chief of the u.n. and one ki-moon did said that he hopes russia will continue playing an active role when it comes to resolving goose international problems and also voiced his hope that moscow will back his candidacy since monti moon is planning to run for a second term and i thank you very much for that artie's for porting. and coming up the curious kidnapping of the russian tycoon sun readers reading about reports that software. kaspersky has paid a ransom to get his ear back for the bad cell is refusing to comment a lot of the details of that story are coming up plus. right now for the first time ever on international television we'll be trying to look inside the travolta facility we reveal one of the soviet union darkest military secrets which was kept

hidden for decades. russian the security forces have killed a top al qaeda terrorist during a special operation of the north caucasus where he was part of a group of militants by police are medieval quarter of a has a story after almost six hours so first shooting an error strikes three militants were killed and one of this militants or worse identified as a chief agent of the international terrorists a group al qaeda in the north caucasus no russians antiterrorist committee says that he was in charge of all cash flows of funds that paid for terrorist activities in russia i do was the one of those killed was a dinner for me as an agent of all kinds a network in the north caucasus a native of saudi arabia we named mike you know he's been based in the north caucasus since nineteen as you know it was also the key guarantor in coordinator of

the funds coming from abroad to fuel the militancy network in russia. alongside worth a motto for who is russia's most wanted terrorists mcdaniels was the most notorious figure among terrorists and it was also perceived to as saying absolute religious authority as well as influential field commander here in the north of kopassus now russia's antiterrorist committee. he was also identify to a by the militants as a rival. 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 and indeed russia was wrong in number of terror attacks or the latest twin suicide moscow metro warmings last year and moscow then why did the airport terror attack to happen this year and claimed thirty eight lives now

russia's security all forces are bad for them but i knew it was the top priority targets and that's why he had gone deep into hiding as soon as the russian security forces began a constant search for him currently the wavefront. terrorist operations are underway here in the north caucasus is specially in chechnya. sign of russian antivirus software. spear ski has reportedly been released after claims he had been a kidnap for ransom twenty year old environ missing in moscow several days ago are you sure has the latest on this story. the reason why there is so far has been no official confirmation of the a junction or the release for that matter is because the customers the family has referred to keep mom about the whole ordeal we do know that the boy was reportedly abducted on the nineteenth out this month just outside of his work his father you

can discuss he 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 doctors top demanded and three million euro around seven again according to the latest reports that read to branson has been paid but the amounts of money that was paid for by the young males release is on no no in fact the cross thirsty family has asked the journalist to leave this story alone and have not released the family has not released any information on the boy's other states you're going to scare super league was eight eight hundred million dollar estate because first you lab of course is creating a not just dancing virus software but has also done a lot of work for security services and not just for russian security services but

for the u.s. security by the europeans also has done with some work for china and so. there are some speculations that the reason for the abduction is a because the cyber criminals are trying to show that they are not happy with all of the very suffering that has been created which of course are prohibits them from accessing either top security files within these top security facilities or resting from stealing money i suppose that from banks so the details of this case of course are still are just have reports 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. but still ahead this hour kerching a controversy will fight. powell of american pastor who burned a copy of the koran a month ago is stirring up trouble again. to discover how a variety of indigenous people of russia's far east strive to uphold a diverse range of ancient traditions passed down by their forefathers.

the world's attention is turning to ukraine as it prepares to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the church noble disaster ok of us holding a milestone to be catered to the safety of nuclear energy goal is to build a new protective dome that will cover the site for the next hundred years and an artsy crew gave access to the chernobyl exclusion zone and filmed one of the soviet union biggest military secrets at a show of ski has the story. 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.'s guests coming here to ukraine to attend the services internet entry level and different conferences 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 consuming nation around difficult to apply the same thing which what was happening in china will twenty five years ago when the soviet government to was spared no effort and money to trying to contain of this chernobyl 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 circle for his which would last for more than one hundred years was spent almost a week inside the chernobyl exclusion zone filming a documentary which was we'll be able to see on the twenty sixth of april which is of course the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl nuclear fallout we said 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 regular geisha station called the sheer novel to the whole world knows that your noble nuclear power plant and the thirty kilometer exclusion zone which surrounds it if you 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 or a more technical name to be on corral isn't radial occasion 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. spight the official claims that it was decommissioned and put out of service straight out of 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 beautiful but it wasn't really an over the horizon radar station but rather a special facility for influence in people's minds and fusing such a tribute radiation that would enable malicious forces to control people however there is no such thing as psychiatric radiation it was just another me i'm feeling

for 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 remains still remain as classified facilities and there is no access whatsoever to those facilities. and some other international stories for you in brief this hour first to syria where police have fired bullets and used tear gas at demonstrators in the capital damascus tens of thousands took to the streets after friday prayers across the country to protest against president bashar al assad's government has formally ended five decades of emergency rule seen as an attempt to defuse the next we'll hear rights groups say more than two hundred people have died during several weeks of violence. a suspected u.s.

drone attack in pakistan's volatile region on the afghan border has killed twenty five people some reports say militants and civilians including children could be among the casualties meanwhile hundreds of insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the northwest of the country killing fourteen security personnel or taliban and al qaida members are known to operate in the region. and american pastor who sparked outrage for burning a copy of the koran last month is facing a jury trial in michigan to decide whether his latest anti muslim can go ahead well terry jones plans to hold a protest outside the largest mosque in the u.s. as christians mark good friday on thursday the judge gave jones the option of facing a jury or paying a one hundred thousand dollars bond to cover the security costs of such a demonstration a florida pastor chose to stand trial. well the japanese government has

announced a fifty billion dollar emergency budget following march's earthquake and tsunami well it's aimed at disaster relief including providing temporary housing restoration of infrastructure and it's related notes for the government estimates it will cost more than three hundred billion dollars to rebuild the country the marshall of an earthquake left more than twenty seven thousand people dead or missing. well we have much more on the japanese crisis online at our t.v. dot com including one woman's outrageous proposal the american suggested that japan relocates to russia while using their whole blood as a holiday resort will follow this logic online. and russia sexiest spy is aside and new mission by the government but this time it will be built in secrecy. communist leader of millionaire and lead and is gaining

popularity on his one hundred forty first birthday possibly due to the recent financial crisis and find out what else a new poll revealed about the famous russian r t v dot com. well time for a little bit of traveling now as our close of team invites you for a second day of exploration around eastern siberia. there's a bike called ski region is some six thousand kilometers from moscow a quibble of a six hour flight over at cyrus ethnic mix makes this area one of the most unique in russia r.t.

stacy bevan's is there for us talking to the locals i parted out how they ravaged to keep their traditions and customs a lot of. the transport call region has a diverse topography with wide open spaces contrast in forests and mountain ranges that encircled sand dunes but the face his face 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 the clothes they grew offers you are close to work and to indigenous people two groups are particular in the various ways that they deal with integration in a trance call reaching. the once a nomadic people who run ancestors hail from china and mongolia but the land where they settled became russian in the seventeenth century. russians who lived side by side from generation to generation and peace. or from them or from.

those harmony influenced by buddhism a religion which has also been instrumental in connecting borat's to values and teachings centuries old. it isn't in the area it's a closely intertwined with 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 and. they make up the largest ethnic minority group in russia's trancelike whole region sixty six thousand keeping the cultural conservation network strong. even people are also indigenous to the region even collection has of the two brothers became so obsessed with their fight to the vida goal that they'd 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 the brink of customs like reindeer hunting time and assimilation and 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 it's not just like russians that prefer learning russian they no longer have pride in their people all the native language. philip didn't become proficient in the art of making boots reindeer hide until after she had children and skill wasn't passed down by family but taipei teachers the boots are a way to make money but also a way to put a big star now under splay slavic russians are her biggest customers in america tolbert teaches it by 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 for two people meet and fall in most with each other it's impossible to avoid mixed marriages. it's one of many modern day realities that threatens russia's indigenous cultures stay seated and r.t. the trans because reaching. our back with the headlines for us the business news for dimitri. pranksters i learned welcome to business r.t. in just four months russian initial public offerings are billion dollars compared to five and a half billion for the whole of last year but i'm an exam mixed well some companies not successfully others struggle and cancel their multi-billion flotations tom blackwell from communications explains what's causing the jitters and most of the prospects of the market. there is a lot of nervousness and evocative about nutrition by what's happening globally and

that certainly fits in focusing to the russian rocket as well and so i think that whereas in a more benign environment you may see a wider range of companies being able to close and being able to get deals the way right now is a lot more scrutiny around stories and best as their criteria and that sort of set us and wrapped up in a month in a market like this it is still possible to be right here in this market and if you've got the right story and 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 them toilet paper helicopters to shoes you've got a lot of deals that are potentially out. that if they meet the right criteria that they will be. russia's two largest oil companies state owned gross net and independent lukoil ass signed a deal over offshore exploration under the agreement ross nafta will open its unlicensed oil and gas offshore fields to lukoil now this marks new coils first offshore deal. has initiated

a host of such partnerships with foreign majors like b.p. chevron and exxon the deal looks promising for lugo which has seen output decline as the company struggled to gain on the profits. coffee prices have hit a thirty four year high topping three dollars a pound poor harvest and growing demand in emerging markets have been the main reasons for the sharp rise in prices for coffee beans of more than doubled in the past seven months. so you look at the stock markets european bourses are closed due to the easter holidays meanwhile here in russia both the r.t.s. nice excuse to new games with energy majors leading to growth not all of them as you can see there lou coral is down just point two percent over announcing that deal with rosneft banking stocks are among the main gain is the saudis bank up more than a percent and also we're seeing polymath sold one of the biggest losers the previous session putting on three point three percent that's up to correction as i mentioned

the previous session and on higher metals prices. russian oil company bashing you have to has more than traveled its net profit to one point four billion dollars last year it figures almost a third of a band the scorecards company says the result was supported by increased output and growing oil prices had of course it says the company has money in the bank and is looking for a place to spend it. some christians in we're in the process over negotiations with some of the companies. they wouldn't comment on this deal some think you'll do for the ones. although some positions some good will begin the bush regime is. a real good look at them or remove them from. the peace force and since we're not soon i hope for too much that will cover of course most of us when all the things. are i will be back next hour with nothing up to make this business news say without seeing all the headlines with tesla.

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