so here is the donald donald trump he says he may or may not run for the u.s. presidency irrespective of the final answer what does all this trump. the latest from libya the u.n. is withdrawing its down from for a bully after angry mobs and target its offices following a nato airstrike that killed colonel gadhafi is youngest son and three grandchildren. and in our view of the week's top stories of russia block u.n. condemnation of syria saying foreign meddling will only stoke a potential civil war. on the twenty fifth anniversary of the nuclear disaster an international fund gathers over seven hundred million dollars for a new job only to contain the still deadly radiation. and isn't really are

a controversial russian are group gets a major state award put critics claim it's nothing more than vandalism. in broadcasting live from central moscow this is our teeth glad to have you with us in libya the u.n. offices have been attacked by a mob of 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 three of his grandchildren colonel gadhafi how well i'm not going to get out of the shell chose to go skeet from the canada based center for research on globalization things nato and the u.s. in particular have consistently shown the rule of law means nothing to the. they drop bombs and missiles and the evidence suggests that that apartment buildings in

tripoli have been targeted hospitals have been targeted and now we have a rather conspicuous and despicable act of targeting the family of the head of state namely his son as well as his grandchildren. and we can make our own judgments but this kind of behavior is in derogation of international law not being allows 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 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 afghanistan and pakistan 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 from months of the evil in the wake of the latest bloodshed has taken to sanctions and intensified its rhetoric against syria of course of his new novel is called finding out whether some of the closest allies of damascus next in line for a western backed popular uprising. but some like it hot 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 at the same time seeking a rainy and assistance in repressing syria's citizens this need to be the only thing here and that's 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 press the protesters what's different about syria ranting about protesters is that in both cases really 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 intervening to

run 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 belies 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 but this brings us back to the question of what country will follow syria of the events in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar developments in iran unfortunately that is iran will repeat the syrians an aria iranian ships have dropped increased syrian ports enormous proximity to tel aviv the canasta is crippled by 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. the result may be catastrophic but if there is foreign intervention in syria yes iran's intervention in response to that is a definite and very real possibility just as much as it interfered in iraq when the us invaded back country and is this is proved true the road may be in for an entirely different ballgame if iran and the us get involved in a real hot confrontation it in-house 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 up blocked the move fearing it could lead to a repeat of the situation in libya russia was among the countries that objected to the memory at all signing that outside interference would only lead to further destabilization and a fully fledged civil war journalist and author of sheena resonance he says any

nation sorry any nato intervention excuse me would have far reaching consequences for demonstrators it is notable that former ally six agent alastair cook has been quoted here in this country as saying that the reports from on the ground in syria that match what the fire agencies are saying as to what's happening in syria of course illegal attack with syria would result in. so much disastrous. consequences i mean. the straits of hormuz is a palestinian groups of people in egypt will probably rise up against syria is such a linchpin of. everything that is against us as you want to power now in in the middle east france fears its leading role in nato is that libyan campaign makes it vulnerable to attacks on its soil in response 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 france is busy peer out system europe's most expensive anti terror program to foil what it calls the growing terrorist threats 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 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 now find soldiers at shops childress sites government buildings train stations airports schools and churches but exposed 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 natural 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 around you the visible part 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 judge's authorization to justify the invasion of people's privacy says one all for 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. the government recently branded muslims a problem and burned the muslim full. some already mocks the band and what they see

as an arab witch hunts point going out in vials and mini skirts there's also the launch cost workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis. to me to 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 three difficult to find an exact figure critics like michele cole have called the system's vishy pirouettes vishy was france's first used regime in the second world war it's spoiled and did for people and targeted ethnic minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens don't you bushell r.t.

paris still to come up mayday russian style. rejoining those marching in the streets of moscow on labor day and look at the history of the holiday as it is celebrated in russia. was the fine line between fine art and with graffiti a controversial work gives a state prize but critics say it's just an act of violence vandalism. this week marks the twenty fifth anniversary of one of the worst manmade catastrophes in history the true noble disaster even today the thirty kilometer exclusion zone is a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence that lies cold and desolate and as he reports it will for centuries to come. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundreds including 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 those of a huge amount of citizens just 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 on the back and then see that the government was not always doing the right thing nowadays distil 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 pretty cats were higher living standards better and infrastructure more developed that 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. 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 personnel hesitated and were locked into but eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result of the rio meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors when the i mean my friend we ran away from school to play to meet him but we returned home all covered in mud people and my mother asked me where i had been i why didn't the queen of the school yard and she was shocked as she had already heard rumors some action in the nuclear standoff 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 mcculloch or any uncle was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone but just several years after the catastrophe she returned to the fur 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 the k.k.k. africa and the pension i found it impossible to survive like that in kiev here. i have a condo and a grow every clean creation yes there is a little here but you don't find a place without it anywhere we are not scared. despite this optimism from recyclers the world still seems concerned about the chernobyl threat especially in the wake of the fukushima disaster that's why i heard of this anniversary countries invested more than five hundred million euro into constructing a new confinement at dawn destined to seal the exploded reactor for another century this is probably the last time we have managed to see the infamous chimney of the fourth floor of the chernobyl nuclear power station people behind the news reports i just 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 russia. reporting from

the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine a quarter of a century ago with rumors of an explosion natural noble on every street thousands of healthy young men were ordered on planes and helicopters and for me to go outside. your. window or see what i did have a deep understanding of what was happening and you then explosion how you can see the site was in ruins that's about sits and. watches exclusive interview with one of the men who became known as the liquidators that's on our website at all and. there's also plenty more i'm sure a novel there for you including a special documentary from the heart of the explosions at. the. this week russian security forces carried out

a series of attacks against the terrorist network in the north caucasus the latest operations on ten militants including two known warlords killed as argues that medina coaching over reports from the region the al qaeda linked group is believed to be behind many attacks against civilians this biggest achieving operation was carried out. between stoppard 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 al qaida in this region so far the d.n.a. task would probably be required to identify some of the militants some leading figures in a so-called box on gang were already identified cause because truth was believed to be involved in a number of charities across the area now and nothing among terrorists ascared jumped with was believed to be involved in attacking tourists from moscow in the

district in february twenty and love and then earlier in the week and now the special operation was carried out. and the leader of the republic runs on could do was personally in charge of this operation militants were killed. later identified ask close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist. in the neighboring dagestan a leader of the so-called hi don sector guys there was also killed in a special operation now this wave of auntie terror raids was launched hand after a number of high profile terror attacks in russia and in the wake of the counter-terror crackdown or can start to travel to the north caucasus you look at exactly what drives young people to join terrorist cells. a busy day at university in russia's north caucasus these students are learning about arab culture and language care trying to broaden their rights so was surveilled ramiele

until radical islamists took hold on. i saw the way his stature changed he became alienated from everyone but 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 in hiding when seville warned him to stop it he left home forever as local say he had gone into the forest. i already felt something inevitable inside was coming but i didn't know what to do i didn't have a chance to stop him when he left home for what she knows it was a month later the police surrounded the militants their darkest times capital they were ready to surrender but their leader started shooting to provoke the deadly gun battle in which they all died including running in another of the region's capitals . it's friday prayers at the city's main mosque but this is

a muslim community living in a cloud. of smoke shop that outside his home are 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 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 will 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 has not been made to feel alienated we need not to speak. more a ball to slam to show russian federation government i'll concede you should all morse of

a zero do anything against as 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 eighty six all the widespread pointing. that's of small extreme scoops bombings and shootings have proliferated to question your street australia where the radicals ideology and misfits the ones of desperation or growing confidence of actually we have the latest updates and background information about russia's fight against terrorists on our website. or the such operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in the republic to speak to the president of pakistan or one of the regions are facing ongoing militant attacks and also online for you at r.t. dot com. this web page aims to prove that money can indeed buy you love but at

what price. and when the big apple needs some extra cash it turns out thinking on smokers and the desperate. the decision to hand the national art award 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 looks at both sides. this is award winning out according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus want washed on a drawbridge in st petersburg as one the twenty thousand innovation prize for best visual arts work 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 anything on it is an act of vandalism and it

should be punished not rewarded. here in the center of contemporary art in see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating or is shocking or as innovative as vine us and according to the jury that's why they won purely on artistic merits but now some 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 given to a group it calls vandals the vine or the protest only legitimizes their own but. it's a very old world situation when the state award goes to a group that in fact organizes an action aimed against the state or 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 diners until

now two members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little stunt british graffiti artist banksy deep bail the land they could still face seven years in prison and flipping hailstones so why the 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 cause it to if you're praiseworthy and. 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 it's a bishop was handed a year of faith 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 we doesn't specify the target of his protest when he simply says

a strong protest is brewing in russian society but how do you draw the line between think this art and band alyson as this is clearly discomfiting. not letting them street art is minor vandalism but is not hooliganism the disorder it may cause and is compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of epic which is a thing i wish is painting could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of so he does earth's culture because it is the first work a little bit of a civil society. by no court controversy usually at the expense of the authorities whether it's bought or not they've achieved what they wanted to notoriety they say they'll donate the prize money to political prisoners either bennett r.t. moscow. and taking or get another headlines from around the world tonight. the late pope john paul the second has been that we have a fide it before more than a million worshippers in rome it means that the pontiff is now regarded as blessed

and one step away from sainthood he received that status for 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 the six million jewish victims of nazi atrocities during 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 that symbolic torches to mark the beginning of the national observance. may day rallies on sundays people all over the world united 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. drive across. 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 trade who on this day are celebrating their professional holiday as part of that celebration marking through the heart of moscow all the way down through the kremlin not just three here actually today it seems and one 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 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 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 when 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 our 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 bill's 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 the banners to be brought to the streets of the capital owl 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 was many say is what

matter is that seems to have become the spirit of may for a while sunlight is people taking more seriously for others it is just a day when everything is possible and they do have a chance to speak their mind or maybe even have a little thought. the president of yemen and talks starting in a couple of minutes time and also head of sport with richard stay with us.

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