in turn by the. sun your beach hotel the western resort to subdue club med if you tell some in. the ritz carlton hotel grounds many articles of a few seasons hotel the sultan which took. the pressure mounts on syria as washington threatens fresh sanctions if the crackdown on anti-government protesters don't stop. a victory day parade preview in moscow as russia gears up to mark the defeat of the nazis with its annual show of strength . thousand three hundred. at making that the hot day. and american gun owners get openly carrying their weapon saying it's their last line of defense on home soil.

international news live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day syrian troops backed by tanks have reportedly swept through the coastal town of bani killing six people it follows friday's nationwide demonstrations across the country in what protesters called a day of defiance and u.s. is warning the regime that it will take new steps against its own response to the nature bloody crackdown by security forces syrian officials blamed on terrorist groups last 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 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

marc bolan of the bill kent university in turkey says however that if the current regime is toppled anarchy may follow in the country. well i hope that president bashar al assad is some horrible genuine reformer and all his relatives are now there are. in a sense to split the regime trying to present a sad and his english relatives and family they can somehow or other emerge from this as respectable leaders looser if the problem is out of the bloodshed we've seen to be a router and are almost if assad stays in are. currently and if they win the opposition was clearly wrong along the other hand significant minority was in syria aren't. assad regime there is a lone alawite. minority who are the christians in syria. iraq and christian community there's been almost right since liberation since if.

they really want to happen in syria so yes you can see there's a lot. of interest but also. a change the world a better syria is much more sensitive israel iraq next door to turkey a nato ally to the whole strategy doesn't want to see chaos in syria as a choice in syria not just between democracy and also be instituted. 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 we can 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 from russia that. they will survive and if people see hope and 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 their snipers this is a tremendous testimony for freedom so i think the fact that there are these other revolts these 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 big great islamic and arab awakening from 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 it is agreed to sell the weapons

italian foreign ministry tonight the claims but says it is providing equipment for self-defense so calling arms to libya is prohibited by a u.n. umbrella that on saturday colonel gadhafi forces reportedly bombed the fuel the rebel held city of misrata the city being under siege for weeks and see some of the heaviest fighting the conflict no casualties have been reported in the makes its. decision points is what they say they have additions to provide weapons saying they don't have enough. of a two thousand coalition air strikes have so far failed to turn the civil war which began in february. well still to come for you this. under americans who say they've nothing to wholly. i believe that you should be able to. carry a firearm in any manner you choose who is the nation with the most gun owners and now they want the right to bring their forearms into the open. that's still the country but first saturday it's all troops in the streets of moscow and

on with tanks and helicopters it's all in the name of remembrance ahead of monday's big tour victory day parade to mark the sixty sixth anniversary of victory over nazi germany furthur ports now from the heart of the russian capital. twenty thousand three hundred units of military hardware making their way. carrying out the full still read of monday's victory day right wing credibly impressive like this is the final rehearsal. break but they have a number of others in the past few weeks it's always incredibly strange that the around this time when you see the times driving down the street a lot. this year. anniversary of the russian victory not just a day other things but. it's still

a very important day for everyone reminding about twenty five million people and that war. last week came in very very heavy price recent years has been the right. of course. to glorify alongside. my colleague i've been finding out how russia is becoming increasingly aware of the need. for the young generation. fascism. violence. for torturing people one nation trying to. germans some kind of movement in germany. a shocking indictment of russia's. unaware of what people like a rino 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 they fought for the communist regime but because there were people were being killed our houses were being burned. down i were women and girls were being raped i went to war because the terror that the nazi army brought to our land was monstrous rules for those who fought these memories will never die but this video shows they're all but lost on today's teenagers are these girls making fun of a veteran while he tells of the horrors of war a video provoked public outrage that the british live aid is due to ignorance ignorance of what happens in the war and how it happened when they're taught nothing they understand nothings they have no idea what we're going 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 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 theorists hands into the mine count venders

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 work. 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. three found then right the last. thing i think a million but i can't say for sure but i think more than one hundred million worth of. 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 by the way artie will have full coverage of monday's victory day parade in red square a bit later this hour we remember the struggles and sacrifices of those who lived through the twentieth century's most brutal conflict. guy to. look forward to be held to and see. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of liberation. your spring of ninety forty five on our. americans are among the world's most citizens yet the right to bear weapons just isn't enough the sun now there's a movement to allow people to carry their guns however they choose well he's comin

for reports on those wanting to push the second amendment to the next level thanks rutherford spent years carrying a gun in the politics and in iraq as a defense contractor thanks to when he came home to virginia he didn't see a reason to put it down being a former deputy sheriff i thought 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 carry it out in the open to me it's the constitutional way to carry a firearm. and i think. if you don't exercise your rights eventually you will lose them. his wife get drunk leave the house without her magnum three fifty seven pistol is. checked into this special him back for packing heat increase i was thinking. big.

even during the war you know. it is not. like you. but i came here and i think you can follow. a wild west like i was watching t.v. . walking with a gun on my hip there are two hundred fifty million guns in the hands of american civilians and rather proud as the meat's has spent more than twenty five thousand dollars on here. i mean how many purchasers do you have. there by saddam's or i could get a read each one brings back memory. this was. my grandfather shotgun. i used to go hunting together when i was in the blue

rutherford carries his gun everywhere he legally can and even encourages his daughters and nephew as well and it doesn't just rather great virginia citizens took on three counts 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 out there critics say. 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 there's some serious things they don't allow guns it's always a criminal to get the guns and you can't have a gun in a gun free zone so guns in to be allowed in 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. makes makes it basically makes it easier to spread the message over jurors. 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. still to come this hour for you the soyuz rockets that's living up to its name the word is russian for unity and that's what this spacecraft will take in the sky for a unique joint venture that is give you a guided tour of this in a few minutes from now. the first barack obama has held the mission to kill osama bin laden is one of the greatest military operations in u.s. history but u.n. human rights investigators want washington to disclose whether there were any plans to capture bin laden but it's no good 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 something as natural as 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 guns involved in the bombing about eleven or whatever trials the debate over trials will come up could 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 its lap and wants her to open the tracks us to tears just 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 might be is merely a political argument used to drive this issue analyses military contributors says

the white house is handling of the often the bin laden's killing was humbled and there's no feuding 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 u.s. 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 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 severely and dwellers in particular barack obama should have thought not as the u.s. president as the u.s. commander in chief when it comes to special operations all of this magnitude you'd

better withhold the information as long as possible that's why there are political knee 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 pakistan afghanistan and other countries many americans can barely contain that and i think the news on in not death with journalists nor help and it's also people in new york went to the senate branch and 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 someones that well positive just from the perspective that it's one was a horrible person out there in the world one less terrorist in the world that we have to worry about i think it will be a fact 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 complete closure the whole psychology there are psychology about it like it feels 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 was told from i just hope it was sam's people are saying some people are saying why not me i hope they do get a 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. 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 anime's of the u.s. but it's hard to say what you can celebrate. someone died in those so what do you think of the people that are celebrating and waving the flag and cheering. and even though i mean i'm i'm not sad. to hear that the that they killed you know but i'm not going to be celebrating i think it's some good progress. it's retribution i think he did some bad things and you have to pay for city you think that it's going to make a difference in terms of terrorist actions from this point out. there might be some more retribution from them. then is it worth it is it worth killing someone if it means my killing you have to. retaliate.

so then was it worth it. in a way yes. in another sense. as well as the fact. that they've got him but if you 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 ladin 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. time now to check out some other world news in brief this hour it's very nearly twenty two minutes past the hour the russian capital taliban militants have been killed in fierce fighting that's underway in kandahar in afghanistan the clash broke out after taliban gunmen attacked a regional governor's compound the suicide attacks twenty three people in a rocket grenade and heavy machine guns are being used by both sides and u.s.

helicopter gunships are also said to be involved in the fighting comes out of the town of revenge for. 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 attempting to land in bad weather and we came down short of the runway and exploded into pieces and then he has one of asia's worst player safety record with many airlines. side the region. over two thirds of british voters have rejected plans to change the way parliament is an active and historic referendum a junior party in the governing coalition hope to introduce a new terms of voting system which would have helped to win more seats but just want to stick with the first past the post system supported by the prime minister david cameron. groomers that greece was ready to the euro saw the currency drop by one percent against the dollar the german magazine said

greece was planning a pull out of the euro zone and restore the drachma as it struggles under the weight of its rescue their professional scramble to deny the stricken nation which was also fueled when e.u. finance ministers met in luxembourg. turning to south america where a russian soyuz rockets entering the final stages of preparations to launch into orbit it's due to blast off from french 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 of european space agency's medical crew cosmodrome intended a ceremony to mark the official commissioning of the launch pad as the symbolic key to fire up the rock it was unveiled on thursday a simulated launch of the spacecraft went without a hitch. has more about this ambitious venture. with more than one and

a half thousand launches far more than any other the soyuz has the world's worst successful rocket and now for the first time it'll be fired off from a non russian space for over the last eight years the european space agency e.s.a. has spent more than half a billion dollars on building a launch and adopting the sawyers for south american space center in cool. this was all the environ journey isn't designers we had to adapt to the climate here and the different safety standards and we have proven ourselves with this new did a modification and cruise well chosen location the soyuz will be able to take greater loads into space than ever before but blow the prices of any competitor to the seas makers in russia all says that the benefit more than four decades after its first launch the soyuz should really be showing its age but a train is one of the world's most reliable rockets and in fact orders the best some are planned i'm hearing from here a 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 from eight popular just because of its record million members it might look similar to the earlier models put inside the 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 because structures 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 if 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 it's 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 to adopt the saudis platform either an artsy. by the way keep across all our

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