it's twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident we are live in ukraine to remember the trade novel tragedy that in fact the sounds of lives and live music areas of land boys and for centuries also this hour you see brain you give me trivia we have come on live from you are. what finally we're reaching deadlock nato is accused of overreaching the u.n. resolution by supplying the rebels with weapons. to crackdown on terror in russia's north caucasus brings results with a suicide attack for vanity and several militants killed at the chechen republic

and. the business death japanese carmakers scaled back production in rosser due to difficulties in getting parts as a result of the earthquake disaster we'll have that and more business updates but. it is not again in the russian capital you're watching r t with me were in ajaccio welcome to the program a quarter of a century ago the world of woke to the worst nuclear accident it had ever seen exposing that her novel sent a huge plume of radioactive smoke across much of europe and leaving the land in thirty kilometer exclusion zone poisoned for thousands of years all throughout the day artie's and he's on our way to the ukrainian capital kiev covering events to mark the anniversary of the disaster. it's just a month over

a month now since the world watched 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 who crane russia 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 guys we 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 well our chief correspondent alexei yourselves he has been following and reporting on chernobyl and 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 of nightmares twenty five years ago the town of precarity was a place any soviet person could dream off high salaries great standards of living and impressive infrastructure a restricted town for the employees of the chernobyl nuclear power plant believe it was regarded as the pride as the pearl of the soviet union it was not only constructed to look like a. perfect social 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 lived here all of that changed and april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment carried out in the right hands of the reactor was almost completely out of control and april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved by the management for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated and were locked into and eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result. meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying and then usually sunny saturday outdoors some of them were i mean my friend we ran away from school the polluted beach we returned home or called in mud and my mother asked me where i had 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 a large population of this small town in the middle of the night they delivered the seriously injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but a raid people had different rooms fractures balloons and the radiation most of them had third 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 the dogs as of radiation many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays people it is described as a debt nobody lives here and there are will again the fallout period of many nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years this has not been a steer from out there on the gurney unka who returned here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we could they gave me a flat and the pension i found it impossible to supply back in clear here have a cattle and a growing. every plane appreciation yes there is

a little here but you don't find the place without it anywhere we're not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the words your noble echoed again world wide just about what everyone thought all mistakes have been learned and now the crisis with the nuclear energy issue through serious debate with the former chair mobile liquidators say they are ready to fly halfway across the planet to japan just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago all the want is to make sure nightmares like should normal and fukushima never happen again let's see reporting from chernobyl and kia in ukraine. the next day 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 just 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 of fact

by the catastrophe 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 the casino and were 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 fukushima power plant really is a repeat of twenty five year old mistakes i think the real analogy to be drawn here is that the flow of information that's coming from the government and it's not of 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 anywhere 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 me a free and open access to the site or 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 get in 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 second hand information from administrative sources so there is an incredible attempt to try to cover up the flow of information and to get to control what kind of information is getting i don't. 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 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 vol the third but 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 well for the cleanup crews deployed in the immediate aftermath of the truly noble disaster they have course put their lives on the line to protect others arts he has been speaking to one of. when our seed my old i didn't have a full understanding of what was happening there we're very scarce information at a time i was on a business trip in budapest and was told to leave it within the next twenty four hours for a feature most going to right at the ministry where the chief department had told me to take a special flight in two hours you figure out what happens once you get there so i went to the airport immediately there i met my friends and colleagues design engineers who had taken the same flight to deliver project documents and we went

together will be continuing our extensive coverage of the tour noble it which will be on a verse free live from kiev and from chernobyl itself throughout the day so please do stay with us for that i have half past five am g.m.t. we're going on a trip to the ghost town of repat so stay with archie for the latest coverage on the twenty fifth anniversary of the true noble nuclear disaster. this side project. crazy five years ago of the entire fifty thousand population over the radio dial radio for the microwave with three hours. because now it wants to recently some people started receiving bush notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office in a way to get. the stories of the world to go. after .

the diaries of the ghost of archie. who was allowed to live from moscow to other stories now italy has approved the use of its fighter jets and mayor's air strikes in libya despite its earlier refusal to join the bombings and they were airstrike on monday badly damaged colonel gadhafi is compound in the capital tripoli and again government forces continue their siege of the rebel held city of misrata worth at least. him people have been killed in shelling and so for months since the allied intervention in libya began but there's speculation that some nato countries supplied rebels with arms before the uprising are going to put that suggestion to alice from russia's institute of world economy and international relations. so where do we being rebels get their arms from to help us answer that question we're joined today by even a military analyst from the russian academy of sciences thank you for joining us

today let's look at the picture we're looking at the arms obviously everyone fighter pointing at the plane i think we kind of weapon is this so here we can see a building. assault rifle. was used by french army and now it's been replaced by a new models of firearms bunch of this kind of weapon was produced in france in great amounts and quite likely it. was smuggled into libya after the u.n. sanctions imposed over the scantron if received in monch all of the french made weapon at almost every show that comes from on libya from rebel controlled territory but can see a large amounts of wealth for instance and for grants they're quite likely to have come from france you know some experts speculate that some of those guns could have

come into libya before the sanctions were imposed or even in the early years of could i thought 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 now this modification of f. and file is quite recent but also it doesn't make sense for could earthier pushers of these guns for his own army if you take a look at the pictures of the libyan army with and see they use mostly kalashnikov ones with extremely cheap and higher level thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes no sense to buy need a weapon which is not a fair trade for thought in nature quite rich. which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter culture. which is produced all over the world in north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see if at this point recent

modification of fall could have climbed from france and quite recently it's a well known fact. some of the libyan rebel fighters have links with al qaeda if they know about the fact that the rebel thought that the rebel fighters. had links with al qaeda does this not look like an absurd situation that they're in stacked supplying people who are unknowingly connected with al qaeda with arms i mean what we have in our hands what we see no need for conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting could be out of the. here who are the rebels there was no. any other terrorist organizations in iraq before to ensure three they came into iraq after saddam was used probably was as a result of american led invasion what we see now in a matter of contras in tunisia in egypt and in libya where the terrorists

are. extremely effective that those cells could easily come in. international law professor francis boyle says nato planets intervention long before and rest. clearly what we're seeing unfold in libya is a pre existing war ploy by nato by the british by the french by the americans would care maybe there is no way you should know of military force and firepower could have pulled put together in such a short period of time in this region your plane that was activated the moment the movie spokesman says in law and then goes and then everything now is going according to plan which is why i believe that since they have failed to. the polls

to garfield because steps sold far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion. and with more insight on our top stories available on our website our. clarity. and the kidnappers of a russian software typhoon son are revealed as a desperate elderly couple who want to ransom to clear their long scar the details are. the financial sounds rising in the east according to the international monetary fund and predicts that china will overtake the u.s.

which will lose its dominance was in five years a con is next friday 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 and you consume more than you produce that 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 big into the cake and we would be dominant because we're american instead of thinking it was an accident of history which is fragile and won't last i know 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 instead of having a really just

a 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 and twenty years from now and having much better policy eventually catches up with the people with the worst policy and benefits the people with better plots. greater artier here how the world's money is now in medals as countries look to reliant less on the u.s. dollar here's what's coming up in the kaiser report. everybody's like trying to come up with conspiracy theories and rumors to explain the soaring gold and silver prices the flooring 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 reserve currency we're going back to a precious metal standard and the goal is overachieve will be the put upon which the global economy will be remark attracted in the image but.

let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world crackdown on protesters in syria by security forces have reportedly claimed another five lies tanks were used by the government's troops in an effort to curb the uprising in the southern city government demonstrations have intensified in syria even though the sixty year old emergency law is being lifted officials in neighboring jordan say syria has closed the border to prevent people from leaving. a bus in southern pakistan a scene torched by has been torched by armed men leaving at least thirteen people to be burned alive including some children the attackers who were on motorbikes opened fire before apparently spraying petrol and setting the alight as it arrived at a hotel was followed by two bomb attacks in the country's biggest city yes karate this time targeting buses taking naval employees to work at least three people died and

over fifty are sought injured. two militants have been killed a jury in a special operation in the chechen capital grozny belts loaded with explosives were found strapped to their guides sorties believed the suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack and the russian republic of chechnya artie's medina caution of a has more in the story. two militants have been killed in chief during a special operation the militants in question were trapped in the residential house russian speaking review forces managed to evacuate the civilians at the scene to safety. was personally in charge of the operation so the militants were later identified as close associates to one of the world's most wanted terrorists. according to intelligence data these militants were planning our high profile terror attack on one of the republic's upcoming public holidays and

meanwhile in a neighboring biggest and other successful operation was carried out on monday a group of militants was surrounded by russian special forces in mountain area and the leader of a 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 cherry tracks in russia in the last twelve months but still there is no clear information or out of a dance about where russia's most rented terrorist might be hiding in the north caucasus. there was russian security forces do new blows to terrorists we'll bring you extensive coverage of the latest operations on the air and on our website dot

com. well you can cross the latest developments and find backgrounds amazing and also video of the sting operations including that were to go to tory's militant leaders. all of you warn our web site. on a daily commute to work you hope you will be safe in the hands of public transport by the low cost shuttle buses which operate on russia's roads are becoming an increasing option in some places they are responsible for half of road accidents and he has a story. a high speed chase and a miracle that no one was killed. 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 media buses in central russia that left people teen people injured according to police in some russian cities shuttle burns are in baltimore than half of all ruled

accidents we are in the us these good southern russia and as you can see shuttle buses are very popular here because there's 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 for two random checks and found twenty seven drivers who we using drugs just one day 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 a row beery risk he wants to. go in the wrong way i was so scared i was ready to grab the guy by the hand and make him pull over a little while authorities and the r.c.c. found a solution to the shuttle bus problem

a trendy high tech one. just this year we are all shuttle buses with satellite tracking equipment and video cameras to help us deal with complaints on a case by case basis no matter how impressive these plans are it's still unclear how this big brother approved will affect the situation on the roads but with the rising number of shuttle bus related deaths and injuries it may be once. the car. is full of school r t. and just a few minutes we ask whether it's really possible to imagine a world without nuclear allergy before the ad though will get the latest from the world of business with kareena.

her welcome to business here in r.t. 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 analyst but even some of explains why he things the bank is speeding how we treat we should consider. if these things such as h.s.b.c. and the the others you mention they entered in two thousand and seven two thousand and need just on the verge of the crisis which of course no one expected to do time the opposite and look good the russian market is is destined to grow by fifty percent every year the russian banks mean so entered hearing such expectations ahead of them and of course they also and for being very significant premiums for the owners of the banks have been acquired such as three times book four times book

value of the respective banks. and the oil price is a slipping back from earlier gains despite fears that tensions in syria and yemen which escalated over the weekend may disrupt supplies light sweet is currently trading at around one hundred eleven dollars about twelve brant crude is around one hundred twenty three dollars per barrel now let's take a look at how the stock markets are performing asian shares are lower on tuesday in tokyo strongly and is weighing on exporters and carmakers that's up to standard and poor's downgraded its outlook for that sector shares of the orders down more than two percent this hour and this is also lower than tender was losing around four percent after the game maker posted a second straight for adult profit and hong kong resources stocks are trading in the red on lower commodity parts of. the russian markets finished higher nondairy as yes it was up over one percent while the my six added zero point nine percent

and it has gained back a strong core parts. russia's leading precious metals nine of poland's gold is expected to report a seventy five percent increase in profits for the second half of last year a survey of. the average forecast is for a net total of three hundred million dollars dollars told to publish its results on tuesday. how japanese carmakers a facing. production difficulties here in russia are due to the shortage of parts after the earthquake disaster this that has cut his russian outward by eighty percent as components become thinner on the ground so yoder is expected to follow suit of decreasing its global production by thirty percent meanwhile watches car sales jumped seventy seven percent in the first quarter fears of a shortage and popular japanese models are pushing sales higher industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as japanese made parts they used in many corporations. that's all for now i'll be back with more at twenty past the

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