the hotel pool for its pleasures and i would print certainly the splined brutal entire truth wins if you tell me what your group the fictional guru girl international feels good to cheat every green for till. you're annoying the other guy. and does the media well libyan rebels might be hoping to cash in on their country's rich resources there are warnings that their actions supported by nato are inviting a chain reaction of civil wars in breach. almost twenty five years after trying or the world looks upon it with renewed concern as the distress at fukushima shows how vital it is to be prepared for the repeat of a nuclear disaster. and a culture clash in a controversial russian art group wins a state award for what they say is artistic protest but critics see it as an act of

sanity and. now now business bulletin russia's largest maker after buzz is cutting its long term investment program by one billion euros now why is that find out and around twenty two minutes time. a very warm welcome to you live from moscow now libya is colonel gadhafi forces are continuing their signature held city of misrata with fresh nato air strikes raining down on the capital now more than a month into the allied intervention and there's been a lot of discussion about the real aim of the action but there's little said about what the rebels actually want to. try to discover for himself their hopes and whether they will ever come true. for years saleem has been struggling to keep his

order port sharp running he claims even opening it meant he means thousands in bribes to various officials all linked to either get athlete or his family. i won't even begin to describe how hard it was to start his business could not 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 any businessman to make decent profits the idea that the revolution will open the floor cares for everyone to me joy is backed by rebel informers to the military command we have as i told you have rich countries. and the. economy.

i would invite you. the reason. some don't share the sample is 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 the people it's the colonized exploited to steal your resources over forty billion barrels who leave us reserves or the war just in africa and the ninth largest in the world there's so much more filling up my gas tank on a mid-size corner cost 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 the revenues but failed to keep his word libya does have the resources to do big business it's just that in the past four decades it was done only by a circle of chosen people the elite now here in the rebel stronghold the local cd

all 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 to spin off r t v libya. and are now just back from libya you got to showed us his experience on the ground that's so quick listen to what happened. came back from. a week ago we. talked a lot with the rebels themselves. and they are pretty organized many of them are young many of the martini. just got their hands on kalashnikov rifles and shooting just in the air 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 to be present that rather than on the front because everybody just

sporadically. got these guns from one. we treat it so when we're talking about their actions on the front they're totally. this this coordinated. poorly trained one of our teams was feeling there at the front they got they got caught by a mortar attack so when everybody was running. from the front we saw how the rebels were actually running faster. than our team was with european countries now saying that they're going to send trainers to help organize the rubble to see how worn the service they take to russia we saw we talked to the. prime ministers what we already knew this but all sides have to abide by u.n. resolution the fighting. that was an easy going to sort of reporting the fact that rebels now rely on international help it makes the situation even more dangerous

promoting the idea of uprisings in other countries and that's the warning from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. because he does not believe even oppositions rejection of the cease fire initiatives is connected with the fact that nato is implementing the u.n. security council resolution and it soon weighed and has signed it with the rebels and called lead rebels relying western help to overthrow the regime and seize power it's a very dangerous move to literally escalating the conflict in hopes that the world community would come to your aid it is essentially an invitation to a series of civil wars. and i mean so i mean you go to hochelaga from the world economy and international relations says that russia is the most suitable mediator for this ongoing conflict. we're seeing a shift in nature nature aviation very selective you see it. could earth is still asians and places where gadhafi could be can self so maybe trying to kill khadafi

himself which goes actually well beyond any un resolution and each absolutely inacceptable from their point of view all three laws and from the point of your internet. conventions. all nato members are signatories to russia remains may be the only contradiction to help to resolve the situation because the nature contras proven to be taking sides in the conflict and you know if you want to be a mediator you have to be accepted by both parties russia has all those propagated today g. or no they've all gone into other countries internal affairs and each has all conducted its international policy in accordance with norms of international law maybe ease the best choice for this change. that you bear in mind that i'm more used to the future stories can be found on our website of course that's r.t. dot com let's have a look right now what one of you on the article called america's get most prison is

packed with innocent people according to the latest of trove of secret files from wiki leaks which shed light on who. really are. and find out why india is becoming an increasingly male dominated society and what they are stating a fact it may have on the country's future. if if if . he would tell you it's good to have you with us today now the russian art world has been catapulted into the limelight after a giant piece of graffiti won a state award a radical article dubbed the work in the seen by many as obscene on a drawbridge shoppers at the federal security service and it's in petersburg and while most people were angered at the action others say it's the message and not the form that matters. this is award winning art according

to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on drawbridges and petersburg as one the twenty ten innovation prize for best visual artwork self-styled aren't terrorists vyner 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 paint anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not rewarded already here in the center of contemporary art can see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating or a shocking or innovative as violence 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 rubles of taxpayers' money we've given to

a group it calls vandals for vine or the protest only legitimizes their art. 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 two members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little stunt british graffiti artist banksy the pale demand they could still play seven years in prison and flipping police cars so why the 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 impuls and political censorship than to actually imports that your brain is wired. and will proceed

change from four years ago this image of to kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment a curator of that exhibit was andrei uniphase back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is this our then. the touring is a graphic and expressive example of how long this reacts to a solution climate 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 between say this art and vandalism because this is clearly just fitting. with a street art is minor vandalism but it's not hooliganism a 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 there is proof of

a civil society. by no courts controversy usually at the expense of the authorities whether it's art or not they've achieved what they wanted to write they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners i didn't it's our team. we continue to tackle the moral maze later in the program here on r.t. . good step it is kind of like a puritan mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening play with us to see a legal system that uses religious laws to cash in on crime all the while heralding high moral values. for twenty five years since the. nuclear plowed fears linger that disaster will repeat itself on the eve of the tragic anniversary ukraine's seeking funds to complete a new containment over the reactors remains which are still emitting dangerous

levels of radiation artie's alexy at us he has had exclusive access to that disaster site. well clearly the exclusion zone of the thirty kilometer radius around the chernobyl nuclear power plant is unsuitable for a living thing there are different radiation levels across this area certainly from three and a half thousand microland ganz in a place called the red forest that is a part of the land which was burned by the way the radiation after the chernobyl explosion to the rooftop we prepared to the tallest building in prepaid where the level of radiation goes to about two and a half thousand micromax per hour it is not advisable for human beings to be there for more than ten or fifteen minutes they migrate get some the first levels of the first stages of radiation sickness then at the same time some parts of the zone are still inhabited by people there are recyclers several hundred of them who have returned to the zone ever since the collapse of the soviet union they were indeed given flats in kiev and other towns across ukraine but they still prefer to go back to their home villages to their buildings to their houses where they have council

grow vegetables and fruits and live there are not scared of radiation they've been living there for more than twenty years now and most of them are still alive so i've got the feeling talking to them that the radiation is clearly not their enemy not something which would be able to pull them off now of course this verse three of the twenty fifth anniversary is a big date and. the whole of ukraine has been seen lots of different commemorative events in the last several days we know that the russian president meeting today of the bell russian president. will be coming over to go to chernobyl to attend the commemoration services there of the russian orthodox church deal has arrived trickier to attend services both in the ukrainian capital and also in the chernobyl exclusion zone itself also we heard that russian president putin to awarded presented state awards to the chernobyl liquidators people who were involved in the clean up operation off of this disaster in the aftermath of the of the chernobyl

explosion so we'll be seeing a lot of that and we have over already seen huge the internet. dollar conference where ukraine has managed to persuade the countries of further investment into strengthening and building a new circuits over the dome clearly there is still danger remaining in chernobyl the danger which lives under the surface because nobody still knows for sure how much radioactive fuel nuclear fuel still remains under his dorm under this steel construction called the circle figures in my report i compiled the facts about the structure and how it lives nowadays and i believe we can have a look at this report right now. 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 here was in the shadow of the chernobyl reactor explosion in nineteen eighty six but this latest accident to get more straight that these are each make great progress made in the last twenty five yeahs. war these could be

done to ensure their safety first approach becomes fully intrigued among nuclear power plant operators government and break makers hopes to seal the site within nine months back in the days of chilled mobile a quicker solution was needed shutting the gap in whole 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 the surface was built in nine hundred eighty six just months after the disaster but then after that it would last for twenty years until two thousand and six no there are fears that these are quite focused and i 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 didn't collapse

the whole of the european continent could be contaminated by the radioactive fuel. which is still thought so why are the so called figures this new arc is being billed by a french company and of arka work in progress for months but it only recently became clear that this billion dollar project lacks financing but we could before the disaster st the fifth anniversary of managed to attract an additional half a billion euros in aid from europe at a donor conference. we have now been granted a real chance to complete a 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 suppose to be harmful. that is the term to develop technologies. are hard to manage fuel containing masses how to manage not only active materials

radioactive waste whether that means that your global nuclear power plant could one day be dismantled under the new dawn is unclear but as japan's nuclear crisis keeps the planet on alert there is now a new focus on ensuring should not be as dark cost can be kept at bay look serious ascii art see reporting from your novel ukraine. and as we are much of those anniversary many say that the world has failed to learn the lessons on nuclear safety the tragedy exposed r.t. spoke to philip white from the citizens nuclear information center and says that the situation in fukushima is worse than the plans owners are willing to admit. it's just some sort of sheet material that they want to cover the plant with to minimize releases of gas radioactive gas into the outside in fact six months is very optimistic i think they're fine a very difficult to achieve at. the end of the accident i wouldn't be surprised at

anything with. people in government who are closely affiliated with keep going one way or another and bureaucracy has never been strictly monitoring being more interested in promoting nuclear power so if you hear is there is still uncertain and we think a lot of it can bring out some details. that will come out as time goes by. the stage it's more a matter of the analysis that they put on their day to day is the seriousness of it all their statements are indicating that. we should to recognize just how serious it is without a live from moscow where it's now twenty minutes past the hour let's check out some other headlines from around the world this hour on the syrian army has reported stormed through towns in the country moving in tanks and using snipers in order to suppress escalating addressed opposition activists say five people were killed in the southern city of. the death toll since the mass i think government riots began

over a month ago has reached three hundred rising sharply in the last few pounds cancellation of the country's nearly fifty year old emergency law has done little to bring about an end to just. about five hundred taliban members including some field commanders have escaped from a prison in southern afghanistan or dangerous breakout was made through a tunnel which the militants began digging five months ago some of the fugitives have already been recaptured three years ago about one thousand prisoners escaped from that same jail after. trying to destroy the christian caves. birthplace of jazz and home of mardi gras new orleans is a cultural hotbed but now the u.s. city's famous bourbon street is growing a reputation for more illicit activities as art of its central command discovered nineteenth century laws still in effect helping authorities cash in on the sex

trade. this is the carnival of colors and sounds. that is new orleans louisiana. very catholic very bad just even very vodou the city that lives according to code the orleans gets stuck in this kind of like here it's a mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening. this is bourbon street. for about two hundred bucks you can buy yourself six 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 have anal 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 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 the do is drive around and drive up to people who they believe are or prostitutes or known are known prostitutes and just ask how much and if she answers. she's just open if huge hole in her life. a huge hole because a crime against nature charges punishable by as much as a twenty year prison sentence incredibly large fines and. they 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 minutes. 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 gage it's in almost all of these cases and up in a player progression 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. 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 charge higher fines and fees how do foster to it's who usually can't afford those fines and fees pay for them they're paying for it i need to get more

prostitution in which they get hit again then they get caught again and right they have to engage in more prostitution it's a vicious cycle now you can see how some are trapped in the carnival that is new orleans. and if you think they are the only ones wheats there are others. that are minorities to be continued. the other has a business of if it is with maitreya. banks rorie russia's largest car maker after others cutting its investment program since twenty three and seen by one billion years and move may undermine the business plans of out of as its partner read only send to maintain a market share of around forty percent in the country the reduction will come from perignon assembly line and streamlining the windows were just expect the investment review also means instead of an annual output of one and a half million calculator or twenty the alliance may end up with just the me have

to balance partners planted by splitting a half billion euros in the next twenty years the source close to become. russia's fixed income market in say last year's record that's after companies x. their borrowing in europe and turned to domestic lenders lots of firms have borrowed around eleven billion dollars at home from the start of a yellow to seventeen percent increase compared to the same period last year among the factors behind the u. turn is the positive economic outlook at home including lower inflation and a strong root. time to move now to the markets u.s. and european markets are closed for easter holidays this is the closing picture for asia the nikkei ended point one percent in the red head saying was closed for a public holiday on steel corporation shares was flat nintendo reported sanyal net profit for the for the second straight year hit by a price on the d.s. handheld gaming system and a strong big year. to move to russia now in seo markets are trading like coming

down slightly yet again the obvious up point seven percent ninety six point two five percent energy shares are gaining on high oil prices or not not just take a look ross now is up by just a third of a percent polymath so that's a gold producer it's up one point six percent on the high of precious metals and twelve acres bucking the trend is down. europe's largest lead latest b.c. is pulling the plug on its retail operations in russia the move comes less than two years after the now from two hundred million dollars spent some time but company says it will focus instead on corporate investment banking in the country. despite a slight decline on monday the russian currency still retains its high against the dollar you can provide believes several sectors of the country's economy would benefit from a further strengthening of the river. as for stronger rules i would say that actually this is not true bill strong is strong is the us currency is very weak so if you look at the baskets of dollar in europe so the change is not so significant

of course or hi all prices is very supportive friends there strengthening the ruble there's no doubt of this but i still would think that the. safe of five percent or strengthening of ruble about five percent is not really bad for russia and talking about the sectors which will benefit from rule strengthening you that is definitely consumers and especially retailers so you will see further strengthening your frugal will be absolutely perfect for market meat and even better fall. which is the golden age of debt and so the payment for these that will be much cheaper so that's the primary beneficiary and the will actually companies who are working locally say them tears will go on these companies so they will be probably be. they will benefit for e. and russians i can was even thought of as planning to take over english football club horse not be a multi-millionaire said to become the team's fifth name three years in a deal worth twenty eight million dollars and sort of terms of portsmouth after you

had an offer to buy neighboring bournemouth at sea turned into a team sack the current well that's the hong kong based the ball around chain right but the club entered ministration february last year when that reached two hundred fifty million dollars that was offered dropped out of the premier league however he bought them back out six months later with the intention to sell. my business out he will be back next hour with an update rory's next we'll have lots to stay close . to.

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