the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of liberation. spring of nineteen forty five on our cheek. we can say to those families who have lost loved ones it is terror justice has been done the world welcomes the news that al qaeda leader osama bin ladin is dead with russia joining the praise but warning against the easing off the terror pressure also this . the alleged killing of colonel gadhafi son and a nato airstrike sparked outrage in libya as angry crowds burned foreign embassies in revenge plots. of the great economic desperation intensifies in the u.s. with debt collectors resorting to machias methods to make americans pay their way.

and as many countries question their nuclear safety in the light of the fukushima crisis our team is touring a new russian reactor to assess its hold her ability. to pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story u.s. president barack obama has confirmed that osama bin laden has been killed in a special operation in pakistan sources suggest that his body was buried at sea something which will do little to counter claims from the pakistani taliban that the al qaeda leader may be still alive or if he's losing cavanagh reports from washington d.c. that his death has brought reminders that it was the u.s. itself that nourished the growth of al qaeda ended in loddon back in the eighty's. u.s. president barack obama addressed the nation to announce in fact the united states

has it can finally confirm that osama bin laden has been killed by u.s. special forces also we are just blocks away from the white house right now where there have been hundreds of people who have gathered right outside of the white house in celebration of this news this news that in fact has been pursuing for for the past decade since the nine eleven attacks it's been ten years in afghanistan nearly since since the ten year since the nine eleven attacks which really really started the the active hot conflict on the ground in afghanistan but we cannot. forget that the roots of conflict so often go back to foreign policy decisions made years and years ago and you know while the president did say in his speech tonight that the american people did not choose this fight this fight came to the united states in u.s. soil referencing of course the nine eleven attacks we have to remember that the united states policy of currently arming the mujahideen in afghanistan. back in the

eighty's had of course contributed so much to the current situation that we have on the ground today and that's it's one of those things that unfortunately in washington sort of gets really lost in the mix you know we don't really see the consequences of certain foreign policy actions as they relate to to the present developments on the ground. nascar has welcomed the news of the death of bin laden and once again underlined the need for a joint efforts in the fight on terror but critics already warned it's too early to celebrate what is largely a symbolic victory earlier my colleague carrie johnson spoke with ortiz correspondence between a coach and over in russia's north caucasus and he said no way in moscow the u.s. is reveling in celebrations of what are calling a victory and justice being served but in all these celebrations what i think is being lost is the question of what now what does that mean for global terrorism i mean when was the last time we heard osama bin ladin take credit for a major terror years and that's because the last two major terror attacks on

a major global city was on moscow last year of course the moscow metro bombings and then just in january if we reflect attacks on the international airport we're not just russians were targeted but nationals of all kinds so certainly the u.s. sometimes forgets that terrorism is a global fight and very much this victory certainly in the u.s. media is going to be played out as america wins over terrorism but that doesn't mean that the threat still isn't very much there it's not let's turn to the region at the forefront of russia start with terror latina all day says please on the efforts there where you are while russia's north caucasus really remains the main training ground for terrorists in the country and this is a mounting air ad that's around this district of provides a convenience zone for militants to hide and to develop their number of and this is really the same situation as we may observe and be outgunned practiced on the border now in the last several weeks there has been an intensified anti terror

raids and dozens of militants have been wiped out including some high profile figures among terrorist with links to al qaida ask the search operation continues for are the terrorists here in this region it truly shows that terrorism is a global a she but it's far from being solved but to you and. what about the situation beyond russia's borders such as the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan where the u.s. of course as we all know was planning to withdraw from both iraq and afghanistan in the relatively near future that martin's death shouldn't change that if anything you know how the anti war critics say well he's dead let's go get out of those two countries but let's not forget that before they withdrew from or planted with or began withdrawing rather from iraq and afghanistan the u.s. got their hands tied up with libya they're the number one then an enemy of course is colonel gadhafi it's no secret that the u.s. and europe wants to get rid of him and although it's just been reported that their

army these rebels that hasn't been confirmed we do know that they are planning for having already begun to train the rebels in libya and that certainly draws parallels with what we saw in afghanistan it's very well known that the u.s. trained an armed groups that then went on to become the taliban and al qaida so we're going to hear a lot of analysis today about those parallels and mike i said osama bin laden is dead but another enemy will be born and all eyes now are on libya. really notice the news agency political analyst mitri babbage there is a subject of a lot of unrepresented an image of the enemy that the u.s. needed to drive politics forward. he was almost made into a sort of a pop simple he was just. sort of a propaganda tool he was and he was a person if. you will make it obvious what was. and unfortunately we see these traditions of the united states always find someone who persona flies they knew it

was. seen it was me was reach now until recently it was bin laden so i have least putting real signs of the united states cannot survive without the rule of this is not the way we development well i hope they're. keen will seize at some moment because after all it's not in video clips and not in condition. to want to have any miss if you need any miss to keep yourself in form that doesn't you know or the other would be some of. the more on this now i'm joined by paul lapham our journalist lecturer at london's grinnell university good to have you with us so we haven't heard from bin laden much recently aside from some regular tapes that he sent out audio recordings how significant is his death i think you. know but. hopefully it will be the beginning of the end for the islamicist terrorist organizations in the middle east i think it's

a very significant moment i think in some ways he's been sidelined by the events of the arab spring which showed that the populations rather than moving in his direction want to see freedom and liberty and the opportunity to express democratic views which is not what he was really interested so whilst he may be slightly sidelined it's not going to be very visible he still remains clearly symbol of you know the events that led to nine eleven and all subsequent. now the propaganda war has already started up in this the pakistani taliban already claiming that bin laden yet lives then saying that we haven't seen his body however there are reports that he's already been buried at sea is this going to start all the conspiracies but this split this weight if the americans are lying about this nuclear to be pretty dumb stupid really i mean how could if it turns out he's a lawyer and someone produces it i mean that would be you know it would be

undermined u.s. position of the nation look stupid i don't think the americans are all that stupid but i think they must have some pretty substantial evidence that somebody they killed yesterday was the. u.s. has already issued a worldwide travel warning for its citizens fearing immediate retaliate how effective is this killing going to be in terms of national security hasn't this open or has it possibly opened up and you can of worms but this could be a little bit angry supporters of it would love to cross the world and it may carry some of the wilder elements that go out and do something immediately it is going to be a period of insecurity it is no doubt about but i think it's a long run if he is damaging to be al qaeda style terrorism. you know it is certainly going to win obama some points ahead of next year's election how significant do you think the timing of this is do you think there was any kind of relevance. oh i don't think you can take a moment to do this unless you're i think it's it's luck really it's like much of

politics you know you could say are look that barack obama has done this but then so would have george bush i don't think that's really very relevant it's. become so hard for the city to be challenged to play tracked them down take them along they've got they've done it i think that's just political luck and it probably will reflect very well. shows that you know he can deliver something there certainly this is a great victory for the u.s. fight in the war on terror however there is no denying the fact that bin laden was sponsored by the u.s. during the move as you can war against the soviet union in afghanistan and now in libya the u.s. is backing the rebels do you think we can see history repeating itself. i think i would hope we've looked at lessons since been larded i've always thought that when bin ladin was sixteen he's compound or in the caves part of these nine was about was thinking about the corrupt relationship between the west and the rulers in

saudi arabia so that was one of the things that sort of engendered this whole issue and supporting corrupt disk with dictators has to be a thing of the past the west and i think that's probably why we have why the west that being wise in supporting these popular movements the recurring through the middle east that moment and flying in a place that many of their former allies i mean the saudis must be who we are feeling very uncomfortable there are some quite difficult issues to deal with about our pride relations with libya and bahrain band the saudis this is going to be an uncomfortable nasty period but at least this looks like we might be heading in the right direction do you know and not supporting corrupt autocratic regimes all right paul laughing our investigative journalist and lecturer at london or no university thanks for your perspective. meanwhile libyan state television has shown the bodies of the son and three grandchildren of moammar gadhafi reportedly killed in

a nato airstrike the deaths have sparked a wave of outrage across the company a little angry mob storming foreign embassies in the capital tripoli british and italian embassy suffered considerable damage and you when has withdrawn its mission from its mission in libya there was also attack michel chossudovsky from the head of a center for research on globalization things nato has ignored the rule of law. brought balls and missiles and the evidence suggests that that apartment buildings in tripoli have been targeted hospitals have the diabetes we have rather conspicuous and the spectacle acts of targeting the family of the head of state namely his son as well as his grandchildren and and we can make our own judgments but this kind of behavior is in derogation of international law nothing 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 be undertaken by countries which are involved in in war crimes in other parts of the world and we are gonna stand in pakistan. but on to our web site our heat out and give us your opinion as to why nato is bombing libya but so far not syria so far more than half the respondents believe that the amount of oil is a direct willingness to intervene around forty percent are sure that nato strikes in syria are just a matter of time four percent think the difference is in the political styles of colonel gadhafi versus president assad now down to r.t. dot com and have your say. france has taken one of the most active roles in

intervening in the uprisings in that have been raging in africa and the arab world apart from libya it also sent troops to its former colony ivory coast and are he's daniel bushell reports all signs show that the eyes of the french government are now turning toward syria. stalin's cousin was shot by troops during syria's protests his parents there now live in hiding but he fears france will make things even worse by bohrman his country on the pretext of stopping the violence i don't wish to have. i don't know and therefore since syria but i think we. you know it's the same chain of events that brought war with libya and now on full doing its home first syrian leader bashar al assad was invited for talks in paris as was colonel gadhafi but at the same time france reportedly was funding opposition groups in both states now nicolas sarkozy's

government is slipping damascus with sanctions the precursor to the invasion of libya humanitarian aide says one also will again be their excuse to go in the logic of their intervention in libya is that they shouldn't have been in syria also syria was once on the french occupation but analysts say france behaves as if it's still in control of france they have had their spies there for decades now and the religious movements have had their people there for decades so they're going to do whatever they can to use their influence against the regime in a way that they see fit intervention would leave france fighting in four walls that hasn't happened since it was a colonial power the french defense ministry hasn't been this busy in over fifty years already fighting in afghanistan libya and the ivory coast is now turning its sights on another former colony syria but expose think the real target is serious

key ally iran france is growing increasingly angry at tehran's nuclear ambitions and this part of international moves to stop the program to must because we're becoming. springboard for the sarkozy administration as it pushes east even tents in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar developments in iran unfortunately for that that is iran will repeat the syrian scenario russia will choose western military interventions with rising along it warns the fueling violence across the middle east when the new liberally escalating the conflict is an invitation to a series of civil wars outside forces it should not interfere give advice or take sides so in internal conflicts but russia's foreign minister adds there could be a sting in the tail he says only she chaos in the region helps the very extremist

the west wants to stop gaining power valuable short r.t. paris. the general public in europe in the us as have been repeatedly duped into supporting interventions this according to julian assange founder of wiki leaks in an exclusive interview with our king here's a preview of what's coming your way in about twenty minutes. our number one enemy of ignorance. and i believe that is the number one in me of everyone is not understanding what is actually going on in the world now question is here with promoting ignorance you know is bad media. it really is by my opinion that a media in general so bad. we have to question where the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. distorting. how the world actually needs. the result is we see wars and we see corrupt governments continue nearly every war

that is thought of in the past fifty years as being a result of the media why. and populations have to be fooled into wars. shifting gears now with many americans struggling to pay off their debts growing numbers are said to be subjected to extreme abuse from debt collectors from serious rants to threats of actual physical bylines there's no holding back for those determined to make people pay their way our brain important as more. imagine a call coming to your home you pick up and stranger demands your money and threatens your life they had said that so we know where you live we know your wife is you're not going to get away with this before they are up in the work brian's case he wasn't dealing with the mafia and i called them back to find out exactly who they

were they were the voices of debt collectors harassing the fifty year old music producer over a small debt belonging to his son. craig . with a record number of americans drowning in unpaid bills losing homes and searching for jobs and abuse in the us debt collection industry has reached record highs one hundred forty four thousand complaints were filed with the federal government last year among them collectors resorting to racial slurs anti-semitic remarks and threats of rape and certainly any threats of violence or clearly illegal contact with third party somebody other than the consumer is illegal unless it is under very specific circumstances however a debt collector is routinely violate the third party disclosure rules and contact

neighbors and relatives as a means of putting pressure on consumers to pay attorney joseph morrow says most collection agents work on commission only getting paid when i debts been recovered a climate of economic just spiration intensifying the use of illegal and aggressive tactics just to net. a bounty paycheck there are you know to my knowledge about four or five cases of suicide coming from that collection of harassment and it's also been heart attacks and strokes ironically a lifeline is always extended to the biggest borer of them all the u.s. government with an exceptional debt of fourteen point three trillion dollars america he just spending money printing more cash and relying on creditors like china who own one point one trillion dollars in u.s. treasury bonds i want to make it perfectly clear that congress will raise the debt ceiling washington gets a safety net wall street gets a bailout and the working american facing financial hardship gets harassed is it

unfair yes it is the economic environment disasters right now yes it is but there's been traditional ways to to work your way out of these situations and those mechanisms are working anymore. as sound unlikely to be heard on wall street where the rich and powerful have lost billions in past years while poor americans on main street continue dealing with all the consequences bring up more and i r r t new york. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe in berlin police of with left wing demonstrators during the traditional may day rally the march was broken up with water cannons after stones and bottles were thrown at shops and banks security was stepped up across the country to prevent trouble a day that's frequently turned violent in the past across germany more than four thousand people joined the usual may day demonstration. the flight recorder of the air france jet that crashed into the atlantic two years ago has been recovered off

the brazilian coast this follows the recent discovery of the wreckage of the air bus on the sea floor investigators hope and they finally reveal what caused the crash that killed all two hundred twenty eight people aboard the plane came down in a high altitude thunderstorm on the first of june two thousand and nine as it traveled from pirates to rio. nuclear safety has come under fresh scrutiny following the shock at what's unfolded at the japan japanese fukushima plant a recent verse three additional disaster has only added to those fears r.t.e. were owed now it has been trying to find out if lessons are being learned as new stations come online. this is the reactor which is of course part of the power station. heat up the water with the process of fission and then this water goes on and turns of turbines which create the electricity normally if there is an accident anything goes wrong this reactor shuts down with some special control rods they

start the process of fission in japan when the initial earthquake took place there was a successful shutdown after the water cycle ations that's the most damage but even after you shut the rods down even after you stop the stress of fission it doesn't start straight away there is a remaining process which goes on for several days. in japan as a special backup system a diesel operated backup system which was supposed to stop the rods from overheating with this leftover fission which was happening but of course the system was damaged as well. which followed afterwards and this is what has led to the. rods causing a build up of a buildup of pressure and eventually the explosions which of state shaken took ashima over the past few days this is the control room obviously the brains of the entire operation now the project for the station was initially approved in the early eighty's all of this equipment was different it was analog before now it's

digital. i think to compare this to the sort of technologies that we used in chernobyl is totally inappropriate this system is also made it in these computers can do millions of calculations every second so a repeat of that is impossible all the same we can only hope that accidents such a three mile island. and this year for the sheema will not be repeated any time in the near future either there are no r.t. . stations. moral stories we're covering you can always click over to our very own blogs video clips and lively debates on the pressing issues including the. russia was considering chemical castration for pedophiles to replace sentences that they say are currently to the unions. and all youngsters in russia may soon be forced to pass drug tests what's your take lie down and have your say and argue that part.

by the leaders are the closure of a major serial factory in rural russia has left its workers the majority of the local town's population on the breadline production came to shattering the heart when a company was swallowed up by the global food giant kellogg's or t. sara for courts. the seventy five years this factory has been at the economic heart of the city of gold and yet building one of russia's leading cereal brands oh my love you move to my factory. more so it was more than just a job. in a few years again the brand is caused by kellogg's internationally recognized with a name builds on its strong ethical value and should have been an exciting development for the workers here you cannot say great as it turns out that reversal

when you look at it on march the fourteenth we came to work and were told the company would be liquidated it was short and people are shocked and emotional you get a generous redundancy package has done little to comfort the people. there were generations of families that worked here and told to build the brand the city's small and there are hardly any jobs. in response to the sudden pleasure. the decision was not related to the performance of the workers or the plant's management we appreciate your input on the results of their work and admit that their contribution was valuable for the business but it is now kellogg's will be reaping the rewards of the loss of the plant was everything for people it was a way of life. kellogg's also claim they're involved in the search for new investors with the factory and its production facilities to be sold as the package

that he wanted so there's little seems to be happening in the production equipment is being removed not a hateful sign these papers to see the factory back in action when we tried see for ourselves we were refused entry requests from the owner of the company may restructure and based on his perception that all of this kind of decision cannot be called socially responsible and that's absolutely clear. ethics profits battle this time it seems profits have won out. guard but the real bottom line is that with the factory closing it's the people who are left paying the price their births are to. stay with us here on r.t. only back with the headlines in a few moments. if

. culture is that so much memory which of course is right on economies of europe if mcdonald's coming from he says he may or may not run for the us presidency irrespective of the final answer what does all this trump.

moons died. and made him look forward to be held down say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of not a racial. spring the nineteen forty five on our t.v. . more news today violence has once again fled up the phone these are the images the whole scene from the streets of canada after. chinatown for asians are rooted. in.