holiday in ski hotels. and the really in country club suborning sure to find this piece of the first earth not sure pinski swiss are still close knit hold built in let me let's go gold digger chico to. the week's top stories here on our t.v. and al qaeda leader osama bin laden was killed in a covert u.s. operation after a decade long manhunt but terror threats around the globe lives on. as the u.s. and the e.u. promised more sanctions against the syrian government for its crackdown on protesters military intervention in the country looks an ever increasing possibility. and final polish for military pageantry scores of russian troops marched through central moscow in preparation for a major display on the upcoming every day.

of the week so main headlines this is r.t. and of course the one that dominating story the world's most notorious terrorist has been killed after almost ten years in hiding some up in martin 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 because our teams and he said now reports 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 you can hear some of the cheering going on for others a moment of embarrassment president obama is in fact dead it was a u.s. eyes i'm sorry but there's one thing analysts say should not be overlooked as some

of bin laden may be dead but the threat of terror is very much alive frankly doesn't make much of a difference that riden is dead people here working. at least for the last two years have 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 rationale kightlinger terrorists that have made the most recent remarks moscow's metro blast and airport bombing two of the latest global attacks were masterminded by domestic chechen terribly dear doku umarov you for years has been trying to usurp and modern general as the face of international terrorism the al qaeda leader's demise is expected to remain a significant symbol of having little or no in fact in the fight against terrorism it could create waves elsewhere in two thousand was right. george bush's

approval rating was around fifty percent within twenty four hours he shot up to eighty 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 star union and it was the russian federation and even some of the nod from saddam hussein and these days of course we have more of the parallels have been made this week with how the u.s. army's groups that later evolved to stop trying to and the taliban what they're doing now in libya the new public enemy number one is just beginning his journey this time. he's now a r t. washington has released home videos open ladan seized at the compound where he was found in the city of about on

a clip shows been apparently watching himself on a television news channel and others he is a message to the u.s. our security officials have removed the sound saying it could pose a security threat the pentagon offer the tapes as proof the al qaeda leader was killed but washington says it won't release images of his body barack obama backtracked on cia promises to show the photos saying they could incite violence around things were reported i had a second operation that's riddled with contradictions. and with an international news bombshell proudly dropped by the united states there was a female who was in fact is a lot of fire. that reportedly was used as a shield to shield bin laden from the incoming fire by tuesday a big blunder a major backpedaling in a room with bin laden a woman in london's water 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 straight the u.s. has also facilitated our rapid rise of conspiracy theories what they did is they told a bunch of different stories they took some stuff it's crack and it's just a conspiracy of machine they've poured oil on a fire a 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 were some would not i don't think there was any question but ultimately for the graph i would be presented to the public we have no need to publish those photographs to establish that was some of bin laden was killed us president barack obama refused to release any visual evidence confirming then lot in staff 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 bin laden's expedited sea burial has been the target of conspiracy and act u.s. officials say was done in keeping with muslim tradition it was returning to. here is the requirement in islamic law. individuals vary but in twenty four hours as many have noted washington broke its own rule when the bodies of saddam hussein's sons were embalmed 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 and did not know or in this case know what to say before you speak. just one week ago it was brock obama at the center of a two year conspiracy that died 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 very important i.r.t. new york. meantime a pakistan has questioned the legality of their secret seal team mission on sovereign soil as criticism echoed by antiwar activist brian becker he says the u.s. is acting as an empire which has the right to enter any country and do whatever it wants. we don't know hardly anything because all of this is coming through the

pentagon in through the white house the presentation is such that it makes it clear that the pakistan government knew nothing about. this war at the same time the u.s. is carrying out drone attacks all over pakistan as it is in afghanistan again without any authority from the pakistan government so the idea of sovereignty for pakistan is nothing clearly but a joke the united states has decided that it can use military force wherever it wants whether it's in yemen or pakistan or afghanistan without any sovereign authority over the government but of course osama bin laden is the face of september eleventh becomes in the american public eye and through the media machine and because he appears to be responsible for that attack our rightful target but that should not cloud the picture what's really going on is the u.s. is arrogating to itself the right to go in and kill whoever it wants to kill wherever it wants to and of course that is the typical attitude of an empire. well

there was also success against al qaeda in russia's north caucasus as well but operating from the terror group was killed in a security raid in the southern republic of chechnya the turkish border militant known as kurd is believed to have been the key finance and organizer for terrorist cells and the region code 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 these two deaths have broken the code which is mainly with the international terrorist organisation. where you are with r.t. and are coming up in a few minutes the day the nazis fell moscow says. it's on red square. sixty six years old the russians getting ready to celebrate victory in europe in world war two we'll have more a little later in the program. and find out how to russian billionaires have become

the u.k. the second and third richest people. well as well as being a driving force in the libyan campaign france is also locked into a number of other conflicts and troops are in the former colony of ivory coast and paris is now showing a strong interest in syria has done a bushel of what could be next in line. 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 bohrman his country on the pretext of stopping the violence i don't wish to have good. idea or not and therefore since syria but i. you know it's the same chain of events that brought a war with libya and now unfolding at 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 the nicolas sarkozy's government is slipping damascus with sanctions the precursor to the invasion of libya humanitarian aide says one also will again be their excuse to go in who would think of their own government in the media is that the shelling in syria also syria was once on the french occupation but analysts 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 influence it change the regime in a way that they see fit intervention would leave france fighting in four wars 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 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 the program to moscow's would become a. springboard for the sarkozy administration as it pushes east events in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see it similarly in iran unfortunately that is iran will repeat the syrian scenario russia watches with the military interventions with rising along it was the fueling violence across the middle east. deliberately escalating the conflict as 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 chaos in the region helps the very extremist the west wants to stop gaining power valuable shorty paris now at least six killed and over two hundred arrested in the latest crackdown by syrian troops on as the government demonstrators officials blame armed terrorist groups for the rest of the protesters say they just want an end to decades of repression and corruption is nothing more than five hundred and eighty people killed since the uprising began seven weeks ago following the introduction of u.s. sanctions e.u. also agreed on an assets freeze and a travel ban of top syrian officials but war correspondent eric markus says the western countries have ulterior motives behind the starts. there's great excitement in washington to try spec of overthrowing the syrian government it's been on the front burner in washington ever since the bush straight but the idea is it would

deliver a blow to iran centuries if. syria were allowed to the government fell the israelis would like it because it removes any syrian military capability and would assure that nobody is going to raise the issue of the golan heights which israel still illegally occupied sixty seven there is. the right wing governments in europe germany particularly so sir cozy in france was under. challenge from the through the right wing and become very militant very militarized in their policy and it's very popular now to go after what we're seeing is a sort of a counter revolution where the european powers maybe the united states have seized on the. tried bend to their will and they're using a humanitarian intervention as the new reason for sending troops in humanitarian it's usually lies to place resources or strategic geography. on an

international course i'd group on libya agreed to give the rebels more money with a temporary fund in place with washington's tried to thirty billion dollars of cafés frozen assets to give to the opposition but charles. says that plan will do more harm than good. the economy that money belongs to the libyan people and there's a civil war going on in libya it may not be fair to distribute money to one side or the other in a civil war it will certainly escalate the conflict as we remember from the united states when the saudi arabians are financing the mujahideen in afghanistan against the soviets simply raise the stakes and watch the numbers of casualties number of military forces a very blunt instrument you can't guarantee what will happen but you can probably they stay on the history of every war you go to see and hear and see that a lot more people will be killed as the weapons are improved if they give it to the

transitional national council in libya who are fighting a war against gadhafi surely your international arms merchants and other we're on the black market in buy weapons just to get out it will as well do to replenish its own stocks and it would be a great goldmine for the arms to probably not very good for the. in the chain of uprisings in the arab world the internet was credited with playing a major part as protests were coordinated on websites such as facebook and twitter there's been a much more sinister side to those social networks according to the wiki leaks founder julian assange who has been speaking exclusively to us here at r.t. . facebook in particular. is the most appalling spying we're hearing there have been painted on facebook google yahoo always made us. have people think of anything for you with intelligence everyone should understand that the pay when they are there for anything it work they are doing for work for

united i think the only thing. improving is part of it. and you can watch the full version of the interview in just over an hour's time here on t.v. of course it's also available on our website dot com but there's much more to explore like these stories nothing the call verbal abuse and threats so used to collect debts in the u.s. where thousands are still gripped by economic depression and. russia aerobatic team celebrates two decades in the skies watched them perform their spectacular spins and tricks arts and culture. a russian court handed a life sentence this week to a nationalist convicted of killing a human rights lawyer and a journalist in central moscow too many years ago a jury found intolerance and hatred for the main motives for the murder of lawyer

stanislav markelov that often they represented victims of fascist killers and on and off and again. are links to were outlawed ultra nationalistic groups while taken off received a life sentence was handed an eighteen year market off was gunned down in broad daylight in central moscow together with a journalist and i see a bubble of a double killing sparked a public outcry. the u.s. deal to try a missile defense of the thing in romania as i get 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 don't seem too keen. you were under the impression that the military dialogue is running here of the political divide they were going policy clearly refuses to consider russia's interests they're also refusing to provide us with guarantees that a proposed u.s.

missile defense system is not targeted at russia the americans want to deploy interested to read. missiles capable of shooting down our nuclear weapons near our launch sites in tin 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 we're partners we want them to give us written guarantees but most of the time the u.s. diplomats and politicians simply smile back at us. washington says the missile defense project will help protect your from countries like iran and north korea but also has repeatedly voiced concerns it could also harm its own security no compromise on this planet has been reached so far. for russia is reading itself for victory day celebration family into the national consciousness it's now sixty six years since soviet soldiers to feature the nazis and what's known in russia as the great patriotic war. that wraps up all the excitement on the eve of.

it's a hugely important day with the probable exception of new year's eve it's the biggest celebration in the russian calendar now just behind me you can see st basil's 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 victory day victory over over nazi germany victory came here and 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. i can't touch the display of pomp and circumstance well the reason it is celebrated in the ninth inning ninth of may in russia is the 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 celebrated on the night however in some of the countries closest neighbors in fact those countries there were liberated by soviet troops during world war two the red army troops are viewed as an occupying force in fact so nationalists in russia's closest neighbors actually fought alongside the nazis as a legacy of a chef you know reports ukraine is divided once again over its words are in history a greater scandal has erupted in the west of the country over the soviet red banner an exact replica of the one which flew about the reichstag in may nine hundred

forty five as the nazi regime collapsed when the ukrainian parliament passed a law to allow the soviet red flags fly on victory day this year along with the country's national flag it sparked outrage among some who view the soviet era as a time of oppression very patiently to those who need shade the slow are against our country and must hand over the passports and live to the places where the soviet red banner is a symbol of good. cheer goodwill was eventually passed and on monday when the former soviet union marks the not to defeat most of ukrainian cities will be adorned with the state and red victory flags most but not in the western ukrainian city of a divorce situated in a region where some nationalist elements collaborated with the invading our cities the words local council says it would not obey the new parliamentary law and intends not to celebrate may the night call there has been a furious response from anti-fascist groups who say the council should be warned up

for failing to commemorate the nazi defeat. we have a law which states that particular day just a little bit in cross ukraine so what they're doing is evolution of the constitution which consumes most of the believe. it really can really. do little if city council with. 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 the vote has its very own monuments to the red army soldiers every year veterans of the great battle of the quare 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 is better and says he is frightened to put on his medals on

victory day for fear of being attacked by nationalists the former artillery man fort in divorce liberation from fascism but now feels disillusioned. with you three three it's painful that we cannot walk in a victory march in so-called democratic city it's painful we're not given the right to remember. is this e.u. crean i was fighting for definitely not. these were the scenes last year when ross nationalists wipe their feet on the rather than are a sacred symbol for those who fought against the nazis. because at least people want to prove that their lines with hitler it is a soothing union was the right thing to do but this london must not so with all those years destroyed symmetries of great army soldiers involved many people in the west of ukraine do not celebrate may the ninth with some they're claiming soviet rule was as bad as nazi occupation boylan's has spilled into the streets over the

issue in the past despite the local government and court bans of the. tree day marches this year activists from the crimea are planning a rather better march through the streets of people what is a day of glory and solemn commemoration for a million souls where is still a source of division in a place where the scars of war seem not to have forty healed let's see reporting from both ukraine. and we will be covering the spectacular victory day parade on red square live here on r.t. and of course. that's tomorrow you don't want to miss that. the price of freedom from the moves just keep in history. those who fought to win the stand. against the tide of history being written. sixty six years of victory

on our team. with us here live from moscow now 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 september and clashes in cairo overnight the violence came after muslims are tied to 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 one hundred were wounded in the trouble that followed tear gas was then used to restore order. seventeen people have been killed after inmates clashed with the security staff in an attempt to jailbreak in baghdad which reported in iraq and al qaeda leader is among the dead the government officials said the prisoners were being moved to another building where they try to overpower the guards and take away their weapons. fighting between the taliban insurgents and afghan of security forces is continuing for a second day in the city of kandahar it comes after militants unleashed

a major assault hitting government buildings several policemen on civilians as well as a number of attackers have been killed dozens meantime were injured the taliban denies the attacks were revenge for the killing of osama bin laden. or now to the u.k. and its annual rich list which is dominated not by britain's but by russians two russian tycoon also ranked among the leading three in the on your survey by the sunday times a newspaper in second place words on mining and magnate i lived it was well north was also a major shareholder in arsenal football club his worth is estimated at more than twenty billion dollars that's four billion in all from the fortune only by a compact chelsea owner roman abramovich who drops down to third this year the richest british born billionaire is that you could question mr he's number four all at the top of the pile is india still to me i tell. well

sunday afternoon here in the russian capital i'm soo shy i'll update you with the headlines in just a few minutes. twenty years ago in the largest country in. disarray sensible.

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