in israel. the week's top stories are right here r t bomb attack on the metro system in the russian capital minsk kills thirteen and injures over two hundred. poisonous intervention and nato is accused of the 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 children but not for his support of moscow's most wanted characters. also it is a fifty years this week since man first headed to the stars during the difference

momentous flight was celebrated both on earth nor. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow where it is just after six o'clock on a monday morning this is r.t. our top news story this week a metro bomb blast in develop russian 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 and there are no clear motives as of yet artesia company over filed this report from that. five forty nine pm means concert rounds a man steps on the platform of

a crowded metro station he's happy back on the floor and walks away for several minutes you can see him cold blooded one eighteen for the right moment trains going in both directions make a stop doors open. my. i started to scream asking for help i was bleeding heavily a man and a woman can't be outside into the fresh air they tied up my leg and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived that's 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 buy vitamins it's terrible but i believe i got over not really where people without eyes were missing legs and hands and six months pregnant so all my thoughts were about the baby. by insisting to rina huddled to protect her belly she was lucky people sported 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 ceiling collapsed lots of people were lying on the platform older i stepped over some of them and then i saw this was a girl's body. lina 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 new subway intercepts and this explains why there was so many commuters tearing this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a save those harley was at work carried out on to the street from these trials and many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the seas in the news of the attack let to phone systems been flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones pa some delays in getting through the longest

moments of their lives. marks you should call me to say there was a terrorist attack and then the line broke up and when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked again it was all torn apart as if she'd been hit by shotgun pellets almost face 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's here the blood was that of others caught up in the atrocities 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 two weeks 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 some this stand in value have removed into their lives

and remember those who died i'm sorry but i can't turn. it into that's what archie means delos investigative journalist mara says a president will be ashamed cause that regime was the target of the attack it is quite hard to judge at this point the k.g.b. it puts or forward three notions that dissipate to people or young extremists or someone with mental illness my suspicion is that it's aimed at president shango because it's only one hundred metres 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 brushed over many of the elections the last elections in december were contested and i think that what we might be seeing is a rising discontent with its authority or in regime. and while dello russo reels of

from the w. attack extremist views find a safe haven in an unexpected place finish authorities or ignore the promotion of terrorism under their nose within the country's capital harboring a website which openly supports attacks in russia and. italy says it's going to accept tens of thousands of new refugees from unstable arab countries straining a border control laws which of the limited. pro-government forces in libya have denied claims that they are using illegal cluster bombs against of the rebels as fighting continues in of and of misrata many question the effectiveness of the u.n. sanction the no fly zone war veterans in the u.s. are also warning that the nato led coalition has been using the depleted uranium in its strikes a substance with long term residual effects including cancer and birth defects you may find some of the images are going to change accounts report was triggering.

these leave young men cheer on top of a tank hit by coalition forces unaware of the silent killer they could be breathing in as they celebrate though the western coalition denies using depleted uranium in bombings in the country others say there is a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous radioactive element have been used that kind of damage. there's a really good chance it was a big new round i'm about ninety percent sure there was a d u round that's released to anybody who was on it was getting boring and she exposed. the level of the wind blowing. that rules the particles are in the air. so all of these people in those cars were bork's barrels not least the spirit served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine east clearing up battle fields in kuwait back then the you. 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 of red that's the burning see how. instead of a cold streak when you've got a flare in 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 the u.n. human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refuse to sign up include the u.s. the u.k. france and this will the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the blood until spreading to any organ including the heart grain liver the particles penetrate your cell creation this is

when you get all kinds of genetic mutations and people in iraq for example being that contaminated air every day and that's why i say there's no way to fight it in fallujah 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 tommy 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 ninety five a legacy today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal medical confirmation all round pollution are rare but the health approach of the radium earlier we should throw out a rare color short a regular cool way afghanistan somalia the balkans. again now we're seeing

a movement in. two will libya dr dogg rocky 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 a lot about the health and environmental perching re-emission he himself was exposed to deplete 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. i suspect you just because you stand there and find it and. just saying hey look everybody is here with fancy. nations and so forth i don't think anyone listening depleted uranium has a hof life of four and a house dealing in years hands is this corruption 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 v. alliance violate the terms of un mandate or he's a surfer of has more on russia's concerns. russian president dmitry medvedev warned at the beginning of the week that libya is a risk place to collapse and reiterated russia's position. to be able to is still order that countries need to be saying in strict accordance with international resolutions that he was speaking in china at the pricks of that with the other countries india brazil china of course in south africa. 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 and

choose sides but what we have now is a military operation and 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 steps in but the resolution doesn't say a word about it because they said at the summit the political and diplomatic solutions need to exist and the military intervention will day to solve the situation that heavy weapons and also may to are not the best way to do with this now on friday ever since foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting berlin for a russian a take home for as i get 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 first. journalist patrick henningsen says the nato led coalition's an adversary in libya is not only colonel gadhafi but also of china. goals of intervention.

stated intervention by the un in nato. are very different than what was drawn up in resolution one nine hundred seventy three the goals are regime change. also the cause or the control of resources in that region and the eviction in other words the dismantling of chinese economic interests in africa just in libya alone chinese contracts or some value something like twenty billion u.s. dollars initially from a chinese point of view the original un resolution as vague as it was asking for a no fly zone obviously we know from events of the last couple weeks that is it wasn't just about a no fly zone its route was really about full on military intervention on the part of nato. in the region. for the first time the general european principle of the

travel free zone has been broken this week a train carrying that north african immigrants from italy has been halted the french border italy has been giving temporary residence permits to many of the roughly twenty six thousand tunisians fleeing the north african unrest francis says it will honor the italian paper work only if the migrants prove they can financially support themselves room called the action illegitimate and some european legislators to say the only way to deal with the inflow of refugees is to change border regulations. berlusconi and his minister should have made it 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 the waves so to speak another migration we from from libya 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 eyes you 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 and therefore we need to step back into into this situation which we had ten years ago where there was actually natural color control because it is for the benefit of the national status for the 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 their muslims are for the country brings in a ban on traditional veils and at improving integration critics say the actual effect is very different also. what it's 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 could tell the story of eureka got in and that momentous day from memory adding another layer of color to history. the publisher

of a helsinki based website that supports chechen terrorists because store sure has gone on trial in finland accused of illegally smuggling chechens into the country where he's an isa now he has been following the case. he may not look like a supporter of terrorism but we torture founded and runs this website center a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the world's most wanted terrorist and declared by the un to have links with al qaeda don't call mara is responsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the deal made out of the airport bombing which in total killed almost eighty people and injured nearly three hundred cycles doku umarov a president transmits messages about those he views as his enemies and carries ads for books about the life of a mujahideen islamic fighter the situation is that the standard. and he's associated they are working for the politicization of islamistic be our

spring theme of 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 poker center writes about the situation it's a contaminating the finished. right think of the scene with. underworld what are the writing rewriting of its couric to make sure of terrorist attacks and this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of helsinki meanwhile opponents are 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 the task 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 more there is says he's trying to make something positive out of losing his job because all the time i have 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's now a r.t. helsinki in the headlines this week was of the russian presidential race for elections in two thousand and twelve both president medvedev and prime minister vladimir putin have stressed of it it is premature to speak about the race but they also did not rule out their own involvement the president also stressed that the

possible differences of opinion between the two of them are just part of the democratic process. as the months countdown towards russia's presidential election we've got full coverage of the buildup for you had a car 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 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 there are teed up. this week in france a ban on the burqa came into force the new law prohibits women from wearing a fourth face veil in public places or cheese down your bushel reports on the possible racial repercussions. in just becoming a criminal in new french law and covering your face in public is designed to make moves and integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says it's had the

opposite effect. my friends have simply started going out on a new rulings made some scared to speak out. not to change the way they dress undermines what the french republic stones for says this business woman he pledges to pay the hundred and fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to we're a very real and is taking the dispute further that we are seeing france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. and was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month after criticizing the president's approach to what he calls on french muslims stores similar to the one forced on jews for the north is a big. loss these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show

record low approval ratings for the french government with bank is asians the brutally stirring in some racial tension. friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the streets the government the building of basic public prayer rooms more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population brought to the scene of the riots in recent years against government policies there are signs of more really whether it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together and those prince have also reached partners in europe joining blames from illegal to politician of room of exporting of libya and or every consulting allies and sending north african graffiti back to instantly in the fields the international ngo analysts fear france could no longer

lecture regimes like iran when it picks on its own ethnic minorities and its critics that forming the french government over its hardline policy is simple quote truthful politicians in the ruling party last week quit more expected to do the same in the coming days the new bush you'll see house. 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 crack immigration to tens of thousands nigel for raj n.e.p. and the leader of the u.k. independence party says that cameron can't tackle the problem while the u.k. is still a 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 to david cameron for at least starting

that debate but deliberately david cameron has got he will now raise expectations within this country but he has a prime minister is actually not just going to talk with all these 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 bill gary and remaining join the union they are very much poorer countries and we have a huge number of people from those countries and the argument that i would put to mr cameron is yes let's have this debate but let's not have the e.u. having open dollars and free movement of peoples why don't we in britain decide ourselves how many people come in every year. now 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 touched down in oklahoma first causing flooding as it swept eastward toward the atlantic coast. results of from finland general elections show rising popularity for the countries that nationalist party the true finns gained almost twenty percent of the vote only beaten by the conservative national coalition party and the social democrats the euro sceptic true fans 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 player. 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 silly i met some of the people who knew the legend in person. i'm feeling all right ready for launch. of the i have the honor of taking the cost of a great spacecraft into space first i was very happy to have not it was only the beginning able to all one thousand nine hundred sixty one the day utica got in blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe. it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened and that's true. but for this man it was also the day his name shot to thing you know they didn't look here's 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 regarded being sent into space a c.v. it was me journalist came to our house to envy my parents with a mere nothing i think they could have had a heart attack while there 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 eureka got a member 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 would the garden look more pale than usual he was unsociable and quiet which was not like him and i know he would answer by nodding or a short yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy in your team up and hugged and i stand during everything will be fine and he nodded back. as soon as he got in return to worth he was

a superstar a hero for his compatriots those who knew him admit they weren't quite sure how to act around him. and we were playing volleyball in the garden and a little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed he was very surprised he said what's up those two together those who played against they were giving way the governor has this and it was offended he said was play fair ok. you'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 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 hour celia r.t. . we'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments of stay with us right here on our team and some from moscow just.

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