cubic. foot you know. so many motels you're going to kill deer a boutique hotel turns. in serbia loot is available in most complete regency they are going to. remember this for the victims of the disaster exactly a quarter of a century on the safety of nuclear energy spawns concern though once again after the recent crisis of japan's of power plant. italy is the latest to join the nato bombardment of colonel gadhafi forces in libya and a month into the operation now experts speculate it was planned long ago including arming the rebels and before any underestimate how. pressure wiki leaks revelations to picture britain as a terrorism breeding ground with the promise of trained in london mosques and the masterminds finding safe haven in the country.

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow it is exactly twenty five years since the world was shocked and shaken by the worst civil nuclear catastrophe in history a deadly explosion of the power plant spewed a radioactive cloud across several continents prompting long lasting human and environmental consequences. who's in the ukrainian capital kiev is covering commemoration of ants right there in the country. all of course change that one twenty three am when an explosion ripped off the roof of reactor number four at the true noble nuclear facility spewing vast amounts of radiation into the air it's estimated some eight and a half million people across ukraine 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 for speaking of europe of 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. but never see the exclusion zone being so crowded as it is today during the anniversary of the explosion at the chernobyl nuclear power plant now we witnessed the solon ceremony with presidents with the middle russia and the ukraine here the korean counterpart for the article which laying flowers and and 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. of a huge amount of citizens from ukraine and russia. put in to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy and if we should should we should be it's the government so gratian to people truth we need would need to go back there and the government is doing the right thing just meters away where i'm standing right now from the

epicenter of all evil and should all be 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 the 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 impossible to live in the town of prepared which has levels of radiation which would kill a person in the long run but still some people manage 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 have a 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 date and in my report i take a look at how things unraveled quarter of a century ago in chernobyl. twenty five years ago the town of b.p.x. 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 chernobyl nuclear power plant believe 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 in april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved the management pushed for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated and were reluctant to but eventually could and you know it is 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 with me and my friend we were away from school the polluted beach we returned home or called in mud and my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning the school yard and she was shocked as she'd already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear station. that shock was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had alarmed the population of the 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 burns 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 the dogs as of radiation and many die or suffer greatly ation sickness afterwords nowadays peter is described as a dead. nobody lives here and never will again the fallout period of many nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years this has not been a steerer market on the order and here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we began floods and the pension letter found it impossible to supply. here haven't come true and a grow every clean creation yes there is a little here but you don't find the place without it anywhere we are not in the wake of the fukushima disaster the words your noble echoed again world wide just

about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned and now the crisis with the nuclear energy issue through a serious debate with the former chernobyl liquidators say they are ready to fly halfway across the planet to japan just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago over the want is to make sure nightmares like your mobile and fukushima never happen again. reporting from chernobyl and kiev in ukraine well speaking of parallels between turn noble and focus the march he spoke to dr robert jacobs a professor at the seriously my peace institute says japanese efforts 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 less intense than the trouble crisis but by this period of time

the chernobyl crisis had been resolved and there was there was the cleanup of this site but the ongoing incidents of course 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 there it's less than sure noble now of course those who were deployed in the cleanup effort in the immediate aftermath of the turn noble disaster. putting their lives on the line to prevent the tragedy from spreading even further our teeth spoke to one of them. everything was difficult it would tempos difficult each day we were facing new tom sad to resolve somehow using all our experience to empty towns and villages were the ones that made the most depressing impression of many people evacuated from chernobyl and surrounding areas of the villages and towns were abandoned that was very dismal you can watch that full interview get some

firsthand i describe sense of what it was like to watch this disaster unfold at the half hour every other hour here on our t.v. we will continue our extensive coverage of the trial 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. preaching five years ago on the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town pretty hard for them i can't wait to with this three hours. plus now it was to be recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to break up letters at this post office in virginia. the stories of the world long gone. have to be chosen.

leaving the diaries of the ghosts of our choice. it without a lie from moscow now italy says it will join the allied airstrikes on colonel gadhafi as army in libya this white its refusal to take part in the bombings this comes after kid after his compound in tripoli was hit by nato on monday temporarily taking three t.v. channels off the air however fierce fighting continues with government forces still trying to take over the rebel held city of misrata at least ten people were killed in the past twenty four hours and it's over a month since the coalition forces started the operation in libya but there is speculation that certain nato countries supplied the rebels with arms before the uprising. puts that question to a military analyst. so we're doing b. and rebels get their arms from to help us answer that question we're joined today by a military analyst. with the russian academy of sciences 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 ortrud we kind of weapon is this so here we can see a building of. assault rifle and quite likely it. 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 common to leave before dissensions were in paul's story even in the early years of could geithner 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 a lot of the gun made of plastic but if inflation of fall is quite recent but also it doesn't make sense for could earth here to purchase of these guns for

his own army if we take a look at the pictures of the libyan army to conceal the use mostly kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and highly live very liberal thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes those sense of why you need to weapon which is not a fair trade for and for nature cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter. gun which is produced all over the world the north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see it at this point recently if occasion a fifth and fall could have come from france and quite recently it's a well known fact that some of the libyan rebel fighters have links with al qaeda does this not look like an absurd situation that they're supplying. people who are knowingly connected with al qaeda with arms i mean what do we have an arrogance what we see no need to conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting khadafi out of their power they don't actually care who the rebels are

there was no al-qaeda nor any other terrorist organisations in iraq before to ensure three they can't go into iraq after saddam. as a result of american led invasion what we see now a matter of contras in tunisia in egypt and in libya where al qaeda terrorists are. extremely effective that those cells could easily come into play. russia says it will support the next un resolution on libya but only if it calls on both sides of the conflict to. start negotiations there's been no such rhetoric coming from the coalition forces who has international law professor francis boyle says already have something different. only what we're seeing unfold here in libya is a pre existing war ploy by nato by the british by the french by the

americans who will tear libya there is no way this amount of military force and higher power could have pulled put together in such a short period of time and less the will your client was activated the moment there were just urban says they're not in benghazi and then everything now is going according to plan which is why i believe since they had failed to our glucose could our feet which is steps are sold far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion. on our web site r.t. dot com we take an in-depth look at the e.u. plan a humanitarian aid mission is it a move of pure intentions or a way to sneak a ground operation in under the covers it all the latest developments on the conflict in libya as well as expert opinion and analysis. also on the web site

you'll find other possible battle of artistic merit is a giant piece of pretty nice hoops a top russian war but many question whether it's essentially vandalism should receive such an honor and after that r.t.e. dot com. britain has become a hotbed for terrorism with extremist preachers and masterminds freely able to operate that the news has come to light in the latest wiki leak which reveals at least thirty five hundred detainees who 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 that led the french reports from london. eighteen of the detainees reported to have 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. park

mosque was cited its northern london mosque here that was cited as quote an attack planning and propaganda for auction and this was not new to the u.s. military officials who actually drafted these documents this mosque was known as a powerful training ground for many of these men are 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 gave such a strong reputation as being such a hotbed for these for these training techniques in fact actually earn of the nickname within these doc documents as london a stamp so it does raise a lot of questions about where security and government forces were in quelling this reputation and stopping these men from filtering into the u.k. and then out into terrorist hotbeds around the world now the latest classified

documents also suggest that the guantanamo bay detention camp is packed with innocent people surely that's only going to a fuel to the stranger for those who want to shut it down. exactly what's at stake here of what is being heavily looked at or the detainee assessment graves now with the white house spokesman has come out and said that the detainee is assessment briefs for instance one that may have been written in two thousand and six and leaks 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 brings us to the person maybe at low risk the government. reassess that again many of these people are cited as having great cooks drivers and even farmers who are picked up for questioning and then kept on time all day at the white house also has come out and said that president barack obama still holds it is very very important to be shutting down this. this president 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 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 thinking from their. record but some call it was a research fellow with the kind of actions of some of the number of radical islamists coming out of the u.k. is reaching a critical point. you need to stop these kind of creatures calling for the murder of people as they were happily doing the other nine hundred ninety s. and we have made some inroads in may for british government and stuffing hate preachers from entering the u.k. of course more can always be don't look at the amount of convictions that's been in u.k. courts and the amounts of suicide bombers that i would put in in the u.k.

carried out suicide bombings abroad the numbers are frightening and i did research looking at the terrorist conviction in this country ninety ninety nine in two thousand and nine and you're looking over one hundred twenty people go through just in this country alone who have been convicted in british courts doesn't even begin to include some of those mentioned in the in the ground files. talk about twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you without so you just check out some other headlines now from around the world in relief in yemen opposition leaders have reportedly agreed to a power transfer plan which will see the current president step down a previously rejected the initiative president for feel better months for ali abdullah saleh to go immediately under the new deal which has yet to be formally accepted by either side so they will quit office in a month's time i suppose breakthrough has done little to ease the tensions in the country go with protesters still massing on the streets. the men have attacked and torched

a passenger bus in southwestern pakistan killing at least fifteen most of the dead were women or children in a separate incidents in the southern city of karachi twin blasts killed three as terrorists targeted buses carrying a navy personnel last year more than one hundred fifty people were killed as a result of terrorist bombings in the city. now five people have been killed in severe storms that pummeled the u.s. state of arkansas or the weather sport a tornado that destroyed dozens of houses and left nearly seventy thousand without electricity just a week ago the east coast was hit by a series of devastating twisters which were the strongest seen in two decades the storms have claimed at least fifty lives so far with hundreds injured and i got today were all the headlines here on out so you know let's get the latest the business up later this hour with dimitri.

thank you very much alone welcome to business arts the ruble will rise to pre-crisis levels against the dollar by the end of the year that's the oil prices stay at current levels according to russia's deputy economic minister under you catch. it can be used it's quite possible that we'll see a substantial inflow of capital in the second half of this year in these conditions the ruble will become even stronger than we originally expected this will lead to a group of new poor it's in hindering the group of some searchers of our economy such as food and light industry as well as engineering. well the greenback now costs just under twenty eight roubles and according to reports it's expected to lose another fifteen percent versus the russian currency meanwhile exporters are complaining that the strong ruble is cutting into their profits they had to meet with monetary officials in may to discuss an optimal exchange rate japanese carmakers are facing production difficulties in russia due to

a shortage of parts after the earthquake and tsunami now because of that nissan is cutting its russian output by eight percent feared is expected to follow suit after decreasing its global production by thirty percent meanwhile russia's car sales jumped seventy seven percent in the first quarter fears of a shortage and popular japanese models are actually pushing sales higher industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as japanese made parts are used in many car brands. and russia's cash for clunkers program has entered its final phase with the government issuing the last hundred thousand certificates it 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 worth of state support. so the market some we start with commodities oil prices this take a look at their negative right now for nice sweet and slightly positive for brant

this is as investors are concerned that the u.s. fed reserve may signal a tightening in its monetary policy also weighing in crude prices thought reports that saudi arabia is uncomfortable with the current levels of the price however tensions in syria and yemen are supporting world light sweet is that one hundred twelve dollars per barrel barely changed and brant is that more than a one hundred twenty four dollars per barrel. and gold did you record the previous session but it's now below fifteen hundred dollars per choice ounce down point seven percent silver is down even more it's more volatile than vote down almost four percent at forty five dollars fifteen cents for joy as well we almost saw fifty dollars per ounce session on monday. stock markets now and u.s. markets open moderately high are led by caterpillar and three m. jazzer three m. are up one point six percent of the company hiked its twenty eleven earnings

outlook as it took a hit even as it took a hit rather from japan's ongoing crisis. check the european markets now before they closed two more hours left for three hundred x. are still out half a percent pretty much sure the same as they were the previous couple of hours u.b.s. shares rose the pretty significantly after switzerland's biggest bank closed that profit beat estimates. in russia the markets will close around twenty minutes time and they've reversed by the end of the session the r.t.s. is down point eight percent in my six one point two five percent take a look at some of the main stocks gazprom one of the biggest losers this out down almost two percent rosneft also a percent down burbank one point one percent lower. the russian government seems to be having doubts over its decision to raise the tax burden on businesses prime

minister vladimir putin admits the new rules which came into effect in january but they could deprive companies of incentives to invest and it's a criticism that's being echoed by business leaders such as the vice president of mobile phone giant nokia it's very important for us that consumers have access to. good bye cs and mobile services with the lowest possible price because that is good for the corner there's a whole it's good for consumers and it's good for economic growth in russia and that's why all the extra virgin which is going to be set for mobile technology says he's a negative for the for profit we are a substantial tax payer impression. i think that on the monthly basis we are contributing to the russian government a budget by one billion brothers so it's very substantial support coming from the this business and we hope to see this going to grow with. russia's flag carrier has

been rated at a twenty year place on a list of most valuable airline brands according to findings from brand finance the consultant c on this service the major there for the brand value to be worth more than one billion dollars they also believe the company's country undervalued as the price of its name is not reflected in capitalisation at the top of the list was germany's tanda with a brand new of three point eight billion dollars and we will be back next hour with an update rory is next with had lots to say without anything.

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