cannot see foreign intervention in the arab world rest will just fuel new civil wars says russia as it blocks un condemnation of syria's government and listen asking who is next in line. france prigs new security measures to counter possible revenge terror attacks for the bombing of libya but with soldiers on the streets and legal wiretapping critics say the public school scared the safe. also this week saw the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl disaster the site of the worst ever nuclear catastrophe may still pose a danger again raising doubts over the safety of atomic energy as we report. on the

fine line between artistic protest and vandalism a controversial russian art group wins the highest state award with a work with many dismiss as an obscenity. it's midnight here in moscow you're watching the weekly around the prove the top stories for the past seven days here in r.t. with me kevin now in this hour and revolutionary favor in syria shows no sign of letting up around seventy people have reportedly been killed since friday a military crackdown against the anti-government demonstrations that's on top of some five hundred other deaths in two months of upheaval in the wake of the latest bloodshed the u.s. is tightening sanctions and intensified its rhetoric against syria's political elite is really going to show has been finding out whether some of the closest

allies of damascus may be next in line for a western backed popular uprising. some like a. haunt but this spring things have heated up perhaps too much in the arab world egypt tunisia libya nala syria northern african region and the middle eastern gulf the brutal civil wars with the western powers playing an important hand some believe this won't stop anytime soon so who's next in line for the 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 in assistance in repressing syria's citizens this week to be a human being and hint at where exactly the united states is looking to get involved i think around 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 thing about the protest used in both cases we know for a fact. the united states government who are doing opposition groups and so it's only those two countries where there's two there's an interest in intervening t.v. and has been a longstanding alliance with syria in this statistical important region right next to iran's arch nemesis israel syria syria isn't the same as libya geopolitically we've always realized that syria is iran's springboard in its fight against israel this is why it will eventually make a powerful sunni jetted impact on iran's positions this brings us back to the question what country will follow syria if it ends in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar developments in iran unfortunately that is iran will repeat the syrian

scenario iranian ships have dropped anchor in syrian ports enormous proximity to tel aviv but the mass is crippled by a crisis iran may lose its footing in the region this is again a continuation of the idea that you use the international machinery to achieve your national objectives under the pretext that you are actually trying to protect human rights should the u.s. and its allies decide to go through with a habit of meddling in aiding evolution is. forces in the region the result may be catastrophic there if there is foreign intervention in syria yes iran's intervention in response that is a very real possibility just as much as it interfered in iraq when the us invaded back on tree and if suspicions proved true the world may be in for an entirely different ballgame if iran and the us involved in a real hot confrontation it in-house carty moscow. 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 to further destabilization of a fully fledged civil war that's going to journalists north or actually times the early explains why he thinks the global powers failed to reach an agreement to condemn the syrian regime it is notable that former way six age and others the group has been quoted here in this country as saying that the reports from on the ground in syria do match what the agency is saying as to what's happening in syria of course in syria resulting. so much disastrous. let's call them in. the straits of hormuz palestinian groups people in egypt will probably rise up against syria is such a linchpin of. everything that is against us a generic power now in in the middle east in libya the u.n.

offices have been attacked by a mob think it would roll of all international stuff from aaa the embassies of britain and italy of all of them under attack in the beliefs of a considered and it comes just hours after a may to a strike killed the youngest son of the libyan leader feed three grandchildren khadafi though was not hurt. to show. the candidate based sense of globalisation it's only things making this a protective consistently show move normally nothing to the. balls and missiles and the evidence suggests that. apartment buildings in tripoli have been targeted hospitals have be targeted and 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 we can make our own judgments but this kind of behavior is interrogation of

international law nothing allows the united states. to go into a country and start killing head of state all members of his family i would hope that russia and china will take the initiative of confronting the united states britain and france in the security council the united nations this is these are illegal acts in violation of the un charter and above all they are undertaken by countries which are involved in in war crimes in other parts of the world in the afghanistan and pakistan. france fears its leading role in nato and libyan campaign makes it vulnerable to attacks on its soil in response new security measures including searching emails and their permission and putting soldiers on the streets and introduced critics say france has been turned into a police state as

a result. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is crossing the jeep here at fifty of your most expensive time to tear a program before it's 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 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 say the system doesn't even work in the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee. real targets is not to catch terrorists says one

investigator but somali to the public it's easy to persuade people that they could be a terrorist just metro station it's easy very for people in france to believe well then they have a right to listen to my phone calls which they do they do do it they have a right to monitor my emails and facebook because they're really protecting us troops are only the visible part or thirty's can now read people's emails under a law passed quietly in february president sarkozy also signed a bill for police to 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 afraid thinking that there is an arab with a bomb. here down down. a government recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim food. some already mocks the band and what they see

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

up made russian style even though marching in the streets of moscow on labor there look at the history of the holidays it's celebrated period russia. talking of looking at the history books this week marked the twenty fifth anniversary of one of the worst manmade catastrophes in history the chernobyl disaster and even today the thirty kilometer exclusion zones a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence it lies cold and desolate as i reports it will for centuries to come so. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundred singling 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 there's 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 a good 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 p.p.o.'s were higher living standards platter 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 eighth but it could still have been saved but management pushed for the completion of an experiment personnel hesitated and were locked into but eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result. meanwhile the town's

population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors with me and my friend we ran away from school the police beach we returned home on colder and 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 both already started the evacuation only thirty six hours after the last that's why many of those who stayed in the town later died or suffered radiation sickness but will occur any 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 can ignore floods and the pension i think found it impossible to survive like that in kiev here have a condo and a grow everything in it he ation yes there is

a little here but you won't find a place without it anywhere we are not scared. despite this optimism from recent loose the world still seems concerned about it should not go through that and 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 walk of the chill noble 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 dorm and that will end the existence of the chernobyl 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 with two novels and a verse from reviving old nuclear fears attention turned to the ongoing crisis of

japan's fukushima nuclear plant professor christopher busby spoke to us is from the european committee on radiation risk this is a slow government response to the crisis there is put many more people at risk. it's much less under control the internet bubble was i have to say that really 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 exclusion zone and they still haven't enough people out of an exclusion zone which should so as i'm concerned go out 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 channel 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 i was in trouble. well a quarter of a century ago with rumors of an explosion of chernobyl on every street thousands of

then healthy young men were ordered into planes and helicopters and flown to the outside of your view of the seat of my although i did have the understanding of what was happening there i knew that an explosion happened the site was in ruins that's about it we invite you to watch artie's exclusive interview with one of the man who became known as the liquidator is it streaming on our website r t v dot com and while you there's also plenty more about should not pull the whole thing including special documentary. reporting from the heart of the exclusions. if. this week russian security forces carried in a series of attacks against a terrorist network in the north caucasus the latest operations for ten militants including two high ranking warlords killed that is indeed a question of

a report from the region the al qaeda linked group is believed to be behind many attacks against civilians. this biggest achieving operation was carried out on the border between the region and in about the republic when ten militants including at least two women were killed and among them were some high profile terrorists with links with the international terrorist group all in this region d.n.a. task would probably be required to identify some of the militants are leading figures in a so-called box were already identified as big as truth was believed to be involved in a number of targets across the area now and nothing among terrorists who it was believed to be involved in attacking tourist from moscow in the district in february twentieth love and then earlier in the week and now the special operation was carried out. and the leader of the republic ramadan could bit of was personally in

charge of this operation the militants that were killed. later identified ask also associates to russia's most wanted terrorist. in the neighboring dagestan a leader of the so-called actor guys here was also killed in a special operation now this wave of terror raids was launched here after a number of high profile terror attacks in russia. the way. out is to travel to the north caucasus and look exactly what drives young people to join. a busy day at a university in russia's north caucasus these students are learning about arab culture and language they're trying to broaden their horizons so was so builds brother or a mill until radical islamists took a hold on him. i saw the way his stare changed he became alienated from everyone at

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 town for more chinos it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants there dagestan's capital they were ready to surrender but their leader started shooting to provoke a deadly gun battle in which they all died including romilly in another of the region's capitals now trick it's friday prayers at the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living under a cloud then we are a public mufti was shot dead outside his home by muslim extremists and asked should have 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 doesn't mean policeman are to be shot dead when their ideologist 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 have been 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. to show with the russian federation our government our constitution all wars they. do not do anything against islam as itself radical islam isn't thought to arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one thousand nine

hundred ninety since then although widespread fighting down the methods of small extremist groups bombings and shootings how can literally sit and question nervously asked here now is where the radicals ideology and methods are wants and desperation or growing confidence of our subsea. for now with the latest updates and background information of russia's fight against terrorists on our website r.t. dot com. think of such operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in the republic online tonight we speak to the president of pakistan one of the region's facing ongoing militant attacks you can hear much more from him at r.t. dot com also whatever the stories as well my culture attention the multimillion dollar satellites that crashed in the pacific ocean also crashed the grid of russia's top space saying time have a look at our that story develop online backstory for you plus you should understand there even had to resist that take part in this competition online the

names from these exotic jag you pawn it as a petersburg's they were upstairs mcalary they were going to direct from everybody can't resist those stories going a lot of attention survived it out. so. this is about how the national arts awarded to a controversial piece of graffiti drawn in the historical sense from some petersburg aspired to bait in russia lots of debate many you see the giant phallic symbol is obscene others say it's a sign of the merging civil society are these are the bennett looks the both sides of the argument. this is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a drawbridge in st petersburg has won the twenty ten innovation prize for best visual artwork self-styled aren't terrorists vyner meaning war in russian are the

unpopular with us yet there are i think it's essentially vandalism approved as a cultural and historical monument and anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not rewarded. here in the center of contemporary art and see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating no shocking or as innovative as viner's and according to the jury that's why they won purely on artistic merit but now it's not as simple as that the same symbol the ministry rewarded is now being brandished in mocking a protest based russian youth group is angry four hundred thousand rubles of taxpayers' money will be 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 signal with 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 to pale galanti they could still play seven years in prison for flipping skulls so why this 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 imposing political censorship than to actually import your brains with. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policemen was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment the curator of that exhibit was handed a year affair back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is

this art then. the touring is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a social climate he doesn't specify the target of his protest he simply says that strong protest is brewing in russian society but how do you draw the line between this and r. and landless and as this is going is a fitting room not with a street art is mind a vandalism but it's not hooliganism a 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 is the first work that is proof of a civil society. by no courts 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 r.t. moscow. if additional maydays drawn people all over the world tonight in solidarity

in russia's been no exception the country has a long lasting for addition of rallies used to show social and political affiliation on labor day of his country as over join the crowd. a very rare occasion that central moscow is completely empty and this of course is john ford these people's twenty five thousand members of 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 of course it's not just a trade union action today it seems 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 neo 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 full 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 betters their slogans and of course their unconventional covered up faces and 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 a communist rally and they were not well received there but luckily no scuffles ensued and of those respective parties simply went their respective ways but as well as those groups you know that various other demonstrations took place and even one monstrous now that is a specific group created by an artist called for the most absurd slogans of banners to be brought to the streets of the capital and deed 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 and also like these people take it 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. having her say to may day coming up the president of yemen talks to or see just a couple of minutes time and also heard through the next stuff out of the sport with richard he's got all the latest on another and convincing performance by russia of the world ice hockey championships and slovakia. the next thirty minutes or so pounds over most early monday morning the second of may on r.t. .

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