no you have a guy we have a lot of thing the c.n.n. need the libyan rebels might be hoping to cash in on the country's rich resources experts warn that nato softer a share of all the some oil we'll hear from marty's own correspondent he's just back from the front line. on the side of the world's worst nuclear accident threatens a venue for radiation with progress on replacing the crumbling in china noble sarcophagus. and a scandalous act of all innovative rushers the ministry of culture is under fire for a morning of work slammed as vadra lism by some putting as a sign of a censorship free society by others.

here with r.t. live from moscow but it's not just after two pm on monday well libya is in that lock colonel gadhafi forces are continuing the siege of the rebel held city of misrata fresh nato air strikes rained down on the capital well more than a month into the allied intervention there's been a lot of discussion about the real aim of the action because little said about what the rebels actually want you go to sort of try to discover for himself their hopes and whether they'll ever come true. for years saleem has been struggling to keep his order parts shop running he claims even opening up men's pain thousands in bribes to various officials all linked to either gaddafi or his family. i won't

even begin to describe how hard it was to start his business cannot be as hands on everything for decades he's been taking money from ordinary people but now it's time for him 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 a businessman to me the same profits the idea that the revolution will open the floor cares for everyone to enjoy is backed by all rebels from farmers to the military command we have as i told you have rich countries. in this. economy. and i would invite you. the reason you would see some analysts don't share this optimism 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 it's to. exploited to steal your resources over forty billion barrels who leave us all reserves or the war just in africa and the ninth largest in the world there's so much all filling up a gas tank on a mid-size corner costs or less than ten dollars in two thousand and need to go down even promised if we leave you in would be paid eight hundred dollars every month to share the revenues but field to keep his word we 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 local city 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 he got as one of forty when guys he would be. fresh from libya go to share his experience with us it was on the ground. spent two weeks there. with the rebels themselves myself and they are pretty badly organized many of them are young many of them are teenagers who just got their hands on the. cause of the shooting just in the air in the city itself when they're either celebrating something was commemorating something it seemed to me it was actually. more dangerous to be inside the prison rather than in the front because everybody just sporadically should be and to be it seemed to me that any of these people never really used forms they got these guns from troops when they retreated one of our teams was feeling at the front big big got caught by

a mortar attack so when the 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 with 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 and the russia game i recently talked to the libyan prime minister so we're all ready to meet mediate this but all sides have to abide by the u.n. resolution the fighting must stop. the civilians which are killed every day to all this stuff and this is the only way for some sort of a cease fire to be possible. not easy but it was kind of reporting right there when i come in and a columnist rather of the former editor of the sun it used kelvin mackenzie says that there's no reason that britain and france should meddle in libya's internal

affairs is a preview of what is to come in about twenty minutes time here on out. this is libyans fighting libyans and who are we to say who should be wearing their country after all when i last looked i didn't notice any libyans interfere when the cavaliers and the railheads took place in their revolution or their as far as i could see there was nobody from tripoli wondering where in the french revolution. you would r.t. live from moscow now russia's art world as plunged into controversy after an award for innovation went to a giant piece of graffiti that many viewed as obscene now that are said by radical our group avoider fifteen a thousand dollar prize after they dubbed work on a drawbridge opposite the federal security service and some people spoke and while most people were angered at the action others say it's their message not the form

that matters i bet it has more of this. this is award winning ant according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a drawbridge in st 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 anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not rewarded. here in the center of contemporary art and see the other entries for the award and 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 the same symbol the ministry rewarded is now being brandished in mocking protest based 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 their own but. 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 is paying and a healthy society accepts these. but there's been no except since of viner's until now two men will still face trial on hooliganism charges and this little stunt british graffiti artist banksy deep belga meant they could still play seven years in prison for flipping police cars 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 america entry is better being afraid of pools and political

censorship than to actually import your breezewood. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment the curator of that exhibit and was handed a year affair back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is our then. the touring is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a sushi climate he doesn't specify the target of his protest he simply says a strong protest is brewing in russian society but how do you draw the line between saying this and arts and vandalism because this is clearly this. not the streets of his mind of vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause is compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of the pictures she's painting could be restored on the bridge to become

a symbol of some petersburg's culture because it's the first work there is proof of a civil society. by no courts controversy usually at the expense of legal authorities whether is it or not they've achieved what they wanted to right see they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners either bennett's mosque. well for more controversial stories that ignite debate or you can always log on to our website that's r t v dot com i like them such as this are russian buses returned for the past for a new look decorated for victory day with portrayed of this. is mix the legacy remains a prickly issue. and one problem all anger at a decision to whisk the russian government officials to a moscow airport by helicopter while the public struggle to get there on the traffic streets all of this out but so much more.

so are ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you without saying it happened almost twenty five years ago but the dangers of china mobile are still very present on the eve of the tragic anniversary of ukraine's seeking fun so it can complete a new containment shelter over the remains of the destroyed reactor parties alexy russia has been dangerously close to the disaster site on frequent occasions. exclusion zone around the chernobyl 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 by the weight of radiation and and the trees turned red in the first minutes after the last well that area holds levels of more than three thousand my career 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 pre-packed in the ghost town next to the chernobyl nuclear power plant where we've been filming there for many times that 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 and some of those recently 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 years none of them none of them has died yet still the main danger of the law is under the circle

for grace under 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 surface 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 accidental demonstrates that this crater make great progress made in alaska twenty five yeahs. more nice to be done to ensure that sci fi purchased approach becomes fully entrenched among you can plant operators government and regulators japan hopes to seal the site within nine months but back in the days of chill normal

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 further spread of radiation and circle focus 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 course of this might collapse and there are several cracks all in the wall of the building and experts believe that this may cause serious danger and serious threat if the circle because did collapse the whole of the european continent could be contaminated by the radioactive fuel which is still thought to lie under the circle for years this new arc is being billed by a french company not arca 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 keefe managed to attract an additional half a billion euros in aid from europe at a dollar conference. we have now been granted a real chance to complete the new shelter by the year two thousand and fifteen. spirits 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 new seafront climate is supposed to be a hard. see that is the term to develop technology is. how to manage fuel container masses how to manage not only how to act and making holes ready after we were there means that you're not all 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 sure nobbles dark past can be kept at bay a look serious ascii art see reporting from your novel ukraine. well japan's

government is coming in for yet more criticism over its response to the nuclear crisis with claims emerging that people may be misinformed on the levels of radiation and therefore 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 chernobyl was the world's worst nuclear disaster events occur one function is 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 understand sure normal last for at least a huge amount of radiation in a very short period of time the international commission on radiological protection which 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 are receiving lower doses of radiation and they actually are you have to take into account the density of radiation exposure as well as the dose soviet is possible that there are very here could be significant problems and the continuing crisis in japan it has renewed the discussion on whether nuclear energy is needed at all the global debate is a coming away next hour here on our team and find that in a couple of hours cost. in my view if you're anti carbon dioxide in your anti-nuclear you're just pro black out and with global 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 .

you can see crosstalk next hour here on r.t. and you stay with us for extensive coverage of the twenty fifth anniversary of the last with live reports from ukraine an expert assessment of the disasters and i see a special documentary from the exclusion zone throughout the day. check out some of the headlines from. around the world in grief this hour a massive jailbreak in afghanistan has seen almost five hundred prisoners escape many of them and i judged taliban militants they made their bid for freedom through a tunnel that had been dug from the outside in officials say some of the escapees have since been. three years ago there was another job break up the same as a suicide bomber blew the gates off running around a thousand suspected insurgents to flee. the opposition in yemen has rejected a plan for the president's resignation reportedly valid to step up street protests at the country's ruling party accepted the gulf states brokered deal that would see

president saleh going in thirty days while giving him immunity from prosecution could happen hope the equipment would put an end to months of mass demonstrations that have claimed the lives of around one hundred thirty. syria at least five are killed in the south west in the city of daraa as troops and tanks stormed the town that comes after more than a hundred were shot dead over the weekend when security forces opened fire at the funeral procession service killed an earlier clashes between the worst escalation of violence since antigovernment protests began more than a month ago. but the american city of new orleans is known not just for its beauty but also its strictly catholic rules but artie's cedric moon went to investigate what happens when a nineteenth century laws are 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 gorge city awash in its southern roots its colorful french creel charms and its overtones of piety. the it's very catholic very catholic very bad just even very vote to the a city that lives according to code it. gets 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 their 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 or anything else oral sex anal sex can be negotiated

but anything else is also. against the law according to a law called crime against nature it basically prohibits anything or are they on ordinary intercourse there's no police out there going into a neighborhood saying you can't have sex with your husband you can't have oral sex with your wife right no one's actually enforcing that 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 where you have to do is have an undercover officer driving around in plain clothes in a plane 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 if she answers. she's just open to trolling for. a huge hole. because a crime against nature charges punishable by as much as

a twenty year prison sentence incredibly large fines and. they are 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 cell job quietly includes pleasures of the flesh and why they need to criminalize sex acts in which just about anyone in gauges in almost all of these cases and up in a plea to probation and fives 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 justifies higher by the hookers often instead plead guilty to a lesser charge of prostitution down to a misdemeanor 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 engaging in more prostitution which they get hit again then they get caught again and right they have been gauging more prostitution it's a vicious cycle this is an old lot 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 weeks there are others. that are minorities to be continued. business news. hello and welcome to our business update thanks for joining me which is largest car

maker after cutting its investment program to twenty twenty by one billion euros the move may undermine the ambitious plans of partner a no need to maintain a market share of around forty percent the reduction will come from cutting one assembly line and indoors or just six but investment review also means that instead of an annual output of one and a half million cars one in twenty the alliance may end up with just a million after boss and its partners plan to invest five billion dollars in the next twenty years says a source close to the company. which is fixed income market has hit last year's record companies x. their borrowings in europe and turned to domestic lenders russian firms have borrowed or around eleven billion dollars at home from the start of the year that's a seventy percent increase compared to the same period last year the factors behind the u. turn is positive economic outlook at home including lower inflation and

a stronger will go. second look at how the markets are performing u.s. and european markets are closed today for easter holidays asian stocks closed lower on monday to make the end of the one percent in the red shares of because steel corporation were flat intender reported its annual net profit has fallen for the second straight year hit by price cuts on the d.s. had once again a strong yen hong kong saw the same as close as well here in russia markets are trading higher south reality has is up over the saddle advisors is up point nine percent energy says again on higher oil prices classic a look at some index movers of the nice legs we see solar is gaining around one percent of reports its joint venture with will be given a long felt reaction konami bank pulling metal is also rising home. three percent i mean high prices on metals transnet. is half of the son of the company

else in. the pacific or apart. now despite a slight decline on monday the us cars are still retains its high against the dollar. several sectors of the country's economy would benefit the strengthening. base for stronger rubles i would say that well actually this is not true a strong strong is the us currency is very weak so if you look at the baskets of the dollar and the euro so the change is not so significant of course or high all the prices is very supportive and severe strengthening of the ruble this no doubt it is but still we think that the further you. save five percent or strengthening of ruble above five percent is not really bad for russia talking about the circus which will benefit from real strengthening your debts is definitely consumers and especially retailers so you will see further strengthening your frugal will be absolutely perfect for my commute and even better for the ga which is the golden

age of death and so the payment for these debts will be much cheaper so that's the primary beneficiary and it will actually companies who are working locally say m tears will call on these companies so that will be probably the. they will benefit from it. well it was getting bogged down in a spiraling currency crisis the trading of foreign currencies between banks come to a halt after the central bank reform its valuation policy and i think a lot of these well there was through both a float but it immediately lost almost half of its value commercial banks were informally asked to stick to the official rate but later they interbank forks halted for its hold and now is waiting for a three billion dollar loan from moscow to regain control of the market from the beginning of the year bellows has lost a quarter of its reserves had a chance to support its currency. and lost those government is selling its stake in eastern europe stops wheat maker united confectioner's among the possible buyers

our world's leading food groups kraft and nestle ask the kind that owns around twenty six percent of the holding which controls such well known brands in russia. and dropped out. made by the british book chain waterstones from retailer h. and v he is offering forty million euro for the that's half as much as i must tell you ations over him we may still take the offer of the needs to raise funds to reduce its heavy debt burden. for headline news has maxed out our colleagues from.

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