again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. china operations to rule the day. from moscow this is top stories now at half past the hour here in the russian capital is a day of remembrance for the victims of the chernobyl disaster exactly a quarter of a century on the world as those who died as well as those who took part in the rescue and cleanup. the only person 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. first really terminations the pic britain's the terrorism breeding ground with

bombers trained in london mosques and masterminds finding safe haven in the country i'll be back with more news for you more developments in less than thirty minutes from now meantime stay with us for our tease correspondent. and his special documentary marking the twenty fifth anniversary of that nuclear disaster that's up next here on r.t. . twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population obvious grainy and sound of preview was evacuated within three hours. could you please step aside i'm working on you getting in my short thank you to what they have here as

they were thought. couple of days but none of them has ever returned. the poor. devastated explosion. where we go and. we need to go to previous post office. recently i received a notification to pick up a letter here in prepared that's impossible the post office isn't been working for twenty five years i don't think it's for real. show me. storm drains but according to the stamp this really has come from here to you know where this post office is yes i know the book.

from. the from. to keep. it in your little fellow all these trees that you see they've all grown since the accident and right now we're going to be passing the house where i was born. the fifth him to get him. we came to the chernobyl exclusion zone to investigate a very strange story this place has been deserted for a quarter of a century but recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office in crete yet i'm holding one of those here and

indeed the stamp here proves that it came from the goes down. fifth. street. frankly speaking i do not know what to look for. many of. these notices have no addresses nor names of those who had sent them. thank you. i thank you no we're. going to be honestly speaking i don't think we're going to find anything here. most of the things that remained here and in the apartments were later buried. but i knew i didn't keep them because they were very radioactive

. and the rest was stolen by scavengers. here's a letter which someone for you to send from here. because there is a photo inside. it's lucky you. know all the times i've been here i've never seen anything like this. this or this refused to do so phones work here. they work at a nuclear power plant and sometimes they work here. hello hi. hello who we are calling our high i'll be away from work tonight can i pick your daughter up

from kindergarden. just give me who is it calling i beg your pardon i must have done the wrong number. i don't get it. our investigation brings us to one of three kindergartens and this one is truly a horrifying scene most of the things one can see here have been left untouched ever since the catastrophe and this site which is probably the best description and most dramatic one of the chernobyl tragedy is that children's toys are laying literally side by side with military gas masks. at the moment and this is my kindergarten and also what i do i used to go here.

watchable morgan it used to be many children in particular a lot of great of course also specialists from all over the soviet union came here to operate the nuclear power station all the mostly young people instead of still and they thought that they were waiting for a bright future talks with. so this town experienced a baby boom or government was almost caught no one used the gas masks look out there because the catastrophe happened on a saturday. so they've been kept here and were left untouched. what was in that letter you found. there is a photograph inside. here have a look. look look through the proper trickle it seems it was written by a child a small girl. justly or try there was three i was so glad to have received

your letter so i decided to replied once my mom got me a new doll she's so beautiful that i'm sometimes afraid to play with her when i go to school in the morning i put her by the window and make a best for her in the evening i love her dearly the weather has already been very warm here we'll be having a holiday soon my parents and my it will go to rally will be inflating balloons and after that there will be a concert in the house of cultural activities my sister will be dancing rare even though she's small she's already a great dancer for missing you very much please come and visit us in this country we're missing you very much but usually it's come visit us in the summer that's right i'm just here women are supposed to new dimensions the first may vents in the previous house of culture and kids from this kindergarten were to perform at a concert there. when was that letter written. with the push to call the date on

the envelope says it was meant to be sent and just a day before the catastrophe. of . the coming nobody on the eve of the catastrophe many celebrations had been closed for saturday and sunday but they always schedule wedding celebrations and children's concerts for the weekend that the even when the tragedy happened we didn't call off the festive events for the love the children were breathing this year as it was a hard day and the events were out in the open many people were in the parks and i know that there were weddings in the house of culture here in the end we were informed that it was very serious and that we were to go home and pack up for evacuation.

may the first was one of the biggest communist holidays in the soviet union the labor day people's house of culture still has a collection of posters with soviet leader they were meant to be carried at a traditional demonstration and the stage over here was meant to become a venue for a holiday concert. but if he thinks a clash of course but look what i found it improbable as a fire man thieves. you. could be that it belonged to one of those firefighters who fought the blaze at the nuclear power plant. then you are now absolutely no question why did it most of them died i just want to tell their dear was radioactive to throw that it

was destroyed almost immediately afterwards. first of all you know there used to be an amateur theatre here maybe it's there's the question of how much of the honest i feel we're stuck and he got any ideas where we could go next. well there used to be a library here you could check out the reader's profile cards. you know the city was very beautiful. and it was meant to be kind of a role model for others. who like the best place communist society could ever build perfectly planned and constructed. was meant to be here

paradise for those building communism. wait a minute i found a note inside this picture book it looks like a page from someone's diary. is dated april twenty fifth nine hundred eighty six we're preparing an experiment at the station we'll be bringing the reactor to a stored player we have some heated debates most of us are sure that we're doing everything right but still cannot come to a conclusion the times it seems we're talking on different languages from both native come from. there was a confrontation over the word for more workers did not want to keep the unstable reactor in operation of. the flu from for control according to conversations and documentation that had been published already the reactor was out of control. on the twenty fifth of april the employees were saying that it was faulty. but the

bosses demanded that they should finish the experiment that they knew that they were performing only unstable reactor. and should be in your stomach when i saw a picture and daughters are book with a babylonian tower i joke that we have now finally built it that's been one of the great the steroid. i'm on top of tallest building it is the best vantage points to see the chernobyl nuclear power blog straight after the disaster it was covered by steel lead hold the circle forgets underneath it are still tons of radioactive fuel and deadly levels of radiation but if you don't know that from here it almost looks a life. what

a few of those what we've done to the apartment we're looking for should be somewhere here with you know where this drawing came from. it appears here several years ago actually i don't know the elevator shaft is open so be careful we need to go this way or your let's go. and i turn should. i turn sharon. i knew my eye tension was rather new hombre it's got up the challenge of the town i reports it was a usual saturday and it was a very warm day and we did not feel like studying. after the second lesson teachers

were called for a meeting and left us to ourselves at the time we heard that something bad had happened at the reactor that is that many of the children's parents worked there they talked about what they had heard from them. and i learned that there had been a blaze of the station and several people were injured through some with a hole that we could not imagine how serious it was we felt that a fire was nothing to be afraid of at school we were told but atomic energy was the safest in the world. ultimately because. i was still a kid when the tragedy happened we played outdoors with to the rooftop and saw the blaze at the station there was smoke coming out of the building from the explosion in relation levels were already extremely high. horse everyone young and old was exposed to huge radiation doses. still works.

this question issue one yes there's almost nothing left here. the most can you look so we are going maybe there is some information about this person there just a second yes that yes i have something he was one of those who was supposed to be performing an experiment at the station which means that during the moment of the explosion he should have been there all of the workers who were working at the fourth block were immediately sent to a hospital as they were severely irradiated we could go to the hospital maybe we can find something there. that is a good idea but that's the image. of what about his family. i don't know. i have no information on them to.

move the injuries were different. but the majority were exposed to the fourth radiation levels. and received third or fourth degree burns and. one patient died of burns but me and the others were treated at zero medical facility. and then the abort to moscow. shows with the fourth level of radiation grimshaw disoriented and the rest.

i know the injured are being brought here from the powerful arms they are all covered in radioactive dust and. we are receiving strong those us here to work and we're completely i'm ready for what has happened i don't believe in all this it just cannot be happening this is real hell. what's that what i found inside a patient record card. we need to leave what's happening we are leaving.

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it should make your decision quicker the radiation levels are very high here.

just about all of us but there's a piece only what is this cross doing that it's ok on the can just say it's a protective cross you there are four of them in the ukraine west and they form a square for you this in the south in the east and in the west this is the northern one. your cell phone work if she took with no there's no signal whatsoever. well then we're stuck. here hold this. is the village not far from here. of course they are on the other side of the river a few elderly couples living there till a form they might have a radio phone upgrade if god then at least we can stay overnight.

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ok. as we walk through the field i saw a herd of wild horses where they come from the very thing they were brought here straight after the catastrophe in the ninety's and it was an experiment to see how they would survive the radiation and now they've grown into a huge population the same happened to all the other animals on the hoof there's no people here and that's why they've. safe walking out of.

what is this village who lives here there's a couple of elderly people that live here but there's the women they were evacuated out of the catastrophe one day why they here they were. well they came back they resettled here of their own free will oh hello in my free will and you know i was not hello hello they're looking for how do you live here on your own there's no transportation facilities past looking at other provide us with the free bus to sit on top of the you they want when we need something from the market it's huge he won some money because how often we were unsure of how this is just for them but now it's less often. this force is used by everyone in this village when they need to carry on some final version

of what. must they do i don't block that most of it was sleep over there near the stove maybe. the public was i'll give you blankets and pillows and i'll come and i think it was on a blanket or something and set ourselves up. i

still don't understand those post notices. you remember the old men of various across the river. apparently he's the most a man. and once a fortnight you cruises up and down the river and delivers mail. so you think he did it for. you maybe i don't know. maybe somebody else maybe it was a mistake. it's interesting a lot has a point chemistry at first but there's such an easy solution. from research we have seen him do you think anyone will ever come back here. i don't know. they still start congregates they built in one nine hundred eighty six it was in temporary they said it was temporary because it would last for twenty to thirty years and now they're building a new one. isn't ones supposed to last one hundred years and you know it's funny

when they also call it temporary means that both you and i and our children will be gone and it'll still be standing there after all who will read. and haven't looked at these pictures i still don't understand why you describe this town as beautiful to me it looks like an ordinary soviet town typical buildings and planning there were thousands of towns like that across the country it was beautiful because we lived here and you know i've been having this feeling that you just cannot let go of all that happened here. i was if you continue fighting the zone ok how can i forgive it if you. and i would just maybe it's right walking through the zone. it's nonsense to need letters in order to be well those i received were not directed to me either yes and when you did they were not meant for you. and you would never have found them will read them in the first place.

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