the legacy of. r.c. . it's a day of remembrance for the victims of the chernobyl disaster exactly a quarter of a century on a report from the commemoration ceremony to talk to survivors and travel to the exclusion zone and the ghost town of. libya putin 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 we could leaks revelations depict britain as a terrorism breeding ground with all those trained in the mosques and lost their minds finding safe haven in the country.

international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. where it's not just past eleven 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 that deadly explosion at the chernobyl power plant speed a radioactive cloud across several continents prompting long lasting human and environmental consequences of these and he said now he's 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 at chernobyl 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 or russia and bellow reuss the three most affected countries were supposed high levels of radioactive material now after 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 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 knocked off at the time and caught off hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly evacuated some insisted they stay 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 during the anniversary of the explosion at the chernobyl nuclear power plant now we witnessed a solon ceremony with presidents with me to the middle 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. of such as yours from ukraine and russia and putin to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy in the face of such disasters we should be almost you. the government should be getting to people who truth we need to have me back nancy because he's doing the right thing by just metres away where i'm standing right now after center of all evolution of all the infamous the 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 and in radius and this represents some certain museum of abnormality because you can see so many things which are of normal for instance it is an absolutely impossible to live in the town of prepared which has levels of radiation which would kill a person in the long run but still some people manage to return here after the collapse of the soviet union such a such mess was happening in ukraine that they would manage 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 the 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 were living 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 and 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 take a look at how things unraveled court a century ago interim. twenty five years ago the town of p.p.i. it was a place any soviet person could dream of by 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 nuclear energy all of them live 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 in april from

the fifth but it could still have been saved the management committee for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated and were locked into that 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 were away from school the pleated beach we returned to normal cauldron 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. that shock was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had alarmed the population of this small town in the middle of the night they delivered to severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but a great people had different directions to get 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 doses of radiation and many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays people it is described as a debt nobody lives here and never will again the fall out period of many nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand here this has not been a steer from out there on a gurney unka already there and here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we can begin and the pension to found it impossible to supply it like that in kenya a few here have. two and a grow every clean. yes there is a little here find a place without it anywhere we're not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the word novel and cold again world wide just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned another crisis put the nuclear energy issue through serious debate the former chernobyl liquidator say they are ready to fly halfway

across the planet to japan just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago or the one is to make sure nightmares like should normal and fukushima never happen again. ski artsy in 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 to work tempos difficult each day were facing new chance 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 and surrounding areas of the villages and towns were abandoned that was very dismal and you can watch the full interview in the next here in 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 along our website ross knew what will happen to atomic energy in the near future getting your reaction on that question let's have a consequence see what the response has been so far over a third of you think there's a danger of more serious disasters happening but others are more optimistic twenty eight percent think atomic energy will expand and be good for humanity almost the same number of respondents pin their hopes on green renewable energy and six percent think that nuclear energy is days are numbered and that people's fears will see it phased out you could have your say at r.t. dot com because here what you have to say. well it may be a quarter of a century since the unthinkable happened but time hasn't lessened the consequences of the chernobyl blast and a little later this hour here in r.t. we will be showing you all documentary from the dead streets surrounding ground zero streets that will stay silent for hundreds of years to come. this time

of silence for decades. twenty five years ago to try or fifty thousand provocation all week raining down pretty hard what's it like you waited with three hours. but now it wants to be that recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to beat up letters at this post office ingredients. the stories of the world long gone. after. reading the diaries of the ghost of our two. with chernobyl's twenty fifth anniversary reminding the world of the terrifying consequences of nuclear safety negligence many eyes of turn to the continuing crisis in japan we're now joined by arnold compass and his energy adviser fairwinds associates is joining me live from

vermont there in the u.s. good to have you on our team is to going to some well i spoke to you when this crisis first began and when we had that interview you said to me that fukushima would become a chernobyl on steroids do you still stand by that. well there when we spoke you'll recall it the japanese were saying it was less than three mile island and in the last two weeks they finally admitted it was as bad a strain or what and then a week ago they up there radiation exposure so it's essentially identical to assure an old war and it hasn't stopped six seven weeks into it chernobyl was that was not be needing any more gases and not emitting any more any more liquids and focus sheila still lives so we're not out of the woods yet on yes i stick by my when i when i said six weeks ago what if the situation is as critical as you say why is it that the japanese authorities are telling us that everything is indeed other control and getting better. i've been frustrated by the japanese authorities both

both the electric company and the national authorities. since this began and they have consistently underestimated the magnitude of the problem. i think you know with with fifty we actors and no fears of power shortages and associations with the nuclear industry that combination makes them want to see the absolute best in a situation when in fact it's much worse than they're willing to admit that some would say they were just trying to keep the situation karma not to scaremonger the population. but i think they have tried to keep it current but it's one thing to keep it calm it's another to to tell the facts as they really are and i don't believe that tepco did i think they've had the information in their possession that we should have cause that accusation sooner and then they certainly should have

gotten a younger people and the pregnant women out much sooner than they did so keeping calm is nice but ignoring the facts in front of you is just poor management interesting you talking. pregnant women and children we know that the japanese government has a new much higher acceptable radiation threshold for children see though that level is chosen as what other countries seem only safe for adults working in nuclear plants or are being reckless in some way taking a risk with young lives. i think it's it's inappropriate i think it's. it's a gross. miscarriage of what we know old to be the science of radiation what happens is that kids and pregnant mothers slow cells are dividing very very fast much faster than an adult male and. by allowing the kids to receive what an adult male might receive as a legal limit in fact the risk of cancer to

a kid is the between can and a hundred times higher for the same exposure to an adult let's look at the future now japan is announce a plan to cover the reactors in a protective shield to stop all radiation leaks is that going to work. i don't think so but i think the problem of fukushima is that a lot of the radiation is leaking down into the groundwater. it's obviously in the ocean it's been detected in fish forty kilometers away in the interesting thing this weekend is that the detected radiation in the in the foundations are through five and six and there are about a kilometer to the north a half a kilometer at least to the north so clearly radiation is already seeping into the groundwater so putting a cap on top won't solve the downward migration of radiation or i just want to end this very quickly running out of time briefly given your experience in the nuclear

industry you worked in the nuclear industry for a long time but now many saying look at the dangers it poses surely this is the end of nuclear energy any of the alternative energy sources must be now found is that the end of your profession and that's the right. yes i think this is the the this is the bookend for noble or three mile island was the one bookend on the nuclear perfectly she will world will look in the other end of the nuclear and people will begin a real. perhaps not immediately but begin to realize that we're going down a payout where the costs are subtle astronomically high and so are the financial cost to build that there's got to be a better way very interesting to hear what you have to say particularly somebody who's been working in the nuclear industry for so long a little gunderson energy adviser fairwinds associates thanks for joining us live there in vermont thanks for having me. well clearly fascinating stories are waiting for you on our website here on our to the web site online all the time r t dot com

including a chance to meet all your social networking buddies in person every user is invited to facebook i don't have a look at that online creation there is that to rename a strip of land off of the world's most popular network also the battle of artistic merit that's a story for the web site is a giant piece of graffiti scoops of top russian art of war many question whether what essentially vandalism should receive such an order you can put up more on that story and i'll take the call. who gave coalition forces in libya the right to eliminate gadhafi that's the question of let me putin's been asking during an official visit to denmark russian premier also said nato has effectively joined one of the warring sides in the conflict and more support and action should be taken instead of these daniel bushell has more now from brussels 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 no coalition said that 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 colonel gadhafi himself now we also heard that the expose here in brussels have confirmed that there is forming going on by the coalition forces which is not being covered by the media here in the european union and putin added that oil was a key interest for the western powers for the european powers who have gone into libya they want to get rid of gadhafi and 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 was. the coalition said destroy and get their feet was not my goal. says 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 the bombings are 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 double standards here 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 which the west is either ignoring or not really paying the same amount of attention to the european union has plans to send up to a thousand troops under the guise of supporting humanitarian aid to the country now the un is not keen on that it wants to see troops on the ground only as a quote last resort russia is even more concerned saying that it fears they'll be used as a pretext for an invasion by the west and coalition draft plan is called you for

libya's provides for ground troops in fact to be deployed by the western coalition in the port city of misrata now russia has said that it will only support another u.n. resolution if it explicitly says that it will not continue the violence but if it's end the violence 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. well it was daniel bushell reporting there from russell's. britain has become a hotbed for terrorism with extremist preachers and masterminds freely able to operate there the news is come to light in the latest wiki leak which reveals at least thirty five guantanamo detainees are being trained for terrorism in london mosques the secret files also suggest an alleged al qaeda bomber worked as an informer for british intelligence he's lindsey france reports now from london. eighteen of these detainees reported believed to have come out of britain were 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 quote an attack planning and propaganda production base 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 one didn't actually earn

as the nickname within these dark documents as londonistan 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 out into terrorist hotbeds around the world. the latest classified documents suggest the guantanamo bay detention camp in the some people that's certainly going to add fuel to the flames for those who want to charge them isn't. exactly what's at stake here but has been heavily looked at or the detainee assessment briefs now with the white house spokesman has come out and said that the. 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 or five years ago so even if a.d.t. assessment stipulates that a person may be a low. 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. pay by the white house also has come out and said that president barack obama still holds his 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 do you think the detainee assessment 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 president out for a trial or to keep them there. robin simcox who is a research fellow at the henry jackson society says the number of radical islam is coming out of u.k. is reaching a critical point. you need to stop these kind of 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 you know supporters call them out and stuff and hate preachers from entering the u.k. of course from all the noise to go and look at the amount of convictions of course and the amount of suicide bombers that either in the u.k. carried out suicide bombings are brought the numbers are frightening and i did research looking at the terrorist convictions between ninety ninety nine and two thousand and nine and you're looking over one hundred twenty people that were 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 immigrant files. well now let's have a quick look at some other world news stories before the business sees the dimitri in yemen opposition leaders reportedly agreed to a power transfer plan which will see the current president step down previously rejected the initiative as it didn't fulfill the. to go immediately under the new deal which is yet to be formally accepted by either side so it was put off for

a month from now supposed breakthrough but little to ease tensions in the country though the protesters still massing on the streets. in nigeria hundreds of poll workers have fled their jobs as violence which has been accompanying national elections escalates local rights activists claim more than five hundred people have been killed in the uprising after goodluck jonathan committees muslim roybal in the presidential election more than a week ago the poll exposed the regional divisions in the country. well not just on the two weeks russia will start to remember those who gave everything to bring about the feet of nazi germany and this year marks the sixty sixth anniversary of victory day amazing night red square once again the center point of the celebrations preparations are well underway into very small the first rehearsal of the massive military parade and sarah ferguson is there for us. right. now. taking

part in this if you. read all the. things people. the great patriotic war. great. give you an idea. of the great we have both the. surface reporting that dimitri has promise is next with the business of. you know what it was insulting is going to have the accompanying a resolution of the peace dispute with its russian partners may finally be in sight at the last who is ready to sell a stake in the company. one of the partners in the a r consortium which owns fifty percent the p.d.p.

says the sale will be possible if they're offered a good price earlier refused me pays twenty seven billion dollars of and suggested the price would be haughty billion dollars b.p. is seeking to buy its russian partners out after a legally block the shares wrote an article to ration fuel between beating and wilson it. then a shipping and drilling company nala may ascs could join the exploration of russia as well and gas rich offshore fields russia's prime minister has invited the company to instead of projects in the black sea in the far east but he refuses notes of. far to reach but promising offshore fields currently the company helps russia's largest private will maker lukoil to drill wells in the caspian sea. u.s. markets rating in positive territory that was putting on one percent the nasdaq point nine led by caterpillar and three m. share as shares of preem are up two point four percent of the company hiked its

twenty eleven koenig's outlook even as it took a hit from japan's ongoing crisis in europe the session on tuesday ended on a positive note point eight percent for both the foot sea and the dax driven by u.b.s. and parmalat u.b.s. rose over five point eight percent after switzerland's biggest bank posted profits that beat estimates russia's markets managed to pare losses by the end of tuesday's both aisles asian investors were focusing on the upcoming words from ben bernanke and while price fluctuations so you get some of the movers on the nice legs gazprom is down point seven five percent rosneft managed to come back as oil prices reversed by the end of the session and russia it's up half a percent prosthetic arm is up four percent last minutes of trading as it shareholders announced plans to attract more investors here's commentary from portfolio manager i think i'm going to. see a little bit more of to you while you miss. one fills in all the usual volumes

the market is range wild and everybody is expecting to more of a statement from what i hear for instance you from mr brown the key judging from the forecast released on futures and options on the interest of the market participants you can bet that fifty percent there will be out of twenty five basis points but my personal opinion on that one the one going to happen. charges themselves and you will continue to update you on the latest business news from russia and abroad starting eight am moscow time on wednesday join cutting the many accounts from.

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