in the exclusion zone r.t.e. visits an area which was severely affected by the chernobyl nuclear disaster twenty five years ago it is still inhabited today. we convict now we have an opportunity. as nato airstrikes hit the center of the libyan capital fresh civilian casualties intensify calls for investigation into the blocks actions. and india's gendercide the country's latest census reveals an alarming sex ratio exposes a trend of abortions and parents discover they're having a girl. this

is r.t. where here twenty four seven with all the news that matters all straight to our top story now as japan continues to grapple with its nuclear crisis many are drawing parallels to the channel disaster as assess the true cost it's nearly twenty five years since the worst nuclear accident in history and its effects are still being felt today nazis visited a village an exclusion zone where people are left to live with the risks of radiation. the exclusion zone on the border between russia and belarus. more than a hundred kilometers from chernobyl intrusive something hideous radioactive fallout from a nuclear accident and you know eighty six. people were advised to leave but not everybody has to this used to be a thriving community of more than five thousand people after chernobyl it was

deemed unsuitable for living and its inhabitants were a house in fact if you measure the radiation around here it's still several times higher than normal but just walked down the road and dressed so people living all around their area. at first glance bush cough looks like an ordinary village most to live off what they grow in their gardens and the livestock they keep. the government says that a meat from animals fatten local feed from contaminated land isn't safe to eat. of course we're scared of the radiation but we simply can't afford to go anywhere else according to the government anyone who is living in the exclusion zone is an equivalent housing outside it but actually getting it as a problem. personally for the fire to ennoble as the mayor of the nearby town of numbers are called he admits that the current system isn't working.

there is a commission that values the housing of those people who want to leave and gives the money for it but the money is so small those people wouldn't be able to afford a house in most places around russia so many people choose to stay here. their cancer rate in the area has gone up by seven times since chernobyl and effect of the contamination may not have peaked yet. in the first few years after chernobyl at least there were government programs to clean up local food supplies but now they are gradually coming to an end we're being forgotten about. the. holding his clinic doctor for no visitors relative of home eighty six year old husband died of cancer from hamley contaminated materials and she says she plans to live out the rest of her life here. i was never given

a chance to leave and now i'm too old to go anywhere else. but while it may be too late for anna to move others here because so enjoy life without a shadow of radiation. either of their own nerve see began screeching. but as the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl disaster nears stay with our team for more ports are insufferable and on monday we bring you a special documentary on the legacy of the catastrophe. twenty five years of fallout. from the most devastating nuclear disaster in history. a quarter of a century ago on this month called local its mistakes. the legacy of chernobyl. on the party.

in libya colonel gadhafi as troops are reportedly being withdrawn from the rebel held city of misrata in the face of nato air strikes it follows an almost two months standoff i mean their craft carried out fresh air strikes on the capital tripoli overnight and the government spokesman saying at least three people were killed in the raid and khan's turned who has just returned from a monitoring mission in libya believes there's no justification for nato his actions the basis for nine hundred seventy three the u.n. resolution was to claim was that gadhafi had bombed from that air three particular districts in tripoli subsume loon and we visited these places there was no indication whatsoever of any aerial bombardments so they go it just it just goes to show that if there's a claim this has to be actually corroborate it properly and that hasn't been done and what we've what we've had is a situation where nato has gone to war going to self sovereign nation on the base

of an allegation which in terms of our findings was just baseless the point is that there has been no international investigative teams so far to investigate the nato bombing there's a world where u.s. is sending armed drones to target the dolphins forces but eric stoner the editor of the web site waging nonviolent struggle says the move will only cause more innocent deaths. so any claim that this is a step forward is really hard to hard to jibe with with the facts on the ground that there has to mix will vary widely in terms of this in billion casualties due to drone strikes but the brookings institution pretty centrist democratic organization intake and you see a couple years ago put out a report that showed that for every militant kill. another ten civilians were killed with each attack so i don't see any reason why that ratio

which change in libya so introducing grown into the war in libya is likely only to ending more civilian casualties and more suffering for the libyan people. the asia times correspondent told artsy that washington's initiative to send its trains is just another step along the path towards a u.s. navy ground operation. it was a stalemate we knew it would be a stalemate so maybe it didn't work the tomahawks in the beginning honest to one of them didn't work so what do you do the total trolls this is urban warfare and the pentagon is lying once again saying there will be no collateral damage we just have to look at the record to try the worst to see this is not true coming back to the sooner the packers and rice we have been told that this is not a us war the witnessed by the by africom the african command that was its first african war between the hawks where last night general carter ham which is the

commander of africa then the us which to nato which is basically the pentagon a weaponized army you're now saying is deciding vessels without an american ok and i don't know if we have been told that the u.s. as of last thursday out of strike missions in libya only have u.s. predators underground so once we can write off another nonstop and soon we're going to have boots on the ground of course this is the bullets from actually we couldn't think of the right now we have an opportunity in libya. but britain italy and france are sending military advisors to the group presses once again cause critics to call for allies to abate the original un resolution well our website we're asking what you think about it all so far the majority of you think that the military advisors will simply pave the way for a full scale invasion of the third the it just serves to go on the board hence western interests twenty two percent are skeptical that the tactic will be

successful and five percent it's a softening up mission for peace negotiations to go along to dot com so having us. india is becoming an increasingly male dominated society as the basis census shows the number of girls for it is at an all time low families are desperate for sons as they're financially far more attractive that's resulting in a rising number of gender so that abortions results these premature reports this gendercide have vention even many indian men without. it takes a village to raise a child the same goes but in the village of crore about three hours from the indian capital not every child is given a chance here there are twice as many ways as girls and according to the latest indian census numbers the trend of more boys is a national reality and no coincidence and each family warms there should be at

least one son who can look off of the family business. we are going to look after. dr rajiv god is the physician at a hospital and hari ana in india sex selective abortion and finding out the sex of a baby before birth are illegal but every day good the sees patients who are willing to do just about anything to construct a family with more boys than girls or something which. runs into. you have people who can do. these sorts of nor. people who have got good stuff going. on born. to anything while the villagers in cora can't deny the statistics if you will talk about what is happening to all the baby girls they do you however admit that having boys is more attractive to them financially especially when it comes to the indian

practice of a bride's family paying a gallery to the groom's family before their wedding is there as it was there are a lot of poor people in the villages who almost immediately reach owners to fear dari it's like a big obstacle in the like. gender side continues at the rate it's happening now by twenty twenty one india will have twenty percent more men than women one major concern pretty well here is who he is young boys will marry when they grow up if nothing changes in many of us this is a worry for everyone even we have two sons a drooling number of goods does worry us whether we will find wives where our sons are not in some places like hari are not the gender ratios are so skewed that some villagers are traveling to other states to buy brides for their sons. for poor families are brought in for those they had their families with money and there have been several stories of imported brides who end up for rasin ostracized for their

cultural differences. between plans to. instances of you. or three brothers who get one value for too many it's a rooted mentality that will be difficult to change everybody thinks of a girl as a burden and wishes that it is not born in the family leaving the future for females in the country unknown preassure either party career or india. or so ahead for you this hour we ask if americans are bothered by the growing pile of. it's a joke results of an insatiable appetite for new devices that pollutes other countries. it's invisible you know you should be doing here is somebody else's problems like a civil war in africa because it's not really happening. and that she already has found course but was run by that that she needed my phone was on my phone. from the world the rally here in moscow to showcase the. record has

ruled out the infamous qur'an burning pastor terry jones cannot hold an anti islamic running in a city described as america's muslim capital just as the calls to live with this decision really mean that the proposed rally could incite violence and outrage that community held its own protest question for zahra went to see how freedom of speech is being brought into the help there. they came to show that the planned protest was not causing a rift in their community even formed a human chain in a show of solidarity christians jews and muslims were not afraid. but we work together as a team as if it is one family they came to send pastor terry jones a message whatever has him tormented i want to pray and as god to deliver him about this is to give is important for you he needs help more than seven hundred people attended a service on the eve of the protest planned by

a man that has held the qur'an on trial and another man who actually set the holy book on fire to fight what some here deemed the greatest offense with peace. peace. but where some in the city of dearborn are divided are along the lines of two rules of law the constitution and the qur'an actually with freedom of speech i think it should be a little bit more it stuck with people they get to create problem he has every right to say what he wants to do what he wants this is america this is not the middle east but at least he should not hurt our feelings for some across the country the question is will freedom of speech incite violence. earlier this month in response to pastor terry jones actions more than a dozen people were killed in mazar e sharif in afghanistan here in dearborn it is about public safety pastor jones was

refused to permit to protest at the mosque but was told he could protest elsewhere he should not be stopped from expressing his opinion in other venues that he's been offered including in the city hall under local laws here there are four designated for. the henry ford community center the public library city hall and right here and i think this record but the bigger question from. should there be designated free speech zones or under the first amendment of the constitution should the entire country the designated free speech them and their warren michigan christine freeze out our table. but that's more insight into our top stories on our website i thought he dot com let's take a look at what's lined up few there right now russia's mysterious south represented in coast you check out our special photo section from the shelf it's the count to making pizza plus. the man who's the the tie the knot that's his

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more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today.

now the top international rally drivers have gathered in moscow for a taste of some rowing competition capital is hosting its first rally masters and that's a sports event which has already gained popularity across the world participants including approaches star who performed stunts in one of the james bond movies he's leading the race when it's all about is among those feeling the need for speed. whereas the city center of the capital might be almost permanently jammed with traffic here just a short drive away from the certainly no traffic jams in sight rally drivers from around the world flying round the track right on the banks of the moscow river in one point right next to me right on the edge of the river there flying round

a bend at breakneck speed now they hear the rally masters showcase to two ply their wares really for the people of russia next year moscow will become a permanent feature on the on the race calendar for the rally masters and they're here to try and drum up support for the pick of the day for its glorious spring sunshine these are the sounds of full of spectators i think you can see one of the drivers just about. right there around this track in the set just outside the center of the city well they've brought some of the best in the world including the flying. the meisner as well as. well as mark begins actually the guy who drives like james bond because he is james bond in the movie he's also a three time british rally trampy and so he really knows what he's doing anything strutting his stuff in front of the moscow crowd today. it's rather having fun as latest must have gadgets high streets outdated divorces soon find themselves on the scrap heap pile of computer junk soon becomes something else is problem now this

week with journalist lori haas honest otherwise known as the resident hits the streets of new york to find out how people there feel about other countries paying the price for america's mission with technology. americans produce about three million tons of electronic waste every year and countries like india and up as the dumping ground so how many gadgets have you bought this year this week let's talk about bet is there gadget you're lusting after a girl as a g.p.s. or as what you are desperately yes you have no way to track where you're going without it basically a no no maps we got a little just not as good but an i phone and did she already have a phone course what was wrong with it that she needed my phone was an i phone because of the awful story yesterday there was almost a riot that broke out over the news. what do you think of that i think it's

ridiculous actually why do you think americans are so all about their get it. done i shortened response. you guys you know i you know i forgot. everybody has some type of way like you see these people go right here when i drive because of. some type way so is it ok if we just say well everyone's doing it and someone jumps off a bridge the ok to do it too now. i mean it is what it is we don't seem to care why is that. it's invisible it's you know should be to any or somebody else's problems like a civil war in africa if you can say it's not really happening do you think people do care and just don't do anything about it or do you think they really don't care i think is industry driven i think industry should create an infrastructure for taken aback because people would react. how would we get them to do that. how

would we get them through that. little reaction the interest like this and maybe figure out some way to make it profitable for it right so it's about the bottom line is the i think you just need a loss for the bottom line is that millions of tons of just started. gadgets are polluting your planet every year so please do think about that the next time you feel that gadget lot coming out. every flippin out some other world news stories yemen's haven't seen the largest demonstrations in two months and on the rest hundreds of thousands of unseen pro-government protesters are continuing to take to the streets people are joining the uprising to scotland crackdowns out of so killed nearly one hundred thirty two people died during new protests across the country friday in the fifteen year old way death turned many of presence of its allies against him including defecting only it's now gotten the main protester in the country's capital. in syria

funerals are taking place today for more than one hundred people killed in friday's crackdown against pro-democracy protests it was the deadliest day of the uprising so all the demonstrators have been demanding an end to president bashar al assad's rule bloodshed came off the heat formally ended five decades of emergency which is being seen as an attempt to defuse the rest. of the celebrations are taking place across the globe with even more crucifixion and resurrection of jesus special performances. ranging from rather modern interpretations of the stories to include costume plays this year's festivities you know it's time for the christians of the celebrations for all the servants. but time to get a closeup view of russia now and today we'll take you to the country's copper mining also renowned for its incredible landscapes and transport coal region.

yes the air is celebrated for its amazing views about the mountains huge forests and of course one famous place by call also in facing a long distance chronicle and a religious factions across the region's prostrations. planets and construction took more than half a century but for the last section of trouble they fell in the open the doors the region's rich natural resources as they see things in the trees going underground to dig up all. the close up crew in iran are such a week in the chance to call region russia's far east and i have to tell you that the diversity of people and landscape and the balance of the old and the new leaves are very powerful and question and join me now to discuss his impressions of the region of my office my fellow american and resident michael ship leaving here for

sixteen years right what is it about the people that keep you here all the people are really open the very warm very inviting and extremely easy to get to know in terms of nature this whole region is by western standards virtually untouched there's a nature reserve here called the. nature reserve and we went out there on the lake we were the only people on the lake and it was beautiful really wonderful experience like you very much for sharing your precious jewel they are what i call it beneath the now from the beauty here lies and a wealth of natural resources and to close a crew and i'll give you a closer look of the south to start the mining industry and the hopes that hinge on . natural beauty reaches across russia's transport call region and beneath it a wealth of natural resources bringing them to the surface is why abdullah and the crew from the by col mining company are here and what

a continent. we are the eastern side of the earth you can call it's divided into three sectors and these are areas we drilled thirteen thousand and twenty ten it's the first stage of this deposit. it's expected to take five years to get from the exploratory phase to full scale escalation of the twenty million tons of copper only to be buried here but to get his crew are now has taken nearly six decades carter was first found here in nine hundred forty nine but the lack of infrastructure and energy grid made as difficult then mining effort start with the fall of the soviet union still the work there began back then is the starting point of today this one was initially explored by sylvia geologist and if you take a look at this group here you'll see whether modern day counterparts have dug to verify their findings to determine the viability and capability of escalating this

mine when just did long ago that we need to develop this deposit but the absence of engineering energy transportation facilities and infrastructure made those runs of possible past delays and present challenges are chairing the work of investors for the hopes of local government. projects means more investments and new jobs but it will also provide additional tax revenues into the entire region and new social programs will be launched some ecologists war and death full scale as a profitable could harm the environment the regional government and the mining company have agreed on a strategy that they insist will preserve the local ecology and enrich the economy so that the people of the trans by car retail will not only benefit from the beauty of the area but also from its abundant period resources. are.

so it seems to artsy are being the main headlines this hour in just a few moments. from . the russian republic blends historic diversity with economic diversification oil

drilling industry pushes for tomorrow's petrochemical products traditionally the asians the focus is on one pilot programs the government experience some economists by going online to understand and so forth of russian innovation on technology update we've got the future coverage. i 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 and baghdad. this spring. has a. history of the. wrong. crowd gathers a may be young wisdom on the streets of the.