for asians to rule the day. it's twenty five years says the world's worst nuclear accident we are live in ukraine for a member of the turnout will tragedy in a fact that thousands of lives and left huge areas of land poisoned for centuries also the sour. soup britain you get really tricky of which could have come for live from you were. finding in libya reaching down long nato is accused of overreaching the u.n. resolution by supplying the rebels with weapons. to crack down on terror and russia's north caucuses brings results with

a suicide attack prevented and several militants killed in the chechen republic and jackie start. that story in business japanese carmakers raise production difficulties in russia due to the shortage of parts after the earthquake disaster book review the details in our business book and. this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital on marina joshing a quarter of a century ago the world awoke to the worst nuclear accident it had ever seen the explosion actually 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 now is covering events around the day to mark the anniversary of the disaster of course. hello to any so well it looks like it's

a sunny spring day in ukraine just as it was when disaster unfolded twenty five years ago. indeed in just over a month of course as the world witnessed a nuclear disaster unfold in japan attention shifts to ukraine as it marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe that's when an explosion blew the roof off reactor number four spewing vast amounts of radiation into the air it's estimated some eight and a half million people across ukraine russia and bella ruse the three most affected countries were were a suffered rather exposure to high levels of radiation now thirty two lives were lost immediately when the accident occurred some thirty or so more in the weeks and months that followed and in total the number of deaths percent potentially resulting from the accident vary enormously the numbers go from four thousand to two a million and of course many organizations from the world health organization to greenpeace

say that the death toll is should unity underestimated well arty's our correspondent alexei you're a sharp ski has been covering the tragedy and its aftermath for years now he's been there extensively we can cross to him live alexei tell us you've been there so many times throughout the years what has been your firsthand experience actually noble in and in the rural areas surrounding it. certainly i've been here a lot of times and every spring this place an exclusion zone that's where i'm standing right now becomes something of a second home to me now we are standing right now just meters away from the source of all evil this is the infamous fourth block of the chernobyl nuclear power plant with this infamous unknown pipe up above it now around it is the thirty kilometer exclusion zone a very abnormal place with lots of things to see and you can find anything here from of normal levels of radiation in place called the red forest which is just

about three kilometers behind of the fourth book of the chernobyl blog. the levels there do not allow any humans to be there for more than ten or fifteen minutes and now also there is a dead town of just next door to the global nuclear power plant something. something of a landmark something of a reminder of what exactly happened twenty five years ago a ghost town where nobody lives now there are villages which are buried underground because they were too radioactive to be left alive and that's why they had to be buried literally buried you could walk on top of what was once a residential houses now the zone itself is very much of the normal as i've said in everything even the weather here can change within just hours we filmed a documentary about less than less than several weeks ago and in the course of one day you could see snow a rain and sunshine just changing one after another this is something you won't be able to see in kiev or anywhere else so there's always of course an interesting

place to see but its main purpose definitely and that's what i've been feeling for all the time here is to remind the humanity of the huge mistake of the huge manmade mistake which the employees of the chernobyl nuclear power plant made twenty five years ago. and of course the world remembering twenty five years ago the town of people actually 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 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 sportsmen and the best professionals in nuclear energy all of them lived here all of that changed and april twenty sixth nine hundred 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 need permission

to feed it it could still be conceived. and management pushed for a completion of an experiment personal has to change it more reluctant to eventually couldn't go against the authorities we'll know the result real good meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying and then usually sunny saturday outdoors one of them with me and 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 solution. that short was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had a large population of this small town in the middle of the night they delivered the severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but it really did have different fractions goods 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 all the state in the town exposing themselves to deadly goes is of radiation and many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays people it is described as a debt sound nobody lives here and never will again the fall out period of many nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years this has not been a steer from what their own economy unka who returned here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we keep making your flight and the pension i found it impossible to survive like that to make you here have a cattle and a grow every creation yes there is a little here but you can find a place without it anywhere we are not scarce in the wake of the fukushima disaster the word chernobyl at hold again world wide just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned another crisis with the nuclear energy issue through series the great but the former chair noble liquidators say they are ready to fly

halfway across the planet to help japan just like they did in their own back to. twenty five years ago all they want is to make sure nightmares like shit mobile and fukushima never happen again and see russia. reporting from chernobyl and key here in ukraine. now alexei we've heard from some of the people that stayed behind in the evacuation zone surrounding chernobyl you've been covering this for years as we've said tell us are there any people stories or things that you've heard that really stand out things that you yourself will never forget it's such an incredible thing of course to meet these people. well it's certainly these people are very interesting to talk with because the whole world basically thinks they're out of their mind still live in a contaminated area but i spoke to them many times and all they told me every time that they did not fear the radiation that it is their home that they want to live and die and and that's why they want to stay in the end of the days and they

actually exchanged the frivolousness they had in the korean capital and you flat and pensions to return to their houses when the soviet union collapsed and when there was so much mass happening in ukraine that they were easily allowed back into the zone and they want to stay here until the end of their days there are fewer now of them left here than let's say five years ago most of them are dying every year but as far as we understand these deaths are not caused by radiation those are natural causes because the people who have been living here for the last twenty five years best certainly the elderly ones and indeed it's just not the time comes and that's why the across the way but indeed this is one of the brightest sides of the zone these people still have hope that this land could ever be inhabited again experts most of the experts say that due to the full output of many nuclear particles which may reach twenty thousand years this will not happen. incredible

that their hope has never tried before now alexi your sense if you live from. chernobyl thank you for that. now our arriving international sort lee will be president medvedev i won't with his ukrainian belorussian counterparts parts of course the three countries that were most affected by this disaster we will be covering that for you here on our t.v. the leaders also possibly will be discussing another debate that has certainly been highlighted on the world stage with the nuclear catastrophe that we saw some six weeks ago in japan questions being raised over whether the nuclear safety lessons are churning out to ennoble have really been taken into effect we spoke to journalist james corbett in osaka japan he says the handling of the crisis at the fukushima nuclear power plant is his is a mistake 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 governments and it's not

a fair analogy that favors the japanese government we saw in the wake of the chernobyl the immediate wake of the chernobyl disaster and we saw the end of official soviet reaction with two 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 two to me information coming out of there and amazingly enough that's pertaining even during this disaster even as the chief cabinet secretary a panel is giving twice daily briefings on what's happening from those briefings are only open to the 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 and there is an incredible attempt to try to cover up with the flow of information into

to control what kind of information is getting out. now the aftermath of the nuclear emergencies is raising sidey over the safety of the industry itself we want to know what you think log on to our website where we're asking what will happen to atomic energy in the near future well almost forty percent of you think that there is a danger of more serious disasters happening but others are more optimistic about the issue a quarter think atomic energy will expand and be good for humanity oh third put their hopes on green and new about energy and six percent think that nuclear energy is days are numbered and that people's fears will see it phased out. i want to take a second to focus on those who witnessed the true noble disaster firsthand of course those who took part in the cleanup and firefighting put their lives on the line to make sure the tragedy didn't spread any further archie spoke to one of them . do you know when or save my order i didn't have

a full understanding of what was happening there we're very scarce information other 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 and arrived 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 apple immediately there i met my friends and colleagues design engineers who had taken the same flight to deliver project documents and we went together. and you can hear more from that emergency worker who saw the disaster on the fold firsthand here on our t.v. we continue our extensive coverage on the chernobyl tragedy anniversary throughout the day and we'll be taking trips to the ghost town of prepared so to stay with us for that. this time saw the trajectory. three g. five years ago on the entire page eight thousand population over ukrainian town

a preview of what you might hear way with three hours. plus now it wants to be recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to beat up letters at this post office in britain. the stories of the world's long gone. have to be chosen. leaving the diaries of the ghost are today. italy has approved the use of its fighter jets in nato air strikes in libya despite its earlier refusal to join the bombings a nato airstrike on monday badly damaged colonel gadhafi compound in the capital tripoli libyan government forces continue their siege of the rebel held city of misrata where 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. of that suggestion to a military analyst. 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 academy of sciences thank you for joining us today let's look at the picture we're looking at the arms obviously everybody fire pointing at the can i think we kind of weapon is this so here we can see a building. assault rifle and quite likely. each was smuggled into libya after the u.n. sanctions imposed over this country 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 go through 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 and this modification of f. and fall is quite recent but also it doesn't make sense for could earth pushers of these guns from his own army if you take a look at the pictures all of the libyan army look and see the used kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and very little thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes no sense to buy near to weapon which is not affected. for a later cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter question of a 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 different fall of can 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 rebel think of the rebel fighters. have links with al qaeda does this not look like an absurd situation that they're in fact 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 their leadership is so much obsessed with getting out of the power of the 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 was just following orders and as a result of american led invasion what was seen in the murder of contras in tunisia in egypt and in libya where al qaeda terrorists are. extremely effective that those cells could easily come into power. and our

national law professor francis boyle says nato planned its intervention long before the end rest wept truly beyond. what we're seeing unfold in libya is a pre existing war ploy by nato by the british by the french but you know there are things that would tear libya there is no way to use a bow of military force and firepower could have pulled together in such short period of time in this division work that was the moment there were just. and then goes and there everything was going according to plan which is why i believe since that you know the old who are opposed to doff in the steps far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion all we have more insight in our top stories at r.t.

dot com new light on the inmates at america's atory is going tom a big prison where it seems young teenagers and the elderly are considered a threat to national security. and a kidnappers of a russian software tycoon insider revealed just pretty elderly couple who wanted the ransom to clear their loans ever details at r t dot com. to russia's north caucuses now where security services are continuing a major anti-terrorist sweet following a number of deadly attacks in the latest saying the chechen capital grozny police say they feel warranted a terror attack on the city but you know caution of a has the details two militants who are trapped by russian security forces in

a residential area and after they refused to surrender they were killed chechen leader who was personally in charge of this operation says that this two million. since were laid to 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 belts were found at the scene of the old ration meanwhile in the neighboring town a group of turn militants was surrounded by special forces in the mountain area and the leader over a so-called hi. guys a of was killed in this operation he was believed to be involved in a number of civilian murder last week two notorious figures among terrorists who were killed first is that our people value john those who was believed to be personally appointed by doku umarov as the leader of militants in dagestan and

saudi militant also known this guy in the end were killed in special operations and again yet who was believed to be a chief al qaida agent in the region and was also interested of cash flows of funds that paid for terrorist activities in the north caucasus. now ten stories from around the world a deadly crackdown on protesters in syria by security forces have reportedly claimed another five lives tanks were used by the government's troops in an effort to curb the uprising and the southern city of 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 who were on motorbikes opened fire before apparently spraying petrol and setting the vehicle

wide as it arrived at the hotel it was followed by two bomb attacks in the country's biggest city of karachi this time targeting buses taking naval employees to work at least four people. died and over thirty are thought. the rental rains 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 just rainy season and experts predict extreme weather will last through june in brazil at least twelve people have been killed in march lights and floods over the weekend a state of emergency has been declared in several cities. the time now for the business update with kareena kapoor kareena we've you've got the japanese car makers in russia are facing difficulties well really yes they're facing production difficulties most of all the problem is that there's a shortage of parts after the earthquake in japan now because of that this is

cutting its russian output by eight percent yoda is expected to follow suit up there decreasing its global production by thirty percent meanwhile versus car sales john seventy seven percent of the first quarter fears of a shortage of popular japanese models are pushing sales higher industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as well as japanese made parts are used in many car brands russia's cash for clunkers program has entered its final phase with the government issuing the last two hundred thousand certificates will be financed with an additional one hundred eighty million dollars utilization program started last year has already seen five hundred thousand cars replaced with one point two billion dollars of state support. now all prices a flat the star investors are concerned that the u.s. but reserve may signal like tightening and it's not true policy also weighing on crude are reports that saudi arabia is uncomfortable with the current world price over tensions in syria and yemen all supporting the world now light sweet is

currently trading at around one hundred twelve dollars per barrel of brant crude it's bad is that one hundred twenty three dollars a barrel. check on the markets now here's europe where stock markets turned high after a rally in u.b.s. and pointed out u.b.s. rose over a five and a half percent up to switzerland's biggest bank of profit estimates total that jumped eleven percent in milan after group the tallies said it will be it will get to the west of italy's biggest ferry company and all for value four point nine billion dollars but mining stocks are pulling back on a foot sea wrangled research of one hundred percent of augusta is down one point four percent. and here in russia markets are mixed in afternoon trading the artist is trading in the black while my six is pointing downwards now because all the negative news from abroad is weighing on energy stocks let's take a look at some index movers gas problem take a bt have both ways by reports the government is planning to abolish tax breaks for

the deals they develop in siberia tech nafta's losing half a percent after it reported an eleven percent drop in net profit last year ross net is talking the trend on both indices and in the metal sector investors are waiting for the results of porter's gold it's expected to report a seventy five percent increase in profits for the second half of plastique. year flood just lender pages b c is pulling the plug on its retail operations in russia the move comes less than two years after the now most a two hundred million dollars. a creature explains why he thinks the bank is speaking a retreat. the retail market the 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 big market share in order to make sizable profit margin so that it actually matters for the mother bank with his

b.c. we know one of the biggest banks in the world mark lives so that it is noticeable as a financial result for the big banks. without growth expectations ahead of us where they were before it is clear that the impact you think he will be very very small it will be tiny for the crimes that have made this investment and meanwhile do have to probably invest even more to actually achieve a market share but they were planning to achieve. without guaranteed results and the russian government seems to be having doubts over its decision to raise the tax burden on businesses under survive the new rules which can itself act in january cont'd private companies of incentives to invest it's a criticism that's being echoed by business leaders such as the vice president of the mobile phone company nokia. it's very important for us that consumers have

access to mobile devices on mobile services with the lowest possible price because that is good for the economy as a whole it's good for consumers in the squad for economic growth in russia and that's why all the extra which is spent to be said for mobile technology since you say a negative for local we are a substantial tax payer in russia. i think that on the monthly basis we are contributing to the russian government of auction by one billion so it's very substantial support coming from the course business and we hope to see this going to grow in the. russian flag carrier air flight has been rated at twentieth place on list of most valuable airline brands that's according to findings from grant finance the consultancy analysts have guestimated air force brand value to be worth one billion dollars they also believe the company is currently undervalued as

the price for its name is not reflected him capitalisation at the top of the list was germany's new council with a grand value of three point eight billion dollars. as a business update is sas there with us for headlining is that x.t. out. if. he is eve. of. the team.

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