well you know we have a. lot of thing this. quality of battles might be hoping to cash in on their countries rich resources exports of war and maybe goes after a share of the spoils we'll hear from our own correspondent who's just back from the front line. the side of the world's worst nuclear accident threatens a new radiation with progress low on replacing the problem true novels or copy this . callous sap or innovative art brushes ministry of culture is under fire for warning and work slammed as vandalism by song but seen as a sign of censorship society by others.

and what you are see coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program levy isn't outlaw colonel gadhafi forces are continuing their siege of the rebel held city of misrata while fresh nato air strikes rained down on the capital more than a month into the allied intervention there's been a lot of discussion about the real aim of the action there's little said about what the rebels actually want are does it work is going off try to discover for himself their hopes and whether it will come true. for years has been struggling to keep his own board shop running he could use even the thousands in bribes to do you sufficiently. or his family. i don't even begin to

describe how hard it was to start his business gadhafi and his hands on everything for decades he's been taking money. from ordinary people now it's time for them to be returned. sure small private business does exist in libya with the colonel and his close allies controlling all sectors of the economy it's a huge struggle for any businessman to make decent profits the idea that the revolution will open the floor cares for everyone to be enjoyed he's back to bite the rebel informers to the military command we have as a country of. economy we are not right about that and i would invite you. the reason you would see some analysts don't share this often is and doubt nato is the guardian angel it promises to be it has nothing to do with humanitarian aid

nothing to do with democracy nothing to do with people and colonized exploited no stealing resources over forty one billion barrels reserves or the war just in africa and the ninth largest in the world there's so much oil filling up my gas tank on a midsize corn costs less than ten dollars in two thousand and need to go down even promised every libyan will be paid eight hundred dollars every month to share their revenues but field to keep his word. does have the resources to do big business it's just that in the past for decades it was done only by a circle of chosen people the elite now here in the rebel stronghold the locals say they 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 that you've got us going off forty in guys the libya. fresh from libya your shared with us he's experience on the ground let's take a listen. spent two weeks. talked a lot with the rebels themselves. and they are pretty badly organized many of them are young many of them are teenagers who just got their hands on. the shooting just in the in the city itself when they're either celebrating something or commemorating something it seemed to me it was actually. more dangerous to be inside because of that rather than the front because everybody just sporadically should be into the it seems to me that any of these people never really used forms got these guns from go to these troops where they retreated one of our teams was at the front big big got caught by

a mortar attack so when everybody was running back. from the front they saw how the rebels were actually running faster. than our team so that shows a lot about their organization and plus many european countries now saying that they're going to send trainers to help organize the rebels it's really hard to see how long this may take it's a really difficult question it is a dead walk and. it's really hard to see when and how this might end because this is the fighting that's always continues and if there were rumors that these troops just recently were pulling out of misrata for example then the rebels say they never did that showing continued nato continues showing that he's compounds and the russians came out recently talked to the libyan prime ministers work with already to me to mediate person 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 are all this must stop and this is the only way for some sort of a cease fire to be possible. gore pissing off talking to me in the studio earlier columnist and the former editor of the sun newspaper column account he says there is no reason britain and france should meddle in libya's internal affairs here's a preview of what's to come in twenty minutes time. this is libyans fighting libyans and who are we to say who should be running the country through when i lost a bill that i didn't notice any libyans interfere with the cavaliers in the relatives took place never evolution or that far as i could see there was nobody from tripoli when we were in the french revolution. russia's art world's been plunged into controversy after an award for innovation

went a giant piece of graffiti that many viewed as have seen nevertheless a bag the radicals are group buying up the fifteen thousand dollar prize after they dogged the work on a drawbridge opposite the federal security service in st petersburg and while most people were angered at the action others say it's the message not the form that matters i bet it has more. vece is award winning ant according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a drawbridge and petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation prize for best visual artwork self-styled aren't terrorists by now meaning war in russian are the unpopular with us. i think it's essentially vandalism a bridge is a cultural and historical monument and to pin anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not rewarded willy here in the center of contemporary art

can see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating or a 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 it's the same symbol the ministry reward it is now being brandished in mocking a protest this russian youth group is angry four hundred thousand roubles of taxpayers' money be given to a group it calls vandals for vine or a protest only legitimizes their own it. 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 with artists always express society's pain and a healthy society accepts these. but there's been no acceptance of binah as art until now team members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little

stunt british graffiti artist banksy did pale demand they could still face seven years in prison and flipping skies so why this sudden show of state support. the minister of culture was afraid of being accused of political censorship and i think he was right in our country is better being afraid of imposing political censorship than to actually imports that breezewood. for a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment a curative back it's a bishan was angry year affair back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so rises out then. the touring is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a social climate where he doesn't specify the target of his protest he simply says that strong protest is brewing in russian society but how do you draw the line i

think this an art and vandalism as this is going to school thinking. not with a street art is mind of vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause is 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's the first work that is proof of a civil society. court controversy usually at the expense of the authorities whether it's. they've achieved what they wanted to write. the prize money to political prisoners i didn't see. well some more controversial stories that ignited to bathe in society can log onto our website that's our team dot com. rush limbaugh says return to the past for a new book by being decorated for victory day with portraits of stalin but his

mixed legacy means a prickly issue. and one rule for them another for everyone else the anger at a decision to russian government officials to moscow airport by helicopter while the public struggles to get there are the traffic choke streets all this and more available on our website r t v dot com. it may have happened almost twenty five years ago by the dangers of turn novel have no way been confined to the past on the eve of the tragic anniversary ukraine seeking funds so it can complete a new containment shelter over the remains of the destroyed reactor. has been dangerously close to the disaster site frequent occasions. the exclusion zone around the trouble nuclear power plant is very diverse in its 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 of the zone which was burned by the weight of radiation and and the trees turned to red in the first minutes after the blast well that area holds levels of more than three thousand micro wrong and it is not advisable to be there for a human being for more than ten minutes because you might get a serious doze or for instance the roof top of the tallest building in pretty packed 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 power there so this is also quite a dangerous level so even though generally the zone the exclusion zone is not advisable for humans to live but there are certain recyclers living around the thirty kilometer area who have returned ever since the collapse of the soviet union 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 counsel and they still live there for twenty as none of them none of them has died yet still the main danger of chernobyl relies on to the circle focus on to the steel structure which is covering the chernobyl reactor the one which is explode which exploded twenty five years ago now in my reports 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 shared was in the shadow of the chernobyl reactor explosion in line jeanne eighty six but this latest out stand demonstrates that despite make great progress made in the last twenty five as more easterby come to ensure

that safety first. approach becomes fully entrenched among nuclear power plant operators government and break makers 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 other paulding catastrophe and managed to build a steel structure over the devastated forestation protecting europe from further spread of radiation the surface was built in 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 surkov collapse and there are several cracks on the wall of the building and experts believe that this may cause serious danger and serious threat if the circle because it collapsed the whole of

the european continent could be contaminated by the radioactive fuel which is still thought to lie under this recall for years this new arc is being built by a french company and of arka work has been in progress for months but it only recently became clear that this billion dollar project lacks financing a week before the disastrous twenty fifth anniversary managed to attract an additional half a billion euros in age from europe as a donor conference. we have now been granted a real chance to complete a new shelter by 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 compliant is supposed to be harmful years that is the term to develop technologies. hard to manage fuel competing in madison's how to manage not only active mcneill's

radioactive waste whether that means that your global nuclear power plant could. one day be dismantled under the new dome is unclear but as jupiter the nuclear crisis keeps the plot on alert there is now a new focus on ensuring chernobyl's dark past can be kept a look seriously at ski oxy reporting from chernobyl ukraine. japan's government is coming in for yet more criticism over its response to the nuclear crisis there was claims emerging that people may be misinformed on the levels of radiation and therefore the dangers christopher simons from the international christian university in tokyo believes it's not being measured properly. on the anniversary of chernobyl we could say that if you know what was the world's worst nuclear disaster then the current one fukushima certainly the most complex and there certainly has been some confusion in terms of a 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

understand the chernobyl last released a huge amount of radiation in a very short period of time the international commission on radiological protection uses 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 are receiving lower doses of radiation and they actually are you have to take into account again city of radiation exposure as well as the dose so it is 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 the global debate is coming up later on in cross talk. in my view if you're anti carbon dioxide in your 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 . stay with us have our sense of coverage of the twenty fifth anniversary of the terror novel blast with live reports on ukraine and export assessment of the disaster as a legacy and also what's a special documentary from the exclusion zone throughout the day. fortunately live from moscow let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world a massive jailbreak in afghanistan has seen almost five hundred prisoners escape many of them alleged taliban militants and they've made their bid for freedom from a prison kind of through a tunnel that's been dug from the outside in official say some of the escapees have since been recaptured three years ago there was another major jailbreak from the

same side when a suicide bomber blew the gates off around one thousand suspected insurgents managed to flee. the opposition in yemen's rejected a plan for the president's resignation and reportedly vowed to step up street protests earlier the country's ruling party except that the gulf states brokered a deal that would see president saleh going in thirty days while giving him immunity from prosecution have been hold to be agreements would put an end to months of mass demonstrations that have seen around one hundred thirty killed. violence continues in syria with reports of tanks deployed in the southwestern city of the bodies lying on the streets it comes after more than a hundred people shot dead over the weekend when security forces opened fire at a funeral processions of those killed in earlier clashes has been the worst escalation of violence since anti-government protests began more than

a month ago. well the american city of new orleans is no not just for its beauty but also its strict catholic rules but artie's super moon when soon best again what happens when the nineteenth century was still in force clash with the contemporary vices of the famous bourbon street. this is the carnival of colors and sounds. that is new orleans louisiana. mississippi river port city awash in its southern roots its colorful french creole charms and its overtones of piety the. it's very catholic very catholic very bad just even very vivid the a city that lives according to code your lines get stuck in this kind of like puritan mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening people come and 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 sexy you know strikes 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 a neighborhood saying you can't have you know 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 and all of these drive around and drive up to people who they believe are are prostitutes or known are known prostitutes. and just ask how much and she answers. she's just opened the huge hole in her life. a huge haul because a crime against the 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 whose sell job quietly includes pleasures of the flesh why they need to criminalize sex acts which just about anyone you can gauge it's 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 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 we are all only him maybe being used today still to make money it's a five year felony you can use that to encourage people to plead guilty very quickly justifies higher bonds the hookers often instead plead guilty to a lesser charge of prostitution leading 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 getting 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 to stupid law it's a law that a lot of people even within the criminal justice system john agree with now you can see how some are trapped in the carnival that is new orleans. and if you think

you're the only one which there are others. to be continued. and time now for business update karina joins us in another studio. here karina so we see that the ruble still remains high against the dollar so what's behind the strains of the russian currency well in hello say that it's the u.s. currency that is weak but yes the ruble is trading high against the stone mostly because of high oil prices and just the markets but first russia's largest carmaker after hours is cutting its investment program trying to try to buy one billion euros the move may undermine the plans of after the us and its part. to maintain a market share of around forty percent the reduction will come from cutting want to sever the line and streamlining endorse the text logistics but invest. also means that instead of an annual output of one a half million cars by twenty twenty the alliance may end up with just

a million after the us and its partners plan to invest five billion dollars during the next two decades says a source close to the company which is fixed income market has hit last year's record cuts after companies acts that borrowing in europe turned to domestic lenders and russian firms were around eleven billion dollars domestically from the beginning of the year that's a seventy percent increase compared with the same period last year among the factors behind the u. turn is the positive economic outlook at home including lower inflation tempests. take a look at how the markets are performing u.s. and european markets are closed for easter holidays asian stocks were lower on monday they closed down the stretch in the red chairs of nippon steel work clocks that's after reports that the company expects to post a group called the ninety billion yen that's one thousand and nine billion one point nine billion dollars rather in fiscal year despite the impact of disaster

hong kong stock exchanges closed public holiday. here in russia markets trading higher this hour we are just a point zero point two percent and i'm isaac's slightly less than that energy shares a gaining on high oil prices now let's look at those up individual moves on them isaac's solar's is gaining more than one percent reports its joint venture with p.r. will be given a loan from me as you can all bank pretty metal is rising sharply in the. precious metals prices transnet this trading read on news i think belongs to the pacific oil pipeline. despite a slight decline on monday the russian currency still remains its high and its high against the dollar believes several factors other countries are sectors of the country's economy would benefit from a proper strengthening of the ruble. as for stronger wills i was a bit well actually this is not true bill strong strong is the u.s. currency is very weak so if you look at the baskets of dollar in europe so the

change is not so significant of course it will high all prices is very supportive and severe strengthening the ruble there's no doubt of this but still we think that before the new boats to save five percent or strengthening of ruble about five percent is not really bad for russia and talking about the circus which will benefit from ruble strengthening your bets is definitely consumers and especially retailers so you will see further strengthening your frugal will be absolutely perfect for my commute and even better fall. which is the golden age of death and so diprivan for duce that will be much cheaper so that's the primary beneficiary then you will actually companies who are working locally is three m. tears will call these companies so that will be probably be. they will be different for a good largest lender has b.c.'s pulling the plug on its reserve operations in russia the move comes less than two years after they've announced

a two hundred million dollar expansion plan the company says it will focus instead on corporate and investment banking in a country where the us is getting bogged down in a spiraling currency crisis the training of foreign currencies between banks came to hold after the central bank reformed its not new asian policy or the bank allowed the bell or was ruble to float but it immediately lost almost half of its value commercial banks were formally asked to stick to the official rate later interbank for its hold. is waiting for three billion dollar loan from moscow to regain control of the market the beginning of the year bill that was has lost a quarter of its reserves to support its currency as often i'll get back with more in about fifteen minutes from now but stick stay with us for head like up next.

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