as you will fix the ski lift in a sea of this column if you visit. with r.t. a live from moscow press now a half past the hour and a memorial events are underway to twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident we're looking at live pictures right now from inside the exclusion zone after chernobyl of course it was the explosion of the chernobyl power plant of some radiation across many parts of europe it's being remembered now in some of the most affected areas in ukraine again and live pictures here on our t.v. as the immoral service continues inside these regions are there chernobyl twenty five years to the day now that radiation disaster and i did nato nations are being

accused of libya's rebels even before the uprising began it all fighting sort of reaching a deadlock that's for the people says continues what may see to the city of misrata while nato airstrikes talk of the colonel's compound in tripoli. and russian security forces say they've prevented a suicide attack and killed several militants in a terror crackdown in the north caucuses some of those killed over live to be linked to russia's most wanted terrorist group of. well all of the anniversary of the chernobyl tragedy she talks to a member of a cleanup crew who was deployed to the disaster stunned mediately after the blast.

mr thrive thank you for being with us for they seem to be spicy banks revising let's just cut off that was not did you know what you were going to face when you received orders to go to noble. here where your father when i received my order i did have a full understanding of what was happening there with very scarce information the other time i was on a business trip in budapest and i was told to leave it with the next twenty four hours for food to moscow and arrived at the ministry where the chief department head told me take a special flight from the book over airfield in two hours as you figure out what happens once you get there a lot 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 we went together with little of the. pilots and what information did you have on the way there thongs collegial and foremost i knew that an explosion happened the site was

in ruins that's about it. did you realize it was a nuclear catastrophe i certainly thought it was. according to the state area during the first six months following the accident with approximately three hundred thousand people worked in the area of the chernobyl nuclear power station what was the most difficult challenge for as one of the leaders. everything was difficult tempo was difficult each day we're facing new chance to have to resolve somehow using all our experience the empty towns and villages were the ones that made the most depressing impression on me people were evacuated from chernobyl as surrounding areas of the above villages and towns were abandoned that was very dismal it wasn't even the fact is not crossing the sites in an armored vehicle then we were taking measures in relieving the after effects of flew over all those ruins in a helicopter i was also impressed by that because i as a director and chief engineer of the same kind of energy unit from scratch at

simulates power station from up to space in the entire process it was all done in front of my very own eyes i see it destroyed like that was very difficult but our pete abandoned towns made the most dismal impression. so. i want you three quarters of workers who dug out a one hundred fifty meter tunnel under the reactor and died before turning forty six hundred dollars something toxic and brigades were exposed to strong radiation were those human sacrifices really necessary. i'm not familiar with the statistics as for helicopter pilots and miners their aspersion was within the limits for limits of the urgency standards of the time some were supposed more than others who were trying to stay within limits and avoid overexposure when miners were digging the tunnel i visited myself in the tunnel itself the background radiation was natural but strong exposure was outside with the mind cause of taking up one load together with

a camel troops that were bought for such we tend to deactivate eternals or face to reduce irritation as for justify any sacrifices were not justified we were doing our utmost to keep the number of victims as low as possible in those conditions or were you apprehensive about another possible explosion the theory of yes later a poorly maybe did have such apprehension by the way the tunnel that you mentioned was intended to prevent further explosions from that without cooling the remaining nuclear fuel in the reactors could heat up and cause an uncontrollable chain reaction that it will melt the foundation plate of the reactors main body and go down to the ground therefore the decision was made to dig that tunnel urgently and just i was a cooling system under the foundation plate study of us what is to knoebels legacy for some people like reasons academicians legacy of who committed suicide later couldn't live with it. as an atomic energy professional as primarily

very concerned for the subject of the ets omic energy i didn't hate my whole life to it and i have always believed as a do now it's a rather prominent and necessary way of producing electrical power. a proper working conditions is a clean energy production in terms of its impact on environment and mankind therefore is worried that talk energy will be wound down thusly returned to coal fergus's stations in every building and so on the way you used to be in now if you pay fifty six these. kind of a presence that much that's when the chernobyl catastrophe happened the information on the explosion was publicized late which resulted the loss of many lives pulls a static really the same thing happened painful. they worked very hard to conceal data on the explosion and to keep this from becoming public can we now believe nuclear experts more than and you know everything about africa shima today with one off. under such circumstances it is impossible to know everything up

to the every tiny detail and we should believe the information we get those responsible for this information may also be silly partially for the work why can three disclose all the facts and make them public and for more to inform us of facts sometimes it's possible to present them in a way that will so panic among the population and that is fraught with harder consequences only accident itself as why this information should be truthful but well wait this presentation should be proportionate to real actions electret circumstances. how can you say that at the moment to pass taken all the adequate measures it's hard for me to judge just like you i get all the news from the t.v. in the first days following the tsunami great destruction was caused and judging from the news secondary facilities responsible for the stations operation had been damaged those were energy supply units in the first place and the reactor itself

remained undamaged by the tsunami at that moment it was necessary to post all the efforts of resuming energy supplies to the reactors called a system of fortunately that wasn't done on time and the whole process ok protracted and delayed i think that only ten days after the tsunami the japanese started supplying water cooling system from hoses of tar hose barrels that was ineffective and even harmful energy of supply and restoring the cooling systems normal operation was a priority task for the liquidators a forty day last time that the damage would have gone further and steam discharges and that would have been the end of it three matheson in the united states but since the reactors active zone was left without cooling temperatures kept rising as a result a few melt down occurred it was followed by her drawers of this glass at the pressurize ation of the reactors containment and consequently discharges not only papers or gases radioactive materials but elements of nuclear fuel into the

atmosphere. disaster has been followed by a barrage of criticism towards nuclear energy should we continue developing eight or better to give it up nuclear energy to be one hundred percent safe and no human activity can be absolutely safe. any kind of activity including political and public activities in any society and whatever people do should be considered from the point of view safety science and technology progresses machines become more dance and complicated we develop new forms of energy which used to be unknown and unclear in the past. found scientific research a measure is in the stages of development design and construction we can live with it and we should trust it but. looking back what we have done differently into normal twenty five years ago which a woman. could have been done differently it's hard for me to say today after

twenty five years that i think that everything that was done at that time was right and rational it was unnecessary to attract so many he resorted to the sas the area we could have done the job with fewer people but the time we had known what to do and how to do it some decisions of the state commission to carry out certain works which later turned out to be unnecessary were also superfluous you just mentioned a tunnel for miners but those were attempts to secure our selves in worse troubles and they were justified. the people who did that wrote they did a very big job as wise experts began understanding the degree of hazard just the work they were carried out at the chernobyl nuclear power station until late june one thousand eight hundred six and radioactive background has been high at the entire site within a range of five kilometers it's very difficult to approach a site without changing transport but in june when experts had obtained clarity with regard to what was left in the damaged reactor and how they should act the

solution was simple difficult for simple helicopters dropping eight hundred cubic meters of seizing agents on the damage reactor for seventy two hours that fixed the radioactive dust and prevent it from rising from the reactor along a ventilation like of those one hundred fifty meters away natural circulation pulled off all that dust and dispersed it through the neighborhood and actually we were breathing in that dust and we had to suppress all that when the operation was completed the radioactive level at the entire facility dropped four hundred times that's not only help the liquidates to approach the station ok out fiat's of haitian a few expenses also enabled them to climb on the damaged reactors roof to clear away the radioactive discharges on the top from the. pulse points the situation in chernobyl today i've heard the containment spills over the fourth damage power unit is gradually deteriorating what's going on there was the young the first of all

this consing engineering observation overstated this containment so since his happiness through parts of the four viewed it a measure to contain its destruction. this observation is constant as far as i know there hasn't been any significant struction of the containment since look at any construction facility there are cities just pockets there's nothing catastrophic second there are some radioactive discharges they can easily be measured in the next of these charges are also under control but i think there's a threat to the containment is deteriorating it was built at a very high engineering level it has thick walls with a high degree of safety overhead also built more over walls and overhead covers were built around the damage react to unit while concrete was pumped inside the reactor helicopters dropped metal fatigue inside the reactor pumps pumped him liquid concrete facts they filled everything there was some minor cavities with says he left only no liquid a. hundred thousand cubic metres of concrete but

compared to the construction the reaction of the first tile unit required four hundred twenty thousand cubic metres of concrete almost half that amount was pumped into the reactor and that concrete is resting inside the reactor and it's a vision of form. thank you very much for they seem to me you're welcome. thank. you for all t. have the case. i pod touch from the top still. life on the good. video on demand maltese minefield cost an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the.

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market finance scandal why not what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to congress report on r.g.p. . the headlights are on our t.v. and that memorial events are underway it's about twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident the explosion of the power power center radiation across many parts of europe and is being remembered in some of the most affected areas in ukraine russia i know but of course. nato nations are being accused of being in libya's rebels even before the uprising meanwhile fighting screeching deadlock that's coffee forces continue to lay siege to the city of misrata from a restaurant as talk of the colonel's compound in tripoli. by the russian security forces say they've prevented a suicide attack and have killed several militants etc the crackdown in the north

says some of those killed are believed to be linked to russia's most wanted terrorist who. timed off the sports with outer. i don't know that thanks for watching the stores and these are the headlines. off the mark brazil legend roberto carlos gets his first goal in russia as angie came a point against in our. class planning an upset underdog shall here prepared to face mighty man united in the champions league sammy five. and so she wins winning pick chasing unveiled a livery to live long in the men's. first full brazil fullback roberto carlos is the goal in the russian premier league he scored from the spot to angie during that see two draw with an hour by the thirty eight year old joining the side from

corinthians in the summer showing his worth at the back ranji nearly stages of last night's game but it wasn't until the second half the match really came to life in arms it was time jobs was given a second gallery for handballing an engine free kick he climbed aboard it is head for the reply shows the ref got it right and center of could face a lengthy ban after arguing it officials as he walked down the tunnel. anyway up stepped roberto carlos the slot in his first over angie and eighty seventh of his long career but that lead only lasted five minutes up at the other end the court in show good control before finding the bottom corner to make it one one. blow angie responded and were getting his tell me end of across as the nominee file to clear. but just as angie thought they had all three points the nama got themselves a penalty after on the reversion in its power in the box. and seeing of age banged

it home with just two minutes left angie stacy on the nama and nine and still without a manager after me to write because of age was sacked last week by that situation. trying to move good coach policeman guard on the left there is considering an offer of three million euros a year to coach the muscovites have originally targeted former buying coach the van holland it says his wage demands of six million euros a season is just too high. well the needs are back on top of the league after their win over christmas of yet of at the weekend will spot that moscow moved off the bottom of the only their second win in six games let's now look back at the rest of the action from game week six it is the old school of. live

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i. now tonight it is the first semifinal in the champions league manchester united travel to german side shell for the first leg but will be without their top scorer dimitar berbatov he has a growing strain and did not take part in the training session of elton's arena so wayne rooney and how he handles is set to leave the line for united who are the favorites that will be the twelfth time they've played in the semifinal of the tone so plenty of experience underlined by the fact their keeper edwin van is are will be playing in the last four per record thirteenth time italia any match by former chelsea midfielder cloudmark alain. i think the present group. of people of experience know in europe. and i think it's where we should be i think that the expectation from my point of years old and high in regard to the european scene

because. you do get envious of other clubs record in europe and we try to. going to part it through a thought you know it's a priority i want to. buy your munitions. were pill every we need to. progress quick way to get to that where war. no you just. enjoying it sort of reduce your so it's nice for you when you know you're fourteen in a winning team and if you don't know a lot lately. you can keep working on doing other stuff circle games if you have to . issue a decision in contrast shellac and making their first appearance in a european cup semi final they have struggled domestically this season and are in the bunds league however a new coach has revived their fortunes and they impressively not that defending champions into milan seven three on aggregate in the previous round. isn't the most

important thing is that we concentrate on our own guy and we're focused on the way we're supposed to play if you look at the game against him we were one behind after forty five seconds it didn't look good in the team dealt with in a fantastic manner and that's what it's all about this level. and we're on a great haste barcelona in the other semifinal on wednesday now back in england manchester city have improved their chances of playing in next season's champions league one they'll win for them at blackburn last night cementing fourth spot in the premier league was in the. only goal his first city since his fourteen million dollar move from wolves and that gives his side a four point cushion over tottenham who are in fifth and also laughed about last champions league spot as for blackburn they only stay out of the relegation zone on goal difference but tonight i think up find this second bottom wolves in the middle and darby the potters themselves are five points above the relegation zone while bulls have the worst away record in the top flight would see them

a bit dropped. one more point to and through two of the. sure it'll be really. dogmatic about who it is because he really wants me to ruin this for you in the last two games. and that's you know because i don't know what's going to be. a little forgivable. i know nobody else knows it was going to be. let's get the latest now from the first round of the n.b.a. playoffs where the memphis grizzlies have gone three one up in their best of seven series against san antonio led by my colleagues fifty points they want a hundred four points to eighty eight and again in the fourth i was wear them out break said defeat to the portland trail blazers their ninety three eighty two in dallas to leave seems three to cloud denver live to fight another day they pulled back their series two three one against oklahoma with one hundred forty one hundred one victory a memorable one to the denver. he's got

a career high twenty seven points. very good swear you know the emotional emotion of all you know is the. you know origin want to come out and just very strong and that's what we do. the man in charge of organizing last year's commonwealth games is doing court today over claims of corruption shirish kalmadi which the face of the games organizing committee and is alleged to have favored a swiss company buying equipment for timing and scoring events spending thirty one million dollars in government money when he could have been bought elsewhere for much less comedies the rest comes a month after two other officials of the organizing committee were held not. were accused of financial. cost overruns saw the games budget jumped from four hundred twelve million dollars to fifteen billion dollars meaning government regrets what has happened. i mean person who heads the indian olympic something. being caught

and being talked to people got up from the crowd it was unfortunate and i think it and what has happened is something that i feel is not. funny organizers of the sochi winter olympics have revealed the design they hope will live long in the memory it's a mix of cultural images from russia that will be used to brand events in venues in twenty fourteen as a concept is based on a traditional patchwork quilt i was the brainchild of sports leisure group bus goes past and is a combination of sixteen designs it can be seen in the background there representing the most famous russian crafts along with some of the different cultures traditions and ethnic groups that make up modern russia. was in the russian will soon celebrate the beginning of the one thousand a countdown until the games it won't be a simple celebration we are planning an all russian marathon of going to be the

visual design of the games has to appeal to every russian and then some were thinking about what it should look like we realized it had to stem from tradition you have a novel side to much. so that's the sport that's how it's looking so far today we've got a whether he's next. me

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