is it a remembrance for the victims of the chernobyl disaster exactly a quarter of a century on drop in on the commemoration ceremony talk to survivors and travel to the exclusion zone the ghost town. that any uprooting calls into question nato operation in libya saying the no fly zone is being used as a cover to disrupt the country's infrastructure and eliminate colonel gadhafi. fresh weekly terminations depict britain as a terrorism breeding ground forms trained in london mosques and masterminds providing safe haven in the country.

international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. we're just past eight pm here in the russian capital so it's exactly twenty five years since the world was shocked and shaken by the worst civil nuclear catastrophe in history a deadly explosion at the chernobyl power plant spewed a radioactive cloud across several continents pointing at long last inhuman and environmental consequences and he said now he who is in the ukrainian capital kiev is covering commemoration of events there in the country. of course attention has shifted to ukraine as the country marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe actually noble that's when an explosion ripped the roof off reactor number four and vast amounts of radiation spewed across europe and

several confidence around the world it's estimated that eight and a half million people in ukraine russia and bellow reuss the three most affected countries were exposed to high levels of radioactive material now at the immediate time of the accident two people were killed but in the months and weeks that followed more than thirty and in total the number of deaths and the statistics vary enormously i just want to give you an idea of some of these numbers the world health organization puts the number at four thousand while greenpeace puts it at two hundred thousand and a russian publication has the number at nearly one million so you can see the tremendous difference there all of these organizations claim that the death toll is severely underestimated you know in terms of contamination the highest areas were knocked off at the time and cut off hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly evacuated some insisted they stayed behind in their hometown and commemoration

ceremonies have been taking place throughout the day in that exclusion zone r.g.s. alexy yourself speak is there i've never seen the exclusion zone being so crowded as it is today during the anniversary of the explosion at the chernobyl nuclear power plug now we witnessed a solem ceremony with presidents with me to meet video of russia and the ukraine he . claimed flowers and 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. from ukraine and russia and putin to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy in the face of substance we should be good. the government should be gracious to people but truth we need to have me back and. doing the right thing i just metres away where i'm standing right now at the center of all evil in chernobyl the infamous li 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 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 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 were managed 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 their 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 believing ever since some of them are of course dying but this is down to their age they certainly certainly have some health problems but this is not related to radiation as they say 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 and this is a big date and in my report i take a look at how things unraveled court a century ago in chernobyl. twenty five years ago the town of the p.r.t. was a place any soviet person could dream of high salaries great standards of living and impressive infrastructure and restricted town for the employees of the chernobyl nuclear power plant it was regarded as the pride as the pearl of the soviet union it was not only. opted 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 lived here all of that changed and april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment carried out in the

wrong hands with. the reactor was almost completely out of control and april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved the management pushed for a completion of the experiment personal has it treated and were reluctant to and eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result. meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors with me and my friend we ran away from school the polluted beach we returned home all covered 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 and. that shock was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had a lot of the population of this small town in the middle of the night they delivered the severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but a great people had different fractures goods in the radiation most of them had food

or fourth degree radiation burns one of them died instantly the others had to wait twenty four hours to be evacuated to a hospital in moscow ironically those were the lucky ones others stayed in the town exposing themselves to the bills as of radiation and many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays paper is described as a dead town nobody lives here and never will again the fallout period of many nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years this has not been as clear from up there on the gurney unka returned here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we can begin your flight and the pension and found it impossible to survive like gotta make you here have. to grow everything in. yes there is a little here and you don't find a place without it anywhere we're not in the wake of the fukushima disaster the work your novel 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 but the former chernobyl 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 chernobyl and fukushima never happen again. reporting from chernobyl and kiev in ukraine. well for the cleanup crews deployed in the immediate aftermath of the blast their lives are on the line to prevent tragedies spreading even further and he has been speaking to one of them. everything was difficult tempo is difficult each day we're facing new chance to hatch a result somehow using all our experience but energy 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 and it was very dismal. and you can watch the full interview later this hour here on

r.t. the anniversary of the chernobyl disaster coupled with the current crisis in japan is raising anxiety over the safety of the industry itself and on our website we're asking you what will happen to atomic energy in the near future let's have a look at the responses so far but they are on the screen for you over a third think that there is a danger of more serious disasters happening but others are more optimistic twenty percent think that atomic energy will expand and be good for humanity the same number of respondents pin their hopes on green and renewable energy and we can see there that six percent think that nuclear energy is days are numbered and people's fears will see a phased out we're going to hear from me have you said r.t. dot com. well we're troubles twenty fifth anniversary mind in the world of the terrifying consequences of nuclear safety negligence many eyes have turned to the continuing crisis of course in japan well for more on what's happening there are now joined by paul dorfman he's a senior researcher at the university of warrick joining us from our london studio

thanks very much indeed for being with us here on r.t. well after japan lost control over many analysts warned of an environmental catastrophe with an imminent surge in cancer rates but according to government statistics other analysts are saying that's not actually happening so are people perhaps over exaggerating the consequences and the risks here. i don't think that's true at all it's for those of us who know about radiation and i served as secretary to u.k. government scientific advisory committee on radiation risk with a full way to office. we know that it's actually quite difficult to to work out what's going on there have been various interpretations about what has happened to go but the range from five thousand to twenty thousand to nineteen thousand there stu one hundred thousand to two hundred pounds and that's and it's actually quite difficult to determine what. works and what the risks are

the problem is of course when you're actually looking at that scale of risk the question is is do you really want to go there there's been a lot of work done in the roots in ukraine in russia. a lot of anecdotal evidence that you're seeing some problems with cancer. congenital malformation so so in terms of focus it's just quickly to ask you you are drawing a comparison here between chernobyl and for human because many people say there are not actually that close comparisons to be made particularly when the japanese government are actually saying that the radiation level emitted from for him it's only a tenth of what was released much novel and indeed there's more radioactivity interval now from ashima. terms of a trend the truth is nobody quite knows really what's going on in fukushima in

terms of the monitoring nobody is really aware of really what's happening we know that the groundwater underneath extremist ten thousand times over by the police are limited in terms of the inventory the radiation within china but when you it's about sixty to eighty tons now in fukushima of the reactors the reactors the three reactors had about two hundred eighty tons of uranium in them one was a mock reactor which melted out about two hundred thirty kilograms of plutonium and that's discounting the spent fuel there's about one thousand eight hundred tons of spent fuel. that. that is potentially at risk in fukushima so. you could argue that even one tenth of chernobyl is a significant release that incident occurred twenty five years ago and you know bill has anything been learnt from that incident do you think bearing in mind what's happening. it's a different sort of different strokes for different folks different people have

different responses to this germany the strongest economy in europe has clearly stated that it will exit from nuclear by twenty twenty italy says no no new build. the minister for economics in switzerland says no more newbuild in england it's a bit of a choice the. easier the french company has invested twelve point four billion in nuclear sites in the u.k. and at present the u.k. government is slightly gung ho so it's difficult to predict what may or may not happen in the u.k. it's also interesting to note that of the three hundred fifty planned new reactors in the world one hundred are planned for the pacific seismic ring of fire. that has caused such a disaster. so if you think then bearing in mind what's happening around the world

is repercussion of what happened there in japan and we're seeing protests in japan against nuclear energy do you think japan will change its own policy towards nuclear energy committee will say this was just a one off occurrence and impact statistically nuclear energy is safe and it's a good state. system is safe i mean understand the. cost to china go alone it's cost to turn a go at about two hundred thirty billion. fukushima already it's cost of one hundred thirty billion that's just for starters that's just the beginning of the ability of the german government has rated the civilian nuclear accidents with one trillion. so the costs run something goes wrong remember we've had one major accident once every twenty years since the inception of the nuclear project when something happened something then it it really it really goes off so. the idea of of of maintaining

a nuclear capacity. as an area of seismic and tsunami. activity does seem to be problematic pulled off in very interesting talk you thanks for your time senior researcher at university of warwick joining us there in london thank you thank you very much. well it may have been a quarter of a century since the unthinkable happened but time hasn't lessened the consequences of the chernobyl blast later in the day you can watch our documentary from the dead streets surrounding ground zero streets that will stay silent for hundreds of years . this time silent for decades. twenty five years ago on the tire fifty thousand population over ukrainian. while the like you waited with three hours. but now it wants to recently some people started receiving posts notices telling them to pick up letters at this post

office believe. the stories of the world. does have to be told to. reading the diaries of those. who gave coalition forces in libya the right to eliminate gaddafi well that's the question that any putin's been asking during an official visit then mark the russian premier also said nato is effectively joined one of the warring sides in the conflict and more responsible action should be taken instead. that intuition of the coalition said destroying good afaik was not they goal and why bomb his palaces now some officials have claimed that eliminating him was in fact their goal who gave them the right to be have a fair trial returning to the no fly zone bombings or destroying a country's entire infrastructure when the so-called civilized world uses all its

military power against a small country destroying what's been created by generations i don't know if that's good. meanwhile italy asserted will join the allied airstrikes in libya despite his earlier refusal to take part in the bombings this comes after gadhafi compound in tripoli was hit by nato forces on monday taking three t.v. channels off of it every month since the coalition forces started their operation in libya is speculation some nato countries supplied rebels with before the uprising. that suggestion to a military analyst here. so we're doing the rebels get their arms front so 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 a rebel fighter pointing at the conducting portrait we kind of weapon is this so here we can see you build. 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 karmically before the sections were in paul's story and even the early years of could i thought regime because this assault rifle was. produced many years ago but you know if we take a look at this picture for instance we can easily see. all of the gun made of plastic this politically of oil is quite recent but also it doesn't make sense for could just hear the pushers of these guns for his own army if you take a look at the pictures of the libyan army to conceal the use more cynical glance with extremely cheap and high live a level thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes no sense to buy. near to

a weapon which is military could for the for the nature cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter cartridges. it will go on which is produced all over the world and north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see it at this point recent occasion of fall of 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 stacked supplying people who are knowingly connected with al qaeda with arms i mean we have an audience what we see no nature conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting out of the patio they don't actually care who the rebels are there was no nor any other terrorist organisations in iraq before to arrange your three they came into iraq after saddam or as

a result of american led invasion what we see now in a matter of quantrill is in tunisia in egypt and in libya where the terrorists are. extremely effective that those cells could easily come into power. and on our web site r.t. dot com we take an in-depth look at the e.u. planned humanitarian aid mission is it a move of pure intentions or a way to sneak a ground operation in under the covers we get all the latest developments on the conflict in libya as well as expert opinion and analysis and the battle of artistic merit of a giant piece of graffiti scoops the top russian art of war and the question whether what's essentially vandalism should receive such a long in front of more and r.t. dot com. britain has become a hotbed for terrorism with extremist preachers and masterminds freely able to operate there the news has come to light in the latest week elite which reveals at

least thirty five guantanamo detainees are being trained for terrorism in london mosques and secret files also suggest an alleged al qaeda bomber works as an informer for british intelligence in france reports now from london. eighteen of these detainees reported lead to have come out of britain or from abroad seventeen of them are 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 an attack planning and propaganda option and this was not new to the us military officials who actually drafted these documents this mosque was known as a very powerful training ground for many of these men 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 london actually earned the nickname within the stock documents londonistan so it does raise a lot of questions about where security and government forces were in quelling just reputation and stopping these men from filtering into the u.k. and out into terrorist help that's around the world. for you know just declassified documents also suggest the guantanamo bay detention camp has been packed with innocent people. is a research friend who had rejection society says the number of radical islamists coming out of the u.k. is reaching a critical point. you need to stop these kind of hate preachers calling for the murder of people as they were they were happily doing the other ninety nine thousand and we have made some inroads in may for british government house stuff

and hate preachers from entering the u.k. although of course more can always be gone look at lee the amount of convictions has been in u.k. courts and the amount of suicide bombers the violent in the u.k. carried out to assign bombs abroad the numbers are frightening and i did research looking at the terrorist convictions between ninety ninety nine and two thousand and nine and you look at iraq hundred twenty people the past three i 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 content of a files. before a commuter joins us with the latest from the world of business that's a quick look at some of the main stories reaching international headlines at this stage of the day in yemen opposition leaders of the four to leave grew to a power transfer plan which will see the current president step the previously rejected initiative as it didn't fulfill their demands for going to sunday to go immediately under the new deal which has yet to be formally accepted by either side so it will quit office in

a month's time as opposed breakthrough has done little to ease tensions in the country though with protesters still massing on the streets. men have attacked and talked to a passenger bus in southwestern pakistan killing at least fifteen people most of the dead will women or children in separate incidents in the southern city of karachi twin bombings last killed three as terrorist targeted buses carrying they said no one hundred fifty people were killed as a result of terrorist bombings in the city. and as promised the business news is next with a summer of our main news stories in six minutes from now stay with us here in moscow. thanks bill the ruble will rise to pre-crisis levels against the dollar by the end of the year that's if oil prices stay at current levels according to russian. companies 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 in imports and hinder the group of some circulars of our economy such as food and light industry as well as engineering. the greenback now costs just under twenty eight roubles and according to secure parts it's expected to move another fifteen percent because of the russian currency meanwhile exporters are complaining that the strong ruble is coming into their profits they are to meet with non-tariff issues in may they discussed an optimal exchange rate. japanese carmakers are facing production difficulties in russia due to the shortage of parts after the earthquake and tsunami because of that nissan is cutting its russian output by eight percent steers is expected to follow suit up to decrease in its global production by thirty percent he while 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 not to use

the money car brands. and brushes cash for clunkers program has ended 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 half a million cars replaced with one point two billion dollars worth of state support. so if we get the oil prices this hour and they are lap pretty much investors are concerned that the u.s. fed reserve may signal a tightening in its monetary policy over tensions in syria and yemen are supporting the oil therefore we're seeing light sweet decline twenty two cents brant is up twenty three cents at almost one hundred twenty four dollars a barrel. gold has declined after hearing new record highs of the for three hundred eighteen dollars per troy ounce it's now below fifteen hundred although silver is actually even more volatile is down war and

a half percent below forty five dollars an ounce. u.s. markets are trading positive the dow jones is supported by shares of caterpillar and three m. shares of three am are up more than two percent of the company hiked its twenty eleven earnings. outlook even as it took a hit from japan's ongoing crisis. in europe the markets closed tuesday session on a positive note point eight percent of the pussy and the facts you b.s. rose over five percent after switzerland's biggest bank posted profits that beat estimates russia's markets managed to pare losses by the end of jews these volatile session investors were focusing on upcoming words from ben bernanke and oil price fluctuations take a look at some of the movers gas prong down three quarters of a percent ross next managed to come back as world prices reversed by the end of the session in russia it's up half a percent at the close right telecoms up almost four percent in the last minute trading has its share holders announce plans to attract more investors his property

manager alex other people with his comic. we see a little bit more of the volumes. one through the usual volumes the market there is a range buoyant and everybody is expecting more or statement from here for them see from mr brown the key judging from the forecasts based on futures and options on the interest rates the market participants you can bet that fifty percent there will be a cut of twenty five basis points i wanted my personal opinion and i want to get one going to happen and russian flag carrier air flow has been rated at twenty of place on the list of most valuable airline brands according to findings from brand finance consultants the analysts have estimated brand value to be worth one billion dollars they also believe the company is going to be undervalued as the price of

its name is not reflected in capitalization at the top of the list was germany's move and so worth three point eight billion dollars and we will be back next hour with plenty more coming up next bill is next with the headlines stay with us. template the official r t f e k should join a film called touch from the q sampson. show.