on the. video on demand. exceeds mine. or a sense feeds with the palm of your. call . on oxy foreign intervention in the arab unrest will just fuel new civil wars says russia as it blocks you in condemnation of syria's government and listen now asking who is next in line. from springs a new security measures to counter possible revenge terror attacks for the bombing of libya but with soldiers on the streets and legal wiretapping critics said the public's more scared than safe. also this week for the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl disaster the site of the worst nuclear catastrophe may still pose a danger again raising doubts over the safety of atomic energy

a report coming up for you. on the fine line between artistic protest and vandalism a controversial russian article who wins the highest state of war with a work that many dismissed as upset it's. hello it's nine pm sunday night here in moscow you're watching the weekly roundup of the top stories of the past seven days here on our t.v. which make have you know it's a night and first 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 demonstrations that's on top of some five hundred other deaths in two months of syrian people in the wake of the latest bloodshed the u.s. has tighten sanctions and intensified its rhetoric against the country's political elite meanwhile syria's neighbor israel warns washington's role in the region's

recent turbulence could backfire by clearing the way for extremists i think paula slee is scott more from tel aviv. these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher in these years the egyptian regime and enemy trying to stop us for ages and girls are but we always got the weapons we needed to fight the zionist enemy. and now they're getting more than they could give a hopeful but for me gyptian president hosni mubarak's main gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through to the big wins in. worlds all snuggled. who. have much more freedom to do whatever they like. and they doing it smuggling weapons into gaza the result two attacks in three months on a natural gas pipeline that supplies a quarter of israel's electricity which is why is the us claims it's bringing

a new tomorrow to egypt most israelis would rather remember just to year the eagerness of the united states to topple before major from president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change i don't want to meet most harmed at the close of ally in the region israel the u.s. says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of democracy is a very real possibility that radical islam has come to power the u.s. strongly supported the opposition in libya despite al qaeda connections among its friends now it's apparently governessing support against syrian president bashar assad with the wiki leaks website claiming that washington has been funding some anti-government factions what is afraid that if you go the way the muslim brotherhood came to exist so instead of. in syria we're going to islamist you swapping one ditto for what could be worse if and when radicals come to power they likely to direct the arms at israel people will be very conscious

about that syria is not libya and the fact that if you do decide to intervene in syria you would have knock on effects across the region in iraq in lebanon. to israel palestine what if when you throw it israel my face from an even more hostile arab world emerging from the present instability some experts believe the security of the jewish state is not under any grave threat israel has never been an unsafe place one of the greatest lies the mother and father of all lies as it relates to the israeli palestinian conflict is israel's been in danger of annihilation i detail in the three volumes summary book it is a complete loss israel's existence is never ever been in danger from any combination of arab military force and that is unlikely to change in foreseeable future but the fighters on the ground aren't giving up hope and they are menace warning is that is worse to come. and

a time of defeat and retreat is over now it's time for the israeli people and the israeli enemy to. israel is keeping quiet and let the current chaos in the middle east and north africa put behind closed doors they'll be plenty of disquiet here about how much america's desire to make new friends in the arab world is fueling serious instability quality r t television. the un failed to pass a statement condemning violence in syria some nations blocked the move expressing concern the country could face a libyan style scenario russia was among them saying that outside intervention would only lead over the stabilization of a fully fledged civil war what the situation in syria let's talk now to michael gerson duff's he's director of the camp of the bay center for research on globalization thanks for being on the line with us tonight on r.t. but make those directly involved in the libyan conflict now do you think when the coalition is likely to head to syria any time soon. i think that

is unlikely in the foreseeable future what i what i think is is all a drawing boards of u.s. foreign policy is increased sanctions embargoes directed against syria. as well as a process of. diplomatic rhetoric which we are seeing now in recent days not a very intensive other situation even more. absolutely absolutely but i think this is some very fundamental questions which have to be addressed as to what is the cause of the violence in syria. it's not of the western media has painted i think a rather biased picture of what is actually happening on the ground and from my understanding. when i spent a month in syria just before these events unfolded but if you look at what happened

right from the beginning in this small wall it's on of of of daraa which is located approximately five to ten kilometers from the jordanian border it's a small town is thirty five thousand and what happened on day one that was launched seventeen eighteenth's was that there was a confrontation between police officers and on demonstrators on protesters now it is according to the reports seven police officers were killed in that initial encounter and i'm quoting at least four demonstrators this morning to the israeli press as well as the lebanese press anybody who has an understanding of protest movements though because if if police officers are killed which invariably makes the tabloids and if it happens in a western country. we're talking about an exchange of gunfire between two opposing

sides in this case the lebanese i'm sorry the syrian police on the one hand and the demonstrators on the on the other that is what happens on day one. which suggests that that we're not dealing strictly with with peaceful protests were heard by dealing with with with. gangs which which are corroborated by these. killings of police though the show i want to get the thoughts of was out in libya as well while you still go by the time the airstrike by nato allegedly targeting the country's leader moammar gadhafi just hours after he called for their mutual cease fire now nato saying it's not at all targeting people it was never part of the u.n. resolution but it can looks like it it doesn't. well first of all when you took

ploy b. two bombers and these advanced two thousand fighters from from the french air force never to be you're going to get civilian casualties these are these are sophisticated weapons systems they drop bombs and missiles and the evidence suggests that that apartment buildings in tripoli have been targeted hospitals have been targeted and now we have a rather conspicuous and despicable act of targeting the family of the head of state namely his son as well as his grandchildren and and we can make our own judgments but this kind of behavior is interrogation of international law nothing alarms the united states. to to go into a country and start killing the head of state or members of his family. runs roselands russia has condemned that but what else can be done to try and parse this

situation down to make sure that the allies stay by the resolution one hundred seventy three that resolution one thousand nine hundred eighty three has been violated from the outset. that nato is arming. the libyan. islamic fighting group which is a which is a terrorist organization linked to al qaeda it's all new ground it's supported by special forces they started a ground war. this is an invasion this is a full fledged war it's an extension of the the war theater in in central asia in the middle east. is it we had a very dangerous crossroads in our history and we must understand what is actually happening i would hope that russia and china will. well. of confronting the united states britain france in the security council the united

nations this is these are illegal acts in violation of the un charter and above all the hundreds he could buy countries which are involved in. war crimes in other parts of the world and we are gonna stand in pakistan michelle we're going to talk a lot more about this fight unfortunate time was a little bit against us we appreciate your thoughts though and your viewpoint here on the program michele just adults need rector of the canada based center for research on globalization thank you thank you very much. well france fears its leading role in nato as libya campaign makes it vulnerable to attacks on its soil in response new security measures including searching emails of their permission and putting soldiers on the streets of an interview just critics say france is being turned into a police state as a result. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is france is the chief

here at fist of your most expensive anti terror program to fight what it calls 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 and the other way if there is a bit frighted to guard 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 through the system doesn't even work in the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee vigil here as a real target is not to catch terrorists says one investigator put to monitor the public it's easy to persuade people that they could be

a terrorist this letter station it's easy then for people in friends to believe well that 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 storage fees 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 because he makes france's six million arabs a scapegoat he has to make them afraid thinking that there is an arab with a bomb here. the government's recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim full. face revealed some already mocked the brand and what they see as an arab witch hunt by going up in virgil's and miniskirts

there's also the law cost world workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis. estimated prices eighteen billion euros each year enough to create a million new teaching jobs and embarrassed government and lists a choice to hire 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 pirouettes vishy was france's first in the second world war it spoiled and informed people and told that it is minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens then you will short see paris. still occur with a program made a russian stylee we join those marching in the streets of moscow on labor day and

look at the history of all of their very popular and celebrated pressure of. this week mark the twenty fifth anniversary of one of the worst manmade catastrophes in history the true noble disaster even today the thirty kilometer exclusion zones a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence it lies cold and desolate and there's a ski reports it will for centuries to come. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundreds of living the russian and ukrainian presidents came to the monument beside the nuclear plant to mark that date which changed the world the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl fallout. i believe there's a huge amount of citizen hughes 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

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 april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved the management pushed for the completion of an experiment personnel hesitated and were like them to but eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result. video meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors in the winter i mean 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 we were cleaning a school yard and she was sharp as she had 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 not to look at any and who was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone but just several years after they were tasked to feed 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 could make a definite and the pension i found it impossible to survive like that and clear here have a condo and a grow every plane 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 recyclers the world still seems concerned about the true novel 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 at dawn 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 walk of the chernobyl nuclear power station people behind then you say that next year it will be dismantled then the station will be covered with a dom and that will end the existence of the children of all 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. a quarter of a century ago with rumors of an explosion of chernobyl on every street thousands of healthy time were ordered on the planes and helicopters and flown to that site. if you will receive my order i didn't have

a full understanding of what was happening i knew that an explosion happened the site was in ruins that's about it but watch out his exclusive interview if you can with one of the men who became known as the liquidators back then on our website our team dot com vote for plenty more by ground about chernobyl if you include in special documentary from the heart of the exclusion zone. this week russian security forces carried out a series of attacks against the terrorist network of the north caucasus the latest operations for ten militants including two high ranking warlords killed as artie's within a culture of reports from the region the al qaeda linked group is believed to be behind many attacks against civilians. this biggest achieving operation was carried out at the border between the 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 in this region the d.n.a. task would probably be required to identify some of the militants are leading figures in a so-called box on gang were already identified truth was believed to be involved in a number of terror attacks across the area now and nothing among terrorists who it was believed to be involved in attacking tourist from moscow in the alpers district in february twentieth loven and 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 that were later identified ask close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist. hands in the neighboring drug is done

a leader of the so-called hide lance actor guys there was also killed in a special operation this wave of terror raids was launched here after a number of high profile terror attacks in russia. but follow more of the story got the latest updates and background information about russia's fight against terrorism on our website r.t. dot com. the search operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in a republic but we speak there to the president of pakistan indeed one of the region facing ongoing militant attacks there's more from him online including these stories to. multi-million dollar satellites that crashed into the pacific ocean and crushed the career of russia's top space boss to boot look at how that story develops online. also take your chance to name them take part in a competition to picture the names for the exotic jag you work for one of the some

people who just some of the stories going rogue attention for you tonight. decision to hand the national arts award to a controversial piece of graffiti thrown in the historical center of some sparks of debate here in russia where you see the giant phallic symbol is obscene others say it's the sign of an emerging civil society that is of a bed it looks. this is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a drawbridge instead petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation prize for best visual artwork self-styled aren't terrorists vyner meaning war and 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 it's already here in the center of

contemporary arts and see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating or a 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 aggression youth group is angry four hundred thousand roubles of taxpayers' money already given to a group it calls vandals fine now the protest only legitimizes their own but. it's a very old world 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's pain and a healthy society accepts these people. but there is the no acceptance of binah as until now team members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little

stunt pritish graffiti artist banksy detailed plans and they could still play seventies any creature and. so why this sudden show of state support. as i see it the minister of culture was afraid of being choose the political censorship and i think he was right in our country is better being afraid of imposing a political censorship than to actually cause that brings with it but you. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry from international exhibits fearing embarrassment a curate evacuate submission was angry year affair back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is this art then. the jury is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a social climate where he doesn't specify the target of his protest when he simply says a strong protest is brewing in russian society but how do you draw the line between

say this art and vandalism because this is clearly just a fleeting. street art is mind a vandalism but it's not hooliganism disorder it may cause it is compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of their pictures but i wish this painting could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of silly petersburg's culture because it is the first work there is proof of a civil society. by no court controversy usually at the expense of the 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 r.t. . but additional made a strong people all over the world in item solidarity and russians were no exception the country has a long lasting for vision of rallies that are used to show social and political affiliation on labor day katrina's overjoyed the crowd. 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 through the kremlin now it's not just a tree actually to their teams and anyone and everyone is on the streets of the capital including some of the more extreme organizations like of course the old stove right movement in moscow some go as far as to call them they are nazis or even as far as fascists they of course are standing and walking down the streets of the russian capital with slogans such as russia hold 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 there by 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 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. no but they had fun and that was many say is what

matters that seems to have become the spirit of may first else like these people taking 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. spot in co true desire for that coming up next oh two fellows it seems adventurous as they embark on an arctic journey adventure and the next of course the headlines with me is well let's recap for you at a couple of minutes time one oxy.

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