pelvis you still ski lift you can see it on this ski business. international news live from moscow this is our t. top story the nato air strikes and once again hits the libyan capital rebels hope to cash in on their country's rich resources if gadhafi goes there are warnings that their actions and overzealous support of nato could invite a chain reaction of civil rules in the region. it's almost twenty five years since the chernobyl catastrophe and a possible new radiation leak at the site is attracting increasing concern after the distress of her she showed how vital it is to be prepared for the repeat

a nuclear disaster. and culture clash an infamous russian breeds controversy after a state of war for one of their works they say what they did was artistic protest but critics argue it's nothing more than obscenity and vandalism. but with more on this story sort of elements in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime on evolve the anniversary of the chernobyl disaster we need a series of special reports from the exclusion zone in ukraine. twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town of

creepy art was evacuated within three hours. could you please step aside and working and you getting my shot thank you they left most of what they had here as they were told they were leaving only for a couple of days but none of them has ever returned both thing they saw people losing their homes around what the course of the chernobyl nuclear plant to overstate the explosion. where we going number not sure we need to go to previous post office. recently i received a notification to pick up a letter here in pretty much the national that's impossible post office isn't been working for twenty five years i don't think it's for real. because show me. stallman's range but according to the stamp

this really has come from here do you know where this post office is yes i know the big. if. if it. were to you wolf it will snow all these trees that you see they've all grown since the accident and right now we're going to be passing the house where i was born. feel. that. we came to the chernobyl exclusion zone to investigate a very strange story this place has been deserted for a quarter of

a century but recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office in pretoria i'm holding one of those here and indeed the stamp here proves that it came from the ghost town here. frankly speaking i do not know what to look for. these notices have no would dress as nor names of those who had sent them. thank you know where. you're going to be honestly speaking i don't think we're going to find anything here. most of the things that remained here and in the

apartments were later buried. but i knew i didn't keep them because they were very radioactive. stuff. and the rest was stolen by scavengers. look here's a letter which someone for you to send from here. because there is a photo inside. it's lucky you. would miss all the times i've been here and i've never seen anything like this. this or this refused to do so phones work here. they work at

a nuclear power plant and sometimes they work here a little hello i looked a little fellow who we are calling our cry out from work tonight can i pick my daughter up from kindergarten teacher who comes running to scuse me who is it we calling and your pardon i must have that the wrong number. i don't get it. our investigation brings us to one of the gardens and this one is truly a horrifying scene most of the things one can see here have been left untouched ever since the catastrophe at this site which gives probably the best description and most dramatic one of the chernobyl tragedy is that children's toys are laying literally side by side with military gas masks.

this is my kindergarten. i used to go here. we used to be many children in p.t.s. . specialists from all over the soviet union came here to operate the nuclear power station all the mostly young people noticed all and they thought that they were waiting for a bright future. so this town experienced a baby boom. almost no one used the gas masks look out there because the catastrophe happened on a saturday. they'd been kept here and were left untouched. what was in that letter you found. there is a photograph inside. here have

a look. look look. it seems it was written by a child a small girl. just to try their story i was so glad to have received your letter so i decided to reply it was my mom got me a new doll she's so beautiful that i'm sometimes afraid to play with her when i go to school in the morning i put her by the window and make a bed for her in the evening i love her dearly the weather has already been very warm here we'll be having a holiday soon my parents and my it will go to a rally will be inflating balloons and after that there will be a concert in the house of cultural activities my sister will be dancing there even though she's small she's already a great dancer for missing you very much please come and visit us in this country we're missing you very much please i miss come visit us in the summer less rhythms here when there are supposed are new dimensions the first may vary in the reader's

house of culture and kids from this kindergarten were to perform at a concert there. when was that letter written. would you push to all the date on the envelope so as it was meant to be sentimental just of just the day before the catastrophe. reckoning nobody on the eve of the catastrophe many celebrations had you planned for saturday and sunday to be they always schedule wedding celebrations and children sponsors for the weekend but with even when the tragedy happened we didn't call off the festive events so the movie children were breathing the c.e.o. as it was a hard day and the events were out in the open many people were in the parks and i

know that there were weddings in the house of culture in the end we were informed that it was very serious and that we were to go home and pack up for evacuation. may the first was one of the biggest communist holidays in the soviet union the labor day people's house of culture still has a collection of posters with soviet leader they were meant to be carried at a traditional demonstration and the stage over here was meant to become a venue for a holiday concert. alexy alexei if not all course but look what i found a simple one it's a fireman suit. could it be that it belonged to one of those firefighters who fought the blaze at the nuclear power plant. then you you're absolutely no no there's much to aspire to that most

of them died just about all their gear was radioactive. thrown through then it was destroyed almost immediately afterwards. you know there used to be an amateur theatre here maybe it's there's got to which is a little beyond us and i feel we're stuck with a stick and you got any ideas where we could go next. well there used to be a library here you could check out the rangers profile records. you know this it was very beautiful work but it was made to be kind of a role model for others. like the best place communist society

could ever built. planned and constructed. a queer believe was meant to be a paradise for those building communism. wait a minute i found a note inside this picture book it looks like a page from someone's diary. it is dated april the twenty fifth nine hundred eighty six we're preparing an experiment at the station we'll be bringing the reactor to a stop we have some heated debates and most of us a sure that we're doing everything right but still cannot come to a conclusion that the times it seems were talking on different languages combo of native come from nowhere was a confrontation of the word for more workers did not want to keep the unstable reactor in operation mayor cory when the from from for control according to conversations and documentation that have been published already the reactor was

out of control. on the twenty fifth of april the employees were saying that it was faulty solution but the bosses demanded that they should finish the experiment that they knew that they were performing only unstable reactor. because danish time ago i saw a picture in daughters our book with a babylonian tower i joked that we have now finally built it to be on the grey of the steroid. i'm on top of tallest building it is the best vantage points to see the chernobyl nuclear power plant straight after the disaster it was covered by steel lead cold the so-called underneath it are still tons of radioactive fuel and deadly levels of

radiation but if you don't know that from here people it almost looks a life. quite a few of those what we got out of the apartment we're looking for should be somewhere here. do you know where this drawing came from and. it appears here several years ago actually i don't know the elevator shaft is open so be careful we need to go this way or your let's go. i tension. i tension. i knew my eye tension was rather more but do you know hombre it's got up the council of the town records and it was the usual saturday and it was

a very warm day we did not feel like studying. after the second lesson teachers were called for a meeting and left us to ourselves at the time we heard that something bad had happened at the reactor. many of the children's parents worked there and they talked about what they had heard from them or gholston from i learned that there had been a blaze at the station and several people were injured. cannot imagine how serious it was felt that a fire was nothing to be afraid of at school we were told that atomic energy was the safest in the world to. them and they didn't. yes i was still a kid when the tragedy happened we waited outdoors which of the rooftops and saw the blaze at the station there was smoke coming out of the building from the explosion radiation levels were already stream way high. horse

everyone young and old was exposed to huge radiation doses. still works. there's almost nothing left here. the most can you look through you are maybe there is some information about this person there yes just a second yes yes i have something he was one of those who was supposed to be performing an experiment at the station which means that during the moment of the explosion he should have been there all of the workers who were working at the fourth block were immediately sent to a hospital as they were severely or radiated i mean from what we could go to the hospital maybe we can find something there. that is a good idea but the minute. what about his family. i don't know. i have no information on them to.

move the injuries were different. but the majority were exposed to the fourth radiation levels. and received third or fourth degree burns and. one patient died of burns ice the knee and the others were treated at zero mental facility. and then the abort to moscow. shows with the fourth

level of radiation bring shock and disoriented and the rest. well the injured are being brought here from the power plant they are all covered in radioactive dust and. we are receiving strong those disappeared so when we are completely i'm ready for what has happened i don't believe in all this it just cannot be happening this is real hell. what's that what's behind the i found it inside with a patient record cardinal. we need to lease what's happening we are leaving.

cultures that say much to me is going to make a lot of people a very hyper look at twenty five years ago world was coming to grips with the catastrophe unfolding in chernobyl today the same could be said about the sheema but is the future hungry for the full summit we've gotten firsthand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. it

should please make your decision quicker the radiation levels are very high here. and.

just other problems that's what the sucky at least somewhat is this cross doing there it's also on the can just say it's a protective cross you there are four of them in the ukraine was and they form a square for you in the south in the east and in the west this is the northern one . your cell phone work you have a fever with no there's no signal whatsoever. well that we're stuck. there's a poster here hold this book you have a museum and there's a village not far from here. but of course they are on the other side of the river the few elderly couples living there in the form they might have a radio phone of if not then at least we can stay overnight.

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ok. as we walked through the field i saw a herd of wild horses where they come from beirut they were brought here straight after the catastrophe in the ninety's and it was an experiment to see how they would survive the radiation and now they've grown into a huge population the same happened to all the other animals there's no people here that's why they've. safe walking out of. the.

what is this village who lives here there's a couple of elderly people that live here because the women they were evacuated after the catastrophe one take are they here they were mr sowell they came back they resettled here of their own free will oh hello my theory when you go i'm not hello hello there how do you live here on your own you know there's no transportation or facilities because we're paying it on the you provide us with the food goes to the city for you and they want when we need something from home article it used to be one some month how often you put on your own how this is just a little bit now it's less often. this course is used by everyone in this village when they need to carry on some

family i personally know what. it's not what you want not just for the most delicious people over there near the stove maybe. for that because i will give you blankets and pillows and at the time i did i think it was a blanket or something and set ourselves up for words. i

still don't understand me those post notices. you remember the old man who buried us across the river. apparently he's a post man. and once a fortnight he cruises up and down the river and delivers mail and so you think he did it for. you maybe i don't know who's new or maybe somebody else maybe it was a mistake. here it's interesting that a lot as a support chemistry at first but there's such an easy solution. for the more from research first we have seen do you think anyone will ever come back here. i don't know what. it is our grampa gets they built in one thousand nine hundred six was in temporary they said it was temporary because it would last for twenty to thirty years now they're building a new one and this one's supposed to last one hundred years and you know it's funny

when they also call it temporary that means they're both you and i and our children will be gone and it'll still be standing there after all the work still prepared and haven't looked at these pictures i still don't understand why describe this town as beautiful to me it looks like an ordinary saudi town typical buildings and planning there were thousands of towns like that across the country it was new to full because we lived here you know i've been having this feeling that you just cannot let go of all that happened here. is if you continue fighting the zone ok now can i forgive it because if you. maybe you should try talking to the zone. it's not sending me letters and all that well those i received were not directed to me either. they were not meant for you. and you would never have found them. in the first place.

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