in chile you can see or sense or tell michael. grant he's a virtual mechanic of admission mark karr was also told the salt of the sun. would result michael beverly closer to home with riviera beach on the centrifuge. the pressure mounts in syria as washington friends to slap fresh sanctions if the falling crackdowns on anti-government protestors don't stop. it's a victory day parade preview in moscow as russia gears up to mark the defeat of fascism with its annual show of strength. thousand three hundred. making that way to the heart of. all the details. and american gun owners get openly carrying their weapons saying it's their last line of defense on home soil.

international news live from moscow this is o.t. with the twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour syrian troops backed by tanks have reportedly entered the coastal town of burnie as if it was a day of nationwide protests across the country that left thirty people dead the u.s. is warning the regime that it will take new steps against it in response to the latest bloody crackdown by security forces syrian officials blame the terrorist groups for the unrest while protesters say they want an end to decades of repression and corruption one human rights group claims eight hundred people have been killed since the uprising began almost two months ago when the u.n. sanctions already in place and the threat of more to come the e.u. is also agreed on an assets freeze and a troubled past. and for top syrian officials let's get some analysis of what's

happening there in syria from dr franklin lamb he's director of americans concerned for middle east peace thanks very much indeed for joining us there in beirut can you hear me ok before we begin. indeed yes sir all right we just had a little bit of the structure with the picture there but i can hear you to the syrian protesters digging in despite facing vaught and from their own leadership is it their hope that other nations will weigh in hardening their resolve. well i'm certain that it is because as you know we saw in two years egypt and tunisia and elsewhere international solidarity is very important and with the. communication. trader exactly. to have international support the problem with syria is as you know the curtain has

come down a foreign journalists have been expelled there's only two or three there so adequate reliable information has been a problem but certainly the protesters would want after risking their lives to even exit their homes would want international support but part international support hasn't really helped the libyan so far has it. no i. think. that's true it's only really good and as you open with your program the sanctions are very a problem problematic also in terms of of their history we see these sanctions we saw citations against iran we saw sanctions of pool sanctions against iraq saddam hussein. has affected the poor the.

sick those are the ones who died the regime will not be affected except the bank accounts me but the u.s. simply has rights that the e.u.'s in the e.u. are saying are going to be targeting top officials within the syrian regime isn't that slightly different therefore the people won't be affected in syria in the same way we've seen sanctions work elsewhere. that's right. if they freeze the assets of the elite. trickle down on the people they're not going to target food yet and those things but of course if the regime which is using some of their funds to lighten the pressure on the people i would argue there would be you know an indirect ban on the people i. know who suffer with these sanctions oa with with some exceptions. the e.u. and the u.s. has signed off after some but i'm really sorry we have already we're having quite

a few problems with the communication is so interesting what you're saying i'm hearing most of it and i'm going to persevered with this what i do what i was getting case we do lose this link you or your organization concerned for middle east peace if we see perhaps a regime change the toppling of a sat in syria what would that mean for stability in the middle east. well i'm one of those who doesn't think there would be a catastrophe you know many academics and. supporters of the regime are saying all we must keep the dictatorship because it would be uncertain i don't accept this i think that the people of syria if they overthrow the regime if they get proper support internationally including from russia that. they will survive the people determine here and i am not concerned about the spill over to lebannon and

in palestine let the people decide they are the ones who are sacrificing and it is their future and their country and i think it behooves all of us to support them in their struggle you mentioned palestine just a moment ago what do you make of this possible union between hamas and fattah many are saying that this is a direct result of the uprisings the instability we've seen in the middle east is that good news do you think or bad knees. i i only heard a little of what you said. certainly influenced by the others but you know the this is been going on for four decades of repression and if people see hope and if they overcome their fear as we've seen in contrary after contrary people are willing to die they're willing to give their blood and to go to the streets and to leave their homes and risk the snipers this is a tremendous testimony to the arab and muslim people and their desire for freedom

so i think the fact that there are these other revolves these revolutions going on it is sweeping the region and i would argue that we're just at the beginning we are just at the beginning of the great islamic and arab awakening of two thousand and eleven that will be felt throughout the middle east and also in america and probably in russia in some form or another i don't want to say and i'm spoiled is something it's true. profound and historic it's difficult to predict where it will and i may well disagree to explore it except what you're saying sort of around the . failure. of an or eight or ten spot in the in this region i think it's momentous extremely a momentous when it's really interesting to hear what you have to say i'm very sorry about the communication problems i'd love to talk to you a bit more but i think we ought to leave it there and we've made the most of it

thank you so much dr franklin lamb director of americans concerned for middle east peace thank you for your time. now we will go to libya well colonel gadhafi forces are reportedly bombed a fuel depot in the rebel held city of misrata insurgents want the nato led coalition to provide weapons saying they don't have enough to beat gadhafi over two thousand coalition air strikes have so far failed to turn the civil war which began in february on your political analyst told r.t. the foreign plan is to deliberately divide and conquer 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 always 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 and 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 dependent on the united states the e.u. and nato as the arbitrators of libya will decide the fate of the libyan people. zante comes alive from the russian capital on the way few americans who say they've nothing to hide. i believe that you should be able to. carry a firearm in any manner you choose. it's the nation with the most gun owners and

they want the right to bring their firearms into the open. and still to come for you but first saturdays for troops in the streets of moscow along with tanks and helicopters sold in the name of remembrance ahead of monday's victory day parade to mark the sixty sixth anniversary of victory over nazi germany. ports now from the heart of the russian capital. twenty thousand trees and hundreds of units of military hardware making their way through the streets of moscow and carrying out a full scale were heard still. ahead of monday's fifty day parade incredibly impressive sight indeed this is the final rehearsal ahead monday's break but they have a number of others for the party which is always incredibly strange that they are around this time when you see the tanks driving down the street from the rehearsals going on a day of remembrance this year the fifty six anniversary of the russian victory

a nazi germany by the state the veterans and. as usual and a very important day for one of reminding everyone twenty five million it's a few people died in that war huge last came at a very very heavy price recent years has been the right. of course and it has to glorify alongside my colleague i've been finding out how russia is becoming increasingly aware of the need to state the young generation. fascism. it's about violence. is about torturing people one nation trying to split from the. germans some kind of movement in germany and. a shocking indictment of russia's youth unaware of what people like arena force against less than seventy years ago she was their age

when the nazis invaded the soviet union she immediately enrolled in year force and was soon chief of staff for the women's division and no one needed to tell her what fascism meant. 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 i were 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 a video provoked public outrage but them for paris it's due to ignorance ignorance of what happened in the war and how it happened when they're taught nothing they understand nothing they have no idea what we went through what small 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 as 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 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 as 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 and the semitic literature is openly on sale here this book called the jewish

question was written by nazi race theories hands into the mind camp venders directed us to this man they say he was caught on camera last month agreeing and deal for it with undercover journalists our inquiries one successful the demand is still high. we get a lot of requests especially from young people they see all that's a great book that. despite efforts of panic stream is groups and literature a greater enemy may prove to be the ignorance of the younger generation and none of the students we asked even got near the number of deaths in world war two the bloodiest battle in history. and that's reeve cowden right our lads. i think five million but i can't say for sure but i think more than one the half million would. 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. in moscow. and the chickens and other world news in brief this hour to tell about militants have been killed in fierce fighting that's underway in kandahar in afghanistan a clash broke out after taliban gunmen attacked a regional governors compound six suicide attacks and twenty three people injured what grades and heavy machine guns are being used by both sides and u.s. helicopter gunships also said to be involved in the fighting it comes after the taliban filed revenge for. a passenger plane has crashed into the sea off eastern indonesia with no survivors among the twenty seven or so on board the chinese built a turbo prop plane was attempting to land in bad weather when it came down short of the runway and exploded into pieces indonesia is one of the worst air safety records with many airlines banned from flying outside the region. but two

thirds of british voters have rejected plans to change the way parliament selected an historic referendum junior party in the governing coalition hope to introduce alternative voting system which would help to win more seats but who does want to stick with the first part of the push system supported by the prime minister david cameron. rumors that greece was ready to ditch the euros or the currency drop by one percent against the dollar the german magazine said it was planning a pull out of the euro zone and restore the drachma as it struggles under the weight of its rescue that greek officials travel to deny the speculation which is also fuel when the finance ministers met in luxembourg. on the way soon this hour the soyuz rocket that's living up to its name and word is russian for unity that's what this spacecraft will take into the sky for a unique joint venture with europe but we'll give you a guided tour in just a few minutes from now. but first americans are among the world's most

citizens yet the right to bear weapons just isn't enough and some now there's a movement to a lot of people to carry their guns however they choose what is killing for reports on those wanted to push the second amendment to the next level. greg rutherford spent years carrying a gun in the balkans and in iraq as a defense contractor. so when he came home to virginia he didn't see a reason to put it down being a former pretty sure if i thought that it was necessary to. obtain a concealed handgun permit or create this it might just conceal his he wants security or out in the open to me it's the constitutional way to curious firearms. and i think. if you don't exercise your rights eventually you will lose them. his wife you drank leave the house without her magnum three fifty seven pistol is.

second to this special him back for packing heat increase sales of thinking. big. even during the war. you know. it's not. like you. when i came here and this. is like a wild west and like i was watching. walking with a gun on my hip there are two hundred fifty million guns in the hands of american civilians and rutherford as to me if he spent more than twenty five thousand dollars on here. i mean holy person surely you have. by seagram's or i could give everybody each one brings back memories. this was.

my grandfather shark i'm. i used to want to go there when i was little boy rutherford carries his gun everywhere he legally can and even encourages his daughters and nephew to as well and it isn't just rather for the virginia citizens to plan for two thousand five hundred members they organize events like this one at parts of restaurants and other public places where they openly carry loaded weapons in an effort to normalize their critics say. i believe that you should be able to. carry a firearm in any manner you choose on an airplane and in schools but you need to check in columbine those serious things that all our guns it's always a criminal that gets the guns and you can't have a gun in a gun free zone so guns in to be allowed on campuses the virginia citizens defense league is part of the greater open carry movement oh well organized network of gun owners in forty three states. makes it basically makes it easier to

spread the message open hers. first some in the open carry movement it's about more than security it's about forming a militia defending themselves from government tyranny and even organizing insurgency killing ford artsy carrollton virginia. barack obama has held the mission to kill osama bin laden as one of the greatest military operations in u.s. history but you and human rights investigators want washington to disclose whether there were any plans to capture bin laden political blogger. says america has politicized and putting him on trial. the reality is that american politics is just very ugly right now and things that normally wouldn't be politicized have been politicized something that's natural saying hey we have a person who's committed 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 in the past whenever a terrorist suspect like for instance the ones involved in the bombing in that

eleven whatever trials the debate over trials have come up become very ugly about whether we would have military tribunals or whether we would try them in the united states and u.s. soil and you have all these ridiculous arguments about how if we try them on our soil it's going to attract more terrorists attacks to us well having watched part of our open attracts us to terrorist attacks just by virtue of fighting the war on terror you know it's going to invite some criticism you're going to take the risk that people are going to want to hurt you because of it it makes absolutely no sense in this debate where the american justice system isn't tough enough to try you know international terrorists we've tried international terror or we're trying to now on u.s. soil so this argument that we can't handle it because of the what the perceiver questions might be is merely a political argument used to drive as a wedge issue. when americans can barely contain their delight at the news of bin laden's death when to join in this whole thing is also people in new york whether that's integrations with premature.

was the killing of osama bin ladden a major victory in the war on terror this week let's talk about that there is 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 positive bad if it's making a celebrated someone's that. 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 there'll be a fight 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 thing psychology like a. good man is dead. so why don't we need to put the man isn't there always kind of a need for that in society as donald trump i just hope it was sam's people are

saying some people are saying why not be i hope they do get a do you think that we that the president owes it to the world to approve it 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 they don't tell the general public because i think sometimes of 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. know you can't celebrate if it's someone died so what do you think of the people that are celebrating and waving the flag and cheering. and even though i mean i'm not sad. to hear that the killed but i'm not going to be celebrating i think it's some progress. it's retribution i think you did some bad things and you had to pay for

it to do you think it's going to make a difference in terms of terrorist actions from this point out. there might be some more retribution from. them is it worth it is it worth killing someone if it means my killing you have to take a stand i think. then was it worth it. in a way yes. in another sense. the fact. that they've got him. to kill you i don't know that's always a bad start for a new beginning whether or not you think the killing of osama bin ladin was a major victory in the war on terror but bottom line is at least now there is one last terrorist in the world's. a soyuz rocket is the next stage of preparations ahead of its launch from french

guiana and a unique joint russian european venture thursday's simulation went without a hitch crew is now focused on getting the payload of satellites into orbit for europe's own navigation system called galileo. reports now on the project. 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 will be fired off from an on russian space over the last eight years the european space agency say they spend more than half a billion dollars on building a launch and adopting the soyuz first serve american space center including. this was all done via engineers and designers we had to adapt to the climate here and to different safety standards that we've proven ourselves with this due to the modifications and crews will chose a location. the soyuz will be able to be great to load into space than ever before

lower prices than any competitor but the seas makers and russia also stand to benefit more than four decades after its first launch the soyuz should really be showing its age but it remains one of the world's most reliable rockets and in fact orders the best some are a plan going up from year to year twenty so use launches 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 of its record. it might look similar to the earlier models but inside is so use is being constantly upgraded as 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 the 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 to spaceport will handle four launches annually the russian side hopes the success of this project will encourage other space agencies tilt up the soyuz platform eager and r.t. . by the way you can keep across all stories and video reports around the clock and don't call not so website here's what you're clicking on to right now journey back through sixty years when the u.s.s.r. signed up to the olympics in just a minute later proved that soviet sportsmen and women knew how to go on for gold. two decades of death defying stunts one of russia's leading aerobatic team celebrates its twentieth birthday the sky's squad marked it with some magnificent maneuvers to while the crowds and we got highlights we online plus. many then i sure. was. some stateside

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