if i receive you. and use them and you've just started to become you know just the symbol of that. so. yeah i'm proud of you and did there's a reason you've been. so into a fight breaks out and. you know it's really pretty simple example of you never went into it you know and regulated to ration it was supposed to stop being used the ones that feel stuff way nine hundred eighty six it was almost a radius and then five days before the accident happened you know and so now this view which was never enough to ration. is a move for a move for new things that will. p.p.s. more charm is a money maker it draws tourists from eighty five countries. is good to have such a special interesting cheap special it's just not true yeah he said that it's a vacation like now of the experience you won't find anywhere else it's different. like a. completely preserved. our guide hopes visitors can help the region around chernobyl improve its image and image he says that also must be decontaminated. you don't know that that tourism easy and they made a terrible elementary. the system of the mitigate. the indian the consequences of radiation the accident would ensure nobody you know you. brings the people. at last but no definitive look at least it is the best way to along the listens of those who are huge and important. role and i'm kind of proud that i am continuing to. i would think feeney is there for it's all of the good it has to wipe out a bottle of bill or guns or former officer for doing commissions and general books . that are pieces of furniture are all that bear testimony to the lives abruptly event in. liquidators destroyed and buried almost everything. thousands of abandoned pets had to be caught and put down for fear they would carry radioactive dust out of the zone. eerie calm cast a spell on visitors. come on better after kilometer surfacing beneath the brushwood empty houses abandoned villages. three hundred fifty thousand people were evacuated from the zone from one day to the next their lives changed forever. they were resettled in other towns and villages wherever there was room. many today live hundreds of kilometers from their former home. but they were three dollars a. community and that's a substantial. psychological trauma it's well the ball would be through if the ball with the loss all for the collector right to. the roots of the major plays. that may be why life has returned to some villages in the zone like in cuba about thirty kilometers southeast of the reactor. and her husband even were resettled following the disaster. they had nothing but the clothes on their backs when they arrived at their designated destination a village one hundred kilometers away but they were never welcome there. didn't i want a friend who does some of the locals wanted to stop those of us who'd been resettled from using the well. they threw straw and hay into it so we couldn't they said we don't want you here your contaminated mud there for me wasn't much of those that are. stigmatised and far from home they could no longer bear it and returned secretly they live here illegally but are tolerated by zone officials to is mostly cleared of radiation but no one knows whether residents aren't consuming radioactive isotopes in home grown food even and maria nevertheless provide for themselves they rule out the possibility of danger. there is no radioactivity here i don't believe it i've been living here for thirty one years if there was radioactivity i'd be long gone this is my home. today an estimated one hundred forty people live illegally in the zone most are elderly and can't imagine living anywhere else. eighty five year old hannah is one of the returning settlers known as someone. behind us as she's fondly known in the zone lives here with her six sister sonia whom she cares for all by herself. the two women wouldn't think of leaving their home again. i'm here this is where i was born in this is well i don't want to move into a retirement home if i can no longer walk someone will bring me water so i can die here. but behind you know it's something of a celebrity in the zone and gets regular visits from tourists. if only. a guide says he's coming around with a large group. hello. may god protect you oh how many are coming. that's when you drive by's on his place and then come here and then. i'm in the seven people you find come on over there you have the whole. laundry. here as well as public coming to our job i like to bring me some coffee that probably. got him if you're ok i'll make some pancakes for you would i. know that when you can no longer work the fields she depends on the gifts brought by visitors it's hard to get hold of food. a mobile shop selling the basic necessities comes by once a month and most. ruthless well like god i have the boys a bring me flour. the tourists bring me all needles and some of. the tourists bring everything made me i'm so grateful for these kind hearted people people little weekly. they call ahead and ask baba honey what can we bring there i tell them cakes here what you don't see i can't do without it as i know me she. she serves up a spread of mashed potatoes bacon and lots of vodka. offers homemade food and the chance to visit a real someone saying there is no other place in the world like it. the third tour group of the day is waiting outside her door. meanwhile says he and his group have arrived at the epicenter of the disaster reactor block for. it's the highlight of every tour. here like in the hands of this monument you could see the look of the first record i guess but it was dubious really short terms radiation was so high at that point it's. the reactor was completed in two thousand and eighteen. a multinational project that cost more than two billion euros the giant steel shelter is designed to contain radiation from the plant for the next century but is still only a temporary solution. deep inside is the molten core of the reactor known as the most toxic chunk of waste in the world just a few minutes exposure to radiation would be lethal. for another hundred thousand years. the canteen is just a stone's throw from the surface contamination checks are mandatory before entering the tourists are not exempt. this is where people who work at the site eat lunch. this city of its name is inextricably linked to the world's worst manmade disaster . but it isn't abandoned life goes on at least to some degree buildings have been restored to serve as housing for workers in the zone. there are bars a sports facility and shops with a small selection of goods. but because living in the exclusion zone is illegal people commute they spend one week here then leave to spend time in another place outside as a. tour guide says he chair enough also has a room here every fortnight he returns to his wife in their home three hundred kilometers away in sumi. it hasn't been easy for the residents of chernobyl to start new lives elsewhere. cool for too long rupert the people ensure no bull are unable to move on so they won't find work anywhere else in and they've been working here for twenty or thirty years they've grown accustomed to the place people have grown accustomed to each other it's too late to leave because they're too old they're unfamiliar with modern technologies and computers and they can't speak english to one of the least they're living out their old age here. and i've used to live in this room with his wife but she had to leave his own because of health issues. he wants to stay a few more years to work in money then he too will leave the zone to start a new chapter he has it all planned. a good pension quiet old age a fishing rod a river and a dock. back at the checkpoint for the tourists it's almost time to leave. which to take away from their journey into the exclusion zone. with the social might is a a lot of historical facts were conveyed also by the guide lots of interesting details. and we saw quite a lot it was a first hand experience like being in a living museum or cemetery depending on how and look at it it's ok for you of course because as i got alternately it's up to each individual to decide what they gain from this kind of tourism whether it's simply snapshots or more than just memories. some message they want to convey. or a real awareness of what could happen if a reactor blew up in a heavily populated area in france or england on going on his own crate this could happen near paris brussels or london specific might take away is the impetus i feel for the people who live here also it showed me the same thing could happen anywhere else and it would be equally dramatic. and next week i must say the magic is all the way. at the end of their tour the tourists are handed a certificate identifying them as true zone visitors. it's is zero point zero zero two zero it is the moves of four four hour let's. go bozo. that's about equal to the dose of radiation passengers sustain on a flight from paris to new york. well if this system does all that it is here so is that usually enough but you know it will be my sea. which means a corner as a big. no no surgery it was my pleasure to really didn't resist. then it's time to return to kiev for the tourists this was an excursion a once in a lifetime experience. the area of the exclusion zone will remain contaminated for thousands of years because of a single accident in a nuclear power plant. sorry believes it offers more than just a stark lesson from mankind. well and you know this area is actually one of the cleanest areas would only be in ukraine but perhaps in europe because for thirty years there were literally no industry here visit museums no agriculture