my good results in spite of only so much and our ability remote have been turned bone radio sentry and the reserves and spawn sunday of the troops home the wisdom result use of doing so made pony suffer till some in the boat. resort and spa the ritz carlton hotel room granted many of your calls of each of the four seasons hotel the sultan who took. this week's top stories a terror attack shakes the capital of belarus as a matter of last kills thirteen and injures hundreds the authorities claim they know who was behind the bombing. of one base website slammed for supporting one of the world's most wanted terrorists is a pan in the spotlight as adams editors go on trial but not on charges related products for this. also this hour the russian presidential race for twenty twelve draws near zero but not clear as prime minister gordon tries to quell the hype over

whether he's in the running. and the arab unrest echoes in europe as a massive and books of immigrant sparks around the e.u. after italy offer stands of thousands of residents permits. to watch and actually live from moscow i'm marina joshie today we take a look at the top stories of the week and the week started with tragedy in belarus want to deadly blast struck the metro in the capital minsk thirteen people have now died and over two hundred were injured after an explosive was that made it 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 suspected of setting off explosives three of them have apparently confessed the motives for the bombing unclear are still. you argue that actually

your child describes the first failed terror attack in the country's modern history . five forty nine pm means conduct around a man steps on the platform of a crowded mattress station he's having 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 for help i was bleeding heavily a man into a woman can't be outside into the fresh air they talk my mad and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived. that's man and woman might be unaware they saved not only is rena but the life of your unborn child as well. come on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins and terrible but i believe i got over not only where people without eyes with missing legs and hands i'm six months pregnant so

all my thoughts were about the baby. by insisting to rina huddled to protect your 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 parents and then there was this bang and all of a sudden fire ceiling collapsed lots of people who are lying on the platform older stepped over some of them and then i saw this was a girl's body. lena was at the very epicenter of the blast and one of the few to miraculously 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 lies of the newest subway intercepts and this explains why there was so many commuters cheering this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a save those harley was at work carried out on to the street from these. trails and

many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the city 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 attacks this and then the line broke up because when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked again it was all torn apart as if she had been hit by shotgun pellets almost always hands and clothes were covered in blood and she was trying to ease our shock around you don't cry this is not my blood it here the blood was that of others caught up in the trial 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 and many are still struggling to come to terms with the

human cost of the trust city. 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 they do the virtue of what our achieve means bellows. their simmered who's a british conflict resolution analyst says the main square for explosion could be part of a pattern of attacks across european capitals. it will fall into a pattern of similar thirst attacks that we've seen in different european cities. has not been a target before in this way and is not perhaps an obvious target for a terrorist attack but clearly those is not immune to these kind of incidents that we've seen in moscow that we've seen in london that we've seen in mother and in

other places and so this would obviously be a number of alarm bells amongst your priorities and about a russian capital speculation over who was behind events matter of bombing lead here focus on internal politics in belarus investigative journalist polish maher says president bush and his regime are the target it's quite hard to judge at this point the k.g.b. reports or forward three notions that are participating people or young extremists or someone with mental illness my suspicion is that it's aimed at president because it's only one hundred meters from these are going to storage and offices and of course he's a very controversial figure he has ruled the roost for now for i think nineteen years he's brought. many of the elections the last elections in december contested and i think that what we might be seeing is a rising discontent with its authoritarian regime and president of belarus is up

and been criticized for his hardline stance on his opposition terrorism expert phil recess the chant his grip means rivals are incapable of such an attack as the one we saw in minutes. the president lukashenko won a highly disputed election in december and there is a deeply disgruntled opposition but the opposition is never showed any signs of being able to be involved in something like this nor the sophisticated message that are needed and moreover some people have told me that most members of the known opposition of either been in jail or under twenty four hour observation from the k.g.b. so that they would be able to plan something as complicated and sophisticated as this. well belarus reels from the shock of tara striking its capital elsewhere in europe they are seemingly turning a blind eye to extremist links. later in the program we question why the man of

finland behind a terror link website is on trial for smuggling and not for supporting extremism plus. the enemy wasn't born in september eleventh you see if we rose at full link from the trenches all of us in florida i don't want him to get to his feet. are he talks to a prominent russian expert on transnational crime or says the war on terror be won unless it's hundred dollars that way. russia's prime minister told party colleagues this week that it's chu premature to talk of him running for the two thousand and twelve presidential election but the report met members of the country's leading it out of russia party calling attempts to portray him and present it as rivals are keyshawn thomas is following what's being sad. certainly it has been an interesting week in that 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 made food and the prime minister now any time these two get together or there's a possibility of there being a differing opinion or who will run the international community it becomes very excited and that's what happened this week and it all started head of the brics and some summit in china where the chinese media had an interview with president a bit of them asked them 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 that you don't have to have agreement all the time and that 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 comes to the united russia party which blood and if we can is the head up 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 the 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 and get even said in this interview that he's known that bloody near to me for half of his life in their lives politically they're linked as friends and so there's 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. john thomas there as a month countdown towards russia's presidential election we've plenty of coverage building up for you at r.t. dot com everest of all the twists and turns in russian politics with expert opinion

for you to really delve into what's happening check out the twenty twelve section at actually dot com. the man behind the website and then london slang to an international you want to terrorist has been tired 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 well we have been following the hearing. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but he founded and runs this website of course said a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorists and declared by the un to have links with al qaeda don't call mara it's responsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks moscow metro blast and the dome and out of the airport bombing which 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 wife of a. fighter the situation is that the standard times. when he's associated they are working for the politicization of islam used to be our spring feel about europe they want to make radicals mikail 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 people who sent the writes about the situation. it's are contaminating the finnish media. writing of the same way. i know what i'll be writing. couric to put me through terrorist networks this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of helsinki apollo. stream is the more those who speak

out against it are being persecuted by finnish authorities for allegedly violating minority rights you can morey a finnish pastor was defrocked fired from his ministry with no severance pay and forced to divorce his wife to protect her from the task threats he received these came from doku umarov himself who said the pastor and his loved ones would have their heads cut off the clerk's church decided he was threatening a legitimate website and criminal cases for inciting racial hatred have been launched all the research he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because all the time are busy with my work nor have. to subject and spread awareness about a site that has gripped his life apart spreading propaganda about a man who has torn apart the lives of thousands and he says now we are to eat

healthy. and we have more on that story line following up the plight of a pastor in trouble for speaking out against terrorism but it hels r. and r. and on the way a few minutes the french face off against muslims. sick crew of my friends have simply stopped going on at all it's known to the niqab and banned for the burka as the french government gets accused of veering into hardline policies to the far right plus. not like this one will serve as a reminder for future generations of mass person 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. 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 humanitarian

protection thirty sarah first 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 bit of place to collapse and be iterated but its position that enable to restore order a country's need to be at seeing its tricks accordance with international resolution russia and china of course they have the power he'd say when it comes to u.n. council resolutions you know they need to exercise that in last month's date that divides the mayflies day and they did not stay at home that day but now there have been something does as to whether nato is that thing outside the boundaries of that resolution. is a process a u.n. resolution must be fulfilled in accordance with the wooding and meaning and not with free interpretations of some states because we voted for

a no fly zone to stop the escalation of the conflict so that we can separate the two sides but what we have in now is a military operation that 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 it would have cost them straight out of friday of russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting berlin for russian they take home friends again libya on the agenda by he reiterated much of what the president had said again clarified russia's stance making it clear that it's not the resolution itself that's the problem it's the way it's being implemented this raising first. certainly today we witnessed that some nato actions in libya are exceeding the framework defined by the security council it's already being discussed that resolution one hundred seventy three could also be used for ground operations a resolution does not provide for such actions and does not approve them nor does

the u.n. deal support regime change in libya it was let these matters really raising concerns and the possible spread and how far that predicts that big food and supplies to as well. patrick hayes from the on line political magazine spite of 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 you know 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 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 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 they're diverting attention away from the kind of the dough. a managerial politics they're engaged in at home fundamentally democrats are more coffee emerging trains and these are coming 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 the stance against the opposition as chris now from the start of war explains to our team 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 form one country into democracy or liberation you cannot. you cannot create progress in the country by launching cruise missiles that is in fact what you find is the opposite happens. very often the current regime actually becomes strengthened body type because gadhafi

after all from the start was trying to characterize your position as being stooges of the west well now that particular characterization. appears to have a lot more weight. now in this hour we'll hear why libya will face a ticking time bomb long after of the fighting ends. and ninety percent sure there was do you see all of these people in those cars and being exposed that's released to. the alliance faces accusations it's using deadly depleted uranium in its latest strikes which could spell danger for generations of libyans parties investigation is just. france has become the first european country to ban to wearing full face veils in public places the converse a law came into force this week meeting with the fines from some muslims and leading other e.u. countries to consider following suit as artie's daniel bushell reports it could all backfire and stir and to racial tensions even further. hin just become

a criminal from today new french law plans covering your face in public is designed to make integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says he'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 the minds of what the french republic stands for says this businessman he pledges to pay the hundred fifty point anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking the speech that also we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. that man was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims to wear

a similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis think. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with bank is asians the only story into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are false so you worship on the street a couple blocks 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 weather it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together those already events have also reached partners in europe jenny blames france's legal. and once it's born.

it's consulting allies and soon the north african refugees back to infamy in the face of international anger fear france could no longer lecture regimes like iran when it picks on its own ethnic minorities but critics of. the french government over groups hardline policies simple proof for politicians in the people of the last week quit more expected to do the same in the coming days the new book you see . the issue of integrating muslims into european society is gaining momentum in the light of a huge influx of immigrants from violence torn arab countries italy which is bearing the brunt of the exodus and now it's this week it will grant temporary residency to tens of thousands of people something that's angering other e.u. states line it tell us to have a situation shows

a block's border control system desperately needs reform. telescoping and his minister should have made it very clear that these people have no future in europe because by giving them just do just a hope of getting a legal permission to stay in he's creating another foot waves so to speak you know other 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 party 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 on earth now because of this flood of migrants we have a pressing situation which is stretching out in this ss you for national border control the entire shooting an idea has failed and therefore we need to step back. into the situation which we had ten years ago where there was actually national border control because it is for the benefit of the national states is for the

benefit of the populations of europe we need to realize that and i think snowy the elites the bureaucrats of e.u. is realizing these facts told a story on line authority dot com with more comments and aspirins analysis including how other european countries plan to deal with the delusion immigrants. british your m.p. tells r.t. that despite promises probably u.k.'s prime minister of the country has no real me as a place to tackle the problem while the e.u. allows freedom of movement here while he says tell us what you think thirty dot com . well it's now half a century since mankind pushed into the final frontier cosmos he regards flight was less than two hours but it took him outside the earth's atmosphere heralding the era of manned space exploration are these tests are still you met some of those who witnessed history in the making. i'm feeling all right i'm ready for lunch.

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 one thousand nine hundred sixty one the day utica got in 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 national course i still would for this man it was also the day his named shuttle thing you noted in your. parish didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots academy and at the facility as working it was top secret they heard that you regard being sent into space to see what it was me janice came to our house to envy my parents with a new nothing though i think they could have had a heart attack or monuments like this one will serve as a reminder for future generations of mass first journey into space but for now

there are still those who can tell the story of eureka got it and that momentous day from memory adding another mayor of color to history other cutoffs kal was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. gary looked more pale than usual he was unsociable and quiet which was not like him and how 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 two months and hugged and i sound yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back when you're with the think 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. and we were playing volleyball in the garden and a little guy approached us we all moved away and dearest it was very surprised he

said what song was played again to those who played against they were giving way to govern noticed this and was offended he said it was play fair ok for several years . he hard pressed to find someone he knew got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just for his abilities as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this you think about it this are silly r.t. . and i'll be back with a recap of the week's top stories shortly. if

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