this week's top stories a terror attack shakes the capital bellows as a metro blast kills thirteen and injures hundreds the authorities claim they know who was behind the bombing. in one base website shon for supporting one of the world's most wanted terrorist is again in the spotlight as its editor goes in trial but not on charges related to scrimmage of. also this hour of the russian presidential race for two thousand and twelve draws near zero but not clear as prime minister putin tries to quell the hype over whether he is in the running. and in the arab unrest is in europe as

a massive influx of immigrants barb's around the e.u. after italy offers tens of thousands of residents 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 belarus 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 or his apartment in which all the scribe's the first fatal terror attack in. country's modern history. five

forty nine pm means country around a man steps on the platform of a crowded natural station who sees how the 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 woman courage me outside into the fresh air they turned up my mad and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived. that 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 it not only were people without arms 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 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 fire ceiling collapsed lots of people lying on the platform older as thirty over something 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 allies of the new york subway intersect on this explains why there was so many commuters during this evening rush hour on monday eyewitnesses say that those hollywood jets were carried out onto the street from these actions and many of those to still remain in critical condition. and in hospitals across the city

the news of the tackle up to full system has been flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays in getting through the longest moments of their lives. knocks you should call me to say there was a terrorist attack expressed and 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 shotgun pellets almost always hands and clothes were covered in blood because 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 the atrocities twelve killed of the scene one more died in a 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 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 still a virtue of our t.v. means bellows. then a similar has a british conflict resolution analysts as the minsk matter explosion could be part of a pattern of attacks across european capitals it will fall into a third term of similar curse that the acts that we've seen in different european cities. has not been a car good 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 in moscow that we've seen in london that we've seen another weirdo and in other places and so this would obviously be

a number of alarm bells amongst your priorities and of the russian capital speculation over who was behind immense matter of bombing lead to focus on internal politics and dollars investigative journalist polish maher says president bush and his regime was the target it's quite hard to judge at this point so the k.g.b. put forward three motions that a group of disaffected people or young extremists or someone with mental illness my suspicion is that it's the president because it's only one hundred meters from these are going to storage novices 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 the december contest and i think what we might be seeing is a rising discontent with its authority regime the president of belarus has often

been criticized for his hardline stance on his opposition to terrorism expert hillary says location goes great means his rivals are incapable of such an attack as the one we saw in minsk. but the president is going through one highly disputed election in december and there is the disgruntled opposition but the opposition has never showed any signs of being able to be involved in something like this nor do you sophisticated methods that are needed moreover some people have told me that the most members of the no no position of either being in jail or under it for the four hour observation from the k.g.b. so that they would be able to plan something as complicated and sophisticated as this while belarus reels from the shock of terror striking its capital elsewhere in europe they are seemingly turning a blind eye to extremist lengths later in the program we question why a man in finland behind a terror a linked website is on trial for smuggling and not for supporting extremist.

russia's prime minister told party colleagues this week that it's too premature to talk of him running for the twenty twelve presidential election by the report members of the country's leading united russia party calling attempts to portray him in for as an advantage as rivals are thomas following what's being said at. 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 mir putin 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 becomes very excited and that's what happened this week it all started head of the brics and summit in china where the chinese media had an interview with president medvedev

and i asked him about some of these possible divisions and how least two men 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 in 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 promptly the united russia party which blood in their putin is the head of to start kind of saying 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 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 indeed have even said in this interview that he's known that vladimir putin for half of his life and 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 out and said you know why. it's time that we focus on the task at hand sean thomas there and as the months countdown towards russia's presidential election we have plenty of coverage building up for you at r.t. dot com see breasts all the twists and turns in russian politics with passport opinion for you to really delve into what's happening check out the twenty twelve section at or t. dot com. the man behind a web site in finland that's linked 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 he's being held over illegal immigration and not charges of supporting terrorism and he said now we have been following the hearing. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but we are founded and runs this website said turkey a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorist and declared by the un to have links with al qaida though comoro is through sponsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the dilma dead 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 enemies and carries ads for books about the life of a mujahideen islamic fighter situation is that. he's associates and they are working for the politicization of islam used to be our

spring feel about europe. they want to make radicals ukuleles stores or is being prosecuted not for aiding terrorism but for illegally smuggling some one hundred individuals into finland people who he cause freedom fighters' the way the center writes about her situation it's a it's a contaminating the finished. writing of the same way. and what are you writing rewriting of its. couric to to make her a terrorist attacks in russia this is the company that houses the web site 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 can moeller 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 he came from a joke more of himself and 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 the research he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because all the guy might have been busy with my work but no have. concentrated subject and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart spreading propaganda about a man who is torn apart the wives 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 at our tea dot com and on the way in a few minutes the french face off against muslims. true of my friends have simply stopped going on and on and. it's no to the new ban for the burka as the french

government gets accused of veering into hardline policies to prove the far right plus. the 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 could tell the story of you to go got it and that momentous day from memory we get another layer of color to history. as it becomes more apparent the allied strikes in libya are aimed at helping the rebels topple gadhafi the russian president underlined that nato must keep within the resolution that allowed the airstrikes and march. that is a u.n. resolution must be filled in accordance with the wording and meaning not with free interpretations of some states because we voted for a no fly zone just stop the escalation of the conflict so that we could separate the two sides but what we're having now is a military operation it may not be on the ground but it's certainly going on up

above between the number of countries who are taking part and then nature steps in with the resolution doesn't say it would have. passed here also use an opportunity to express its concerns at a russian nato council meeting in berlin foreign minister sergey lavrov told his counterparts that discussions of any ground operation can take place because the u.n. resolution doesn't allow it it comes after leaders of the coalition countries pledged to continue with the operation until colonel gadhafi goes russia abstained from voting on the no fly zone resolution last month but didn't use its view to block it . nato is facing accusations of using depleted uranium in air strikes on libya the deadly substance causes cancer and other illnesses and physical abnormalities and babies born in areas words been used and weapons by western forces such as the balkans and iraq are just going to check out investigates please be advised some you are as they find the images in this report disturbing. these

libyan men cheer on top of a tank hit by coalition forces unaware of the silent killer they could be breathing in as they celebrate though the western coalition denies using depleted uranium in bombings in the country others say there is a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous radioactive element have been used . as a really good source that was. in one percenter that was do you around. this is getting low level radiation exposure see the level of the wind blowing. that means the particles are in the air. so all these people with cars you. know lisa steering served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out

battlefield in kuwait back then the u.s. dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of depleted uranium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seen all too familiar you see how those touches of red that's the. see how. instead of the cones and you get a flare of the bottom that's the new explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to kind of trade the heaviest armor nato flatly denies its use in libya even though the u.n. human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refused to sign up including the u.s. the u.k. france and this will the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the blood and can spread into any organ including the heart brain liver that's the particles penetrate your cell tissue

this is when you get all kinds of kinetic newquay fats and people in iraq for example grieving that contaminated air every day and experts say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq where the u.s. dropped thousands of depleted uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous and normality higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality of being found here then after the it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five for a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal and got top medical confirmation all around pollute. a rock at the health approach of the iranian were there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing the movement into

libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas if i was given a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he in south was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some fear that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. libya i suspect just because i'm standing. and. say look everybody is dying here they will answer. with nations and so forth i don't think anyone in pleaded you rhenium has a hof life of four and a house billion years hence it's the scription by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c.

. paul find out more on the story on our website us r t dot com. our blog there is have plenty to say about what's happening in the troubled country they look at how the u.s. is blowing billions on state of the art weapons but argue that it's a sledgehammer to crack a walnut plus. check out how our cartoon satirists are seeing the world this week they are all lined up at r.t. dot com. if. you. 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 the fines from some muslims and leading other e.u. countries to consider following suit but as artie's daniel bushell reports it could

all backfire and stir into racial tensions even further. in just become a criminal from today a new french law bans covering your face in public is designed to make muslims 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. not to change the way they dress and move the minds 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 speech further. we are soon 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 he now calls on french muslims to wear a star similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis they. lost these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with accusations. into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the street the government looks the building of basic public prayer and more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population from the scene ugly riots in recent years against government policies there are signs of more brewing whether it is a distinct possibility especially when domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together those friends have also

reached partners in europe jenning blames france's illegal deport asian of. among its. consulting allies and soon the north africa graphy geez it's in the in the food is an international and go list fear france could no longer make sure regimes like iran when it picks on its own ethnic minorities its critics of the french government over groups hardline policies simple proof for politicians in the rule you have people of the last week quit. expected to do the same in the coming days when you go to see here's. the issue of integrating muslims into european societies gaining momentum in light of a huge influx of immigrants from violent storm arab countries italy which is bearing the brunt of the exodus and mounts this week it would grant temporary residency to tens of thousands of people something that's angering other e.u.

states one m a p told us that the situation shows the blocks a border control system desperately needs reform. 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 europe he's creating another foot wave so to speak you know other migration we 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 an 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 now because of this flood of migrants we have a pressing situation which is stressing out the necessity for national border patrol the entire shaming 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 for the benefit of the populations of europe we need to realize that and i think slowly the leaves the bureaucrats of the you is realizing these facts. of all the story online at r.t. dot com with more comments an expert analysis including how other european countries plan to deal with delusion of immigrants a british. despite promises from the prime minister of 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 think dot com. it's now half a century since mankind pushed into the final frontier cosmati regards flight was less than two hours but it took him outside the earth's atmosphere heralding the air of manned space exploration artists are still you met some of those who witnessed history in the making. i think i'm feeling alright ready for launch.

of the i have the honor of taking with 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 utica got in blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe iraqis surely it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened but that's too late course my school but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you're right it is not paris didn't know where i was serving barely knew i graduated from pilots academy i'm at the facility as work it was top secret only heard that you regard it being sent into space they soon it was me janis came to our house that in female parents where they knew nothing though i think they could have had a heart attack while it was like this one 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 you to go got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history adequate of scale was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. i'm going to look 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 your two months and harmony and i sound yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back when you're with. me 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 what we were playing volleyball on the garden and little guy

approached us we all moved away lyricist it was very surprised and said what song it was clear i gather those who play against him were giving way and never noticed this and that was offended he said let's play fair ok for several years. he hard pressed to find someone he knew who 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 a signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this year he got in this are silly our party. i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories shortly. the

. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission and. the mission he successfully accomplished. became the first ever man in outer space. era of the soviet union one of the best known persons in the world. all his thoughts were focused on so much. could he ever think that his life's work would cost him.