it's a day of remembrance for the victims of the noble disaster exactly a quarter of a century on under the safety of a nuclear energy sponsored concern over once again after the recent crisis of japan's fukushima power plant. italy is the latest to join nato bombardment of colonel gadhafi forces in libya and a month into the operation experts speculate it was planned a long time ago including the action of arming the rebels before any under-estimate the. pressure on wiki leaks revelations the picture of britain as a terrorism a breeding ground for commerce are trained in london mosques and the masterminds of

finding safe haven in the country. and the russian ruble one of the strongest currencies globally so far this year may continue strengthening to reach pre-crisis levels versus the dollar probably the end all be more than our business bullets have been around twenty minutes. this is live from moscow now it is exactly twenty five years since the world was shocked and shaken by the worst civil nuclear catastrophe in history the deadly explosion at china mobile power plant spewed a radioactive cloud across several continents prompting long lasting human and environmental consequences. who's in the ukrainian capital kiev are covering all of the commemoration events in the country so a sunny spring day in ukraine just as it was when the disaster unfolded twenty five

years ago. that's right and of all of course change that one twenty three am winning explosion ripped off the roof of reactor number four at the true noble nuclear facility spewing downstream out. to radiation into the air it's estimated some eight and a half million people across ukraine or russia and belarus the three most affected countries were exposed to high levels of radiation now in the immediate aftermath of the accident more than thirty people died but in total the number of deaths presumably and potentially resulting from the accident vary enormously the numbers go from four thousand to nearly one million sue can see it's a tremendous difference and many organs organizations including the world health organization and greenpeace say that the death toll is severely underestimated the highest areas of contamination and were mapped out and closed off hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated and many insisted to refuse and still live there

today will meet some of them a little bit later but the areas the rural areas surrounding the contaminated site make up a portion of land about the size of the u.s. state of rhode island or if we're speaking of europe or the country of austria and just to give you an idea greenpeace claims that the amount of radiation it was two hundred times that of hiroshima and nagasaki put together well commemorations are taking place in that exclusion zone and alexi yourself ski is there. i've never seen the exclusion zone being so crowded as it is today three of the explosion at the chernobyl nuclear power plant now we witnessed a solem ceremony with presidents with me that had video of russia and ukraine here ukrainian counterpart make the article which laying flowers and saying couple of words about how difficult this loss was how difficult the liquidators job was to clear the aftermath of the chernobyl fallout i believe of

a huge amount of searches used from ukraine and russia and putin to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy in the face of such disasters we should be honest it's the government's implication to tell the truth we need to have me back in the. and . he's doing the right thing by just metres away where i'm standing right now from the epicenter of all evolution all 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 and in radius and this represents some certain museum of abnormality because you can see so many things which are of normal for instance it isn't absolutely possible to live in the town of p.p.i. which has levels of radiation which would kill a person in the long run but still some people managed to return here after the collapse of the soviet union just such a 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 david living ever since some of them are of course dying but this is down to their age they 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 on this is a big day in my report that take a look how things unraveled quarter of a century ago in chernobyl. twenty five years ago the town of pretty p.r.t. was a place any soviet person could dream of high salaries great standards of living and

impressive infrastructure i restricted town for the employees of the children or build a nuclear power plant that was regarded as the pride as the pearl of the soviet union it was not only constructed to look like a perfect social city with the people who live here were also the best of the best the best musicians sports man the best professionals the nuclear energy all of them lived here all of that changed 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 in april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved and management pushed for a completion of the experiment personal hesitated and were reluctant to eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result. i mean while the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday our doors one of them were me and my friend we ran away from school to

play in a beach we returned home or called in mud and my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning a school yard and she was shocked as she had already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear station. that shock was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had a lot of the population of this small town in the middle of the night they delivered the severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital where a people had different fractures burns and 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 deadly goes of radiation many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays people it is described as a dead. 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 out there on

a company i'm on here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we can make the pension and found it impossible to survive like that in key if he avocado and i grew everything in creation yes there is a little here but you won't find a place without us 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 another crisis with the nuclear energy issue through serious debate with the former chairman of the liquidators 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 your mobile and fukushima never happen again. reporting from chernobyl and kia in ukraine. well speaking of parallels between her novel and focus the march he spoke to dr robert jacobs

a professor at the here assume at peace institute he says japanese at first to distance the crisis at fukushima from chernobyl are desperate attempts at damage control. the. crisis is not resolved i think that because of the process of the chernobyl anniversary the japanese government has been very interested to try to position the fukushima crisis as a less intense than the trouble crisis but by this period of time the chernobyl crisis had been resolved and there was it was the cleanup of this site but the ongoing incident was result much quicker than this currently in japan and we don't really know what the end game will be we really don't know exactly how this situation will go so it's absolutely impossible to say that it's that it's less than chernobyl. no of course those who were deployed in the cleanup effort in the immediate aftermath of the term noble disaster were putting their lives on the line to prevent the tragedy from spreading even further our teeth spoke to one of them.

everything was difficult tempo's difficult each day we're facing sats results somehow using all our experience to empty towns and villages were the ones that made the most depressing impression on me people evacuated from chernobyl and surrounding areas of the above villages and towns were abandoned that was very dismal. you can watch that full interview get some firsthand descriptions of what it was like to watch this disaster unfold at the half hour every other hour here on our cheek we will continue our extensive coverage of the true noble tragedy anniversary throughout the day don't miss our special report on prepared a town of soviet dreams that turned into a nuclear nightmare stay with us. this time silent for decades. twenty five years ago on the entire paper two thousand population over ukraine you

tell me if you are one of them i can't wait to within three hours. plus now it's lost recently some people started receiving social justice telling them to beat up letters at this post office in reading. the stories of the world long gone. after the challenger. leading the diaries of the ghosts of our choice. with author live from moscow says it will join the allied airstrikes on call after his army in libya despite its earlier refusal to take part in the bombings this comes after. tripoli. it was hit by nato one monday temporarily taking three t.v. channels off yet however fierce fighting continues with government forces still trying to take over the whole city of right now at least ten people killed over the

past twenty four hours it's over a month since the coalition forces started operation libya speculation that nato countries supplied rebels with arms before the uprising i think pass a gesture to a military analyst. so weird to libyan rebels get their arms from to help us answer that question we're joined today by a military analyst. with the russian and caring of scientists thank you for joining us today let's look at the picture we're looking at the arms obviously of rebel fighter pointing at the cathartic portrait we kind of weapon is this so here we can see a build. assault rifle and quite likely each was smuggled into libya after the u.n. sanctions imposed over this country you know speculated that some of those

guns could have karmically there before the sanctions were imposed or even in the early years of production 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 over the gun made of plastic this modification of earth and foil is quite recent also it doesn't make sense for could both pushers of these guns for his own army if you take a look at the pictures all of the libyan army that can see the use mostly kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and higher level thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes no sense to buy and eat a weapon which is not affected for thought and. cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter. gun which is produced all over the world and north korea in china everywhere so surely we can see it at this point

recently if occasion of fall of current from france and recently it's a well known fact that some. libyan rebel fighters have links with al qaida does this not look like an absurd situation if there is 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 they. care who the rebels are there was no al qaeda nor any other terrorist organizations in iraq before to insure all three they came into iraq after saddam or was it as a result of american led invasion what we see now contras in tunisia in egypt and in libya where the terrorists are. extremely effective

that there was a common power. and of course on our website article we take an in-depth look at the humanitarian aid mission is it a move a few intentions or a way to sneak in a ground operation under the terms of. the conflict in libya as well as expert opinion and analysis. as well as the battle of artistic merit you can find this on our web site r.t. dot com there's a giant piece of graffiti scoops the top russian of war many question whether what's essentially vandalism should receive such an offer find out. britain has become a hotbed for terrorism extremist preachers and most of my. freely able to operate there and use has come to light in the latest wiki leak which reveals at least thirty five guantanamo detainees have been trained for terrorism in london mosques the secret files also suggest an alleged al qaeda bomber worked as an informant for

british intelligence parties at least france has more from london. eighteen of the detainees reported lead to of come out of britain were from abroad seventeen of them were either british nationals or at the documents said they were asylum seekers from arab countries who then filtered into the u.k. and received their training here in london now most notably in the documents finsbury park mosque was cited its northern london mosque here that was cited as quote an attack planning and propaganda production base and this was not new to the u.s. military officials who actually drafted these documents this mosque was known as a very powerful training ground for many of these man for quite a while in fact these documents do raise a very big question about where security and government forces were during the time

that london gained such a strong reputation as being such a hotbed for these for these training techniques in fact actually earned the nickname within the star documents as londonistan now the latest declassified documents also suggest that the guantanamo bay detention camp is packed with innocent people surely that's only going to fuel to the frame through for those who want to shut it down. exactly what's at stake here what is being heavily looked at or the detainee assessment briefs now at the white house spokesman has come out and said that the. assessment for instance one that may have been written in two thousand and six and leaked may or may not have the same significance to this government and to this administration now that it did four or five years ago so even if a detainee assessment. that a person may be at low risk the government can reassess that again many of these

people are cited as having been cooks drivers and even farmers who are picked up for questioning and then have to. pay for the white house all. so has come out and said that president barack obama still holds it is very very important to be shutting down this. this prison but at the same time congress is making it very difficult when it comes to taking those prisoners out and trying them on u.s. soil so as more details come out with these d.t. detainee assessment briefs it will be very interesting to see which way this argument goes on whether or not to move the over one hundred seventy people still located at this present out for trial or to keep them there. and let's let's get some more details on these revelations from iraq and simcox a research fellow at the henry junction society so according to these wiki leaks documents british and u.s. officials were aware for at least two decades about preaching extremism and love and books and yet there's been no major crackdown on all the while new revelations

now that many of the people that are innocent and to blame here. but i think you have to. blame fairly on all sides it is true that the british security service and the government didn't do nearly enough to crack down on the very real stream mr market it was the friendship mosque in the late ninety's in the early part of the century that was a pretty huge problem so many of the high profile terrorists and islamic militants passed through and were able to train their very famous terrorist was able to send people off to the likes of afghanistan to train so it really was a huge problem in the same time let's not kid ourselves everybody in a role innocent has previously alluded to guantanamo bay continues to hold some extremely dangerous people for example such as khalid shaikh mohammed who was the nine eleven mastermind you talk about a certain high profile detainees are still

a guantanamo bay but you know there are many that say it's the silent majority but the outspoken minority that are to blame for extremist rhetoric in britain the i mean it's radical extremism really such a reality and a threat in the u.k. it absolutely is and we have to do is just look at the amount of convictions that's been in u.k. courts and the amount of suicide bombers the violent pain in the u.k. carried out suicide bombings abroad the numbers are frightening and i did research looking at the terrorist convictions between one thousand nine hundred nine and two thousand and nine and you're looking at over one hundred twenty people of the past three just in this country alone who have been convicted in british courts but doesn't even begin to include some of those mentioned in the in the ground so you say one hundred twenty people convicted of british courts one hundred twenty out of the millions who live there who are immigrants so it seems like pretty small potatoes. no one's making a nose make any claims that this is the majority of the muslim population and i think we always stress that it's

a very very small minority but of course it only takes a very small minority to create a huge problem and that is what we have in the u.k. and i think generally across western europe so when you say you have a huge problem in the u.k. i mean what can you do when it comes to british authorities bearing down on so-called extremists could that be seen as a violation of the democratic principle of the freedom of speech if these are even if these are moms are preaching hatred. you know because what they do is there is convictions for when people actually go beyond simply freedom of speech and actually incite hatred incite murder there they are. the very specific piece of legislation which people. can be charged and convicted for this isn't a freedom of speech issue it's a way to stop these kind of hate it's calling for the murder of people as they were happily doing the other nine hundred ninety s. and we have made some inroads in with the british government in stopping hate creatures from entering the u.k. although of course more can always be done or let's turn our attention now to these

wiki leaks documents among some of the releases it says that one of the guantanamo bay detainees the b.b.c. news a phone number was found in their mobile phones in some of their personal books also reports of inmates having the numbers are to the al-jazeera news network a seem bizarre that such networks would be sharing a relationship with extremists. it is that he's one of the more bizarre discoveries there so i think there has to be some caution about there because you don't know yet who owned the number if this was just a journalist journalist do you tend to speak to both sides on the conflicts in this kind of war but it is possible of course that it was something more worrying and it was a islamic sympathizer perhaps outcry that improviser it was in touch with dangerous people if that's the case and that's obviously a lot more concerning because the b.b.c. world service is in theory meant to be promoting british interests abroad it's part of soft power all married to the british greyhound and so it's employing people

sympathetic to al qaeda and that's clearly a very big issue robinson talks a research fellow at the henry jackson society thank you thank you. right now let's take a look at some other world news now in yemen opposition leaders have reportedly agreed to a power transfer which will see the current president step down they had previously rejected the initiative as it didn't fulfill their demands for ali abdullah saleh so you go immediately under the new deal which has yet to be formally accepted by either side. will quit office in a month's time the supporters breakthroughs are little to use tensions in the country is over with protesters still investing on the streets. and torched a passenger bus in southwestern pakistan killing at least fifteen most of the good being women or children in separate incidents over something simple production twin bomb blasts killed three as terrorists targeted buses carrying navy personnel last

year more than one hundred fifty people were killed as a result of terrorist bombings in the city. where you are today all the headlines were not so you but now to business news with dmitri. thanks rory hello and welcome to business the ruble will rise to pre-crisis levels against the dollar by the end of the year that's if world prices stay at current levels according to russia's deputy economic minister. fair to me least it's quite possible that we'll see a substantial inflow of capital in the second half of this year in these conditions the wood will become even stronger than we originally expected she's this will lead to a group in imports into the group of some searchers of our economy such as student light industry as well as engineering as. well the greenback now costs just under twenty eight roubles and according to a big part it's expected to lose another fifteen percent versus the russian

currency meanwhile exporters are complaining that the strong rules cutting into their profits they are to meet with nontariff initials in may to discuss an optimal exchange rate. japanese car makers are facing production difficulties in russia due to the shortage of parts after the earthquake and tsunami now because of that nissan is coming it's a russian output by eight percent so yours is expected to follow suit the decreasing its global production by thirty percent meanwhile russia's car sales jumped seventy seven percent in the first quarter year on year fears of a shortage in parts of the japanese models are pushing sales industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as japanese made parts are used in many countries. and russia's cash for clunkers program has entered the final phase with the government issuing the last hundred thousand certificates you will be financed with an additional one hundred eighty million dollars the utilization program started last year has already seen five hundred thousand cars replaced with one

point two billion dollars of state support. while prices take a look at them they are flat this hour investors are concerned that the u.s. fed reserve may see the signal at typing in its monetary policy also weighing on through the reports that the saudi arabians are comfortable with the current world price however tensions in syria and yemen are supporting world prices they're always seeing lights we've barely unchanged and brant up by half a dollar over one hundred twenty. four dollars per barrel. check european stock markets now and we're seeing a positive picture of both in the season for the end of the acts are up half a percent that's as u.b.s. and parmalat are gaining u.b.s. rose over five and a half percent after switzerland's biggest bank goes to profit beach estimates. in a rush we are seeing a mixed picture of the r.t.s. is bad for my things down by half of the cent energy stocks are some of the biggest

losers let's take a look at a more detail gazprom is losing half a percent while it was gaining for out of the whole session gross nafis down by point two percent ross hydro is down by one percent. europe's largest lender has b c is pulling the plug on its retail operations in russia the move comes less than two years after it announced a two hundred million dollars sponsored plan. says the company will instead focus on corporate and investment banking in the country. h.s.b.c. barclays before them because said it will keep corporate investment banking business now this is a different story clearly right these are businesses where the scale of the balance sheet of the game of the mother companies is important and makes sense nobody can argue with that you don't need to have a point of seal on every corner of the high street you need to hear for a few corporate good corporate investment bankers to make the capital there.

again the other company can provide to make it work so clearly this will be these banks have a presence in the russian market they will continue to have it. it is a different different economics. so it's not surprising that they will keep it and they will continue to invest in those here and again the size of the verse will be even if it's large it still will be smaller in absolute terms relative to what is needed to make a big retail retail presence russian flag carrier ford has been rated at twenty of place on the list of most valuable airline brands according to findings from brand finance consultancy and analysts have estimated airport brand value to be worth one billion dollars they also believe the company is currently undervalued as the price of its name is not reflected in its capitalization at the top of the list was germany's move tanzer with a brand value of three point eight billion dollars. and we will be back next hour

with the next one i'd like to say that it.