the latest from libya the u.n. is that withdrawing its staff from tripoli after angry mobs target its offices following a nato air strike that killed colonel gadhafi that youngest son and three grandchildren . and then our review of the week's top stories russia locks u.n. condemnation of syria saying foreign meddling will only stoke a potential civil war. ceremonies are held to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the true noble disaster as an international funder gathers over seven hundred million dollars for a new dome to contain the spill of deadly radiation. and is it

really are a controversial russian or group gets a major state award but critics claim it's nothing more than vandalism. and broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our g we're certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at our top stories from the past week in libya the u.n. offices have been attacked by a mob prompting the withdrawal of all international staff from tripoli the embassies of a britain and italy have also come under attack and are believed to have suffered considerable damage it comes just hours after a nato airstrike killed the youngest son of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi and the three of his own children i don't doubt he however was not hurt shell sadowski from the candidate based center for research on globalization thanks nato and the

u.s. in particular have consistently shown the rule of law means nothing to. drop balls and missiles and the evidence suggests that that apartment buildings in tripoli have been targeted hospitals of the targeted we have. rather conspicuous and despicable acts 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 a derogation of international law nothing allows the united states. to go into a country and start killing the 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 they're 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 only are gonna song in part because. 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 evil in the wake of the latest bloodshed the u.s. has tightened sanctions on and survive its rhetoric against syria's brutal. you know who has been finding out whether some of the closest allies of damascus may be next in line for western backed ocular uprising. some like it hot but this spring things have heated out perhaps too much in the arab world egypt tunisia

libya now syria northern african region and the middle east and often 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 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 and assistance in repressing syria's citizens this meat is the only thing 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 what's different about syria and iran about protesters in both cases we know for a fact that the united states government was supporting opposition groups and

so it's only those two countries where washington has an interest in going to meaning to iran 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've always realized that syria is iran's springboard in its fight against israel this is why it will eventually make a powerful signature to impact on iran's positions but this brings us back to the question what country will follow syria if it vents in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar development in iran unfortunately that is iran will repeat the syrian scenario iranian ships have dropped anchor in syrian ports in nervous proximity to tel aviv but the mask 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 revolutionary. forces in the region the result may be catastrophic but 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 the species proved true the world may be in for an entirely different ball game if iran in the u.s. get involved in a very real hot confrontation it involves carty moscow the un security council has failed to pass a statement condemning the syrian government for its use of force against anti-government protesters some nations blocked the move fearing it could lead to a repeat of the situation in libya russia was among the countries that objected to

the memorandum saying on the outside interference it would only lead to further destabilization and a fully fledged civil war journalist and author afshin rattansi says any nato intervention would have far reaching consequences 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 wire agencies are saying as to what's happening in syria of course any major attack on syria would result in the. so much disastrous. consequences i mean. the straits of hormuz is a palestinian groups of people in egypt will probably rise up against it because syria is such a linchpin of. everything that is against us have generally power now in in the middle east france fears it's a leading role in nato the libyan campaign makes it vulnerable to attacks on its

soil in response new security measures including certain emails without permission and putting soldiers on the streets have been introduced but critics say france is being turned into a police state. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is crossing the jeep here at fifty of your most expensive anti terror programs to forward what it calls the growing terrorist threats the government claims troops make the public feel safer but that's not what people think they're like little bit dangerous they can. use the force and the other way if it's a bit frighted with a gun. to the. premier francois feels his 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 they could be a terrorist just literal station it's easy then 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 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 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 down. a government recently branded muslims a problem and burn the muslim food. face veil some already. and what they see is 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. estimated prices eighteen billion euros each year enough to create a million new teaching jobs and embarrassed government analysts say tries to hide the amount. is very expensive because the executive can move resources from one area to another quite quickly it's very difficult to find an exact figure critics like michelle coleman have dug the video system vishy pierrette she was france's first in the second world war it spied and informed people and targeted ethnic

minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens don't you bush or r.t. paris still to come in the program made a russian style. rejoinder of those marking in the streets of moscow on labor day and look at his history of the holiday as it is celebrated in russia. plus the fine line between by an argument the feeling of controversial work gets a state prize but critics say it's just an act of vandalism. this week marked the twenty fifth anniversary of one of the worst manmade catastrophes in history the trouble disaster even today the thirty kilometer exclusion zone is a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence and lies i call them to guzzle it and as he reports it will for centuries the god. it's

not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this one hundred singling the russian and ukrainian presidents came to the morning and 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 citizens from ukraine and russia and putin 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 go 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 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 personal hesitated and were locked into but eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result of rio meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors when what i mean my friend we were in away from school the point of beach we returned home or cauldron in mud and my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning the school yard and she was shocked as she had already heard rumors of some accident the nuclear station both already started the evacuation only thirty six hours after the blast that's why many of those who stayed in the town later died or suffered radiation sickness but there look at any and who was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone

just several years after the catastrophe she returned to the first bit inland having lived there for more than two decades she says she wants to see the end of her days in the land where she was born because they gave me a flat and the pension better found it impossible to survive like that in kiev here here i have a condo and a grow every cane radiation yes there is a little here but you can find the place without it anywhere we are not scared. despite this optimism from recently as the world still seems concerned about the chernobyl threat 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 daum 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 novel nuclear power station people behind the music office 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 church of mobile 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. reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine a quarter of a century ago with rumors of an explosion on every street thousands of healthy young men were ordered onto planes and helicopters and flown to that site. if you have got a good winner or seize my order 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. watch archy's exclusive interview with one of the men who became known as the liquidators that's on our website n.p.r. team dot com there's also plenty more on travel there for you including a special documentary from the heart of the exclusion zone.

if. you. this week russian security forces carried out a series of attacks against the terrorist network in the north caucasus the latest operation saw ten militants including two high ranking warlords killed. quarter of records from the region the al qaeda linked group is believed to be behind many attacks against. 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 groups in this region the 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 as being truth was believed to be

involved in a number of terror attacks across the area now enough of a montero is a scab jump who if it was believed to be involved in attacking tourist from moscow in the district in twenty eleven then earlier in the week and now the 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. later identified ask close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist. hands in the neighboring douglas town a leader of the so-called hi. guys there 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. and in the wake of the counter-terror crackdown artist on barton traveled to the north caucasus he looked

at exactly what drives young people to join terror cells. but busy day at university in russia's north caucasus these students are learning about arab culture and language they're trying to broaden their horizons so we're surveilled ramiele until radical islamists took hold on him. through i saw the way his stare changed he became alienated from everyone the brainwashing teaches them to be ready for the next world so they stop paying attention to this one by the end of university he had started to take food to militant friends and hiding when civil wars him to stop it he left home forever as local say he had gone into the forest. i already felt something inevitable and sad was coming but i didn't know what to do i didn't have a chance to stop him when he left home from what she knows it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants their darkest terms couple they were ready to surrender but

their leader started shooting to provoke the deadly gun battle in which they all died including rania in another of the region's capitals now chick it's friday prayers at the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living under a cloud the leader of that mufti was shot dead outside his home by muslim extremists and as trish such as 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 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 full to come from outside russia has 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 this law to show the russian federation our government our constitution and all wars they. will do anything against islam has itself were to call islam isn't thought to have arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one thousand nine hundred since then all the widespread fighting around kids of small extremist groups holdings and shootings of cliff related to christian live history are. where the radicals ideology and methods are ones of desperation of growing confidence of actually. we have the latest updates and background information about russia's fight against terrorists on our website. the good of the group of the search operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in a republic. we speak to the president of

a double star not one of the regions facing ongoing militant attacks and also for you at r.t. dot com on. his web page aims are proof that money can buy you love but at what price. and when the big apple needs some extra cash and it turns up the heat on smokers and a pedestrian. the decision to hand the national art awarded to a controversial piece of graffiti drawn in the historical center of st petersburg has sparked a debate in russia many see the giant phallic symbol as obscene others say it's the sign of an emerging civil society ivor but it looks at both sides. vece is award winning aren't according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a drawbridge in st petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation prize for best

visual artwork self-styled aren't terrorists by now 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 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 awards nothing is stimulating no shocking or 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 based russian youth group is angry four hundred thousand rubles of taxpayers' money we given to a group it calls vandals to viner 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 viner's art until now two members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little stunt british graffiti artist banksy get bailed out and they could still play seven years in prison and 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 and to actually import breezewood. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment the curator of back exhibit was handed

a year affair back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is his art then. the turing 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 much and society for having draw the line between say this art and vandalism as this is clearly the thinking. not the street art is mine of 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 coach or because it's the first work that 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 why didn't it r.t. moscow. and taking a look at some news making headlines around the world for you tonight. the late pope john paul the second has been beatified before more than a million worshippers in a rome that means the pontiff is now regarded as blessed and one step away from sainthood he received that status for allegedly healing a french nun of an incurable disease the ceremony was led by the current pope benedict the sixteenth who succeeded john paul six years ago. as israel mourns six million jewish victims of nazi atrocities during the holocaust memorial day the country's prime minister says iran is arming itself for the destruction of the jewish state he called on the international community to learn lessons from the holocaust and to do more to stop iran's nuclear program at the opening ceremony six concentration camp survivors led symbolic torches to mark the beginning of the annual observance of. french investigators have found the

black box from an air france jet that crashed into the atlantic ocean two years ago it's the latest discovery after the investigating team managed to find the bulk of the wreckage on the sea floor and once a month the jet plunged into the senior the brazilian coast in july two thousand and nine killing all two hundred twenty eight passengers on board. may day rallies on sunday people all over the world unite in solidarity and russia was no exaction a country has a long standing tradition of demonstrations used to show social and political affiliation on labor day. joining the crowds. 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 of course and not just tree here actually to their scenes anyone and everyone is on the streets of the capital including some of the more extreme organizations like of course the old civil rights movements 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 full russians. 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 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 been 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 both 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 the banners to be brought to the streets of the capital owl indeed 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 for a while some 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 thought. the president of yemen know talks to r.t. in a couple minutes time and also heard sport with richard who's got all the latest on another unconvincing performance by russia the world ice hockey championships in slovakia stay with us.