an. the weak start stories right here on our t.v. of bomb attack on the metro system in the belorussian capital minsk kills thirteen and injures over two hundred. boys in this intervention that nato is accuse of endangered civilians in libya by using depleted uranium shells against gadhafi forces. the man behind an extremist web page that promotes a terrorism against russia goes on trial in finland for smuggling chechens into the country but not for his support of moscow's most terror. also it is fifty years ago this week since man first traded to the stars period he guarantees that moment as the flight was celebrated both on earth and in orbit.

and live from our headquarters in central moscow this is r.t. we're glad to have you with us now to our top story the stories of 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 five people in connection with the explosion including a man accused of placing the bomb on the platform no one has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet and there are no clear motives but he's a fact that in a clutch of a filed this report from it. was five forty nine pm means condor grant a man steps on the platform of a crowded metro station who sees how to 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. was bleeding heavily a man and a woman can't be outside into the fresh air i taught my mag 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. on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins it's terrible but i believe i got over not really there were people without eyes with missing legs and hands and i'm six months pregnant when my thoughts were about the baby. but you seem to rina huddle to protect your belly she was lucky people sported here in the big 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 fire ceiling collapsed lots of people were lying on the platform older 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 helping hands to escape the carnage from the city's busiest metro station this is where the two eyes of the music subway intersect and this explains why there was so many commuters to ring this evening rush hour on monday all witnesses say that those hardly warders were carried out onto the street from these and trails many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the seas here the news of the attack letter phone systems being flooded with people desperate to cons of their loved ones for some delays and getting through the longest moments of their lives it's valuable not just with the monks who should call me to say there

was a terrorist attack and then the line broke up but when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked the jacket was all torn apart as if you'd been hit by shotgun pellets almost three. yes hands and clothes were covered in blood but she was trying to ease our shock ground you don't cry this is not my blood it here the blood was that of others caught up in the atrocities twelve killed at the scene one more died in a hospital as funerals were taking place and means scant 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 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 talk.

if they don't know that you are a t.v. means delos. conflict resolution analyst dennis summers he says the 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's not perhaps an obvious target for a terrorist attack but clearly. is not immune to these kind of incidents that we've seen in moscow that we've seen in london that we've seen. in other places and so this would obviously ways a number of alarm bells among the authorities in the russian capital and while bellerose real so from the deadly attack extremist views find a safe haven in an unexpected place. finish it for these 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 the sound plus. why don't we in britain decide ourselves how many people come in every year as the u.k. says it wants to stem the tide of immigrants one and he says it's a brussels and not london that's in charge of who gets into britain coming your way later this hour. pro-government forces in libya have denied claims that they are using illegal cluster bombs against the rebels as findings continue in and it is rather many question the effectiveness of u.n. sanctions no fly zone war veterans in the u.s. are also warning that the nato led coalition has been using the pleaded urania been strikes substance with long term residual effects including cancer and birth defects you may find some of the images in ghana church accounts report

a bit disturbing. even though. these libyan men cheer on top of a ten. 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's a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous radioactive element have been used that kind of damage. has a really good chance that was the day you around. in the ninety percent sure there was do you that you just to anybody who's on it who's going to. expose or see who have all the wind blowing. particles are in the air. all these people in those cars are being 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 and see how others touches of red that's the burning see how our instead of a cone. flare at the bottom that said the new explosions 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.i. and 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 inhale they get into the blart and can spread into a organ including the heart grain and liver also chronicles penetrate your cell

tissue 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 in iraq where the u.s. dropped thousands of concluded you renia 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 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 got toward medical confirmation all round pollution are rare but 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 going to move it 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 if there was going to remember around the lie about the health and environmental protection or emotional he himself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some fear 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's going to find it and it is saying hey look everybody here they were cancer. patients and so forth i don't think anyone listening they pleaded you rhenium has 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. going to check on our t. washington d.c.

. nato is determined to continue the enforcement of a no fly zone until colonel gadhafi goes but not go insists that methods applied by the alliance violate the terms of the un mandate or for of has more on russia's concerns. friday i russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting berlin for a russian a take home friends again libya on the agenda he 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. we're struggling with today we witnessed that some nato actions in libya are exceeding the framework defined by the security council it's already being 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. because they said at the start that the

political and diplomatic solution for the to exist that military intervention will be a result of the situation that heavy weapons and ultimatums are not the best way to deal with this and we've got plenty more coming your way this hour muslims in an uproar and as the country brings in a ban on traditional veils aimed at improving integration critics say the actual effect is very different also. the new world order is in the making at the forefront world's top five leading economies and 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 simply based website that supports chechen terrorists store sure has gone on trial in finland accused of illegally smuggling chechens into the country archies 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 a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorists and declared by the un to have links with al qaida. don't call mara 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 thousand calls 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 stander. on his associates 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 the pope was sent the writes about the situation. contaminating the finished. writing of the same way. underworld what are they writing they're writing of it's. correct to make it through the parks and this is the company that houses the web site 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 heard morry 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 dog 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 all there is says he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because all of them are have been busy with my work but no have. concentrated subject and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life for part spreading propaganda about a man who is torn apart the lives of thousands and he says now r.t. how thinking. in the headlines this week was of the russian presidential race for elections in twenty twelve both president medvedev and prime minister vladimir putin have stressed that it is too premature to speak about that race but they also didn't rule out their own involvement the president also stressed that the possible differences of opinion between the two of them are just a part of the democratic process. and as the months countdown towards russia's

presidential election we've got full coverage of the buildup for you at r.t. dot com let's take a quick look at what else is there for you right now. to discover how a suspected car thief 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 at r.t. dot com. this week in france a ban on the burqa came into force the new law prohibits women from wearing a full face veil in public places daniel bushell reports on the possible racial repercussions. it's just become a criminal new french law plans covering your face in public is designed to make muslim integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says he's had the opposite effect but. 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 and move undermines what the french republic stands for says this is this man he pledges of pay the hundred fifty point for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taken with this page further that also we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression i would recommend that 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 staus similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show recall the approval ratings for the french government with his asians is. into racial tension friday

prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the streets the government works 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 brewing whether it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and heads in foreign assistance and events are coming together and those have also reached partners in europe joining blames france's illegal court room or maybe. and we will consult the allies and send the north african refugees to instantly in the food of the international ngo and liz. lecture regimes like you are wrong when it picks on its own ethnic minorities but critics of. the french

government over its long policies several politicians in. the party last week quit are expected to do the same in the coming days you see paris and in britain the coalition government has clashed over how to deal with the flood of immigrants into the country prime minister david cameron cameron has pledged to cut immigration to tens of thousands nigel farage m.e.p. and the leader of the u.k. independence party says that cameron can't 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 the difficulty david cameron has got is he will now have raised expectations within this country that he has

a prime minister is actually not just going to talk we're told 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 noble the area and remain here and join the union they are very much poorer country and so 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. a new world order is in the making at the forefront the world's premier of developing economies the five countries dubbed the brics met in china this week to talk business and push forward their vision of the future or cheez-it in a glue show 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 there are. only needs a reform of global financial architecture the new multi-polar and dynamic development of new centers of economic and political influence even though 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 of 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 brakes 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 the american economy or you know our performance was not a stellar job our reserve currency system contributes to any quality actually contributes to a weak global economy because the countries are setting aside literally hundreds of billions of dollars. of 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 u.s. and europe so should they see the organization as a threat it seems to be quite the contrary i mean today you know the brits are extremely important for the survival of the united states partially 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 u.s.

has been. this willingness to be aggressive in that arena the u.s. and europe may still be struggling with 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 like. china. r.t. and now on to some other stories making headlines around the. 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 from finland general

elections show rising popularity for the countries that nationalist party the true things gained almost twenty percent of the vote only beaten by the conservative national coalition party and the social democrats a euro sceptic true finns strongly object to finland pledging of billions of euros to the euro zone's main bailout fund it only requires one country to refuse to take part in the program to block the financial aid plan 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 as our psyllium met some of the people who knew him 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 you 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 the last chile. but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you know that it is nearly 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 journalist came to our house to interview my parents where 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 advocate of scale was a doctor who compared 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 how he would answer by nodding or a short years 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 said yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back with 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. live minutes later and we were playing volleyball on the garden and a little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed it was very surprised and said what's up to get are those who played against him were giving way the governor

was this and it was offended he said was play fair ok. he'd be hard pressed to find someone he knew who got it and has a bad word to say after all he was chosen not just raise a billy's as a cosmonaut but also for his demeanor and signature smile certainly not a bad reputation to be associated with for this beauty got him does our silly our party. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with us right here r.t. in central moscow.

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