the. it's twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident commemoration about smoking noble tragedy being held in near the disaster site the accident affected thousands of lives and left huge areas of land of poisoned for centuries also this hour. the sea brain here the military gear we have come all live from here on the fighting in libya reaching a deadlock nato is accused of over reaching the u.n. resolution by supplying the rebels with weapons. to crack down on terror in russia's north caucuses and bring as a result with a suicide attack prevented and or several militants killed in the chechen republic

and pakistan. the top story in business the world may rise to pre-crisis levels against the dollar by the end of the year well prices stay because of that also more details coming to you have this was. just after three pm here in moscow you're with artsy now a quarter of a century ago the world awoke to the worst nuclear accident it had ever seen the explosion that china will send a huge plume of radioactive smoke across much of europe and leaving the land in the thirty kilometer exclusion zone a poison that for thousands of years now seems to me so now it is covering events throughout the day to mark the anniversary of that is our so let's now or cross live to kiev and speak to our to use and he's in our way we will not cross lives where we will catch him with

a little bit later for now he's and he's on our way brings us this report from kiev . late into the night at one twenty three am an explosion blew the roof off reactor number four at the turn noble nuclear facility creating the worst ever nuclear disaster the world has ever seen well the radiation that spewed out of the facility reached way beyond here up 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 it's estimated some eight and a half million people were exposed to high levels of radiation 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 very so enormously let's just take a look at some of these figures the world health organization quotes 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 or from speaking in terms of europe the country of austria well our correspondent alexei yourself is in that exclusion zone 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 most their lives during this transit tragedy 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 during the anniversary 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 now we witness the solon ceremony and right next to your noble nuclear power plant with presidents that meet the media of russia and ukraine he created. saying a couple of words about how difficult this loss was how difficult the liquidators job was to clear the aftermath of the chernobyl fallout 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 the area called the exclusion zone thirty kilometers in radius and this represents some certain museum of abnormality because you can see so many things which are of normal in the normal

world here in this exclusion zone 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 this area just behind the nuclear power plant you could see dead towns like. like the village of quite she which was buried. because it was too radioactive to be kept and be on the soil but says 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 of the authorities 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 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 last . where they were born now of course this is twenty five years on this is a big date in my report that take a look how things unravel a quarter century ago and. twenty five years ago the town of b.p. was a place any soviet person could dream off high salaries great standards of living and impressive infrastructure and restricted sound for the employees of the children or build 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 change from april the twenty six ninety ninety six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment carried out in the wrong hands. of the reactor was almost completely out of control and people from the

fifty's but it could still have been saved to management through completion of an experiment personal hesitated were locked into and eventually couldn't go against the authorities we'll know the result. meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying and then usually sunny saturday outdoors. and we're away from school the pleated beach we returned home on cauldron mud and my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning the school yard and she was shocked as she'd already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear station. shock was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had alarmed the population of this small town in the middle of the night to deliver the severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but i really do have different. views of the radiation most of them had food or fourth degree radiation goodson one of them died instantly the others had to wait twenty four hours to be

evacuated to a hospital in the sky ironically those were. the lucky ones all the state in the town exposing themselves to deadly doses of radiation and many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays people it is described as a debt nobody lives here and never will again period of many nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years and this has not been a steer. order in here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed because he gave me the pension movement and found it impossible to survive like that some key if you have any i haven't tried to emigrate every. yes there is a little here. place without it anywhere we are not in the wake of the fukushima disaster the word chernobyl echoed again worldwide just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned and now the crisis with the nuclear energy issue through serious debate with the former chernobyl liquidators say they are ready to

fly halfway across the planet. just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago all they want is to make sure nightmares like chicken noble and fukushima never happen again. from chernobyl and ukraine. now as alexei mentioned as we mark the anniversary it's hard not to draw 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 governments and it's not of an analogy that favors the japanese government we saw in the wake of the true noble the immediate wake of the chernobyl 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 a free and open access to the site or to the information coming out of there and amazingly enough that's pertaining even during this disaster even as the chief cabinet secretary a don't always get in twice daily briefings on what's happening at fukushima 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 secondhand information from administrative sources so there is an incredible attempt to try to cover up the flow of information and seek to control what kind of information is getting out 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 but others are more optimistic on the issue a quarter think atomic energy will expand and actually be good for humanity was third put their hopes on green and renewable energy now six percent think that nuclear energy is 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 exasperate first hand of course the people that took part in the clean up fire fighting and other types of activities that took place in the aftermath of the blast risked their lives to make sure the tragedy didn't spread any further parties to want to win or save my old i didn't

have a full understanding of what was happening the. with very scarce information by the time i was on a business trip in budapest and i was told to leave it within the next twenty four hours for the future most going to arrive at the ministry where the chief department head told me to take a special flight in two hours from to figure out what happens once you get there so i went to the airport immediately there i met my friends and colleagues design engineers who had taken the same flight to deliver project documents and we went together so you can hear more firsthand from that emergency worker on what he went through as they dealt with the trauma noble aftermath throughout the day here on our team 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 riyadh a ghost town so tune in to our team. this time side.

five years ago retired eight thousand population over the radio sound of radio for the microwave with three hours. now it was recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to pick up letters at the box office in. the stories of. the. diaries of those two. choices. this is r.t. live from moscow italy has approved the use of its fighter jets and nato's s. trucks despite its earlier refusal to join in on the bombings and after a strike on monday badly damaged cut off about his compound in the capital tripoli libyan government forces continue to see each of the rebel held city of misrata or

at least ten people have been killed each other it's over a month now since the allied intervention. again there's speculation that some nato countries supplied rebels with arms before the uprising. suggestion to a military just. so we're doing the rebels get their arms front 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 are pointing out because i think we kind of weapon is this so here we're going to see you bill german. 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 a death 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 would if occasion of and foil is quite recent but also it doesn't make sense for could both pushers of these guns for his own idea if we take a look at the pictures or leave the larger to conceal the use mostly kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and higher live a little thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes little sense to buy. needs a weapon which is made a fair trade for a cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter cartridge gun which is produced all over the world and north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see it at this point recently if occasion of

fall could have come from france and quite recently. no in fact that some of the libyan rebel fighters have links with al qaeda and they know about the fact that the rebel thought that 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 need to conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting out of their power. here who the rebels are there was not. any other terrorist organizations in iraq before to arrange your three they came into iraq after saddam of course he was as a result of american led invasion what we see now in a matter of contras in tunisia in egypt and in libya where the terrorists

are. extremely effective that those cells could easily come in. meantime international law professor francis boyle says that nato planned its intervention long before the unrest spread through and. what we're seeing unfold in libya is a pre existing war plan by nato or by the british by the french and i view mirror. would care there is no way this sort of military force and firepower could have pulled together in such a short period of time and less there was your point there was the moment more disturbances in benghazi and then everything now is going according to plan which is why i believe since they failed to do polls. with the steps. the next stage will be moving into

a ground invasion and. corso we've got more insight on the top stories find out the website polity dot com there you'll also find a new light on the inmates of america's notorious one coming up a prison where it seems that young teenagers on the elderly are considered a threat to national security. i think about the suppression of software tycoons sunday revealed as an elderly couple who were just trying to clear the dead with their own some kind of more fun. and now we turn our attention to russia's and north caucasus where security services are continuing a major and she terrorists we're following a number of deadly attacks and the latest sting in the chechen capital grozny

police say they thwarted a terror attack on the city medina caution of right now as details on this. two militants were trapped by russian security forces in a residential area and after they refused to surround they were 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 belts were found at the scene of the operation meanwhile in the neighboring there is a group of time militants was surrounded by special forces in the mountain area and as the leader of the so-called hi. guys here was killed in this operation he was believed to be involved in a number of civilian murders last week two are that in the poorest figures among

terrorists who were killed first is that are people who was believed to be personally appointed by doku umarov as the leader of militants in dagestan and later has saudi militant also known as mogae were killed in special operations who was believed to be a chief al qaida agent in the region and was also in charge of the cash flows of funds that paid for terrorist activities in the north caucasus. those are russian security forces deal the new blow to terrorists and we bring you extensive coverage of the latest operations on air and on line you can keep across so those developments any time find background information and also footage filmed in the immediate aftermath of the sting operations it's all working for you right now on our web site out of artsy dot com. not as good as another headlines from around the world this hour a bus in southern pakistan has been torched by armed men leaving at least thirteen

people to be burned alive in the clothing children who tackled him on motorbikes opened fire before probably very true and setting the vehicle alight a sort of riot or a 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 died at least thirty are thought to be injured. and rancho rains in colombia show little sign of letting up with ongoing floods and mudslides now having claimed ninety lives around two hundred families have been left homeless this rainy season and experts predict the extreme weather will last through to june in a brazil meantime at least twelve people have been killed in mudslides and floods over the weekend a state of emergency has been declared in several cities. leaders of italy and france are discussing their differences over the e.u. open borders around has been escalating between them since an influx of refugees

arrive in italy after fleeing violence in arab states thousands are granted as temporary resident permits allowing them to travel freely through e.u. countries france try to stop trains carrying immigrants from crossing the border which contravenes the visa free travel agreement. exactly crackdown on protesters in syria our security forces reportedly claimed another five lives times were used by the government's troops in an effort to curb the uprising in a southern city i think government demonstrations have intensified in syria even a fifty year old emergency law has been lifted officials are neighboring jordan so you syria has to close the border to prevent people from moving. out of the business news update with coverage. oh and welcome to business thanks for joining me this hour and we will rise to

pre-crisis levels levels against the dollar by the end of the year that if oil prices stay at current levels according to russia's deputy economic minister the greenback now cost just under twenty eight roubles and is expected to lose another fifteen percent exporters are complaining that the strong ruble is cutting into their profits they had to meet with military officials in may to discuss an optimal exchange rate. russia seeing a continued rally in mergers and acquisitions the country's m n a market almost doubled last year and went on to prove in the first quarter of two thousand and eleven the growth is still mostly driven by domestic deals but there's been a significant increase in the share foreign companies taking part of the largest i'm joined by paul mccarthy a partner at the national service says k.p. n.j. russia hello sean thanks for. coming to the program now as i was saying the share of evan a deals with foreign companies jump forty seven percent of the first quarter compared to fourteen percent last year were why well i think two great

extent it has a lot to do with timing. generally a lot of the deals that we've seen coming forth have had long gestation periods we're talking about natural resources deals. consumer transactions and certainly you know the fields in telecom with com going going outside i think you know what we would expect is that by the end of the year that those percentages would level out so you'll be seeing roughly fifteen to twenty percent overall in bone investment and which sectors of the economy are seeing the most significant growth and say that any activity this year but i think you know up to this point we've seen lots of activity in the natural resource sector essentially companies that are looking for raw materials or looking to develop some of the world materials inside of russia and also in consumer markets where we see growth significantly ahead of g.d.p. if g.d.p. four percent russian food retail for instance is growing at ten percent year on

year in terms of real growth and have you heard or you can specify any significant deals in the pipelines well i think you know in terms of you know i wouldn't want to name names but i think you know it's fair to expect a number of transactions in the retail sector particularly in non-food retail as well as opportunities in. agriculture and of course natural resources i think will be can continue to be a hot sector including precious much medals i think you know be interested in gold right now is substantial and what do you expect the begin of the russian a.t.t. to pre-crisis that's important it's difficult because it's the exactly one but i think you know by and large we're targeting two thousand pro perhaps out the mystic way i think we're still seeing you know the market is somewhat fragile but we're encouraged because of the broad but investor activity certainly within the mid-market feels between thirty million and five hundred million we see

a lot of interest not only from europe places like the u.s. but also in territories that previously haven't been as japan and certainly the middle east so we're seeing foreign investment into the country say they're not driving they're not driven away by the crisis to situation they're still interested in the russian economy and investing into russia and why they dealing with big companies ali but i think you know it's certainly the growth prospects for russia are significant and i think they're in underpins the interest in the market the reason why there is sort of a preference towards better companies is generally with a bigger company you have better operational management capabilities certainly you get scale and access to the market but also you have. perhaps enhanced transparency in visibility confidence in future earnings ok thank you sean mcarthur thanks very much for coming to the program thank you and i hope prices are flat this hour investors are concerned that the u.s.

federal reserve may signal a tightening in its monetary policy also weighing on proof are reports that saudi arabia is comfortable with the current price however tensions in syria and yemen are supporting the world like sweet is concentrating at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel while brant crude is at around one hundred and almost twenty four dollars a barrel now let's check on the markets here's your oprah stock markets are higher . after a rally in u.b.s. and parmalat u.b.s. rose over five and a half percent after switzerland's biggest bank posted profit investments part of that jumped eleven percent in milan after a group like tao is said it will bid the rest of at least biggest dairy company and offer valued four point nine billion dollars but some mining stocks are pulling back a foot see we see rango research off one half percent as of august a losing one point four percent. here in russia markets are trading mix this hour the artist has opened the eyes it's trading in the red energy stocks have reversed from thirty losses on both the boys says let's take

a look at something next move first gazprom is now trading in the bag so it's crossing you have to take a beating his way by reports the government is planning to abolish tax breaks from the fields eight about in siberia tecno have down for a second day after it reported an eleven percent drop in net profit last year bucking the trend is look all that south point three percent of them isaacs and in the metal sector investors are waiting for the results of the news gold is expected to report a seventy five percent increase in profits for the second half of last year. so we have time for in this business update like to join us in less than one hour from one.

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