the pressure mounts in syria as washington threatens fresh sanctions if the violent crackdowns on government protesters don't stop. it's a victory day parade preview in moscow as russia gears up for not the defeat of a lot since with its annual show strength. thousands of three hundred units of military hardware have been making their way through the heart of lot a very big just a few of the gulf. and american gun owners get fought off over openly carrying their weapon saying it's their most line of defense on home soil.

international news live from moscow this is our team with you twenty four hours a day syrian troops backed by tanks have reportedly swept through the coastal town of bani s. killing six people it follows friday's nationwide demonstrations across the country in what the protesters called a day of the finance and u.s. is warning the regime that it will take new steps against it in response to the latest bloody crackdown by security concerns syrian officials blame on 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 with u.s. sanctions already in place and the threat of moving can also agreed on an assets freeze and a travel ban for top syrian officials international relations expert professor mark

ullman says that if the current regime is toppled it might lead to anarchy in the country. well the very hope that president bashar al assad is some horrible genuine reformer and all his relatives are rather high or. so they're trying to send to split the regime or her present a sad and if you like his english relatives and family they can somehow or other emerge from this as respectable leaders when you surrender i think the problem is are the bloodshed we've seen the ignition tranter anger on the side of the illusions the facade stays in power and the time to end if they when clearly opposition was clearly wrong along the other hand significant minorities in syria out. there is it on our right a religious minority. or the christians in syria. or iraq and say the christian community there's been almost wiped out since liberation in. iraq so do they really

want to see that happen in syria so yes you can see there's a lot of protest this office content but also there are significant group who say change could be worse not better also syria is much more sense to israel iraq next door a little so turkey a nato ally to the strategy doesn't want to see chaos in syria as a choice in syria not just between democracy and you try to shift us a bit instead of contagion and it came around. and dr franklin lamb from the group americans concern for middle east peace says we're witnessing great changes sweeping throughout the arab world and there's more to come. the problem with syria is as you know the curtain has come down foreign journalists have been expelled there's only two or three there so accurate reliable information has been a problem but certainly the protesters were the ones after risking their lives to

even accept their homes would want international support and if they get proper support internationally including from russia. you know they they will survive and if people see hope and if they overcome their fear as we've seen in country after country 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 for freedom so i think the fact that there are these other revolves these revolutions going on in is sweeping the region and i would argue that we're just past 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 i think it's momentous extremely a momentous. to libya now where the rebels say italy's agreed to give them weapons

italian foreign ministry denies the claims but says it is providing equipment for self defense so trying on to libya is prohibited by a u.n. in baghdad on saturday colonel gadhafi forces reportedly bombed the fuel depot in the rebel held city of misrata the city been under siege for weeks and seen some of the heaviest fighting of the conflict no casualties are being reported in sunday's attack position fighters want the nato led coalition to provide weapons saying they don't have enough to beat and the two thousand coalition air strikes have so far failed to turn the civil war which began in february one geopolitical analyst told me that the forum 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 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 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 depended on the united states the e.u. and nato as the arbitrators of libya will decide the fate of the libyan people. well still to come this hour for you the americans who say they've nothing to hide . i believe that you should be able to. carry

a firearm in any manner you choose. and it's the nation with the most gun owners and they want the right to bring their forearms into the open. that story still to come before saturday's four troops in the streets of moscow along with tanks and helicopters it's all in the name of remembrance ahead of monday's victory day for a to mark the sixty sixth anniversary of victory over nazi germany sarah first reports now from the heart of the russian capital. twenty thousand three hundred military hardware making their way through the streets of moscow carrying out a full scale rehearsed still. ahead of monday's victory day parade incredibly impressive this is the final rehearsal ahead. all right but they have number of other parts to it incredibly strange that the around this time when you

see the driving down the street going on. this year the. anniversary of the russian victory a nazi germany others take the veterans and. as usual and a very important day for everyone and reminding everyone twenty five million people died in that war. last week a bit of a very very heavy price. in the right. across. the. board alongside. my colleague i've been finding out how russia is becoming increasingly aware of the need to set the facts straight for the young generation. fascism. it's about violence. is about torturing people one nation trying to. jam or some kind of movement in germany.

a shocking indictment of russia's youth unaware of what people like you force against less than seventy years ago she was their age when the nazis invaded the soviet union she immediately enrolled in your force and was soon chief of staff for the women's division 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 there were people were being killed our houses were being for. 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 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're going through what's more the nazi ideology twenty five million soviets the eye 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 it garners 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 of unjust teenagers and 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. and

nationalist and anti semitic literature is openly on sale here and this book called the jewish question was written by nazi race theorists hands into the mind count venders directed us to this man they say he was caught on camera last month agreeing a 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. despite efforts to ban extremist groups and literature a greater 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 and about three thousand right oh that's. it i think three billion but i can't say for sure but i think more than one hundred

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 either bennett's r.t. in moscow. time now to check out some other world news in brief this hour for you twelve of the capital to tell about militants have been killed in fierce fighting that's underway in kandahar in afghanistan the clash broke out of the taliban gunmen attacked a regional governors compound six suicide attacks have left twenty three people injured rocket braids and heavy machine guns are being used by both sides and u.s. helicopter gunships are also said to be involved in the fighting it comes after the taliban revenge for as on the bin laden's death. a passenger plane has crashed into the sea off eastern indonesia with no survivors among the twenty seven also on board the chinese built turbo prop plane was

attempted to land in bad weather when it came down short of the runway and exploded into pieces in an easy one of asia's worst air safety record without any airline flight elts solly the region. over two thirds of british voters have rejected plans to change the way parliament selected and historic referendum the junior party and the governing coalition to introduce an alternative voting system which would have helped to win more seats the voters want to stick with the first past the post system and supported by the prime minister david cameron. rumors that the greece was ready to ditch the euro saw the currency drop by one percent against the dollar john magazine said greece was planning to pull out of the euro zone and restore the drachma as it struggles under the weight of its rescue debt ridden fishel scramble to deny the speculation which is also filled with eve finance ministers met in luxembourg. well on the way scene for you saw use rocket that's living up to its name. the word is russian for

unity and that's what this spacecraft will take into the sky for a unique joint venture with you give you a guided saw just a few minutes from now. the first americans of all the world's most armed citizens yet the right to bear weapons just isn't enough for some others a movement to allow people to carry their guns however they choose ortiz can forward reports on those wanted to push the second amendment to the next level. greg rutherford spent years carrying a gun in the bargain. 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 had a cop it was necessary to. obtain a concealed handgun permit to protect myself but craig does it might just conceal his gun he wants to carry it out in the open to me it's the constitutional way to

curious firearm. and i think that. if you don't exercise your rights. you will lose them. his way if you drank not leave the house without her magnum three fifty seven pistol and throw the fact into this special him back for packing heat increase sales are thinking. big. now even during the war in. well you can hear and i think. it's like. the wild west like i was watching t.v. . and i'm walking with a gun pointed here. there are two hundred fifty million guns in the hands of american civilians and rather proud as to me he spent more than twenty five

thousand dollars on here. i mean how many pairs of shoes do you have. i mean. by sleep guns or i could get a read each one brings back memory. this was. my grandfather saddam. we used to go hunting together when i was in the. rutherford carries his gun everywhere he legally can and even encourages his daughters and nephew to as well and it wasn't just rutherford virginia citizens stuck on three pounds two thousand five hundred members they organize events like this one at parts 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 school virginia tech and columbine there's some serious things and they don't allow guns it's always of

criminals that get the guns and you can't have a gun in a gun free zone so guns need to be allowed on campuses every genius citizens defense league is part of the greater open carry movement a well organized network of gun owners in forty three states three bills camaraderie between everyone it makes you know it makes it basically makes it easier to screw up but the message that prepares. first send 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 an insurgency in ford artsy carrollton virginia. barack obama has held a mission to kill osama bin ladin as one of the greatest military operations in u.s. history but u.n. human rights investigations want washington to disclose whether there were any plans to capture bin laden because he. built and says america has politicized his death by 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 terror suspect like for instance the ones involved in the bombing of nine eleven whenever trials the debate over trials and come up with some 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 over trying them on our soil it's going to attract more terrorists attacks to us what happened a long time ago open attracts us to terrorist attacks that this is by the 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 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 or we're trying to now on u.s. soil so this argument that we can't handle it because of the what the perceived

repetitions might be is merely a political argument used to drive as a wedge issue. noughties military contributor says the white house's handling of the ultimate bin laden's killing was pummeled and is now fueling conspiracy theories 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 us administration itself their way it managed their media coverage of the u.s. special operation the u.s. administration has committed one cardinal sin somehow their 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 that credibility gap of the u.s. administration in general and white house severely and weller's 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'd better get hold of information as long as possible that's why the political knee jerk reaction from their white house not only robbed of the deserves praise but also of the 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. many americans could barely contain that delight at the news of bin laden's death which out of this nor how often it's has people in new york whether the celebrations were 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 a necessarily 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 statements that well positive just from the perspective that it's a one was a horrible person out there in the world the one most 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 a lot better why do we need to feel better about it what do you think that does for us closure. closure the whole psychology thing psychology about it like a. man is dead. so why don't we need a bogeyman isn't there always kind of a need for that in society as the old trump i just hope it will seems people saying some people are saying might not be i hope. do you think that we 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 because 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 hard to. but you can't celebrate the deaths that someone died you know so what do you think of the people that are celebrating and waving the flag and cheering him do that you know even though i mean i'm not sad. to say that they're to be killed you know but i'm not going to be celebrating i think it's symbolic i think it's progress. it's retribution i think. if you had to pay for it do you think that it's going to make a difference in terms of terrorist actions from the spy now. there might be some

more retribution for. the men is it worth it is it worth killing someone if it means more can you have to. retaliate. if so then was it worth it. in a way yes for. another it's going to. the fact. that they've got him. to kill him i don't know that's always a bad 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 less terrorist in the world's. turning to south america now where russian soyuz rocket center in the final stages preparations to launch into orbit as you know blast off from french august on a russian european project the rockets being modified to carry

a payload of satellites for europe's navigation system galileo also today the heads of the russian and european space agency's met at the crew cosmodrome attended a ceremony to mark the official commissioning of the launch pad a symbolic key to for the rocket was unveiled on thursday a simulated launch of the space craft went without a hitch. about this ambitious venture. 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 a non russian space board over the last eight years the european space agency e.s.a. has spent more than half a billion dollars on building a launch pad and adopting the soyuz for a surf american space center in the us this was all done via engineers and designers we had to adapt to the climate here and to the different safety standards

but we have proven ourselves with this dude in modifications and crews well chosen location the soyuz will be able to do a greater road into space than ever before i blow the prices than any competitor of the seas makers in russia also has done to benefit more than four decades after its launch the soyuz should really be showing its age one of the world's most reliable rockets and in fact orders of. 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 setting and it might look similar to the earlier models but inside the so use is being constantly upgraded as is the reason we still use a 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 use will be launched from a group in the second half of the year and eventually the spaceport will handle four launches annually the russian side hopes the success of this project will encourage other space agencies to adopt the soyuz platform either and see. whether we can keep cross all our stories and hear reports around the clock at r.t. dot com here's what many of you are clicking on to right now journey back through sixty years when the u.s.s.r. signed up to the olympics in just a year later proves that soviet sportsmen and women knew how to run for gold. two decades of death defying stunts one of russia's leading aerobatic team celebrates its twenty of perth take the sky squad not to put some magnificent maneuvers to the

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