photo in the big old circus hotel mostly a ski corinthian escaped minutes medicine this is roy jim pinsky my good twitching look you look a skull bone. now so. the week's top stories here now is he and the five a suspected terrorists have been arrested in bello roofs following a metro bomb attack in the country's capital the blast killed thirteen wounded over two hundred. nato's as strikes in libya could become a double edged sword for the rebel allies experts say the alliance is using deadly radioactive ammunition. puzzling just as the publisher of a finland based web site used by one of the world's most wanted chechen terrorists goes on trial but not for extremism. also this week marks fifty years of manned or space exploration the anniversary of the european darren's first flight

most celebrated both the one in space. we're highlighting the week's headlines here and it's here welcome to the program this past monday a terror attack on a metro station and belorussian capital minutes left thirteen people died over two hundred were injured in the blast that took place during the evening rush hour two days after the bombing president lukashenko said that off there are authorities rather detained five people in connection with the attack one of them described as having a unique skills in chemistry and suspected of triggering the explosives three of the arrested people have apparently confessed but the motives for the bombing are still unclear are scenes of describes the first deadly terror attack in the country's. five forty nine pm means conjured around

a man steps on the platform of a crowded metro station he's hardly got 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 out of the reason you have any amount of women coming to me on fighting to the fresh the top of my neck and in these me until the ambulance arrived. that's a man and woman might be unaware they saved not only as we know but the life of your unborn child as well. come on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins it's terrible but i believe i got off not really there were people without armies with missing legs and hands on six months pregnant when my thoughts were about the baby. by insisting to rina huddled to protect your belly she was lucky

people splotches during the big smoke and didn't trample over in the right. the tree was full of panicked and then there was this bang and all of a sudden fire ceiling collapsed and a lot of people were lying on the platform older stepped over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. was at the very epicenter of the lost and one of the few to new regulatory survived in her carriage again despite the panic others gave her a helping hand to escape the carnage from the city's busiest metro station this is where the two eyes of the meanest subway intersect and this explains why there was so many commuters cheering this evening rush hour on monday all witnesses say that those hollywood jets were carried out onto the street from the trails and many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the city the

news of the tax collector phone systems being lauded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays and getting through the longest moments of the last moments for you on the bus who don't know marks who should call me to say there was a terrorist attack and then the line broke up when we came to the scene and saw we were shocked it was all torn apart as if you'd been hit by a shotgun pellets only two days man who clothes will come it is convenient she was trying to. cry you don't cry this is not my blood it's here the block. others caught up in the trial city hall killed at the scene one more died in hospital as funerals were taking place in east and elsewhere people were walking 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 the trustee. 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. if you know that our team needs dellums now speculation over who was behind the mental bombing has split opinion some say but ever since dealing with international terrorism others like investigative journalist paul glass maher say that president lukashenko is a regime way of even talking it's quite hard to judge at this point the k.g.b. have put forward three notions that are a group of disaffected 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 strafe novices and of course he's a 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 that what we might be seeing is a rising discontent with its authority regime. while a bit of research reels from but that will get stuck extremist views find a safe haven in the unexpected place finish or thirty second or the promotion of terrorism right under their nose in the country's capital harboring a website which openly supports a time in russia. to flee says it's going to accept tens of thousands of new refugees from unstable i repeat countries and straining border controls to deliver . on the runners and riders off russia's politics for a look at what's in store for the two thousand and twelve presidential election. turning our attention to libya where fierce fighting is continuing between

pro-government troops and the rebels that's occurring near the city of misrata with reports of fresh nato air strikes in that area became is to disable kind of a buffer seal tokyo position that could be suffering just as much u.s. war veterans want the coalition has been using a twenty something strikes which causes cancer and it will take you may find some images and a gun each country port destroyed. on top of it 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's a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous radioactive elements have been used that kind of damage that has a really good chance that with the new round i'm about ninety nine percent sure there is a new round that still only use on it is going to. boettcher

who were level the wind blowing. the particles are in the air. so all these people with. melissa styria served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out battle fields 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 to see how their soldiers are red. see how it shoots out instead of a cone. a flare at the bottom that's a new explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to penetrate the heaviest armor nato flatly denies its use in libya even though you want human rights commission has called for

a ban countries who refused to sign up include the u.s. the u.k. france and bistro the smallest particles a few rainy and nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhale they get into the blood and ten spreading to any organ including the heart brain liver also chronicles penetrate yourself issue 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 anywhere 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 ever normalities higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality have been found fear 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 five where the legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal medical confirmation all around pollute. iraq 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 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 but i will give it a written memoranda lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he himself 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 we spent time and. just. everybody is dying here

and so. nations and so forth i don't think anyone included you rhenium has a half life of four and a house billions of years hence its description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. tonight who is pledging to continue until colonel gadhafi goes where moscow says the coalition is risking thousands of civilian lives in libya by going young the times of the u.n. resolution. has more on russia's concerns. russian president dmitri medvedev warns at the beginning of the week the new libya is a risk a place to tell outside reiterated russia's position that to be able to restore order a country's need to be saying in strict accordance with international reservations that he was speaking in china of prick summits with the other countries india of

his ill china of course in south africa. the u.n. resolution must be fulfilled 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 may not be on the ground yet but it's certainly going on up above a number of countries who are taking part in the nato. but the resolution doesn't say. this at the military it's. the situation that heavy weapons and also they are not the best way to deal with right. to think. they can live on the edge and he reiterated much of what the

president. again. making it clear that it is not the resolution itself as well that it's the way it's being implemented is raising. so forth according. to operation clear goals or leadership leading to chaos. from online political magazine sparked what we've seen over the last month now is 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 a very short term goals they don't really know what they want to achieve doing it

for their own personal reasons try to make themselves look like kind of great international leaders. well the influx of refugees from violence torn arab countries is increasing italy which is bearing the brunt of the exodus said this week that it would grant temporary residence into tens of thousands of people however some european legislators say with the big inflow of immigrants across the e.u. border regulations need to change bella's curly and his minister should have to 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 europe 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 policy an equivalence to my pa is 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 the entire shingle idea has failed and therefore we need to step back into 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. and also this hour here on out here we travel to france where lawmakers are struggling to deal with a large minority community that muslims are in. the country brings in a ban on traditional veils and improving integration but critics say the actual effect is very different also. what it's like this one will serve as a reminder for a future generations of mass produce the journey into space but for now there are still those that would tell the story of america about it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history. you without say now the publisher of a finnish based propaganda website for chechen terrorists has gone on trial whether

prosecutors in helsinki have overlooked mikhail extremist links instead accusing him of just smuggling people into the country and he said no way has been following the court proceedings he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but the stores are founded and runs this website said turk 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 her with recent terror attacks in moscow metro blast and the dome of the 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 life of a mujahideen islamic fighter the situation is that. the standard. and he's associated they are working for the politicization of islam used to be our

spring feel about europe. they want to make radicals behind closed doors 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 the situation. contaminating the finnish media. writing of the same way. under what are the writing rewriting of. couric to make terrible terrorist attacks and this is the company that houses the web site 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. a finnish pastor was due frocked fired from his ministry with no severance pay and forced to divorce his wife to protect

her from death threats he seems he's came from more of himself and said the pastor and his loved ones would have their heads cut off but the clerks church decided he was threatening a legitimate website and criminal cases for inciting racial hatred has been launched all there is says 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. got it right that the subject and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart writing propaganda about a man who's torn apart the wives of thousands he says now are to eat healthy. this week russia's a prime minister i want people not to get too excited about his role in the upcoming two thousand and twelve presidential race and let me put him right members of the country's governing united russia party in a bid to cool attempts to portray him and president medvedev as rivals he's

a trance artist was following the meeting. 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 near put in 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 a head of the bricks and summit in china when the chinese media had an interview with president medvedev and they asked him about some of these possible divisions and how least two men think in that interview president would get have 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 a 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 your food 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 love even a president 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 and they've been friends for a long time indeed of even setting the standard you get these newly created for profit his life their links politically their link to his 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. months count down towards russia's presidential election we've got the full coverage of the build up for you dot com you can stay abreast of all the tourists on turns in russian politics with expert opinion allowing you to really delve into what is happening and check out a two thousand and twelve section. also witnesses who say aliens are mean to earth share their experiences at school how one russian city has become something of all sorts what for a u.f.o. sightings all of that out of our team. but a controversial burka ban has come into force in france it prohibits women from wearing a full face veil in public places france has become the first country to introduce these measures e.u. nations are thinking about following suit but as one sees it daniel bushell reports it could well backfire and star into racial tensions even further. just become

a criminal you knew french law bans 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 going out at all with new rulings made some scared to speak out and many valid not to change the way they dress the move on their minds what the french republic stands for says this businessman he pledges paid one hundred fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking this beat further than also but we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. the right man was fired this nicolas sarkozy's integration implies the last month criticizing the president's approach to what he now calls on french muslims. similar to the one

forced on jews by the nazis big deal last these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with thank you zation deliberately steering 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 growth has seen ugly riots in recent years against government policy there are signs of more. well that is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together those. of also reached partners in europe. blames france's illegal to pour titian of romance.

and we will consulting allies and sending north africa. back to its in the in the face of the international i list here fault is no longer lakesha regimes like you are wrong when it picks all its own if it minorities could create so called we being the french government over its cause along policy so it will quote approval of politicians. nice quality last week quipped more expected to do the same in the coming days only bush will see. you all with r.t. and still to come our next hour we've got more on it europe's immigration problems but this time in the u.k. . why don't we in britain decide also how many people come in every year we talk to an m.e.p. here says the european union is tying great britain's hands and its attempts to tackle of massive migrant influx.

but what exactly fifty years ago this week yuri gagarin made history when he became the first and i had to go into space it was a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a new age the age of a manned space exploration. of the white house and met some of the people i knew a legend in person. i'm feeling all right i'm ready for lunch. and i have the honor of taking the cost of the 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 it blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe. and it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened

especially course my school would for this man it was also the day his name shock to be united in years nearly paris didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots academy and that the facility was working it was still secret only heard that you regard it being sensitive space that they see what it was means or a journalist came to our house the interviewer carrots with a needle the one i think they could help us attach one of us like this will serve as a reminder for future generations of man's first journey into space but for now there are still those who can tell the story of you to go got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history adequate toast they all was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago when we examined the garden 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 years and months and hugged me and i said that yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back when you're with us we were thinking as soon as he got in return to earth he was a superstar a hero for his compatriots those who knew him admit they weren't quite sure how to act around him. even i mean it's i mean we're playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached us will the evil hear it still he was very surprised he said what song was really good it was a plea against the war giving way to govern noticed is that it was offended who said it was play fair ok for me. it is hard pressed to find someone he knew who got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just reason abilities as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with this you got it. this r c r t.

right and when. a star wars really becomes reality his report delves into the looming threat of a space militarization something that could make fun of friends had lost friends here it's coming away in an alice time but it's a short preview. coming space is the goal of our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military space. bombs on target the time element looks awful about unless we are able to deliver through space ship. better place of any crime down to build up. our current place. and we must

play. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of body space. just incredible investment from the united states and from the european union to canada other countries like this this stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting we haven't seen outer space.