the millstone hutto some of the old country house holiday in the pool. halls the rim bronze the creamy it used to feel the accuser telling the world the ribbons herself. the week's top stories right here on a hearty a bomb attack on the metro system in the bell russian capital minsk kills the thirteen and injures over two hundred. poisonous intervention nato is accuse of in danger and 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 chechens into the country but not for his support of moscow's most wanted terrorist. also it's fifty years this week since man first headed to the stars you're a good parent the most momentous of flight was celebrated both on earth and in

orbit. broadcasting live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us our top news story this week a metro bomb blast in the belorussian capital minsk killed thirteen people more than two hundred others were injured in the monday evening rush hour attack authorities have detained at five people in connection with the explosion including a man accused of placing the bomb on the platform no one has a claimed it was sponsibility for the attack as of yet and there are no clear motives but he's accompanied a touch of a filed this report from it says. five forty nine pm means condor grounds a man steps on the platform of a crowded metro station he's happy back on the floor and walk somewhere. but

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 into a woman carriage me outside into the fresh air i taught my mag and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived that's 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 and terrible but not really forgotten not really where people without eyes with missing legs and hands i'm six months pregnant all my thoughts were about the baby. by insisting to rina huddled to protect your belly she was lucky people spotted here in the big smoke and didn't trample here in the panic. the train was full of parents and then there was this bang and all of

a sudden fire soon collapsed lots of people were lying on the platform older sister to over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. alina 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 helping hands to escape 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 to ring this evening rush hour on monday i witness a save those probably was at work carried out on to the street from these actions and many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the seas in the news of the tackler to phone systems being flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays in getting through the longest moments. their lives. with the marks you should call me to say that was

a terrorist attack and then the line broke up when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked again it was all torn apart as if she had been hit by shotgun pellets almost phase hands and clothes were covered in blood and she was trying to ease our shock crown you 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 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 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 talk.

it through the virtue of what archie means there was investigative journalist poll says president bush goes regime was the target of the attack. it's quite hard to judge at this point. forward three notions that 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 meters from these ministration offices and of course he's a very controversial figure he has ruled the roost for now for the nineteen years he's brought. many of the elections the last elections in december were contested and i think what we've seen is a rising discontent with these also wrote a regime and while belarus reels from the deadly attack extremist views find

a safe haven and unexpected place. finish authorities ignore the promotion of terrorism under their nose of with the country's capital harboring a website which openly supports attacks on russia. italy says it's going to accept tens of thousands of new refugees from unstable arab countries straining up border control laws and the. pro-government forces in it libya have denied claims they are using illegal cluster bombs against of the rebels as a fighting continues and misrata many question the effectiveness of the un sanctions no fly zone war 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 the birth defects you may find at some of the images in damage occams report just. 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 chap. since weapons with the highly poisonous review active element have been used that kind of damage. there's a really good chance it was a deal you around i'm about eighty ninety percent sure there was a new round that's realistic that anybody who is on it is going to go a little radiation exposure and see the the level of the wind blowing. that means the particles are in the air. all these people in cars are being released the stereo 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 those tensions are red that's the. see how. instead of the whole street and you get the flare at the bottom that's a new explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to penetrate the heaviest armor nato flatly denies its use in libya even though the u.n. human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refused to sign up including 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 can spread into any organ including the heart brain liver lungs the chronicle's penetrate yourself 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 is no way to fight it in fallujah or anywhere where the u.s. dropped thousands of depleted uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous and normality higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the atomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five for a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal toward medical confirmation all around pollute. but the health effects of the iranian were there and we see it throughout iraq are shorter arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing a movement into a libya dr doug rockey was

a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i will give it a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he in south was exposed to get pleaded q raney i'm almost all of the members of his team are now dead some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. libya i suspect just because it is going to find a cat and then the going to start saying hey look everybody is still here they will answer and they see the end of enough nations and so forth i don't think anyone will listen to depleted uranium as a hoff life of four and a house billion years hence it's the scription 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 applied by the alliance of violate the terms of the un mandate archies surfer affairs more on russia's concert. russian president dmitry medvedev warned at the beginning of the week the libya is a place to collapse that it's rated russia's position. to be able to is still 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 brazil and china of course in south africa. but he said also so that the u.n. resolution must be fulfilled in accordance with the wooding and meaning and not with free interpretations of some states because we voted for a no fly zone to stop the escalation of the conflict so that we could separate the two sides but what we having now is a military operation it may not be on the ground yet but it's certainly going on of

a number of countries who are taking part and then nato stepped in with a resolution doesn't say it would. be also said of the summit the political and diplomatic solutions they take this military intervention bill gates with the situation the heavy weapons at all to make are not the best way to do with this now on friday i russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting poland for a russian a take on friends again libya on the agenda he reiterated much of what the president had said again clarified russia's starts making it clear that it's not the resolution itself the problem it's the way it's being implemented is raising questions. but it all operation in libya lacks clear goals or leadership leading to chaos speaking earlier this week about the opinion of patrick hayes a reporter from online political magazine spiked. what we've seen over the last

month now is basically 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 and no real sense of an end game 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 but they're doing it for their own personal reasons try and make themselves look like kind of great international leaders for the first time in the general european principle of a trouble free zone has been broken this week training carrying north african immigrants from italy has been halted in the french quarter italy has been giving temporary residence permits to many of the roughly twenty six thousand tunisians fleeing the north african unrest france says it will honor the italian issued paper work only if the migrants prove they can financially support themselves run called

the action illegitimate some european legislators say the only way to deal with the inflow of refugees is to change border regulations. and is a minister should have been a 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 good he's creating another foot wave so to speak in another migration really from from libya or from egypt from tunisia to find it a possibility to come to europe reality is really striking here i mean for now ten years my party and equivalence to my party have been crying out loud against the open borders because it's created so many problems with illegal migration with with international crime and so on the entire shingle idea has failed therefore we need to step back to into the situation which we had ten years ago where there was actually national poll of control because it is but a benefit of the national state to split benefit of the populations of europe. and

later this hour we travel to france where lawmakers are struggling to deal with a large minority community and their poll numbers are in a war as the country brings in a ban on traditional veils aimed at improving integration critics say the actual effect is very different also. models like this one will serve as a reminder of for future generations a personal journey into space but for now there are still those who can tell the story of that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history. the publisher of a helsinki based website that supports the chechen terrorists kyle still sure has gone on trial in finland accused of illegally smuggling chechens into the country archies and he said he has been following the case. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but we hail stores are founded and runs this website said

turk a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorist and declared by the un to have links with al qaeda go call mara is responsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the delmar dead of airport bombing which in total killed almost eighty people and injured nearly three hundred cycles doku umarov a president transmits messages about those he views as his enemies and carries ads for books about the life of a mujahideen islamic fighter the situation is that the corporate 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 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 the situation it's a it's a contaminating the finished. writing of the same way. underworld what are you writing rewriting of its couric to make her a truth that works 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 phyllis at parties for allegedly violating minority rights you can morey a finnish pastor was defrocked fired from his ministry with no severance pay and forced to divorce his wife to protect her from death threats he received these came from a joke more of himself and 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 more there is says he's trying to make something positive out of losing

his job because although i might have been busy with my work but no have. concentrated the subject and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life apart spreading propaganda about a man who's torn apart the lives of thousands and he's now a r.t. helsinki. in the headlines this week was the russian presidential race for elections in twenty twelve both president medvedev and prime minister vladimir putin have stressed of it it's premature to speak about the race but they also didn't rule out their involvement the president also stressed that the possible differences of opinion between the two are just part of the democratic process which even pits as the months countdown towards russia's presidential election we've got full coverage of the build up for you at r.t. dot com let's take a quick look at what else is there for you right now. discover how a suspected car thief managed to destroy incriminating evidence while he was at

being questioned by police. and is it possible to twitter and tweet your way to democracy u.s. government certainly thinks so find out why online at r.t. dot com. this week in france a ban on the burka came into force a new law prohibits women from wearing a full face veil in public places are seasoned daniel bushell reports on the possible racial repercussions. just become a criminal new french law bans covering your face in public is designed to make muslim integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says it's had the opposite effect. my friends have simpler stop calling out all the new rulings made some scared to speak out but many valid not to change the way they dress the move on the minds what the french republic stands for says this businessman he pledges

a paid a hundred and fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to wear a veil and this is taking the dispute further that we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression i would. man was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month of the criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims to wear a store similar to the one forced on jews for the nazis but. most of these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with accusations this story into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the street the government looks the building of basic public prayer rooms more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population from the scene ugly 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 events have also reached partners in europe joining blames for all the illegal their portion of the room on its border. consorting allies and cindy north african refugees instantly in the international ngo analysts. lakesha regime you're wrong when it pixel its own if mitt minority is but. the french government for its hardline policies so it will prove that the politicians in the group of the party last week quit and all are expected to do the same in the coming days the new

book you see paris and in britain the coalition government has clashed over how to deal with of the flood of immigrants into the country prime minister david cameron has pledged to cut immigration to tens of thousands of m.e.p.a. and a leader of the u.k. independence party says that cameron cared 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 you know i mean full marks to david cameron for at least starting that debate but difficulty david cameron has got his he will now have raised expectations within this country but he has a prime minister he's actually not just going to talk a little he's going to walk 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 beside ourselves how many people come in every year. now on to some other stories making headlines from around the world. at least forty people have been killed as it appears the 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 such flooding as it swept eastward to the atlantic coast. results from finland's

general election show rising popularity for the country's nationalist party the truth in its gained almost twenty percent of the vote only beaten by the conservative national coalition party and of the social democrats the euro sceptic true finns are strongly objects to finland pledging billions of euros to the euro zone's main bailout fund it only requires one country to refuse to take part in a program to block the financial aid plan. exactly fifty years ago this week year again 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 at least as our psyllium met 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 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 that nationally. but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you noted that it was not paris didn't know where i was serving they only knew our graduation from the planets academy and that the facility was working it was top secret when they heard that you regard it being sent into space they soon it was me janice came to our house to infere my parents for 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 open to tell the story of eureka got in and that momentous

day from memory adding another layer of color to history adequate of scale was a doctor who compared 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 now he would answer by nodding or a short yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different category and would yield him up and hunt and i sound yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back we're going to school with and over think as soon as i 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. and what we were playing volleyball in the garden and a little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed it was very surprised he said what son or spirit are those who played against him were giving way to govern

noticed this and it was offended he said was play fair ok if. he hard pressed to find someone he knew who 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 god in this are celia artie. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments that stay with us right here on r.g.p. and central mosque.

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