this week's top stories here in r t a terror attack shakes the capital of belle rose as a matter of blast killed thirteen and injures hundreds the authorities claim they know was behind the bombing. a film based website slam for supporting one of the world's most wanted terrorists is again in the spotlight as its editor goes on trial not on charges related to extremism. also this hour the russian presidential race for two thousand and twelve draws near of it's not clear as prime minister important tries to quell the hype over whether he is in the running. and

the arrows on rest and goes and you are about as a massive and flux of immigrants barred surowiecki after italy offers tens of thousands of residency kermit's. it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program the week started with tragedy in bel rose want to deadly blast struck the madrona capital minsk thirteen people have now died and over two hundred were injured after an explosive was detonated at a station during the monica evening rush hour two days after the bombing president lukashenko the clarity of the words knew who was behind the terror attack five people have been detained including a man who is suspected of setting off the explosives three of them have apparently confessed the motives for the bombing are still unclear art is a cousin to

a child who describes the first failed terror attack in the country's modern history. five forty nine pm means comes around a man steps on the platform of a crowded metro station he's had a back on the floor and walks away for several minutes you can see him cold blooded for the right moment trains going in both directions make a stop doors open. i started to scream asking for help i was bleeding heavily i managed to woman karen to be outside into the fresh air the top of my mag and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived. that a man and woman might be unaware they saved not only irina but the life of your unborn child as well. on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins it's terrible but i believe i got off not only where people without eyes with missing

legs and hands and six months pregnant so all my thoughts were about the baby. but instantly rina huddled to protect your belly she was lucky people spotted here in the thick smoke and didn't trample here in the panic. of u.v. the train was full of panicked and then there was this bang and all of a sudden the fire's soon collapsed lots of people were lying on the platform. i stepped over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. lina was at the very epicenter of the blast and one of the few to iraq you listen to survive in her carriage again despite the panic others gave her helping hand to escape the carnage from the city's busiest metro station this is where the two allies of the music subway intersect and this explains why there was so many commuters during this evening rush hour on tape eyewitnesses say that those hollywood hits were carried out onto the street from these answers and many of

those waters still remain in critical condition in. bills across the city the news of the attack let to phone systems been flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays and getting through the longest moments of their lives it's valuable not those who. called me to say there was a terrorist attack respond then the line broke up because when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked her jacket was all torn apart as if she had been hit by a shotgun can it almost pays hands and clothes were covered in blood but she was trying to ease our shark around you don't cry this is not my blood it here the blood was that of others caught up in their trust city twelve killed at the scene one more died in hospital as funerals were taking place in minsk and elsewhere people were flocking to the site of the tragedy in their hundreds almost a week after the attack many are still struggling to come to terms with the human

cost of the trust city. lost lives. it hurts terribly people need to understand and value every moment of their lives and remember those who died. i'm sorry but i can't talk. it's a deliberate choice of what our t.v. means bellows that is so rude has a british conflict resolution analyst says the minister metro explosion could be part of a pattern of attacks across european capitals. it will fall into a pattern of similar. that we've seen in different european cities. has not been targeted before in this way and is not perhaps an obvious target for a terrorist attack but clearly. is not immune to these kind of incidents that we've

seen then moscow that we've seen in london that we have seen in and in other places and so this would obviously be a number of alarm bells. and of the russian capital well speculation over who was behind it minsk natura bombing led to focus on internal politics in government opposition experts were quick to blame both terrorism experts will be says president bush and his great means his rivals are incapable of such an attack president lukashenko won a highly disputed election in december and there is a deeply disgruntled opposition but the opposition has never showed any signs of being able to be involved in something like this nor the sophisticated methods that are needed and moreover some people have told me that most members of the no no position of either been in jail or under a twenty four hour observation from the k.g.b.

so that they would be able to plan something as complicated and sophisticated as this. while deloris reels from the shock of terror striking its capital elsewhere in europe they are seemingly turning a blind eye to extremist lang's. the situation is that. the stander. on he's associates they are working for the politicization of islamist spring feel about who. they want to make radicals later with question why a man in finland who's behind a website link to terrorism is being prosecuted for smuggling also this hour. the enemy wasn't born on september eleventh he simply rose a full length from the train just morning and allowed him to get to his feet these are the thoughts of prominent russian expert on transnational crime and says the war on terror won't be won unless each country pulls its way.

russia's prime minister told party colleagues this week that it's too premature to target him running for the two thousand and twelve presidential election by the report and that members of the country's leading united russia party wholly attempts to portray him and president of vienna as rivals let's get more on this from marcie's xan thomas good morning thanks for being here with us in the studio all the political gossip certainly getting energized in russia this week and you've been keeping an eye on the developments there so take us through what's being said well certainly it has been an interesting week in russian national politics especially when you talk about the two top two positions in the country and arguably the two most dynamic men in russian politics and that of course is dmitri medvedev the president and bloody new putin the prime minister now anytime these two get together or there's a possibility of there being a differing opinion or who will run the international community becomes very excited and that's what happened this week and it all started a head of the brics summit in china when the chinese media had an interview with

president again of a man asked him about some of these parts possible visions and how these two men think in that interview president medvedev said look there are two different positions one is head of state and one is the head of government and because of that they have different rules and there will be differences of opinion in how things should be done but he also talked about in that interview how this is part of the dynamic process of a democratic process and it's a healthy system to have two people who disagree but you don't have to have agreement all the time and those types of discussions over the loud for a healthy country and a healthy democracy but he also in that interview said that he was not going to rule out running for president because he is the current sitting president and as such it just makes sense for him to run again if you will but he didn't necessarily say i am indeed running. this of course trying to get the united russia party which . is the head of two. start kind of saying no no no we want our candidate

to be in that position as well and. has been the head of state in the past but term limits have required him to step down take a step back if you will and he has now said that one term out which means he's eligible to run again so of course the international community is very interested in seeing these two pitted against each other but the united russia party sic kind of hinting towards putin basically allowed putin to go in front of the united party officials and say hey look this is all premature we still have the state duma elections coming up on december fourth and it is premature to talk about the presidential elections which are in two thousand and twelve when we have the state duma elections this year just coming up in a few months so basically he basically went to his party officials and said look you have worked with needs to be done you still need to keep your eye on the ball and it's premature to talk about this now again in the international community

a lot of people like to put these two together they've been friends for a long time invaded even said in this interview that he's known that vladimir putin for half of his life they're linked to politically they're linked as friends and so if there's a difference in opinion between these two people like to exploit that if people like to talk about which one is stronger which one is weaker in fact you may remember which there is a lot of debate in the media it certainly does if you remember in the united states had a document that said afterwards that. revealed it is the rotten to the batman goes about reporting so a lot of interest in this but of course this week putin the prime minister coming up and said you know what it's time that we focus on your we're doing all right john thanks very much for the sub date and we'll certainly i will certainly interesting to see how the situation pans out and what the keeping our viewers abreast of the developments thanks very much john thomas there. now as the months countdown towards russia's presidential election with plenty of coverage building out for you at our team dot com. well stay abreast of all the twists and turns in

russian politics with effort of paying for you to really delve into what's happening check out the twenty twelfth action at our team dot com. the man behind a web site in finland that slang to an internationally wanted terrorists has been tried in helsinki but it's on charges of smuggling people into the country the court's decision will be announced in three weeks but the case is raising questions over why it's being held over illegal immigration and not charges of supporting terrorism and he said now as we're following be hearing. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but. founded and runs this website said to her a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorists and declared by the un to have links with al qaida though it's responsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the dome and out of an airport bombing which in total killed almost eighty people and injured nearly

three hundred cycles doku umarov a president transmits messages about those he views as his enemies and carries ads for books about the life of a mujahideen islamic fighter the situation he's the. stander. and he's associated they are working for the politicization of islam used to be our spring theme about europe they want to make radicals stores or is being prosecuted not for aiding terrorism but for illegally smuggling some one hundred individuals into finland people who he calls freedom fighters the way the pork was sent the writes about the situation it's it's a contaminating the finish. writing of the same way. underworked of the writing rewriting of it's. correct to make her

a terrorist attacks in russia this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of how simply meanwhile opponents of islamic extremism or those who speak out against it are being persecuted by finished authorities for allegedly violating minority rights you home all are e a finnish pastor was defrocked fired from his ministry with no severance pay and forced to divorce his wife to protect her from death threats he received these came from door kumar himself who said the pastor and his loved ones would have their heads cut off the clerks church decided he was threatening a legitimate website and criminal cases for inciting racial hatred have been launched all there is says he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because although not been busy with my work but no have. the two subs and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart spreading propaganda about a man who's torn apart the lives of thousands and he's now a r.t.

helsinki. well we've more on that story online following up the plight of a pastor in trouble for speaking out against terrorism the details are on the way in a few minutes the french face off against muslims is known to the niqab and a ban for the burqa as a french government gets accused of veering into hardline policies to the far right plus. looks like this will serve as a reminder for future generations of man's first journey into space but for now there are still those who could tell the story of you to go got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history. as the operation in libya closes on its first month coalition members are pledging to push further until colonel gadhafi goes but even though the no fly resolution which allowed military maneuvers in the first place was only to secure humanitarian

protection and there she is sarah ferguson reports from moscow that's making many countries increasingly uneasy. russian president dmitry medvedev warns at the beginning of the week the new libya is a mess it's a full collapse that would be its rated buses this year that enable to restore order a countries need to be acting in strict accordance with international resolution russia and china of course they have the power of veto when it comes to u.n. security council resolutions you know they didn't exercise that in last months they devised in a fly's a that they did not stay at home that day but now there have been some concerns as to whether nato is acting outside the boundaries of that resolution. of the u.n. resolution must be fulfilled in accordance with the wording and meaning and not with three interpretations of some states because we voted for

a no fly zone to stop the escalation of the conflict so that we could separate the two sides but what we having now is a military operation it may not be on the ground yet but it's certainly going on up above a number of countries who are taking part and then nato steps in but the resolution doesn't say a good advantage for students to go on friday ever since foreign minister sergey lavrov to take the lead for russia in a take home pres again libya on the agenda and he reiterated much of what the president had said again clarified russia's stuff making it clear that that is not the resolution itself that's the problem it's the way it's being implemented is this raising question. starting with today we witnessed that some nato actions in libya are exceeding the framework to find by the security council it's already being discussed that resolution one hundred seventy three could also be used for ground operations dress aleutian does not provide for such actions and does not

approve them nor does the u.n. deal support regime change in libya some of these not really raising concerns of the possible. how he thinks. it's a question as well. patrick hayes from the online political magazines by the alliance has no plan for libya and that the real reason for western intervention was publicity protection what we've seen over the last month now is basically a geo political mayhem where you have countries who are all in this kind of shabby coalition which is kind of flaking off not really knowing what they're trying to achieve with no real sense of a strategy and no real sense of an endgame whatsoever the way i would characterize this is more kind of p.r. imperialism these are the kind of the western leaders grandstanding on the international stage for a very short term goals they don't really know what they want to achieve but they're doing it for their own personal reasons try and make themselves look like kind of great international leaders and actually i think really what they're doing

is hurting attention away from the kind of the. managerial politics they're engaged in a home fundamentally them a democracy emerging change needs to come from people fighting from the streets a grassroots kind of path so it can be hundreds of people on the plates. and to have more campaigners are convinced the airstrikes are only strengthening khadafi stance against the opposition as chris now i am promised stop the war explain to our. leaving aside the question of the legality of the operation and everything that we have learned from iraq and from afghanistan tells us and should have told the western governments that you cannot come in training to democracy or liberation cannot. you cannot create progress in the country for launching cruise missiles at it and franks what you find is the opposite when civilians die. very often the current regime actually becomes strengthened by the time because gadhafi

after all from the start was trying to characterize your position as being stooges of the west well now that particular characterization will appear to have a lot more weight. and in our next hour we'll hear why libya will face taking time bomb long after at the pine again. central it was. all these people were. exposed. to. your mind bases accusations that using deadly depleted uranium in its latest strikes which could spell danger for generations of libyans are his investigation is just ahead. france has become the first european country to ban wearing full face veils in public places the controversial law came into force this week meeting with defiance from some muslims and leading other e.u. countries to consider following suit but as reggie's daniel bushell reports it

could all backfire and stir into racial tensions even further. just become a criminal from today new french law bans covering your face in public is designed to make muslim women integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says it's had the opposite effect. my friends have simply stopped going out and all the new rulings made some scared to speak out but many valid not to change the way they dress and move on their minds what the french republic stands for says business men he pledges to pay the hundred and fifty points for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking the dispute further that also we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. pac man was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month off the criticizing

the president's approach he now calls on french muslims to wear a star similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show recalled low approval ratings for the french government with. racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the streets the government looks the building of basic public prayer rooms more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population from the scene of the riots in recent years against government policies there are signs of more brewing well there is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and again come together those foreign events have also

reached partners in europe jenning blames for all these illegal raw. it's consulting lawyers and said the north african graffiti is instantly in the food the international ngo. france could no longer lakesha regimes like iran when it picks on its own ethnic minorities but critics are forming with the french government over its whole long policies several politicians in the people of the last week quits expected to do the same in the coming days you'll see paris the issue of integrating muslims into european society is gaining momentum and light of a huge influx of immigrants from violent store in arab countries it away which is bearing the brunt of the exodus announced this week it will grant temporary residency to tens of thousands of people something that's angering other e.u.

states what am e.p. told us that the situation shows a block's border control system desperately needs reform. berlusconi and his minister should have made it very clear that these people have no future in europe because by giving them just do just the hope of getting a legal permission to stay in good he's creating another foot wave so to speak another migration from from libya or from egypt from tunisia who find it a possibility to come to europe reality is really striking here i mean for now ten years my party and equivalence to my eyes you have been crying out loud against the open borders because it's treated so many problems with illegal migration with with international crime and so on which the average population of europe is on a daily basis suffering on earth now because of this flood of migrants we have a pressing situation which is pressing out in this sense as you for national border control the entire shingle idea has been used and therefore we need to step back

into into the situation which we have ten years ago where there was actually national border control because it is for the benefit of the national states for the benefit of the populations of europe we need to realize that and i think snowy the leaves the bureaucrats of the e.u. is realizing these facts. well follow the story line authority dot com with more comments an expert analysis including how other european countries plan to deal with a delusion of immigrants. and british euro m.p. tells r t that despite promises branding you case prime minister of the country has no real mechanism in place to tackle the problem while the e.u. allows freedom of movement here while he says and tell us what you think dot com. and it's now half a century since mankind pushed into the final frontier if you were a good guy and fly it was less than two hours but it took him outside the earth's atmosphere heralding the era of manned space exploration are he says are still you

have met some of those who witnessed history in the making. i'm feeling all right ready for launch. and i have the honor of taking the cost of a great spacecraft into space first i was very happy to have that it was only the beginning of april twelve one thousand nine hundred sixty one the day you to go goddard blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe. it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened the last course my school but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame he wrote it in years earlier piers didn't know where i was serving barely knew i graduated from pilots academy and the facility was working it was top secret only heard that you regard it being sent into space this unit was me journalist came to our house to interview my parents so

they knew nothing they could have had a heart attack. one of us like this will serve as a reminder for future generations of man's first journey into space but for now there are still those who can sell the story of eureka got it and that momentous day from memory adding another greyer of color to history adequate or scale was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. the girl looked more pale than usual he was unsociable in quiet which was not like him and how he would answer by nodding or a short years to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy or in would your team up and hunt and i sound yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back weirdly still wishing. as soon as he got in return to worth he was a superstar a hero for his compatriots those who knew him admit they weren't quite sure how to

act around him. you know what i mean it's not really what we were playing volleyball in the garden and another guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed it was very surprised he said what some of it was pretty good it was those who played against him were giving way to govern noticed this and so i was offended he said let's play fair ok for several years. he'd be hard pressed to find someone he knew who got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just riza believe he's as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this you got it this are celia r.t. . brings it up to date and a look at the week's top stories that's coming your way shortly.