the pressure mounts on syria as washington threatens fresh sanctions if the violent crackdowns on antigovernment protesters don't stop. a victory day parade preview moscow as russia gears up to mark the defeat of the nazis with its annual shows strength. thousand three hundred. i think making that way. they get it out of the way. and american governors get fired up over openly carrying their weapons saying it's their last line of defense on home soil.

international news live from moscow this is our twenty four hours a day syrian troops backed by tanks are reportedly swept through the coastal town of killing six people it follows friday's nationwide demonstrations across the country in what protesters call a day of defiance u.s. is warning the regime that it if it will take new steps against it in response to the latest bloody crackdown point six three officials blame on the terrorist groups for the amassed war 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 more to come the e.u. has also agreed on an assets freeze and a travel ban for top syrian officials international relations expert professor mark

mellman the duke university in turkey says however that if the current regime is toppled anarchy may follow in the country. well the hope that president bashar al assad is some horrible genuine reformer and all his relatives are now higher. so they're trying to send the regime or her person to sad thinking like his english relatives and family they can somehow or other emerge from this as respectable leaders of the new syria i think the problem is are the bloodshed we've seen the creation tranter anger almost. stays in power and they're not going to be harmed the end if they were in opposition to any. along the other hand significant minorities in syria are out. there is it on our right group religious minority. or the christians in syria look across the border in iraq and say the christian community there has been almost wiped out since liberation since

if you like are we. really want to see that happen in syria so yes you can see the whole protest this office and that also are significant. change would be better to syria's much more sense to israel iraq next door to so turkey and you try to tell he doesn't want sick chaos in syria as a choice in syria not just between democracy and u.k. dishes also gets their attention or came around. professor mark mellman there and dr franklin lamb from the group americans concern for middle east peace told me earlier that we are 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 would want after risking their lives to

even accept their homes would want international support if they get proper support internationally including for russia that. 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 for freedom so i think the fact that there are these other revolts and revolutions going on is sweeping the region and i would argue that we're just at the beginning we are just at the beginning of a great islamic and arab awakening of two thousand and eleven that will be felt throughout the middle east and i think it's momentous but extremely a momentous. to libya now where the rebels say it is agreed to sell the weapons and

italian foreign ministry denies the claims but says it is providing equipment for self-defense supplying arms to libya is prohibited by the u.n. incog on saturday telegraph its forces reportedly bombed the field at rebel held city of misrata the city being under siege for weeks in the city some of the heaviest fighting the complete casualties are being reported they just opposition fighters but the nato led coalition to provide weapons saying they don't have enough to be. over two thousand coalition airstrikes are safe off failed to turn the civil war which began in. well all the way through this album eric and you say they did nothing to hide. i believe that you saw. be able to. carry a firearm in any manner you choose think the. it's the nation with the most gun owners and now they want the right to bring their firearms into the open. so

that still the country but first saturday sort 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 parade to mark the sixty sixth anniversary of victory over nazi germany was the surf earth reports now from the heart of the russian capital. twenty thousand three hundred units of military hardware making their way through the streets carrying out a full scale still. ahead of monday's victory day parade incredibly impressive like this is the final rehearsal ahead great but they have. a good part of the work incredibly strange actually around this time when you see the tanks driving down the street and i have a day of remembrance this year. anniversary of the russian victory a nazi germany veterans funding but it's still very important day for everyone and reminding everyone twenty five million it's

a good people died in that war. last week a bit of very very heavy. years it's been the right. across. the floor by along by my colleague alexis reports but what is. in ukraine. anyone today can enjoy a good walk in this forest near the central ukrainian town of. the true cruelty of the area a mosque in what lurked here seven decades ago these peaceful words were once the site of a top secret and highly guarded command center where well. it was a huge complex which had everything germany's cologne could need it was a. gym. and barracks some sources claim it went seven paws on the ground and got the ground there were several houses including.

three in. order the construction of this bunker to control the nazi war effort on the eastern front it is believed the nazi leader himself was here three times with u.s. personal swimming pool thought to be about the only thing to remain intact at the site the rest of the huge complex was destroyed in march nine hundred forty four. this was believed to be the main entrance to the bunker which was exploded by the retreating german forces when the soviet troops arrived they went inside the facility and realized it was rigged with explosives they took no chances and detonated the other two entrances burying the werewolf secrets forever to this day it is not known what remains underground as no one has ever managed to get inside the nazi era facility after the war many attempts have been made since then to gain

access but have failed the walls are massively thick and the site is still subject to top secret because if occasion the director of the local military museum believes the complex was deliberately preserved to prevent any intrusion it is natural as the bunker was built by soviet prisoners of war that's why its blueprints don't differ from that of still functioning bunkers across the former u.s.s.r. nobody will crack it open in the near future because it is still classified facility most of them it may only be a pile of rocks but now the local administration wants to turn the world with ruins into a memorial to be opened in june this year. and fourteen thousand soviet people that built and wired to the world will facility was slaughtered by the fascists that is why you want to put a fancy around it and make it a memorial to the victims of ashes and to preserve their mammary they said despite this being a seemingly patriotic idea ukraine's communist party is not too happy about it

staging tickets to protest against the universe what would you give anyone with of the authors of insanity and should be fun the criminal case launched in college from their building a monument to hitler the student greedy official not come for a meal fascist movement is inching struggling you may remember your only meal with others is that what they were will bunker has been a meeting place for right wing skinheads in the past as as well. the target of and the speculation some claim it is radioactive others say this cursed as all the complaints command from here notably the bottles of stalingrad and cursed lead to crucial nazi defeats but seventy years on this seemingly dull ruins of a top secret shelter remain a continued source of public curiosity and mystery alexy russia ski artsy reporting from vignettes out in ukraine. a lot he will have full coverage of

monday's victory day parade in red square in the next out we remember the struggles and sacrifices of those who lived through the twentieth century's most brutal conflict. and millions will look forward to be helped and say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of going to ration. your string of nine hundred forty five on r.g.p. . well tom have to check out some other world news in brief this hour at very nearly twelve minutes past the russian capital to tell about going to be 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 but really aides and heavy machine guns are being used by both sides and u.s. helicopter gunships are also said to be involved in the fight and it comes after the taliban filed revenge for. a passenger plane has crashed into the sea of eastern indonesia with no survivors among the twenty seven also on board a chinese built turbo prop plane was attempting to land in bad weather when it came down short of the runway and exploded into pieces and uneasy has one of asia's worst air safety records with many airlines banned from flying the region. over two thirds of british voters have rejected plans to change the way parliament is elected in historic referendum the junior partner in the governing coalition hope to introduce an alternative voting system which would have helped it win more seats for voters want to stick with the first past the post system was supported by the prime minister david cameron. and rumors that greece was ready to ditch the euro saw the currency drop by one percent against the dollar

a german magazine said greece was planning to pull out of the euro zone and restore the drachma let it struggles under the weight of its rescue debt confessional scramble to deny the speculation which was also fueled when finance ministers met in luxembourg. well on the way soon for you here r.t. the soyuz 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 europe give you a guided tour in just a few minutes from now. for that americans are among the world's most citizens yet the right to bear weapons just isn't enough for some now there's a movement toward our people to carry their guns however they choose what is killing for reports now and those wanting to push the second amendment to the next level. greg rutherford spent years carrying a gun in the balkans. in iraq as a defense contractor. but when it came home to virginia he didn't see

a reason to put it down being a former cop and surefire felt that it was necessary to. obtain a concealed handgun permit to protect myself but craig doesn't want to just conceal his gun he wants to curia out in the open to me it's the constitutional way to carry a firearm. and i think that. if you don't actually use your rights eventually you will loosen. his waist you drank won't leave the house without her magnum three fifty seven pistol is. sex into this special hand back for packing heat increase i was not thinking. big. even during the war. oh. well. while. i

was watching. and. walking with on my hip there are two hundred fifty million guns in the hands of american civilians and rutherford estimates he spent more than twenty five thousand dollars on here it's never complete i mean holy person surely you have. i mean. i wanted to get everybody each one brings back memory. this was. my grandfather saddam. we used to go hunting together when i was little. brother fred carries his gun everywhere he legally can and even encourages his daughters and nephew to as well and it isn't just another great virginia citizen stuck on through 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 normal around their critics. i believe that you should be able to. carry a firearm in any manner you choose on an airplane and in school tech and columbine are some serious things they don't allow guns it's always a criminal that gets the guns and you can't have a gun in a gun free zone so guns going 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 the bills. 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 an insurgency in ford artsy carrollton virginia. barack obama has hailed the mission to kill osama bin laden as one of the greatest military operations in u.s.

history un human rights investigators want washington to disclose whether there were any plans to capture bin laden but it's about danielle belton 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 some think it's national saying hey we have a person who's 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 in the past whenever a terror suspect like for instance the guns involved in the bombing and that eleven or whatever trials the debate over trials and 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 or if we try them on our soil it's going to attract more terrorists text so having guantanamo or attracts us to terrorists terms just by the by virtue of fighting with world terror you that'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 we're trying to now on u.s. soil so this argument that we can't handle it because of the what the perceived proper questions might be is merely a political argument used to drive as a wedge issue auntie's military contributors says the white house's handling of the ultimate bin laden's killing was fumbled and his nephew in 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 the way it managed their media coverage of the u.s. special operation the us administration has committed one cardinal sin somehow the white house decided 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 all of these magnets and you'd better withhold the information as long as possible that's why there are political need jerk reaction from their white house not only robbed of the deserved 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 when americans can barely contain at the mike that needs them and not his death and when journalist lori haas

honest and muslim people in new york whether the senate regimes were premature. was the killing of osama bin ladden a major victory in the war on terror this week let's talk about that really think it was a victory i don't know if i'm 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 that positive bad if it's making a celebrated someones that well positive just from the perspective that it's one less horrible person out there in the world the one most terrorist in the world that we have to worry about i do they will be effect on their side and for us we just have 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 about it like a. good man is dead. so why don't we need the man isn't there always kind of

a need for that in society was donald trump i just spoke with seems people are saying some people are saying might not be i hope. do you think that we 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. tell the general public because i think some consequence 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. say 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. even though i mean i'm a i'm not sad. to be killed you know but i'm going to be celebrating i think it's

symbolic i think it's progress. it's retribution i. think you have to pay for it to do you think that it's going to make a difference in terms of terrorist actions from this point out. there might be some more rich groups in from. that is it worth it is it worth killing someone if it means more killing you have to. retaliate in the event so then was it worth it. anyway yes for. another. negative as well it's a fact. that they've got him but if it was a mistake 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 rockets entering the final stages of preparations to launch into orbit is due to blast off from french guiana in august on a joint russian european project the rockets being modified to carry a payload of satellites into orbit for europe's navigation system galileo on saturday the heads of the russian and european space agency's message couldn't cosmodrome attending the ceremony to mark the official commissioning of the launch pad as the symbolic. value of thursday a simulated launch of the space craft went without a hitch eagle has more about this mission's 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'll be fired off from a non russian space board over the last eight years the european space agency

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 where engineers and designers had to adapt to the climate here and to different safety standards and we have proven ourselves with this beautiful modifications and cruise well chosen location the soyuz will be able to do a great unload into space than ever before but lower prices than any competitor of the seas makers and russia also has done to 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 at best some are planned by 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 from its popular just because of the threat for. it might look similar to the earlier models but inside the so use is

being constantly upgraded as a reason we still use the basic model i believe it's the perfect market 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 so this is a project that makes solid financial sense to us it isn't just a political gesture yet and we're hoping it's just a springboard. defer so use will be lord from group in the second half of the year and eventually to space what will handle for launches annually the russian side hopes the success of this project will encourage other space agencies to adopt the saudis platform either on their party. by the way our kid across all our stories and video reports around the clock at r.t. don't call him that's our web site here's what many of you are clicking onto right now journey back three sixty years on the u.s.s.r.

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