twenty two. because come on. now so to. the. party tonight the nato led coalition upgrades its assault on colonel gadhafi to try and change the course of the libyan civil war which washington says is moving toward stalemate interventions had little success so far while the cumin cost them financial price tag skier on. the ground and the u.n. secretary general take a firm stance on libya saying the call is a must act strict we within it's a mandate strongly in moscow for dogs. plus russia's war on terror in the caucuses claims a high profile target after security forces kill a top al qaeda militant. 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 hand. and in business news two of russia's largest oil companies lukoil andros never have signed a corp deal on exploring offshore we'll find out more in twenty minutes or. hello this is r.t. from moscow it's nine pm here. on our top story the war in libya is on the brink of a stalemate says the top u.s. military commander but despite the announcement to send armed american predator drones to target gadhafi forces as are his supreme finding out the escalating cost of the campaign deadlock is raising questions. for libyans it's been a long hard month and strike 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 of us in the situation is deepening probably got rather worse the african union attempted to cease fire was scuttled i believe by western interests and now britain is putting troops on the ground his advisors i think it's very dangerous we're involved in a civil war course there is no problem interest or should and at what cost priceless human lives certainly but the ministry of defense refuses to release information on how much the intervention in libya is costing the british taxpayer early estimates suggest. really in dollars a day that means a month's offensive may have cost the u.k. as much as a 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 amount of money when they say the there is no

money available that we could go 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 in 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 we still have international and. we could be doing a little drop. and over six months that would cost us. one hundred million. what we're doing now 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 airstrikes u.k. forces are more inextricably involved in the conflict than ever just in the last week the ministry of defense committed to sending military advisers to libya to organize the rebels this is seen by many as the most significant step say for towards deploying ground troops and once that happens many seen libya turning into another afghanistan ten years and counting your emmett's r.t. london. the international community should comply with the no fly zone resolution in libya refrain from taking sides in the country's civil war that's a statement released following talks between the u.n. chief from the russian president's can offer meeting in moscow. the russian

president and the un secretary general have straightened their cause only call it. strictly within its mandate which was given by the un north resolution it's goal is to protect civilians but operation in libya has been going on for months and every day more civilians are killed i just personally. spent two weeks there saw various commemorations services in memory of the victims of violence and of course all this is a raising concern among the international community and now the u.s. is planning to use the predator drones in we do have quite an unpleasant history in afghanistan when it comes to see all of this makes it highly likely that people will believe that the real goal of minos operation to protect civilians

is. the coalition decision to sort of military advisors to the countries increase speculation whether this is the first step towards a ground operation political analysts and a stroke on told his actions in libya or move even further from their initial goal but there's a growing frustration in the world on how nato led operation in libya is going on and definitely the. u.n. resolution which initially was installed just to introduce a no fly zone was going on. to different story. definitely staking sides and. now they're considering another step. which can really unpredictable results for the country. as a result of carefully worded compromise process we're discussing your own credibility is at stake you see it can be jeopardized and this is what's happening in libya. coming up here on our team tonight 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. elections got a great program coming up we reveal one of the your soviet union's darkest military secrets kept hidden for decades more about ahead. plus the media is buzzing with reports that software guru of guinea cost per se paid a ransom to get his son an heir back but the man himself is refusing to comment all the details of that story ahead to. russian security forces have killed a top al qaeda terrorist during a special operation of the north caucasus he was part of a group of militants ambushed by police at least we're going to question over the story. during a search operation led by russia's interim 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 arras strikes three militants were killed one of those militants more granular was identified as a chief agent for the international terrorist group al qaida in north caucasus now russia's antiterrorist committee says that he was in charge of cash flows of funds that pay for terrorist activities in russia i do of one of those it 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 and coordinator of the funds coming from abroad to fuel the militants work in russia. alongside was was on the top list of the world's most wanted terrorist and what i needed was the most notorious figure and he was also krissy of as an absolute religious authority as well as an influential field commander now according to russia's anti terrorist committee he was also identified

among militants as a rival to dog as the main leader of islam make militants in the north caucasus he was also believed to be involved in almost every terror attack that happened across russia over the recent years and indeed russia has been rocked by a number of terror attacks the latest tween suicide moscow metro bombings that happened last year and most call them i did have an airport terror attack that happened this year and claimed thirty eight lives now my guy knew it was on the list of the 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 and ingratiating. next night the world's attentions turning to ukraine as it prepares to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl disaster kiev's holding

a milestone event dedicated to the future safety of the nuclear energy industry and a hearty crew gained access to the chernobyl exclusion zone film from the soviet union's biggest military secrets alexia jessica's but 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. just coming here to ukraine to attend the services internet interval and a 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 consuming nation around the fukushima plant the same thing which what was happening in trouble 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 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 goods which would last for more than one hundred years was spent almost a week inside the chernobyl exclusion zone filming a documentary which our viewers 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 acacia station called the should noble to the whole world knows that your local 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 digraph or a more technical name beyond horizons 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 chernobyl 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 of after the trouble fallout 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. i fear it was put forward that it wasn't really an over the horizon radar station but rather a special facility for influence in people's minds and fusing psychotropic radiation would enable malicious forces to control people however there is no such thing it's like a truly great nation it was just another me or world i'm feeling for the deflations all the people behind this technology were describing it as their pride as something the soviet union the soviet union space technology should be proud of because to that date in one thousand eight hundred none of the world's readers could have had such a strong signal as the station like this there are only three stations like this in

the world this is the only one which we could have access to as the other two are still remain still remain as classified facilities and there's no access whatsoever to those facilities. as a lecturer just here correspond reported here from ukraine just like you know you can watch is really a movement a thing of all documentary coming out about the secrets of trouble on the anniversary the one year twenty five year anniversary coming up next tuesday. but the present still ahead this living in harmony discover how the rights of indigenous people in russia's far east strive for polgar diverse range of ancient traditions passed by their forefathers. the sort of russian antivirus software guru of getting. reportedly released after claims that he'd been kidnapped for ransom twenty year old event has personally went missing in moscow several days ago that is really going to got the latest on this developing story. the reason why there is so far has been no official confirmation of the of duction

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 of 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 equipment is left over from when he has done some work for russia's federal security service doctors have demanded as three million euro ransom again according to the latest reports that read the ransom has been paid but the amounts of money that was paid for the young males release is unknown in fact because thursday family has asked the journalists to leave this story alone and have not released the family has not released any information on the boy's other states you can guess their stupor lehi's eight eight

hundred million dollar estate because they're still out of course at the freighting and knowledge is down supplier software but has also done a lot of work for security services not just for russian security services but for the u.s. security by the europeans and also has done with some work for china and so. that there are some speculations that the reason for their doctrines is are 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 work prohibits them from accessing either top security files within these top security facilities or risen from stealing money i suppose that from banks all 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 announcements on at this peculiar case. else around the world to syria first of all with police and fire a bullet. cynthia gaza 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 leaders formally ended five decades of emergency rule seen as an attempt to defuse the rest of the rights groups say more than two hundred people have died during several weeks of violence. a u.s. drone attack on a house in pakistan's volatile afghan border areas killed twenty five reports that militants and civilians are among the casualties officials in the was there a stand region said the house was being used as a militant hideout earlier hundreds of insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the northwest of the country killing fourteen security personnel. american pastor sparked outrage from burning a copy of the qur'an last month in court in michigan for a jury trial to decide whether his latest anti muslim act can go ahead terry jones plans to hold a protest outside the largest mosque in the u.s. this christian good friday on thursday the judge gave jones the option of facing

a jury all paying a one hundred thousand dollars bond to cover the security cost of such a demonstration a florida pastor chose to stand trial. japanese governments announced a fifty billion dollar emergency budget following march's earthquake and tsunami disaster relief including providing temporary housing restoration of infrastructure and disaster related loans governed estimated to cost more than three hundred billion dollars to rebuild the country the march seventeenth earthquake left more than twenty seven thousand people dead or missing. travels can run some most interesting sights of russia next this time or closer same as zooms in on eastern siberia. and focusing on the map again this is where we're heading is about kolsky region some six thousand kilometers from moscow it's got a diverse ethnic mix making it one of the most unique in russia the story suburbans

is there for us talking to the locals and finding out how they managed to get there for additions and customs and why. the translight call region has a diverse topography there ranges from wide open spaces to mountain ranges and forest in circles sand dunes but the face his face and traditions of indigenous people also added to russia's east and joining us now to talk more about the diversity in the area is a lot of course you could not stop was an associate professor of social and cultural anthropology at state university thank you very much for joining us and so for you to talk about the fabric here is there is this balance of indigenous groups mixed with people who came from the former soviet states it's a good question because you know in france because he is motivated they've ruled sort of from neutral let's also be real sequential from basically this cultural

diversity is this basic they were they were students historical they rushed in to help in all sorts of beautiful regional community what we called friends wake up it really feels great that's the breakouts that's wonderful how is it that. the indigenous groups for example were able to integrate without wholly assimilate i mean they were able to hold on to their to distil ways of living while also embracing traditional russian ways of living we cannot see the ball as a whole. assimilation. but even some russian groups was assimilated by nature because some examples from the north. and especially as a former russian the russian language changed to. just remember about russian history thank you for your insights and now the closer crew gives you a closer look at some of the indigenous peoples here and the successes and

struggles that they've had integrating in the area that was 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 who lived side by side from generation to generation of peace and. or from them or from. those harmony influenced by buddhism a religion which has also been instrumental in connecting borat's to values and teaching centuries old. it isn't in the period it's a closely intertwined with because there was no temporal education and the entire education was centered on the monastery people received the first education here i mean reading writing and teaching at the top. they make a whole largest ethnic minority group in russia's trans by coal region at sixty six thousand keeping the cultural conservation network strong. the even people are

also indigenous to the region even clinton has a two brothers became so obsessed with their fight the goal that they had neglected their families and their people to punish them the guards turned them into mountain ranges could dar to the east oticon to the west quest for riches and the onset of the industrial age has placed a heavy burden on eating 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 of their forefathers. and you have shingles check the local population is heavily mixed with russians that's why many contemporary events look just like russians affair 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 rainier hide until after she had

children the skill wasn't passed down by family but taught by teachers the boots are a way to make money but also a way to put i think style and display slavic russians are her biggest customers can imagine he told the teachers if he applied art and folklore she believes that while love brings people together is also work against keeping the ways of the elders of live many of weeks abandon them once they marry russians. but what can i do for two people meet and fall in love with each other it's impossible to avoid mixed marriages so. it's one of many modern day realities that threatens russia's indigenous cultures seceded and r.t. the transfer i call region. i just let you know it or tomorrow will love much more from this beautiful sights and sounds as this one's winning series continues to present up as cut for the latest business from moscow after a quick break. well

you watching business out see with me to go russia's two largest oil companies states of gross net than independent lukoil have signed a deal over offshore exploration this marks a new corals first offshore deal by ross nafta has initiated a host of such partnerships with foreign nations like b.p. chevron and exxon letters and cards from north capitol believes the tie up with luke oil was mainly due to rosneft problems with the arctic deal with b.p. . i think there is a continuation of the old saga. and there are exploration fields oil fields as we know that was not quite successful

communication with the so apparently is considering some alternative scenario including collaboration. with the russian. of russian partner i just knew quarrel look or oil obviously has some certainly experience in developing fields because it's known by its quite successful deals on the cost of the scene and obviously we cannot compare our environment with the caspian environment obviously of the success working from the scratch also i should complex projects obviously give certain advantage to lukoil as compared to any other company which my come across they're all sniffed at the core of the point. to stop markets now in his russian's friday closing picture and my thanks moderate growth from low volumes as european and u.s. markets were closed for the start on days shares her bank was the biggest gainer

most energy shares were up but lucroy was weaker than the market after that deal with both nafta. wraps up the playing. major events of the past week was very duction overall to look for us that way simpy and quite interesting all markets globally reacted very negatively and there was a sharp decline just never think all prices drop for sand s. and p. dropped two percent on the announcement and russian market dropped five percent as well i think it's quite interesting that this is the future of the current situation the market so there are so many respects in the market generally that starting from japan to very high oil prices that everyone is ready to start selling . the minor negative events but. only three days the market totally recovered and we see right now we're simply at probably six months right and if we break through these levels i think it will be

a very good rally in the united states and i think russia will just follow. another news russian oil company bass now has more than treble of its net profits of one point four billion dollars last year the figure is almost a bird above and this forecast that company says the result was supported by increased output and growing oil prices had a bust after next on the course does the company has money in the bank and is looking a place to spend. the summer positions. with the some of the companies. from the ones. with some christians who will begin drilling new shoes from is. a real good look at the consumer. trends force and since you know absolutely. i would of course since we will be. that's it from business out see for now the headline the next time i think you stay with us.

to live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets in afghanistan or baghdad.

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