it's twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident we're live in ukraine to remember the tragedy of churn obl also this hour. it's your brain you get military gear which would have come forward for you or. was fighting in libya reaching deadlock nato is accused of overreaching the u.n. resolution by supplying the rebels with weapons. and a crackdown on terror in russia's north caucasus braze results but a suicide attack prevented and several diligence killed in the chechen republic and

. it is a b.m. of the russian capital you're watching r.t. it was nearing the joshua welcome to the program a quarter of a century ago the world awoke to the worst nuclear accident it had ever seen be explosion at her novel sent a huge plume of radioactive smoke across much of europe and leaving a land in thirty kilometer exclusion zone poisoned for thousands of years parties are nice enough ways covering events throughout the day for us to mark the anniversary of the disaster let's cross live to her to the capital hello to your need to tell us what's happening where you are. based renewal of course it's just a month over a month now since the world wants a nuclear disaster unfold in japan but attention now shifts to ukraine as it marks like you said the twenty fifth anniversary of the. world's worst nuclear

catastrophe actually noble when an explosion blew the roof off reactor number four and the fire that ensued for some ten days after spewed vast amounts of radiation into the air in fact greenpeace claims two hundred times the amount of radiation combined of hiroshima and nagasaki well eight and a half million people in the crane and bell roofs were exposed high levels of radiation and people here in ukraine and around the world remembering those affected and of course those lives lost just to give you an idea of the extent of the tragedy thirty two lives were lost immediately as the accident took place some thirty more in the weeks and months that followed and let's not forget those six hundred thousand or so liquidators who worked to put out the fire and take care of cleanup in the aftermath now it's important to say that in total the number of deaths that potentially result from the accident vary enormously the world health

organization puts it at four thousand greenpeace at two hundred thousand and an independent russian publication at nine hundred eighty five thousand so at almost a million larches correspondent alexei yourself he has been following and reporting on chernobyl its aftermath over the past couple of years he now takes us back and tells us about a soviet town that was full of dreams but turned into one full in my hands. twenty five years ago the title was a place any soviet person could dream off high salaries great standards of living and impressive infrastructure i restricted town for the employees of the church. it was regarded as the pride as the pearl of the soviet union it was not only constructed to look like a perfect socialist city but the people who live here were also the best of the best the best musicians sports man the best professionals the nuclear energy all of them live here. all of that changed on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six

when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment carried out in the wrong hands with. the reactor was almost completely out of control in april twenty fifth and it could still have been saved by the management pushed for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated and were reluctant to eventually couldn't go against the authorities we'll know the result real meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying and then usually sunny saturday outdoors most of them with me and my friend we were away from school the pleated beach we returned home all covered in mud and my mother asked me where i been i lied that we were cleaning the school yard and she was shocked as she had already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear station. that shock was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had alarmed the population of the small town in the middle of the night they delivered the severely injured plant workers and

firefighters to the hospital but a regular had different fractures burns in the radiation most of them had food or fourth degree radiation burns one of them died instantly the others had to wait twenty four hours to be evacuated to a hospital in moscow ironically those were the lucky ones others stayed in the town exposing themselves to bare the goals of radiation and many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwards nowadays sleep that is described as a death town nobody lives here and there are well again the fallout period of many nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years this has not been a steer from out there on a company unka order and here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed because of the pension but i found it impossible to survive like that in kiev here have a condo and a grow every again he ation yes there is a little here but you don't find the place without it anywhere we are not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the work your novel. code again world wide just

about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned and now the crisis with the nuclear energy issue through a series debate with the former journal say they are ready to fly halfway across the planet to help to plan just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago all they want is to make sure nightmares like of noble and fukushima never happen again. ski oxy reporting from chernobyl and kia in ukraine. now let's say will be international force throughout the day and will be bringing us the latest on what's happening there to mark this twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster now commemorations really did began began early this morning at the exact time of the accident one twenty three am a rapper was held by russia's patriarch real to mark those lives lost and affected by the catastrophe and of course commemoration ceremonies will be held throughout the day here in ukraine you know as alexei pointed out this anniversary of course

certainly highlights the connection between focusing iraq and for noble we've been speaking to journalist james corbett who's in osaka japan and he says what happened in the handling of the crisis at the focus of the powerplants really is a repeat of twenty five year old mistakes. i think the real analogy can be drawn here is no the flow of information that's coming from the governments and it's not a feed an analogy to favors the japanese government we saw in the wake of the chernobyl the immediate wake of the chernobyl disaster we saw the official soviet reaction was to to attempt to cover up and deny what was going on but once it became apparent the scale and scope of what was happening we saw that kick start a new era of glasnost and openness whereas we see the exact opposite thing happening here with the japanese government reaction to what's happening because i think the government has proven that it's not interested in giving it a free to open access to the site or to to the information coming out of there and

amazingly enough that's pertaining even during this disaster even as the chief cabinet secretary you don't always giving twice daily briefings on what's happening at fukushima those briefings are only open to the select group of japanese media organizations foreign media and independent journalists are being excluded from those meetings and are only getting access to secondhand information from administrative sources so there is an incredible attempt to try to cover up i mean you can flow of information into to control what kind of going from. it is getting old. now the aftermath of nuclear emergency is raising anxiety over nuclear safety around the world as a whole on our website we're asking you what will happen to atomic energy in the near future well almost forty percent think that there is a danger of more serious disasters happening sometime soon but others are more optimistic a quarter think atomic energy will expand and be good for humanity while a third put their hopes on green and renewable energy now six percent think that

nuclear energy is days are numbered and that people's fears will see it eventually phased out. but for the cleanup crews deployed in the immediate aftermath of the true noble disaster they of course put their lives on the line to protect others archie has been speaking to one of. we'll win or save my order i didn't have a full understanding of what was happening there with very scarce information at the time i was on a business trip in budapest and i was told to leave it within the next twenty four hours for a fee to moscow on a ride to the ministry where the chief department head told me to take a special flight in two hours you figure out what happens once you get there so i went to the apple immediately there i met my friends and colleagues design engineers who were taking the same flight to deliver project documents and we went together. just. will be continuing our extensive coverage of the

trial noble that real banner first real live from kiev and from chernobyl itself throughout the day so please do stay with us for that i half past five am g.m.t. we're going on a trip to the ghost town i'll have to stay with archie for the latest coverage on the twenty fifth anniversary of the true noble nuclear disaster. this side project it's. crazy five years ago the entire paper eight thousand population over ukrainian town of creepy i was in my way to within three hours. but now it was to be recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office. the stories of the world long gone. after.

reading the diaries of the ghost town. watching r.t. live from moscow to other stories now italy has approved the use of its fighter jets and needles air strikes in libya despite its earlier refusal to join the partings and their air strike among the badly damaged colonel gadhafi compound in the capital tripoli libyan government forces continue their siege of the rebel held city of misrata were at least twelve opposition fighters have been killed in shelling it's over and months since the allied intervention in libya began but there is speculation that some nato countries supplied rebels with arms before the uprising art is a real solution go put that question to now is from russia's institute of world economy and international relations. so where do we begin rebels get their arms from to help us answer that question we're joined today by a military analyst from the russian clothing of sciences thank you for joining us

today let's look at the picture we're looking at the arms obviously of a fighter pointing at the end of the portrait we kind of weapon is this so here we see a build an. assault rifle. was used by french army you know it's been replaced by new models of firearms bunch of this was produced in france in great amounts and quad local it. was smuggled into libya after the u.n. sanctions imposed over the scrunch you receive the amount of french me. almost sure that comes from the leader from the rebel controlled territory but i can see a large march fourth for instance if unfold dance there quite likely to have come from france you know some experts speculate that some of those guns could have

common to leave before dissensions or in paul's story when early years of could go for regime. because this assault rifle was. produced many years ago but you know if we take a look at this picture for instance we can easily see their origin of the gun made of plastic but if inclusion of f. and flag is quite recent also it doesn't make sense for could earth pushers of these guns for his own i mean if we take a look at the pictures all of the lead in under can see they use mostly kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and higher level thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes no sense to buy and need a weapon which is not affected for nature cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter cartridge for legal gun which is produced all over the world north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see

it at this point recent modification of if and fall of conference france and quite recently it's a well known fact that son of the libyan rebel fighters have links with al qaeda if they know about the fact that the rebel thought that the rebel fighters. have links with al qaeda does this not look like an absurd situation that they're stacked supplying people who are unknowingly connected with al qaeda with arms i mean we have in our hands what we see no need to conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting khadafi out of the power of the actually here who the rebels are there was no. any other terrorist organisations in the rock before to ensure three big into iraq after saddam lost his power and as a result of american led invasion what we see now in

a matter of conscious in tunisia in egypt and in libya where al qaeda terrorist cells are. extremely effective that those cells could easily come into power. it's a national law professor francis boyle says nato planets intervention long before the end rest wept through. well what we're seeing. in libya is a pre existing war ploy by nato by you by playing but you there are things which would tear with you there is no way you should blow a little boy or some kind of power could have pulled put together in such a short period of time in this is a war that was activated the moment all their mortgage when she's in benghazi and then everything now is going according to play in which is why i

believe that since they failed to. do polls. with these steps so far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion. and we have more inside of our top stories on our website r.t. dot com. neal i it's now on the inmates at america's notorious one time of a prison guard seems young teenagers elderly are considered a threat to national security. and the kidnappers something russian software tycoon son are revealed as a desperate elderly couple who want to ransom to clear their loans and the details . to militants have been killed during

a special operation in the chechen capital grozny belts loaded with explosives were found strapped to their bodies authorities believed the suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack in the russian republic of chechnya are she's making a caution that has more of the story. two militants have been killed in chechnya during a special operation the militants in question were trapped in the residential house russian security forces managed to evacuate the civilians at the scene to safety. who was personally in charge of the operation so that the two militants were later identified as close associates to one of the world's most wanted terrorists. according to intelligence data these militants were planning a high profile terror attack on one of the republic's upcoming public holiday and meanwhile in a neighboring biggest on another successful anti terror operation was carried out on monday a group of militants was surrounded by russian special forces in mountain area

and the leader of the so-called high land sector believed to be involved in civilian murders was killed this two operations are just some of the examples of successful races that have been carried out here in the north caucasus now another wave of these operations was launched after a number of terror attacks in russia in the last twelve months but still there is no clear information or out of it and about where russia's most wanted terrorist might be hiding in the north caucasus. but in a cost in the reporting there well to keep across the fight against terror in russia and abroad we've got plenty of coverage on our website or it's you know calm including the recent attack on commuters in valorous with chilling through to the suspected bomber as he brought carnage to the metro in minsk and it's all available

now. on. the financial sounds rising in the east according to the international monetary fund it predicts that china will overtake the u.s. which will lose its dominance within five years economist max frog wolf says america only has itself to blame. well our own policies are largely behind the rise of china in many ways and the decline of the united states i mean it's probably not completely accidental this comes a week or it's sort of strangely for two of us are eerie this comes a week after we see standard and poor's threaten to put the u.s. treasury the u.s. sovereign debt on a downgrade watch and if you do keep importing more than you export you keep running giant trade deficits you consume more than you produce explains part of why we're growing slowly and they're growing relatively quickly i do think that one thing the chinese have done well the americans have done quite badly which is accelerated this process is the united states not the sort of point where they made the assumption that american dominance was peeked into the cake it would be

dominant because we're american and sort of thinking you know as an accident of history which is fragile and won't last i mean i think is that we continue to make national political policy for the political expedience and short term benefit of a small number of politicians and sort of having a really good long term outlook and the chinese continue to make basic policy decisions in order to maximize their growth and have a dominant position in the world economy five ten twenty years from now and having much better policy eventually catches up with people with the worst policy and benefits that people with better. later on r t we hear how the world's money is now in metals as countries look to rely less on the u.s. dollar here's what's coming up in the kaiser report. everybody's trying to come up with conspiracy theories and rumors to explain the soaring gold and silver prices the foaling oil prices soaring commodity prices but the wall street journal headline reads fleeing the dollar flood the world tries to protect itself from u.s.

monetary policy the dollar is being rejected as the world's reserve currency we're going back to a precious metal standard and that hard that gold and silver achieve will be the put it up i want the global coverage will be reordered back to be a mood but. i want to take a look at some other stories from around the world a deadly crackdown on protesters in syria by security forces has reportedly claimed another five miles tanks were used by the government's troops in an effort to curb the uprising in a southern city anti-government demonstrations have intensified in syria even though the fifty year old emergency law is being lifted officials in neighboring jordan says syria has closed the border to prevent people from leaving. a bus in southern pakistan has been torched by armed man leaving at least ten people to be burned alive including some children the attackers who were on the

motorbikes opened fire before apparently spraying petrol and setting the vehicle alight as it arrived. on the daily commute to work you would be safe in the hands of public transport but the low cost shuttle buses which operate on russia's roads are becoming an increasingly lethal option in some places they are responsible for half of road accidents it is the law as a story. a high speed chase and a miracle that no one will skilled for more than ten minutes police pursued the speeding shuttle bus which had a drunk driver at the wheel. another shocking example this race between two million buses in central russia that left fifteen people injured according to police and some russian cities shuttle burns are involved in more than half of all ruled accidents we are in the last season in southern russia and as you can see

shuttle buses are very popular here the cost is less than a dollar per ride but just like anywhere else in the country this type of transportation is fraught with danger most shuttle vans belong to private companies where drivers are often overworked and underpaid some of them try to get behind the wheel drunk or worse. this year alone would be from forty random checks and found twenty seven drivers who were using drugs. or just won t. go to living in moscow parked his car and took a shuttle bus to work he says he almost got killed. for serious violations in iraq very risky ones to. lie along the wrong way i was so scared i was ready to grab the guy by the hand and make up whatever meanwhile authorities in the r.c.c. claim that they found the solution to the shuttle bus problem a trendy high tech one but we're just this year we are equipping all shuttle buses with satellite tracking equipment and video cameras and we help us deal with

complaints on a case by case basis no matter home press of these plans are it's still unclear how this big brother approach will affect the situation on the roads but with the rising number of shuttle bus relates deaths and injuries it may be one small step in cutting down the carnage. does a lot ski our team never have sex. and now for a business and date with us. i welcome to our business program here in r.t. thanks for joining me this hour europe's largest lender h.s.b.c. is pulling the plug on its retail operations in russia the move comes less than two years after launching its two hundred million dollars expansion plan investment and both explains why he thinks bank is right we should consider. these things such as each is missing in the the others you mention in two thousand

and seven two thousand and eight just on the verge of the crisis which of course no one expected the time the opposite would look good the russian market is is destined to grow by fifty percent every year the russian bank mean so entered hearing such expectations ahead of them and of course they also into being very significant premiums for the owners of the banks have been acquired such as three times four times book value of their respective bearings. or prices are slipping back from early against despite fears that tensions in syria and yemen which escalated over the weekend may disrupt supplies like sweet is kind of trading at around one hundred ten eleven dollars per barrel brant crude is around one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel now let's take a look at how the stock markets are performing this hour asian shares the lower on tuesday in tokyo strongly and is weighing on export as comic as

a down after standard and poor's downgraded its outlook for that sector also nintendo is losing around four percent became a compulsive the second straight or in production in hong kong resources stocks are taking the bread commodity prices karen russell markets going is higher monday the us has was up over one percent bottom issac's added zero point nine percent energy shares gained on the back of strong parts. prices leaving precious metals mine a point is gold is expected to report a seventy five percent increase in profits by the second half of last year it's servia than it was shows the average forecast is for a net total of three hundred million dollars protos called to publish its results. japanese carmakers are scaling back production in russia due to difficulties in getting parts as a result of the earthquake and this and its cutting its russian output by eight percent as components become thin on the ground seal is expected to follow suit out

that increasing its global production by thirty percent meanwhile russia's car sales jumped seventy seven percent in the first quarter driven by fears of a shortage in the japanese models industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as well as japanese made parts a used in many. so update for this hour but i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes from now said stay with us for head like this up next. to. me.

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