pretty traditional terms. of luther's available in britain where we can see they are going to. the nato led coalition upgrades its assault on colonel gadhafi to try and break the libya the civil war stalemate the interventions had little success so far all the human cost and financial price tag skyrocket. the gremlin and the u.n. secretary general take a firm stance on libya saying the coalition must act strictly within its a mandate one key more strongly in moscow for dogs. plus russia's war on terror the carcasses claims a high profile target after security forces kill at militants. this

is so it's a have played a key role in almost every tire attack in the country in recent years more details just to hand. and as european and u.s. markets are closed we're used to all of those russian markets moving much trading on their own and they saw all that obsession for the markets putting on three quarters of a percent the obvious point four percent for in twenty minutes that. you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow thanks for joining us now the war in libya is on the brink of a stalemate says the head of the u.s. military well that's the spy the announcement to send american armed predator drones to target the arsenals of the earth strikes have so far destroyed about a third of libya's ground forces but as i met has been finding out the escalating cost of the campaign deadlock is raising questions. philippians it's been

a long hard month and strike of the airstrikes 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 but i think the situation is deepening probably of rather worse the african union the tempi to cease fire was scuttled i believe quite western interests in their bridges putting troops on the ground as advisors i think it's very dangerous we're involved in a civil war for which there is no problem interest or 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 bill could really add dollars a day that means a month's offensive me 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 service is 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 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 because we still have. the areas and. we could be doing a better draw. your area. six months that would cost was approximately one hundred million. which is. what we do.

and for all that investment defense strategists are calling the situation a stalemate b. 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's the libya turning into another afghanistan ten years and counting your and it's hard to see london well the coalition's decision to send military advisors to the country has left many wondering whether this is the first step towards

a ground operation or political analyst sergei struck on told r.t. the alliances actions in libya are moving even further from their initial goal but there's a growing frustration in the world of how nato led operation in libya is going on and the definitely. on the u.n. resolution which initially was installed just to introduce a no fly zone so so what's going on now we installed two different story. definitely taken sides. and now they're considering another step for ration which can really bring unpredictable results from the resolution as a result of care for me a word it come from my old boss were discussing me. for developers at stake you see it can be jeopardized and this is what's happening in libya. the international community should comply with the no fly zone resolution in libya and refrain from taking sides in the country's civil war well that's

a statement released following talks between the u.n. chief and the russian president r.t.c. got this kind of reports on their meeting in moscow the russian president and the u.n. secretary general have strengthened their calls on the call issuing to stay strictly within its mandate which was given by the u.n. nor fly zone resolution its goal is to protect civilians but you need those 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 even victims of this of violence and of course all this is a reason why a lot of concern among the international community and now to the u.s. is planning to use the man's predator drones in we be and we 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 nato is

operation in libya is to protect civilians wide range of international issues has also been discussed by the peace process in the middle east in fact the two sides agreed that the next middle east peace conference will be held in moscow with nuclear safety was touched upon as was specially in light of the nuclear crisis in japan of the russian president and the u.n. secretary general have said that more effort needs to be taken when it comes to that perhaps the standards of the international atomic energy agency should play an active role in that and ban ki moon said that he hopes russia will continue playing an active role when it comes to resolving various international problems. this kind of reporting there and coming up lifting the veil. on the mysteries of the exclusion zone. right now for the first time ever on international television we'll

be trying to look inside the chernobyl to facility we reveal one of the soviet union's darkest military secrets which was kept hidden for decades. lost the media's baazigar with reports that software grew here again because bears he has made a round sum to get his back with the man himself is refusing to call them all the details of that story are coming. russian security forces have killed a top al qaeda terrorist during a special operation in the north caucasus he was part of a group of militants ambushed by police artie's medina courtship of our house the story. during a search operation led by russia's interior ministry troops a group of six armed militants was found in a wooden mountain area in the shall leave this tree and after six hours of shooting in ara strikes three militants were killed one of those militants more granular it was identified as

a chief agent for the international terrorist group al qaida in north caucasus now russians are anti terrorist committee that he was in charge of cash flows of funds that pay for terrorist activities in russia i do of the one of those killed was a dinner for me as an agent of record is a new work in the north caucasus a native of saudi arabia. has been based in the north caucasus since nineteen as you know it was also a key guarantor in coordinator of the funds coming from abroad to fuel the militants and work in russia. alongside with the kumar of who's on the top list of the world's most wanted terrorist and we're going yes it was the most notorious figure and he was also perceived as an absolute religious authority as well as an influential field commander now according to russia's antiterrorist committee he was also identified among militants as a rival to dog as the main leader of islamic militants in the north caucasus he was

also believed to be involved in almost every terror attack about happen across russia over the recent years and indeed russia has been rocked by a number of terror attacks the latest tween suicide moscow metro warmings that happened last year and moscow dumb idea that airport terror attack happened this year and claimed thirty eight lives now my guy knew it was on the list of top priority targets for russian security forces and that's why he had gone deep into hiding when russian security forces launched a search operation for him last fall currently further terrorist operations are underway here in the north caucasus especially in chechnya an english. now the world's attention is turning to ukraine as it prepares to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the true and noble disaster kiev is holding a milestone event dedicated to the future safety of nuclear energy and our g. crew good access to beach or noble exclusion zone and filmed one of the soviet

union's biggest military secrets alexia shoves he has a 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 just coming here to great 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 of 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 of this

chernobyl radioactive threat and in fact 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 focused which would last for more than a hundred years who spent almost a week inside the chernobyl exclusion zone filming a documentary which i would be able to see on the twenty sixth of april which is of course the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl nuclear fallout we see that 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 acacia station called a sheer noble to the whole world knows the chernobyl 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 or a more technical name to the beyond horizon radio location facility it's prime prime goal was to detect a missile launch anywhere on the european continent but it's test launch in one 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 chernobyl nuclear power plant just fifteen kilometers from here even getting this close to the fans of this top secret facility has been impossible before for a t.v. journalist for a t.v. camera but what we 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.

spike the official claims that it was decommissioned and put out of service street other after the trouble fall out in one thousand nine hundred eighty six it still remains under the protection and there are still armed guards and security checkpoints around the area not letting anyone inside. if eerie was put forward that it wasn't really an over the horizon radar station rather special facility for influencing people's minds and for using psychotropic radiation that would enable malicious forces to control people however there is no such thing as psychotropic radiation it was just another word of them fill up all the definitions 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 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 get access to as the other two are still remains still remain as classified facilities and there is no access

whatsoever to those facilities that was unlike say at a show of ski reporting from ukraine and you can watch his documentary on the secrets of chernobyl next week. and still ahead for you this hour courting controversy find out how an american power circle birthday party of the koran a month ago is stirring up trouble again. and discover how a variety of indigenous people in russia's far east strive to are called a diverse range of ages traditions passed down by their forefathers. other son of russian antivirus software guru you're getting. has reportedly been released after claims he had been kidnapped for ransom or twenty year old. who went missing in moscow several days ago archy's has the latest on this story. the reason why there is so far has been no official confirmation of the of duction or the

release of that matter is because because there's the family has before it to keep mom 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're getting scarce 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 equipment is left over from when he has done some work for russia's federal security service doctors top demanded and three million euro ransom again according to the latest reports that read the ransom has been paid but the amount of all the money that was paid for by the young males release is on no end in sight because 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 can just pierce through her leave was eight eight hundred million dollar estate because first to allow the forces and

creating a not just down to virus software but that's also done a lot of work for security services not just for russian security services but for the u.s. security by the europeans poles is down with some work for china and so if there are some sticky lesions that the reason for the abduction is up because the cyber criminals are trying to show that they are not happy with all of the various software that has been created which of course are prohibits them from accessing either top security files within these top secret facilities or resting from stealing money i suppose that from banks so the details of this case of course are still are just sort of reports and it remains to be seen whether or not because first the family will come forth and make any official announcement on this peculiar case. some other international stories for you in brief this hour first. syria will be so far out of bullets and tear gas at demonstrators at least twenty

people have been killed in several towns across the country tens of thousands took to the streets after friday prayers to protest against president bashar al assad's government or the leader has formally ended five decades of emergency rule seen as an attempt to diffuse the unrest human rights groups say more than two hundred people have died during several weeks of virus. a u.s. drone attack on a house in the pakistan's volatile afghan border area has killed twenty five people well there are reports that militants and civilians are among the casualties officials in the was it is region said the house was being used as a militant hideout or earlier hundreds of insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the northwest of decline three killing of fourteen a security personnel. the japanese government has announced a fifty billion dollar emergency budget following marchers earthquake and tsunami

it's aimed at disaster relief including providing temporary housing restoration of infrastructure and disaster gates and lowell's well the government estimates it will cost more than three hundred billion dollars to rebuild the country the march eleventh earthquake left more than twenty seven thousand people dead or missing. and american a koran burning pastor is standing trial in front of a jury in and michigan to decide whether his latest controversial act can go ahead terry jones sparked outrage across the world last month when he set fire to a copy of holy texts prompting violent riots in afghanistan well you know plans to rally outside america's largest mosque in protest of muslim law as christians mark good friday christine for reports. of. christian. even not being residents. there are more of that here in the islamic 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 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 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 search in trouble with. the. many injury or born say the pastor is not

welcome but this is how they will fight back they gathered outside the mosque and formed a human chain in a show of solidarity clearly does not represent. any of god's change as a whatever has implemented i'm going to pray and ask god to deliver him 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 hundreds of 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 expect. 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 freely outside of city hall he said he didn't want to and was asked 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 and christine for for our team in dearborn michigan. ohio 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 guy called ski regional some six thousand kilometers from moscow the equivalent of a six hour flight well it's never a big mix makes this area one of the most unique in russia r.t. stacy bevan's is there for us talking to the war calls and finding out how they

managed to keep their traditions and customs alive. once a nomadic people were running ancestors hail from china and mongolia but the land where they settled became russian in the seventeenth century and reacts to russians who lived side by side from generation to generation of peace in the. world from them and they were from our studios harmony. harmony influenced by buddhism a religion which has also been instrumental in connecting borat's to values and teachings centuries old. used. to organism in the period so closely intertwined with because there was no temporal education and the entire education was sent to them on a street level so people received a first education i mean reading or writing. they make up the largest ethnic minority group in russia's transport whole region

sixty six thousand keeping the cultural conservation work strong. even people are also indigenous to the region even close in has of the two brothers became so obsessed with their fight the bite of gold that they've neglected their families and their peoples to punish them the guards turned them into mountain ranges kadar to the east and oticon to the west west for riches and the onset of the industrial age has placed a heavy burden on even key customers 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 on their forefathers. and you actually got to check the local population is heavily mixed with russians that's why many contemporary even look just like russians feel they prefer learning russian they no longer have pride in their people all their native language. didn't

become proficient in the art of making boots from reindeer hide until after she had children a skill wasn't passed down by family but touched by teachers are a way to make money we are also awaiting a think style and display slavic russians are her biggest customers in america told boteach is a biggie applied art in folklore she believes that while love brings people together is also work against keep in the ways of the elders of life many of 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 next marriages or it's one of many modern day realities that threatens russia's indigenous cultures seceded party the transport car region. well do stay with us for the business news with dmitri. thanks to the russians two largest oil companies those are broad snaps and the oil

house signed a deal over offshore exploration. first offshore deal i was their presentation host of such partnerships with ford majors like me chevron and exxon whether one of them costly for not capital believes the tie up with luke or it was mainly due to roster problems with. i think there is a continuation of the old saga. and there are good explanation fields oil fields as we know that was not quite successful communication with the soul apparently is considering some alternative scenarios including collaboration. with the ra showed an alternative for i shall not. just lukoil lukoil obviously has some certain experience in developing fields because it's known by its quite successful deals on the costumes and. we can

compare our environment with the cost be an environment well obviously the success of working from the scratch also i should complex projects obviously give certain advantage to lukoil as compared to any other company in which my come across they're all sniffed at the garden point. second look at the markets now european and u.s. forces are close to the easter holidays meanwhile here in russia and the my sex continued big gains on friday with energy majors and leading the growth that was the closing picture for friday take a look at the stocks as burbank in the lead one point two three percent one of the heavyweights stocks new cool quite we call for its announcement with the deal with just a notch and probably matter two and a half percent that's after a strong correction the previous week results. in other news russian oil company basayev has more than tripled its net profit to one point four billion dollars last

year the figure is almost a third of those for cost the company says the result was supported by increased output and growing more oil prices had a passion for the for the course as the company has money in the bank and is looking for a place to spend it. son. we're in the pool some sort of wood you sions with the some other companies but they wouldn't do something that you would do for no one is . for you some clues from some real again good to be true from this. really good look at the book i'm sure. the prince for instance and you know upset him for two months that we have enough because since we will. business south he will be back next hour with an update stay with me for the headlines wants us. to.

live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are the streets of baghdad. just beyond the reach of. them.