top news of the week on our team russia blocks u.n. measures against the syrian government saying foreign intervention will only leave more civil war is now it's a question of who's next and who will suffer most. soldiers on the power streets friends introduces a new security plan fearing terror linked to the bombing of libya but critics say it's not protection. also this week the world looks back at the worst ever nuclear catastrophe and with the shadow of chernobyl still looming the safety of atomic energy is again in doubt. and a controversial group with russian artists of russian artists with the highest

state award with a piece of ballad graffiti evoking an argument on where the border of art and obscenity lives. six pm in moscow good to have you with us treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t revolutionary fever in syria shows no signs of letting up around seventy people have reportedly been killed since friday in military crackdowns against anti-government demonstrators is on top of some five hundred other deaths in two months of upheaval in the wake of the latest bloodshed the u.s. has tightened sanctions and stepped up its rhetoric against syria's political elite like he's a really delusional inside you know whether some of the closest allies of damascus may be next to the line for a western supported popular uprising. some like it hot but this spring things

have heated up perhaps too much in the arab world egypt's too easy a libya now syria more than african region and the middle east and often brutal civil wars with the western powers splaying an important hand some believe this won't stop anytime soon so who's 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 film be 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 forced different about syria and ran about

protesters in both cases really know for a fact. the united states government is supporting opposition groups and so it's only those two countries where washington has an interest in a new t.v. 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 always realize that syria is iran's springboard in its fight against israel this is why it will eventually make a powerful suit jessica 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 development in iran unfortunately bateese iran will repeat the syrian scenario iranian ships have dropped anchor in syrian port. enormous proximity to

tel aviv with damascus crippled by 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 the habit of meddling in aiding revolutionary forces in the region the result may be catastrophic if there is foreign intervention in syria yes iran's intervention in response that is a definite and very real possibility just as much as it interfered in iraq when the u.s. invaded that country and if suspicions proved true the world may be in for an entirely different ballgame if iran in the u.s. get involved in a very real hot confrontation it is. the u.n. failed to pass a statement condemning the syrian violence some nations block the move expressing

concern that the country could face a libyan style scenario russia was among them saying that i would cite intervention could lead to further destabilization and a full fledged civil war 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 dr and that's been developed by various and you'll 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 a syria so i think they learned from their deadly mistake on the on the libya case when they abstained but this thing has no end if it's allowed to pass. on the ground in libya other countries and by the labor leader moammar gadhafi has survived a nato air strike on his home in tripoli but his youngest son and three grandchildren were killed in the attack earlier this week russia's prime minister vladimir putin urged the coalition to stop breaching the u.n. resolution with apparent attempts on leaders life. because say destroying get daffy was not they goal. this is some officials have claimed that eliminating him was in fact they goal who gave them the right to have a fair trial returning to the new florrie's buildings or destroying the country's untie 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 nato as libyan campaign makes it vulnerable to attacks on its soil in response new security measures including searching emails without permission and putting soldiers on the streets have been introduced but critics say france is being turned into a police state daniel bushell reports. soldiers on the streets with machine gun this is francis busy here at fifty of your most expensive and tara program before it's what it called the growing terrorist threat 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 other way it is a bit frightening with god. it's just 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 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 there could be a terrorist in its literal 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 sorties 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 judges 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 a free thinking that there is an arab with a bomb here. down. the government's recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim food. some already. and what we see is an arab witch hunt in veils 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 choice to hide the amount. is very expensive because the executive can move resources from one area to another quite quickly through a difficult to find an exact figure critics like michelle coleman of the video

system vishy pirouettes she was france's first in the second world war it spoiled and informed on people and told that it ethnic minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens the new bushell r.t. paris stay with us here at the start of the lure of terrorism examine what draws some people to joining militant ranks leaving families but identifer ends for the sake of extremist ideology. and we join those marching in the streets of moscow on labor day and look at 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 even today the thirty kilometer exclusion zone around the blast site lies cold and desolate

a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence as artie's like sarah shows the reports will remain so for centuries to come. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this country it's 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 a huge amount of citizens news 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 in n.z. 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 previous 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 in april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved the management pushed for the completion of an experiment personnel hesitated and were reluctant to but eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result. rio 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 played a 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 sharp as she'd already heard rumors of some action in 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 much more locally and who was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone which 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 with a flood and the pension i found it impossible to survive like that and here i have a condo and a grow everything radiation yes there is a little here but you can find a place without it anywhere we are not scared. despite this optimism from reset loose the world still seems concerned about your model throughout and 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 and 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 chill nobile nuclear power station people behind the news reports are going to 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 children 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 ski r.t. reporting from the chill in the exclusion zone in ukraine where the sheer noble disaster anniversary reviving old nuclear fears attention turned to the ongoing crisis at your parents' fukushima nuclear plant professor christopher bust me from the european committee on the radiation risks says a slow government response to the crisis has put many more people at risk. it's much less under control than to normal was ok i have to say that the soviet system moved very fast to try and contain what was happening in 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 far as i'm concerned go at least 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 a mine sort of higher than the amounts in the normal 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 an interim model a quarter of a century ago with rumors of an explosion natural noble on every street thousands of healthy young men were ordered out of planes in buses and flown to this site. for the going to receive my order i didn't have a full understanding of what was happening but i knew that an explosion happened the site was in ruins that's about the it's what charge is exclusive interview with one of a man who became known as the liquidator that's on our website r t was there any more and you know we're there for you including a special documentary from the heart of the exclusion zone.

this week russian security forces carried out a series of attacks against a terrorist network based in the north caucasus latest operation ten militants including two high ranking warlords killed. over a chorus from the region the archives a link to group is believed to be behind many attacks on civilians. this biggest achieving operation was carried out at the border. region and in about a republic when ten militants including at least two women were killed and among some high profile terrorists with links with the international terrorist group al qaida in this region further d.n.a. task would probably be required to identify some of the militants are leading

figures in a so-called bugs were already identified as vic the truth was believed to be involved in a number of terror attacks across the area now another think and known terrorists as who if it was believed to be involved in attacking tourist from moscow in the alpers district in february twentieth loven then earlier in the week and other special operation was carried out. and the leader of the republic ramadan could be that of was personally in charge of this operation the militants that were killed were later identified asked close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist. hands in the neighboring douglas town a leader of the so-called. guys there was also killed in a special operation now this wave of terror raids was launched after a number of high profile terror attacks in russia. in the wake of a counter-terror crackdown art in his town barton way to the north caucasus there

he took a look at exactly what drives young people to join terrorist cells. a busy day at university in russia's north caucasus the students are learning about arab culture and learn which they're trying to broaden their horizons so was so filled. until radical islamists took a hold on him. i saw the way his stare changed he became alienated from everyone that 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 seville warned him to stop it he left home forever as locals 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 her own from what she knows it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants there dug

a stones couple they were ready to surrender but the leaders started shooting to provoke the deadly gun battle in which they all died and couldn't run it in another of the regions capitals now chick it's friday prayers of the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living under a cloud the leader of the north to was shot dead outside his home by muslim extremists and as trish much of had 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 ideologist say they're 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 but since the one nine hundred ninety s. more extreme forms of his own will to come from outside russia has been growing in influence university staff are concerned. 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 abroad to slap to show the russian federation our government our constitution all morse they. do not do anything against islam has itself radical islam isn't thought to have arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one thousand nine hundred since then although widespread fighting has gone down the methods of small extremist groups bombings and shootings have proliferated the question nervously are saying now is where the radicals ideology and methods the wants of desperation or growing confidence on the art of acting. or you can always find the latest updates of background information on russia's battle against terror on our web site. of the search operations will continue until we have eliminated the

terrorist underground in a republic you spoke with the president of dagestan one of the regions facing our growing militant attacks also for you would argue that the multi-billion dollar satellite crashed into the pacific ocean and also crashed the career of russia's top space boss have a look at how that story happened to us take a look at our car but station to pick some names for them is an exotic adorable jaguar or about the same herd zille all these and many more stories are part of. the decision to have the national art of war do a controversial piece of graffiti draw the historical center of st petersburg has much debate in russia when you see the giant phallic symbol as obscene others say it's a sign of an emerging civil society artie's i bet it takes a look at both sides. this is award winning aren't according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five meter phallus want washed on a drawbridge in st petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation prize for

placed visual artwork self-styled terrorists by no mean war in russian all the unpopular weeds are i think it's essentially vandalism a breach is a cultural and historical monument and anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not for more dude's already here in the center of contemporary arts you can see the other entries for the awards nothing is stimulating or as shocking or as innovative as violence and according to the jury that's why they won purely artistic merits but now it's not as simple as that the same symbol the ministry rewarded is now being brandished in mocking protest these are the. group is angry four hundred thousand rubles of taxpayers' money we given to a group it calls vandals for vine or 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 this state but this is a very important signal with artists always express society is paying and a healthy society accepts base. but basically no acceptance of vinyl 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 police cars so why this sudden show of state support. as. the minister of culture was afraid of being accused of political censorship and i think he was right american tree is better being afraid of imposing political censorship than to actually important breezewood. 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 that exhibition was

andrei uniphase back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is this out there. during is a graphic and expressive example of how non-theists 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 but how do you draw the line between say this art and vandalism because this is clearly discriminating. the streets in his mind of vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause it's compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of the 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. by no courts controversy usually at the expense legal authorities whether it's art 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 artsy moscow. take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe the late pope john paul the second has been beatified before more than a million worshippers in rome i mean the part of his now regarded as blessed and one step away from sainthood he got the status for allegedly healing a french nun from an incurable disease ceremony was led by the current pope benedict the sixteenth who succeeded john six years ago. ten policemen have been injured in clashes with far left demonstrators in germany protesters set a car and waste containers on fire and horror of stones and paint pans of police who fired back with water cannons authorities have stepped up security across the country for the violence is traditionally accompanies may day celebrations. and the traditional made a show of workers solidarity has been a bit more toned down here in russia the country has

a long lasting tradition of rallies used to show social and political affiliation on labor day or he's covering those are of a join the crowds a very rare occasion that central moscow is completely empty and this of course has gone for these people's twenty five thousand members all treaty and who on this day are celebrating their professional holiday as part of that celebration are marching through the heart of moscow oh all the way down through the kremlin now of course and not just training here chants of their scenes anyone and everyone is on the streets of the capital think losing some of the more extreme organizations like of course the old stove rights movement in russia some go as far as to call them neo nazis or even as far as fascist they of course are standing and walking down the streets of the russian capital with slogans such as russia full of russians but

very few people could have imagined that these guys would be allowed to walk the streets and yet here they are with their banners their slogans and of course their unconventional covered up faces 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 the communist rally and they were not well received there but luckily no scuffles ensued and of both respective parties simply went their respective ways but as well as those groups 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 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 like 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 fodder. stay with us here on our t.v. headlines coming your way in a few moments. twenty

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