week's top stories here on t.v. by the roots comes face to face with the modern specter of terrorism for the first time five people have already been arrested following the métro blast that killed thirteen and we did over two hundred. more harm than good libya's rebels could be in as much danger as colonel gadhafi from nato bombs experts say the alliance is poisoning the ground and with radioactive and emission. the man behind an internet mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist goes on trial in finland these links to the extremist web sites of power ignored. it's fifty years this week since man stepped into space yuri gagarin's momentous flight is celebrated both on earth and

in orbit. a look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day this past monday a terror attack on a metro station in the belorussian 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 look at shoka said authorities had detained five people in connection with the attack one of them described as having unique skills in chemistry is suspected of triggering the explosives three of the arrested people have apparently confessed but the motives for the bombing still unclear parties are over it describes the first thirdly terror attack in the country's history. five

forty nine pm means country grant a man steps on the platform of a crowded natural station. 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 for help i was reading you have an eight a man and two women can't be all thought into the fresh air they talk my mad and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived. that man and woman might be unaware they saved not only in reno but the life of your unborn child as well. come on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins and terrible but i believe i got of not only were people without armies with missing legs and hands i'm six months pregnant will my thoughts were about the baby. but instantly rina huddled to

protect your belly she was lucky people split it here in the big smoke and didn't trample there were in the pot. the train was full of parents and then there was this bang and all of a sudden fire ceiling collapsed lots of people lying on the platform older sister two over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. lena 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 hands just skate the carnage from the city's busiest metro station this is where the two lies of the new subway intercept on this explains why there was so many commuters tearing this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a save those hollywood that were carried out on to the street from these actions and many of those still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the city of the news of the attack letter phone systems being flooded with people desperate

to contact the loved ones for some delays in getting through the longest moments of their lives. mark shushan called me to say there was a terrorist attack. and then the line broke up because when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked again it was all torn apart as if she'd been hit by shotgun pellets almost these hands and clothes were covered in blood going to be good she was trying to ease our shock and crown you don't cry this is not my blood it here the blast was that of others when they trust city twelve killed at the scene one more died in a hospital as funerals were taking place in new scans elsewhere people were flocking to the site of the tragedy in their hundreds almost a week after the attack many are still struggling to come to terms with the human cost of the trust city. lost lives.

it hurts it hurts terribly people need to understand and value every moment of their lives and remember those who died. i'm sorry but i can't tell. if the democrats are a team needs bellows. conflict resolution analyst tennis summit says metro explosion 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. has not been a target before in this way and it is not perhaps an obvious target for a terrorist attack but clearly the bellows is not immune to these kind of incidents that we've seen then moscow that we've seen in london that we've seen in the mother and in other places and so this would obviously be a number of alarm bells amongst the authorities the russian couple. and while the

reels from the earlier turkey extremist views provide a safe haven in an unexpected place for this authorities ignore the promotion of terrorism under their nose at the country's capital harboring a website which openly supports attacks here in russia that report on its way this i'm also still to come. on this ride is the russians politics we look at what's in store for the twenty twelve presidential election. it's not a libya fierce fighting is continuing there 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 has been using a poisonous substance in its strikes which causes cancer patients you may find some images incarnates cards reported the story. these leave young 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. there's a really good chance that with when you were around. ninety percent sure that was the day you. are that is given. the level of the wind blowing. the particles are in the air. so all these people in those cars you. know lisa styria served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine it's clearing up 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 you see how those touches are red that's the burning see how it shoots out instead of cones and you've got the flare at the bottom that's a new explosion it clearly do you rein him 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.n. human rights commission has called for advanced countries who refused to sign up include the u.s. the u.k. france and this will the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the blood and spread into any organ including the heart grain liver once the particles penetrate your cell tissue this is when

you get all kinds of kinetic new patients and people in iraq for example bridge being that contaminated air every day and experts say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or anywhere where the u.s. blocked 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 of being found here then after the it tommy bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in value bosnia in one thousand nine hundred five for a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal because medical cover ration all around pollute. iraq the health approach of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq are saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing the movement into were 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 i was given a written memoranda lie about the health and environment approach you are a mission he himself was exposed to the clique uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead something here 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 and i suspect it is because it is going to find a cat and it will do anything to start saying hey look everybody is dying here they've got fences. enough of nations and so forth i don't think anyone listens depleted uranium has a half life of four and a house deal in the years hence it's this production by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our chief washington d.c.

. nato is pledging to continue until colonel gadhafi goes but also says the coalition is risking phelan's a civilian lives in libya by going to be only the remit of the un resolution furthest more now on russia's concerns. on friday however she scored minister sergey lavrov visiting berlin for a russian a take home friends again libya on the agenda he clarified russia it starts making it clear that it's not the resolution itself the problem it's the way it's being implemented is raising questions. today we witnessed that some nato actions in libya are exceedingly framework to find by the security council it's already been discussed the resolution one hundred seventy three could also be used for ground operations the resolution does not provide for such actions and does not approve them nor does the u.n. deal support regime change in libya. because they said at the summit the political

and diplomatic solutions need to exist and that military intervention no they result the situation that heavy weapons and ultimatums are not the best way to do with this so first reporting there well we've got plenty more coming your way this here in r.t. . from says the country brings in a traditional view that improving integration critics say the actual effect is very different also. a new world order is in the making at the forefront world's top five leading economies as the brics leaders gathered in china to talk business it became apparent that a geopolitical and uniform nonexistent power is in progress. their stories don't come first the publisher of a finnish based propaganda website for chechen terrorists has gone on trial although prosecutors in helsinki have overlooked extremist links instead accusing him of smuggling people into the country and he said now he has been following the

court proceedings there in helsinki. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but the hailstorms 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 horrific recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the dome and that 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 enemies and carries ads for books about the wife 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 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 that the group was sent to writes about the situation in contaminating the finnish media is . slower and slower writing of the same way. and the worth of the writing of the writing of. couric to to make sure a terrorist attacks this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of how simply meanwhile upon an islamic extremism or those who speak out against it are being persecuted by finish the parties for allegedly violating minority rights you home all are 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 door kumar of himself who said the pastor and his loved ones would have their

heads cut off the clerks church decided he was threatening a legitimate website and criminal cases for inciting racial hatred have been launched all the research he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because all the guy might have been busy with my work but no have. gotten through to the subject and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart writing propaganda about a man who's torn apart the lives of thousands and he's now a r.t. helsinki. this week russia's president and prime minister called weed are attempts to portray them as rivals and they're seen as the two major candidates for the presidential election here in twenty twelve but say it's too early to speculate about the upcoming races sean thomas no experience. 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 near putin 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 a head of the brics summit in china when the chinese media had an interview with president medvedev and i asked him about some of these possible divisions and how least two men think in that interview president medvedev said look there will be differences of opinion in how things should be done but he also talked about in that interview how this is part of the dynamic democratic process and that you don't have to have agreement all the time in 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 promptly that the united russia party which blood in your putin 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 it and basically allowed putin to go in front of the united party officials and say look this is all premature we still have the state duma elections coming up on december fourth and it is premature to talk about the presidential elections which are in two thousand and twelve when we have the state duma elections this year just coming up in a few months now and again in the international community a lot of people like to put these two together they've been friends for a long time indeed have even said in this interview that he's known that blood in your community for half of his life they're linked politically clearly to his friends and so 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. children as they are one of the months can't count towards russia's presidential election we've got full coverage of the buildup for you on our web site r.t.

dot com there you can stay abreast of all the twists and turns in russian politics with expert opinion allowing you to really delve into the check i'll be twenty twelve link on their site and also their. witnesses who say aliens have been to share their experiences explore how one of the russian city has become something of a hot spot for us both sides of that story and plenty of others for your party dot com. this week a controversial book came 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 other nations are thinking about following suit but is also used on a bushel reports it could well backfire and into racial tensions even further. in just become a criminal a 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 going out and all the new rulings made some scared to speak out. not to change the way they dress or move on the mornings what the french republic stands for says business men he plays use a paved hundred fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to wear a veil and this is taking the dispute further that also we are soon france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. was fired this nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month of the criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims to wear a star similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis take. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low

approval ratings for the french government we think is asians this story into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the street a couple blocks the building of basic public prayer rooms more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population cross the scene of the riots in recent years against government policies there are signs of more brewing whether it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together those already events have also reached partners in europe blames from illegal to politicians of. consulting allies and said the north african refugees instantly in the foods of

international anger and lists france has no longer lecture regimes like you're wrong when it picks all its own if minorities cracks. in the french government over its hardline policies so it will quote group of politicians in the ruling party last week quit and more are expected to do the same in becoming the new bush you see. and in britain the coalition government has clashed over how to deal with the flood of immigrants into the country promised to david cameron has pledged to cut immigration to tens of thousands now if you're for jenny pier leader of the u.k. independence party says that cameron card to tackle the problem while the u.k. is a member of the e.u. if you have huge mass immigration that happens rapidly into an area and if people don't speak the same language then what you get is the ghettoization in cities and towns and you get a dislocated society so no i mean full marks to david cameron for at least starting

that debate but difficulty david cameron has got is he will now have raised expectations within this country but he has a prime minister is actually not just going to talk the talk but he's going to walk the ward he's going to deliver and the point that i'm making is he cannot do that because we're members of the you because we have open borders we have total free movement of peoples within that union now since two thousand and four since poland lithuania latvia and now bulgaria and romania and join the union they are very much poorer countries and we have a huge number of people from those countries and the argument that i would put to mr cameron is yes let's have this debate but let's not have the you having open borders and free movement of peoples why don't we in britain decide ourselves how many people come in every year. the new world order is in the making at the forefront the world's premier developing economies these five countries the brics

met in china this week to talk business and push forward their vision for the future not easily make a lot of reports from the center of the economic and geopolitical shift. brazil russia china india and this year's new kid on the block south africa have gathered on the island of high nine forming a united front against the old world financial establishment. saying we need a reform of global financial architecture a new multi-polar and dynamic development of new centers of economic and political influence the political issues were present in the discussion economy of the day after all the organization is well placed to call the shots in the financial world arena let the numbers do the talking the five countries accounted for eighteen percent of the world's economy in two thousand and ten they comprise almost half of the world's population so after the form it became apparent brics is a force to be reckoned with it's out with the dollar in with something else one of

the main messages relayed during the summit and strongly supported by some of the world's leading economists and the dollar has been very unstable. understandable given the difficulties you might say of american economy here you know our performance was not a us dollar the dollar reserve currency system contributes to any quality it actually contributes to the weak will boycott of it because the countries are setting aside literally hundreds of billions of dollars and that saved a cautionary savings you know naming names but it seems obvious that brinks is not happy with the way the world's financial system has been run by the usual powerhouses the u.s. and europe so should they see the organization as a threat it seems to be quite the contrary coming today you know the brits are screaming for it for the survival of the united states commercially it's actually very interesting and i would say

a positive thing that the bric countries are talking about no protectionism open up let's have more trade. and the the u.s. has been. worse really should be aggressively ballerina the u.s. and europe may still be struggling with the economic crisis and pumping their funds into questionable military campaigns and though they try to hold on to the reins as the movers of the world's economy brics seems to be laying a foundation for an entirely new structure of finance politics alike from senior china. righty. exactly fifty 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 the age of manned space exploration or to. mate some of the people who knew the legend in person. 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 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 my school but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you know i didn't it was not paris didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots academy and that the facility was working it was top secret when they heard that you regard being sent into space they soon it was me janice came to our house to interview my parents but 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 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 other cutoffs they all was a doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. beggary 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 the year to month and hugged and i sound yury everything will be fine and he nodded back with your wisdom 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. we were playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached

us will move the way in nearest he was very surprised he said what song was put together those who played against they were giving way to govern noticed this and was offended he said let's play fair ok with it. he'd be hard pressed to find someone he knew got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just rizza believes as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with or this you got in this are celia artie. ten twenty eight minutes past the hour here in the russian capital i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just under a couple of minutes from now stay with us live here in moscow.

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