long. week's top stories here on our team five are suspected terrorists have been arrested in a bell of course following a metro bomb attack in the country's capital the blast killed thirteen and wounded over two hundred. plato's asteroids in libya could become a double edged sword for the rebel allies experts say the alliance is using deadly radioactive ammunition. and puzzling to justice the publisher of a finland a base website used by one of the world's most wanted terrorists goes on trial but not for extremism. also this week marks fifty years of manned of space exploration

the anniversary of your darren's first flight was celebrated both here on earth and . we're highlighting the week's headlines here on c welcome to the program well this past monday a terror attack on a metro station in the russian capital minsk left thirteen people dead over two hundred were injured in the blast that took place during the evening rush hour now two days after the bombings president lukashenko said or thought he had detained five people in connection with the attack one of them described as having unique skills in chemistry and suspected of triggering explosives three of the arrests of people have apparently confessed but the motives for the bombing are still on the parties you can really control right now describes the first deadly terror attack

in the country's modern history. five forty nine pm means condor ground and man steps on the block. which form of a crowded metro 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 asking for help i was bleeding heavily a man and two women caring 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 off not only were people without arms with missing legs and hands and i'm six months pregnant when my thoughts were about the

baby. but instinct to reno huddled to protect her belly she was lucky people sportage here in the thick smoke and didn't trample here in the panic. the train was full of parents and then there was this bang and all of a sudden fires soon collapsed lots of people were lying on the platform older steps over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. alina was at the very epicenter of the lost and one of the few to miraculously survive 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 eyes of the music subway intersect and this explains why there was so many commuters during this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a say that those hollywood just were carried out onto the street from these actions and many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the

city the news of the attack let to phone systems being flooded with people desperate to contact them. once for some delays in getting through the longest moments of their lives. on the bus with the who. called me to say there was a terrorist attack and then the line broke up but when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked the 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 shock 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 at the same one war died in a hospital as funerals were taking place in mean scams 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 city. loss 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 it is a grouch over our t.v. means bellows. speculation over who was behind the minutes bombing has split opinion some say since dealing with international terrorism others like investigative journalist paul rushmore says president lukashenko is regime may have been the target. it's quite hard to judge at this point the k.g.b. puts or call with 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 co because it's only one hundred metres from his or ministration offices and of course he's

a very controversial figure he's how 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 were contested and i think that what we might be seeing is a rise in this content with these authoritarian regime. what are the real from the deadly attack extremists views find a safe haven in an unexpected place finish with origins ignore the promotion of terrorism right under their noses with their country's capital harboring a website which openly supports attacks in russia. like italy says it's going to accept tens of thousands of new refugees from unstable arab countries it's straining border control laws to the limit. of the runners and riders of russia's politics we look at what's in store for the two thousand and twelve presidential election. now in libya fierce fighting is continuing between the pro-government

troops and rebels near the city of misrata there are also reports of fresh nato airstrikes along with country's coast the aim is to disable colonel gadhafi his forces but the opposition could be suffering just as much u.s. war veteran its war coalition has been using the phrase innocent substance and strikes which causes cancer and that mutations you may find are some images of senator john h. accounts 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 that kind of damage that there's a really good chance that was a day when you were around. in ninety percent sure there was

a new round the earth used to anybody who was on it was giving an exposure of. the level of the wind blowing or. the particles are in the air. so all these people in those cars would be exposed to lisa. thierry 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 cleavage you rhenium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seen all too familiar see how those touches of red. see how. instead of a cold streak and you've got 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 the u.i. and human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refused to sign up including the u.s. the u.k. friends 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 particles penetrate your cell please sure 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 it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima 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 medical confirmation all around pollution are rare but the health approach of the radio burger and we see it through. the raider kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans. again now we're seeing a movement into a libya dr dark rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas that will give it a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection or emotional he himself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. libya.

just because an instant. and. everybody is. nations and so forth i don't think anyone listens depleted uranium has a half life of four and a house billion years hence its destruction by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. . air strikes can never provide a humanitarian help or liberation such as cross lining from the stop the war coalition leaving aside the question of the legality of the operation everything that we have learned from iraq and from afghanistan tells us and should have told the western governments that you cannot form a country to proceed or liberation you cannot. you cannot create progress in a country for launching cruise missiles at it and frank what you find is the

opposite happens billions die. very often the current regime actually becomes strengthened by the time. nato is pledging to continue until colonel gadhafi goes but moscow says the coalition is risking thousands of civilian lives in libya by going beyond the terms of the u.n. resolution r.t. sarah firth now has more on russia's concerns. russian president dmitry medvedev warned at the beginning of the week that libya is a risk place to collapse that created russia's position to be able to restore order that countries need to be axing its trix accordance with international resolution that he was speaking in china at a prick summit with the other countries india brazil and china of course in south africa. visit the un 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 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. a number of countries are taking part and then nato steps in the resolution doesn't say it would expose them because they said at the summit the political and diplomatic solutions need to exist the military intervention killed a result of the situation that heavy weapons and ultimatums are not the best way to do with this now on friday i russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting poland for a russian a take home friends again libya on the agenda but he reiterated much of what the president had said again clarified russia starts making it clear that it's not the resolution itself the problem it's the way it's being implemented is raising

questions. surface. the influx of refugees from violence torn arab countries is increasing italy which is bearing the brunt of the exodus this week it would grant a temporary residency to tons of thousands of people however some european legislators say with a big and flow of immigrants across the e.u. border regulations need to be changed. 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 europe 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 eyes 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 therefore we need to step back onto into this situation which we had ten years ago where there was actually a national poll of control because it is for the benefit of the national states for the benefit of the populations of europe. and with r.t. and also this hour we travel to france where lawmakers are struggling to deal with a large minority community muslim in. the country brings in a nontraditional veiled it's aimed at improving integration critics say the actual effect is very different also. it's 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't tell the story of that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history. the publisher of a finnish based propaganda website for chechen terrorists has gone on trial although prosecutors in helsinki have overlooked mikhail it still shows extremist

links instead accusing him of smuggling people into the country teams and it's an hour he has been following the court proceedings. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but torture founded and runs this website center a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorist and declared by the un to have links with al qaeda though komarow is responsible for some of russia's most her with recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the dome and out of the 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 his enemies and carries ads for books about the life of a mujahideen islamic fighter the situation is that the global standard. and he's associated they are working for the politicization of islamist b.r.

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 poker center writes about the situation it's a it's a contaminating the finished. slower and slower writing of the same way. i know what i'll be writing rewriting of the. couric two. there are terrorist attacks in russia this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of helsinki meanwhile opponents of islamic extremism or those who speak out against it are being persecuted by thinness 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 dog of himself who said the pastor and his loved ones would have their heads cut off at 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 although i 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's torn apart the lives of thousands and he's now a r.t. helsinki. with r.t. live from moscow this week russia's president and prime minister called media attempts to portray them as rivals they are seen as the two major candidates for the upcoming presidential election in two thousand and twelve but say it's too early to speculate about the upcoming race sean thomas explains. certainly it has

been an interesting week in the 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 new president 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 it all started head of the brics and summit in china when the. how 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 prompted the united russia party which blood in your 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 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 twenty 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 in their lives 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

up and said you know what it's time that we focus on the task at hand. and as the months count down towards russia as a presidential election we have got the full coverage of the build up for you. dot com because day of rest of all the twists and turns in russian politics with expert opinion allowing you to really delve into what is happening check out the two thousand and twelve section on our web site. also witnesses who say aliens have been to earth share their experiences explore how one russian city is becoming something of a hot spot for you or for us i think all of that at our t.v. dot com. well a controversial burka brand has now 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 but other e.u. nations are thinking about following suit but it's not easy daniel bushell reports it could well backfire and stir into racial tensions even further. just

become a criminal new french law and covering your face in public is designed to make integrates in society but the softly spoken single mom says he's had the opposite effect. my friends have simply started going out and all the new rulings made some scared to speak out many valid not to change the way they dress and move on their minds what the fridge for public stands for says base business when he pledges to pay the hundred fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking it further than we are so 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 of the criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims to wear

a similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with bank is asians. into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are false so you worship on the street the government looks the building of basic public prayer rooms more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population from the scene of the riots in recent years against government policies there are signs of more brewing well there is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and against coming together those four events have also reached partners in europe joining claims from illegal decortication of rumored.

we built a consulting allies and said the north african refugees back to instantly in the food the international ngo analysts fear france can no longer lakesha regimes like iran when it pixel its own if not minorities but critics of. the french government over its hardline policy is simple true for politicians in the ruling people of the last we quit and all are expected to do the same in the coming days the new book you see paris. coming up for you next hour here r.t. we've got a more on europe's immigration problems but this time in the u.k. . why don't we in britain decide ourselves how many people come in every year we talk to an m.e.p. who says the european union it is tying a great britain's hands and its attempts to tackle a massive migrant influx. of exactly fifteen years ago this

week yuri gagarin made history when he became the first man to go into space it was a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a new age that of the age of manned space exploration artists are so he went out and met some of the people who knew the legend and. i'm feeling all right ready for launch. and i have the honor of taking the cost of a great spacecraft into space first i was very happy to have it was only the beginning of april twelve 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 of my school but for this

man it was also the day his name shot to thing you know i didn't. hear is didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots academy and at the facility as work it was top secret you only heard that you regarded being sent into space a suit it was me journalist came to our house to infeed my parents but they knew nothing i think they could have had a heart attack while i was 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 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. they're going to look more pale than usual he was unsociable in quiet which was not like him and i know he would answer by not in or a short years to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was

a different guy in would your to munt and hard and i sound yury everything will be fine and he nodded back when you. 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. even to live with them and what we were playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached us we all moved away and dearest he was very surprised he said what son was free to go to play against they were giving way to govern noticed this and it was offended he said let's play fair ok for me it. would be hard pressed to find someone he knew who got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just or is abilities as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this duty god in this hour celia r.t.

. more from orbit still to come this time though the threat of star wars becoming a reality a special hour to record a gulf into the looming threat of space and militarization something that could make the final frontier the last frontier it's coming your way in about an hour's time here on r.t. but it's a short break. space is part of our national security there is no subs and there is no. military comes in space. bombs on target time bellman pleasure and that's really your able to deliver through space ship it may seem. better. company. down the field from our current.

and we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of body space. obviously incredible investment from the united states and from the european union and canada other countries like this this is completely in jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space. that's coming your way next hour here on c.n.n. be back with the headlines and up just a few moments do stay with us.