it's a day of remembrance for the victims of the chernobyl disaster exactly a quarter of a century on we report from the commemoration ceremony to talk to survivors and travel to the exclusion zone and the ghost town of could be a. lot of uprooting calls into question later is 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 wiki leaks revelations depict britain as a terrorism breeding ground with bombers trained in london lost and masterminds finding safe haven in the country.

international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. was not just past nine 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 prompting long lasting human and environmental consequences. who's in the ukraine capital kiev is covering commemoration of events there in the country. first attention has shifted to ukraine as the country marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe at chernobyl that's when an explosion ripped the roof off reactor number four and vast amounts of radiation spewed across europe and several

continents around the world it's estimated that eight and a half million people in ukraine or 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 very enormously i just want to give you an idea of some of these numbers the world health organization puts the number at four thousand of all greenpeace puts it two hundred thousand and a russian publication has the number at nearly one million see 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 mapped 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 archies alexy yourself ski is there i've never seen the exclusion zone being so crowded as it is today at three the anniversary of the explosion at the chernobyl nuclear power plant now we witnessed a solem ceremony with presidents that meeting he had made over russia and the ukraine he. claimed flowers and saying couple of words about how difficult this loss was how difficult of the liquidators job was to clear the aftermath of the chernobyl. as a huge amount of citizens use from ukraine and russia and putin to deal with tragedy in the face of such disasters we should be honest and. the government should do to people but truth we need to. use doing the right thing i just metres away where i'm standing right now from the epicenter of all evil in chernobyl the infamously known pipe of the fourth block of the chernobyl nuclear

power plant that is where the explosion happened exactly twenty five years ago around it is the area called the exclusion zone thirty kilometers in radius and this represents some certain museum of abnormality because you can see so many things which are of normal for instance it isn't absolutely impossible to live in the town of p.p.i. which has levels of radiation which would kill a person in the long run but since still some people managed to return here after the collapse of the soviet union such a such 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 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 neighbor 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 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 to take a look at how things unraveled court a century ago in chernobyl. twenty five years ago the town of two was a place any soviet person could dream off 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 constructed to look like a perfect social city but 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 and april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment carried out in the hands

. of the reaction was almost completely out of control and a quote from defeat if but it could still have been saved and management pushed for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated and were locked into and eventually couldn't go it is the authorities we all know the result. and meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors. and we ran away from school pleated beach we returned hormone called in mud to my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning a 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 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 different fractures blooms and the radiation most of them had food or fourth

degree radiation burns one of the good 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 believe it was 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 steerer matter on a quitter and here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we can ignore the pension and found it impossible to survive like that in ky if you here have a cattle and a grow everything in the asian yes there is a little here you can find a place without it anywhere we are not in the wake of the fukushima disaster the word noble echoed again world wide just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned another crisis put the nuclear energy issue through serious

debate but the former chernobyl liquidators say they are ready to fly half a way 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 let's see russia. from chernobyl and kia in ukraine. for the cleanup crews deployed in the immediate aftermath of the blast their lives were on the line to prevent tragedies spreading even further and r.t. has been speaking to one of them. everything was difficult at work tempo is difficult each day we're facing the hatch we resolve somehow using all our experience but empty towns and villages were the ones that made the most depressing impression on me people were evacuated from chernobyl and surrounding areas of the above villages and towns were abandoned that was very dismal. well you can watch the full interview in the next hour 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 at the moment we're asking you what you think will happen to atomic energy in the near future that's one of the results so far that we can see on screen over a third think there is a danger of more serious disasters happening but as a more optimistic twenty eight percent we can see that i think that atomic energy will expand and be good for humanity and the same number of respondents pin their hopes on green and renewable energy and seven percent think that nuclear energy is days are numbered and the people's fears will see it phased out if you haven't done so already logon to our website and express your point of view at r.t. dot com. well maybe in a quarter of a century since the unthinkable happened but time hasn't lessened the consequences of the chernobyl disaster later this hour you can watch a documentary from the dead streets surrounding ground zero streets that will stay silent for hundreds of years. this silence for decades.

five years according to tire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town but i can't wait to put this three hours. because now it wants to turn recently some people started receiving close notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office in. the stories of the world long ago. just after. reading the diaries of the ghost are today. with chernobyl's twenty fifth anniversary reminding the world of the terrifying consequences of nuclear safety negligence many eyes have turned to the continuing crisis in japan well for more on what's happening there at fukushima let's talk to run aground he's a program director at the international network of engineers and scientists joining

us live from berlin thank you very much indeed for being with us here on r.t. well over the last few days the japanese government has gone out of its way to point out the fact that the crisis at fukushima isn't as destructive as out of control as was what do you make of that. you know this is the second big tragedy for japan japan was the first victim of the nuclear bombs and forty five hundred thousand of people died and now they are the victims of the tragedy of four. and i think the main lesson we have to learn is that we have to get rid of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy because you never can get them under control and when they're free they're destroying not only their environment there are three hundred thousand of people so the mate for me the main point is what are the lessons the international community

the scientific community and the human beings has to learn and i think to learn is that we really have to get rid of nuclear energy but bearing in mind chernobyl happened twenty five years ago and now we've got this disaster occurring in japan a nuclear industry seems to be here to stay more and more countries are depending on nuclear energy so what would you say about that. you can energy is the most expensive energy in the when you put all the costs together the cost of developing the energy the cost of the base transport and the base of the energy and the whole cost of producing the energy then you can enter g.'s much more expensive than all other kinds of energy but the problem is that the main part of these costs are paid by the state but taxpayers so when you really take the cost of it it is very simple to say dollar tunnel to us are much cheaper we have wind. we

have water we have many other kinds of renewable energy so i say the nuclear energy industry is lying they are lying for their profit and our work is to overcome this industry because it's not only responsible for one hundred one hundred or thousands killed and secure people but it's also responsible that we should continue living with the most expensive energy production but the positive thing is that more and more people in the world want to get rid of it but what do you make of the government's reaction there in japan and many other analysts saying that this isn't a disaster on the scale of chernobyl that it isn't going to be under control by the end of the year this was a one off event and bearing in mind a tsunami and an earthquake this is an occurrence is very rarely happens that hasn't happened for many many years around the world so it's not an argument that in fact japan has very other limited resources and it has to rely on uclear energy

. you know first how you can build on and gee when you have so much earthquake areas in your country this is totally irresponsible and the second point is japan is a country full of wind and water is also a canvas a lot of solo possibilities soldier pen has the possibilities for developing other kinds of. production for energy production the question of the political will to do it for the met for many years the government spent a lot of money for developing the nuclear industry when they will spend all this money for a ton of there's a really there's a big chance but also japan will get rid of nuclear energy but this is a question of political will and some of the some part of the interest to lose big profits which are raised the last twenty or twenty five years so it's a political decision and these are decisions which has to be taken by the government supported by the people in the country and they have to provide they

gave the industry which one death that you want to continue getting profit so we have to overcome the profit system of the nuclear energy to get in the tunnel to fascinate just briefly from a scientific point of view what will the consequences be for japan as a result of what's happening because you know what you think is going to be the long term consequence. the long term consequences are part of the environment around not only twenty kilometers much much broader part of the country will be totally destroyed in the nearby area how many years no one can live we have problems with the true therefore would be a problem of play rebuilding the country because many parts of the country are full of radioactivity so there are a lot of problems for later tourist accident and we need a lot of money for rebuild all the areas and this money is we could not

use for over the other disaster panvel focusing on so from the scientific point it is a risperdal lot of money for the wrong pathway and now it is really to time to correct these parts away from us ok thank you very much indeed joining us live there in berlin thanks for your time. well we've got plenty of fascinating stories waiting for your websites r.t. dot com including a chance to meet all your social networking bodies in person every user is invited to facebook island creation marriage said to rename a strip of land after the world's most popular network that's on our website also there or not at the moment the battle of artistic merit is a giant piece of graffiti scoops of top russian of award any person whether what's essentially vandalism should receive such an order to find out more authority dot com. who gave coalition forces in libya the right to eliminate gadhafi well

that's the question let me put it has been asking during an official visit to denmark 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 of these daniel bushell joins us now live for this in brussels. so the russian prime minister is effectively lashed out on the operation there in libya. yes he's made a speech in denmark and he was very angry he says that gadhafi is not the best person in the world sure he's made many mistakes done many bad things but that does not give the coalition the right to bomb indiscriminately his words were that they'll pull meaning could have his palace is in tripoli every night now coalition said their plan was not to get rid of gadhafi so his question was mr putin's question was why are the coalition forces obviously making this effort to go off to colonel gadhafi himself now we also heard that the experts here in brussels have confirmed that there is bombing going on by the coalition forces which is not being

covered by the media here in the european union has putin added that oil was a key interest for the western powers pull the european powers who have gone into libya they want to get rid of f.e.m.a. install people who are more favorable to the european union so that european companies can control the oil reserves let's have a listen to exactly what we can have to say. that the coalition said just storing get their feet was not my goal and why. some officials have claimed that eliminating him was in fact their goal who gave them the right to have a fair trial returning to the no fly zone bombings in destroying the 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. mr putin said that they have to give the libyan people time to sort

out their own problems and there's really see here he added there are several other parts of the region in the middle east and north africa which is facing pretty much civil war situations but which the west is either ignoring or not really paying the same amount of attention to what can you live in there are reports about an e.u. plan to send army convoys to assist humanitarian aid there in libya of course as you say one list is really the start of a military ground operation something of course that allies were adamant wouldn't happen. absolutely i heard these rumors for the first time a few weeks ago that the e.u. plans to send up two thousand troops under the guise of so-called humanitarian aid russia fears that this will be used to plan an invasion and to carry out an invasion of libya on the pretext of supporting humanitarian aid to the libyan people the draft plan is called due for libya is supported by the twenty seven

member states of the european union prepared by them and it provides full ground troops in fact to be deployed by the western coalition in the port city of misrata which is currently under siege by forces loyal to moammar gadhafi here in brussels michael mann the chief spokesman for the european union high represents catherine ashton said that they would only send up to a thousand troops and the troops would only be used if they came under attack otherwise they would only defend aid now russia has said that it will only support another u.n. resolution if it explicitly says that it will not. it will not continue boilers that if it's in the boil it and starts negotiations then that is the only condition under which they would support that now i've been speaking to military analysts here in brussels and they confirm that ground troops already in operation in libya this is not being covered by the media in the european union but troops already in

operation and they are pushing forward in libya with colonel gadhafi as the target daniel thanks very much indeed for that daniel bushell live there in brussels where it has become a hotbed for terrorism with extremist preachers or masterminds freely able to operate there and he says come to light in the latest wiki leak which reveals at least thirty five guantanamo detainees are being trained for terrorism in london last and secret files also suggest an alleged al qaeda bomber worked as an informer for british intelligence. reports now from london. eighteen of these detainees reported lead 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 finsbury park mosque was cited its northern london mosque here that was cited

as quote an attack plan and propaganda adoption 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 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 actually earned the nickname within these documents as i understand 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. the latest classified documents suggest the guantanamo bay detention camp is packed with in the some people but certainly going to add fuel to the flames for those who want to chop

down isn't. exactly what's at stake here but is being heavily looked at or the detainee assessment briefs now with the white house spokesman has come out and said that the detainee assessment briefs 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 this administration now that it did four five years ago so even if a detainee assessment stipulates that a person may be a lower. yes 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 at one 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 due to the detainee assessment that 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 as you talk to a little earlier not in the latest documents also suggest the guantanamo bay detention camp is packed with innocent people and meanwhile robinson cox who is a research fellow at the henry jackson 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 happily doing rather ninety nine teams and we have made some inroads in there for british government. stuffing hate preachers from entering the u.k. you know but of course more can always be don't look at the game out of convictions of the courts and the amounts of suicide bombers that either in the u.k.

carried out suicide bombings abroad the numbers are frightening you know i did research looking at the terrorist convictions between ninety ninety nine and two thousand and i know 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 guantanamo bay files. to presuppose that the moment three tree is next with business do you stay with this about him. so you want your business. to bank or the ruble will rise to pre-crisis levels

against the dollar by the end of the year that's in the condition that world prices stay at current levels according to russians to have an economic understanding. for the minister it's quite possible that we'll see a substantial inflow of capital in the second half of this year in these conditions that would become even stronger than we originally expected this will lead to a group in imports in hindering the group of some searchers of our economy such as food and light industry as well as engineering as. well the greenback now costs just under twenty eight roubles and according to your patch 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 are to meet with monetary officials in may to discuss an optimal change rate. in the united states markets are trading higher led by caterpillar at three am shares of briana are up more than one hundred percent after the company hiked its twenty eleven

things out even as a gift from japan's ongoing crisis. in europe the markets also closed on a positive note point eight percent of footsie and the dax one of the main movers was u.b.s. it rose over five percent after switzerland biggest bank closed the top of the beat estimates russia's not its manners to pay losses by the end of tuesday's volatile session investors were focusing on upcoming words from ben bernanke and world price fluctuations take a look at some of the movements on the my six stock exchange gazprom is down three quarters of a percent mostly have managed to come back as well prices reversed by the end of the session and russia it's up half a percent prosthetic arm is up four percent both of the biggest gain is in the last minutes trading as its shareholders announce plans to attract more of this year's commentary from our portfolio manager alex alex i think. we see a little bit more of the team you see in the world you must. run through

a lot of the usual volumes of the market there is a range of quality and everybody's expecting from. any comment from you from mr brown the key judging from the. future of the interest of the market participants you can bet that fifty percent there will be a car of twenty five basis points most of my personal opinion that it was going to happen russia's flagship carry a lot has been raised about twenty of this of most valuable airline brands according to findings from brown finance. to be worth one billion dollars you also believe the company is currently the value does the price of its name is not reflected in the capitalization at the top of the list with germany's in the hands of the brand value of three point eight billion dollars. we'll be back next hour with an update from headline.

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