the latest from libya the u.n. is pulling out of the capital tripoli after angry mobs attacked its offices in retaliation for a nato airstrike that killed four members of colonel gadhafi his family including his youngest son. and our review of the read some top stories russia says foreign meddling in syria will only make a civil war more likely as moscow blocks u.n. condemnation of the crackdown on anti-government protests in the country. as the world marks twenty five years and since the. tragedy and international fund gathers over seven hundred million dollars. it's still love deadly levels of radiation.

and a creative controversy in extreme our group in russia it's a major steep rise while critics say they should be prosecuted for vandalism. in broadcasting direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. we're certainly glad to have you with us in libya the u.n. offices have been attacked by a mob the withdrawal of all international staff from tripoli the embassies of a briton and have also come under attack and are believed to have suffered considerable damage it comes just hours after a nato airstrike killed at the youngest son of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi and three of his grandchildren colonel gadhafi however was. michel chossudovsky in

the town of and based center for research on globalization of nato and the u.s. and particularly system please shown that the rule of law means nothing to them. they drop bombs and missiles and the evidence suggests that that apartment buildings in tripoli have been targeted hospitals or be 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 a derogation 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 france in the security council the united nations this is

these are illegal acts they're in violation of the u.n. charter and above all they are undertaken by countries which are involved in it was crimes in other parts of the world in the afghanistan and pakistan around seventy people have reportedly been killed since friday in military crackdowns against anti-government demonstrations in syria that's on top of some five hundred other deaths in two months of people in the wake of the latest bloodshed the u.s. has tightened the sanctions and intensified its rhetoric against syria's political elite or he has been finding out whether some of the closest allies of damascus may be next in line for a western backed popular uprising. some like it hot but this spring things have heated up perhaps too much in the arab world egypt tunisia libya now

syria more than african region and the middle eastern gulf and brutal civil wars with the western powers playing an important hand some believe this won't stop anytime soon so who's next in line for the great upheaval in the region the answer may lie on the surface. president assad is disingenuously blaming outsiders while of the same time seeking a rainy and assistance in repressing syria's citizens this need to be a veiled hint 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 about protest music and both cases really know for a fact that the united states government is supporting opposition groups and

so it's only those two countries where washington has an interest in intervening to brown has been a long standing 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 city jetted impact on iran's positions but this brings us back to the question of what country will follow syria it events in syria progress according to libyan scenario we will probably see a similar developments in iran fortunately that is iran will repeat the syrian scenario iranian ships have dropped anchor in syrian ports in numerous books and to tel aviv the canasta is coupled by crisis iran will 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 that is a definite and very real possibility just as much as it interfered in iraq when the us invaded that country and is the species proved true the world may be in for an entirely different ballgame if iran and the us a little really real hot confrontation it involves courting. the un security council has fails to bass a statement condemning the syrian government for its use of force against anti-government protesters some nations blotter the move fearing it could lead to or appeal 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 of sheen retards he says any nato intervention would have a far reaching consequences it is notable that former ally six a journalist a crook is being quoted here in this country as saying that the reports from on the ground in syria is the actual the fire agencies are saying as to what's happening in syria of course believe that syria would result in there. 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 at your morning power now in in the middle east france for years it's a leading role in nato as libyan campaign 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 her critics say france is being turned into a police state. soldiers on the streets with machine guns this is france's vision here at system europe's most expensive anti terror program so for its what it calls the growing terrorist threat the government claims troops make the public feel safer but that's not what people think they look a little bit dangerous they can. use the force and the other way if there is a big 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 tourist sites government buildings train stations airports schools and churches but experts say 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 easier to persuade people that there could be a terrorist list that your 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 touch phones without getting judges authorization to justify the invasion of people's privacy says one author sarkozy makes france's six million arabs a scapegoat he has to make them afraid thinking that there is an arab with

a bomb here. down. the government recently branded muslims a problem and burned the muslim full. some already. and what we see is an arab witch hunt going out in virgil's and mini skirts there's also the large cost workers continue to be laid off in the economic crisis. estimated price is 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 michele coleman have dubbed the vigil systems vishy pirouettes vishy was france's first regime in the second world war it spoiled and informed people and

targeted ethnic minorities. the french government today stands accused of doing the same to its own citizens. r.t. paris still to come up may day russian style. rejoin those marching in the streets of moscow on labor day and the world and the history of the holiday as it is celebrated in russia. plus the fine line between fine art and for a fee the 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 man named catastrophes in history at chernobyl disaster even today of the thirty kilometer exclusion zone is a grim reminder of the dangers of nuclear negligence it lies call them desolate alexy f.s.k. reports for centuries to come. it's not every day you can see the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine as crowded as this hundreds of 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. labors of a huge amount of citizens news 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 then the government was not always doing the right thing. nowadays this still looks like this deserted streets and abandoned houses however quarter of a century ago it was the place to be in the soviet union salaries for the residents of the town of pretty p.x. were higher living standards fatter 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 for pushed with the completion of an experiment personnel hesitate and were locked into it eventually couldn't go against the authorities we all know the result. but meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors. i mean my friend we ran away from school to play to me but we returned home all covered in mud and my mother asked me where i had been i was i didn't believe it was we are here 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 deliberately uncle was among the evacuees from the thirty kilometer zone but just several years after the catastrophe she returned to

the fir 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 he gave me a fright and the pension i did found it impossible to survive like that in kenya you here have a condo and a grow every clean appreciation yes there is a little here but you don't find the 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. when i heard of this anniversary countries invested more than five hundred million euro into constructing and you can find i don't test them to see all the exploded reactor for another century this is probably the last time we have managed to see the infamous chimney on the fourth floor of the chernobyl nuclear power station people behind the new circuits i just say that next year it will be dismantled then the station will be covered with a dome and that will end the existence of the church of noble 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 at chernobyl on every street thousands of healthy young men were ordered onto planes and helicopters and flown to that site. if you really want to win or see them and what i did have a peek understand what was happening and you then exposure can see the site was in ruins that's about as it was archie's exclusive interview with one of the men who became known as the liquidators that's on our website our team has also plenty more entre noble there for you including a special documentary from the heart of the exclusion zone.

this week russian security forces carried out a series of attacks against of the terrorist network in the north caucasus the latest operations including two known warlords killed as are. 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 on the border between start up a region and in 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 all in this region found d.n.a. tasca would probably be required to identify some of the militants leading figures in a so-called box on gang were already identified because because truth was believed to be involved in a number of terror attacks across the area now another think among terrorists are

scared jump who if it was believed to be involved in attacking tourists from moscow in the district in february twentieth love and then earlier in the week and other special operation was carried out. and the leader of the public ramadan could do was personally in charge of this operation militants were killed were later identified asked close associates to russia's most wanted terrorist. ans in the neighboring pakistan a leader of the so-called hi. guys if was also killed in a special operation now this wave of until terror raids was launched can after a number of high profile terror attacks in russia. question of reporting therefore in the wake of the counter counter terror crackdown are going to travel to the north caucasus you look at exactly what drives young people to join. a busy

day at university in russia's north caucasus these students are learning about arab culture and the language they're trying to broaden the ricers so was seville spur until radical islamists took hold on. i saw the way his stature changed he became alienated from everyone the brainwashing teaches them to be ready for the next world they stopped paying attention to this one by the end of university he had started to take to militant friends and hiding when civilians him to stop it he left home forever as locals say he had gone to the forest. and 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. for what she knows it was a month later the police surrounded a group of militants they dug a stones cut they were ready to surrender but their leader started shooting to provoke a deadly gun battle which they cooled down including running in another of the

region's capitals celtic it's friday prayers in the city's main mosque but this is a muslim community living in cloud moment was shot dead outside his home by muslim extremists. have 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 policeman to be shocked that 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're 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 an. anniversary staff are concerned of how impressionable some students have proved to be they say the region's muslim majority was not be made to feel alienated we need now to speak. more a ball with

a slam to show the russian federation i want government and all constitution all wars they all do not do anything against as well as itself radical islam isn't thought of arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one thousand nine hundred sixty widespread points in. its of small victories buildings and shootings on flickr. stream where the radicals ideology and that's a once of desperation a growing confidence for both of us and of course we have the latest updates and background information about russia's fight against terrorists on our web something . you've never heard from the search operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorism underground the republic we speak to the president of dagestan a one of the regions are facing ongoing militant attacks. and also for you at r.t.

dot com. this web page aims to prove that of course you can indeed buy love but at what price. and when the big apple needs some extra cash it turns on a big beat for smokers and pedestrians. and 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 a debate in russia many see the giant phallic symbol as obscene others say it's the sign of an emerging civil society i robot it looks at both sides. this is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five metre phallus want washed on a drawbridge instant petersburg has won the twenty ten innovation prize for best original artwork self-styled art terrorists by now meaning war in russian are the

unpopular with us the arts or i think it's essentially vandalism or a bridge is a cultural and historical monument and to pin anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not rewarded already here in the center of contemporary art you can see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating are shocking or innovative as vine us and according to the jury that's why they won purely on artistic merits 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 or hundred thousand roubles of taxpayers' money given to a group it calls families for vine or a protest only legitimizes their own that. 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 societies in pain and a healthy society accepts he's the king. but there's been no acceptance of vinyl as art until now two members still face trial on hooliganism charges for this little stance of british graffiti artist banksy detailed plans and they could still play seven years or. so why the sudden show of state support. i see the minister of culture was afraid of being accused of political censorship and i think he was right in our country as they were being afraid of imposing political censorship and to actually impose your brain is wired. a sea change from four years ago this image of two kissing policeman was banned by the culture ministry for international exhibits fearing embarrassment a curate evacuate submission was and three year affair back then he lost his job but this time he was on the jury so why is this out there. the turing is

a graphic and expressive example of how an artist reacts to a social climate it 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 say this art and vandalism as this is killing this graffiti. not that one street art is minor vandalism but is not hooliganism the disorder it may cause it is compensated hundreds of times by the meaning of their pictures of their wishes painted could be restored on the bridge to become a symbol of superheated urges culture because it's the first work there 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 i didn't it r.t. . elsewhere around the world for you tonight. the late

pope john paul the second has been be edified of before more than a million worshippers in rome music is now regarded as blessed and the 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 problem but are there the sixteenth who succeeded john paul the second six years ago. as israel mourns a 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 all jewish state he called on the international community to learn lessons from the holocaust and would do more to stop iran's nuclear program at the opening ceremony six concentration camp survivors of that symbolic torches to mark of the beginning of the annual observance. may day rallies on sunday saw people all over the world unite in solidarity and russia was no exception but country has

a long standing tradition of demonstrations that used to show social and political affiliation on labor day culture in a joint 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 marching through the heart of moscow all the way down through the family not just tree chants of their teams and anyone and everyone is on the streets of the capital including some of the more extreme organizations like of course the old civil rights movement in russia 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 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 both respective parties simply went their respective ways but as well as those groups and you know that various other demonstrations took place and even the 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 island deede 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 exactly a very feasible thing to do. no but they had fun and that was many say is what matters that seems to have become the spirit of may first of all some like these people take your car 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. there was a cousin who knows of a reporter for our t.v. now the president of yemen talks to r.t. in a couple of minutes time and also ahead sports with richard stay with us. the

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