this week's top stories here in r.t. a terror attack shakes the capital dello russo as a metro blast kills thirteen and injures hundreds the authorities claim they know who was behind the bombing. has been one based web site slammed for supporting one of the world's most wanted terrorist is again in the spotlight as its editor of goes on trial but not on charges related to extremism. also this hour the russian presidential race for two thousand and twelve draws nearer but not clear at prime minister putin tries to quell the hike over whether he's in the running. and the

arab unrest echoes in europe as a massive influx of immigrants sparks a rally in the e.u. after italy offer of tens of thousands of residency permits. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program the week started with tragedy in valorous when a deadly blast struck the metro in the capital minsk thirteen people have now died and over two hundred were injured after an explosive was detonated at a station during the monday evening rush hour two days after the bombing president lukashenko declared the authorities knew who was behind the terror attack five people have been detained including a man who's suspected of setting off explosives three of them have apparently confessed the motives for the bombing are still unclear part is a question in which all the describes the first fatal. terror attack on the

country's modern history. by forty nine pm means condor ground a man steps on the platform of a crowded metro station whose he's had a back on the floor and walks away for several minutes you can see him cold blooded waiting 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 a man and a woman karen to be outside in the fresh air they told that my mag and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived. that's 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 over not only there were people without armies with missing legs and hands and i'm six months pregnant when my thoughts were about

the baby. but instinct to rina huddled to protect her belly she was lucky people sported 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 fire ceiling collapsed lots of people were lying on the platform older 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 me recklessly survive in her carriage again despite the panic others gave her helping hands to escape the carnage from the city's busiest metro station this is where the two allies of the music subway intercepts and this explains why there was so many commuters cheering this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a save those harley waters were carried out onto the street from these answers and many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the

seas here the news of the attack letter phone systems being flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays and getting through the longest moments of their lives. marks you should call me to say there was a terrorist attack and then the line broke up when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked to get it was all torn apart as if she'd been hit by a shotgun pellets almost face hands and clothes were covered in blood but she was trying to ease our shock around you don't cry this is not my blood it's here the blow. it was that of others caught up in the atrocities 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 and many are still struggling to come to terms with the human cost of the chassis. lost lives

it hurts 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. if you know that you have our it she needs bellows than a sandwich has a british conflict resolution analyst says the minsk matter explosion could be part of a pattern of attacks across european capitals it will fall into a pattern of similar terrorist attacks that we've seen in different european cities. has not been a target before in this way and it's not perhaps an obvious target for a terrorist attack but clearly bellows is not immune to these kind of incidents that we've seen in moscow that we've seen in london that we have seen in other

places and so this was obviously a number of alarm bells among. the russian capital. speculation over who was behind immense metro bombing led to focus on internal politics and belarus investigative journalist polish maher says president lukashenko is regime was the target. it's quite hard to judge of this. sort forward three notions that a group of disaffected people or young extremists or someone with mental illness my suspicion is that it's going to go because it's only one hundred meters from these are going to storage and offices and of course these are very controversial figure he has ruled the roost for now for i think nineteen years he's rushed over many of the elections the last elections in december contested and i think what we're seeing is a rising discontent with these authoritarian regime

a president of belarus has after been criticized for his hardline stance on his opposition terrorism expert says look great means his rivals are incapable of such an attack as the one we saw in. the president look at franco 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 are probably the most members of that know not position of either been in jail or under a twenty four hour observation from the k.g.b. thorough that they would be able to plan something as complicated and sophisticated as this. well belarus reels from the shock of terror striking its capital elsewhere in europe they are seemingly turning a blind eye to extremist links program we question why they're in finland behind

a terror linked website is on trial for smuggling and not for supporting extremism . russia's prime minister told party colleagues this week that it's too premature to talk of him running for the two thousand and twelve presidential election but the report met members of the country's leading united russia party calling it hams to portray him and president medvedev as rivals artie's shalyn thomas is following what's being said. 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 of dynamic men in russian politics and that of course is dmitri medvedev the president and bloodier putin the prime minister now any time these two get together or there's the 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 head of the brics summit in china where the chinese media had an interview with president medvedev

and they asked him about some of these possible divisions and how least to many think in that interview president medvedev said look 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 democratic process and if you don't have to have agreement all the time in bed those types of discussions are what allow 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 this of course prompted the united russia party which blood in there putin is the head of to start kind of saying no no no we want our candidate to be in that position as well and 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

a state duma elections this year just coming up in a few months now and again in the international community a lot of people like to put these two together they've been friends for a long time indeed have even said in this interview that he's known that vladimir putin before half of his life they're linked politically they're linked as friends and so if there is a difference in opinion between these two people like to exploit that 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 the task at hand. and as the months countdown towards russia's presidential election we have plenty of coverage building up for you at r.t. dot com so stay abreast of all the twists and turns in russian politics with expert opinion for you to really delve into what's happening check out the two thousand and twelve section at r.t. . the man behind

a web site in finland that's linked to an internationally wanted terrorist has been tried in helsinki but it's on charges of smuggling people into the country the court's decision will be an ounce in three weeks but the case is raising questions over why he is being held over illegal immigration and not charges of supporting terrorism and he's now a has been following the hearing. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but we hail storms are founded and runs this website center a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorist and declared by the un to have links with al qaeda though komarow is responsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the domodedovo airport bombing which in total killed almost eighty people and injured nearly three hundred as i caused more of a president transmits messages about those he views as his enemies and carries ads for books about the life of a mujahideen islamic fighter situation is that the standard.

and he's associated they are working for the politicization of islam used to be our spring family going to europe they want to make radicals anywhere else 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 percent of writes about the situation it's so contaminating the finished media. writing of the same way. and the work of the writing rewriting of the. couric to make her a terrorist attacks in russia this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of helsinki meanwhile opponents of islamic extremism or those who speak out against it are being persecuted by phyllis authorities for allegedly

violating minority rights you home henri a finnish pastor was defrocked fired from his ministry with no severance pay and forced to divorce his wife to protect her from tass threats he received these came from joe kumar himself and said the pastor and his loved ones would have their heads cut off the clerks church decided he was threatening of legitimacy website and criminal cases for inciting racial hatred have been launched although he says he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because although i might have been busy with my work nor have the. subject but and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart burning propaganda about a man who's torn apart the lives of thousands and he said now r.t. helsinki. we've more on that story online following on the plight of a pastor in trouble for speaking out against terrorism in the details are our team on the way in a few minutes

a french face off against muslims. my friends have simply stopped going on and on it's no to the niqab and a banned for the burka as the french government gets accused of veering into hardline policies to the far right plus. moderates 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 that's even though the no fly resolution which allowed military maneuvers in the first place was only to secure and to tarion protection as archie sara furthur poured from moscow that's making many countries increasingly uneasy. russian president dmitry medvedev warns at

the beginning of the week then libya is the best place to collapse that it's rated russia's position that enabled to restore order i countries need to be at thing in strict accordance with international resolution russia and china of course i think have the power say when it comes to u.n. security council resolutions and they didn't exercise that in last months they devise but in a place a they didn't stay at home that they could now that have some third as to whether nato is that thing outside the boundaries of that resolution. because 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 but it may not be on the ground yet but it's certainly going

on of a number of countries who are taking part and then nato steps in with a resolution doesn't say a word about it. friday i russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting berlin for us and they take conference again libya on the agenda he reiterated much of what the president had said again clarified russia starts making it clear that it's not the resolution itself that's the problem it's the way it's being implemented is waiting for us to. certain with today we witnessed that some nato actions in libya are exceeding the framework defined by the security council it's already been discussed that resolution one hundred seventy three could also be used for ground operations the resolution 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 matters are really raising concerns and the possible. how it is. being called it's

a question as well. patrick hayes from the online political magazines why has the alliance has no plan for libya and 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 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 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 to 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 dough. the managerial politics they're engaged in a home fundamentally democracy emerging change and these to come from people

fighting from the streets grassroots going to battle it can be handed to people on a plate. and i work campaigners are convinced the airstrikes are only strengthening gadhafi stands against the opposition as chris now stop the war explain to our. leaving aside the question of the legality of the operation and everything we have learned from iraq i'm from afghanistan tells us and should have told the western governments that you cannot one country to democracy or liberation and you cannot. you cannot create progress in a country by launching cruise missiles or in fact what you find is the opposite when civilians die. very often in the current regime and actually become strength and body type because the rule from the start was trying to characterize your position as being stooges of the west will now. particularly characterization rule

appeared to have a lot more weight. in our next hour here why levy i will face a ticking time bomb long after the fighting and it's. ninety percent sure there was . all these people in those cars and being exposed that's ridiculous to. the alliance faces accusations of husing deadly depleted uranium and its latest strikes which could spell danger for generations medians argues investigation is just ahead . france has become the first european country to ban wearing full face veils in public places the car version a law came into force this week meeting with the fines from some muslims and leading other e.u. countries to consider following suit but as archie's daniel bushell reports it could all backfire and stir interracial tangents even further. in just become a criminal from today a 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 on a new rulings made some skid to speak out. not to change the way they dress and move on the mind is what the french republic stands for says business men he pledges to pay the hundred and fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking the dispute further that we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month of the criticizing the president's approach that he now calls on french muslims. are similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis big. these governments should learn how to

negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with accusations that he deliberately story into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the street 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 whether it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together and those. of also outraged partners in europe blames france's illegal decortication of. among its bombing of libya and . consulting allies and cindy north african refugees it's in the in

the face of international ngo fear from. iran when it picks on its own ethnic minorities but critics of. the french government over its hardline policies several proof of politicians in the. last week quips and more are expected to do the same in the coming days the new bush will see paris. they share of integrating muslims into european societies gain momentum in light of the huge influx of immigrants from violence torn arab countries it away which is bearing the brunt of the exodus an ounce this week it would grant temporary residency to tens of thousands of people something that's angering other e.u. states why and repeat told us that the situation shows the blocks border control system desperately needs reform. minister should have food 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 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 apology and equivalence to my past you have been crying out loud against the open borders because it's created 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 under now because of this flood of migrants we have a pressing situation which is pressing out in this as you for national border control the entire shooting like you have thieves and therefore we need to step back. 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 snowie the leaves the bureaucrats of the you is realizing these facts and follow the story

line r.t. dot com with more comments and asprin analysis including how other european countries plan to deal with the delusion of immigrants. have british here i am peter tells r.t. that despite promises from the u.k.'s prime minister the country has no real mechanism in place to tackle the problem while the e.u. allows freedom of movement hear what he says and tell us what you say. it's now half a century since mankind pushed into the final frontier cause not yuri gagarin's flight was less than two now worse but it took him outside the earth's atmosphere heralding the era of manned space exploration archy's tester celia 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 it was only the beginning of april twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one the day utica got it 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 nationally course sliced but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you know the videos nearly paris didn't know where i was serving barely knew i graduated from planets academy and the facility was working it was top secret only heard that you regard it being sent into space a soon it was me journalist came to our house to interview with parents where they need nothing i think they could have had a heart attack. while i was 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 sell the story of eureka got it and that momentous day from memory adding another greyer of color to history advocate of scale was a dr who compared to guardian for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. when. gary looked more pale than usual he was unsociable and quiet which was not like him and i know he would answer by nodding or a short yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy in would your team up and hunt and i sound yury everything will be fine and he nodded back we're going to school with think as soon as i 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. and what we were playing volleyball on the garden and a little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed it was very surprised and said what's up was clearly good or those who played against him were giving way to

govern noticed this and was offended he said let's play fair ok. you'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 raise a bill of ease as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this year he got in does our celia r.t. . i'll be back with a recap of this we stop story short my state that's. coming

to space is a lot more national security there is no substance and there is no. military comes in space. bombs on target the time element that's when the bugs are able to go through a space ship. became better. company. than the film has come.

and we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of brother space. obviously incredible investment from the united states and from the european union can be a countries like business this is completely. a jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space. if. it isn't feasible. to teach.