in this. week's top stories here on our team and al qaeda leader osama bin laden was killed in a covert u.s. operation after a decade long manhunt but the terror threat around the globe lives on. moscow slammed the decision of the international contact group on libya to give money to rebels fighting colonel gadhafi says taking sides in a civil conflict goes against the u.n. resolution. and final polish for military pageantry schools of russian troops march through central moscow in preparation for a major display of course on the upcoming victory day and. facebook in particular.

is the most appalling spying to show you consider to be the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange she talks exclusively to us here at r.t. about the dark side of social networks. here with r.t. and the stories that made headlines this week and of course the one that dominating story the world's most notorious terrorist has been killed after almost ten years in hiding some of bin laden was shot during a covert u.s. navy seal operation they found nine eleven mastermind living in a million dollar mansion about fifty kilometers from pakistan's capital but as our season he said now reports of bin laden's death is unlikely to make the world a safer place. the man wanted dead or alive for a decade is gone but the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama

bin laden for some it was a moment of victory he cares about caring for others a moment of embarrassment president obama is in fact there was a u.s. it's sorry but there's one thing analysts say 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 or bin laden is dead people here working in still a long line at least for the last two years to be very convinced that the al qaeda 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

terrorists more of them for years has been trying to usurp unmonitored role as the face of international terrorism the al qaeda leader's demise is expected to remain a significant symbol of having little or no fact in the fight against terrorism it could create waves elsewhere in two thousand and one on the right. george bush's approval rating was around fifty percent within twenty four hours and shot up to ninety percent so watch for. 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. the russian federation came in some of them large hussein and the news of course we have more of a. parallel have. made this week how the u.s. armed groups that later evolved. what they're doing now in libya. a new

public enemy number one is just beginning his journey this time. he's now a are. a washington has released home videos of bin laden seized at the compound where he was found in the city of about that one clip shows bin laden apparently what in himself on a television news channel and others he was rehearsing a message to the u.s. however security officials have removed the sound saying it could pose a security threat the pentagon offered to tapes as proof that al qaeda leader was killed but says it won't release images of his body barack obama backtracked on cia promises to show the photos saying they could incite further violence lottie's monoplane iowa looks at an operation riddled with contradictions. the week began with an international news bombshell proudly dropped by the united states there was a female who was in fact in a lot of fire. that reportedly was used as

a shield to shield them from the incoming fire by tuesday a big blunder and major backpedaling in a room with bin laden a woman enlightens was a woman 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 laden yet failing to get the facts free the u.s. has also facilitated a rapid rise of conspiracy theories what they did is they told a bunch of different stories they took some stuff is perhaps and that's just the conspiracy machine they were all on a far or 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 to somebody i don't think there was any

question that it's a bit of a photograph where would be presented to the public we have no need to publish those photographs to establish that the son 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 want to 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 good lord and expedited sea burial has been the target of conspiracy an act that u.s. officials say was done in keeping with muslim tradition. here is

a requirement in islamic law the individual very within twenty four hours as many have noted washington broke its own rule when the bodies of saddam hussein's sons were in armed and held for eleven days after being killed by u.s. forces there are so many inconsistency is 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 in didn't know or in this case know what to say before you speak to him doing it now 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 birth certificate but now obama's actions surrounding the killing of osama bin ladin have paved the way for a whole new set of missing questions surrounding the transparency of the u.s. government. r.t. new york now reports coming out of the white house such a navy seal team sent off

a mean lot and was only aiming to kill not taken alive journalist action plan success in the u.s. was trying to avoid disclosing sensitive information that would have come up during his trial. they obviously didn't want the american revelations of how the united states basically created bin laden and it's created so many islam ists as it's funded so many islam it's around the world what's so terrible is how the american population are being lied to about how that exactly went on so when you saw his chance of usa around ground zero i think very few people seem to understand that bin laden was a creation of america as a as a nation's as we've known and usually don't make the world a safer place i think that we do have to be on guard but we mustn't allow the united states which after all created this al qaeda operation through its foreign policies to make it even less a safer place because of what happened is as iran said you know this this alien forces in iraq in afghanistan all around the world that is what makes the world

less stable and let's hope washington to follow know probably realize that a more isolationist policy would be better for all of us. and there was success against al qaeda in russia north caucuses as well operative from the terror group was killed in a security raid in the southern republic of chechnya but born a militant known as kurd is believed to have been the key finance and organizer for terrorist cells in the region it is also said to have played a leading role in major terrorist attacks as well as assaults on police in russia he had recently replaced the previous top al-qaeda agent in the area who had also been killed by security forces authorities say those growth of the corpus is mainly with the international terrorist organization. where you are with r.t. and they're coming your way in just a few minutes the day the nazis fell since artie's is in red square.

sixty six years old russia is getting ready to celebrate victory in europe in world war two we'll have more on not later in the program. about how it's true russian billionaires have become of the u.k.'s second and. france's prominent role in nato this campaign in libya as well as other military for raising broad has pushed its defense budget to the breaking point and a potential crisis could also be a costly one for the french president who was accused of turning his back on the issues that his people face at home and i think that the new question reports. heat or heat that's the choice faced by murder kit so instead of supporting the elderly francis government is accused of using that money for war. france says it doesn't have enough funds for a time and attention is must tighten their belts now spends over thirty billion euro a year on the grounds france has more than twenty thousand soldiers currently on

foreign soil in lebanon kosovo a new military base in the united arab emirates is fighting wars in libya every coast and afghanistan each french have a missile costs hundreds of thousands of euros so just five months into twenty eleven the forces of broke even with madame cato's pension it's pretty much eaten up with the defense operational budget for the year military excess snaps france's reputation as a careful spender investors now plan to scrap the country's troy's aaa credit rating which lets it borrow on the cheap goods if you have a country which is very rich. it can afford it but france has been named as possibly losing its aaa status so so everyone you shoot is closer to losing aaa status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remit

in the ivory coast and libya wants express mia dominique de villepin. pays the price of gunning for regime change and for each. for integration it's important to follow strict principles the one of the international community the street mandate of the united nations costs are reportedly hidden from the public this military advisors back from libya he says for months france has six soldiers on the ground there contrary to its claims we're going towards and i think by your we are. that we have. already called calls for to find the delegates and so on but it was that revealed by the kids who says she worked all her life for a decent retirement not a politician of her if she wanted the money spent on campaigns abroad cost of war pensioners forced to cover up because they can't afford the heating they ask all

the military campaign is worth it if the government called take care of people. when your bush or r.t. paris dollar thursday an international contact group on libya agreed to give the rebels more money temporary fund in place within weeks washington is trying to release more than thirty billion dollars of cafes frozen assets to give to the opposition but russia says the coalition shouldn't be taking sides in what is effectively a civil suits conflict the group the contact group has established itself and now is trying to take responsibility for what the international community's policy towards libya should be and not only libya we're hearing voices calling for this group to decide what to do in other states in the region we believe that all sides should be focusing on the peaceful resolution of the situation and not supporting one side in an internal conflict which is essentially a civil war. the international criminal court announced it's investigating the regime for possible crimes against humanity in libya security forces are accused of

attacking peaceful demonstrators since the revolt began some three months ago john locke and from the institute for democracy and cooperation doubts that the prosecution will be balanced. i'd be very interested to see how the international criminal court reacts to this i wouldn't be at all surprised if the allegation is true but what strikes me mostly about the international criminal court is that as ever and usually in itself to be the handmaidens of western policy the international criminal court prosecutor here's mark showing in lockstep with the western powers just as he did over iraq he received hundreds and hundreds of applications to prosecute members of the saddam coalition over the iraq war and from two thousand and three onwards he didn't take any notice of a single one of them and as you know there's never been any investigation into iraq at all and my suspicion is that the same thing will be true of libya in other words that he will launch a prosecution against libya against the libyan leadership but not against the nato

powers waging the war against it. now in the trade of uprisings in the arab world the internet was credited with playing a major part as protests were coordinated on websites like facebook and twitter but there's been a much more sinister side to those social networks according to the wiki leaks founder julian assange he's been speaking exclusively to r.t. . facebook in particular. is the most the calling spying machine that has ever been put into facebook google yahoo all these made us organizations how it will be a very thers for you with intelligence if you want you to understand but. we may be afraid to both look they are doing free work for you know that they think it was insurgencies. if you're going to start a place with it. and you can watch the full version of the interview in about fifteen minutes time here on

our t.v. and it's also available on our website at our team dot com there's much more to explore some of the options we have lined up for you right now. the purple verbal abuse and threats a you tube clip that sent us thousands are still gripped by pressure and. their robotic team celebrates two decades in the skies watched them perform spectacular springs on troops party. a russian court had a life sentence this week to a nationalist convicted of killing a human rights lawyer and a journalist in central moscow she was like oh i just found intolerance and hatred for the main motive for the motive of lawyers from islam to not kill off good often that represented victims of fascist violence as killers nikita while you have. links to an outlawed ultra nationalist group well to come off received

a life sentence has ceased was handed an eighteen year rocket off was gunned down in broad daylight in central moscow together with a journalist and a c. but. the couple swelled up like. u.s. steel to deploy a missile defense facility in romania has angered russia which says the project may threaten its security the agreement is part of a bigger plan for a missile shield in europe and which moscow wants an equal part of russia's envoy to nato says the alliance and washington can't seem to kenya those who were under the impression that the military dialogue is running here of the political divide the american policy clearly refuses to consider russia's interests they're also refusing to provide us with guarantees that the proposed u.s. missile defense system is not going to get it right. the americans want to deploy interceptor missiles capable of shooting down our nuclear weapons near our launch sites in ten years time they'll be able to shoot down

a large part of our nuclear arsenal if it's launched one at the same time which they keep telling us that it's not aimed against russia they see reporters we want them to give us written guarantees but most of the time the u.s. diplomats and politicians simply smile back at us. now washington says the missile defense project will help protect europe from countries like iran and north korea but moscow has repeatedly voiced concerns it could also harm its own security no compromise on this plan has been reached so for. now russia is reading itself for victory day it's a celebration firmly into the national consciousness sixty six years and since a soviet soldiers defeated the nazis and what's known in russia as the great patriotic war audience peter author wraps up all the excitement on the eve of this because at. preparations are well underway ahead of what with the exception probably of the new

year's celebrations here in russia is the biggest celebration of like how and to get here now picture day a massive celebration in russia marked by a huge parade across red square just behind me over my shoulder you'll be able to see same puzzles cathedral of course behind that rates where itself i've been having a look up there plenty of people all busying themselves around making sure everything goes up without a hitch tomorrow to commemorate sixty six years since picture in europe victory over nazi germany in which so many people laid down their lives in order to we have the freedoms which we we take very much for granted in our lives today now this is a huge holiday as they say here in russia and very much wanted is celebrated a widely here in moscow as well as across the whole of the country now the reason that in russia they celebrate victory in europe day on the ninth of may is due to the fact that the actual surrender of nazi germany was signed so late in the day on

the eighth and it actually fell on the ninth in moscow time so that's why. it is in russia and the rest of russia it is celebrated on the ninth where in western europe and america in america as well it is celebrated on the eighth and we can now hear from my colleague lower enmities in london about some of the evacuees from great britain who had to flee steering the second world war i trip down memory lane for seventy nine year old james roffey it was the street where he was born and where his family lived until war broke out frightened and forced to evacuate to the countryside james was just when his life was changed forever. with things to try with. enough sandwiches and things to last you for the day and that was it i don't need to get to school and be told oh no evacuation today you've been sent home and i'm into one day

what i didn't say that we went to school and. things different happened started. with hundreds of others including a sister and brother he walked from school to his local station their parents weren't allowed to walk with them parents were issued with a list of the things that their children could take with them when they were evacuated they all had a little suitcase like this and in it they were only allowed to put a spare pair of shoes inside the house some toiletries a toothbrush comb a handkerchief and a towel they also had to take their own cutlery and a plate and a mug with them they also took their pajamas. and of course a change of underwear. and with a label tied around their neck and the ubiquitous gas mask they made their journey

into the unknown neither they nor their parents knew where they were going they had a stamped police card to send when they got there to let their parents know they were safe for james that place was pulled a village of around two thousand people near the south coast here and in other reception areas villagers were legally required to take the children in although some with thought from welcoming. and the woman. turned out for yet another fierce woman. we. pushed for. trying to push. so you can really run. it was an unhappy but short lived placement and james ended up living happily here

in what was then a sweet shop his four year evacuation became a positive experience but that wasn't the case for everyone some of these people were not very nice. to these children some of them have their own agenda which is just another person to work the farm or work. or to work in the bakery. some of these people were very cruel according to some of the evacuees often it was such a wrench that the children couldn't stand it many went home to london and accounted for one in every ten deaths during the blitz schools were closed and they ran wild those who stayed were terribly homesick but when they did get home they felt there was little to come back for most the back. side i showed me rode.

back to. look at gaps where bombs would fall. but after about four. james finished school in london but never settled after the war he moved back to pull as soon as he could evacuation changed not only the lives of the children but also the communities they went to here in pulled evacuees erected a plaque in the local church thanking the villagers for taking them in it did tear families apart but it also brought people who would never ordinarily have met together in a city poverty rubbed shoulders with rural affluence and vice versa and the deep forward stream those times still remain today in the memories of those given kindness and shelter far from home in wartime lore and its our t.

west sussex. and i will be covering the spectacular. life here one artery and of course r.t. dot com that's tomorrow you don't want to miss it. the price of freedom from the most precious people in history. those who fought to win their stand. against the tide of history be reburied. sixty six years of victory monarchy. we are without a life from moscow let's go to some other headlines from around the world on this sunday egypt's prime minister has called an urgent cabinet meeting after sectarian clashes in cairo overnight the violence came after muslims attacked a church which they claim was to free a christian woman being held against her will because she wanted to convert to islam ten people were killed and over

a hundred wounded in the trouble that followed tear gas was then used to the store . seeing people have been killed after inmates clashed with the security staff in an attempt to jailbreak in baghdad it's reported and iraqi al-qaeda leader is among the dead a government official said the prisoners were being moved to another building and they tried to overpower the guards and take away their weapons. fighting between a taliban insurgents and i answered is doing for a second day in the city of kandahar comes after militants unleashed a major assault hitting government buildings several policemen and civilians as well as a number of attackers have been killed dozens others are injured at this point the taliban denies the attacks were revenge for the killing of osama bin laden. right now to the u.k. and its annual rich list the top of which is dominated not by britain's but by

russians to russian tycoons are ranked among the leading three in the annual survey by the sunday times newspaper in second place was a mining magnate i was sure it was now north who's also a major shareholder in the arsenal football club its wealth is estimated at more than twenty billion dollars that's four billion that is a sort of four billion more than the fortune owned by compatriot and chelsea owner roman abramovich who drops down to third this year and the richest british born billionaire is the duke of westminster he's at number four while at the top of the powers indian steel tycoon lakshmi mittal. sport just about fifteen minutes time of course with natasha should be taking you to a race of thirty laps around the city's most iconic landmark which sees cycling's biggest name settle a few schools plus plenty of action lies ahead with the final stages happening this victory day.

sunday afternoon here in the russian capital on the recent share i'll update you with the headlines in just a couple it's. a cluster mission. and inside the container you have many many small and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of there's

a huge market right now for battle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. and so you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically shrunk that have an expertise to get rid of a lot of what they do is they go to these places they will hire local train the locals how to do the clearance they'll let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of these where. they. can be. and then.