some country house. the. towns. the crew made to feel. the oil. the week's top stories here on r.t. the roots comes face to face with the modern specter of terrorism for the first time five people have already been arrested following the metro blast that killed thirteen and wounded over two hundred. good at libya's rebels could be as much danger as colonel gadhafi from nato bombs explode savey alliances poison in the ground and with regular active and munition. internet melt peaceful russia's most wanted terrorist goes on trial in finland but his links to the extremist web site original. also it's fifty years this week since man

stepped into space yuri gagarin's commences flight is celebrated both on earth and in orbit. with a look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour this past monday a terror attack on a metro station in the russian capital minutes 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 said authorities are detained five people in connection with the attack one of them described as having unique skills in chemistry is suspected of triggering the explosives through the rest of people have apparently confessed but the motives for the bombing are still unclear bodies of katrina describes the first deadly terror attack in the country's modern history.

five forty nine pm means condor 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 called. 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 breathing heavily a man and a woman coming to me outside into the fresh air the top of my mag and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived. that 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 armies with missing legs and hands and i'm six months pregnant all my thoughts were about the baby. but instinct to reno huddle to protect your belly

she was lucky people sportage here in the thick smoke and didn't trampled who were in the time. the train was full of panicked and then there was this bang and all of a sudden the fire's ceiling collapsed a lot of people were lying on the platform older steps over something and then i saw this was a bill's body. lena was at the very epicenter of the lost and one of the few to new regulatory 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 what other two eyes of the music subway intersect and this explains why there was so many commuters during this evening rush hour on monday the eyewitnesses 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 letter phone systems being flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays and getting through to the longest moments of their lives it's valuable not just for the. nux you should call me to say that was a careless attack and then the line broke up when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked and jack it was all torn apart as if you'd been hit by shotgun pellets only space handler clothes were covered in blood but she was trying to ease our shark don't cry this is not my blood. the blood was that of others caught up in the atrocity twelve killed at the scene one more died in a hospital as funerals were taking place in minsk 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 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. and so on but i can't talk. if you don't attach of what our team needs bellows. speculation over who is behind the minsk bombing has split opinion some say bella ruse is dealing with international terrorism others like investigative journalist paul lashmar say president lukashenko is regime was the target it is quite hard to judge of this or insert the k.g.b. books or 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 because it's only one hundred metres from using ministration offices and of course he's a very controversial figure he has ruled the roost for now for the nineteen years

he's. really of the elections the last elections in december were contested and i think what we might see is a rising discontent with these authoritarian regimes. and while the roots reels from the deadly attack it streams views provide a safe haven in an unexpected place finisher authorities ignore the promotion of terrorism under their moves with the country's capital harboring a website which openly supports attacks in russia that story coming away very shortly here at r.t. but also still to come this city says it's going to accept tens of thousands of new refugees from stable arab countries straining border control walls to the limits. of the road is a right as the russians politics from the what's in store for the twenty twelve presidential election. the 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 his 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 a mutation that they found some images in going to charge reports. 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. as a really good chance that was a dream you around. ninety percent sure there was a dui. years. on it is going to bring it's an exposure.

of the wind blowing. the particles are in the air. so all these people in those cars would be exposed malise a serious 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 seem all too familiar you see how those touches are read that the. see how it. instead of a cold streak flare in a battle that saddam knew explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to kind of trait the heaviest armor nato flatly denies its use in libya even though the u.n. human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refused to sign up include the u.s. the u.k.

france and this will the smallest particles a few rainy i'm nanoparticles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the blood and can spread into any organ including the heart grain liver bones the particles penetrate your cell tissue this is where you get all kinds of genetic mutations and people in iraq for example grieving that contaminated air every day and that's were say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or anywhere where the u.s. dropped thousands of concluded you radium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous abnormalities higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality have been found here 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 for a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal

medical confirmation all around pollute. iraq that 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 moving into libya dr dog rocky who was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas i was going to remember around a lot about the health and environmental protection re-emission he in south was exposed to the cleavage uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some fear that the suffering of those bonds in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed happens in. i suspect this. time and. to start saying hey look everybody is dying here they will answer.

with nations and so forth i don't think anyone depleted uranium has a half life of four and a house billions of years hence it's the scription by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. . nato is pledging to continue until colonel gadhafi goes but moscow says the coalition is risking sells a civilian lives in libya by going all the terms of the un resolution. has more now on russia's concerns. russian president dmitry medvedev warned at the beginning of the week then libya is a risk and place to collapse and reiterated russia's position that to be able to restore order countries need to be saying in strict accordance with international resolutions that he was speaking in china at the bric summit with the other countries india of his ill china of course in south africa. but his visit

here in brazil. 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 up above a number of countries who are taking part and then nato stepped in but the resolution doesn't say it would have. it also said at the summit the political and diplomatic solutions need to exist at the military intervention field a result of the situation that heavy weapons and ultimatums are not the best way to do with this now on friday of us his foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting berlin for a russian a take home for as i can libya on the agenda he reiterated much of what the president had said again clarified russia's stuff making it clear that it's not the

resolution itself that's the problem it's the way it's being implemented is raising funds to surf earth that the nato operation in libya let's clear goals all leadership leading to chaos speaking to me earlier this week that's the opinion of patrick hays he's a reporter from online political magazine spite. what we've seen over the last month or 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 a very short term goals they don't really know what they want to achieve but they're doing it for their own personal reasons try to make themselves look like kind of great international leaders. well earlier this week france blocked

a train carrying tunisian and libyan immigrants from italy and unprecedented move since the introduction of the e.u. trouble free zone hundreds have been halted on the france italy border rome says the move appears to be illegal in violation of european principles but for all says it will only on at those immigrants who are able to financially support themselves italy is granted temporary residence to tens of thousands of people fleeing the trouble in north africa and some legislators say the only way to deal with the inflow of refugees is to change border regulations. minister should have been 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 of waves so to speak another migration from from libya from egypt from tunisia who find it a possibility to come to europe reality is really striking 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 treated so many problems with illegal migration with with international crime and so on the entire yes feels therefore we need to step back. into the situation which we had ten years ago where there was actually national corporate fraud because it is for the benefit of the national states but of benefit of the populations of europe. later this hour we travel to france where lawmakers are struggling to deal with a large minority community the muslims or the country brings in a panel traditional veils aimed at improving integration critics say the actual effect is very different also still to come. what it's like this one will serve as a reminder for future generations the first journey into space but for now there are still those who could tell the story of really got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to this story. the publisher of

a finnish based propaganda website for chechen terrorists has gone on troil with their prosecutors in helsinki have overlooked we call structures extremists names instead accusing him of smuggling people into the country a lot easier and he said no he has been following the core proceedings there in helsinki. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but stores are founded and runs this website center a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorist and declared by the un to have links with al qaida don't know mara is responsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks in moscow metro blast and the germans out of an 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 wife of a mujahideen islamic fighter the situation is that. the standard.

and he's associates they are working for the politicization of islamist that they are spring feel about europe. they want to make radicals anywhere else thorgeir 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 people who sent the writes about the situation. contaminating the finished media. writing of the same way and what are they writing rewriting of it's. correct to make terrible terrorist attacks in russia this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of how simply meanwhile opponents of islamic extremism or those who speak out against it are being persecuted by finnish authorities for allegedly violating minority rights you can morey

a finnish pastor was defrocked fired from his ministry with no severance pay and forced to divorce his wife to protect her from death threats he received these came from joe kumar himself who said the pastor and his loved ones would have their heads cut off 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 i know have the. subject and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart writing propaganda about a man who is torn apart the lives of thousands and he said now r.t. how city this week russia's president and prime minister cool the media attempts to portray them as rivals seen as the two major candidates for the presidential election in twenty twelve but say it's too early to speculate about the upcoming

races sure thomas now 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 thought he may put in the prime minister now any time these two get together or there's the 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 when it all started head of the brics summit in china when the chinese media had an interview with president a great of them asked him about some of these possible divisions and how these two men think in that interview president medvedev said look there will be differences of opinion in how things should be done but he also talked about in that interview how this is part of the dynamic democratic process and that you don't have to have agreement all the time and 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 the 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 or putin basically allowed putin to go in front of the united party officials and say hey look this is all premature we still have these state duma elections coming up on december fourth and it is premature to talk about the presidential elections which are in two thousand and twelve when we have the state duma elections this year just coming up in a few months now and again in the international community a lot of people like to put these two together they've been friends for a long time indeed and even said in this interview that he's known that blood in their putin for half of his life they're linked politically they're linked as 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. sean thomas there well as the months can't down towards russia's presidential election we've got full coverage for the build up by our web site it's r t dot com online all the time it instead breast of all the twists and turns in russian politics with expert opinion allowing you to really delve into want. to check out the twenty twelve when they're on the web site also their. witnesses who say aliens have been to earth to share their experiences to explore how one russian city has become something of a hotspot for u.f.o. sightings all that and plenty more but r.t. dot com. this week a controversial book came into force in france 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 i think you're about following suit and sorties daniel bushell reports

could world back fire and stir into racial tensions even further. hindus just become a criminal new french law bans 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 and all the new rulings made some to speak out. not to change the way they dress to move on the mornings what the french republic stands for says this businessman he pledges to pay the hundred fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking it further and also we are soon france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month after 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 big. these governments should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with bank his agency. into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the street the government mocks 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 whether it is a distinct possibility especially when domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together those who have also

reached partners in europe blames from illegal. move beyond the ivory coast consulting allies and send the north african refugees back to italy in the food for international ngo analysts here france could no longer lecture regimes like iran when it picks all its own if it minorities let's crack that for me with the french government over its cause long policies so it will quote profile politicians in the ruling party last week quit more expected to do the same in the coming days and see. and they're coming up in the next hour here not here we've got more on europe's immigration problems 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. he says the european union is tying great britain's hands in its attempts to tackle

a massive migrant influx. exactly fifty years ago this week here a good era 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 parties tesser silly i met some of the people who knew the legend in person. i've been 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 april twelfth 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. it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened for the national. but for this man it was also

the day his name shocked thing you know i did it was not piers didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pine its economy and at the facility was working it was top secret that you regard being sent into space this is me janis came to our house to interview my parents when they knew nothing i think they could have had a heart attack. 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 eureka got it and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history. could talk scale was the doctor who prepared the garden for his first flight she recalls that very day fifty years ago. gary looked more pale than usual he was unsociable and quiet which was not like him and all he would answer by nodding or a short yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was

a different guy or him would you want him up and hunt and i sound yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back where we still with and over think as soon as i got in return to worth he was a superstar i hear over his compatriots those who knew him admit they weren't quite sure how to act around him new limits never know what we were playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached us we all moved away and barest it was very surprised he said what song or spirit are those who played against they were giving way to govern noticed this and was offended he said let's play fair ok. he hard pressed to find someone he knew got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just reason billie's as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this you got him there sorry celia artie

. well that's it for me for a moment i'll be back with a look at our main news stories after a short break in a couple minutes from now stay with us live here in moscow. and. the.

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