sun your beach hotel the western resort use of dual club med poly if you tell some in your own. resort and spa the ritz carlton hotel grounds many articles of the cool seasons hotel the sultan which are. fresh nato air strikes hit the libyan capital but there are warnings that continued coalition support of the rebels is an invitation for a chain reaction of civil wars in the region. almost thirty five years off the financial the world looks upon it with renewed concerns the distress of focus shima shows how vital it is to be prepared for the repeat of a nuclear catastrophe. and culture clash a controversial russian armed group wins a state award for what they say is artistic protest but critics see it as an act of obscenity and vandalism. and russia's gas giant gazprom says prices for gas may grow up to sixty percent by the end of the year find out more

now business and then twenty minutes to. international news now from our studios here in central moscow this is l a t where it's just past nine pm in the russian capital and seven pm in libya where the country's colonel gadhafi forces are continuing their siege of the rebel held city of misrata well fresh nato air strikes rained down on the capital for more than a month into the night intervention 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 nothing is going to try to discover for himself their hopes and whether they'll country. for years saleem has been struggling to keep his or her porch running he claims even opening and i mean thousands in bribes to

various officials all linked to by the better for his family. i won't even begin to describe how hard it was to start this business khadafi i just hands on everything for decades he's been taking money from ordinary people but now it's time for him to be richer. 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 businessmen to make decent profits the idea that the revolution will open the floor cares for everyone can enjoy is back to buy. from farmers to the military command we have as i told you have rich countries. as we have. in this. economy we are not flooded. and i will invite you.

the reason you would see some don't share this often is and don't need to use 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. exploit them stealing resources forty billion barrels will leave us all reserves or the largest in africa and the ninth largest in the world there's so much all feeling about gas tank on a mid-size corner course all less than ten dollars each of those in a need to go even promised every libyan will be paid eight hundred dollars every month to share their all 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 see 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 them you've got us going off already been guys the libya. we caught up with you got here in moscow sharing his experience with us in the studio of his time and libya. came back from guys the maybe over a week ago spent two weeks there. talked a lot with the rebels themselves so myself they are pretty badly organized many of them are young many of them are teenagers who just got their hands on kalashnikov rifles and look closely 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 because of that rather than on the front because everybody's just sporadically shooting into the we got these guns from got

a few troops when they retreated so we're talking about their actions on the front they're poorly trained one of our teams was feeling there at the front they got a 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 was. in countries now saying that they're going to send trainers to help organize the rubble to sleep or to see how long this takes to russia recently we talked to the. prime ministers we're already to meet this but all sides have to abide by un resolution before you must stop. well that was all too you got this you know the fact that rebels now rely on international help makes the situation even more dangerous promoting the idea of uprisings in other countries well this is the warning from russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. we suspect believe be an

opposition's rejection of the ceasefire initiatives is connected with the fact that nato is implementing the un security council resolution in its own way and has sided with the rebels and probably the rebels rely on western help to overthrow the regime and seize power it's a very dangerous move deliberately 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 he's a visiting professor of international relations at will university in turkey told me a little earlier that two libyan sides must be brought to the negotiating table. if we want to avoid further harm through an operational group or. some kind of. a problem is

a moment. where are we willing to. go. for nato i want star. who seems to agree but of course. the smaller of all our part of the international community and. our own. well man was so desperate to reach water on libya that he tried to hijack a passenger jet fuel from after the change in a row near fort attempted to force the crew to fly to tripoli more details on this story for a website or pretty don't call also that online at the moment the cat burglar who turned out to be a real cat woman from russia's urals contacted us to find out and still hope gold jewelry only to discover her pets was the prime suspect in that story and plenty of others for it at r.t. dot com.

if. twenty 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 seeking funds to complete a new containment shelter over the reactors remains just a meeting dangerous levels of radiation. is had exclusive access to the disaster sites. well if you travel across the chernobyl exclusion zone thirty kilometer radius around the station the postulation the one which exploded twenty five years ago would probably find different levels of radiation you would find the 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 top of the tallest building where i saw a level of two and a half thousand micromax 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 mosque or even in kiev so. it is impossible to live there and the fallout period of most of the nuclear particles might last up to twenty thousand years so this land would probably never be unhappy again but in some parts of the exclusion zone there are villages with the so-called recyclers or how they called in russian some i saw were the people who returned 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 are not scared and not put off by the radiation i told living there for the last twenty years indeed with this anniversary the twenty five years since

the fallout ensured noble in one thousand eight hundred saved now the exclusion zone has drawn a lot of attention you're seeing 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 russian counterparts along with a huge delegation of international v.i.p.'s tomorrow on tuesday inside the exclusion zone. we also know that the head of the russian orthodox orthodox church 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 huge international donor conference which was held in the korean capital with ukraine seeking more money to build another circle for us 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 day how much nuclear fuel has remained 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 accident demonstrates that despite the great progress made in the last twenty five yeahs. more these could be done to ensure that safety purchased 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 gap and 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 chorus station protecting europe from the further spread of radiation the surface was built in one thousand nine hundred eighty six just months after the disaster but then after that it would last for twenty years until two thousand and six no there are fears that these are kafir this might collapse soon there are several cracks on the wall of the building and experts believe that this may cause serious danger and serious threat if a circle because it collapsed the whole of the european continent could be contaminated by the radioactive fuel which is still thought to lie under the circle for us this new arc is being billed by a french company in our 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 alien heroes in age 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 lifetime for their usage compliant is supposed to be a harm three years and see that is the term to develop technology is. how to manage fuel competing in manson's how to manage long lead active materials radioactive waste 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 chernobyl's dark lost can be kept at bay look serious ascii art see reporting from chernobyl ukraine. well as we mulled generals on

a verse three many say that the world has failed to learn the lessons on nuclear safety that the tragedy provided will not joined by professor christopher busby is scientific secretary of the european committee on radiation risks for a little more insight into the century's most serious nuclear crisis in japan professor busby thanks very much indeed for joining us well there have been reports of not widely covered by the media that one of the explosions at fukushima was not actually a gas blast those originally thought but a nuclear reaction in one of the reactor vessels not sure if that was the case the clubs operated they wouldn't conceal such a catastrophic development with a. i think it's possible that they would conceal this development. the nuclear industry industry has a history of. of duplicity and cover up wherever you look they will they will always try and shift shift the information in some way that makes

them come out on top i believe actually it probably was a nuclear explosion but not in the reactor but in the tanks that contain the spent fuel i think that seems to be almost certain that there was some kind of. some kind of nuclear explosion in the tank the one that contained the plutonium mox fuel rods i mean anyone who saw that on the on the on the video and saw the enormous explosion wouldn't have believed that it was a hydrogen explosion what would the consequences be if that is the case that it was indeed and you can explain not hydrogen. well not a lot different actually the proud the problem is that the fuel rods an enormous number of radioactive fuel rods are being blasted into the air and vaporize so there's a great deal of radioactivity around and also there has been a melt down and as we understand it there is still fissioning taking place maybe there but also maybe as a result of cracks in the in the vessels themselves so we've got fissioning taking

place in those reactors i believe there's about ten to the fourteen that's one and fourteen zeroes of backroads of radioactivity coming out every day now this is very serious matter i have to say that the. novel nuclear reactor was also a nuclear explosion the accident was a nuclear explosion we we heard a couple of weeks ago in berlin or measurements that were made of xenon isotopes it showed that was a nuclear explosion and not a hydrogen explosion so that also was a nuclear explosion while many analysts have said there isn't much of a comparison between the two between chernobyl and for you indeed and actually said . could be a lot worse than chin of all looking at the situation now would you still stand by that that this situation. could be a lot worse. i think it could be a lot worse and the reason that could be a lot worse is because it has it's much less under control than true normal was i have to say that the soviet system moved very fast to try and contain what was

happening at chernobyl and that the japanese have been very very lax in the way in which they took people out of exclusion zone and they still haven't enough people out of an exclusion zone which should as far as i'm concerned go to sixty or seventy kilometers they're measuring enormous amounts of radioactivity on the ground up to seventy kilometers reporting this so that and these are a mine sort of higher than the amounts in the channel exclusion zone and we have increases in radioactivity near tokyo or south of tokyo so the difference really is that there's a very very much larger population risk in japan and there was not luckily the chernobyl radiation went north and didn't go to clear so the population that was exposed was not as great but i have to say in the calculations that we've made the cancer deaths. are not all have been in the region of about one million one million four hundred thousand we calculated at this conference in berlin using the c.r. risk model and we're expecting approximately the same probably as

a result of. the why is it when i read independent analysts and other news websites saying that the long term health damages is not yet known but the risks to human health i thought to be low and indeed no deaths so far being reported as a result of radiation can contamination then for katrina is this because it's all too early to tell or are you perhaps overreacting and exaggerating what the situation could be that some people might say it's not but it's not because it's too early to tell as far as as far as quote your novel is concerned we already know the epidemiological measurements have been done there's been plenty of studies done that show increases in cancer and an enormous range of ill health following to normal and i have to say that people who ignore history are doomed to repeat it as far as far as the people who are talking this down are concerned there. really people connected to the nuclear industry and there's an awful lot of money i have to say you know running running on whether this is the case or not just briefly the japanese authorities are confident that they'll be able to sort all this out within

the next nine months cool the reactor stop the leaking of the radiation believe that putting this cover over and sort of problem out could actually be achieved in nine months time and would be the end of a potential catastrophe. i'm sorry you had some trouble here i'm sorry i think i just lost you there for a second just just briefly are you confident or perhaps not as confident as the japanese authorities are saying that this could all be resolved by putting this protective cover over the plant and indeed the reactors will be called in the leaking will stop within nine months from now is that realistic i think it's unlikely i think it's unlikely if you put a protective cover over the reactor which is. when the fission products will just go into the ground and now be washed out into the sea and there was so can no you can't seal that fissioning react by putting concrete on it it's not possible just finally briefly you mentioned washed out to sea level on land there's focus shima right on the pacific ocean coast how significant is that in terms of radiation

contamination on a much wider field away from japan just briefly well we're already picking up material in the united states and concentrations of of uranium and plutonium are being picked up in hawaii and in the marianas islands in filters and also the stuff that's contaminating the sea will go all along the coast it's it's a very very serious situation and it's being talked down as i say by the nuclear industry and by the japanese authorities and in my opinion this is a very serious matter because people are going to get sick and die as a result of this professor christopher busby very interesting to talk to you thanks for your time thanks for joining us there live in london ok. for the news now russian art is being catapulted into the limelight after a giant piece of graffiti won a state award a radical group bought the work seen by many is obscene on a drawbridge opposite the federal security service in some petersburg and while most people are angered at the action others saying it's the message not the form

that matters. vece is award winning aren't according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus want washed on a drawbridge instant petersburg has won the twenty ten 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 it's already here in the center of contemporary art and see the other entries for the award nothing is the relating it was shocking or as innovative as viner's and according to the jury that's why they won purely artistic merit but now it's not as simple as that the same symbol the ministry rewarded is now being brandished in mocking protest this russian youth group is

angry four hundred thousand rubles of taxpayers' money we given to a group it calls vandals for vyner the protest only legitimizes their own but. it's a very old world situation when the state award goes to a group that in fact organizes an action aimed against a state oh this is a very important signal with artists always express society's pain and to help a 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 detailed a land they could still play seven years in prison and flipping cars so why the sudden show of state support. the minister of culture was afraid of being cues a political censorship and i think he was right in our country is better being afraid of imposing political censorship than to actually import your. there is

already been. 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 curator of that exhibit and was under a year of faith back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is it out there. the turing is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a suitable 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 a discrepancy. that street art is minor vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause is compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of the pictures which is painted could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of sue petersburg's culture because it's the first work there is proof of

a civil society. by no court controversy usually at the expense of the authorities whether it's art or not they've achieved what they wanted to notoriety they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners i've been it's artsy. now to some other world stories in brief for this hour in our world that they keep people have reportedly killed and dozens injured during another wave of anti-government protests in yemen that's demonstrations are still ongoing of course of the country's president of the position and. it's been in charge of the un for more than thirty years earlier agreed to step down and start his announcement to extinguish the protests. over five hundred taliban members including some field commanders of escape from a prison the southern afghanistan yeah they should break up was made for a total mental again thinking five months ago some heated had already been captured by security forces for years ago about a thousand prisoners escape from the same jail after their accomplices used

a truck bomb to destroy the prison gates. with some of our main news stories in five minutes time business is next with dmitri that's right after a short break stay with us live here in moscow. you're going. to. feel. know you want your business. 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 in long term contracts could rise as much as sixty percent by december to five hundred dollars and cubic meters and it's a miller said the fact that exports to europe are higher in april than in the

winter months are good grounds for optimism russia's fixed income market has hit last year's record that's after companies x. they have already in europe and the domestic let the russian firms have borrowed 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 among the factors behind the news the positive economic outlook at home and leading lower inflation and a stronger with. the markets now world prices are retreating from earlier gains the spike fears the tensions in syria and yemen which escalated over the weekend mayor's office supplies like food is currently trading at a one hundred eleven dollars and a half per barrel brant is that one hundred twenty three. gold is headed a new record high of one thousand five hundred eighteen dollars a month and it's apparently at this point right now silver has also reached an all time high of almost fifty dollars an ounce before freezing to around forty seven

dollars. u.s. markets opened last after a long weekend the dow is one third of a percent lower for the nasdaq is that opening figures embassy's out of almost three year highs stocks are struggling with resistance levels coupled with high energy prices kimberly clark has cut its profits all crossed sending is still down more than three. rush the negative opening of the u.s. markets had its tall the on. here's the point nine percent one hundred percent well they were trading in positive territory all day long so you look at some of the stocks. one of the biggest gains for the session down two percent so it was only metals bucking the trend setting up point eight percent positive metals prices. perhaps up the street. russia continues to be driven by external factors as usual the start of the week is unsurprisingly quiet as the european exchanges most of

them remain closed for the easter holiday weekend to the russian market looks into the rumor 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 tax breaks and. facing mineral extraction tax growth in line with inflation whereby. gas of this world producing dry so-called dry gas could see a double of mineral extraction tax. all right we will be back next out for nothing else the business news bill's next will have lots to say about. the.

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