it will. bring you the latest in science and technology from. the future. fresh nato air strikes hit the libyan capital put their old warnings that continued coalition support of the rebels is an invitation for a chain reaction of civil wars in the region. almost twenty five years after chernobyl the world looks upon it with renewed concern as the distress and focus she most shows it is to be prepared for the repeat of a new click catastrophe. and culture clash a controversial russian group wins a state award for what they say is just the protest critics see as an act of obscenity and vandalism.

international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. where it's just past eight pm here in the russian capital and six pm in libya where the country is in deadlock daffy's forces are continuing their siege of the rebel held city of misrata while fresh nato air strikes rained down on the capital well more than a month into the intervention there's been a lot of discussion about the real aim of the action there but there's little said about what the rebels actually want t.v. going to spin off try to discover for himself their hopes and whether they'll come true. for years saleem has been struggling to keep his order parts shop ronnie he claims even opening pains thousands in bribes to various officials all linked to either get out of the or his family. i won't even begin to describe how hard it was

to start his business cannot he has his 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 but 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 cash for everyone to enjoy is bad to buy. from farmers to the military command we have as i told you we have a rich country. as we have. in this. economy. i would invite you. the reason. some analysts don't share the same absolutism and doubt nato is the guardian angel it promises to be it has nothing to do with humanitarian they know

whom to do with democracy nothing to do with the people it's to. late to steal your resources over forty one billion barrels reserves or the war just in africa and the ninth largest in the world there's so much all 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 would be paid eight hundred dollars every month to share the world 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 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 that you've got us going off r t v libya. where we caught up with you got here in moscow and he's been sharing his experience in libya with us in the studio. i came back from benghazi maybe over a week ago spent two weeks there. talked a lot with the rebels themselves myself and they are pretty badly organized and many of them are young many of them are teenagers who just got their hands on kalashnikov rifles and are constantly shooting just in the air in the city and so when they're either celebrating something the war commemorating something it seemed to me it was actually more dangerous to be inside because of that rather than on the front because everybody's just sporadically shooting into the air we got these guns from that a few troops when they retreated so when we're talking about their actions on the front coolly trains one of our teams was filming the front they 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 was with. countries now saying that they're going to send trainers to help organize the rubble to see how long this may take the russian recent we talked to the. prime ministers already to meet this but all sides have to abide by u.n. resolution the fighting. and i was not easy going to peace you know that the fact the rebels now rely on international help makes the situation even more dangerous promoting the idea of uprisings in other countries this is the warning from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. for those of you we suspect believe you opposition's rejection of the ceasefire initiatives is connected with the fact that

nato is implementing the un security council resolution and its own way and has sided with the rebels and probably have rebels rely on western help to overthrow the regime and seize power and it's a very dangerous move deliberately escalating the conflict in hopes that the world community would come to your aid is essentially an invitation to a series of civil wars would. call for more analysis on the situation in libya i'm now joined by mark mellman he's a visiting professor of international relations at bill kent university there in turkey thanks very much for being with us here on our team now with the situation now regarded as a stalemate is that the only remaining solution and if so could russia play a part in this as it's been suggesting. there could be a violent. either way but if we want to avoid. operational. destruction. and some

kind of. a problem is a moment. where our will increase because they have a. hard row to hoe they want to. receive. but of course. a lot of rubble what other part of. russia's request. are but. what about other participants in libya itself there's talk of the libyan tribes there are reports that tribal leaders could be brokers for peace i could explain why whose side are they on and what role could they actually play these tribal leaders. part one of the increase in libya as this big regional split at least and rest. brace for. who really has been running the local society under the cover of the libyan state will care about how many people call tribal leaders who turn against it are. being

started the has a. lot of members he's kept control of central and western libya accept. now the question is will their mediators fully change sides which. this means that again it's very different accounts and use nuclear weapons except. in libya or outside could we go back to russia's potential involvement here and indeed what we've just heard from sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister saying that foreign intervention could actually start a chain reaction war civil wars in the region especially what we're seeing now in syria and yemen do you think he's got a point there. i think there is a danger yes we saw in the balkans control years of. camillus for a focus group more trouble we would draw in nato as nato is gone and. now logically be the government but you're not certain you population entirely on your side if

you. get up a lot of media then as a chance to lean. into. you know some states are more concerned going to be in places where it may be super was also. the chances are that you might have to stewing over and truth but of course people may not realize they're going to risk their. example that nato has been so quickly into libya. reacted very quickly when in fact the result so far has been very slow on its actions. should we just talk about what the situation is at the moment we've just heard obviously in the last twenty four hours there's been an attack on tripoli and indeed don't get that compound by nato forces can that be seen as a. erect a temple on get at his life and if so is that not a preacher of the u.n. resolution please make

a good target colonel gadhafi directly and i may say he is the military leader he is leading women who we wish but of course it would seem to reach not only the ones where we were no solution. but also actually of us working with us started as a drone for us law makes you needle us government to assassinate our needs and then there is a question of. if you were killed or maybe that would satisfy some of the people hated in america seen as a long term enemy looking to make a mental mark certain to be much more subtle to actually find a way of making colonel go learn from his high horse is also ready to libya accept what he has to negotiate rather people are going to chip away at the pedestal from when she stopped her so i think the military all high ingles have a blunt worth of it but achieve the goal in the short but if you eliminate them kill him you may create a long term problem when people decide a new system they have is basically working very well apparently problems and then

within a starter so that would you agree with or perhaps disagree with the mooted point that perhaps the way to end all this is indeed to send in ground troops david cameron recently said that the u.n. resolution actually had its limitations its preventing the coalition from finishing off the job that it started doing so surely deploying ground troops would end this conflict once reveled in it. could ultimately it might be true that we can see from iraq in two thousand and three of course american style army quickly overwhelm any libyan resistance would it necessarily bring peace and order would we do about revenge attacks by live in rebels on the dark and supporters we've already had examples all the tricks of. what we do about libyans who might well broken nato to get rid of her but they don't necessarily want to see your fragile companies arming their interests missis. we're going to. try to.

be very subtle. mark on thanks very much always very interesting here we have to say visiting professor in international relations joining us live from turkey university thanks for your time thank you. well one man was so desperate to reach water on libya that he tried to hijack a passenger jet the kazakh diplomat who was detained in a row airport attempting to force the crew to fly to tripoli for more details on this story on our website r.t. dot com. and also online for you the cat bird flu turned out to be a real cat and one from russia's urals contacted police to find out who stole her gold jewelry only to discover a pet was the prime suspect that story and plenty of others at r.t. dot com.

pretty five years since the meltdown at the chernobyl nuclear plant fears linger that the disaster will one day repeat itself on the eve of the tragic anniversary ukraine's seeking funds to complete a new containment shelter over the reactors remains which is still emitting dangerous levels of radiation and actually going to shift gears had exclusive access to the disaster site. well if you travel across the chernobyl exclusion zone thirty kilometer radius around the station the postulation the one which slowed it twenty five years ago would probably find different levels of radiation you would find levels like three thousand micro which is very very high and this is not suitable for living that is in a places like that a so-called wet forest or in front of the tallest building where i saw a level of two and a half thousand micro on its power it is not advisable for

a human being to be there for more than ten fifteen minutes at the same time you can find places with very low levels of radiation some are even lower than in most core even in kiev so. it is impossible to live there and the full hour period of most of the nuclear particles might last up to twenty thousand years so this land would probably never be happy again but in some parts of the exclusion zone there are villages with the so-called reset theirs or how they called in russian some are still in the people who returns to the zone this immediately after the collapse of the soviet union and they've been living there ever since they were offered as they told me some flats and even money compensations in kiev and everywhere across ukraine but still they prefer to coming back to their home villages to their own houses to their cattle and there they're growing vegetables and fruits there so it seems that they're not scared and not put off by the radiation at all living there for the last twenty years indeed with this anniversary the twenty five years since

the fallout ensured all in one thousand eight hundred six and now the exclusion zone has drawn a lot of attention we've seen lots of many different events now we know that the russian president dmitry medvedev has already presented liquidators the people who are involved in the cleanup operation in the immediate aftermath of the last with russian state awards we also know that the russian president will be joining his ukrainian and well russian counterparts along with a huge delegation of international v.i.p.'s tomorrow on tuesday inside the exclusion zone. we also know that you know the head of the russian orthodox orthodox church party are curial has already arrived to kiev and he will also be holding vigils in kiev and in the inside the chernobyl exclusion zone on tuesday this comes less than a week after a huge international donor conference which was held in the crimean capital with ukraine seeking more money to build another circle for goods now is clearly people understand that there's still great deal of danger underneath the surface

underneath the steel structure because nobody still knows to the date how much nuclear fuel has remains under the support for this i did a report explaining all the details of how things are now with the old and the new and 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 scared was in the shadow of the chernobyl reactor explosion in nineteen eighty six but this latest outspend demonstrates that despite the great progress made in the last twenty five years yes. more these could be done to ensure that safety first approach becomes fully entrenched among nuclear power plant operators government and regulators 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 do the steel structure over the devastated power station protecting europe from further spread of radiation the circle focus was built in one thousand nine hundred eighty six just months after the disaster back then after it 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 on the wall of the building and experts believe that this may cause serious danger and serious threat if. 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 built by a french company and of 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 managed to attract and vishnu half of the leading heroes in aid from europe as a dollar 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 new see from climate this supposed to be hard to. see that is there to develop technology is. hard to manage fuel containing masses how to manage long lead active materials ready have to wait whether that 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 quiet on alert there is now a new focus on ensuring chernobyl's dark past can be kept at bay look serious ascii art see reporting from chernobyl ukraine. and as remarked ennobles anniversary many

so the world has failed to learn the lessons on nuclear safety that the tragedy exposed but is spoke to philip light from the citizens nuclear information center who says that the situation for is worse than the plant's owners are willing to admit. it's just some sort of sheep material that they want to cover the plant with to minimize releases of. radioactive gases to be outside and in fact six months is very optimistic they go find it very difficult to achieve that. i don't think the end of the accident is inside i wouldn't be surprised at anything with. people in government who are closely affiliated with going one way or another and iraq receive has never been strictly monitoring them being more interested in promoting nuclear power so if you hear is there are still uncertain and we think they might be carrying out some details. that i think that will come out as time

goes by. it's more a matter of the analysis that they put on the. minimize the seriousness of it all the statements of indicating that fully we should to recognize just how serious it is. the russian art has been catapulted into the limelight after a giant piece of. a state award radical group and what works when it's obscene on the drawbridge opposite the federal security service and subpoenas but these people were angered at the action others saying it's a message. that matters. this is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a draw bridge 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 to paint anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not true mordant already here in the center of contemporary art you can see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating no 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. 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 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 banksy did bail them out and they could still face seven years in prison for clear skies so why the sudden show of state support for. 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 important political censorship than to actually import your brizard. 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 back 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 an artist reacts to a social climate it doesn't specify the target of his protest he simply says that strong protest is brewing in russian society for having draw the line between saying this an art and fandom isn't as this is clearly just thinking. not street art is minor vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause it's compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of their pictures which is painting could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of some petersburg's coach or because it's a first work that is proof of a civil society. viner court controversy usually at the expense of the authorities whether it's art or not they've achieved what they wanted to know to writing they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners either bennett r.t. moscow. commuter's with us very shortly with the business news but first let's

check out some other world stories at this stage of the day in a world update two people have reportedly been killed and dozens injured during another wave of anti-government protests in yemen the last demonstrations are still ongoing with calls for the country's president to leave his position immediately upon a sunday he's been in charge of yemen for more than thirty years only agreed to step down in a month's time but his announcement failed to extinguish the protests. for the five hundred taliban members including some field commanders of escape from a prison in southern afghanistan the allegations breakout was made through a tunnel which the militants began digging five months ago some of the fugitives have already been recaptured by security forces three years ago about a thousand prisoners escape from the same jail after very complex is used a truck bomb to destroy the prison gates. with a summary of our main news stories for you in less than five minutes from now in the meantime as promised business is next with me treat.

thanks bill hello and welcome to business r.t. rising gas demand in europe should see more money pouring into gas from scoffers by the end of the year the c.e.o. of the russian gas giant predicts the price of gas and its long term contracts could rise as much as sixty percent. to five hundred dollars per one thousand cubic meters i don't say miller said the fact that exports to europe were higher in april than the winter were good grounds for optimism. russia's fixed income market and last year's record companies oregon europe and turn to domestic members russia rode around eleven billion dollars at home since the beginning of the year that's a seventy percent increase compared to the same period last month the factors behind the huge positive economic outlook at home leading lower inflation on the strong the ruble. most of the markets now u.s. markets opened last. week and that's

a negative look at the dow it's down point three percent nasdaq is at values then this is almost three year highs stocks are struggling with the resistance level coupled with high energy prices kimberly clark is credits for the profits forecast sending its stock down just a cent now this is taken its toll on the russian markets before they closed the negative territory r.v.s. is down point nine percent my six point one three percent second look at some of the stocks rosneft was one of the biggest gave us throughout the session lose two percent of the. polymath so it was bucking the trend it was up point eight percent of the wraps up today's trading. russia continues to be driven by external factors as usual the start of the week this unsurprisingly quiet as the european exchanges most of them remain closed for the easter holiday weekend through the russian

market looks into the room which was circulated in the media regarding a potential increase in mineral extraction tax in russia independent producers producing the so-called guess would be receiving text breaks and. facing the extraction tax and growth in line with inflation whereby. gazprom of this world producing dry so-called dry gas could see a doubling of. oil prices are retreating from early again despite fears that tensions in syria and yemen which escalated over the weekend may disrupt supplies light sweet is currently below one hundred twelve dollars brant is up over one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel actually declining he said gold did hit a new record high of one thousand five hundred eighteen dollars per ounce is slightly lower right now at fifty eight hundred and ten dollars silver did also briefly see

an all time high of almost fifty dollars an hour before seizing forty seven and. other news russia's biggest coal producers to act lifted net profits by one hundred fifty percent last year reaching for a hundred twenty six million dollars the company cited higher call prices as the main driver of the growth. and russian so i couldn't leave it on top of his planning to take over english football club portsmouth the nazi millionaire is set to become the team's fifth in three years deal worth twenty eight million dollars and sort of terms of portsmouth an offer to buy neighboring bournemouth f.c. turned down and twenty ten. hong kong based approach chain right put the club into the ministration for be last year when it reached two hundred fifteen million dollars that was after it dropped out of the premier league however he bought them back out six months later with the attention. and government is selling

a stake in eastern europe top sweet make united confectioner's mine a possible bar as the world's leading food groups craft and nestlé lost her crown pms around twenty six percent holding which controls such well known brands of russia has passed their walk from. we will be back next hour with an update bill is next from the headlines to stay with r.t. . in the.