if you just joined us for a welcome this is our t. commission live from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day 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 honors those who died as well as those who took part in the rescue and clean up. a lot of approaching calls into question nato 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 the picture britain's of terrorism breeding ground with bombers trained in london mosques and masterminds finding safe haven in the country about another update in fifteen minutes for you in the meantime more on the anniversary of the chernobyl tragedy r.t. talked to a member of the cleanup crew deployed to the disaster zone immediately after the blast that special interviews next week on r.t. . mr serai of thank you for being with us where they seem to be spicing banks revising very well just as asked there was not did you know what you were going to face when you received orders to go to noble. people who are called or when i received my order i did have a full understanding of what was happening there with very scarce information so

the other time i was on a business trip in budapest was told to leave it within the next twenty four hours for food to moscow and arrived at the ministry where the chief department head toa take a special flight from the book over airfield in two hours as you figure out what happens once you get there again so i went to the airport immediately and there i met my friends and colleagues design engineers who had taken the same flight to deliver project documents we went together to help them i will put lots of what information did you have on the way there along scotland yard and foremost i knew that an explosion happened the site was in ruins that's about it that's what i wish did you realize it was a nuclear catastrophe and i certainly thought it was. according to the state right here in the first six months following the accident with approximately three hundred thousand people worked in the area of the chernobyl nuclear power station what was the most difficult challenge for he as one of the leaders. everything was

difficult the work tempo is difficult each day were facing new cars they had to resolve somehow using all our experience to empty 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 that was very dismal it wasn't even the back is not crossing the site in an armored vehicle then we were taking measures on relieving the after effects of flew over all those ruins in a helicopter i was also impressed by that because i as a director and chief engineer the same kind of energy unit from scratch at simulates power station my up to space in the entire process done in front of my very own eyes i see it all destroyed like that was very difficult abandoned towns made the most dismal impression. three quarters of workers who dug out their one hundred fifty meter tunnel under the reactor died before turning forty

six hundred dollars from the intoxicant brigade which placed a strong radiation were those human sacrifices really necessary. i'm not familiar with the statistics as for helicopter parts and miners there aspersion i was with them this will limits of emergency status at the time some are s'posed more than others but we're trying to stay within limits and avoid overexposure couple where miners were digging the tunnel i visited myself in the tunnel itself the background radiation was natural strong exposure was outside with the mine carter taking up one load together with a camel troops that were ports the site we attempted deactivated eternals orifice to reduce the irritation as for just the by any sacrifices were not justified we were doing our utmost to keep the number of victims as low as possible and those conditions. were you apprehensive about another possible explanation given that

he's 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 reactors could heat up and cause an uncontrollable chain reaction that it would melt the foundation plate of the reactors main body would go down to the ground so therefore the decision was made to dig that tunnel urgently and just average the cooling system under the foundation plates stop. what is to knoebels legacy. some people like for instance academicians legacy of who committed suicide in his later couldn't live with it. as an atomic energy professional as primarily very concerned for the subject of the atomic energy i did a kate 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. a proper working conditions is a clean energy production in terms of its impact on environment and mankind

therefore as boy that's what energy will be wound down i would personally return to coal furnace as the boiler stations in every building and so on the way used to be in ninety fifties or sixties. put up as a furniture when the chernobyl catastrophe happened the information on the explosion was publicized late which resulted the loss of many lives those are some practical the same thing happened and fukushima they walked very hard to conceal data on the explosion and to keep this from becoming public can we now believe knew that spreads more and you know everything about africa she made it a one off. under such circumstances it's impossible to know everything about the every tiny detail and we should believe the information we get those responsible for this information may also be spilling it partially with the award why can't we disclose all the facts and make them public for months and for months the facts differ sometimes it's possible to present them in

a way that will sow panic among the population and that is fraught with harder consequences only accident itself as why this information be truthful while weight is presentation should be proportionate to real actions electrode 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 caused and judging from the news secondary facilities responsible for the station's operation had been damaged those were energy supply units in the first place and the reactor itself remain undamaged by the tsunami at that moment it was necessary to post all the efforts of resuming energy supplies to the reactors cooling system so unfortunately that wasn't done on time and the whole process became trapped into late i think that only ten days after the tsunami the japanese started supplying water cooling

system from hoses and fire 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. the damage would have been steam discharges and that would have been the end of it but of the three matthiessen in the united states since the reactors active zone was left without cooling temps just kept rising as a result a few melt down occurred it was followed by had shortness of glass at the pressurize ation of the reactors containment and consequently discharge is not only bape is bogus he is radioactive materials but elements of nuclear fuel into the atmosphere. disaster has been followed by a criticism towards nuclear energy should we continue developing aid or would be better to give it up can you get energy to be one hundred percent safe and no human activity can be absolutely safe because there is any kind of activity included

political and public activities in any society and people do should be considered from the point of view safety science and technology progresses machines become more dance and complicated we develop new forms of energy which used to be unknown and unclear in the past so i call for pound scientific research a measures in the stages of development design and construction so we can live with it and we should trust that. looking back what we have done differently into novel twenty five years ago. present was a. could have been done differently it's hard for me to say today after twenty five years that i think that everything that was done at that time was right and rational it was unnecessary to attract so many he resorted to the sas the area we could have done the job with few people the time we'd 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 but those words have since here ourselves on words troubles and they were justified. the people who did that who wrote he did a very big job as wise experts began understanding the degree of hazards they just had to work so carried out at the chernobyl nuclear power station until late june one thousand eight hundred six and 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 with regard to what was left in the damaged reactor and how they should act the solution was simple difficult but simple helicopters dropping eight hundred cubic meters of seizing agents on the damage reactor for seventy two hours that fix the radioactive dust and prevented 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 and actually we were breathing in that dust we had to suppress all that stuff 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 a cat's deactivation a few expenses also enable them to climb on the damaged reactors roof to clear away the radioactive discharge on the top from. callisto what's the situation in chernobyl today i've heard the containment spilled over the damaged power unit is credited to rating what's going on there. first of all wisconsin engineering observation over the state of this containment senses have been a student all parts of the fall of unit of measure to contain its destruction. this observation is constant as far as i know there hasn't been any significant destruction of the containment look at any construction facility there are signatures and pockets there's nothing catastrophic. there are some radioactive

discharges they can easily be measured in the next of these charges are also under control but i think there's a threat containment is deteriorating it was built at a very high engineering level it has thick walls with a high degree of safety overhead covers were also built more over walls and overhead covers were built around the damage react to unit well concrete was pumped his side of the reactor helicopters dropped metal fittings inside the reactor fuel pumps pumped him liquid concrete. everything there were some minor cavities was left all in all liquid. hundred thousand cubic metres of concrete but a cache of construction the reactor of the first power unit required four hundred twenty thousand cubic meters of concrete almost half that the amount was pumped into the reactor and that concrete is resting inside the reactor and its original form. thank you very much for. your welcome.

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understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from well. it's nineteen forty five goals archie top calm. top stories this are not it's a day of remembrance for the victims of the chernobyl disaster exactly a quarter of a century on the world those who died as well as those who took part in the rescue and clean up. calls into question nato is operation in libya saying the no fly zone is being used as a cover to disrupt the country's infrastructure and eliminate. fresh we can fix our relations depict britain as a terrorism breeding ground with promise trained in london mosques and mosques tamales finding safe haven in the country or news in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime sport news is next.

welcome to the sports news and these the stories making headlines. final target wayne rooney believes the line is not united go to shelter in the first leg of their champions league semifinal. while i was watering trash rail madrid and barcelona for the third l. traffic gotye in eighteen days the first leg of their european study final. elsewhere the gentle touch boxing champion manny pacquiao releases his first record a week before his title fight against shane mosley. called down congress back on the conditions in an annual mud race in england to raise money for charity. that start with football on this tuesday night munster united are aiming to take one step towards the champions league final as they kicked off the german side sharking for the first leg of the last four tie united missed top scorers are berbatov it

was a groin strain so wayne rooney and how do you monday's leave the line at the belgians arena fabio is surprisingly named it right back though notably rio ferdinand returns to partner in money of it in the heart of defense is the trials time united have played in the semifinals and the thirteenth a goalkeeper as we understand a record matched only by former real madrid and chelsea midfielder toward back to late. but i think the present group. enough experience know in europe. and figures where we should be i think that there is great creation from my point of years old in high regard to the european scene because. you do get envious of the public clubs we record in europe and we try to. particular thought you know it's a priority i'm a good an e.c.v. a lot and by your meaning and i.x. will we really need to. progress quick way to get to that level again

now you are just. enjoying it so just what you said it's your are always nice when you win you know you're fourteen in a winning team and w.b. don't know a lot lately and you can become keep on doing that just going to have to play for the fish of the season. well opponents shout in this key defend that benedict have a it is as well as strike a clash of huntelaar but the home sliced in half were in their ranks the competitions all time top score up with seventy one goals in a hundred fourteen games the bundesliga side is making their first appearance in the european cup semifinal though they struggled in icici this season and are tense but new coach ralph reineke has revived their fortunes and they impress me not that defending champions into milan seven three on aggregate in the previous round. isn't like the most important thing is that we concentrate on our own game and we're focused on the way we're supposed to play if you look at the game against we

were one behind after forty five seconds it didn't look good in the team dealt with that in a fantastic manner and that's what it's all about at this level of the school with just under four minutes played is currently nil nil. and on wednesday archrivals well madrid and barcelona meet at the burn about for the surge of their four much anticipated el classico is in the first leg of their champions league semifinal well coached has a radio insists he doesn't have a magic potion to beat barcelona the portuguese guided into milan to success over boston last season's champions league semifinal as well as last week's kaka del rey one real victory over the castle and side they all had failed to win his six previous meetings with barcelona and four without a trophy since two thousand and eight but kristie i read all those extra time head at end of both of those runs however marino emphasised he was still the same coach and presided over a five nil defeating pep guardiola side at the nou camp just a few months ago. because we always went on the same coach the last five nearly in

barcelona a few months ago i don't have any magic potion to beat ganster i have nothing i just work honestly seriously and a lot i spend many hours trying to be in a position where i can help my people but a few months ago we lost five nil and i was the coach. well over in england this tuesday night f.a. cup finalists toga hosting second button was in a premier league medal and darby the potters themselves are five points above the relegation zone while was the worst away record in the top flight when we would see them move out of the drop zone underscored the early exchanges he still will nail. on wednesday following need a draw at home to bolton to reach their traditional safe marker forty points out as manager i mean call use that name the same side that they asked for two one on sunday but then the gunners title hopes however cool admits it's the memory of the five nil f.a.

cup semi final warning to stay that's helping to spur on his side to the end of the season. as we always hope for that was it was a fluke really was a bar and. it was a super play for one group to this point and there's not been too many of those those occasions are not good just. happened they were hard to see with bridgepoint quick we would succeed in our point and we're trying to as many points and we can do to continue to progress for that football club now russia's ice hockey squad are aiming for gold at the world championships which face off in slovakia on friday the statement of intent came along with a roster announcement from their final training camp ahead of the trip to wratislaw there and i got there every ports. his captain just a day before the start of the world championship that seems ross or although announced is also not quite on light but it's safe to say that the past and present heroes of the cage shells are in cup winners will be out in force in slovakia some

russian n.h.l. players who are already out of the stanley cup playoffs will make the team as well including promising athletes like the nineteen year old atlanta thrashers dancer alexander burmistrov the process of. his young showing brighter and brighter we evaluated the games he took part in concluded that this guy has a lot of potential despite his very young age he played great a year a tour in the czech republic. former san jose sharks so are you getting a bucket has been named as it seems choice in that mind or for the upcoming competition the other to vacancies were awarded to sever stars that my silly question and the gari cup finalists for our clients constantine maroulis however russia's other top goaltender from the phoenix coyotes golf was left out of the national team to go and they are annoyed at a man to man chalk and i think he understands me he's been a national team player continue to be one he wanted to play but we set our hopes on

new book called wheels brazil off if he would join us a from the book of his and out of play he said he'd be on the next flight from the us would you mind the head coach will be looking forward to regaining the world crown lost in the czech republic and twenty thousand that loss in germany was also the end of russia's twenty seven game winning streak at the world championships an interesting statistic as developed over that just love because for your tenure as head coach of russia each side the national team won the giro hockey tour it's of the instilling world championship ground as well while russia are the strongest side in europe again this year so those who believe in signs and good omens remain optimistic about russia's chances at the upcoming world championship instead of akio ramon cosgrove r.c. the moscow region. where the former chief organizer for india's commonwealth games has appeared in court on a corruption charge so this county is accused of favoring a swiss company in the purchase of equipment for timing and scoring events for the

new delhi tournament comedy and to lottery officials were arrested on monday as part of an investigation into the scandal plagued competition one man held a separate colony as he arrived for the court hearing. of public anger against the official india have hoped the games would help herald its rise as a superpower thinks that it was deforest i corruption allegations construction delays and cost overruns. budget loom to billions of dollars in the person who heard the problem. and being proud to. be in charge you got up and drug your gun fourteen i think it's more pop and. it's something that i feel ignored reporting the. money has added the role of singles to his repertoire the eight division boxing world champion has recorded a single ahead of his w b o title fight against american shane mosley package is

usually acclaimed for the ferocity of his punches and the tenderness of his voice but all that could be about to change the thirty two year old has recorded a version of sometimes when we touch with the song's creator dan hill the single will be released on thursday just over a week before pacquiao steps into the ring for the welterweight title bout in las vegas. and finally hundreds of runners took part in one of the don't see a sporting events on the planet on monday the molds and mud race the event sees competitors attempt to wade across the river blackwater and england's east coast waist deep in thick black mud two hundred fifty combats this raced over four hundred meters crossing not of course they're going to raise important funds the charity event started in the one nine hundred seventy s. and is normally held over the christmas period as we share jewels and at least know that to make the winter period no such problems this time around in bright spring

day with temperatures marking twenty two degrees celsius and for those who emerge from the mild relief was evident. very good for a good bit sorry for is going to very close work if we had a bit of a cost you malfunction off around. a lot of traders and then they're going to further cost of our friendship going to last for close to. very revealing but that's all the schools leave for this bill isn't. it.

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