the latest from libya the un is withdrawing its staff from tripoli after angry mobs targeted its offices following a nato air strike that killed colonel gadhafi that youngest son and three grandchildren. and in our week of the week a review of the week's top stories russia blocks u.n. condemnation of syria saying foreign meddling will only spot stoke a potential civil war. on the twenty fifth anniversary of the noble nuclear disaster an international fund gathers over seven hundred million dollars for a new dome to contain it was still deadly radiation. and is it really are

a controversial question our group gets a major state award but critics claim it's nothing more than vandalism. broadcasting live from san fernando this is our team glad to have you with us in libya the u.n. offices have been attacked by a mob prompting the withdrawal of all international staff from tripoli the embassies of britain and italy have also come under attack and are believed to have suffered considerable damage that comes just hours after a nato airstrike killed the youngest son of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi and three of his grandchildren colonel gadhafi hello to himself michel chossudovsky from the canada based center for research on globalization thanks nato and of us in particular have consistently shown the rule of law means nothing to. drop balls and

missiles and the evidence suggests that apartment buildings in tripoli have been targeted hospitals have been targeted and now we have a rather conspicuous and the simple 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 his 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 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 in the other goes on in pakistan revolutionary fever in syria shows no signs of letting up around seventy people have reportedly been killed since friday in military crackdowns against anti-government demonstrations that's on top of some five hundred other deaths in two months of syria nothing in the wake of the latest bloodshed the u.s. has tightened sanctions and intensified its rhetoric against the country's political leaders meanwhile syria's neighbor israel feels washington's role in the regions with some turbulence could backfire by clearing the way for extremists of his policy or has more from television. these gunmen mean business and they're upping the stakes just that little bit higher in these years the egyptian regime like the zionist enemy trying to stop us fighters and girls are we always got the

weapons we needed to fight the zionist enemy. and now they're getting more than they could ever hopeful with for me gyptian president hosni mubarak's main guy on the borders couldn't be easier to get through to bring the goodwins in. all worlds all smuggled. 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 yesteryear the eagerness of the united states to topple the former egyptian 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 rounds now it's apparently governance and 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 he goes away what's the world going to exhibit so instead of in freedom in syria we're going to islamist you swapping one dictator for what could be worse if and when radicals come to power they're likely to direct the arms at israel people will be very conscious of the clout that syria is not libya and the fact that if you do decide to intervene in syria you will have knock on effects across the region in iraq in lebanon to israel palestine what every new threats israel my face from an even more hostile arab world emerging from the prison instability some experts believe the security of the jewish state is not under any grave threat israel has never been an unsafe

place some of the greatest law. as the northern father of all lies as it relates to the israeli palestinian conflict is it israel's been in danger of annihilation i detail in the three volumes of my book it is a complete lie israel's existence is never green in danger from any combination of arab military force and that is unlikely to change in any foreseeable future. the fighters on the ground are giving up hope and they are minister warning is at his worst to come. and the 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 amid the current chaos in the middle east and north africa but behind closed doors will be plenty of disquiet here about how much america's desire to make new friends in the arab world is few links serious instability policy r.t.

television. the u.n. security council has failed to pass a statement condemning of 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 that outside interference would only lead to further destabilization and a fully fledged civil war journalist and author afshin rattansi says any ledo intervention would have far reaching consequences. it is notable that former way six a journalistic group has been quoted here in this country as saying that the reports from on the ground in syria don't match what the wire agencies are saying as to what's happening in syria of course illegal serial brazelton. so much disastrous. consequences i mean. the straits of hormuz palestinian groups of people in egypt would all probably rise up against syria is such

a lynchpin of. everything that is against us how do you want to power in in the middle east. france fears it's a leading role in nato as libyan campaign it makes it vulnerable to attacks on its soil in response to new security measures including searching emails without permission and putting soldiers on the streets have been introduced but critics say france is being turned into a police state. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is crossing the jeep here at fifty of europe's most expensive time to tear a program before it what it calls the growing terrorist grades the government claims troops make a public feel safer but that's not what people think they look a little bit dangerous they can. use the force and other way there is a bit frighted with the guard. 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 exposed to the system doesn't even work and the main feature of terrorism is that it's impossible to foresee. real target is not to catch terrorists says one investigator but to monitor the public it's easy to persuade people that there could be a terrorist this literal station it's easy then for people in friends to believe well then they have a right to listen to my phone calls which they do they do do it they have a right to monitor my emails and facebook because they're really protecting us troops or only the visible part or sorties canel read people's emails under a law passed quietly in february president sarkozy also signed

a bill for police to tap phones were built getting judges authorization to justify the invasion of people's privacy says one author so as he makes france's six million arabs a scapegoat he has to make them afraid thinking that there is an arab with a gun here down down. a government recently branded muslims a problem and burn the muslim food. face veil some already mult and what they see is an arab witch hunts point going out in virgil's and really skirts there's also the law 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 amounts. 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 coleman have dubbed the video system vishy pirouettes vishy was france's first history in the second world war it spoiled and informed on people and targeted ethnic minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to citizens don't you bushell r.t. paris still to come may day russian style. join of those marching in the streets of moscow on labor day and look at the history of the holiday as it is celebrated in russia. plus the final line between a fine art and graffiti a controversial work gets a state prize but critics say it's just an act of vandalism. this week marks the twenty fifth anniversary of one of the worst manmade catastrophes in history the trouble disaster even today the thirty thirty excuse me the thirty

kilometer exclusion zone is a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence it lies called end of desolate and as alexie ocean ascii reports it will come for centuries to come as well. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundreds including 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 was 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 to the back and 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 cell research for the residents of the town of previous were higher living standards better and infrastructure more developed the communist paradise changed on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment left in the wrong hands. with. the reactor was almost completely out of control in april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved and management pushed for the completion of an experiment personal hesitated and were reluctant to 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 when with me and my friend we were away from school pleated beach we returned home or called in mud in my mother asked me where i had been i lied that we were cleaning the school yard and she was shocked as

she'd already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear station authorities 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 michael locally and it was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone which just several years after the catastrophe she returned to the for a bit inland having lived there for more than two decades she says she wants to see the end of her days in the land where she was born we made me a flat and. found it impossible to survive like that in kenya here have a condo and a grow everything in radiation yes there is a little here but you can find a place without it anywhere we are not scared despite this optimism from ri settlers the world still seems concerned about the chernobyl threat especially in the wake of the fukushima disaster that's why ahead of this anniversary countries invested more than five hundred million euro into constructing

a new confinement 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 floor of the chill nobile nuclear power station people behind the news are got to get say that next year it will be dismantled then the station will be covered with the dull and that will end the existence of the church of mobile 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 russian ascii art see reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine with chernobyl's anniversary reviving all the nuclear fears attention that turned to the ongoing crisis at japan's fukushima nuclear power plant professor christopher busby from the european committee on radiation risks says a slow government response to the crisis has put many more people at risk it's much less under control and to normal was i have to say that the three 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 the exclusion zone and they still haven't enough people out of an exclusion zone which should cause i'm concerned go at least sixty or seventy kilometers they're measuring enormous amounts of radioactivity on the ground up to seventy kilometers reporting this so that and these are a mind set of higher than the amounts in the true normal exclusion zone and we have increases in radioactivity in your tokyo also from tokyo so the difference really is that there's a very very much larger population risk in japan and then there was. a quarter of a century ago with rumors of an explosion at chernobyl on every street thousands of healthy young men that were ordered onto planes and helicopters and flown to that site. you. will receive my order i did have of the understanding of what was happening there and you the explosion happened the site was in ruins that's about it watch artie's exclusive interview with one of the men who became known as the

liquidators that's on our website at our from time zones of twenty one chernobyl there for you including a special documentary from the art of the exclusion zone. 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 go and warlords killed as artie's movie reports from the region the current group is 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 the

international terrorist group all 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 because big truth was believed to be involved in a number of across the area now another think and mount terrorist jump who if it was believed to be involved in attacking tourists from moscow in the district in february twentieth loven 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 and militants were killed. later identified ask close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist the coal miner of ants in the neighboring douglas stone age leader the so-called highland sector 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 we have the latest updates and background information about russia's fight against terrorists on our website. you did you could put a third through the search operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in a republic we speak to the president of the to stand on one of the regions facing ongoing militant attacks and also for you at our g dot com. this web page aims to prove that money can't buy you love but at what price. and when the big apple needs some extra cash it turns up the heat on smokers and protesters. the decision to hand of the national art awarded to a controversial piece of graffiti drawn in the historical center of st petersburg has sparked debate in russia many see the giant phallic symbol as obscene others

say it's the sign of an emerging civil society ever but it looks at both sides. this is award winning aren't according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a true bridge 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. i think it's essentially vandalism a bridge is 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 in the award nothing is stimulating or shocking or as innovative as violence 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 russian youth group is angry four hundred thousand rubles of taxpayers' money we've given to a group it calls vandals for vyner the protest only legitimizes their art. or words 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 to artists always express society's pain and a healthy society accepts these. but there's been no acceptance of by noah's ark until now two members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little stunt british graffiti artist banksy deep bailed them out and they could still play seven years in prison and flipping police 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. 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 exhibition was angry you're a fear 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 saying this arts and handle isn't as this is just defeating. the streets auntie's mind of vandalism but it's not hooliganism the 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 know to writing they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners i didn't it's r.t. moscow taking orders from other news making headlines around the world for it and i . the late pope john paul the second has a bit of before more than a million worshippers and brought him into the part of isn't are regarded as a blessed one step away from sainthood he received that status for allegedly healing a function of an incurable with the ceremony was led by the current benedict the sixteenth who succeeded john second 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 do more to stop iran's nuclear program at the opening ceremony six concentration camp survivors symbolic torches to mark it was the be an explosion at the beginning of the annual observance. 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 last month the jet plunged into the sea near the brazilian coast in july of two thousand and nine killing all two hundred twenty eight passengers on board. may day rallies are on a sunday saw people all over the world unite in solidarity and russia was no

exception the country has a long lasting tradition of demonstrations used to show social and political affiliation on labor day. join the crowds. a very rare occasion that central moscow is completely empty and this of course is gone for these people twenty five thousand members of trade 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 of course it's not just training here actually to there seems anyone and everyone is on the streets of the capital including some of the more extreme organizations like of course the old stove rights 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 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 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 we 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 ever 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 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 fun. but you know your company knows of a reporting there now a little later this hour we bring you the story of a man who went undercover to find out what's driving the american citizen protest movement known as the tea party but before that i'll be back with the recap of our top stories right here on our team from moscow.

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