our view of the week's top stories as russia blocks a u.n. resolution over syria arguing it could ignite another fully fledged civil war in the region questions are raised over who will be next to sink into violence. it's easy to persuade people that they could be able to resist the truth stage it's easy to live through people influence to believe well they have a right to listen to most of the calls which they do france steps of security at home fearing revenge for the nato bombings in libya but the government is accused of invading people's privacy. the world marks the anniversary of the worst ever nuclear accident with

a radioactive threat still present but the five years after the disaster. and to punish or reward a controversial piece of graffiti gets a state prize but critics say it's an act of vandalism and not our. two pm in moscow i met treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story the week the arab world has remained inflamed with nato bombs still raining down on libya while syria saw violent crackdown against protesters syrian troops kept up their siege of the southern city of daraa with reports suggesting forty two people were killed over the weekend more than five hundred have died since the an arrest started in march washington has imposed a new set of sanctions targeting high level officials of the syrian government and criticized damascus for bringing in iran he's really good reports on raw iran could

be next in line for a western backed up rising. some like it hot but this spring things have heated up perhaps too much in the arab world is it's easy a libya now syria northern african region and the middle east and often brutal civil wars with the western powers playing an important hand some believe this won't stop anytime soon so who is next in line for the greater evil 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 a human being with him and that's where exactly the united states is looking to get involved i think iran has been targeted for some time and if you watch the propaganda about syria washington is now claiming. iran is helping

syria oppress protesters what's different about syria. protesters in both cases we know for a fact. the united states government who are opposition groups and so it's only those two countries where washington has an interest in intervening to run 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 would have been truly make a powerful sunni jet impact on iran's positions this brings us back to the question what country will follow syria because events in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see is similar to violent in iran unfortunately

that is iran will repeat a syrian scenario iranian ships have drawn. syrian poor it's enormous proximity to tel aviv but the mask is crippled by crisis iran knew 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 the habit of meddling in aiding forces in the region the result needed catastrophic 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 it's the species proved through the world may be in for an entirely different ballgame if iran in the us get involved in a real hunt competition it involves quantity. there are fears continuing

violence in syria might pave the way for foreign intervention there too but this week russia and china blocked a un security council resolution on it the move was advocated by the u.s. at a number of european nations moscow and beijing argued outside intervention would only cause progress in stabilisation and a possible fully fledged civil war or war policy analyst william ng w. is a linear experience shows how easily a state can be attacked under the guise of protecting civilians. well if you look at what what the u.s. did to engineer the. u.n. resolution on libya this is one of the most the. reason transgressions of the rights of nation national sovereignty and international law the we've seen in the post world war two period the responsibility to protect is an insidious doctor and that's been developed by various think tanks connected with circles in the united

states to justify a nato definition of an intervention in a sovereign country unfortunately this time russia and china are playing a reasonable role in blocking any when security council sanction for. strong measures against a syria so i think they learned from their deadly mistake on the libyan case when they abstain that this thing has no wind if it's allowed to pass. in libya a nato air strike has hit colonel gadhafi his compound in tripoli reportedly killing one of his sons and three of his grandchildren this isn't the first time the alliance has made an apparent attempt on the libyan leader's life earlier this week russia's prime minister urged the coalition to stop reaching u.n. resolution burthen him to ensure the coalition say destroying get their feet was not they kill him kind of says we were some officials have claimed that eliminating him was in fact they go who gave them the right did he have a fair trial returning to the new fly zone the bombings are destroying the

country's entire infrastructure when the so-called civilized world uses all its military power because just small country destroying what's been created by generations i don't know if that's good. on our website we're looking for your opinion wise intervention happened in libya but not syria so far an overwhelming majority believes the reason lies with syria's smaller oil reserves thirty five percent think it's only a question of time before nato starts bombing there about six per cent thinks the reason is the different leadership style of president assad compared to colonel gadhafi whatever you think log on to r.t. dot com and have your say. under arrest in the middle east and north africa has been partly fueled by western powers and from within the region itself according to the president of yemen he spoke exclusively with r t here's a preview of what's to come later in the program. some countries in the region. could leave at least tendencies to be seen so you can be released if you. lose if

you paid for it is enough. in egypt tunisia. and in the region. with france taking an active part in the nato bombing of libya fears arising that there could be that it could result in revenge attacks security alert in the country has been dramatically raised bringing our military personnel onto the french streets as are these data bush reports the measures been met with accusations that the government is running a police state. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is cross is the jeep here at fifty of europe's most expensive and to tear a program to for its what it called the growing terrorist threats the government claims troops make the public feel safer but that's not what people think they look a little bit dangerous they can. use the force the other way there is

a good friday with the guard. to the. premier francois feels his troops are required because france bombing libya threatens a terror attack at home you'll never find soldiers at shops tourist sites government buildings train stations airports schools and churches but expose the system doesn't even work in the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee bridge appear as real targets is not to catch terrorists says one investigator but to monitor the public it's easy to persuade people that there could be a terrorist just metro station it's easy then 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 storage fees 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 judge's 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 an arab with a gun here down down. a government recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim food. face veil some already mocked the band and what they see as an arab witch hunt by going out in virgil's and mini skirts there's also the law cost world workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis v.g. pirouettes estimated prices eighteen billion euros each year enough to create

a million new teaching jobs and embarrassed government and lists a tries to hide the amount. 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 michelle cologne have dubbed the video system vishy pierrette vishy was france's first in the second world war it spied and informed on people and targeted ethnic minorities. the fridge government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens the new bush will see paris another consequence of friends taking part in the operations in libya is the wave of immigrants hitting the country trying to escape the conflict or he spoke to marine le pen the president of france or france as a far right national front party who sparked controversy by claiming it threatens the very survival of the french nation and some may say we're in

a democracy but authorities refused to show the real figures on how many immigrants there are there are probably sixty seven million muslims here already plus additional immigration on a massive scale each year this is an organized replacement of our population this threatens our very survival we don't have the means to integrate those who are already here there is though it's endless cultural conflicts you can be against immigration fights immigration suspends all immigration but not hate immigrants as individuals i understand immigrants wants a better future here but i honestly say to them you can't find a better future here we're finding it hard to get a better future to our own people if there is. an interview with marine le pen on our website arteaga. tuesday the world are twenty five years since the worst nuclear accident in history should set a huge radioactive cloud across much of europe we've been kilometers of land around the reactor poison for centuries to come right he's alive reports but it's not

every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundreds and looting 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 because of the huge amount of citizens from ukraine and russia and putin to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy in the face of such disasters we should be honest it's the government's only occasionally to tell people the truth we need to admit to go back there and see 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 pediatrics 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 the management pushed for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated and were 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 were away from school the point of beach we returned home our cauldron in mud in my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning the school yard in she was sharp as she'd already heard rumors of some accident the nuclear station oath already started the evacuation only thirty six hours after the blast that's why many of those who stayed in the town later died or suffered radiation sickness but there are currently uncle was

among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone but just several years after the catastrophe 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 think they gave me a flat and the pension better found it impossible to survive like that unclear here i have a cattle and a grow everything in creation yes there is a little here but you don't find the place without it anywhere we are not scared. despite this optimism from recent loose the world still seems concerned about the chernobyl threat especially in the wake of the fukushima disaster that's why ahead 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 floor of the chernobyl nuclear power station people behind the news reports say

that next year it will be dismantled then the station will be covered with a dumb and that will end the existence of the church of mobile 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. reporting from the chill novel exclusion zone in ukraine. as many can see to compare the disaster with the ongoing nuclear crisis in japan some experts argue to focus shima health effects will be far greater it's much less under control and chernobyl was i have to say that the soviet system moved very fast to try and contain what was happening at chernobyl and 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 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 are higher than the

amounts in the channel exclusion zone and we have increases in radioactivity. so the difference really is a very very much larger population risk in japan and there was. an annex there and you can catch our special report from the exclusion zone in which i like . investigates the mysteries of the deserted town of. these side projects. twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand project lation over ukrainian town a preview of what the microwave with three hours. puts now it wants to be which recently some people started receiving posts you know just telling them to big up letters at this post office in. the stories of the world's long gone. that's have to be told and.

reading the diaries of those on our two. russian security forces carried out a string of successful anti terror operations in the north caucasus this week the latest results in the deaths of ten militants suspected of having links with al qaeda and carrying out deadly attacks against civilians archy's mean a coach you know that has more from the region. this biggest achieving operation was carried out on the border between stoppable region and about the republic when ten militants including at least two women were killed and among some high profile terrorists with links with the international terrorist group all in this region was found by d.n.a. tests would probably be required to identify some of the militants some leading figures in a so-called box on gang were already identified as big as truth was believed to be involved in a number of charities across the area now enough to think and mount terrorists are

scared job who if it was believed to be involved in attacking tourists from moscow in the district in february twentieth loven then early in the week and now the special operation was carried out. and the leader of the republic ramadan could be out of was personally in charge of this operation militants that were killed. later identified ass close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist of cons in the neighboring douglas stone age leader alpha so-called hide months after afghanistan was also killed in a special operation now this weight of terror raids was launched hand off for a number of high profile terror attacks in russia. we've got extensive coverage of the anti terror plot in russia on our website our blog with an exclusive interview with the president of vagas the republic of the forefront of the. search operations

will continue and so we have eliminated the terrorist underground in a republic. you can catch the full interview with the president of dagestan as well as the latest updates of background information on our website party dot com. a giant piece of graffiti has ignited the russian art world over what many perceive as an obscene image i was headed and i. award the work was drawn next to the federal security officers imperial bird and given a sign of recognition as a sign of an emerging free society in russia are things i ever better explain. this is award winning aren't according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five metre phallus want washed on a drawbridge and petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation prize for best visual artwork self-styled aren't terrorists vyner meaning war in russian are the unpopular with us if there are i think it's essentially vandalism a bridge is

a cultural and historical monument and sierpinski anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not rewarded it's already here in the center of contemporary art can see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating or as shocking or as 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 roubles of taxpayers' money we've given to a group it calls vandals for vyner the protest only legitimizes their own but. it's a very awkward 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 segment of artists always express society's pain and

a healthy society accepts these. but there's been no acceptance of binah as art until now two members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little stunt british graffiti artist banksy did bail them out and they could still play seven years in prison for flipping cars so why this sudden show of state supporters. the minister of culture was afraid of being accused of political censorship and i think he was right in america entry is better being afraid of imposing political censorship and to actually important. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry from international exhibits fearing embarrassment the curator of backing submission was andrei uniphase back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is this our then. during is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to

a social climate it doesn't specify the target of his protest he simply says that strong protest is brewing in russian society but how do you draw the line between saying this an art and vandalism because this is just a phantom. not with a street art is mind a vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause is compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of their pictures which is painting could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of some petersburg's culture because it's the first work that is proof of a civil society. vyner court controversy usually at the expense of the authorities whether it's art or not they've achieved what they wanted to know to writing they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners either bennett artsy. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe in italy pope

benedict the sixteenth has bad a high the late john paul the second before about a million excited believers and these are the live pictures from st peter's square from vatican city where you can see many of them you see the ending in the crowds of the ninety heads of state are also attending the event including the president of the deceased pope's native land poland the late pontiff is said to have performed miracles which is necessary for a bad if occasion these in the final today will be forcing those fears as intensely . turning to germany where leftist demonstrators have clashed with police leaving ten officers injured protesters torched a car and rubbish bins and threw stones and paint bomb security has been stepped up across the country to prevent more street violence may first often known as international workers day has been accompanied by protests for decades. labor day has also come to russia with yet another official holiday offering a chance to relax right many take it as an opportunity to escape the city hustle and bustle others use the time to convey political or social messages through

demonstrations artie's caterina's are reports from the heart of the capital. a very rare occasion that central moscow is completely empty and this of course is done for these people's twenty five thousand members of treaty and who on this day are celebrating their professional holiday as part of that celebration are marching through the heart of moscow all the way down to the kremlin and this holiday recently of course dates back to the united states where some workers and chicago call this strike they were dispersed by the violently by police yeah it's was later repeated in paris and ever since then the first of may have become trade unions day where workers all countries everywhere the right to speak their minds say what they want to say call attention to problems they feel exist or simply said

manifest their belonging to a trade union to their problems their rights and their policies of course in russia that is also the case that these people are showing on their day off they're here in the heart of russian capital walking through out the one all the way through to the front line the forces not just the trades union action various political parties will probably government and from the opposition will be gathering their supporters highlighting what they believe is of course relevant we've also got some non political organizations basically there's something in this day for everyone a chance to celebrate so laid back to the labs or to showcase their beliefs i think people do. stay with us here in our she'll be back with the headlines in a few moments.

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