view of the week's top stories as russia blocks the u.n. resolution over syria arguing it could ignite another fully fledged civil war in the region questions are raised to be next to sink into violence. drug steps up security at home bearing revenge for the nato bombings of libya other governments accused of invading people's privacy. the world marks the anniversary of the worst ever nuclear accident regular wreck still present twenty five years after the police are still. trying to punish all who want

a controversial piece of graffiti gets a state prize that's critics say it's not so founded rather than come up. with. are you watching r.t. and our weekly news review welcome to the program well this week the arab world has remained inflamed bromo still raining down on libya syria sort of balance crackdown against protesters syrian troops continue the siege in the southern city of daraa. suggesting forty two people were killed in the week ahead five hundred have died since the government began in march washington has imposed a new set of sanctions granting high level officials in the syrian government and criticised the mascot's from britain and iran for this critical script i want someone to run could be next in line for western backed or the uprising.

some like it hot but this spring new things have heated up perhaps too much in the arab world egypt's tunisia libya nawas syria northern african region and the middle eastern gulf the brutal civil wars with the western powers playing an important hand some believe this won't stop anytime soon so who's next in line for the greats of fuel in the region the answer may lie on the surface. president assad is disingenuously blaming outsiders while at the same time seeking a rainy in assistance in repressing syria's citizens this need to be bailed him and that's where exactly the united states is looking to get involved i think around has been targeted for some time and if you watch propaganda about syria washington is now claiming that iran is helping syria and oppress protesters

what's different about syria about the protesters in both cases really know for a fact that the united states government was supporting the opposition groups and so it only goes to countries where there's there's an interest in. t.v. ron has been a longstanding alliance with syria in this strategically important region right next to iran's arch nemesis israel syria syria isn't the same as libya geopolitically we've always realized that syria is iran's springboard in its fight against israel this is why it will eventually make a powerful sunni jet impact on iran's positions but this brings us back to the question what country will follow syria if it ends in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar developments in iran unfortunately that is iran will repeat the syrian

scenario iranian ships have dropped anchor in syrian ports in nervous proximity to tel aviv but the mask is crippled by a crisis iran may lose its footing in the region this is again a continuation of the idea that you use the international machinery to achieve your national objectives under the pretext that you are actually trying to protect human rights should the u.s. and its allies decide to go through with a habit of meddling in aiding revolutions. in the region the result may be catastrophic but if there is foreign intervention in syria yes iran's intervention in response is a definite and very real possibility just as much as it interfered in iraq when the us invaded that country and suspicions proved true the world may be in for an entirely different ballgame if iran and the us get involved in a real hot confrontation. continuing violence in syria might pave the way for foreign intervention there to

an east expert says if western powers do step in syria the whole region in flames. quite far from the peace for example we've seen in our strategic military strategy has been developed and we'd go what if you can see all of. these nobody can talk about it in success or through strategy contrary revealed in the. very sensitive country disclosed. but we also know that the syrian regime has been actions as well as we've got police and the bodies and that is why by acting or pressure in syria. radicalize syria's allies and open and you generalized but i don't own course. for intervention in syria might have moved closer but

this week russia along with china and locked in the un security council resolution on it was advocating by the u.s. and europe nations. outside intervention to further destabilization the fully fledged civil war. policy analyst with says libya's experience shows how easily a sovereign state can be attacked under the guise of protecting civilians. well if you look at what the us did to engineer the. un resolution on libya this is one of the. reason transgressions of the rights of nation national sovereignty and international law that we've seen in the post world war two period the responsibility to protect is an insidious doctrine that's been developed by various n.g.o.s think tanks connected with the research was in the united states to justify a nato definition of an intervention in

a sovereign country there's been no attempt to have it have a peaceful conflict resolution before this thing escalated in fact rather the the west the u.s. france and britain have been called berkeley according to the evidence that's leaking out covertly arming the opposition to gadhafi in hopes of grabbing control of the oil and in the different parts of libya fortunately this time russia and china are playing a reasonable role in blocking any u.n. security council sanctions or. strong measures against syria so i think we learned from their. deadly mistake on the on the libya case when the strain that the state has no when it's allowed to pass. and later airstrike has hit colonel gadhafi compound in tripoli reportedly killing one of his sons so the first time the alliance as a neighbor apparent attempt on thing is not really this week russia's prime

minister has the coalition to stop breaching the u.n. resolution that's been going to ensure the coalition said destroying good daffy was not they go will. his promises now some officials have claimed that eliminating him was in fact their goal who gave them the right to be have a fair trial returning to the no fly zone the bombings are destroying the country's entire infrastructure when the so-called civilized world uses all its military power against a small country destroying what's been created by generations i don't know if that's good. websites we're asking for your opinion why has intervention have libya but not syria difference. leadership started. to come down. the street at syria's borders or perhaps it's just a question of time before nato does start bombing so i don't think you can have your say. rests in the middle east and

north africa has been filled not just by western powers but from within the region itself and the president of yemen he spoke to r.t. approving hasta. some countries in the region he saw nothing countries can live at least tendencies commonly seen in the so-called new middle east if you see this controlled chaos scenario is a prepared for it is enough to have a look at what is going on in egypt tunisia and other countries cannot be called otherwise and what against the region. well with france taking an active part in nato all of libya fears are rising that this could bring revenge attacks and security alerts in the country has been dramatically raised when he was military personnel on two fronts the streets results he's done a little reports the measure has been met with accusations the government is

running a police state. soldiers on the street with machine guns this is france's vision here at system your most expensive anti terror program to for its what it calls the growing terrorist threat the government claims troops make a public feel safer but that's not what people think they look a little bit dangerous they can. use the force and the other way there is a good fright it has got. to the. premier francois feel says troops are required because france bombing libya threatens a terror attack at home you'll never find soldiers at shops chil recites government buildings train stations airports schools and churches but exposed the system doesn't even work in the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee. real targets is not to catch terrorists says one investigator but

somali to the public it's easy to persuade people that there could be a terrorist list that your station it's easy very for people in friends to believe well then they have a right to listen to my phone calls which they do they do do it they have a right to monitor my emails and facebook because they're really protecting us troops are only the visible part or thirty's can now read people's emails under a law passed quietly in february president sarkozy also signed a bill for police to touch phones without getting judges authorization to justify the invasion of people's privacy says one author because he makes france's six million arabs a scapegoat he has to make them afraid thinking that there is another up with a bomb here down down. a government recently branded muslims a problem and burn the muslim food. face veil some already mocks the band and what

they see as an arab witch hunt by going out in vocals and mini skirts there's also the large cost world workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis video pierrette estimated prices eighteen billion euros each year enough to create a million new teaching jobs and embarrassed government analysts say tries to hide the amount that is very expensive because the executive can move resources from one area to another quite quickly it's very difficult to find an exact figure critics like michele coleman have dubbed the video system vishy pirouettes vishy was france's first regime in the second world war it spied and informed on people and targeted ethnic minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens don't you bush or r.t.

paris. the consequence of france taking part in operations in libya is the wave of immigrants hitting the country trying to escape conflicts. in the pen the presence of france's controversial far right and national front party who claims it threatens the very survival of the french people. and some of the cars they say were in a democracy but authorities refused to show the real figures on how many immigrants there are there are probably sixty seven million listeners here already plus additional immigration on a massive scale each year is an open ice replacement of our population this threatens our very survival we don't have the means to integrate those who are already here there is a lot it's endless cultural conflicts you can be against immigration fights immigration suspends all immigration or not it immigrants as individuals and i understand immigrants wants a better teaching here but i honestly say to them you can't find a better future here while we're finding it hard to get a better future to our own people as it is.

with mary in the pen on our website article. on monday the world lost twenty five years since the worst in history it's a novel blast sends a huge radioactive cloud across much of europe and you think what matters of land around the reactor poisoned for centuries to come and see ourselves. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundreds including the russian and ukrainian presidents came to the mornin to decide the nuclear plant to mark the date which changed the world the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl fallout. i believe those of a huge amount of citizens from ukraine and russia was put in to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy in the face of such disasters we should be honest it's

the government's obligation to tell people the truth we need to admit to back then that the government was not always doing the right thing nowadays the zone looks like this deserted streets and abandoned houses however a quarter of a century ago it was the place to be in the soviet union salaries for the residents of the town of p.p.h. were higher living standards better and infrastructure more developed the communist paradise changed on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment left in the wrong hands. with. the reactor was almost completely out of control on april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved by the management pushed for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated more reluctant to eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result. meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny

saturday outdoors with me and my friend we ran away from school the played a beach we returned home all covered in mud and my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning a school yard and she was sharp as she had already heard rumors of some accident the nuclear station both already started the evacuation only thirty six hours after the last that's why many of those who stayed in the town later died or suffered radiation sickness but a look at any uncle was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone but just several years after the attacks to feed she returned to the for a bit inland having lived there for more than two decades she says she wants to see the end of her days in the land where she was born we gave me a flat and the pension but i found it impossible to survive like that in kenya here i have a cattle and a grow everything in radiation yes there is a little here but you won't find a place without it anywhere we are not scared. despite this optimism from reset

loose the world still seems concerned about it sure not all throughout especially in the wake of the fukushima disaster that's why i heard of this anniversary countries invested more than five hundred million euro into constructing a new confinement. destined to seal the exploding reactor for another century this is probably the last time we have managed to see the infamous chimney of the fourth quarter of the chernobyl nuclear power station people behind the new circle for good say that next year it will be dismantled then the station will be covered with adults and that will end the existence of the children are build nuclear power station but the former residents of this area say it matters little to them their life as they knew it had ended twenty five years ago let's see russia r.t. reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine. as many continue to compare the chernobyl disaster i'm going nuclear crisis in japan some experts argue the fukushima health effects we thought greater is much less under control winter

normal was ok i have to say that the soviet system moved very fast to try and contain what was happening at chernobyl and that the japanese have been very very lax and in the way in which they took people out of the exclusion zone and they still haven't enough people out of an exclusion zone which should so as i'm concerned go sixty or seventy kilometers they're measuring enormous amounts of radioactivity on the ground up to seventy kilometers reporting this so that and these are amounts of higher than the amounts in the true normal exclusion zone and we have increases in radioactivity near tokyo also of tokyo so the difference really is that there's a very very much larger population risk and then there was a. party spoke to a man who fought against the immediate consequences of that blast as part of the so-called liquidators. so you saw everything is difficult work tempos difficult each day we're facing new chance to hatch we resolve somehow using all our

experience. that's the full interview that you know so i have a member of the actual novel cleanup team on the west side that's called also a special documentary called exclusions are. if if if. if. from. russian security forces carried out a string of successful terror operations in the north caucuses this week. friday ten members of a terrorist cell or kill and to surrender. nationals believed they had links to al qaida. that's happened in february killed three people. so on the six militants a number of attacks on civilians were killed the republican. party's top battle of

course is to investigate what drives people to join terror cells. a busy day at university in russia's north caucasus these students are learning about arab culture and learn which catering to britain rises so it was sort of builds ramiele until radical islamists took hold on him. through i saw the way his stare changed he became alienated from everyone but brainwashing teaches them to be ready for the next world so they stopped paying attention to this one by the end of university he had started to take food to militant friends and hiding when civil war to stop it he left home forever as local say he had gone into the forest. i already felt something inevitable inside was coming but i didn't know what to do i didn't have a chance to stop him when he left home from what she knows it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants they attacked this terms couple they were ready to surrender

but their leader started shooting to provoke the deadly gun battle in which they all died including really in another of the regions capitals now take its friday prayers at the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living under a cloud three months ago the leader of the republican mufti was shot dead outside his home by muslim extremists. and as such i have been a vocal critic of both your thirty's and the extremists saying there is corruption in the collates as in other spheres of society but it doesn't mean the policeman to be shot dead. jew or winner ideologists say they are there to make people scared of islam i can't agree islam is not a thing to be afraid of the only way to promote islam is to make people see the beauty of it if they're scared of it they will refuse it so he said but since the one nine hundred ninety s. more extreme forms of islam for to come from outside russia have been growing

influence. university staff are concerned at how impressionable some students are proved to be they say the region's muslim majority was not be made to feel alienated we need. to speak more about islam to show the russian federation our government our constitution. they. do not do anything against islam as itself radical islam isn't thought to riot in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one thousand nine hundred since then although widespread fighting has died down the methods of small extremist groups bombings and shootings are political the question ervice lee asked here now is whether the radicals ideology and methods of them suggest a ration of growing confidence from bottom to. brief now it's not the headlines around the world. it's

a name where tens of thousands of pilgrims are gathering it was the ceremony of the occasional the late pope john paul the second ninety heads of state are also expected as it is the end of the seized one holy event is that a lot of thought half of the. course is necessary occasion last stage for sainthood. in germany the leftist illustrators of clashed with police and returned officers object to test is to wash the car rubbish periods or threw stones and pilgrims security has been stepped up across the country to prevent worst records first of may for africa as an accompanied the interest of their fates. with russia there is mounting a more peaceful way there is still held across from where they dates back to serbia

time from the day of spring and labor day right to work place for early dinner of their cell. phones for latest reports on a whole host of ignorance that will consume a multi. they are trying to piece of profanity as it will not a debate in the russian ought well after what's really perceived as an obscene image was handed on national board work from next to the federal security office and some. even recognition as a sign of an emerging free society in russia of that expense. peace is award winning aren't according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus want washed on a drawbridge and petersburg has won the twenty ten innovation prize for best visual artwork self-styled aren't terrorists vyner meaning war in russian are the unpopular with us. i think it's essentially vandalism a bridge is

a cultural and historical monument and to pin anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not rewarded and already here in the center of contemporary arts you can see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating no shocking or innovative as viner's and according to the jury that's why they won purely artistic merit but now it's not as simple as that the same symbol the ministry rewarded is now being brandished in mocking protest this russian youth group is angry four hundred thousand rubles of taxpayers' money we given to a group it calls vandals for vine or a protest only legitimizes their own but. it's a very old what situation when the state award goes to a group that in fact organizes an action aimed against the state but this is a very important signal with artists always express society's pain and

a healthy society accepts these. but basically no acceptance of viner's art until now team members still face trial hooliganism charges for this little stunt british graffiti artist banksy did pale glance and they could still play seven years in prison and flipping coins so why this sudden show of state supporters. the minister of culture was afraid of me in queues of political censorship and i think he was right in our country is better being afraid of imposing political censorship and to actually important breezewood. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment a curate evac it's a bishan was angry uniphase back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is this out then. the touring is

a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a social climate he doesn't specify the target of his protest he simply says a strong protest is brewing in russian society but how do you draw the line between saying this art and vandalism because this is clearly this graffiti. not their street art is mine of vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause it's compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of their pictures i wish this painting could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of simpy to birds culture because it's the first work that is proof of a civil society. well i know courts controversy usually at the expense of the authorities whether it's it's or not they've achieved what they wanted to notoriety they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners i didn't it's not seek. to stay with us for the main headlines just a few moments here and up. to

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