the. news of the week here on our t.v. the rush of walks you when measures against the syrian government is saying foreign intervention will only start more civil wars and now it's only a question of who's next that will suffer most. soldiers on the streets of paris france introduces a new security plan fearing terrorism the link to the bombing of libya but critics say it's scaremongering not protection. plus this week the world looks back on the worst ever nuclear disaster and with a shadow sure noble still looming the safety of atomic energy is again in doubt. plus a controversial group of russian artist wins the highest state award with

a piece of phallic graffiti evoking an argument over the border between art and obscenity. four pm in moscow i'm at treasure good to have you with us as we look at today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t revolutionary fever in syria shows no sign of letting up around seventy people have reportedly been killed since friday in military crackdowns against anti-government demonstrators that's on top of some five hundred others dead in two months of upheaval in the wake of the latest bloodshed the u.s. has tightened sanctions and intensified rhetoric against syria's political elite parties really delusion goes when finding out whether some of the closest allies of damascus may be next in line for a western backed popular uprising. some like it hot but this spring

things have heated up perhaps too much in the arab world. egypt tunisia libya now syria northern african region and the middle east are gotten brutal civil wars with the western powers playing an important hand some believe this wall of stop anytime soon so who's next in line for the great upheaval in the region the answer may lie on the surface. president assad is disingenuously blaming outsiders while of the same time seeking a rainy and assistance in repressing syria's citizens this need to be a thinly veiled hint at 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

a rare about the protesters in both cases we know for a fact that the united states government was supporting opposition groups and so it's only those two countries where washington has an interest in. tehran has been a long standing 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 sujata impact on iran's positions this brings us back to the question what country will follow syria events in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar developments in iran unfortunately patti's iran will repeat the syrian scenario iranian ships have dropped anchor in syrian courts in numerous books and

to tel aviv but the mask is crippled by a crisis iran may lose its footing in the. this is again a continuation of the idea that you use the international machinery to achieve you 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 revolutionary forces in the region the result may be catastrophic that 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 if the stations proved true the world may be in for an entirely different ball game if iran in the us get involved in a very real hans confrontation it in. russia along with china and lebanon block efforts by the u.s. and some european nations seeking a u.n.

security council condemnation of the violent crackdown in syria is said made concerns it could be next to go through a libyan style scenario instead of a foreign intervention which moscow strongly opposes global policy analyst william engdahl 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 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 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 enviable think tanks connected with the circles in the united states to justify a nato definition of an intervention in a sovereign country fortunately this time russia and china are playing

a reasonable role in blocking any u.n. security council sanction for. strong measures against syria so i think they learned from their deadly mistake on the libya case when they abstain that this thing has no end if it's allowed to pass. on the ground in libya other countries and probably to a monarch it off he has survived a nato air strike on his house in tripoli but his youngest son and three grandchildren were killed in the attack earlier this week russia's prime minister urged coalition to stop breaching the un resolution with apparent attempts on the libyan leader's life. to ensure the coalition said destroying get their feet was not they kill him his palaces some officials have claimed that eliminating him was in fact they go who gave the rights did he have a fair trial returning to the new florrie's or the buildings are destroying the country's an 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. france fears its leading role in the nato libyan campaign makes it vulnerable to attacks on its soil and in response to new security measures including searching emails without permission and putting soldiers on the streets have been introduced but critics say the country is being turned into a police state. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is crossing the jeep here at fifty of europe's most expensive and to tear a program to for it what it calls 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 and the other way there is a bit frightening with the guard. to the. premier francois feel says troops are required because france bombing libya threatens

a terror attack at home you'll now find soldiers at shops tourist sites government buildings train stations airports schools and churches but expose the system doesn't even work and the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee. real targets is not to catch terrorists says one investigator but to monitor the public it's easy to persuade people that they can be a terrorist is natural 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 only protecting us troops or 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 tap phones without getting judge's authorization to justify

the invasion of people's privacy says one author sarkozy makes france's six million arabs a scapegoat he has to make them afraid thinking that there is another up with. here that. the government recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim food. face veil some already mocks the band and what they see as an arab witch hunt by going out in virgil's and mini skirts there's also the launch 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 analysts say 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 just 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. still to come on the program the lure of terrorism we examine what draws people to join militant ranks leaving behind their families and friends for the sake of the extremist ideology. we also join those marching through the streets of moscow on labor day and look into the history of the holiday as it celebrated in russia. but first this week marked the twenty fifth anniversary of one of the worst manmade catastrophes in history the sure noble disaster and even today the thirty kilometer exclusion zone around the blast site lies cold and desolate a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence and as our he said like sarah

shows here a ports that will remain so for centuries to come. it's not every day you can see that your mobile exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this one hundred six looting the russian and ukrainian presidents came to the monument beside the nuclear plant to mark the date which changed the world the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl fallout. i believe was 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 the bagmen 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 creepy outs were higher living standards better and infrastructure more developed the communist paradise changed on april the twenty six nineteen

eighty six when the trouble reactor exploded the result of an experiment left in the wrong hands. the reactor was almost completely out of control in april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved the management 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 one with me and my friend we were away from school the poor beach we returned home or called in mud and my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning the school yard and she was shocked as she had already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear station oath 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 other kearney uncle was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone but just several years after the catastrophe she returned to the first 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 can begin your flat and the pension better found it impossible to survive like that and clear here have a cattle and a grow everything in creation yes there is a little here but you can find the place without it anywhere we are not scared. despite this optimism from reset loose the world still seems concerned about the chernobyl threat 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 exploded 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 of your say that next year it will be dismantled then the station will be covered with a deal and that will end the existence of the church of mobile nuclear power station but the former residents of this area say matters little to them their life as they knew it had ended twenty five years ago let's see russia ski r.t. reporting from the chill in the exclusion zone in ukraine. which are nobles anniversary reviving or nuclear fears of tensions turning to the ongoing crisis if your parents fukushima nuclear plant professor christopher busbee from the european committee on radiation risks says a slow government response to the crisis has put many more people at risk. it's much less under control winter noble was out i have to say that the soviet system moved very fast to try and contain what was happening and so noble and the japanese have been very very lax in their in the way in which they took people out of exclusion zone and they still haven't. enough people out of an exclusion zone which

should as far as i'm concerned go at least sixty or seventy kilometers they're measuring enormous amounts of radioactivity on the ground zero to seventy kilometers reporting this so that and these are a mind set of higher than the amounts in the trouble exclusion zone and we have increases in radioactivity near tokyo also from tokyo so the difference really is that there's a very very much larger population risk in japan and then there was interest. quarter of a century ago with rumors of an explosion at every street thousands of healthy young men were ordered to plains and passes along to the site here you will receive my order i did have an understanding of what was happening there and you get an explosion and the site was in ruins that's about seat by authorities exclusive interview with one of the men who became known as the liquidators that's our web site r.t. there was plenty more i'm sure noble there for you were getting a special documentary from the heart of the exclusion zone.

if. this week russian security forces carried out a series of attacks against the terrorist network based in the north caucasus the latest operations are ten militants including two high ranking warlords killed parties and over a ports from the region to link group is believed to be behind many attacks on civilians this biggest achieving operation was carried out on the border between the region and could you know about the republic when ten militants including at least two women were killed and among some high profile terrorists with links with international terrorist group al qaida in this region d.n.a. toss would probably be required to identify some of the militants or sample leading figures in a so-called box gang were already identified cosmic dust ruth was believed to be

involved in a number of terror attacks across the area now and nothing among terrorists ascared jump who if it was believed to be involved in attacking tourists from moscow in the district in february twenty l.f. and then early in the week and now the special operation was carried out. and the leader of the republic runs on could be was personally in charge of this operation the militants were killed. later identified ask close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist. cons in the neighboring dagestan a leader a so-called hide. guys if was also killed in a special operation now this wave of terror raids was launched can after a number of high profile terror attacks in russia. in the wake of the counter terror crackdown artie's tog travel to the north caucasus he looks at exactly what

drives young people to join a terrorist cell. university in russia's move caucasus these students are learning about culture and language they're trying to prove. presence so was so filled. until radical islamists took a hold on him. 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 in seville warned him to stop it he left home forever as local say he had gone into the forest. i already felt something inevitable and sad was coming but i didn't know what to do i didn't have a chance to stop him when he left home for more chinos it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants there dug a stems capital they were ready to surrender but the leaders started shooting to

provoke the deadly gun battle in which they all died including romilly in another of the region's capitals now chick it's friday prayers at the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living under a cloud the leader of the republic mufti was shot dead outside his home by muslim extremists and asked should fetch i've been a vocal critic of both your thirty's and the extremists saying there is corruption in the police as in other spheres of society but it doesn't mean the policeman to be shot dead when their 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 are scared of it they will refuse it but since the one nine hundred ninety s. more extreme forms of islam thought to come from outside russia i think growing in influence university staff are concerned at how impressionable some students have 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 russian

federation our government our constitution all wars are they. and i think against islam as itself radical islam isn't thought to have arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one nine hundred ninety nine since then although widespread fighting has gone down the methods of small extremist groups bombings and shootings how cool it for the question nervously asked here now is where the radicals ideology and methods are ones of desperation of growing confidence to loss of property. you know as violators information our own background on russia's fight against terrorists our website. with such operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in a republic spoke with the president of dagestan one of the region's facing the

ongoing military attacks also for you at r.t. dot com. the multi-million dollar satellites that crashed into the pacific also crashed the career of russia's top strains or what have how this story happened. to us take part in a competition to pick some names from exotic jaguars was born of the st petersburg zero probably more at ardsley dot com. the decision to hand the national art award to a controversial piece of graffiti drawn in the center of st petersburg has sparked debate in russia many see the giant phallic symbol as obscene others say it's a sign of an emerging civil society artie's ever bet it looks at both sides. this is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a draw bridge in st petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation fries for best visual artwork self-styled terrorists vyner meaning war in russian and the

unpopular with. the arts i think it's essentially vandalism a breach is a cultural and historical monument and to paint anything on it has an act of vandalism and it should be punished not sure we're doing. here in the center of contemporary arts in see the other entries for the awards nothing is stimulating or shocking or as innovative as violence and according to the jury that's why they won purely on artistic merit but now it's not as simple as that it's 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'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 but they could still play seven years in prison that clip includes cars so why the sudden show of state support. the minister of culture was afraid of being accused of political censorship and i think he was right in our country is better being afraid of important political censorship than to actually important you're buddies with. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment the curator of back exhibit was andré year affair back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why

is this art then. but during 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 that strong protest is brewing in russian society for having draw the line between this art and land and this is this is discriminating. not street art is minor vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause is compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of the pictures i wish this painting could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of some pitas ergs culture because it's a first work that is proof of a civil society vyner courts 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 why didn't it r.t.

moscow. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the late pope john paul the second has been bailed out of five before more than a million workers in rome this is live pictures from st peter's basilica there in the valley in vatican city it means that the pontiff who was in charge of the roman catholic church for twenty seven years is now regarded as blessed and one step away from sainthood the ceremony was led by current pope benedict the sixteenth who succeeded john paul six years ago. ten policemen have been injured in clashes with far left demonstrators in germany protesters set up car and waste on containers on fire i threw stones and paved bombs at police using water cannons authorities of stepped up security across the country in order to prevent further violence that traditionally a complex companies may day celebrations. traditional made a show of solidarity has been a little quieter here in russia a country has

a long lasting tradition of rallies used to use to show social and political affiliation on labor day or he's catarina zoravar joining the crowds a very rare occasion that central moscow is completely empty and this of course is done for these people as twenty five thousand members help treaty and who on this day are celebrating their professional holiday as part of that celebration marching through the heart of moscow all the way down through the kremlin now this is not just odd street you can today scenes anyone and everyone is on the streets of the capital including some of the more extreme organizations like of course the old so bright movements in russia some go as far as to call them neo nazis even as far as fascists they have cost standing and walking down the streets of the russian capital with slogans such as russia told russians what very few people could have

imagined. that these guys would be allowed to walk the streets and yet here they are with their betters their slogans and of course their unconventional covered up faces but they're not the only ones who are allowed to walk the streets of moscow on this day we know that many other groups that wouldn't traditionally be included in the first of may parades did walk the streets of the capital we know that the russian gay community also took to the streets and fortunately for them perhaps they chose to join all communist rally and they were not well received their bus luckily no scuffles ensued and of both respective parties simply went their respective ways as well as those groups and we know that various other demonstrations took place and even one monstrous now that is a specific group created by an artist called for in the most absurd slogans of banners to be brought to the streets of the capital island deede cities across

russia and that is exactly what they did standing in the heart of the capital with slogans such as bring back the sun which is of course not exactly a very feasible thing to do but they had fun and that was many say is what matters that seems to have become the spirit of may first and also these people take a little bit more seriously for others it is just a day when everything is possible and they do have a chance to speak their mind or maybe even have a little fun. stay with us here on r.g.p. i'll be back with the headlines in a few moments. keith

. moon those die here. and millions look forward to be held and say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of moderation. here a string of nineteen forty five on our team.