the week's top stories here one hot seat and a terror attack shakes the capital of the metro blast killed thirteen and injures hundreds at the authorities claim they know who's behind the bombing. of a federal on the base the web site supporting one of the world's most wanted terrorists is again in the spotlight as editor goes on trial but not on charges related to extremes. also this hour rushing the presidential race for two thousand and twelve draw nearer but not clear a promise a person tries to quell the hype or whether he is in the running. in the arab world and it will be on the rest of my foes across europe as

a massive influx of immigrants spots around the e.u. off to italy offers tens of thousands of residency permits. just after three pm here in the russian capital you with r.t. we are highlighting the top stories of the week now we are all started with tragedy . when i last struck the metro in the capital minutes thirteen people have now died and over two hundred were injured after an explosive was detonated out of station during the monday evening rush hour two days after the bombing president look at showing the cleric the authorities knew who was behind the terror attack five people have been to take including a man who is suspected of setting off the explosives three of them have reportedly confessed the motives for the bombing are still unclear. to use the leverage of

that describes the first fatal turn the tide the country's history. by forty nine pm means gone to ground a man steps on the platform of a crowded metro station he's hardly 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 a man and woman karen to be outside into the fresh air the top of my mat 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 over not really there were people without with

missing legs and hands i'm six months pregnant so all my thoughts were about the baby. but instead into reno huddle to protect your belly she was lucky people spotted here in the thick smoke and didn't trample here in the panic. i viewed the train was full of panicked and then there was this bang and all of a sudden fires soon collapsed lots of people lying on the platform older i stepped over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. lina was at the very epicenter of the glossed and one of the thank you to miraculously survived 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 cheering this evening rush hour on monday the eyewitnesses say that those highly waters were 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 been flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays and getting through the longest moments of their lives. on the bus with the marks you should call me to say there was a character attack 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 you'd been hit by shotgun pellets almost face 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's here the blood was that of others caught up when they trust city twelve killed of 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. it through our t.v. . bellows. some old conflict resolution analysts. retro spoken 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 are now moons has not been a car good before in this way and is 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've seen in the mirror

and in other places and so this would obviously be a number of alarm bells amongst your qualities and about a russian capital. speculation about who was behind the main square truck bombing led to a focus on internal politics and bellicose investigative journalist paula lash more so as a president looking shankar's regime must have been the target it's quite hard to charge at this point so the k.g.b. thought forward three notions that a group of disaffected people or young extremists or someone with mental illness my suspicion is that it's aimed at president luke schenn go because it's only one hundred metres from these ministration offices and of course he's a very controversial figure he is ruled the roost for now for the nineteen years he's rushed over many of the elections the last elections in december were contested and i think what we're not seeing is

a rising discontent with these authoritarian regime. or the president of the liberal often been criticized for his hardline stance on the opposition terrorism expert phil says he looks and has gripped means that is rivals are incapable of such an attack as the one this week and mints. could president look at franco one disputed election in december and there is a deeply disgruntled opposition to the opposition is never showed any signs of being able to be involved in something like this nor of the sophisticated methods that are needed moreover some people have told me that most members are but no no position of either being 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. trial but the real news from the shock of terror striking its capital

elsewhere in europe a blind eye has seemingly been targets in extremist complaints later in the program here on r.t. we question why a man in finland behind a terror link to the website is on trial but he's on trial for smuggling and not for supporting extremists. russia's prime minister told party colleagues this week that it's premature to talk of him running for the two thousand and twelve presidential election let me put it members of the country's leading united russia party cooling attempts to portray him and many others as rivals he has a chance someone spotted what was. certainly it has been an interesting week and it 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 mary president 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 head of the brics summit in china when the chinese media had an interview with president medvedev a man asked them 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 and 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 the united russia party which blood and therefore that 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 these 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 blood in your pool in the floor of his life there are links politically they're linked as friends and so if 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. and as the months countdown towards russia's presidential election we've got plenty of coverage building up for you of course our web site that's where you'll find out soon dot com you can stay abreast all the twists and turns in russian politics with expert opinion for you to really delve into what is happening check out the two thousand and twelve section at our dot com. now the live behind

a web site in finland that's a link to an internationally wanted terrorists has been tried in helsinki but with some charges of smuggling people into the country the court's decision will be announced in three weeks three cases where as in questions over why he is being held over illegal immigration are not charges of supporting terrorism and it's in our ports. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but stores 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 don't call mara is responsible for some of russia's most how with recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the dilma denver airport bombing which in total killed almost eighty people and injured nearly three hundred cycles doku umarov 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 the cougar stander. and 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 calls freedom fighters the way the center writes about her situation it's a contaminating the finished. writing of the same way. under what are you writing railroading of it's. correct to make sure a terrorist attacks 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 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 death threats he received these 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 more the recess he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because all the time i have been busy with my work but no have. concentrated to subject and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart spreading propaganda about a man who has torn apart the wives of thousands and he said now r.t. helsinki. i know we have more on the story online following up the plight of the

pastor in trouble for speaking out against terrorism but he tells our to talk and go on the way in just a few minutes for you here french face off against him was a. victory with my friends have simply stopped going on and on it's no need. for the burka that's the french government gets accused of veering into hardline policies told with the far right. what it's like this one will serve as a reminder for future generations that person journey into space but for now there are still those who can tell the story of beauty and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history. he with are to live from moscow now as it becomes more apparent that the allied strikes in libya are aimed at helping the rebels topple gadhafi the russian president underlined that nato must keep within the resolution of the strikes and much. it is

a u.n. resolution must be filled in accordance with the wording 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 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 stepped in with the resolution doesn't say a good about it. moscow has also used an opportunity to express its concerns that are russia nato council meeting in berlin foreign minister sergey lavrov told his car to perhaps the discussion was of any ground operation can't take place because the u.n. resolution does not as i was sure comes off the leaders of the coalition countries pledged to continue with your permission until those russia abstain from voting no fly zone with a mission last month but did not use its veto power. but it is facing

accusations now of using it to polluted your brain or strikes on libya the deadly substance causes cancers other illnesses physical abnormality using babies born in areas where these kinds of weapons are going and used such as the balkans and iraq but it's interesting as police are being advised that you may find some of these images disturbing. these libyan men cheer on top of a tank hit by coalition forces unaware of the silent killer they could be breathing here 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 percent of that was due. to anybody who is on it. this is getting low level radiation exposure. the level of

the wind blowing. that means the particles are in the air. all these people with cars you. know lisa stary served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out battlefields 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 see how others took years of red that the burning see how it. instead of a cold street flare at the bottom that's a do you explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to can a trait 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 inhale they get into the blood and can spread into any organ including the heart brain liver that's the chronicle's penetrate your cell commissioner this is when you get all kinds of kinetic new patients 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 have been found here then after the atomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium involving boston a nine hundred ninety five or

a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal problem medical confirmation all around pollute. a rock but the health effects of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing it moving into a 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 but i was given a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he himself was exposed to get pleaded you rhenium 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 remote villages in libya i suspect it won't be noticed because it is going to find it and the people there in the villages say look everybody here they will

answer and this is the end of the muslim nations and so forth i don't think anyone in pleaded you rhenium has a half life of four and a house a billion years hence its description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. thank you find out more on the story on our website that starts here dot com our bloggers have a plan for saying what's happening in a troubled country and about how the u.s. is blowing billions on state of the art weapons and argue that it's like using a sledgehammer to crack down wal-mart plus. the creature from our cartoon of satirists our suppliers are seeing at the world this week all right up at the top.

now france has become the first european country it's a ban on wearing a full face of wales in public places the controversial bill came into force this week meeting with defiance from some muslims are leading other e.u. countries to consider following suit but it's a lot easier than your bushel reports we could all backfire and stir into racial tensions even further. just become a criminal new french law plans covering your face in public is designed to make muslim women integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says he's had the opposite effect. my friends have simply stopped calling out all the new rulings made some skid to speak out. not to change the way they dress and move on their minds what the french republic stands for says business when he pledges to pay the

hundred and fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking the dispute further to the north we are soon france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. that was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month of the criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims as similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis big. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with. into racial tension friday prayers a 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 mystic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together and those. of also reached partners in europe blames france's illegal deport asian a room of its. and. consulting our allies and sending north african refugees back to italy in the food international anger analysts fear france could no longer lecture regimes like you're wrong when it picks all its own if minorities but critics look for the french government over its hardline policies simple quote truthful politicians in the people of the last week quit more are expected to do the same in the coming days the new bush will od see how this time

the issue of integrating muslims into european society is gaining in momentum in light of the huge influx of immigrants from violence toward arab countries italy which is bearing the brunt of the exodus announced this week it would grant temporary residency to tens of thousands of people and something that's angering other in the u. states one m.e.p. told us that the situation shows that the blocks border control system desperately needs reform. berlusconi and his minister should have believe 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 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 and equivalence to my party 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 on earth now because of this flood of migrants we have a pressing situation which is stressing out the necessity for national border patrol the entire shingle 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 but of benefit of the populations of europe we need to realize that and i think slowly the leaves the bureaucrats sophie you is realizing these facts. so you can follow the story online at our team talk on with more comments and expert analysis including how other european countries plan to deal with a deluge of grace a british euro he told on t.v. despite promises from the u.k.'s prime minister the country has no real mechanism in place to tackle the problem of the e.u. allows freedom of movement he would have to say and tell us more you think r.t.

dot com. fifty years ago it was the trip to remember right now one man took to the sky than anyone else before cosmonaut yuri gagarin's pioneering journey took what was about two hours and it also took him outside the earth's atmosphere heralding the era of manned space exploration as i said you know 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 really 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 last course my school but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you're right it is not a quick look here's didn't know where i was serving they only knew our graduation from pilots academy and at the facility was working it was top secret when they heard that you regarded being sent into space they soon it was me janice came to our house to interview with parents who they knew 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 can tell the story of eureka got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history adequate time scale was a doctor who compared to 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 all 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 time up and hard and i sat yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back one year with his new wish and over to think as soon as they got and returned to worth he was a superstar a hero for his compatriots those who knew him admits they weren't quite sure how to act around him near the limits that we're not we were playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached us we all moved to william dearest he was very surprised and said what song was played together against the war giving way to govern noticed is that it was offended he said let's play fair ok for several years . he'd be hard pressed to find someone he knew who got in 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 huge ego got it does our silly our party. our back with the headlines shortly after us.