and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kenya that. think operation. fresh nato airstrikes 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. and culture clash a controversial russia not group a state of what they say is artistic protest that critics see it as an act of obscenity in vandalism. almost twenty five years after chernobyl the world looks upon it with renewed concern as the distress it shows all vital it is to be prepared for the repeat over and euclid the faster.

international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. where it's just past eleven pm in the russian capital and nine pm in libya where the country is in deadlock colonel gadhafi forces are continuing their siege of the rebel held city of misrata fresh nato air strikes rained down on the capital where more than a month into the allied 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 and you got to try to discover for himself their hopes and whether the whole country. for years saleem has been struggling to keep his auto parts shop running he claims even opening and pain thousands in bribes to various officials all linked to either get out feet or his family life no 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 and 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 a businessman to make decent profits the idea that the revolution will open the floor for cash for everyone to enjoy is backed up by rebel informers to the military command we have as i told you average can't have a guy as we have. we are not that and i would invite you. the reason. but some analysts don't share this optimism and they're out 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 doping that is the. way to steal your resources over forty one billion barrels leave us reserves on the war just in africa and the ninth largest in the world there's so much all filling up my gas tank on a mid-size corner course or less than ten dollars in two thousand and need to go to have even promised it really would be paid eight hundred dollars every month to shear the already knew what field to keep his word libya 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 local say 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 r.t.

in guys the libya. what we caught up with you got here to moscow after sharing his experience there in libya he joined us here in the studio. back from going guys he may be over we can go spend two weeks there. talked a lot with the rebels themselves so myself and they are pretty badly organized 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 so when they're either celebrating something worth remembering something it seemed to me it was actually even more dangerous to be inside because of that rather than on the front because everybody just sporadically. they got these guns from gadhafi troops where they retreated so much talking about their actions on the front there are poorly trained one of our teams was filming the front 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. in countries now saying that they're going to send trainers to help organize the rubble to see how long this may take to russia came out recently we talked. with the prime minister already to meet mediate this but all sides have to abide by u.n. resolution before you must. well there was r.t. if you go to just you know talking to some of that in the fact that 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 russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. because if we suspect believe me an opposition is a rejection of the ceasefire and you should see if it's 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 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 is essentially an invitation to a series of civil wars which is what process paul a professor of international law at the university of illinois says the libyan conflict is a well planned mission with the next phase almost set in stone. what we're seeing unfold in libya is a pre existing war ploy by nato by the british by the french by the americans to will tear libya there is no way this sort of military force and up higher power could afford to put together in such a short period of time in moscow was a war that was activated the moment there were disturbances in law and then gas and then everything now is going according to plan which is why i believe that

since they failed to. do polls. with the steps outside far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion. well one man was so desperate to reach water on libya that he tried to hijack a passenger jet because that could provide was detained in the room airport attempted to force the crew to fly to tripoli for more details on this story on our website www dot com also their own line the cat burglar who turned out to be a real cat a woman from russia was ules contacted police to find out who stole her gold jewelry only to discover it was the prime suspect that story kind of on this week an arctic dot com.

pretty five years since the meltdown of the chernobyl nuclear. disaster will one day repeat itself on the eve of the tragic anniversary ukraine seeking phones to complete a new containment over the reactors remains which is still in use in dangerous levels of radiation and skis have exclusive access to a disaster site. but if you travel across the chernobyl exclusion zone thirty kilometer radius around the station the past ation the one which slowed it 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 it at places like there are so-called red forest or in top 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 a 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 will probably never be inhabited again but in some parts of the exclusion zone there are villages where the so-called reset theirs or how they called in russian so much all of the people who returned to the zone was immediately after the collapse of the soviet union and they've been living there ever since they were all for it 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 at all living there for the last twenty years indeed with this anniversary the twenty five years since the fallout ensured novel in one thousand nine hundred six 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 chernobyl liquidators the people who were involved in the cleanup operation in the immediate aftermath of the last with russian state awards will also know that the us and 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 but they 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 huge international donor conference which was held in the crimean capital with ukraine seeking more money to build another sarcophagus 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 surface i did

a report explaining all the details and how things are now with the old and then you and we can have a look at this report right now. japan's ongoing struggle to contain the thought wish him a disaster is fueling the growing anxiety over nuclear energy safety the last time the world was this cared 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 years. more these could be done to ensure that safety patched approach becomes fully interest among nuclear power plant operators government and great makers hopes to seal the site within nine months but back in the days of chilled mobile a quicker solution was needed shutting the gapping hole of the exploded reactor was

the immediate way out of a deadly mistake scientists were quick to react to the unfolding catastrophe and managed to build a steel structure over the devastated chorus station protecting europe from further spread of radiation as a consequence was built the 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 called collapse and there are several cracks all in the wall of the building and experts believe that this may cause serious danger and serious threat if the circle because did collapse the whole of the european continent could be contaminated by the radioactive fuel which is still thought to lie under the circle for this new arc is being built by a french company in 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 disasters twenty fifth anniversary here managed to attract an additional half a billion euros in age from europe as

a donor conference. we've now been granted a real chance to complete the new shelter by the year two thousand and fifteen. experts are confident it could even happen quicker in just two years and that a new protective layer would last for generations see their life time for their use of confinement is supposed to be a harmful. that is determined to develop technologies. how to manage fuel competing analysis how to manage long lead active metals around . whether that means that your global nuclear power plant could one day be dismantled under the new dawn is unclear as japan's nuclear crisis keeps that quiet on alert there is now a new focus on ensuring chernobyl's dark cost can be kept at bay let's hear a shot ski r.t. reporting from your novel ukraine. and as we march ennobles anniversary many say the world has failed to learn the lessons on nuclear safety that the tragedy

provided we spoke to professor christopher busby is scientific secretary of the european commission on radiation risks he says that the plant operator tepco is much less in control and it claims to be. a nuclear industry industry has a history of. duplicity and coverup we will always try and shift shift the information in some way that makes them come out on top it's much less under control winter normal was ok i have to say that the the soviet system moved very fast to try and contain what was happening on chernobyl and that the japanese have been very very lax and in the way in which they took people out of exclusion zone and they still haven't emptied enough people out of an exclusion zone which should so as i'm concerned go at least sixty or seventy kilometers and i have to say that people who ignore history are doomed to repeat it as far as was the people who are talking this down are concerned they're generally people connected to the nuclear industry and there's an awful lot of money out of you know running running

on whether this is the case or not in the tanks that contain the spent fuel i think that seems to be almost certain that there was some. and of. some kind of nuclear explosion in the tank and the one that contained the plutonium mox fuel rods i mean anyone who saw that on not only on the video and saw the enormous explosion wouldn't have believed that it was a hydrogen explosion but if you put a protective cover over the reactor which is. then the fission product will just go into the ground and now be washed out into the sea and it will still come out you can't seal it first one reactor by putting concrete on it it's just not possible. with chernobyl's twenty fifth anniversary just a day away now many points of the devastation wrought by nuclear energy is an argument against atomic power to place crosstalk focuses on whether there can be a future without the atom. in my view if you're anti carbon dioxide and you're anti-nuclear you're just pro black out and with global demand for electricity

expected to grow by eighty percent over the next twenty or twenty five years we simply don't have an option but to continue to work hard at getting good at nuclear . q. let's cross talk coming away in about fifteen minutes from now here. russian art has been catapulted into the limelight after a giant piece of griffiths he won a state award a radical group the work seen by many is obscene on a draw bridge opposite the federal security service in st petersburg those people were angered at the action others say it's the message but the form that matters. vece is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five we did phallus want washed on a drawbridge and petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation prize for best

visual artwork self-styled art terrorists vie 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 rewarded. here in the center of contemporary art can see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating no 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're given to a group it calls vandals for vyner the protest only legitimizes their own but. it's a very awkward situation when the state award goes to

a group that in fact organizes an action aimed against the state but this is a very important segment of 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 did bail them out but they could still play seven years in prison. so why this sudden show of state support. the minister of culture was afraid of being accused of political censorship and i think he was right in our country is better being afraid of and pools and political censorship than to actually important breezewood. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment the curator of that exhibit was angry

yet if a if back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is it then. during is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a social climate he 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 art and vandalism is this is clearly discriminating. not with a street art is mind a vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause is compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of the pictures i wish his painting could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of some pitas ergs culture because it's the first work that 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 know to writing they

say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners why didn't it r.t. moscow. dimitris shortly with an update of the world of business news here on r.t. in the meantime let's have a quick look at some some of the world stories in brief and world update the staff you think will reportedly been killed and dozens injured during another wave anti-government protests in yemen mass demonstrations are still ongoing with calls for the country's president to lead his position immediately ali abdullah saleh has been in charge of yemen for more than thirty years earlier agreed to step down in a month's time but his announcement failed to extinguish protests. for the world update this out of a five hundred taliban members including some field commanders of escaping the prison southern afghanistan places breakout was made through a tunnel to the militants began digging five months ago some of the pages it's already been recaptured by security forces three years ago about a thousand prisoners escape from the same jail to the accomplices used truck bomb to destroy the prison break gets. to thailand and the country's foreign minister

talked with cambodia after three days of border fighting saw twelve soldiers killed and thirty thousand people evacuated the sides continue to exchange gunfire and artillery shells both countries are laying claim to be on their border territory the site of three ancient indian temple. has promised to reach is next with business news. thanks very much bill hello and welcome to businesses a rising gas demand in europe should see more money pouring in 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 by december to reach five hundred dollars per one thousand cubic meters alexei miller said the fact that exports to europe were higher and maple than they were in the winter months but good grounds for optimism . russia's fixed income market of last year's record but after companies

x. their board in europe and turned to domestic lenders russian firms have borrowed around eleven billion dollars at home from the start of the year that's a seventeen percent increase compared to the same period last year among the factors behind the positive economic outlook at home including lower inflation and stronger. because the markets now u.s. markets are flat after a long week and. a quarter of a percent down while the nasdaq is just point one percent in this things are almost three year highs stocks are struggling with resistance levels coupled with high energy prices also kimberly clark and radio shack saw its shares go down as they cut their profits forecast. in russia the market started of the week on the negative there with your two years and using point nine percent of my six point one

point three percent energy shares we're losing the most is that because ross nafta was two percent so. poorly met all the dram that was up twenty eight percent or higher precious metals prices will take a look at them in the second. from a bank wraps up. russia continues to be driven by external factors as usual the start of the weakest and surprisingly quiet as the european action is 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 yes could be receiving tax breaks and. facing mineral extraction tax and growth in line with inflation whereby. gas of this world producing dry so-called dry gas could see a double in mineral extraction tax. oil prices retreated from the

gates on monday despite fears that tensions in syria and yemen which escalate over the weekend may disrupt surprise light sweet is currently trading at above one hundred twelve dollars a missing the draft and brant is one hundred twenty three and a hard to move to gold it's hit a new record of one thousand five hundred eighteen dollars per ounce although currently it's trading below that a record level silver also reached briefly reached an all time high of almost fifty dollars an ounce before treating it as forty seven dollars and. russia's biggest call produces lifted net profits by one hundred fifty percent last year reaching one hundred twenty six million dollars the company cited higher coal prices as the main driver of the growth. of largest monday just b.c. he's pulling the plug on its retail operations in russia the move comes less than two years after it announced

a two hundred million dollars ransom demand for example he says it will focus instead on corporate and investment banking in the country. and despite a slight decline on monday the russian currency still retains its high versus the gold got he good to hide from troika dialog believes several sectors of the country's economy would benefit from a further strengthening of the national currency. it's for stronger will so i would say that actually this is not true bill strong is strong is the u.s. currency is very weak so if you look at the basket sort of dollar and euro so the change is not so significant of course or high all prices is very supportive friends there strengthening the ruble there's no doubt of this but i still would think that the for the safe of five percent or strengthening of ruble above five percent is not really bad for russia and talking about the surface which will benefit from ruble 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 gold in there to death and so the payment for these debts will be much cheaper so that's the primary beneficiary and the will actually companies who are working locally say they will call in these companies so that will be probably be. they will benefit for it. russian tycoon got it on top of his probably. portsmouth a multimillionaire set to become the team's fifth three years in a deal worth twenty eight million dollars on top of terms of course not to get an offer to buy him a break bournemouth f.c. turned down twenty pounds out of my hong kong based a ball room chain right but the club into administration february last year when debt reached two hundred fifty million dollars that was after it dropped out of the premier league however he walked back. out to six months later ready to introduce a. ask his government to selling its stake in eastern europe top sweet maker

united confectioner's among the possible world's leading scrafton last night also currently owns around twenty six percent of the holding which control such well known brands in russia as basket target and. robertson from business for to day join my colleague. on tuesday morning eight am moscow time if you can of course bill is next with having.

issues that so much of you giving me a lot of people here is we five years ago is coming to grips with the catastrophe unfolding in chernobyl today the same could be said about the sheep that is the future. for. the russian interests in which bryson if you need monsoon from funds to transition is. not for instance on t.v. dot com hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get

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