some of us the gateway to the ground in fear is truly the torch was the bush girl until you can a little child to those which are there to see don't need to go. read this and the colonel was hoto as used to retreat. it's twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident we're live in ukraine to remember that your novel tragedy that affected thousands of lives and left huge areas of land poisoned for centuries also this hour. is to bring you give me the trigger we each of come the formula for which you are buying leave you're reaching that last name was accused of overreaching the u.n. resolution by supplying the rebels with weapons. and the russian passengers were dicing with death we'll look at the growing number of lethal accidents among the country's ubiquitous shuttle buses.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me wearing a joshua welcome to the program a quarter of a century ago the world awoke to the worst nuclear accident avarice seen the explosion at church novels and a huge plume of radioactive smog across much of europe and leaving the land and thirty kilometer exclusion zone poisoned for thousands of years and he's now is covering events throughout the day for us to mark the anniversary of the disaster we cross live her to give a nice or hello to you well it's a sunny spring day it seems in ukraine just as i was when disaster unfolded twenty five years ago. that's right it started as a beautiful day as it is today but ended horribly when at one twenty three am an

explosion blew the roof off the tour noble nuclear facility and a fire that ensued for some ten days after that spewed vast amounts of radiation into the air there at the immediate time of the accident thirty two lives were lost some thirty more in the weeks and months that followed but in total the number of deaths potentially resulting from the tragedy varies enormously just to give you an idea of some of these numbers the world health organization puts it at four thousand greenpeace puts it at two hundred thousand if you can see the difference there a russian publication puts the number closer to one million and that's with all sorts of organizations claiming that the death toll overall is severely underestimated the highest areas of contamination you were talking about the thirty kilometer evacuation zone they were mapped out and closed off some people forcibly evacuated some is of course putting it lightly hundreds of thousands really but

many of those people refused to leave and of course suffered very adverse to fax to that but it's said that some of the contamination and radiation reached as far as asia africa and america will our correspondent alexy or says he has been covering chernobyl for years now we'll be joining him throughout the day but right now he takes us back to a small soviet town that was once full of dreams and became a town full of nightmares. twenty five years ago the town of people that was a place any soviet person could dream of high salaries great standards of living and impressive infrastructure and restricted town for the employees of the chernobyl nuclear power plant 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

that your mobile reactor exploded the result of an experience carried out in the wrong hands with. the reactor was almost completely out of control it went from to faith but it could still have been saved and management pushed for a completion of the experiment personal hesitated were reluctant to go and eventually couldn't go against the authorities we'll know the result. meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday our doors one of them were me and my friend we were away from school the pleated beach we returned home and 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'd already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear solution. that shock was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had a lot of the population of this small town in the middle of the night they deliver it as severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but it really

people had different fractures burns and radiation most of them had food or fourth degree radiation burns one of them going to 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 that sound exposing themselves to deadly bills as of radiation many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwards nowadays preterite is described as a dead. nobody lives here and never will again the fall out period of maybe nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years this has not been a steer from what they want to. return here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed because they gave me a flood and the pension i too found it impossible to survive like that and keep you here i have a council and a group everything creation yes there is a little here but you can find a place without us anywhere we are not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the work your noble echoed again world wide just about when everyone thought all

mistakes have been learned and now the crisis with the nuclear energy issue through series debate but the former sure nobody liquidators say they are ready to fly halfway across the planet to help japan just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago all they want is to make sure nightmares like of mobile and fukushima will never happen again let's see russian ski on sea reporting from chernobyl and kia in ukraine. commemorations for those who were affected and lost their lives during the tragedy began early this morning in fact in the middle of the night at the exact time of the accident a rocket was led by russians russia's patriarchy real here in kiev in commemorations and ceremonies will be held throughout the day both in the ukrainian capital and internode where we will be crossing live for you throughout the day now of course this line of verse three once again highlights the parallels with what happened in japan just over

a month ago and it's raising questions over whether nuclear safety and the last since that could have been learned from chernobyl accident have been taken into a fact by the world community a big debate is being raised we spoke to journalists by james corbett who's in soccer japan and he says that the handling of the fukushima power plant crisis is repeating mistakes twenty five years on. i think the real analogy to. iran here is the the flow of information that's coming from the governments and it's not of an analogy to favorites the japanese government we saw in the wake of the true noble the immediate wake of the chernobyl disaster and 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 a

a for you know when 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 them twice daily briefings on what's happening from question of those briefings are only open to the a 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 would be the flow of information and seek to control what kind of information is getting out. now the aftermath of the nuclear emergencies is raising anxiety over the safety of the industry itself on our web site archie dot com we're asking you what will happen to atomic energy in the near future let's take a look at what some of you have already answered almost forty percent think that there is a danger of more serious disasters happening but others are more optimistic a quarter think atomic energy will expand and be good for humanity well

a third put their hopes on green and renewable energy six percent think that nuclear energy is days are numbered and that people's fears will see it phased out . let's focus a little bit on those who witnessed the turn noble disaster as it unfolded of course the cleanup crew the people who fought the fires and dealt with the rubble put. themselves their lives alone belong to prevent the tragedy from spreading even further archie spoke to one of them. he's a winner save my order i didn't have a full understanding of what was happening there with very scarce information other times i was on a business trip in budapest and i was told to leave it within the next twenty four hours a feature moscona right at 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 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. we can watch that full interview firsthand accounts of one of the members of the emergency crew who worked in the aftermath of the true noble disaster shortly here on our cheek. and we continue our coverage extensively of the three noble tragedy anniversary throughout the day we'll be taking a trip to the ghost town of crete that stay with us from. this time silent for decades. twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population all week radio preview what the market waited with three hours. plus now it wants to do it recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office in a graveyard. the stories of the world are long gone. have

to be challenged. reading the diaries of the ghost of our choice. what's in our to live from moscow to other stories now italy has approved the use of its fighter jets and nato air strikes in libya despite its earlier refusal to join the. bombings and airstrike on monday badly damaged girl could out of his compound in the capital tripoli libyan government forces continue their siege of the rebel held city of misrata worth at least ten people have been killed in shelling it's over a month since the allied intervention in libya began but there is speculation that some nato countries supplied rebels with arms before the uprising. that suggestion to a military analyst. so where do we being rebels get their arms from to help us answer that question we're joined today by

a military analyst. with the russian academy of sciences thank you for joining us today but look at the picture we're looking at the arms obviously of a fighter pointing at the p.r.t. portrait we kind of weapon is this so here we can see you build a fan of. assault rifle and quite likely it was smuggled into libya after the u.n. sanctions imposed over this question 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 geithner regime because these 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 occasion of if if and fall is quite recent also it doesn't make sense for could go through pushers of these guns for his own army if

you take a look at the pictures of the libyan army they can see they use mostly kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and available thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes no sense to buy. later weapon which is not a fair trade for for later cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter. gun which is produced all over the world the north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see that this quite recent modification of different file could have come from 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 rebels of the rebel fighters. have 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 nature conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting out of their power they don't actually care who the rebels are there was no nor any other terrorist organisations in iraq before to arrange your three they came into iraq after saddam or as a result of american led invasion. of contras in tunisia in egypt and in libya where terrorist cells are. extremely effective that those cells could these are the common people. it ashleigh law professor francis boyle says nato planet's intervention long before the address swept through libya only what we're seeing unfold in libya is a pre existing war plan by nato and by the british by the french by the

americans would tear libya there is no way this a bow of military force and part foreign power could have pulled together in such a short period of time and less there was a war plan that was activated the moment there were disturbances in benghazi and there everything now is going according to plan which is why i believe that since they have failed to who are opposed to garfield when he steps far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion and with more insight on our top stories at r.t. dot com. new live on the inmates on america's notorious one tunnel of a prison where it seems young teenagers and the elderly are considered a threat to national security. the kidnappers of a russian software tycoon son are revealed as

a desperate elderly couple who wanted a ransom to clear their loans get the details and actually got. a financial sons 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 fried well 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 it is or eerie this comes a week after we see standard and poor's threatened to put the u.s. treasury the u.s. sovereign debt on a downgrade watch and if you do keep importing more than you x. poor 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 a the united states got the sort of play where they made the assumption that american dominance was baked into the cake and would be dominant because we're american and sort of thinking it as an accident of history which is fragile and won't last and 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 disciplined long term outlook on 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 parts of. next hour on r t we hear how the world's money is now in metals as countries look to rely a less on the u.s. dollar and here's what's coming up in the kaiser report. everybody is like trying

to come up with conspiracy theories and rumors to explain the soaring gold and silver prices the soloing oil prices soaring commodity prices but the wall street journal headline reads fleeing the dollar flood the world tries to protect itself from us monetary policy right the u.s. dollar will be rolled up into a new a new global currency and it'll it'll become extinct and the everything in america will be double triple quadruple in price and the rot and the standard of living will be one of the lowest in the in the in the lowest in the lowest style of all a good reason the world. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and a deadly crackdown on protesters in syria by security forces has reportedly claimed another five lives tanks were used by the government's troops in an effort to curb the uprising in the southern city as a government demonstrations have intensified in syria even though the fifty year

old emergency law is being lifted officials in neighboring jordan say syria has closed the border to prevent people from leaving. the bus in southern pakistan has been torched by armed man leaving at least thirteen people to be burned alive including some children the attackers were on motorbikes opened fire before apparently spraying peril and setting the vehicle right as it arrived at a hotel it was followed by two bomb attacks in the country's biggest city of karachi this time targeting buses taking naval police to work at least three people died and there were fifty are thought injured. now a daily commute to work it hope you would be safe. in the hands of public transport but the low cost shuttle buses which operate on russia's roads are becoming increasingly lethal option in some places they are responsible for half of road accidents that is the lot has the 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 mini buses in central russia that left people teen people injured according to police in some russian cities shuttle vans are involved in more than half of all road accidents we are in the last season in southern russia and as you can see shuttle bus is 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 fourteen random checks and found twenty seven drivers who were using drugs just one be called to living in moscow to park his car

and took a shuttle bus to work he says he almost got killed. for serious violations in a row dearie risky wants to run into a red light when they're on way i was so scared i was ready to grab the guy by the hand and make him pull over meanwhile cortizone the deceased queen that they found a solution to the shuttle bus problem a trendy high tech one. the quickest this year we are going 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 his 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 one small step cutting down the carnage polski. time now cyclicals happening a world of business with karl.

hello and welcome to business here on our t.v. thanks for joining me you have the largest lender h.s.b.c. is pulling the plug on its retail operations in russia the move comes less than two years after he announced a two hundred million dollars expansion plan by jimmy savile a critic's claims why he thinks the bank is being between. the retail market the banks are talking about with their existing this is a market of scale i mean you have to be big you have to have a lot of customers you have to have big market share in order to make a sizeable profit good margin so that it actually matters for the mother bank

we know it's one of the biggest banks in the world barclays so that it is noticeable as a financial result for the big banks. without growth expectations ahead of us where you were before it is clear that the impact if any will be very very small it will be timely for the banks that have made this investment and meanwhile they will have to probably invest even more to actually achieve market share that they were planning to achieve. without guaranteed results. but prices are raising their previous games with investors concerned that the u.s. federal reserve may signal a tightening it's not three policy reports that saudi arabia isn't comfortable with the current level of ice is also weighing on crude however tensions in syria and yemen are still supporting oil whites where it is currently trading at around one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel while brant crude is at one hundred twenty

three dollars a barrel now let's take a look at how the markets are performing asian shares a lower in tokyo strong yen is weighing on exporters coming because they're also are down after start of the forest downgraded its outlook for that sector shares of toyota from more than two percent in this and said it under eight percent tender last around four percent after the game makes the game maker posted a second straight for an annual profit and hong kong resource stocks dropped on lower commodity prices. here in russia the us here started trading in the red with lower commodity prices and negative news from a broad way on the stocks in my eyes it's just about to open so you see. monday's closing figures. for his leading precious metals nine opponents coal is expected to report a seventy five percent increase in profits for the second half of last year the survey of panel shows that the average forecast is for a net total of three hundred million dollars dollars gold will publish its results

today. japanese carmakers are facing production difficulties in russia due to the shortage of parts after the earthquake disaster and this one is cutting its russian output by eighty percent as components become thin of the ground so yoga is expected to follow suit after decreasing its global production by thirty percent meanwhile russia's car sales jumped seventy seven percent in the first quarter fears of a shortage in popular japanese models are pushing sales higher industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as japanese made parts are used in many corporations. the russian government seems to be having doubts over its decision to raise the tax burden on businesses prime minister vladimir putin admits the new rules which came into effect in january could deprive companies of incentives to invest it's a criticism that's being echoed by business leaders such as vice president at

mobile phone. it's very important for us that consumers have access to mobile devices and mobile services with the lowest possible price because that is good for the corner as a whole it's good for consumers since good for economic growth in russia and that's why all the extra burden which is going to be said for mobile technology cicely's negative for reform from we are a substantial taxpayer in pressure. i think that on the monthly basis we are contributing to the russian government on budget by one of the problems so it's very substantial support coming from the kiss business and we hope to see this going to grow with. as overall business for now but far more stories just log on to our website to dot com class posts.

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