for the full slate we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in the room. on r.t.e. foreign intervention in the arab unrest will just fuel new civil war says russia as it blocks you and condemnation of syria's government and i'm melissa now asking who is next in line. france brings in 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's more scared than safe. also this week saw the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl disaster the site of worst ever nuclear catastrophe may still pose a danger again raising doubts over the safety of atomic energy. and

a fine line between artistic protest and vandalism a controversial russian art group with the highest state of war the work of many dismissed as an obscenity. heloise one am here in moscow you're watching the weekly our roundup of the top stories of the last seven days here on out with me kevin now in this hour and 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 our people in the wake of the latest bloodshed the u.s. has tightened sanctions and intensified its rhetoric against the country's political elite meanwhile syria's neighbor israel fears washington's role in the

region's recent turbans could backfire by clearing the way for extremists his policy has more of that anger from television. these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just a little bit higher. the egyptian regime. zionist enemy tried to stop us foreigners and girls are but we always got the weapons we needed to fight the zionist enemy. and now they're getting more to make and if a hopeful but for me gyptian president hosni mubarak's men gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through to do the big wins in. worlds all swaddled. 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 gift

a year the eagerness of the united states to topple before matrix and president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change and i want to meet most candid closest ally in the region israel the u.s. says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of democracy there is a very real possibility that radical islamic could come to power the u.s. strongly supported the opposition in libya despite al qaeda connections among its ranks now it's currently governors in supporting syrian president bashar assad and the wiki leaks website claiming that washington has been funding some anti-government factions what is afraid that if he goes away the muslim brotherhood can fix it so instead of incident in syria we're going to islamist. swapping one ditto for what could be worse if and when radicals come to power they likely to direct the arms at israel it will be very conscious of that that syria is

not libya and the fact that if you do decide to intervene in syria you 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. state is not under any grave threat israel has never been a man so please some of the greatest lies the mother and father of all lies as it relates to the israeli palestine conflict is that israel has been in danger of annihilation i detailed in the three volumes of my book is a complete israel's existence is never ever be in danger from any combination of our of military force and that is unlikely to change in any foreseeable future. but the fighters on the ground aren't giving up hope and they are minnes 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 pay. israel is keeping quiet and they become into chaos in the middle east and north africa but 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 policy r.t. television. u.n. failed to pass a statement condemning violence in syria some nations blocked the move expressing concern the country could face a libyan style scenario indeed russia was among them saying that outside intervention would only lead to further zation and a fully fledged civil war journalists north russian returns each played why he thinks the global powers fail to reach an agreement to condemn the syrian regime. it is notable that former lasix agent alastair cook has been quoted here in this country as saying that the reports from on the ground in syria do match what the fire agencies are saying as to what's happening in syria of course they leave syria

would result. in so much disastrous. consequences i mean. the straits of hormuz palestinian groups of people in egypt will probably rise up against syria is such a linchpin of. everything that is against us how do you want to power now in in the middle east. in libya the u.n. offices have been attacked by a more time prompting withdrawal of all international staff from tripoli the embassies of britain and italy have also come under attack in a live concert for considerable comes just hours after a nato airstrike killed the youngest son of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi and freed his grandchildren khadafi her more than her shell ski from. a center for research and globalization told to us in particular consistently show the rule of law nothing to the. polls and results 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 not being a law was the united states. to go into a country and start killing the head of state or members of his family i would hope that russia and china will take the initiative of confronting the united states britain france in the security council the united nations this is these are illegal acts they're in violation of the un charter and above all they are undertaken by countries which are involved in

a war crimes in other parts of the world in the afghanistan and pakistan. france has its leading role in nato as libyan campaign makes it vulnerable to attacks on its soil in response the security measures including searching emails with their permission and putting soldiers on the streets but introduced critics say france is being turned into a police state as a result. soldiers on the streets with machine gun this is france is the chief here at system europe's most expensive time to tear a program to for its what it calls terrorists raids 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 exposed to 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 to monitor the public it's easy to persuade people that they could be a terrorist just that your 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 or only the visible parts or storage fees canel 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. down. the government's recently branded muslims a problem and banned the muslim full. 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 launch cost world workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis. estimated prices eighteen billion euro 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 michele called the video system vishy pierrette vishy was france's first history in the second world war it spoiled and informed people and told that it ethnic minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens the new bush or r.t. paris. coming out with a program a russian style will join the marching in the streets of moscow on labor day and look at the history of the holiday it is celebrated in russia. plus we explore the fine line between fine art and graffiti controversial work gets a state prize the critics say it's just an act of vandalism. this last 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 zone is a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence it lies cold and desolate

alexia rescue reports now it will two centuries to come. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundreds and living 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 because of the huge amount of citizen news from ukraine and russia and 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 back then 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 people actually 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 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 to play in a beach we returned home all covered in mud and my mother asked me where i had been i lied when we were cleaning the school yard and she was shocked this year already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear station all thora she 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 there locally and it was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone just several years after they were cast to feed 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 not and the pension i can find it impossible to survive like that in clear here have a condo and a grow everything in 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 reset loose the world still seems concerned about the chernobyl throughout 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

block of the church noble nuclear power station people behind the new circle for good say that next year it will be dismantled then the station will be covered with a doll and that will end the existence of the children or build a 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 r.t. reporting from the chill in the exclusion zone in ukraine. who cannot isn't averse to reviving old nuclear fears many eyes have turned to the ongoing crisis of japan's fukushima nuclear plant sustainable energy professor expert tom burke told us that japan's lack of a burgeoning planning is in seize it was the major contributing factor to this current ongoing crisis. they have not actually regained control of the reactors and so there are still risks that there will be further explosions or releases of radiation either to the air or to water which to the sea which has been happening or through this process now they've got

a bit more manageability than they had earlier on but this event is still ongoing the show was over very quickly it was an explosion and it was over relatively quickly this is clearly going to run and run for months and what is very clear from what happened in fukushima is the japanese neither the utility nor the government really had a well worked out thought through emergency plan to deal with a catastrophic event like this. a quarter of a century ago with rumors of an explosion at chernobyl on every street thousands of healthier men ruled 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 there i knew that an explosion happened the site was in ruins that's about it but we invite you to watch artie's exclusive interview with one of the men who became known as the liquidators but then it's streaming on a website r.t. dot com we've also got lot more background as well about all of the end of the whole disaster including

a special documentary from the heart of the exclusion zone. other top stories now this week russian security forces carried out a series of attacks against the terrorist network in the north caucasus the latest operation ten militants including two i rank in warlords killed as artie's but in a culture never reports from the region the al qaeda linked groups believed to be behind many attacks against civilians. this biggest achieving operation was carried out on the border between region and 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 their d.n.a. task would probably be required to identify some of the militants or some leading

figures in a so-called box on gang were already identified because big truth was believed to be involved in a number of targets across the area now another figure among terrorists as poor was believed to be involved in attacking tourist from moscow in the alpers district in february twentieth loven earlier in the week and now the special operation was carried out. and the leader of the public ramadan could be that of was personally in charge of this operation the militants that were killed were later identified ask also so she's to russia's most wanted terrorist of hands in the neighboring dagestan a leader of a so-called actor guys there was also killed in a special operation this wave of terror raids was launched after a number of high profile terror attacks in russia. we are full of foolishness of

more background we've got the latest updates and information about russia's fight against terrorism on our website. existed because of the search operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in a republic exit there from which for interview from the president of a star in one of the regions facing ongoing militants attacked you can hear what more had to say online adult t. dot com. also this web page if you look at the aims to prove that money can't buy love but we ask online tonight out what fights. and when the big apple needs to make for cash it turns up the heat on smokers and pedestrians as we revealed in the week do not call that story yourself yet you can catch up with a long line right now r.t. dot com. decision to hand the national art award to a controversial piece of graffiti is drawn near the draw in the historical centrism

petersburg is also drawing a lot of controversy here in russia many see the giant public symbol is obscene others though say it's a sign of the emerging civil society of a ben it looks at both sides of the argument. this is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus want washed on a drawbridge instant petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation prize for best visual artwork self-styled aren't terrorists vyner meaning war in russian are the unpopular with us. i think it's essentially vandalism a bridge is a cultural and historical monument and to paint anything on it has 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 or as 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 the same symbol the ministry rewarded is now being brandished in mocking protest this russian youth group is angry four hundred thousand roubles of taxpayers' money we've given to a group it calls vandals for vyner the protest only legitimizes their own but. it's a very awkward situation when the state award goes to a group that in fact organizes an action aimed against the state but this is a very important signal with artists always express society's pain and a healthy society accepts these. but there's been no except and viner's are until now two members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little stunt british banks he did bail them out and they could still play seven years in prison for flipping cars 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 breezewood. in. 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 that exhibit and was handed a year of favor back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so wiser than. the touring is a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a sushi 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 saying this arts and fandom isn't because this is clearly discrete. streets auntie's minor vandalism but it's not hooliganism the disorder it may cause

it is 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 peter's culture because it's the first work live as 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 know to write it they say they'll do it the prize money to political prisoners i didn't it r.t. moscow. else around the world tonight let me bring up today with some top news stories the late pope john paul the second's beatified before more than a million worshippers in rome it means the pontiff now regarded as blessed one step away from sainthood he received status or allegedly healing a french none of the ceremony was led by the current pope benedict the sixty three succeeded john thank you. as israel more six million jewish

victims of trustees during holocaust memorial day the country's prime minister says iran is arming itself for the destruction of a girl called on the international community to learn lessons from the holocaust and the more to stop iran's nuclear program at the opening ceremony six concentration camp survivors and its symbolic thought is to mark the beginning of the absence of evidence as. french investigators have found the black box from the air france jet that crashed into the atlantic ocean two years ago it's the latest discovery after the investigation managed to find the bulk of the wreckage on the sea floor last month plunged into the scene of the brazilian coast in july two thousand. two hundred twenty eight passengers on board at the time. may day rallies on sunday saw people all over the world unite in solidarity and russia was no exception the country has a long lasting for addition of demonstrations used to show political and social affiliation on labor day katrina's out of joint the crowds for us. a very rare

occasion that central moscow is completely empty and this of course is gone for these people's twenty five thousand members of trade 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 tree actually did their things and he won and everyone is on the streets of the capital including some of the more extreme organizations like of course the old stove right movements 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 hold russians. 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 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 in the most absurd slogans of banners to be brought to the streets of the capital while indeed 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. no but they had fun and that there are as many say is what matters that seems to have become the spirits of may for a while some like these people take their own more seriously for others it is just a day by and everything is possible and they do have a chance to speak their mind or maybe even have a little flawed. comfort zone of a frothy having her sit on the streets of moscow to lead it off as well now coming out there so we bring the story of a man who went on the cover of the find out what's driving the american citizen protest movement known as the tea party movement before but though about with a recap of our top stories in a couple of minutes here on our team from us. to .

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