the sign of the world's worst nuclear accident threatens a new radiation leak with progress slow while replacing the probably true novel start. doing all you have a. lot of things to see. while leaving unravels hope nato will help them benefit from the country's rich resources experts warn their aspirations are unlikely to crash as the walk itself aims to suck up the wealth. and the scandalous or an average of our brushes ministry of culture is under fire for war in the works lands that's manolis and by sound it's seen as a sign of censorship free society by others.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina josh welcome to the program what may have happened almost twenty five years ago but the dangers of chile novel have in no way been confined to the past on the eve of the tragic anniversary crain seeking funds so we can complete and new containment shelter over the remains of the destroyed reactor well let's now cross litel correspondent election was in the brain and kept working for us and has been dangerously close to the disaster site on frequent occasions so have see a quarter of a century after a massive radioactive plume from true novel was released into the air how much of a thread does the tragic sight still post today. well clearly the zone the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant is there a diversion it's levels of radiation some parts of the area have very high

radiation levels for instance the area known as the red forest that is the part on . the zone which was burned by the wave of radiation and and the trees turned red in the first minutes after the blast well that area holds levels of more than three thousand micro wrong in sproul and it is not advisable to be there for a human being for more than ten minutes because you might get a serious dose or for instance the roof of the tallest building in the ghost town next to the chernobyl nuclear power plant where we've been filming there for many times and we never had an idea that the levels of radiation reach almost two and a half thousand micromax per hour there so this is also quite a dangerous level so all in all generally the zone the exclusion zone is not advisable for humans to live but there are certain recyclers a living around the thirty kilometer area who have returned ever since the collapse of the soviet union they just decided that despite that they were given flats and homes and other towns across the soviet you grain they still decided that they want

to return to their homeland and to return to their houses and the levels of radiation in some parts and some of those resettle villages the levels of radiation are still very high radiation still doesn't scare them off they say they can still live there they have their own natural habitat they grow their own fruit and vegetable they have their cows and cattle and they still live there for twenty years none of them none of them has died yet so it is very interesting to talk with these people and to see how they are not afraid of radiation at all still the main danger of chernobyl and the one which is still making headlines across the world now especially with the twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster coming just on tuesday so the main digitalized under the circle for the sound of the steel structure which is covering the chernobyl reactor the one which is explode which exploded twenty five years ago that's too many debates about how much nuclear fuel remains out of the still none of the scientists can say the exact exact number of

how the how much of the nuclear fuel remains after the explosion and this still believed to be. deadly levels of radiation under the surface now in my report i compiled the facts about the significance and what is being done now to safeguard the area for the next century. japan's ongoing struggle to contain the fukushima disaster is fuelling the growing anxiety over nuclear energy safety the last time the world was this scared was in the shadow of the chernobyl reactor explosion in nineteen eighty six but this latest i've been to demonstrates that despite make great progress made in the last twenty five years yes. more these could be done to ensure that safety patched approach becomes fully entrenched amount of nuclear power plant operators government and regulators

japan hopes to seal the site within nine months but back in the days of chernobyl a quicker solution was needed shutting the gapping hole of the exploded reactor was the immediate way out of a deadly mistake scientists were quick to react to the unfolding catastrophe and managed to build a steel structure over the devastated power station protecting europe from the further spread of radiation the surface was built in one thousand nine hundred eighty six just months after the disaster but then experts said that it would last for twenty years until two thousand and six no there are fears that the circus might collapse soon there are several cracks on the wall of the building and experts believe that this may cause serious danger and serious threat if the circus did collapse the whole of the european continent could be contaminated by the radioactive fuel which is still thought to lie under the so-called focus this new arc is being built by a french company in arca work has been in call grist for months but it only

recently became clear that this billion dollar project lacks financing a week before that is. grocery managed to attract the additional half a billion euros in aid from europe as a dollar conference. we've now been granted a real chance to complete the new shelter by the year two thousand and fifteen experts are confident it could even happen quicker in just two years and that the new protective layer would last for generations to see their life time for their use of confinement is supposed to be harmful years that is the term to develop technology is. to manage a fuel container madison's hard to manage long leave captive metals radioactive waste with means that your global nuclear power plant could one day be dismantled under the new dome is unclear but as japan's nuclear crisis keeps the planet on alert there is now a new focus on ensuring dark past can be kept. a look serious ski r.t.

reporting from chernobyl ukraine. japan's government is coming in for yet more criticism over its response to the nuclear crisis there with claims of merging that people may be innocent formed on the levels of radiation and therefore the dangerous christopher simons from the international christian university in tokyo believes it's not being measured properly. on the anniversary of chernobyl we can say that if you know what was the world's worst nuclear disaster then the current one for the sheema certainly the most complex and there certainly has been some confusion in terms of the response there is certainly a risk of long term exposure that's a problem in particular the way in which we measure radiation causes people to commit to understanding the chernobyl last released a huge amount of radiation in a very short period of time the international commission on radiological protection uses an average values when they calculate the types of radiation that people are

exposed to and those average values can actually in some situations such as after chernobyl and currently in fukushima make it appear as though people who are receiving lower doses of radiation than they actually are you have to take into account again city of radiation exposure as well as the dose so it's possible that there are very there could be significant problems. the continuing crisis in japan has renewed the discussion on whether nuclear energy is needed at all but global debate is coming up next hour on our t. in cross stuck. in my view if you're anti carbon dioxide and you're anti-nuclear you're just pro blackout and with what it will demand for electricity expected to grow by eighty percent over the next twenty or twenty five years we simply don't have an option but to continue to work hard at getting good at nuclear.

as they would our team for extensive coverage of the twenty fifth anniversary of the chair novel blast with live reports from ukraine an expert assessment of the disaster is like to see how to get a lot of special documentary from the solutions out throughout the day here on r.t. . to other stories now russia's art world has been plunged into. versus after an award for innovation going to a giant piece of graffiti that many viewed as obscene nevertheless a bag of radical our group going out a fifteen thousand dollars prize after the dark work drawbridge opposite the federal security service in st petersburg while most people were angered every action others say it's their message not the form that matters i bet has more this is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five meter phallus want torsional drawbridges and petersburg as one the twenty eight in

innovation prize for best visual art work. the underground movement no meaning war in russian is the unpopular with. i think it's essentially vandalism a preacher is a cultural and historical monument and anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not for war dude here in the center of contemporary art you can see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating shocking or innovative as viner's and according to the jury that's why they won purely artistic merit but now it's not as simple as that the same symbol the ministry rewarded is now being brandished in mocking protest this russian youth group is angry four hundred thousand roubles of taxpayers' money we given to a group it calls vandals for vine or the protest only legitimizes they're out.

it's a very awkward situation when the state award goes to a group that in fact organizes an action aimed against the state but this is a very important signal artists always express society's pain and a healthy society accepts that he's. been no acceptance of vinyl as art until now two members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little stunt british graffiti artist banksy did bail them out and they could still play seven years in prison because scholars say why the sudden show of state support. and minister of culture was afraid of being accused a political censorship and i think he was right and our country is better being afraid of him pause and political censorship than to actually import. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the

culture ministry from international exhibits fearing embarrassment the curator of that exhibition was in under a year a favor he lost his job over another censorship scandal but this time he was on the jury so why is his art then. the touring is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a social climate he doesn't specify the target of his protest he simply says that strong protest is brewing in russian society and he created a huge monumental and expressive gesture but how do you draw the line between say art and vandalism because this is. not the streets of his mind of vandalism but it's not hooliganism it's something intentional that implies thirteen something with paint a disorder it may cause it's compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of the pictures which is painting could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of some petersburg's culture because it is the first work that is proof of

a civil society. court controversy usually at the expense of the authorities whether is it or not they've achieved what they wanted to know to righty they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners i didn't it's. often more controversial stories out of neither baden society can always log on to our website at r.t. . right now their website you'll see russian buses return to the past for any log. of portraits of star is mixed legacy remains a prickly issue. and while they're all for them and other for everyone else to enter at a decision with russian government officials to mascot airport by helicopter while the public struggles to get there on a traffic choked street all this and more on our website our team.

well moscow says it's ready to assist peace and dialogue afterwards in libya if all sides of the conflict and here to the un resolutions but despite the violence has intensified with the siege of rebel held city of misrata continuing and fresh air strikes hitting the libyan capital well we've got in the studio correspondent you corpus going off as recently been on the ground in leaving and give us the first hand account of what's happening there you are as we know you've been to the rebel stronghold of benghazi and we've heard stories of how badly organized they are so tell us what's happening there it's absolutely right they came back from guys the maybe over a week ago spent two weeks there. talked a lot with the rebels themselves myself and they are pretty badly organized because basically mainly militarily in or a ways in the you know always because there are many of them are young many of them

are teenagers who just got their hands on kalashnikov rifles and they're constantly shooting just in the air in the city itself when they're either celebrating something the war commemorating some of them it seemed to me it was actually even more dangerous to be inside guys because of that rather than the front because everybody just sporadically shooting into your political report to me. their movements they are well you know it's really hard to say especially when we're talking about the front because that is one of the biggest problems coordination disconnection there's no even international phone connection in gaza me and it seemed to me. any of these people never really used forms got these guns from got these troops and when they retreated so when we're talking about their actions on the fronts they're totally. discordant it. poorly trained one of our

teams was about feeling for a big they got caught by a mortar attack so when they were good it was running. from the front door. the rebels were actually running faster than than our team so that shows a lot about their organization and was with me in countries now saying that they're going to send trainers to help organize the rebels this week or to see how long this meeting is that way because that's the question everybody's asking because from what we hear and what we see it seems like the situation there is dead log is there any way to break it it's a really difficult question it is a deadlock and. it's really hard to see when and how this might end to be. the fighting this always continues and if there were rumors of these troops just recently were pulling out of misrata for example then the rebels say they never did that so the showing continued nato continues showing got these compounds and the

russia came out recently talked to the libyan prime minister so we're all ready to me to mediate this but all sides have to abide by the u.n. resolution the fighting must stop and the civilians which are killed still every day there all this must stop and this is the only way for some sort of was to be possible and there's also interest by all sides every society has its own interest obviously got i feel as an interest in staying power and that the rebels themselves the meaning of them think that if for the past four decades everything was controlled by gaddafi or his family or somebody connected to the family the money which is the almighty has been going through that and some of them now we've got everybody believes that as soon as got off he's gone this fall cash is going to start you know fall into everybody's walk it obviously i don't we think that is

going to be true if gadhafi goes have to see. more of that let's watch this report was prepared earlier from gaza. for years celine has been struggling to keep his on a porch running he claims even opening it meant he thousands in bribes from various officials all linked by the better for his family well i don't know what it felt like i won't even begin to describe how hard it was to start this business could not be as hands on everything for decades he's been taking money from ordinary people and now it's time for me to be richer because he. sure small private business does exist in libya what with the colonel and his close allies controlling all sectors of the economy it's a huge struggle for a businessman to me decent profit the idea that the revolution will open the floor cares for everyone to enjoy is backed by rebel informers to the military command we

have as i told you we have rich country. as we have. in this. economy we are not right about that. i would invite you. the reason you would see some of those don't share this optimism and doubt nato is that. it promises to be has nothing to do with humanitarian aid nothing to do with democracy nothing to do with the people is the colonized exploited to steal the resources forty one billion barrels we've used reserves for the war just in africa and the ninth largest. there's so much more food but you are staying on a mid-size corner course on less than ten dollars in two thousand and need to go to

even promised if we leave you will be paid eight hundred dollars every month to. put field to keep his word. does have the resources to do big business is just that in the past for decades it was done only by our circle of chosen people the elite now here in the rebel stronghold c.b. are ready to fight to the end to build a free and prosperous society but is the opposition strong enough to build a whole new regime or can it be that the future of the libyan people has already been decided for them you've got us going off r t v libya. columnist our former editor of the sun newspaper kalam account he says there is no reason britain and france should meddle in libya's internal affairs and here's a preview of what's to come in ten minutes time. this is libyans fighting libyans and who are we to say who should be running the country. when i last looked i

didn't notice any libyans interfere with the cavaliers in the roundheads took place in the revolution or the as far as i could see there was nobody from tripoli. in the french revolution. the american city of new orleans is known not just for its beauty but also its strict catholic rules but archie's cedric morning lends to investigate what happens when a nineteenth century law is still in force clash with a contemporary vices of the famous bourbon street. this is the carnival of colors and sounds. that is new orleans louisiana. a mississippi river port city awash in its southern roots its colorful french creole charms and its overtones of piety. it's very catholic very catholic very bad just even very very the

a city that lives according to code it there are lines get stuck in this kind of like here it's a mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening people carmen have conventions here because they know there's the french quarter they know there's strip clubs prostitution. this is bourbon street. for about two hundred bucks you can buy yourself sex more specifically straight up intercourse. with a new orleans street walker anything else or start saying all sides can be negotiated but anything else is also. against the law according to a law called crime against nature it basically prohibits anything other they are ordinary intercourse there's no police out there going into neighborhoods saying you can't had anal sex with your husband you can't have oral sex with your wife right no one's actually enforcing about but it isn't forced and enforced heavily on

the prostitutes of new orleans these are people who can least afford to be charged with something like this right or you have to do is have an undercover officer driving around in plain clothes in a plain in an unmarked car now if you drive around and drive up to people who they believe are prostitutes or known are known prostitutes and just ask how much and if she answers. she's just opened this huge hole in. a huge hole. because a crime against nature charges punishable by as much as a twenty year prison sentence incredibly large fines and. data you're talking about a woman who's in her early twenty's who has to register as a sex offender for the next fifteen years. for a city who says cell job quietly includes pleasures of the flesh and why they need to criminalize sex acts in which just about anyone engages in almost all of these

cases and up in a plea to probation and finds fines and fees and the important part about the fines and fees is that's all revenue coming in to pay for the court system to pay for police to pay for the jail to pay for prosecutors offices simply put an antiquated nineteenth century law. passed on the guise of christian values all. maybe being used today still to make money it's a five year felony and you can use that to encourage people to plead guilty very quickly it justifies higher by the hookers often instead plead guilty to a lesser charge of prostitution pleading down to a misdemeanor means you can charge higher fines and fees how do prostitutes who usually can't afford those fines and fees pay for them they're paying for it by doing more prostitution which they get hit again then they get caught again and

right they have to engage in more prostitution it's a vicious cycle this is an old law the stupid law it's a law that a lot of people even within the criminal justice system don't agree with now you can see how some are trapped in the carnival that is new orleans. and if you think they're the only ones wait there are others. on our team you can continue. time now to take a look at what's happening in the world of business in just a moment. sorry welcome to our business update here on our team thanks for joining me russia's

largest car maker asked about is cutting its investment program until twenty twenty one billion euro the move me arms of mine ambitious plans after valves and it's partnering on his stand to maintain a market share of around forty percent reduction will come from cutting one assembly line and streamlining the indoors it just takes for the investment review also means that instead of an annual output of want to have million cars by two thousand and twenty the lines may end up just a million after gas and its partners plan to invest five billion dollars during the next two decades says a source close to the company. well here's the mystic fixed income market has last year's record as up to companies x. borrowing in europe and turn to domestic lenders firms have borrowed around eleven billion dollars domestically from the beginning of the year and that's a seventy percent increase compared with the same period last year on the factors behind a u. turn and preference is positive. lower inflation and stronger. now

let's look at the markets now if japanese shares a page lower on monday evening after trading morning session and he fell point one percent shares of new plans to corp were flat to report the company expects a post to post a group net profit of one point nine billion dollars this school year despite the impact of disaster and the hong kong stock exchange has closed a public holiday and russia's r.t.s. opens point two percent high climbing for the fifth day of my six is to close burbank and ross now being. most likely have already recovered from a major correction in the middle of last week's s. and p. cutting the credit outlook for the us. says the rebound is likely to continue in the coming days. on the announcement of bias and simply announcement of. a little

production of those things we saw massive selling and this was mostly russian selling and they selling from hate france actually we haven't seen any along only france is selling i think by friday last week i mean in the us there were still in cash and still do we're short positions of the market so that's why we haven't seen any selling in russian markets on friday and i would expect the continuation of anything any selling in on monday as well as for the major drivers for the russian market this week i think will be fed decision probably that will be expected no changes then the situation with s. and b. s. and these are very important level of thirteen forty right now it would break through these levels i think will be very supportive for all markets globally and for russian market as well. and that's our fate for now but other back with more in less than one hour traffic.

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