if. first. life after chernobyl r.t. visits a community which received some of the worst of the fallout of the nuclear disaster that has ensured for twenty five years its residents simply having no choice but to stay. civilian casualties continue to grow in libya as the u.s. sounds unmanned drones to fight government troops meanwhile gadhafi forces reportedly retreat from calls still areas leaving the rebels to face tribal opposition. india is running out of women as parents wanting baby boys turn to gender selected abortions to ensure that their child will become

a profitable asset for the family. and the u.s. pastor natori is for a publicly burning the koran is denied the right to protest in a muslim dominated town the local community is asking if free speech should be sacrificed for tolerance. and watching are coming to you live from moscow thanks for joining us now it's been six weeks since a japan lost control over the fukushima nuclear plant and so far been on able to plug lethal radiation leaks or from the onset their worst fears were that it could end up being another chernobyl artie's igor god never went to one of the worst affected areas where a quarter of a century on the disaster continues to help local residents.

there exclusion zone between russia and belarus although it's more than a hundred kilometers from chernobyl it seems some to be a straight character for a trip to accident in there 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 walk down the road and draw still people living all around their area. at first glance bush cough looks like an ordinary village and most here live off what they grow in their gardens and the livestock they keep. the government says that meat from animals fatten the local feed from compound in a good land isn't safe to eat. and yes. 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 is a problem. with no military of who personally for the fire action noble is the mayor of the nearby town of nor was it called him it's a current system isn't working. you there is a commission that values the housing of those people who want to leave and give 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. the cancer rate in the area has gone up way seven times since chernobyl and the fact of the contamination may not have peaked yet. with in the first few years after chernobyl at least 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 clearly doctor for no visitors relative at home eighty six year old husband died of cancer from family contaminated materials 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 worth may be too late for an absolute others here because so enjoy life without the shadow of radiation. either of. them screeching. or without floyd live by professor patty ragan from the physics department of the university of surrey for more on the continuing struggle of the fukushima plant in japan and mr reagan when there be a focus shima disaster started and even more so now a number of parallels between fukushima ever disaster at chernobyl have been drawn do you think these comparisons are justified. well there are both listed as grades

and nuclear accidents but i think they are very very different. types of incident if you like both and how they happened and release of radiation followed next and i mean to nobble basically was a mistake of design or operator iraq and the result of the terrible thing was that the reactor itself exploded the core exploded or. particles from the reactor core the fuel broke into the environment of the cave writes this enormous release of radiation of fukushima also listed as a grave so there was no release of radiation into the environment from fukushima but followed. for disasters first an earthquake after which the reactor. immediately thought this was a vent salo by this enormous fifteen twenty meter tsunami wave that knocked out the

second the cooling system mr reagan let's just look at look at how it has been treated how how it the actions that followed after the disaster now it's been reported that the pressure levels in the first reactor were allowed to rise twice the limit before the radiation was burned and i was that necessary do you think that added to the crisis i think they didn't do it on purpose i think i had no choice because the water the tsunami wave that knocked out the cooling water systems there was no mechanism for cooling down the inside of the reactor core. and that's what gave rise to this massive increase in pressure. viewed the effect of that of course very dramatically when the reactor was widely read the material that came out with stephen hawking calls the external walls to explode but that's still very very different plot happen to chernobyl where actually it could pour sulfur exploded in fukushima it's important to remember that although we have seen very dramatic explosions at reactor cores and souls of markets loaded until now japanese authorities involved have come under fire for reacting slowly to the. prices as

some say it's because of the over the top iraq do you think these accusations are valid but i mean it's very difficult to go through such a distance away isn't it but i mean what appears to be the case that we're seeing at the moment is a month or so after the initial his last there is that the amount of radiation coming out of those that is falling so matthew clearly the overall health of certainly the people who are fighting the. situation there it's a consumer rather dramatically less than the examples we can report nobbles so. my personal view is that they've done a reasonably good job of dealing with this very very difficult crisis of great normally difficult conditions for the infrastructure around the bend around the reactor was basically wiped out by this tidal wave part of the crisis as expected i suppose as given rise to the nuclear movement in japan but in reality what

alternative does it have given its lack of resources and huge energy demand well it's a very difficult situation but it's not just your power and of course i mean that's a worldwide issue i mean. it's all dependent and has very limited natural resources which is the reason one reason why it's become relatively reliable at least to have significant amounts of its power come from. for the nuclear sector. my personal do is i think it doesn't have a choice i think it will have to continue to have nuclear power and let's not forget there were over fifty nuclear reactors in japan the operational having been hit by this enormous earthquake and followed by this type of almost all of them feel like we've got these really dramatic scenes from fukushima and it's not a perfect situation but it i suspect what we look at this fifty years of now it might be seen actually as something of a triumph actually that the reactors were part of well i will just very quickly

since run. out of time it's been an ounce of tepco plans to cover the reactors with internal like protective don but it will take six months to do it out how would a pan deal with radiation until then but the radiation levels fall dramatically and the radiation levels although dramatic comfort nothing comparable to what the radiation levels that were released picture novel for the simple reason that the reactor cores are not open to the wider environment so it's it's trouble they had no choice but to put that. over the top because place the reactor core was still open i think as long as the reactor remained closed and it's been the case that the radiation levels drop significantly as time goes by that appears to be what's up but. all right thank you very much professor patty ragan from the university of surrey thank you very much for your time. well we're there to knoebels twenty fifth anniversary just three days away we'll be bringing you plenty of coverage on the disaster and its consequences and this monday you'll also be able to catch an

exclusive documentary on the terrifying legacy of the chernobyl blast right from the heart of the exclusion zone. twenty five years of fallout. from the most devastating nuclear disaster in history. culture of the century. has monthly with its mistakes. legacy sure no. one likes him. in libya now colonel gadhafi as troops are reportedly pulling out from the coastal city of misrata after nearly two months of fierce exchanges or the libyan a deputy foreign minister said the army would withdraw from the area and allow tribal leaders to deal with the rebels human rights groups say more than one thousand people have died of misrata during the siege by gadhafi troops in the city

now on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe meanwhile the libyan government says three people have been killed by nato airstrikes outside get off his compound in central tripoli sue clark who has just returned from a monitoring mission in libya i think the decision to intervene in the country was groundless. the basis for nine hundred seventy three of the un resolution was that the claim was that gadhafi had born from the free particular district in tripoli. and we visited these places there was no indication whatsoever of any aerial bombardment so they go it just it just goes to show that if there's a claim this has to be actually corroborated 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 service over a nation on the basis or for an allegation which in terms of our findings was just baseless the point is that there has been no international investigative teams to

investigate the nato bombings as well. and the coalition is mounting the pressure on government forces in libya with the introduction of u.s. armed predator drones times correspondent told r.t. that military action in the country is nothing but a u.s. led war under nato cover. internet owns ok so don't these drones over. two thousand and eight so they can make them to. see. this is obviously not true and coming back to the. crazy and why we have been target this is not a us war with africa the african continent there was its first african war between the. general clark which has become the new of africa uganda which to me to which is basically the pentagon

a good friend in europe you are saying is this started in britain without an american ok and i don't we have been target us as a less out of strike missions in india only us underground so it's ruined right off another nine steps. from the ground of course. will britain evilly and france are sending combat advisors to libya in a move that has once again caused critics to call for the allies to obey the original u.n. resolution a lot of websites were asking what you think about it and so far the majority of our viewers think that the military advisors will simply pave the way for a full scale invasion around a third believe or just serves to prolong the war and hence western interests and twenty two percent are skeptical if the tactic will be successful at all and five percent hope it's a softening up mission before peace negotiations with colonel gadhafi log on to

r.t. dot com and have your say. the recent census shows india is becoming an increasingly male dominated society and with the birth of a son considered more financially lucrative on board baby girls are falling victim to gender selective abortions and as artie's priya sridhar reports this gendercide could have a devastating effect on the country's future. it takes a village to raise a child the saying goes but in the village of korra about three hours from the indian capital not every child is given a chance here there are twice as many boys as girls and according to the latest indian census numbers the trend of more boys is a national reality and no coincidence. should be at least one side. of the family business of the family.

dr rajiv is a physician at a hospital in her in india sex selective abortion and finding out the sex of evil for birth are illegal but every day good sees patients who are willing to do just about anything to construct a family with more boys than girls you have people who come. nor. people who have to go. on. to anything while the villagers in clora can't deny the statistics if you will talk about what is happening to all the baby girls aged you however admit that having boys is more attractive to them financially especially when it comes to the indian practice of the bride's family paying a dowry to the groom's family before their wedding is that are. there are a lot of poor people in the villages who are mostly due to illness their food it's like a big obstacle in the. gendercide continues at the rate it is happening now by twenty

twenty one india will have twenty percent more men than women in one major concern for people here who would be of 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 the drilling number of goods does worry us whether we will find wives for 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. guards for poor families are brought in for. the family but money and there have been several stories of imported brides who end up for rasin ostracized for their cultural differences. between plants and. people. who grow those are three brothers who get one for you for too many it's a rooted mentality that will be difficult to change everybody thinks of

a good as a good and dishes that is not born in the family leaving the future for females in the country unknown prius reader r t india. well you're with r t and still to come on the program the digital trash cycle. to be of a story yesterday there was that was the right liberal got over to the right. what do you think of that i mean it's ridiculous gadget lost takes over america sending back the tide of the start of electronics to countries like india reporter laurie harshness discusses the matter on the streets of new york plus. breezes from around the world here in moscow to showcase the rally as the bridge is the country for the birth. and that infamous koran burning pastor has been released from a michigan jail after posting a one dollar bond to your lawyer refused to pay to ensure peace at

a planned islamic rally terry jones was denied the right to station protest outside of a city mosque described as america's muslim capital receivers out has been looking at how free speech can threaten public safety. 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. that we can work together as a team as if as one family and they came to send pastor terry jones a message whatever has him tormented i'm going to pray and as god to deliver him mrs to be it is a preview 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 were some in the city of dearborn are divided along the lines of true rules of law the constitution and the qur'an and truly with freedom of speech but i think it should be a little bit more strict 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 or feels 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 a 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 the city hall under local laws here there are four designated for. the henry ford community center a public library city hall and right here one thousand for this record but the bigger question for many is should there be designated free speech zones or under the first amendment of the constitution should the entire country designated free speech them and they're born michigan christine for our team. well for more comments opinions and videos on this and other stories we cover at our t.v. is a website that's our t.v. dot com and here's what's on life like now as christians all over the world you'd like to celebrate easter a report on a russian traditions in preparation for the big day. there is insatiable appetite for gadgets has turned india in to its new ways jumping site but check out our web site to learn about health and environmental threats that this second part of waste carries. that story has left many wondering how americans feel about

other countries are paying the price for their technology addiction all this week in new york resident laurie harmfulness took the question to the streets of the big apple and here's what she found out. americans produce about three million tons of electronic waste every year and countries like india and as the dumping ground so how many gadgets of you bought this here this week let's talk about that gadget that you're lusting after right now this is g.p.s. but you are desperately yes you have no way to track where you're going without it basically you know maps were going to sort of just not as good but an i phone and did she already have a phone course what was wrong with that but she needed my phone was an i phone i was at the apple store yesterday and it was almost all right. what do you think of

that is ridiculous actually why do you think americans are so all about their gadgets. short attention span. you guys you know i. i forgot what are you talking matt everybody. away like you see these people. so it's out ok if we just say well everyone's doing it and someone jumps off a bridge to ok to do it too. i mean it is what it is we don't seem to care why is that. it's invisible it's you know ship it too and here is 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 interested her and i think industry should create an infrastructure for taken aback because people. how do we get them to do that. how

would we get into that. political action in. maybe figure out some way to make it profitable for him right it's always about the bottom line is the i think you just need laws from 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 lust coming up. and still to come for you the riches from below. and with the new issue explored by sylvia geologist if you take a look at this group here you'll see whether modern day counterparts have dug to verify their findings. propulsive team goes underground to explore the treasures of russia's france i call the region discovered decades ago but not tapped into one till now. well some of the world's most talented drivers have gathered in moscow

as the rally master show debuts in the russian capital well among the participants of the popular event a british star who could also be seen at behind the wheel in a james bond movie theater all over was just one of those indulgent need for speed . begins the three times british champion british champion has a remote go to strut his stuff he is of course the mom behind the driving in james bond quantum of solace so he's being whizzing around this track behind me like a thunderbolt with a view to a thrill she could call him the spy that drove it drove me well not just here but mark in the rest of the computers and just here to allow me to make terrible james bond funds to showcase the ways of the rally this no this is the first time events being held here in russia from next year it becomes a regular on the racing calendar so they've been here trying to just drum up support for sports here in moscow and glorious on

a glorious day the fans of had plenty of stills and spills to see. himself was telling me the course here in moscow provides a unique opportunity for the drivers as well as the spectators to be to support of rally i think it's great to be running it's quite difficult to watch in the forest you know you got to travel a long way away to get the normal stages you see and hear is this bringing relief to the people you know it's close for you it's very simple it's very different for me because the water i'm sorry this is it's one of those type of vents where you can really throw it away you know so in the champ you know on the track you're also . the driver behind making behind james holmes and the way he drives also the most yeah we did quantum of solace which was with the driver actually the body chasing him and that was a different you know it's not my like the whole crash but there's a few occasions we have a crush on that so that was great but i have to say after watching them going round this track around them don't. run so close to the bike. breakneck

speed so that's the way it looks as they try to promote the sport of rallying here in russia. well time to get a closeup view of russia now and today we're taking you to the country's copper mining hard also redoubt for its incredible landscapes trance like all region. the area is celebrated for its amazing views of almost all touch nature sporting mighty mountains and huge forests valuable or was found here over sixty years ago but it's only now that mining works have started going full scale. literally gone underground to take up more. natural beauty reaches across russia strands i call region and they need a wealth of natural resources and bringing them to the surface is why abdullah and the crew from the black hole mining company are here and that economy.

can cover deposit it's divided into three sectors in these areas we drew thirteen thousand regions and currently it's the first stage of this deposit. it's expected to take five years to get from the exploratory phase to full scale and evasion of the twenty million times of copper only to be buried here but it gets a great deal and his crew are now has taken nearly six decades copper was first found here in eight hundred forty nine with a lack of infrastructure an energy grid made escalation difficult then mining after it started with the union still a work there began back again is the starting point of today this one was initially explored by still be a 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 with

mine. when the student long ago that we need to develop is deploy the absence of venture. during energy transportation facilities and infrastructure made those months of possible past delays and present challenges are cheering the work of investors or the hopes of local government. the project 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 that's all skill as a beating while profitable could harm the environment the regional government and the by coal mining company have agreed on a strategy that they insist on preserve the local economy and encourage the economy so that the people of the trans by call region will not only benefit from the beauty of the area but also from its abundant period resources stacey did and our team. i'll be back with a recap of the top stories in a few minutes to stay with us.

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