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around the clock from around the world i'm mad it's eleven am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s. is threatening to take new steps against the syrian government in response to the latest bloody crackdown by security forces human rights groups believe some thirty people have been killed in violence during huge anti-government demonstrations across the country officials blame armed terrorist groups for the arrest protesters say they want an end to decades of oppression and corruption it's now thought more than five hundred eighty people have been killed since the uprising started seven weeks ago following on from u.s. sanctions and a threat of more to come maybe you has agreed to freeze assets and impose a travel travel ban on top syrian officials war correspondent eric margolis though says western countries may have ulterior motives behind their stance on syria. there's great excitement of washington the prospect of overthrowing the syrian

government that's been on the front burner in washington it's the bush straight should give as it would deliver a massive blow to iran censure us if. syria were collapsed in the government the israelis would like it because it would remove any syrian military capability and would assure that nobody's going to raise the issue of the golan heights which israel still illegally occupied has sixty seven and that is if the right wing governments of germany particularly so sir cozy in france was. challenged from the further right when i become very militant very militarized in their policy and it's very popular now to go after arabs what we're seeing is a sort of a counter revolution where the european powers may be united states have seized on the revolution to try and bend it to their will and they're using a humanitarian intervention as

a new reason for sending troops in humanitarian it's a great should usually lies to places resources or strategic geography. in libya rebels are bracing themselves for a ground assault forces in the city misrata nearly two months of nato bombing nato bombing campaign a spelling to break the stalemate of civil war. the coalition is interested in making a lot. their objective is not to save civilians it's to break up the country and to turn it into another somalia another afghanistan a failed state that they can take advantage of and manipulate and take all the resources the biggest companies corporations or africa all happened to be in libya libya was pushing for the african union to unite under its wing and it was the financial backbone of africa until these but this bombing started libyan banks were

amongst the biggest investors across the world in fact the first step of this war was to take libya's money by freezing its billions of dollars of assets in north america in europe they've already set up. an oil corporation in eastern libya based in benghazi a national bank based in benghazi they want this conflict to last they're no rush to end this war they are keeping a strategic stalemate between benghazi and tripoli they are doing this to make them both depended on the united states the e.u. and nato as the arbitrators of libya who will decide the fate of the libyan people . stay with us here on our t.v. lots more headed your way on the program including this. one take a look at whether young people in russia and europe are learning any lessons from the tragic events of the second world war. from rehearsal to reality a russian rocket prepped for liftoff from a european space port after a successful simulated launch that's all on your way after

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vows revenge on the u.s. for osama bin laden's death statements attributed to the terrorist group have appeared on several online jihadi forums they also suggest a successor is mean shows him to take over blogger danielle belton says the u.s. made a mistake in not putting that a lot and on trial. the reality is that american politics it's just very ugly right now and things that normally wouldn't be put aside. have been politicized something it's natural saying hey we have a person who is committing crimes against us let's use the american justice system to bring them to justice has now become a political issue it's now become debatable whether or not our system should be used to try people to try terrorists to people who've been accused of attacking our country and you have all these ridiculous arguments about how if we try them on our

soil it's going to attract more terrorist attacks to us what happened one time ago hope it attracts us to terrorists tends to get in this debate where the american justice system isn't tough enough to try you know international terrorists we've tried international terror before we're trying them now on u.s. soil so this argument that we can't handle it because of the what the perceived rapper cautions might be is merely a political argument used to drive it's a wedge issue for votes president obama has paid tribute to the commandos who carried out the mission against bin laden praising them on a job well done but artie's military contributor says the white house is handling of the aftermath was humbled and is now fueling conspiracy theories. the u.s. president obama has expressed his frustration about the media coverage of the u.s. special mission against osama bin laden he has nobody to blame but the u.s. administration itself the way it managed the media convery each of the u.s. special operations the us administration has committed one cardinal sin somehow the

white house decided that this is a unique opportunity to take a political advantage of this particular mission and it has backfired and feel not only conspiracy theories but it also demonstrated the credibility gap of the u.s. administration in general and white house civilian dwellers in particular barack obama should have thought not as the u.s. president but as the u.s. commander in chief when it comes to special operations of this magnitude you had better keep your mouths shut and instead of provoking controversy you'd better withhold being firm ation as long as possible that's why their political need jerk reaction from their white house not only robbed of their deserved praise but also credibility trust between the united states administration international media and

the public at large in the united states take a stand afghanistan and other countries with americans rejoicing at the news that bin ladin has been killed or one resident in new york asked people there what made them celebrate its path. was the killing of osama bin ladden a major victory in the war on terror this week let's talk about that we definitely think it was a victory i don't know if i'm a surly agree with everyone rejoicing in the streets but i mean i think it's a good positive step for the country so how is it has it ever and if it's making a celebrated someone's that well positive just from the perspective that it's one less horrible person out there in the world one less terrorist in the world that we have to worry about i think they will be effect on their side and for us we just of lot better why do we need to feel better about it what do you think that does for

us closure complete closure the whole psychology psychology of about it like a. good man is dead. so but don't we need to put the man isn't there always kind of a need for that in society is donald trump i just hope it was seems people are saying some people are saying might not be i hope. do you think that we get the president owes it to the world's approval or do you think that you know he is right in saying you know i did what i had to do. i think there's certain things they shouldn't take they don't tell the general public because i think sometimes a course you know some some of the government things could cause a panic probably is you know maybe one of the prime enemies of the u.s. but it's it's it's hard to. but you can celebrate. that someone died and rose so what do you think of the people that are celebrating and waving the flag and

cheering do that you know even though i mean i'm i'm a i'm not sad. to hear the killed but i'm not going to be celebrating i think it's some progress. it's retribution. and you have to pay for thirty you think that it's going to make it different in terms of terrorist actions from this point out. there might be some gruesome from. then is it worth it is it worth killing someone if it means more killing you have to take a stand. so then was it worth it. in a way yes. in another sense. as well as the fact. that they've got him but it could kill him well i don't know that's always the best

start for a new beginning whether or not you think the killing of osama bin laden was a major victory in the war on terror the bottom line is at least now there is one last terrorist in the world's. final preparations are underway to cross russia in two days of exactly sixty six years and soviet soldiers won the great patriotic war a dress rehearsal of the main hurried is happening in central moscow thousands of soldiers tanks and anti-aircraft guns have had their final practice ahead of the main celebrations of the country remembers those who died for the motherland some of the younger generation have no idea why the war was even fought. has more. fascism i don't know it's about violence. in the faces of is both torturing people one nation trying to slip from the. germans some kind of movement in germany

and now a shocking indictment of russia's youth unaware of what people like irina force against less than seventy years ago she was their age when the nazis invaded the soviet union she immediately enrolled. in the air force and was soon chief of staff for the women's division no one needed to tell her what fascism meant mushy would but i went to war like everyone else not because i wanted to fight for the communist regime but because our people were being killed our houses were being burned down our women and girls were being raped i went to war because the target the nazi army brought to our land was monstrous. for those who fought these memories will never die but this video shows they're all but lost on today's teenagers this girl's making fun of a veteran while he tells of the horrors of war the video provoked public outrage. it's due to ignorance ignorance of what happens in the war and how it happened when

they're taught nothing they understand nothing they have no idea what we went through what's more the nazi ideology twenty five million soviets died to defeat is once again very much alive this march in latvia commemorates the baltic division of the s.s. the nazi armed police force began his huge support every year from both old and now young. in russia far right groups like the slavic union and the movement against illegal immigration have been banned after numerous the nationalist inspired hate crimes and murders the perpetrators often just teenagers but much of the extremism is less overt. this is one of moscow's largest book markets i've come here to see if i can pick up a copy of hitler's mind can't it's now actually illegal to sell it in russia so i'm going to film all this with a secret camera hidden in this pen. nationalist

and anti semitic literature is openly on sale here and this book called the jewish question was written by nazi race theory is hands into the mind. vendors directed us to this man they say it was caught on camera last month agreeing and deal for it with undercover journalists our inquiries were unsuccessful the demand is still high. we get a lot of requests especially from young people they see all that's a great. despite efforts to ban extremist groups and literature a great enemy may prove to be the ignorance of the younger generation none of the students we asked even got near the number of deaths in world war two the bloodiest battle in history is in the three thousand all right alas. i think three million but what i can't say for sure but i think more than one the

hardened million. try sixty million. while the arena has already won her war the fight is on to educate new generations so the same mistakes won't happen again after bennett r.t. the moscow. number of shootings in the schools and streets of the us out a little to dampen the enthusiasm of thousands to windsurf to assert their second amendment rights the movement to publicly bear arms at all times as significant and growing as artie's kalen ford reports some even seen so my automatic so the last line of defense against the authorities. trans fats never leaves home without a loaded gun if it is between someone else or my family. someone else is going to die carried openly on his belt. for facts militia is a state of mind and gun control

a carte blanche then government has absolutely no fear of repercussions and they can essentially do whatever they want and government is meant to be kept in check the definition of tyranny is that which is lawful for government but is illegal or unlawful for the citizenry. the government has. jet fighter planes they have machine guns they have howitzers they have tanks they have nuclear aircraft carriers. and militia today. we are left with semi-automatic handguns. and semi-automatic rifles that's as part of the three percentage a militia with its own flag plenty of guns and a manifesto that proclaims it only takes three percent of gun owners to overthrow the government. they gathered last year on the banks of the potomac but the warning to those in power quote attempts to further oppress us by your own peril people innocent and guilty you are going to begin. a. big failure to

comprehend the real situation that we are all in and sent a message that they won't back down americans are. increasingly. free citizens. subjects. more and more of america's eighty four million gun owners say they're tired of compromising on the right to bear arms three percent refused to follow any new gun control laws we all have a right to some. and every president wayne la pierre recently moved closer to the three percentage when he refused president obama's invitation to even discuss new gun laws saying quote why should i wear the n.r.a. sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the second amendment in the united states crediting. then with the last president and gun control in one thousand nine hundred four i thought weapons ban which by his own ethernet the coffee party twenty feet in a subsequent election i went in two thousand and twelve presidential race looming

tackling gun control now might also probably misfire for president obama in florida are at the washington d.c. for more on this debate you can always click over to me dot com where there's plenty more to explore here's what's online for you right now. the man known as the russian obama quits the country's majority party the nation's first african born politician opts for a different political direction to get a seat on a regional council find out about his election. in a new york tries to cash in on smokers lighting up in public may leave your pockets later was the big operations to make more money for the city that much more authority to also check back for our videos are you to travel. he.

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other member states but a meeting of ministers from four eurozone countries and let some bird fueled speculation. the u.k. voters overwhelmingly reject plans to change the way m.p.'s are elected more than two thirds said no to proposals to scrap the first past the post system in a country wide referendum prime minister david cameron had suggested a yes vote for reform would be a disaster ruling coalition members liberal democrats who had pushed for the reform also lost half their councillors in local election. press reports a ninth body's been discovered inside a coal mine in northern mexico after a gas explosion earlier this week another five workers are still unaccounted for in the mine that's been only open for twenty days rescuers continue to dig try and reach the remaining victims with families admitting they've given up hope of finding them alive mexico's worst coal mining accident happened in two thousand and six when sixty five people died. rico's leader allison a what

has finally taken his presidential oath been a long time coming for the winner of last november's election after the previous president refused to hand over power it led to three months of blood led to months of bloodshed in which around three thousand people are thought to have been killed previous leader iran dog bo is now being questioned about human rights abuses while he was in office. a russian soyuz rockets being prepared for a lot from a spaceport in french guiana after a simulated liftoff proved successful as part of a joint project between russia and the european space agency a spacecraft will carry satellites for europe's and galileo navigation system into orbit or he looks at the end vicious program. with more than one and a half thousand launches far more than any other the soyuz is the world's most successful rocket and now for the first time it'll be fired off from a non russian space board over the last eight years the european space agency the

e.s.a. and spend more than half a billion dollars on building a launch and adopting the soyuz for a south american space center in the us this was all done by our engineers and designers we had to adapt to the climate here and to the different safety standards that we have proven ourselves with this due to modifications and crews well chosen location the soyuz will be able to do a great a load into space than ever before but blow the prices than any competitor but the seas makers in russia also is that the benefit more than four decades after its first launch the soyuz should really be showing its age but a tremendous one of the world's most reliable rockets and in fact orders of the some plants are going up from year to year. twenty so use launchers will be produced here by the end of the year several years ago the numbers were in single digits its chief engineer says the rocket remains popular not just because it's

record and. it might look similar to the earlier models but inside the soyuz is being constantly upgraded as is the reason we still use the basic model i believe it's the perfect rocket in its fundamental design we predict that they will be used for another forty years at least constructors are saying that the transition from prestige driven space race of the cold war era to a new way of doing things is complete. this is a project that makes solid financial sense to us it isn't just a political gesture and we're hoping it's just a springboard. the first so hughes will be launched from crew in the second half of the year and eventually the space will handle for launches annually the russian side hopes the success of this project will encourage other space agencies to adopt the soyuz platform eager and party some are. coming your way later. in the museum's cafes and designer shops in the russian capital's main st thomas

the poor here's a peek. will be explored reads a los gatos west. side story of the rushing. away out of the medieval city. today in the center of the city's like life in one from century old statues to modern day city cafes take it from me that i. will impress the. tourists the street is packed full of interesting facts and figures for centuries it was the official route for the sas procession visits to moscow the appearance of the street has fundamentally changed over the centuries from a narrow many little wooden surface rooted today's slightly overwhelming eight lane highway. particular strut around the russian capital coming your way in about an hour but up next listen to the discussion on the question of who contributed most to victory in the second world war spotlight coming up after a break and

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they will hire local train the locals how to do the clearance they'll let the locals basically take ownership. because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of the slap. a. big. rock hard. for the full swing we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers.