we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've gone to the future however. it is twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident we are live in ukraine to remember the noble tragedy that affected thousands of lives and left a huge areas of land the poison the for centuries also this hour. we see brain here the military gear which have come a formula for me to work with the fighting in libya reaching a deadlock i was accused of over reaching the u.n. resolution by supplying the rebels with one. hand of the crackdown on terror in russia's north caucasus it brings results from a suicide attack prevented and several of militants killed in the chechen republic

and pakistan. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow. a quarter of a century ago the world awoke to the worst nuclear accident it had ever seen and the explosion at china will send huge plume of radioactive smoke across much of europe and leaving the land in the thirty kilometer exclusion exclusion zone rather poisoned thought thousands of years or let's cross live now to and he said. you're covering the events that are of the day to mark the anniversary of that is a nice sunny spring day in ukraine just as it was when the disaster unfolded twenty five years ago. it is indeed and that was the day that started out as you said beautifully but ended horribly. well late into the night at one twenty three am an

explosion blew the roof off reactor number four at the trade noble nuclear facility creating the worst ever nuclear disaster of the world has ever seen while the radiation that spewed out of the facility reached way beyond europe in fact some figures show that it went as far as asia africa and america of course the most touch countries were ukraine russia and bell the roost there is as to made some eight and a half million people were exposed to high levels of radiation you know immediately when the accident occurred some thirty two lives were lost in the weeks and months that followed it's estimated some thirty more but in total the number of deaths and this is incredible resulting from the accident vary so enormously let's just take a look at some of these figures the world health organization puts the number at four thousand while greenpeace puts it at two hundred thousand so you can see the difference there and in fact

a russian publication has the number as high as nine hundred eighty five thousand so nearly a million with many organizations say that still today the death toll is very much severely underestimated now the highest areas of contamination where mapped out and closed off hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from rural areas surrounding the site about the size of the u.s. state of rhode island where for speaking in terms of europe the country of austria well our correspondent alexei unicef ski is in that exclusion zone and now joins us live alexei tell us please we know that many people have come into this thirty kilometer exclusion zone to pay tribute to those who were affected and of course lost their lives during this transit tragedy but tell us what's happening as we speak. certainly i've never seen the exclusion zone being so crowded as it is today at the anniversary there. in ghana verse three of the explosion at the

chernobyl nuclear power plant now the whole area is cordoned off by the security forces because lots of v.i.p.'s are here including the russian president and the cranium president they will be holding a certain ceremony commemorative ceremony in any minute now we're expecting to start very soon but we're already seeing a vigil which was held by the russian orthodox church the head of the russian orthodox church. who came here especially for this solemn ceremony now indeed everything has happening here now inside the exclusion zone just meters away where i'm standing right now from the epicenter of all evil in chernobyl the infamously known pipe of the fourth block of the chernobyl nuclear power plant that is where the explosion happened exactly twenty five years ago around it is is the area called the exclusion zone thirty kilometers in radius and this represents some certain museum or abnormality because you can see so many things which are of normal in the normal world here in this exclusion zone from

a different levels of radiation which are covering the area in certain sports some areas you might see absolutely normal levels of radiation whilst just a kilometer or two away you would see the levels which would not allow you to be there for more than ten to fifteen minutes like the red forest is the area just behind the the nuclear power plant over there now you can see dead towns like pretty like the village of cup archie which was buried. the sound because it was too radioactive to be kept and be on the soil now of course these things are very depressing and this is a completely unique place in that sense it's rated number three world's most extreme holiday destination indeed so in my trips to the zone i've seen lots of things you will not be able to describe them all in two or three minutes report it's worth hours and hours of talking but indeed this place its main purpose as i see it is to remind the world. of how costly

a man's mistake can be. just take a little while to tell us more about some of the people that you've met i mean you have must heard some incredible stories of these people that stayed behind despite the a burst of facts of living in their hometown tell us tell us what you've heard from them. well generally the exclusion zone is not suitable for living it is cordoned off by a fence and you can only get here with the permission most of the people i mean the vast majority of them were evacuated in the first days after the disaster and for instance it isn't absolutely impossible to live in the town of which has levels of radiation which would kill a person in the long run but since still some people managed to return here after the collapse of the soviet union such a such mess was happening in ukraine that they would manage to get inside the exclusion zone without drawing attention obviously they've been living here ever since and i managed to talk to them on many occasions they told me that they were

offered flats and pensions in kiev and other cities and towns across ukraine but they still decided to return to their home land to their houses to their castle and to the place where they grow vegetables and fruits they've been living ever since some of them are of course dying but this is down to their age they certainly certainly have some health problems but this is not related to radiation as they say and they do not fear this radiation and in fact this bravery some may think this is crazy but these people just say that they want to die on the land where they were born now of course this is twenty five years this is a big date and in my report i take a look how things unraveled quarter of a century ago intermodal. twenty five years ago the town of brega it 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 children or build a 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 in nuclear energy all of them live here all of that changed on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment carried out in the wrong hands with. the reactor was almost completely out of control and a quote from to fifth but it could still have been saved and management pushed for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated and more reluctant to 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 an unusually sunny saturday outdoors and was going to i mean my friend we ran 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 had already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear station and. 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 delivered the severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but every people had different fractions of 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 others stayed in the town exposing themselves to believe there was of radiation and many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays people it is described as a dead. nobody lives here and never will again befall the period of many nuclear cells which is twenty thousand years this has not been as clear from up there on the county i'm going through and here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we could begin the pension and found it impossible to supply it like that

in the key of a i haven't got to enter grow every cane ideation yes there is a little here you don't find a place without it anywhere we're not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the words your novel echoed again world war i just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned and now the crisis with the nuclear energy issue through serious debate but the former chairman to 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 should noble and fukushima never happen again let's see reporting from chernobyl and kiev in ukraine. now as alexei mentioned as we mark jordan obols anniversary it's hard not to drop parallels with what we saw unfold in japan just some six weeks ago questions are rising over whether the world has learned lessons on nuclear safety that the term

noble tragedy provided we spoke to journalist james corbett was in osaka japan and he says the handling of the fukushima nuclear power crisis is repeating mistakes twenty five years on. 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 a fever analogy that favors the japanese government we saw in the wake of the true noble the immediate wake of the trouble disaster we saw the 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 tell me information coming out of there and amazingly enough that's pertaining even during this disaster even as the chief cabinet secretary a don't always giving twice daily briefings on what's happening from 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 with the flow of information and to 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 we want to know what you think about it on our website we're asking you what will happen to atomic energy in the near future let's take a look at some of the answers we've been getting almost forty percent think that there is a danger of more serious disasters happening and others are more optimistic on the issue a quarter think atomic energy will expand and actually be good for humanity well a third put their hopes on green and renewable energy now six percent think that nuclear energy these days are numbered and that people's fears will see it phased

out log on to argue dot com and have your say what do you think the future of nuclear energy holds. i want to take a moment and focus on those who experienced the disaster firsthand of course the people that took part in the cleanup the fire fighting and other types of activities that took place in the aftermath of the glass risked their lives to make sure the tragedy didn't spread any further archie spoke to one of. them when i received my older i didn't have a full understanding of what was happening there with very scarce information at the time i was on a business trip in budapest and i was told to leave it with the next. twenty four hours. going to right at the ministry where the chief department heads always take a special flights 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 were taking the same flight to deliver project documents and we went together. with. what you can hear more firsthand from that emergency worker on what he went through as they dealt with the tour noble aftermath throughout the day here on our t.v. we will also be continuing our extensive coverage of the train noble tragedy anniversary live from kiev and sure noble so do stay with us for that also throughout the day will be taking trips to korea it's a ghost town so tune in to our team. this time saw the trajectory it's. crazy five years ago on the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town a preview i was evacuated with three hours. plus now it's most recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to beat up letters at this post office. the stories of the world long gone.

after. reading the diaries of the ghost of our choice. you with all the law from moscow italy has approved the use of its fighter jets in no terms as tribes in libya despite its refusal to join in on the bombings and a nato air strike on monday badly damaged colonel gadhafi his compound in the capital tripoli libyan government forces continued that siege of the rebel held city of misrata where at least ten people have been killed in the shelling it's over a month now since the allied intervention in libya began but there's speculation that some nato. supplied rebels with arms before the uprising parties are going to show that suggestion to military just. so weird to libyan 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 but look at the picture we're looking at the arms obviously a rebel fighter pointing at the cathartic portrait we kind of weapon is this so here we're going to seal. assault rifle and quite likely it. was smuggled into libya after the u.n. sanctions imposed over this country you know some experts. 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 play stick this modification of one fall is quite recent but also it

doesn't make sense for could go theer could purchase of these guns for his own audience if you take a look at the pictures all of the lead in are new to conceal the use mostly kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and high live a level thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes little sense to why you need a weapon which is not a fair trade for for later cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter culture of gun which is produced all over the world a north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see that this plant trees and modification of and fall could have come 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 they were both 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 knowingly connected with al qaeda with arms i mean

what do we have in our hands what we see no nature conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting out of the. care who the rebels are there was no nor any other terrorist organizations in iraq before to arrange your three they can't go into iraq after saddam. as a result of american led invasion. of contras in tunisia in egypt and in libya where the terrorists are. extremely effective that those cells could easily come into power. well meantime international law professor francis boyle says that there is no plan it's intervention long before the un arrest swept through. what we're seeing unfold in libya is a pre existing war plan by nato by the police by the french might be in

there are those who care libya there is no way this amount of military force and firepower could afford put together in such a short period of time in the u.s. because of your plane that was activated the moment there were disturbances in benghazi and there everything now is going on porting the play in which is why i believe that since they have failed to arm the poles our feet these steps far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion without the light from moscow because more insight on our top stories of course on our web site that's our team talk called there's a new life on the inmates america's notorious guantanamo bay prison where it seems that young teenagers and the elderly are considered a threat to national security. and the kidnappers of our russian software tycoons

son are revealed as an elderly couple who want to try to clear their debts with there are some products that are to talk. about us get back to our top story here on our t.v. twenty fifth year anniversary of disaster i these are live pictures right here from well all the presidents of russia and ukraine are expected to take part in a memorial service that they will lay flowers at the memorial in the in the vicinity process of the. and that of course to those who died while dealing with the often loss of the tragedy here the leaders attended a religious ceremony in a church right inside the exclusion zone and it was led by the head of the russian orthodox church patriarch kirill it's not twenty five years ago today that

a reactor at the chernobyl facility right into meltdown and exploded as a result of an experiment that one fatally wrong a bit of it these are live pictures now. i. i i i really see the russian president dmitri medvedev death this is a ukrainian counterpart with the shanta patriarch kirill that. i. think i excuse me down a coke which their intelligence ran out and as they are here inside it's thirty kilometer exclusion zone it will stay contaminated for thousands of. i don't see

a very somber mood here as they commemorate the twenty fifth anniversary of the explosion a meltdown of the china nuclear reactor it still remains the worst nuclear accident in the history. of. that's where the teachers come into your heart so you know let's go to our rushers north caucasus now where security services are continuing a major anti terror sweep following a number of socks in the latest sting in virtual capital grozny police

a very terror attack on the city has been a culture that has to tell us to militants who are trapped by russian security forces in a residential area and after they refused to surrender they were killed. a bit of 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 operation meanwhile in the neighboring group of turn militants who was surrounded by special forces in the mountain area at the end as the leader of a so-called hi. guys here was killed in this operation he was believed to be involved in a number of civilian murder last week two other notorious figures among terrorists

who were killed the first is that our bill really john of who was believed to be personally appointed by a as the leader of the militants in dagestan and later as saudi militant also known as mogami and were killed in special operations and again yet who was believed to be a chief al qaida agent in the region and was also in charge of cash flows of funds that paid for terrorist activities in the north caucasus. that is within a question of the reporting right there let's look at some other headlines from around the world this hour here on r.t. and a bus in southern pakistan has been torched by armed men leaving at least thirteen people to be burned alive and clearing some children it's like if you were on motorbikes fired for apparently spraying tree and setting the vehicle right is it a ride to the hotel it was followed by two bomb attacks in the country's the biggest city of karachi this time targeting buses taking naval employees to work i think four people died at least thirty. we thought to be injured.

rains in colombia show little sign of letting up with ongoing floods and mudslides now claimed at least nineteen lives around two hundred families have been left homeless this rainy season thanks but it's predict the extreme weather will last through june in brazil that least twelve people have been killed in mudslides and floods over the weekend and a state of emergency has been declared in several cities. the leaders of italy and france are discussing their differences over the use of open borders around has been escalating between them since an influx of refugees arrived in italy after fleeing violence in arab states thousands were granted temporary residence in public that are going to freely move through e.u. countries france tried to stop trains carrying immigrants from crossing the border which contravenes free travel that.

i know let's get back to our live transmission here with state officials and many to tell us about the twenty fifth anniversary ceremony in china of what ukraine here in this side the exclusion zone which you the russian president dmitri are there fears or ukrainian counterpart if you can shankar and you're scuse me going to coach there and we have to make some comments that he can we listen in for a moment here and see what they have to say. we. see we're. so. grateful that the leaders are going to say so here we have these live pictures again they're coming from china noble where the presidents are russian and ukrainian taking part in a memorial ceremony it's being held in a church right in the exclusion zone and of the head of that russian orthodox church a patriarch who really is a leading one of the ceremony which is dedicated to those who died as a result of this tragedy of course we're talking about the nuclear disaster the explosion and meltdown that happened twenty five years ago to the day that the

reactor at each one of all power plant exploded exploded as a result of an experiment that went out fatally wrong and remains the worst nuclear accident in history and as you see the people here in attendance they are actually inside the exclusion zone here the thirty kilometer exclusion zone that will stay contaminated thought thousands of years here and obviously a very somber mood among those in attendance paying tribute to all of those who died and i became ill from this radiation it's aster however it must be said that there are still some people who do live in the solution which are in and get along with their farms and they continue to grow vegetables and food but again we're going back to now to our live pictures here what i see from the exclusion zone inside china all these coming to you on t.v. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments here in r.t. do stay with us.

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