week's top stories right here on r.t. of dog attack on the metro system in the bell russian capital minsk kills thirteen and enters over two hundred. poisonous intervention that nato is accused of endangering civilians in libya by using depleted uranium shells against gadhafi forces. the man behind an extremist web page that promotes terrorism against russia goes on trial in finland for smuggling the chechens into the country but not for his support of moscow most wanted terrorists. also it's fifty years this week since man first headed to the stars yuri gagarin's momentous flight was celebrated both

on earth and in orbit. and bring you the top news stories from around the world this is our t. was really glad to have you with us now to our top news story this week a metro bomb blast in the belorussian capital minsk killed thirteen people and more than two hundred others were injured in the monday evening rush hour attack authorities have detained five people in connection with the explosion including a man accused of placing the bomb on the platform and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack and there are no clear motives as he's accompanying about children filed this report from that. five forty nine pm means condor ground a man steps on the platform of a crowded metro station once he's happy 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 woman karen to be outside into the fresh air they tied up my nag 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 as. on the day i was going to the city center to guy vitamins it's terrible but i believe i got of lightly there were people without eyes with missing legs and hands i'm six months pregnant so all my thoughts were about the baby. by instinct a reno huddle to protect the belly she was lucky people spotted here in the thick smoke and didn't trample here in the panic. the train was full of panicked and then

there was this bang and all of a sudden fires soon collapsed lots of people lying on the platform. stepped over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. lena was at the very epicenter of the blast and one of the few to miraculously survive in her carriage again despite the panic others gave her a helping hand to skid the carnage from the city's busiest metro station this is where the two allies of the music subway intersect and this explains why there was so many commuters cheering this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a save those other wards were carried out onto the street from these answers and many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the city the news of the tackler to phone systems being flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays and getting through the longest moments of their lives. called me to say there was

a terrorist attack and then the line broke up when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked her jacket was all torn apart as if she had been hit by shotgun pellets only pays hands and clothes were covered in blood because she was trying to ease or shock granny don't cry this is not my blood it here the blood was that of others caught up in the atrocity twelve killed at the scene one more died in hospital as funerals were taking place and means 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 atrocity. 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 hark.

it feel a dash of our t. . bellows conflict resolution analyst says of the mental metro explosion could be a 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 bellows is not immune to these kinds of incidents that we've seen in moscow that we've seen in london that we have seen in other places and so this would obviously be a number of alarm bells amongst your tory. devotion couple and while della reese reels from the deadly attack extremist views find a safe haven unexpected place. finish authorities ignore the promotion of terrorism

under their nose with the country's capital harboring a website which openly supports attacks in russia that report on its way this hour plus. why don't we in britain decide ourselves how many people come in every. case says it wants to stem the tide of immigrants one anything says it's a process and not one that's in charge of the britain that's coming your way. pro-government forces in libya have denied claims that they are using illegal cluster bombs against the rebels as fighting continues in our study and misrata many question the effectiveness of u.n. sanctions no fly zone more veterans in the u.s. are also warning that the nato led coalition has been using depleted uranium in its strikes a substance with long term residual effects including cancer and birth nutrition you may find in some of the images and recorded history of. 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 uranium depleted. you mean 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 it was a do you around i'm about a ninety percent sure there was do you know that's really just about anybody who's on it who's getting a little radiation exposure who have all the wind blowing. the particles are in the air. so all of these people with cars would be exposed lisa stary served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out 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 there's touches of red that's the burning see how it. instead of a cold street and you've got a flare at the bottom that's a do you 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 do you want human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refused to sign up include the u.s. the u.k. friends and this will the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the lot and can spread into any organ including the heart brain liver that's the particles penetrate your cell place through this is when you get all kinds of kinetic with patients and people in iraq

for example breathing 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 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 pine bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal got toward medical confirmation all around pollution or rock the health of picture do you remember where we see it throughout iraq or shorter arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're moving into a libya dr doug rockey who 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 memoranda lie about the health and environmental protection or emotional he in south 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 remote villages in libya i suspect just because of this that you can find it and that if you start saying hey look everybody is still here they will answer. with nations and so forth i don't think anyone listening depleted uranium has a half life of four and a house a billion years hence it's description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c.

nato is determined to continue the enforcement of a no fly zone until colonel gadhafi goes but moscow insists that methods of clyde by the alliance of violate the terms of the un mandate are his for has more on russia's concerns. friday russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting berlin for a russian a take home friends i can 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. starting with today we witnessed that some nato actions in libya are exceeding the framework defined by the security council it's already been discussed the resolution one hundred seventy three could also be used for ground operations resolution does not provide for such actions and does not approve them nor does the u.n. deal support regime change in libya. it also said at the start that the political and diplomatic solution for the to exist that military intervention will be

a result of the situation heavy weapons and also made not the best way to deal with this and we've got plenty more coming your way this hour muslims. in france the country begins brings a ban on traditional veils and out of proven 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 of the brics leaders gathered in china to talk business it became apparent that if your political and economic system power is in progress. the publisher of a whole thank you based website that supports the chechen terrorists store sure has gone on trial in finland accused of illegally smuggling chechens into the country for cheese and he said now it has been following the case. he may not look like

a supporter of terrorism but torture founded and runs this website center propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorists and declared by the un to have links with al qaida. doku umarov is responsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the dome and out of airport bombing which in total killed almost eighty people and injured nearly three hundred the 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 congress stand or. when he's associated they are working for the politicization of islamistic be our spring feel about europe they want to make radicals 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 poor percent writes about the situation. contaminating the finnish media. what were those who are writing of the same way. i don't want to be writing. correct me there are terrorist attacks this is the company that houses the web site located right in the center of how sinky meanwhile opponents of islamic extremism or those who speak out against it are being persecuted by finished 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 tass threats he received these came from a door kumar 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 there is says he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because although not been busy with my work but no have. concentrated to subsume 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 says now r.t. how thinking in the headlines this week was the russian presidential race for elections and twenty twelve both president medvedev and prime minister vladimir putin have stressed the vet it is too premature to speak about the race but they also did not rule out their involvement the president also stressed that the possible differences of opinion between the two are just part of the democratic process. as the months countdown towards russia's presidential election with full coverage of the build up for you and r.t.

dot com let's take a quick look at what else is there for you. discover how a suspected managed to destroy incriminating evidence while he was being questioned by police. and is it possible to twitter and tweet your way to democracy the u.s. government certainly thinks so find out why online. this week in france a ban on the burka came into force the new law prohibits women from wearing a full face veil in public places bushell reports on the possible racial repercussions. in just become a criminal in new french law bans covering your face in public is designed to make moves to integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says it's had the opposite effect. my friends have simpler starts going out and all the new rulings made some just good to speak out. not to change the way they dress the move on the

morning is what the french republic stones for says this business when he plays dissipative a hundred and fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to we're a very real and is taking with this speed further. 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 the criticizing the president's approach to what he calls on french muslims staus similar to the one forced on jews for the nazis big. loss these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with bankers asians this story into. tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the street the government looks at 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 truly whether it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together lose friends have also reached partners in europe joining blames for all these illegal to call to action of room on its. wheels consulting allies and sending north africa. back to its in the in the freeze the international ngo analysts fear france could no longer lecture regimes like the ruled when it picks on its own ethnic minorities but cracks up forming within the french government over its hardline policies civil

court approved for politicians in the ruling party last week quit more are expected to do the same in the coming days only bush will see. and in britain the coalition government has clashed over how to deal with the flood of immigrants into the country prime minister david cameron has pledged to cut immigration to tens of thousands raj n.e.p. and the leader of the u.k. independence party says that cameron plans to tackle the problem while the u.k. is and member of the e.u. . if you have huge mass immigration that happens rapidly into an area and 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 for david cameron for at least starting that debate the difficulty david cameron has got is he will now have raised expectations within this country but he is a prime minister is actually logical to talk with all the world he's going to

deliver on 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 join the union they are very much poorer countries and we've had 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 e.u. having open borders and free movement of peoples why don't we in britain decide ourselves how many people come in every year it seems a new world order is in the making at the forefront the world's premier developing economies the five countries dubbed the brics met in china this week to talk business and push forward their vision of the future. 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 quinine forming a united front against the old world financial establishment. the world strongly needs a reform of global financial architecture a new multi-polar and dynamic development a new senses 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 i counted 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 bricks is a force to be reckoned with it's out with the dollar and 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 or you know our

performance was not a best seller the dollar reserve currency system contributes to any quality it actually contributes to a weak lowboy carmi because the countries are setting aside literally hundreds of billions of dollars to make save cautionary savings no naming names but it seems obvious that brics is not happy with the way the world's financial system has been run by the usual powerhouses the us 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 extremely important for the survival of the united states for sure it's actually very interesting and i would say a positive thing that the bric countries are talking about you know protectionism open up let's have more trade. and the the u.s. has been. willing to be aggressively now to reno 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 and politics alike from china . r.t. and now on to some other stories making headlines around the world. at least forty people have been killed as a fierce storm system has swept through several southern u.s. states a state of emergency is in place in north carolina where sixty two tornadoes left a trail of destruction in the most severe weather conditions for more than two decades officials say the death toll is likely to increase as rescue teams search the affected areas the storm touched down in oklahoma first causing flooding as it swept eastward towards the atlantic. results of from finland general election

show rising popularity for the countries that nationalist party the true within gained almost forty percent of the vote only beaten by the conservative national coalition party and the social democrats the euro sceptic truth strongly object to finland pledging with billions of euros to the euro zone's mean the bailout fund it only requires one country to refuse to take part in the program to block of the financial aid. exactly fifty years ago this week yuri gagarin made history when he became the first man to go to space it was a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a new age the age of manned space exploration artists are silly and that 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 it was only the

beginning of april twelve 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 of course nice but for this man it was also the day his name shot to thing you know i did it is 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 only heard that you regarded being sent into space they soon it was me journalist came to our house to envy my parents when 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 man's first journey into space but for now there are still those who can tell the story of you to go about 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. when. gary 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 years to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy in the year two month and hugged and i said yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back with what you think as soon as i got it returned 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. and we were playing volleyball in the garden and little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed he was very surprised he said what's up was put together those who played against him were giving way and are no listeners and i was offended he said let's play fair ok. you'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 for his abilities as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this he got in this are silly are arty. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with us right here on our team in central mexico.

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and we must now be. so full. of investment in the peaceful uses of body space. obviously incredible investment from the united states and. from the european union canada their countries like business all this stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space. more news today violence is once again flared up.