markets finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. the week's top stories in here on our team bomb attack on the metro system in the belorussian a capital minsk kills a thirteen and injures over two hundred. poisonous intervention nato's accused of endangered 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 because of support moscow's most wanted terrorist. also it was fifty years ago this week since the man first headed to the stars yuri gagarin's momentous

flight was celebrated o'connor and in orbit. direct from our studios in central moscow this is are to you or it is just after seven o'clock on a monday morning glad to have you with us our top news story this week a metro bomb blast in the belorussian capital minsk kills 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 are choosing a company to take it excuse me hearties your company neglect charges filed this report from that. point forty nine pm means condor ground and then 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 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 i managed to woman karen to be outside into the fresh air the top of my med 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 off not only were people without eyes with missing necks and hands and six months pregnant so all my thoughts were about the baby. by insisting to reno huddle to protect your belly she was lucky people spotted here in the thick smoke and didn't trample here in the piney. the train was full of

panicked and then there was this bang and all of a sudden fire soon collapsed lots of people were lying on the platform older step over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. alina was at the very epicenter of the lost and one of the few to miraculously survive in her carriage again despite the panic others gave her helping hands just keep the carnage on the city's busiest metro station this is where the two allies of the newest subway intercept and this explains why there was so many commuters cheering this evening rush hour on tape i witness to say that those hollywood jets were carried out onto the street from these answers and many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the seas here the news of the attack let to phone systems being flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays in getting through well the

longest moments of their lives for you on the bus with the who knocks you should call me to say there was a terrorist attack and then the line broke up because when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked and jack. it was all torn apart as if she had been hit by shotgun pellets almost face hands and clothes were covered in blood because she was trying to ease a shark around 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 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 you know that's what our t. needs delos conflict resolution analyst dennis sandwich says the minsk metro explosion could it be 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 is not perhaps an obvious target for a curious 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 will obviously be a number of alarm bells. in the russian capital and while dello russo reels

from the deadly attack extremist views find a safe haven in an unexpected place finish the worries ignore the promotion of terrorism out of their nose with the country's capital harboring a website which openly supports attacks in russia that report on its way this out. 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 every piece as it's brussels and not one but in charge of who gets a break that's 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 fighting continues in and i'm as a writer many question the effectiveness of the u.n. sanctions no fly zone war veterans in the u.s. are also claiming that the nato led coalition has been using depleted uranium in its strikes a substance with long term residual effects including cancer and birth defects and

warning you may find some images in reported this true. 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'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 round are more bad in ninety percent sure there was do you around. to anybody who's on it who's going to a level radiation exposure see who have all the wind blowing. rules the particles are in the air. all these people rules cars are being exposed and lisa stary served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out battle

fields in kuwait back then the u.s. dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of depleted uranium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seen all too familiar you see how there is touches of red that's the burning see how it shoots out instead of a cone straight up 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 kind of trait 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 have refused to sign up include the u.s. the u.k. france and this will the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are going to those things also inhale they get into the blood and can spread into any organ

including the heart brain liver that's the chronicle's penetrate your cell tissue this is when you get all kinds of kin yet. that's 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 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 nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred five a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal medical confirmation all around pollution or rock but the health effects of the radio were there and we should throw out a rock or shorter. afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're

seeing a movement 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 there will be able to remember and a lot about the health and environmental protection re-emission he himself was exposed to complete your rainy i'm 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 now if it happens in. libya i suspect just because you still don't find it and people just sort of saying hey look everybody's here they will answer. with asians and so forth i don't think anyone listens depleted uranium 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. 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 artie's further has more on russia's concerns on friday i russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov visiting berlin for russia in a take home for as i can libya on the agenda he terrified russia it starts making it clear that it's not the resolution itself is the problem it's the way it's being implemented is raising questions. certainly with today we witnessed 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. it also said at the summit the political and

diplomatic solutions need to exist that military intervention a result of the situation that heavy weapons also made not the best way to deal with this sara for three porting there now we've got plenty more coming your way this hour muslims are in uproar in france as the country brings in a ban on traditional veils aimed at improving integration critics say the actual effect is very different also. a new world order is in the making at the forefront the world's top five leading economies as the brics leaders gathered in china to talk business it became apparent that into political and economic system power is in progress. the publisher of a whole thank you based website that supports chechen terrorists mikhail store sure has gone on trial in finland accused of illegally smuggling chechens in of

a country archies and nice and now he 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 terrorist and declared by the un to have links with al qaeda don't know mara is responsible for some of russia's most horrific recent terror attacks the moscow metro blast and the dilma 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 enemies and carries ads for books about the life of a mujahideen islamic fighter situation is that the global standard. and he's associated they are working for the politicization of islam used to be aspirational 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 that the caucasus and the writes about the situation it's a it's a contaminating the finish. writing of the same way. underworked what are you writing it's a couric to make her a truth that works in russia this is the company that houses the website located right in the center of helsinki meanwhile opponents of islamic extremism or those who speak out against it are being persecuted by phyllis authorities for allegedly violating minority rights you can morey a finnish pastor was defrocked fired from his ministry with no severance pay and forced to divorce his wife to protect her from death threats he received these came

from joe kumar of himself and 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 the research 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 the subset and spread awareness about a site that has ripped his life for carte spreading propaganda about a man who is torn apart the lives of thousands and he said now 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 that it is too 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 men are just part of the democratic process. 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. 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 write out why online at our teen dot com. 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 or she's a dental 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 women integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says it's had the opposite effect. my friends have simply started going out and all the new

rulings made some skid to speak out. not to change the way they dress but move on their minds what the french republic stands for says this business when he pledges to pay the hundred fifty euro fine for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taken with the speed for the last we are soon france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month of the criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims. similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis they think. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government we think is asians these. into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to

worship on the streets the government looks 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 domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together. have also reached partners in europe blames for all these illegal rumors. and. consulting allies and cindy north africa. back to italy in the food the international ngo and liz. regimes like the rule when it picks all its own ethnic minorities but critics of. the french government

over its hardline policies several politicians in the group the party last week quit. do the same in the coming days. party paris and in britain of 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 nigel for any and leader of the u.k. independence party says that cameron can even tackle the problem of 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 but he is

a prime minister is actually logical 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 noble gary 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. it seems that a new or world order may be in the making at the forefront of the world's premier a developing country economies piece of five countries dubbed the brics met in china this week to talk business and push forward their vision for the future archies it in english grow reports from the center of the economic and geo

political shift. brazil russia china india and this here is the new kid on the block south africa have gathered on the island of high ninety forming a united front against the old world financial establishment. a world strongly needs a reform of global financial architecture the new multi-polar and dynamic development and new senses of economic and political influence 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 the 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 us dollar dollar reserve currency system contributes to inequality it actually contributes to a weak global economy because the countries are setting aside literally hundreds of billions of dollars but saved a cautionary savings you know 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 brics are extremely important for the survival of the united states commercially 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 the u.s. has been. this willingness to be aggressive in that arena the u.s. in 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 senior china even goes co r t and now to some other stories making headlines around the world. at least forty people have been killed as a fearsome 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 of 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 country's nationalist party the true finns that gained almost twenty percent of the vote only beaten by the conservative national coalition party and the social democrats the euro sceptic true finns that strongly objects to finland are pledging billions of euros to the euro zone's bailout fund it only requires one country to refuse to take part in the program to block of 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 or at least has our silly 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 that on it was only the beginning april twelve 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 in the course of my school but for this man it was also the day his name shot to fame you know i 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 regard being sent into space a suit it was me journalist came to our house to envy my parents when they knew nothing i think we could have had a heart attack one of us 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 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. 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 yes to all questions sometimes he would start humming some tunes this was a different guy in would your him up and hugged and i stand yuri everything will be fine and he nodded back with think 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. that we were playing volleyball on the garden and a little guy approached us we all moved away embarrassed he was very surprised he said what's up was to gather those who played against him or giving way to govern

noticed isn't was offended he said was play fair ok. you'd be hard pressed to find someone he knew who got in 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. . and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with us here are jeanne and central moscow. to.

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