friends will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of moderation. spring of nineteen forty five on our cheek. the week's top stories on art see al qaeda leader osama bin ladin was killed in a covert u.s. operation after a decade long manhunt but the terror threats around the globe lives on as we look. at the u.s. and the e.u. probably small sanctions against the syrian government for its crackdown on protesters military intervention in the country hopes of ever increasing possibility. and final polish military pageantry schools of russian troops march through central moscow in preparation for a major display of the upcoming victory day.

welcome this is artsy is one pm sunday afternoon here in moscow my name is kevin owen with a round up of the week's top stories for you and first the story that dominated the news the world's most notorious terrorist killed for almost ten years in hiding a suburb in large was shot during a covert u.s. navy seal operation they found nine eleven mastermind living in a multimillion dollar mansion about fifty kilometers from pakistan's capital but his arteries in this and no reports of deaths are likely to make the world a safer place. a man wanted dead or alive for a decade is gone the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden for some it was a moment of victory here's some of cheering for others a moment of embarrassment president obama is in fact there was a u.s.

. but there's one thing out of this a should not be overlooked osama bin laden may be dead but the threat of terror is very much alive frankly doesn't make much of a difference that rodden is dead people here were convinced a long run at least for the last two years has been very convinced that the. figures or people in this region who by the way cannot number more than one hundred are incapable of carrying out any major attacks it's been years since bin laden has claimed responsibility for an attack instead it's russia now kind of linked terrorists that have made the most recent remarks moscow's metro blast an airport bombing two of the latest global attacks were masterminded by domestic chechen terribly or joke more of them for years has been trying to usurp and montreuil as the face of international terrorism the al qaeda leaders demise is expected to remain a significant symbol or having little or no effect in the fight against terrorism

it could create waves elsewhere in two thousand and one right. choice bush's approval rating was around fifty percent within twenty four hours and shot up to eighty percent so watch for obama to get a bump from. a new poll shows obama is up more than ten percent since bin laden was killed and now of course an opening has been made for the new face of evil. first it was a sudden you know and it was a it was the russian federation and he was on the bin large was the dark hussein and the news of course we have the parallels have been made this week great how the u.s. armed groups that later evolved loctite and the taliban what they're doing now in libya the new public enemy number one is just beginning his journey this type work that he's in now way artsy fartsy. washington's released home videos of bin laden

sees that the compound where he was found in the city of about about him one clip shows bin laden apparently watching himself on a television news channel and others he's rehearsing a message to the u.s. i have a security officials remove the sound of that saying it could pose a security threat the kinds are going off of the tapes as proof that al qaeda leader was killed but washington says it won't release images of his dead body barak obama backtracked on cia promises to show the photos saying they could incite further violence as maria port i reports now the whole operation has been riddled with contradictions. that began with an international news bombshell proudly dropped by the united states there was a female who was in fact in the line of fire. reportedly was used as a shield to shield. her from the incoming fire fights who's getting these under the major back in the room with bin laden

a woman in line is one of the women rather bin laden's wife rushed the u.s. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed america grabbed the world's attention after announcing the assassination of osama bin ladin yet failing to get the facts straight the u.s. has also facilitated a rapid rise of conspiracy theories what they did is they told the bunch of different stories they took some stuff. and they've just fair the conspiracy machine for. they were all on a far out blaze that inflamed after failing to deliver on promises of providing the public with proof we're going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has any basis to try to deny that we go with somebody but i don't think there was any question but ultimately a photograph for a would be presented to the public we have no need to publish those photographs to establish that some of bin laden was killed u.s.

president barack obama refused to release any visual evidence confirming bin laden's death for fear it would be used to spark anti-american violence critics say this leaves the public with more questions than answers and when they say we don't want to show the photos because we don't inflame people well fine how about bringing in certain members of the press along with a panel of unrelated forensic identification experts who can come out and say we've studied this the world was able to study the execution of america's other enemy in two thousand and six when the hanging of saddam hussein went viral on the web shortly afterwards meanwhile bin laden's expedited sea burial has been the target of conspiracy and acts u.s. officials say was done in peeping with muslim tradition returning to. here is the requirement in islamic law of the individual within twenty four hours as many have noted washington broke its own rule when the bodies of saddam hussein's sons were

in and held for eleven days after being killed by u.s. forces there are so many in consistencies in all of this that it's incumbent upon the obama administration to be as forthcoming as they can be about exactly what they do and do not know and did and did not know or in this case know what to say before you speak and not just one week ago it was brock obama at the center of a two year conspiracy that die down once america's leader released his parts. now obama's actions surrounding the killing of osama bin ladin have paved the way for a whole new set of myths and questions surrounding the transparency of the u.s. government. r.t. new york. threaten to avenge the death of its leader and is now in the process of choosing a successor and reporter trick hayes told us the bin ladin's killing hasn't lifted the threat of terrorism because it was largely a symbol of western security i think in many ways the interesting thing about some

of bin laden is he is actually more a creation of the west than he is a real political or kind of terrorist threats in himself in many ways he kind of feeds a vampire like all three insecurities of the west i think in many ways as the most significant aspects of what we've seen over the last couple of days which is this massively disproportionate reaction to the killing of bin laden as if it's like some historic turning point for humanity you see world leaders coming else barack obama of course people also like ban ki moon and silvio berlusconi all saying this is this great split for historical events and i think there's a really telling disconnect between the reality of the situation which is effectively you have this aging sickly old man who really hasn't done anything of political significance for a long time and the great kind of triumph against evil that the western leaders are

really kind of starting to trumpet at the moment. it was success against al qaeda in russia's north caucuses to the top operatives from the terror group was killed in a security raid in the southern republican chechnya a turkish border militant known as a bull occurred believed to have been a key financier and organizer for terrorist cells in the region it's also said for played a leading role in major terrorist attacks as well as assaults on police in russia he recently replaced a previous top al-qaeda agent of the area who'd also been killed by security forces authorities say those two deaths of broken because his main link with the international terrorist organization. head of the program in just a few minutes the day the nazis fell rehearsals artie's paid all of us on red square for. sixty six years on russia's getting ready to celebrate victory in europe and world war two we'll have more on not later in the program. and also find out how to russian billionaires to become the u.k.'s second didn't. think of.

as well as being a driving force in the libyan campaign france is also locked into a number of other conflicts since troops are in former colony ivory coast and paris is now showing a strong interest in syria to push a looks at who could be next in line. saw limbs cousin was shot by troops during syria's protests his parents there now live in hiding but he fears france will make things even worse by pullman his country on the pretext of stopping the violence i don't wish to have jets. are not an air force and syria but i. you know it's the same chain of events that brought a war with libya and now on falding it's home first syrian leader bashar al assad was invited for talks in paris as was colonel gadhafi but at the same time france

reportedly was funding opposition groups in both states and their nicolas sarkozy's government is slipping damascus with sanctions the precursor to the invasion of libya humanitarian aide says one author will again be their excuse to go in to not think of their own government in the media is not easily they'll be in. syria was once under french occupation a term let's say france behaves as if it's still in control france they've had their spies there for decades now and the religious movements have had their people there for decades so they're going to do whatever they can to use their influence to change the regime in a way that they see fit intervention would leave france fighting in four walls that hasn't happened since it was a colonial power the french defense ministry hasn't been this busy in over fifty years already fighting in afghanistan and libya and the ivory coast is now turning

its sights on another former colony syria but expose think the real target is serious key ally iran france is growing increasingly angry at tehran's nuclear ambitions and this part of international moves to stop that program damascus would become us. bring board for the song because the administration as it pushes east if you mention syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar developments in iran unfortunately that is iran will repeat the syrian scenario russia which is western military interventions with rising along it was the fueling boylan's across the middle east. deliberately a school is in a conflict is an invitation to a series of civil wars outside forces should not interfere give advice or take sides in internal conflicts but russia's foreign minister adds there could be

a sting in the tail he says only she calles in the region hopes the very extremist the west wants to stop gaining power. r.t. paris. at least six people have been killed in the latest crackdown by syrian troops on anti-government demonstrators officials blame armed terrorist groups for the rest or protesters say they want an end to decades of repression and corruption that's now thought more than five hundred eighty people killed since the uprising began seven. fallen introduction of u.s. sanctions the e.u. also agreed on assets freeze and a travel ban for top syrian officials walk or a solemn ceremony as western countries have all teary eyed motives behind that. there's great excitement in washington. overthrowing the syrian government that's been on the front burner in washington because it's the bush straight should but i guess it would deliver a massive blow to iran. if. syria were allowed to the

government fell the israel these would like it because of any syrian military capability and would assure that nobody's going to raise the issue of the golan heights which israel still illegally occupied so. there is the great when governments. in europe germany particularly so sir cause even france is under . challenge from the further right wing have become very militant very militarized in their policy and it's very hard to learn how to go after arabs and what we're seeing is a sort of a counter revolution where the european powers maybe the united states have seized on the arab revolution to try and bend it to their lil and they're using a humanitarian intervention as a new reason for sending troops in humanitarian intervention usually lies to places resources or strategic geography. on thursday the international contact group on

libya agreed to give the rebels more money with a temporary funding place within weeks washington is trying to release more than thirty billion dollars of gadhafi has frozen assets to give to the opposition but charles glass an expert on the arab world told us that plan will do more harm than good we're going to get money to the libyan people and there's a civil war going on in libya and it may not be fair to distribute money to one side or the other in the civil war it will certainly escalate the conflict as we remember from the united states on the saudi arabians financing the mujahideen in afghanistan against us it simply raised the stakes and numbers account number of military forces a very blunt instrument you can't guarantee what will happen but you can probably based on the history of every war you can go to see guarantee that a lot more people who've been killed as weapons are improved they think give it to the transitional national council in libya who are fighting the war against it are surely the international arms merchants and we're on the black market in by we're

just as good as well who can replenish isn't stock some would be a great gold mine for the arms and probably not very good for the. in the chain of uprisings in the arab world the internet was credited with playing a major part of the protests were coordinated on websites like facebook and twitter but there's been a much more sinister side to those social networks to according to the wiki leaks founder julian assange spoke exclusively to wired t about that. facebook in particular. is the most appalling spying machine ever been into facebook google yahoo all these made us wonder. how. many things for you to think i was once everyone should understand but. really how different is the facebook they are doing free work for the united states intelligence agencies. buildings guards.

i just let you know if you don't call it already is really interesting chart we've got the full interview coming up in just over an hour's time self-esteem in our web site r t v dot com. click today if you're not checked for that already one of take a look at the stories as well knocking the poor verbal abuse and threats used to collect that seventy u.s. where thousands are still gripped by economic depression it's a story we brought you if you're not up to date with what you like find more it's online also. russia's aerobatic team celebrates two decades in the skies watching perform this spectacular spins and tricks to see the. next the russian court handed a life sentence this week to a nationalist convicted of killing a human rights lawyer and a journalist in central moscow two years ago a jury found intolerance and hatred of the main voted for the murder of

a boy it's almost like not kill you off and the presented victims of fascist violence says killers nikita taken off and in kenya is linked to an outlawed alter nationalist group while taking off received a life sentence cassis was handed an eighteen year markoff was gunned down in broad daylight in central moscow together with a journalist and i still see a border and double killing sparked the public outcry. russia is reading itself a big three day celebration etched firmly into the national consciousness it's now sixty six years since soviet soldiers defeated the nazis in what's known here in russia as the great war. of the wraps up of excitement on the eve of the big event . it's a hugely important day with the exception of new year's eve it's the biggest celebration in the russian calendar now just behind me you can see same puzzles

cathedral just behind that of course red square now that's closed off at the moment i have however been sneaking a little peek at what's going on through there soldiers from all strata of the russian armed forces looking resplendent in their dress uniforms going through their paces ahead of what should be a fantastic parade as usual on monday now monday they celebrate the the ninth of may a victory day victory over over nazi germany victory in here in world war two. now this is as a huge day a huge day of celebration in russia a day where it's also a day of remembrance as well remember those who laid down their lives so that we can enjoy the freedoms that we do today now all those preparations going ahead right now to make sure that on monday we see a fantastic display of pomp and circumstance well the reason it is celebrated in the ninth on the ninth of may in russia is an be eighth of may in western europe and in america is due to the fact that the surrender of nazi germany was signed at

a time on the eighth of may in germany which meant that it was actually the ninth here in russia and that's why it's a liberated on the ninth however in some of the countries closest neighbors in fact those countries they were liberated by soviet troops during world war two the red army troops are viewed as an occupying force and fact so nationalists in russia's closest neighbors actually force alongside the nazis as alexie i was you know reports ukraine is divided once again over its wartime history a good a scandal has a rocket in the west of the country over the soviet red banner an exact replica of the one which flew above the reichstag in one thousand nine hundred forty five as the nazi regime collapsed when the ukrainian parliament passed a law to allow the soviet ref. florian victory day this year along with the country's national flag it sparked uproar among some who view the soviet era as a time of oppression. those who initiated the slow are against our country they

must handle the passports and live to the places where the soviet red banner is a symbol of good cheer the bill was eventually passed and on monday when the former soviet union marks the nazi defeat most of ukrainian cities will be adorned with both state and red victory flags most but not in the western ukrainian city of divorce situated in a region where some nationalist elements collaborated with the invading nazis evolves local council says it would not obey the new parliamentary law and intends not to celebrate may deny that all there has been a furious response from anti-fascist groups who say the council should be wound up for failing to commemorate the nazi defeat. and shouldn't preclude improvement christian cream would be evolution of the constitution which. it really can really.

be sure you can. moreover a decision of a divorce court has banned any marches on may the ninth making it even harder for the twenty five thousand strong contingent of red army veterans here to hold their own victory day commemorations the western ukrainian capital city of evolve has its very own monument to the red army soldiers every year veterans of the great patrick war come here to lay flowers and commemorate those who died liberating the land from the fascists however ever since the collapse of the soviet union every trip here turns into a risky adventure this veteran says he's frightened to put all his medals on victory day for fear of being attacked by nationalists the former artillery man fought in. liberation from fascism but now feels disillusioned you would use we think it's painful that we can't walk in a victory march and it's too cold for them across six city and it's painful that we

are not given the right through. here is this e.u. crean i was fighting for their country not your call these were the scenes last year when ross nationalist wipe their feet on the rat banner a sacred symbol for those who fought against the nazis. because of these people to prove that their lines with hitler against the suvi union was the right thing to do but this law on the must be stopped. all those years destroyed symmetries of red army soldiers in. many people in the west of ukraine do not celebrate may the ninth with some they're claiming so little was as bad as nazi occupation violence has spilled into the streets over the issue in the past despite the local government and court bans on the victory day marches this year activists from the crimea are planning a rather better march through the streets of. what is a day of glory and solemn commemoration for millions elsewhere is still

a source of division in a place where the scars of war seem not to have forty healed alexy russia ski artsy reports and from vault in ukraine. the price of freedom from the most fascist in history. those who fought to win that stand proud. against the tide of history being rewritten. sixty six years of victory on our genes. and full coverage of the parade here on t.v. from ten o'clock to morrow morning moscow time. is making headlines around the world right now this sunday egypt's problem this is called an urgent cabinet meeting up with a. taring clashes in cairo overnight violence came up and was with the tanks a church which they claimed was to free a christian woman being held against their will because she wanted to convert to islam nine people were killed and over one hundred wounded in the trouble that

followed tear gas was used in the store. seventeen of been killed after inmates clashed with security staff in a tent city jailbreak in baghdad six of those who died with the facilities offices a government official said the prisoners were being moved to another building when they tried to overpower the guards and take away their weapons. insurgents have paid government building for a second successive day in a wave of coordinated attacks in afghanistan six suicide bombers detonated explosives at several locations in the city of kandahar at least four people were killed and over forty wounded president hamid karzai said revenge attacks by the taliban for osama bin laden's killing by u.s. special forces. have put those president rafael correa as to clear victory in a referendum on a series of reforms exit polls indicated the voters supported nine out of ten questions including the banning of infighting and media and judicial changes his

criticism of the reforms are an attempt to increase the president's power to inhibit press freedom and to reduce the issues independence. use of the u.k. the. rich list is that talk of which is dominated not by britain's but by russians two russian tycoons are ranked among the leading three in the annual survey by the sunday times newspaper it was second place for miley like an aids. he's also a major shareholder of arsenal football club because his wealth estimated at more than twenty million dollars but if you can think four billion more than the falls use only by a little compact chelsea owner roman abramovich who drops the third this year the richest british born billionaire is the duke of western the strings number four while the top of the pile is in the steel tie actually. you're watching our team this suddenly afternoon thanks for being with us in

a couple of minutes we talk to those who remember the soviet liberation of nazi death camps on the eve of victory day here in russia my name's kevin lowe and before that i'll be back to update the main news stories from the week in our weekly review. if you.

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