she is on the. video. she's mine. and. if you just joined us for a warm welcome this is our t. coming tonight from the russian capital top stories this hour it's a day of remembrance for the victims of the chernobyl disaster exactly a quarter of a century on the world as those who tell it as well as those who took part in the rescue and clean up. the negative preaching calls into question nato operation in libya saying the no fly zone is being used as a comma to disrupt the country's infrastructure and eliminate colonel gadhafi.

fresh wiki leaks revelations depicting britain as a terrorism breeding ground form has trained in the north and masterminds finding safe haven in the country. i'll be back with a lot of some of the news in fifteen minutes when i meet tom moore on the anniversary of the chernobyl tragedy altie now talks to a member of the clean up crew deployed to the disaster zone immediately after the loss a special interview is next for. mr serai of thank you for pain free pass for these into the specifics for advisory that's cost was asked of was not you know a what you were going to face when you received orders to go to your novel. you know where you got the win or save my order i did have

a full understanding of what was happening there we had very scarce information other time i was on a business trip in budapest and was told to leave it with the next twenty four hours i flew to moscow and arrived at the ministry where the chief department heads i would take a special flight from the colver airfield in two hours you figure out what happens once you get there and so i went to the airport immediately there i met my friends and colleagues design engineers who had taken the same flight to deliver project documents we went together wilton at the. time i thought what information did you have on the way their dogs kill a deal and for most i knew that an explosion happened the sight was in ruins that's about it. did you realize it was a nuclear catastrophe. i certainly thought it was. according to the state here in the first six months following the accident with approximately three hundred thousand people work in the area of the chernobyl nuclear power station what was

the most difficult challenge for as one of the leaders. everything was difficult tempos difficult each day were facing new charges they had to be resolved somehow using all our experience to empty towns and villages were the ones that made the most depressing impression on me people were backward from chernobyl and surrounding areas of the above villages and towns were abandoned that was very dismal it wasn't even the fact is my first time crossing the site in an armored vehicle then we were taking measures in relieving the after effects of flew over all those ruins in a helicopter i was also impressed by that because as a director and chief engineer the same kind of energy unit from scratch of smilax power station when up to space in the entire process it was all done in front of my very own eyes i see it all destroyed like that was very difficult but pete abandoned towns made the most dismal impression. three quarters of workers who dug out their one hundred fifty metre tunnel under the reactor and died

before turning forty six hundred dollars from the brigade were exposed to strong radiation were those human sacrifices really necessary. so. i'm not familiar with the statistics as for helicopter parts of mine is there a spirit or was with the limits of it were to the standards of the time some were exposed more than others who were trying to stay within limits and avoid overexposure couple where miners were digging the tunnel i visited myself a little itself the background radiation was natural but strong exposure was outside with a mind carter taking up to a load together working with troops that were bought the site we tend to deactivate eternals orifice to reduce the irritation asked for justify any sacrifices were not justified we were doing our utmost to keep the number of victims as low as possible in those conditions. were you apprehensive about another possible explosion you

have with us late april in early may we did have such apprehension by the way the tunnel that you mentioned was intended to prevent further explosions from that without cooling the remaining nuclear fuel in the reactors could heat up and cause an uncontrollable chain reaction that it will melt the foundation plates of the reactors main body and go down to the ground therefore the decision was made to dig that tunnel urgently it's established a cooling system under the foundation plate study of us what is to knoebels legacy for some people like for instance academicians legacy of who committed suicide later couldn't live with it and work with almost a mostly do. as an atomic energy professional as primarily very concerned for the subject of the atomic energy either the cape my whole life to it and i have always believed as a do now it's a rather prominent and necessary way of producing electrical power. yes improper working conditions as a clean energy production in terms of its impact on environment mankind therefore

as why the tonic energy would be wound down i would personally return to coal furnace is to pull stations in every building and so on the way used to be know if the fifties and sixties were the cause of the present much that when the chernobyl catastrophe happened the information on the explosion was publicized late which resulted the loss of many lives over some practical the same thing happened and fukushima they worked very hard to conceal data on the explosion and to keep it from becoming public but can we now believe you clear that more than and you know everything about the casino today with one awful. under such circumstances it's impossible to know everything up to the every tiny detail and we should believe nation we get those responsible for this information may also be stealing it partially or why country disclose all the facts and make them public and for

months inform us of facts differ sometimes it's possible to present them in a way that will so panic among the population and that is fraught with harder consequences than the accident itself as why this information be truthful but well weighed his presentation should be proportionate to real actions of the current circumstances. how can you say that at the moment to paris taking all the adequate measures it's hard for me to judge just like you i get all the news from the t.v. in the first days following the tsunami great destruction was cause and judging from the news secondary facilities response to the station's operation had been damaged those were energy supply units in the first place but the reactor itself remain undamaged by the tsunami at that moment it was necessary to close all the efforts of resuming energy supplies to the reactors coding system of forgery that wasn't done on time and the whole process became trapped and delayed but he not only ten days after the tsunami the japanese started supplying water cooling system

from hoses of tar hose barrels that was ineffective and even harmful energy of supply and restoring the cooling systems normal operation was a priority task for the liquidators a forty day last time had they done that the damage would have been steam discharges and that would have been the end of it three masturbation in the united states but since the reactor is active there was left without cooling tensions kept rising as a result a few melt down occurred it was followed by her jordan a supply us. pressurise ation of the reactors containment and consequently discharges not only papers gases radioactive materials but elements of nuclear fuel into the atmosphere. no she really just a has been followed by a barrage of criticism towards nuclear energy should we continue developing eight or better to give this up the energy to be one hundred percent safe. no human activity can be absolutely safe. any kind of activity included political and public

activities in any society whatever people do should be considered from the point of your safety was science and technology progress is machines become more complicated we did well of new forms of energy which used to be unknown and unclear in the past so i call for them found scientific research a measure is in the status of the appellant's design and construction we can live with it and we should trust it but. looking back what would you have done differently intern over twenty five years ago. what could have been done differently it's hard for me to say today after twenty five years of the past i think that everything that was done at that time was right and rational it was unnecessary to attract so many he results it's a vast area we could have done the job of view of people but time we had known what to do and how to do it some decisions of the state commission to carry out certain

works which later turned out to be unnecessary were also superfluous you've just mentioned a tunnel for miners there but those words have secure ourselves and worse troubles and they were justified. the people who did that who wrote they did a very big job firs wise experts began understanding the degree of hazards they just had the work still carried out at the chernobyl nuclear power station until late tonight in eighty six the radioactive background has been high at the entire site within a range of five kilometers it's very difficult to approach a site without changing transport but in june when experts had obtained clarity was guarded what was left in a damaged reactor and how they should act as solution was simple difficult but simple helicopters dropping eight hundred cubic meters of seizing agents on the damage reactor for seventy two hours would that fix the radioactive dust and prevent it from rising from the reactor along a ventilation partly it was a hundred fifty meters away natural circulation pulled off all that dust and

dispersed it through the neighborhood naturally we were breeding in mecca dust we had to suppress all that when the operation was completed the radioactive level at the entire facility dropped four hundred times that's not only help the liquidates to approach the station i carry out the activation with few expenses also enable them to climb the damaged reactors roof to clear away the radioactive discharges on the top from. passports the situation in chernobyl today i've heard the containment spilt over there for them it's partly unit he's credited to rerating what's going on there. first of all wisconsin engineering observation over the state of this containment senses have been a student part of the four unit that measure to contain its destruction. this observation is constant as i know there hasn't been any significant destruction of the containment look at any construction facility there are pockets there's nothing

catastrophic so there are some radioactive discharges they can easily be measured of these charges are also under control i don't think there's a threat containment is deteriorating it was built at a very high engineering level and it has with a high degree of safety overhead also built over walls and overhead built around the damage react to unit or concrete was pumped inside the reactor. metal inside the reactor well pumps compton's liquid concrete and everything there are some minor have left all. hundred thousand cubic meters of concrete block a cache of construction the reactor of the first power unit required four hundred twenty thousand keep meters of concrete almost half that amount was pumped into the reactor and that concrete is resting is solidly reactor and its original form.

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it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two six. to create nine hundred forty five dots on t. dot com. top stories this hour on r t it's a day of remembrance for the victims of the chernobyl disaster exactly a quarter of a century on the world honors those who died as well as those who took part in the rescue and clean up. a lot of the approaching 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. and fresh wiki leaks revelations depict britain as a terrorism breeding ground with trained in mosques and masterminds finding safe haven in a country. that would mourn those stories and less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime it's the first night of a pivotal week of european football with details on that and other sport news cases

next on r.t. . welcome to the sports and these are the stories making headlines final target wayne rooney's sex and leave the line is nancy nightingale to shelter in the first leg of their champions league semifinal. strike world cup winner it was a cause next his first goal in russia claim a point against another. gentle touch boxing champ in bangkok yeah we need to see his record a week before his title fight against shane mosley. let's kick off that four ball on this tuesday night's monster united take one step towards the champions league final as a child in german side shelters for the first leg of their last thought i mean i sort of will be without a top scorer dimitar berbatov who hasn't all been strained and didn't take part in

the training session of elton's arena so wayne rooney and having a head and these are set to leave the line with the trolls talking united have played in the semifinal of this tournament goalkeeper edwin van to start will be playing in the last fall for a record thirteenth time tally matched only by former rail madrid and chelsea midfielder told michael lately. i think the president. enough experience and europe. and figures where we should be i think that the expectation from my point of years old and high regard to the european scene because. you get envious of all the clubs we record in europe and we try to. i'm going to party with thought you know it quaoar real madrid and you see by your nation. we're the pill every we need to. progress quick way to get to that where we're going now you're just. enjoying it so to shoot

your shirts your so it's nice for you when you're fourteen in a winning team and know that if you don't know a lot lately. you can keep on doing a vicious circle games you have to play this your decision well in contrast shelter are making their first appearance in the european cup semi final they struggle to mystically this season and are tenth of the going to sleep however you coach ralph running mate has revived their fortunes prosody knocked out defending champions into milan seven three on our progress in the previous round. the league is the most important thing is that we concentrate on our own game and we are focused on the way we are supposed to play if you look at the game against inter we were one behind out the front seconds it didn't look good in the team down we've gotten a fantastic man out and that's what it's all about at this level as you noted on a wednesday archrivals rail madrid and barcelona meet at the bernabeu for the third of their for much anticipated el classico in the first leg of their champions

league semifinal barcelona stayed eight points clear of rallying the league as the two rivals grew one one in the first game a little messy penalty the second half lead for wales equalised also from the spot focused on the now though the better the political wing has extra time header is a marine has his first trophy israel coaching the side big fast alone and one in the second match to win the cup or del ray deny the pass alongside the chance of winning the trouble so now with one win to paste the size attention turns to europe . while opening this tuesday night f.a. cup final stoke his second bottom wolves in england are they the potters themselves are five points above the relegation zone. well stop the worst away record in the top flight by winds would see them move out of the shop same. point but. at the same. jury for a really. dogmatic about who it is because even. but

if we do in this frame if we win the last two games. and that's enough because i don't know what's going to be enough i don't think anybody. i know nobody else knows is going to be. wrong meanwhile brazil world cup winning fullback roberta carlos netted his first gold in the russian premier league c opens on the spot for angie joining that sea to draw at dinamo on monday the thirty eight year olds joined from corinthians last summer for sharing this with the back from injury in early stages of the game wasn't until almost an hour and not really came to life and i was a course i'm sure for was given second jallow calf humbling geoffrey cake he claims the ball hit his head but the reply shows the referee got it right central could face a lengthy ban after arguing with officials as he moved down the tunnel anyway costing slot in his first goal for an eighty seven's official on korea but that leaves last

only five minutes up the other end links on vaca korean showed good control for one of the bottom corner to make it wrong on. and she though they responded and what i was getting his toe on the end of the cross was one i failed to clear. past just as angie was thinking by had all three points them out were given a penalty themselves and got him in spite of the marks. has done some overage and at home just two minutes to go and you stay six other namor i know i'm still without a manager it's a mere dragon ball z. which sucked last week. well after all the action week six the needs are back on top of the league following their three no when i was clear as the best off was also moved off the bottom after only their second win in six games so let's look back at the rest weekend's action starts.

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the former chief organizer for india's commonwealth games has appeared in court on a corruption charge so that comedy is accused of favoring a swiss company and the purchase of equipment for timing and scoring events for the new delhi tournament kalmadi and two other professionals were arrested on monday as part of an investigation into the scandal plagued competition one man told a separate account unless he arrived at a court hearing effect on a very public arena against the official india the games would help herald it rise as a super power instead it was deeply embarrassed by corruption allegations construction delays and cost overruns and the budget leads to billions of dollars. in the person

who heads the indian olympic association and being caught. being dropped. it is unfortunate i think you put more pop in and what has happened is something which i feel is not reporting and. now running pacquiao has added the role of single to his repertoire the eighth division boxing world champion has recorded a single ahead of his title fight against shane mosley is usually a train for the ferocity of his punches rather than attendance of his voice though that could be about to change the thirty two year old has recorded a version of sometimes when we touch the songs creates a down hill a single will be released on thursday just over a week before the cast and since the rain wants more of his company we are both like time for american mostly not status.

and finally hundreds of runners took part in one of the dirtiest sporting events on the planet on monday i'm old enough to race the event sees competitors attempt to wade across the river black water on england's east coast waist deep in fake black mud two hundred fifty competitors raced over four hundred metres cross in mud and water and their aim to raise important funds for charity the event started in the one nine hundred seventy s. and is normally held over the christmas period this reshown jewels and heavy snow that britain encountered over the winter period no such problems this time around a bright spring day with temperatures nothing twenty two degrees celsius and for those who emerge from the mild relief was evident. hurry q three q. four is going to break those work if we had a bit of it because you malfunction off my right arm there are a lot of traders. there to further cost about a chip on our last call to. the right. a very revealing

interview there but for now i'll see you again with more news in just under two hours.