policy tonight mesa 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 are little success so far while the human cost in the financial crisis like skyrockets. the gremlin and the u.n. secretary general take a stance on libya saying the coalition must act strictly within its a mandate. in moscow for jobs. plus russia's war on terror in the caucasus claims a high profile target of the security forces kill or top al qaeda militant. then

man is sought to have played a key role in almost every terror attack in the country in recent years more details in just a hands. free greeting from moscow it's just after eleven pm here now my name is kevin owen here at the hughes channel tonight and our top story for you the war in libya is on the brink of a stalemate says that the top u.s. military commander that's despite the announcement to send american predator drones to target could offer his forces and as laura reports florists the escalating cost of the campaign deadlock is raising more questions to. philippians it's been a long hard month and strike after strike by nato forces in the middle of an increasingly violent civil war but in the midst of all that bloodshed what's been

achieved according to many not a lot i think the situation is deepening and probably got rather worse yes a community m.p. to cease fire was struck with i believe quite western interests and their britain is putting troops in 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 the ministry of defense refuses to release information on how much the intervention in libya is costing the british taxpayer early estimates suggested the bill could run to five million dollars a day that means a month's of pensive may have cost 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 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 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. harriet's and. we could be doing a little draw. down. six months that would cost us approximately one hundred million. oh. and for all that investment defense strategists are calling the situation a stalemate a dash he 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 steps a far towards deploying ground troops and once that happens many seem to be a turning into another afghanistan ten years and counting and it's hard to see 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 of the russian president hugo can offer ports meeting here in moscow. the russian president and the u.n. secretary general have straightened their cause on the call issue into

a state strictly within its mandate which was given by the u.n. north wise on the 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 returned from the reason we spent two weeks there saw various commemorations services in memory of the victims of this of violence and of course all this is a rethink of concern among the international community and now to the u.s. is planning to use the man's predator drones in we view 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. of minos operation to protect civilians. the coalition's decision to send military advisers to the countries increased speculation whether this is the first step towards a ground operation political analyst august often 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 on how the nato led operation in libya is going on and definitely gone far beyond the u.n. resolution which initially was installed just to introduce a no fly zone so what's going on now we installed two different story commission definitely staking sides and. now they're considering another step to stop that letter to ration which can really unpredictable results from. the usual came out as a result of that for me or worded compromise well all prosper discuss and beyond privileges at stake you see it can be jeopardized simply and this is what's happening in libya now. coming up in the program lifting the veil of the mysteries of the exclusion zone. right now for the first time ever on international television to be trying to look inside the chernobyl to facility we saw its darkest

military secrets be kept hidden from the. russian security forces have killed a top al qaeda terrorist during a special operation in the north caucuses he was part of a group of militants ambushed by police did a question of its got 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 history 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 russia's are anti terrorist committee that he was in charge of cash flows of funds that paid for terrorist activities in russia i do of the one of those killed was a donor from it is an agent of a card is a network 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. who's on the top list of the world's most wanted terrorist that 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 islam in 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 moscow dumb idea of 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 is special in chechnya and ingratiates here. the world's attention is turning to ukraine as it prepares to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl disaster care is holding a milestone event dedicated to the future safety of nuclear energy an arctic regaled access to the chernobyl exclusion zone and filmed one of the soviet union's biggest military secrets jeff skilling reports. 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 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 train to attend the services internet in general and the different conferences related to that stands 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 should not already have to spread 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 for his which would last for more than one hundred years who spent almost a week inside the chernobyl exclusion zone filming a documentary which artie's us 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 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 radio acacias station called assured noble 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 de gras or a more technical name to the beyond horizon radio location facility its prime prime goal was to detect a missile launch anywhere on the european continent but it's test launch in nine hundred eighty proved that its signal is so powerful that it can reach the eastern

coast of the united states this facility was one of the most expensive projects of the soviet union it cost around seven billion soviet rubles which is twice as expensive as the construction of the 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'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 chernobyl fallout 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. i fear it was put forward that it wasn't really an over the horizon radar station a rather special facility for influencing people's minds and for using site

attribute radiation that would enable malicious forces to control people however there is no such things like attribute radiation it was just another me and 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 raiders 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. it was like so you're just going for the reporting from ukraine in history and you can watch is the documentary in full on the secrets of chernobyl next tuesday the twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster so much forty minutes past eleven at night syria moscow let me take you through some news happening around the world tonight in syria security forces fired on a series of a democracy protest making friday the deadliest day of the uprising so

a local human rights group says at least fifty people were killed tens of thousands took to the streets of the morning prayers to demand an end to president bashar assad's eleven year rule leaders formally ended five decades of emergency rule seen as an attempt to defuse the unrest more than two hundred twenty people have died during several weeks of violence. and u.s. drone attack on a house in pakistan's volatile afghan border area has killed twenty five there are reports that militants and civilians are on the casualties officials there was a risk and region said the house was being used as a militant hideout hundreds of insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the northwest of the country killing fourteen security personnel. japanese government has announced a fifty billion dollar emergency budget following the recent earthquake and tsunami it's aimed at disaster relief including providing temporary housing restoration of

infrastructure and disaster related loves destination will cost more than three hundred billion dollars to rebuild the country and not to level the quake left more than twenty seven thousand people dead or missing. that american qur'an burning pastor is standing trial in front of a jury in michigan to decide whether his latest controversial out can go ahead terry jones sparked outrage across the world last month when he set fire to a copy of islams holy text prompting violent riots in afghanistan he no plans to rally have started america's largest mosque in protest of muslim law as christians mark good friday christine for reports. sunni and shiite christians jews who are not going to be residents here or 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 in your world we believe he's here to start in trouble. east. peace. in afghanistan. many in dearborn 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 he does not represent any any of god's teachings so whatever has him tormented 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 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. located just between two churches on the same day as good friday it is for this reason pastor terry jones spent the majority of the day here at the nineteenth district court in dearborn michigan our 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 to pay for any damages that might occur he refused and has now been given a trial by jury and christine for is out for our team in dearborn michigan. in for more on that story a lot of other news and feature update some a web site about to go home of course that also it's not all the ball to play been snowing earlier on this week in the russian capital spree definitely right there more skilled as the city you know says that she is so you league season so she where that day i don't see one launch not russia six you spy is assigned a new position by the government this time it won't be veiled in secrecy blotchy will probably have to go.

travels again round now runs are interesting sides in russia this time are closer than on eastern siberia. and he comes up and this is where we're going with the. ski region is some six thousand kilometers from moscow it's diverse ethnic mix makes this the most unique of russia in space and. finding out how they managed to compare traditions and customs. to transpire call region has a diverse topography with wide open spaces contrast in forests and mountain ranges that encircled stand you but the faces faced and traditions of indigenous people also add a richness to russia's east and while many still hold on to old traditions and

customs they also embrace russian culture only closer through offers you are close to work and to new to these people two groups are particular in the various ways that they deal with it's your creation in the child's college and it's a 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 in peace and. harmony. 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 area it's a closely intertwined because there was no temple education and the entire education was centered on the mormon street people receive their first education here i mean reading writing and healing. they make up the

largest ethnic minority group in russia's trans by col region at sixty six thousand keeping the cultural conservation network strong. the even people are also indigenous to the region even clairton has of the two brothers who came so obsessed with their fight a violent goal that they had neglected their families and their peoples to punish them the guards turned them into mountain ranges are to the east. to the west west for riches and the onset of the industrial age has placed a heavy burden on even customs like reindeer hunting time and assimilation have also reduce the population. it now stands at just under two thousand here fewer people means fewer voices can speak in the tongue of their forefathers. and you have shingles just the local population is heavily mixed with russians that's why many contemporary events look just like russians that refer learning russian they

no longer have pride in their people all their native language go in full of holes didn't become proficient in the art of making boots from reindeer hide until after she had children and skill wasn't passed down by family but touched by teachers the boots are a way to make money but also a way to put it in style and display slot aggressions on her biggest customers in america tolbert teaches it he applied art and folklore she believes that while love brings people together is also work against keeping to ways of the elders of life many of akes abandon them once they marry russians. but what can i do if two people meet and fall in love with each other it's impossible to avoid mixed marriages. it's one of many modern day realities that threatens russia's indigenous cultures seceded r.a.t they translate call region. more from this beautiful part of russia and its sights and sounds for you as this one so many series continues but for this

hour though you're just ten minutes away from a vision of the bay program cross talk with people of oil find out what papers guests have to say about libya bahrain the western presence there currently is there an arc say from moscow. are you watching business our team is going to have your company russia's two largest oil companies and independent lukoil have signed a deal over offshore exploration this marks new coils first offshore deal while ross nath has initiated a host of partnerships with foreign agents like b.p. chevron are next on live from north capital believes the tie up with new coral was mainly due to problems with the arctic deal with 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 soul apparently is considering some alternative scenario

including collaboration. with the ra should an alternative rush in the parking lot just look we'll look or oil obviously has some certain experience in developing fields because it's known by it's quite successful. scene and obviously we cannot compare our environment with the cost be an environment obviously of the successful 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 point. to stock markets now and here's rush's friday closing picture and my thanks to moderate growth from low volumes as european and u.s. markets close to home plate look at shares burbank was the biggest most energy shares were up but new quarter was weaker than the market after that deal with.

major events over the past week or so the reduction of four yes that's why some people. and quite interesting all markets globally reacted very negatively and there was a sharp decline just in every thing all prices dropped four percent s. and p. drop two percent on the announcement and russian market dropped four 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 even at the minor negative events but in fully three days the market totally recovered and we see right now is simply it's probably six months height and if we break through these levels i think will be a very good rally in the united states and i think russia will just follow it

another news russian oil company bassinette has more than tripled its net profit to one point four billion dollars last year with figures almost a heard above and this forecast likely says the result was supported by increased output and growing oil prices had a budget that it's not of course the president but he has money in the bank and is looking a place to spend some the musicians. we're in negotiations with the some of the companies but we couldn't. for the ones. who would someone who sounds real good in. this. real google could potentially. actions or words and since you know who would emerge that would of course pursue this we would say that's it from business out see for now the headline the next time i think you'll stay with us.

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