it's twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident we are live in ukraine to remember the turnout was tragedy the fact a sow's of lives and left huge areas of land poisoned for centuries also this hour . it's your brain you military gear we each have come for me to from you are. the fighting in libya reaching dad last may he was accused of overreaching the u.n. resolution by supplying the rebels with weapons. and a crackdown on terror in russia's north caucuses brings results with a suicide attack for granted and several militants killed in the chechen republic and turkey still i'm.

watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program a quarter of a century ago the world awoke to the worst nuclear accident it had ever seen explosion after novel sent a huge plume of radioactive smoke across much of europe and leaving the land and thirty kilometer exclusion zone poisoned for thousands of years our season he says now is covering events rather day to mark the anniversary of the disaster well and he said hello to you are in kiev and looks like it's sunny days there exactly like it was twenty five years ago. it is twenty five years of ago of course it was a day that started beautifully and ended in for effect tragedy when one twenty three am an explosion blew the roof off reactor number four at the train noble

nuclear facility and the fire that ensued for some ten days after spewed vast amounts of radiation into the air greenpeace claims two hundred times the combined radiation of hiroshima. and nagasaki in fact it's estimated that some eight and a half million people across ukraine russia and bella ruse were exposed to high levels of radiation of course at the immediate time of the accident thirty two lives were lost some thirty more in the weeks and months to come but in total the number of deaths that are present potentially result directly from the accident a very enormously i just want to give you an idea of some of these figures the world health organization has the figure at four thousand greenpeace has it at two hundred thousand so you can see the difference in statistics a russian publication puts the number at nearly one million well our correspondent alexei yourselves he has been reporting extensively from chernobyl over the past

couple of years he now takes us back to a small soviet town that was once filled with dreams but quickly became a town full of like caps. twenty five years ago the town of prepared was a place any soviet person could dream off 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 and was not only constructed to look like a perfect socialist city with 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 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 reaction was almost completely out of control and eight hundred fifty and it could still have been saved and management pushed 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. was we in one of the town's population had no idea about the disaster people. enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors with a mother i mean my friend we ran away from school the pleated beach we were turned cold on covered 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 lot of the population of the small town and the middle of the night they delivered to see the really injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but it really prevented from fractures burns and 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 all the state in the town

exposing themselves to believe doses of radiation many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays people it is described as a debt town nobody lives here and never will again the fallout period of may nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years this has not been as clear from out there on the county unka who returned here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we can begin not and the pension i found it impossible to survive like that in kenya here have a condo and a grow every clean radiation yes there is a little here but you can find a place without it anywhere we are not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the words are noble echoed again world wide just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned another crisis with the nuclear energy issue through serious debate but the former chair noble liquidator say they are ready to fly halfway across the planet to help japan just like they did and their own backyard twenty five years ago all they want is to make sure nightmares like chernobyl and

fukushima never happen again let's see russia ascii art scene reporting from chernobyl and here in ukraine. but focused more on the current situation interim noble today joining me to speak about that as i'm told so he's the principal advisor for the european bank on reconstruction and development at tell us first of all of all about the current star complicates how much is it containing the problem and what would happen if there was some kind of fault in that it was essentially bought as i understand it eighty six and then refurbished into house and six what's the situation now correct. as you as you know since it gets loaded in night in night and eighty six uncovered by the existence structure called at least a call for goods which was built to use an existing at a time materials in haste. and was it was not particularly stable.

when the bank was asked by the g eight to come and administer a special dedicated to the chernobyl funds which is such a noble shelter from the nuclear safety council we. we have an enormous task to implement something called shelter implementation project. that stays a specific set of measures to change the existence cycle for goes into something long and safe and an immense on a stable is the current sarcophagus not safe. i think that the current shape and states also offer best after it's stability nation is relatively safe. he was he was debatable before two thousand and six because for physical reasons and because of materials used it was it was less stable less safe but at the moment it is safe enough for us to carry on with a new project which is designed to cover the existence of office and make it

absolutely safe for generations to come get something like that at least a life span of a hundred years how are you finding. getting fine. for this project i mean it can't be something that's cheap to do no no no is absolutely not unfortunately there's been lots of speculations about the total cost of the project unfortunately until very recently the final figure was not available and it's it's a big figure it's warmed over one point five million euros. know the design and the construction company which won the tender to put together a new save confinements and i was there to get the money and the money come from. the international donor community many countries primarily g eight but you know of course many many other countries who contribute donate this money to fund managed by the e.b.i.t. and we had a very important event in kiev last week where the international pledging conference

and we collected roughly about five hundred fifty million euros out of some not and forty million euros needed to completely shelter implementation projects a vast majority of money needed is for the new safe confines the other very important component of this project is something called i assess to this interim spent fuel facility which will basically be serving to kollek fuel from decommissioned reactors one two and three of general nuclear power plants and keep it's being made in the city right time so thank you very much for your analysis. well of course the anniversary of true noble is once again highlighting the parallels with to start with what happened in japan just over a month ago and in fact lots of debate and questions are being raised over whether the lessons on nuclear safety that the true noble tragedy provided have been taken or gone into effect we spoke to journalist james corbett in osaka japan he says the handling of the fukushima power plant crisis is mistakes repeating twenty five

years on. i think the real analogy to be drawn here is not the flow of information that's coming from the government and it's not a fear. an analogy to favor is the japanese government we saw in the wake of the tour noble the immediate wake of the chernobyl disaster we saw the have official soviet reaction was 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 me a free and 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 donald is giving twice daily briefings on what's happening at fukushima those briefings are only open to meet 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 it 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. well the aftermath of the nuclear emergencies is raising anxiety over the safety of the industry itself on our website r.t. dot com we're asking you what you think what will happen to atomic energy in the near future let's take a look at some of the answers we've been receiving 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 while the third put their hopes on green and renewable energy and six percent think that nuclear energy is days are numbers and that number and i should say and that people's fears will see it pass out a venture they. now want to take

a moment to remember and think about the people who of course witnessed the disaster as it happened twenty five years ago those who work to put out the for. ayers to take care of the cleanup put their lives on the line to prevent the tragedy from spreading even further what r.t.d. has been speaking to wants to. give where you know when i received my order i didn't have a full understanding of what was happening there with very scarce information and other times i was on a business trip in budapest told to leave it within the next twenty four hours for a feature on a ride to the ministry where the chief department heads which 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 to. be to watch that interview in full here on our teeth throughout

the day get some firsthand eyewitness accounts of what happened at chernobyl twenty five years ago and we will continue our extensive coverage live from kiev and try to noble throughout the day here on our team will also be taking you on a trip to the ghost town of the pit so do stay tuned for that. this time silenced for decades. twenty five years ago on the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town a preview of what the market waited with three hours. plus now it wants to be recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to break up letters at this post office in britain. the stories of the world long gone. have to be chosen.

leaving the diaries of those to our choice. got a source now here in our team italy has a program use of its fired as a nato airstrikes in libya despite his earlier. refusal to join the bombings and airstrike on monday badly damaged her own productions compound in the capital tripoli begin government forces continue their siege of the rebel held city of misrata where at least ten people have been killed in shelling so far a month since the ally intervention in libya began by players speculation that some nato countries supplied rebels for arms before the uprising parties are english that's international terminal three analyst. so where do libya rebels get their arms from to help us answer that question we're joined today by a difficult 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 of rebel fighter pointing at the gadhafi portrait we kind of weapon is this so here we can

see you build. assault rifle and quite likely each was smuggled into libya after the u.n. sanctions imposed over the scantron you know some experts speculated that some of those guns could have karmically before dissensions were imposed or even in the early years of could go for regime because these assault rifle was. produced many years ago but you know if we look at this picture for instance we can easily see their origin of the gun made of plastic now this would if inflation of f. and fall is quite recent also it doesn't make sense for could us here to push of these grants which is all or none of it if we take a look at the pictures of the libyan army the currency of the use mostly kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and high live a level thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes no sense to buy need to weapon

which is not affected for four major cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter cartridge for. which is produced all over the gold and north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see it at this point recently if occasion of if and for all of come from france. recently it's a well known fact that some of the libyan rebel fighters have links with al qaeda if they know about the fact that the rebel for 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 knowingly connected with al qaeda with arms i mean what we have in our hands what we see no need to conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting out of the war they don't actually care who the rebels are

there was no al-qaeda nor any of the terrorist organisations in iraq before to ensure three they came into iraq after saddam was as a result of american led invasion. of contras in tunisia in egypt and in libya where the terrorists are. extremely effective that. could easily come into power. and national law professor francis boyle so as nato planets intervention long before the unrest right through libya. what we're seeing unfold in libya is a pre existing war ploy by days go by by the french but you there is. a chair with you there is no way this sort of military force and foreign power could have pulled together in such short period of time in this

division or that was activated the moment your mortgage. and then goes and then everything now is going according to play in which is why i believe that since they have failed who are opposed to. the steps so far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion well we've more insight in our top stories at r.t. dot com relying on the inmates at america's notorious one time of a prison where it seems young teenagers can be elderly are considered a threat to national security. the kidnappers of a russian software tycoon son are revealed as a desperate elderly couple who lot of the ransom to clear their loans ever details matter to dot com.

to russia's north caucasus now where security services are continuing a major anti-terrorist sweep several top militants with links to al qaida have been killed in dagestan and chechnya and the latest staying in the chechen capital grozny police say they thwarted a terror attack on the city. in the region are teen comedy a significant gains for the security services but what more can you tell us. well among the latest successful anti terror operation that's been carried out here in the north caucasus is the one that had been on monday when two militants were trafficked by russian security forces in a residential area and after they refused to surrender they were later killed. who was personally in charge of this operation says that this two militants were later identified as close associates to one of the world's most wanted terrorists. and

that they were planning a high profile terror attack on the republic's upcoming public holiday as explosive valves were found at the scene of the alteration meanwhile in the neighboring the biggest and the group of time militants was surrounded by special forces in the mountain area and out the young and as the leader or a so-called hi. guys they have was killed in this operation he was believed to be involved in a number of civilian militias well last week two are that in the poorest figures and long terrorist were killed the first is that are people really john of who was believed to be personally appointed by us the leader of the militants in dagestan and saudi militant also known as mogami and were killed in special operations and again yet it was believed to be a chief al kind to agent in the region and was also in try to cash flows of funds

of that paid for terrorist activities in the north caucasus now this wave of major anti terror operations was launched here after a number of high profile terror attacks in russia and the search and checks operations are going on here across the region is especially in the. amadeo thanks very much indeed for bringing us the subject from the north caucasus medina question of the hour. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a deadly 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 a 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. a bus in southern

pakistan has been torched by armed man leaving at least thirteen people to be burned alive including some children who were on motorbikes opened fire before apparently spraying petrol and setting the vehicle a night 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 and police work at least four people died and over thirty are thought injured. parental reigns in colombia show little sign of letting up with ongoing floods and mudslides now having claimed over ninety lives around two hundred families have been left homeless this rainy season and experts predict the extreme weather will last through june in brazil at least twelve people have been killed in march slides and floods over the weekend a state of emergency has been declared in several cities. or time now for the latest visit date with korea to go.

hello and welcome to business thanks for being with me to japanese carmakers are facing production difficulties and shortage of parts of the earthquake disaster the sun is cutting its russian output by eight percent as components become thing on the ground toyota is expected to follow suit after decreasing its global production by thirty percent russia's car sales jumped seventy seven percent in the first quarter and fears of a shortage in popular japanese models are pushing sales higher industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble and stephanie's made cards a used in many call brands. prices are raising previous gains investors are concerned that the u.s. might reserve may signal a tightening its monetary policy also weighing on the group cruise reports that saudi arabia is uncomfortable with the current level of price however tensions in syria and yemen are supporting the euro but sweden is trading at around one hundred

eleven dollars a barrel brant crude is at one hundred twenty three dollars a pound. let's check on the markets now here you where stock markets shake off earlier losses to turn modestly higher after the long holiday weekend shares of u.b.s. rally after it reported results and egon envied gains on beale news but shares of rango resources is down two point three percent i have for girls there is losing one point three percent and fresno is down over one and a half percent as cold and so the prices pull back from the recent parts. here in russia markets are slowly recovering from earlier losses as well. and negative news from abroad is weighing on energy stocks but now let's take a look at some index movers gazprom and think you'd be p.r. both ways by reports the government is planning to abolish tax breaks for the feels they've all been siberia is losing around its point point. seven percent

after the poorer than eighteen percent drop in net profit last year ross net is bucking the trend on both in this is the metal sector investors are waiting for the results of this gold is expected to report a seventy five percent increase profits for the second half of last year. if largest lender h.s.b.c. is pulling the plug on its retail operations in russia now the move comes less than two years after it announced a two hundred million dollar expansion plan but the result of that are critics planes why he thinks. the retail market the these banks are talking about that their existing this is a market of skill i mean you have to be big you have to have a lot of customers you have to have a big market share in order to make sizable profit margin so that it actually matters for the mother bank. it is b.c. we know it's one of the biggest banks in the world mark lives so it is noticeable as a financial result for the big banks. without growth expectations ahead of us

while the world before it is clear the deal you think you will be very very small it will be tiny for the birds that give me this investment and meanwhile do have to probably invest even more to actually achieve a market share they were planning to achieve. without guaranteed results. to be having doubts over the decision to raise the tax burden on businesses planning to support and admits the new rules which can it's a fact in january could deprive companies of incentives to invest its criticism that's being echoed by business leaders such as the price president noble found. it's really important for us that consumers have access to mobile device used on mobile services with the lowest possible price because studies before they pull

in the us of all these people consumers and it's good for it to be approached in russia and that's why all day. which is going to be set for told by the g.c.c. he says nicotine for the football we are a substantial taxpayer in russia. i think that on the monthly basis we are contributing to the russian government over budget by one billion brothers so it's very substantial support coming from the chemist business and we hope that it is going to grow in the future. addresses like area f. one has been rated at prices placed on a list of the last valuable airline brands that's according to findings from brand finance now that consultancy analysts have estimated their flaws brand value to be worth one billion dollars they also believe that the company is currently undervalued as the price of its name is not reflected in capitalization the top of the list was telling is a cancer of the brand value frequent eight billion dollars. and that's the update

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