in the kind of initial mark karr result was sort of the same. with results michael beverly pulls a photo much riviera hotel in the center for trial mccown. the week's top stories comes face to face with the model specter of terrorism for the first time five people have already been arrested following the metro blast that killed thirteen and over two hundred. more harm than good libya's rebels could be and as much dangerous colonel gadhafi from nato bombs experts say the lord's is poisoning the ground and with radioactive ammunition. the man behind an internet piece for russia's most wanted terrorist goes on trial in finland but he's lived to be extremist website. it's fifty years this week since man stepped into space yuri gagarin fermenters flight is

celebrated both on earth and in orbit. but in the back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day this post 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 two days after the bombing president bush said authorities have detained five people in connection with the attack one of them described as having unique skills and chemistry is suspected of triggering the explosives three of the arrested people have apparently confessed but the motives for the bombing are still unclear. describes the first deadly terror attack in the country's modern history. five forty nine pm i mean. underground 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 stall doors open. i started to scream. i wouldn't even have been a amounted to a woman can't be all thought into the fresh air at the top of my mag and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived. that's mine and hooman majd be unaware they say age not only is rena but the life of your unborn child as well. come on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins it's terrible but i believe i go out of not only for people without with missing legs and hands i'm six months pregnant my thoughts were about the baby. but instantly rina huddled to protect your belly

she was lucky people split if you're in the big smoke and didn't travel there and. the train was full of parents and then there was this bang and all of a sudden fire ceiling collapsed a lot of people were lying on the platform older but they stepped over something. this was a girl's body. lena was at the very epicentral good last and one of the futenma recklessly 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 eyes of the music subway intercepts and this explains why there was so many commuters touring this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a save those hollywood it was carried out on to the street from this ad shows and many of those who want to still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the sr the news of the tax collector phone systems being allowed. people desperate

to contact bad loved ones for some delays in getting through the longest moments of our lives. of us who don't know marks who should call me to say there was a terrorist attack or specific then the line broke up with this guy when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked the family was all torn apart as if she'd been held by shotgun pellets only lazy hands or clothes or come in a lot of you but she was trying to please. you don't cry this is not my blood it here the blood was that of others caught up in the city twelve killed at the scene one more died in hospital as funerals were taking place in minsk and elsewhere people were flocking to the site of the tragedy in their hundreds almost a week after the attack and many are still struggling to come to terms with the human cost of the chassis. lost lives. it hurts it hurts terribly people need to understand and value every moment of

their lives and remember those who died. i'm sorry but i can't talk. if you don't attach of what our team means delos. speculation over who was behind the minsk bombing has split opinion some say by the roosters dealing with international terrorism others like investigative journalist paul says that president bush and close regime was the target. it's quite hard to judge at this point sir the k.g.b. or put 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 with genco because it's only one hundred metres from his or ministration offices and of course he's a very controversial figure how he is ruled the roost for now 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 these authoritarian regime. and while the roots reels from the deadly attack extremist views find a safe haven in an unexpected place finish authorities ignore the promotion of terrorism under their nose with the country's capital harboring a website which openly supports attacks here in russia. also still to come this it's really says it's going to accept tens of thousands of new refugees from unstable arab countries straining for their control laws to the limits. of the role as the writers of russia's politics we look at what's in store for the twenty twelve presidential election. story still to come but first in libya fierce fighting is continuing between pro-government troops and rebels near the city of misrata there are also reports of fresh nato air strikes

along the country's coast the aim is to disable colonel gadhafi forces but the opposition could be suffering just as much u.s. war veterans want the coalition is be using a poisonous substance in its strikes which causes cancer mutations. some images and garbage called reports 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 be used that kind of damage that there's a really good chance that with the new around. one percent of the. system only use on it is going to go. through the rubble the wind blowing.

the particles are in the air. so all these people with cars you. know lisa sirius served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early one nine hundred ninety s. clearing out battlefields in kuwait back then the u.s. dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of thick lead you rhenium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seem all too familiar to see how those totals are read that's the burning see how it shoots out instead of a cold straight up and you've got the flare. that's a do you explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to penetrate the heaviest former nato flatly denies its use in libya even though the u. when human rights commission has called for advanced countries who refused to sign up include people west the u.k.

france and this really the smallest particles if you were a new nanoparticles are the most dangerous ones inhale they get into the lot until spreading to any organ including the hard grain liver once the particles penetrate your cell 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's no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq where the u.s. thousands of depleted uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a brain just horrendous ever normalities higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality of being found here then actually it's comic 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 where a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal

because medical confirmation all round pollute. iraq that the health a picture of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq are saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and or again now we're seeing it moving into libya now after dark 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 memoranda 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 there some fear that the suffering of those bombs in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in remote villages. i suspect and. then find it has. to start saying hey look everybody is here they will answer. the masons and so forth i don't think anyone listens

depleted uranium has a half life of four and a half billion years hence its description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. kind of shook on r.t.e. washington d.c. . nato is pledging to continue until colonel gadhafi goes but moscow says the coalition is risking fell's of civilian lives in libya by going beyond the terms of the un resolution has more now on russia's concerns. russian president dmitry medvedev warns of the beginning of the week then libya is a risk it's total collapse i reiterated russia's position that to be able to restore order a country's need to be saying it's tricks accordance with international resolutions that he was speaking in china of brick summits with the other countries india up

with will china of course in south africa. a visit. 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. a number of countries were taking part and then nato. but the resolution doesn't say it would have. also said at the summit. this the military and. the dates of. the situation that heavy weapons and ultimatums are not the best way to deal with. the thing. they take home again libya on the agenda he reiterated much of what the president. again. making it clear that it's not the resolution

itself well that is the way it's being implemented is raising first. sort of first reporting that the nato operation in libya lacks clear goals leadership leading to chaos and speaking to me earlier this week patrick hayes a reporter from online political magazine spiked what we've seen over the last month now is basically a geo political mayhem where you have countries who are all in this kind of shabby coalition which is kind of flaking off not really knowing what they're trying to achieve with no real sense of a strategy no real sense of an endgame whatsoever the way i would characterize this is more kind of p.r. imperialism these are the kind of the western leaders grandstanding on the international stage for very short term goals they don't really know what they want to achieve for their own personal reasons try to make themselves look like kind of great international leaders. france has blocked

a train carrying two million immigrants from into the an unprecedented move since the introduction of the e.u. trouble free zone italy has granted temporary residency to tens of thousands of people fleeing the trouble in north africa but france says it will only honor the permits for immigrants able to financially support themselves some european legislators say the only way to deal with the inflow of refugees is to change border regulations berlusconi and his 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 he's treating another foot waves so to speak you know other migration from from libya or from egypt from tunisia who find it a possibility to country 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 created so many problems with illegal migration with with

international crime and so on the entire schengen idea has failed and therefore we need to step back into the into the situation which we had ten years ago where there was actually national pork control because it is for the benefit of the national state or split benefit of the populations of europe. and also this hour we travel to france where lawmakers are struggling to deal with a large minority community there. are in our corps a country brings in a battle traditional veils proving 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 could sell the story of beauty got it and that momentous take from them marie adding another layer of color to history. their story still to come but first the publisher of a finnish based propaganda website the chechen terrorists is going on trial for their prosecutors in helsinki have overlooked because extremist links instead

accusing him of smuggling people into the country and he now has been following the court proceedings. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but the hail storms 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 it's responsible for some of russia's most high with recent terror attacks in moscow metro blast and the dillman head 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 associates they are working for the politicization of islam used to be our

spring theme of europe. they want to make radicals equals 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 pursuit to ation. terminating the finished. writing of the same way. under what i'll be writing rewriting of it's. couric to make a terrible 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 finnish authorities for allegedly violating minority rights you can moeller e 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 joke omar himself 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 has been launched although he says he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because although i might have been busy with my work i know i have. concentrated subset and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart reading propaganda about a man who has torn apart the wives of thousands and he's now a r.t. helsinki. this week russia's president and prime minister called media attempts to portray them as rivals they're seen as the two major candidates for the upcoming presidential election in twenty twelve and say it's too early to speculate about the upcoming races should tell us explains. certainly it has been an interesting week in 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 putin the prime minister now any time these two get together or there's a possibility of there being a differing opinion or one who will run the international community becomes very excited and that's what happened this week and it all started a 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 but visions 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 but 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

in your putin is the head up to start kind of saying no no no we want our candidate to be in that position as well and kind of hinting towards ludmer putin basically allowed putin to go in front of the united party officials and say hey look this is all premature we still have this 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 invaded even said in this interview that he's known that blogging approvingly for half of his life they're going to politically they're linked as friends and so there's a difference in opinion between these two people like to exploit that so a lot of interest in this but of course this week putin the prime minister coming up and said you know what it's time that we focus on the task at hand. as the

months compound towards russia's presidential election we've got full coverage for you of the build up on our web site is r t stay abreast of all the twists and turns in russian politics with expert opinion the minute you really delve into what's happening check out the twenty twelve section there on the. cause of their own live witnesses who say aliens have been to earth share their experiences in school or what russian city has become something of a hotspot for u.f.o. sightings all that and plenty more naughty dot com. a controversial book about it 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 the measures but other e.u. nations are thinking about following suit as artie's down a bushel reports it could well back fire and stir into racial tensions even further . pinwheels just become a criminal a new french law covering your face in public is designed to make muslim women

integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says this had the opposite effect. my friends have simply stopped going out at all the new rulings made some scared to speak out and many vowed not to change the way they dress the move undermines what the french republic stands for says this businessman he pledges to pay the hundred fifty points for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking the dispute further that we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. that was fired this nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month after criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims to wear stars similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis big. loss these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government

with thank you zation. story into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are false so you worship on the streets the government looks building a basic public prayer and more discrimination of say worshippers against the muslim population wrong the scene of the riots in recent years against government policies there are signs of more well that is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events are coming together and those already events of also reached partners in europe blames frances legal rumors. movie. we built a consulting allies and said the north africa graffiti back to instantly in the

fields of international anger and list is no longer going to make sure regimes like iraq when it picks all its own if it minorities the crux of. the french government because along policy circle quite approve of politicians. he's policy last week quit more expected to do the same in the coming days only bush will see. that coming up in the next hour we've got more on europe's immigration for you on the immigration problems there this time in the u.k. . why don't we in britain decide ourselves how many people come in every year. we talk to any he says the european union is toying a great britain's hands in its attempts to tackle a nasty of migrant influx. that in the next year in our team now exactly fifty years ago this week going to gary made him history when he became the first man to go into space it was

a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a new age the age of manned space exploration and that is a silly went out and met some of the people who knew the legend in person. i'm feeling all right with the financial. times 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 thousand nine hundred sixty one the day you to go got in blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe in the arrival surely it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened the national course but for this man it was also the day his name shakti thing you know i didn't use her liquid appears didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots academy i'm 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 where they mean nothing i think they could have had a heart attack one of us 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 tell the story of eureka got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history adequate off scale was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. and gary looked more pale than usual he was unsociable and quiet which was not like human oh 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 would you want a month and hugged and i sat yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back when

you're with 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 a. volleyball in the garden and little guy approached. it was very surprised he said what song that was put together those who played against him were giving way to govern noticed this and was offended he said let's play fair ok if. he did hard pressed to find someone he knew who got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just reasonability s. as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with previous you got it. this are silly party. guns life although enviable was cut tragically short just seven years after his pioneering space flight details about a plane crash which killed him were hidden in obscurity for decades but later today

here at r.t. would shed some light on what really happened to that fateful flight. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission for. the mission he successfully accomplished. became the first ever man again another space. hero of the soviet union one of the best known for sins in the world. all his thoughts were focused on flight to could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his last. one happened in those few seconds. and what she could see these are sealed in barrels still. curing the guarini. on r.g.p. coming away a little later here today on t.v.

that's it for me for the moment i'll be back with a summary of all main news stories in just a few minutes from now stay with us errol to. cool. he used to. be.