that week's top stories here now and see america's most wanted terrorist is killed by its troops bringing cheering crowds on to the streets but leaving some puzzled by inconsistency in the united states the first of events. nato members are look at siphoning support from the libyan rebels with could effie's or frozen assets but russia warns the alliances involvement is getting dangerously close to a ground invasion. of troops tanks and arrests in syria with no signs of an end to the fighting washington and the e.u. deploy sanctions to force the regime to end its a violent crackdown on its citizens. and as moscow prepares to roll out of big guns

for the annual grand victory day parade party looks at why some people in the former soviet states are siding with hitler instead. with the stories that made headlines this week you want your nazi now of course that we explain dominated by the death of the world's most notorious terrorist after ten years on the run are some of unlucky was eventually tracked down in an affluent pakistan a suburb and shot dead for starters and he said now reports of the world's militants will seek out a new torchbearer for terrorists. a 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 here's a caring for others

a moment of embarrassment resident obama is in fact it was us. 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 bin laden is dead people here were convinced along at least for the last two years and very advanced 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 russian al-qaeda 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 dear doku umarov you for years has been trying to usurp an montreuil as the face of international terrorism

the al qaeda leaders to minds is expected to remain a significant symbol of having little or no effect in the fight against terrorism it could create waves elsewhere you know in two thousand and one right. choice bush's approval rate was around fifty percent within twenty four hours and shot up to eighty percent so watch for. a new poll shows obama is 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 and was with the russian federation in some of the ones the dark hussein and the uses of force we have. carried out have it made this. we break out the u.s. armed groups that later advance into outside i think what they're doing now in libya the new public enemy number one is just beginning his journey this time.

he's now a are. what the pentagon has released five videos of bin laden they were among materials seized from the pakistani compound where he was killed the videos solve bin laden's life as a fugitive in hiding one tape shows the al qaeda leader preparing a message to the u.s. believed to have been produced late last year in another video bin laden is seen watching a programme about himself on arabic television barack obama has been criticized meantime for failing to deliver proof of a lot of his death the president to block the release of photos of the al qaeda leader's body citing national security risks the exact circumstances of his death remain unclear and have raised questions about the legality of the killing investigative journalist away months and says the u.s. is pursuing its own interests by keeping the truth under wraps. a lot of people are going to use this incident to push their agendas and mentioning the russian made

rifles and you know it's not known whether these were actually these a k forty seven s were made in russia because north korea china burma number of countries produce these weapons but you know there's a lot of people with their agendas they want to push there's also a group that wants to use this to blame pakistan for being complicit with bin laden so we see a lot of these special interests now trying to glom onto this whole incident to push push forth their edge and as and i think we're seeing that with the all these contradictory statements as well well the obama administration has shown no interest in being open as a matter of fact it's probably one of the most secretive administration since its predecessor george w. bush and richard nixon said they seem to be very arrogant they are putting forth information that's not true about well the growing up in la did see was because it was in tradition when the fact is he died on land the requirement is to bury him on land and i don't think it's they buried him at sea because of saudi arabia's rich

maritime history. has claimed its sovereignty was violated by the u.s. secret mission to eliminate washington that was trying to establish whether it's and i was sheltering the terror i thought he said or if i'm often reports it's heaping will pressure on the already strained relationship. some of bin laden's death couldn't have candidate better time u.s. and pakistani relations are going through their worst period since nine eleven reasons behind it predator drones and private contractors when a cia agent shows two pakistanis dad in broad daylight earlier this year officials in islamabad said it was the final straw and demanded all american operatives leave the country immediately we have to be doubly sure rather of their presence border being then. a guest in the incredible. pressure why not western pakistan just one week before al qaeda as leader was killed and then to us change

in stray shin united hundreds of protesters here is that another twenty five people were killed in a strike in the total number of civilian deaths into the hundreds i. karim had lost his son and a brother in two thousand and nine attack the drone operator miles away from here pushed the button when it was night in pakistan and creams how family was sleeping thank you were a real may and may of may may your government. sure. there are these people who are go there for. a good year or more countries with many people sharing this opinion pakistani officials are warning the u.s. has fueled an insurgency rather than cooling it the whole more than their help because of the. damage is there danger days of the civilians in the area america's

reaction has been varied the white house first accused pakistan of not doing enough to counter terror before the us changed its tactics finally addressing pakistan's calls to x. is america's trend technology but despite signs of a peace offering and general and sentiment has continued rising u.s. plans to extend its military presence in pakistan and ensure its dominance in the region after its troops withdrew from a gallery stand seem to have collapsed the us about bin laden's demise just like us germans came out of the blue delivering a direct hit on you ask critics in space and erika's victory will hardly change the life of ordinary people here in a country that's been in the mails to fact and by the global war on terror since regime in pakistan was the first to the lead of the times in two thousand and nine . and if you take it. easy it is

needed population it places really wide playing field as you can see people that are going about their daily lives that we can look at let's put it under the gun away from here and with mountains around safety's a very fragile part of our already what is going on in the country's army has always been on learned that now more than ever. many fear the death of osama bin laden will spark a backlash and the injured a piece of has been achieved grief notion r.t. cacace town. well the fight against al qaeda inspired terrorism continues here in russia three militants were killed on sunday in an operation in the north caucasus and one policeman to die during the raid earlier this week a senior al qaeda operative was killed in the southern republic of chechnya a turkish born militant known as a kurd is believed to have been

a key finance and organize they were terrorist cells in the region is also said to have played a leading role in major attacks in russia as well as a sole police had only recently assumed the leading role authors previous as it was killed by security forces authorities say that two deaths have growth in the caucasus mainly through the international terrorist organisation. well coming up here our team have a cost of conflict means feeling the pinch on the home front as france involves itself in a foreign skirmishers its own citizens bear the financial brunt plus. sixty six years on the russians getting ready to celebrate victory over nazi germany we'll have more on that later in the program. let's turn our attention now to libya where the rebels have backtracked on claims they will be sold weapons by italy a rebel official had several saturday that they were expecting a shipment of arms very soon roma denied the claims or said it will provide

equipment for self-defense supplying weapons to libya is banned by the u.s. embargo the ongoing civil war there has reached a stalemate with over two thousand and nato coalition air strikes having so far failed to topple colonel gadhafi on thursday the allied international contact group agreed to set up a cash fund for the rebels but russia's foreign minister says just this just demonstrates how far the coalition is straying from the u.n. resolution on. this it's a contact group has established itself and now is joined it's a responsibility for the international community's policy tools libya should be 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 a peaceful resolution of the situation and not supporting one side in an internal conflict which is essentially a civil war. the coalition is also moving to release billions of dollars of

colonel gadhafi is frozen assets and then handed over to the rebels charles glass who's an expert on the arab world says this will only do more damage. you have to have that money belongs 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 won't be better to preserve that money so when the war is over the country needs to be rebuilt you can go in going to going to all of the people not just some of them it will certainly escalate the conflict as we remember from the united states financing the mujahideen in afghanistan against the soviets simply raised the stakes and increased the numbers of candidates i think give it to the. transitional national council in libya who are fighting a war against gadhafi surely they're going to go to international arms merchants in the black market in buy weapons they're calling for regime change and turning it over turning the country over to this rapidly creating gnc which. is composed of

a lot of ex regime members and clearly saw the window in the other way and more to be on the winning side in their commitment to democracy historically has been absolutely no. and in syria tanks and the security forces have reportedly moved into the southern town of tough us making arrests all along the way this comes a day after at least six people were killed as syrian troops swept through the coastal city of bam e.-s. suppressing government demonstrators officials are blaming armed terrorist groups for the rest while protesters say they just want an end to decades of oppression and corruption running human rights claims eight hundred people have been killed since the uprising began almost two months on the back of further u.s. sanctions the e.u. has also agreed on a freeze of assets and a travel ban on top syrian officials but we're correspondent erica marcus says there's definitely western funding behind the protests in syria. there's great

excitement in washington the prospect of overthrowing the syrian government has been on the track burner in washington it's a bush stray should the wiki leaks papers and show us. it's been funded. by the bush administration been funding. some groups in syria along with saudi arabia and israel. overthrowing the regime. this will intensify and we're seeing you broadcast coming from washington purporting to be syrian liberation front. e-mails and now this new machine this liberation machine you might want to call it is being turned against syria i think the fuse has been lit for change syrian government and there's a diplomatic coalition forming against syria so that it is very very nerve wracking for the syrians right now they're quite isolated and even the saudis are

against them. it's a time when it's surprising that europe is this side of the get involved france in particular because it used to be the colonial ruler of the area seems to be a hankering to return to its colonial roots to what we're seeing is a sort of counter revolution where the european powers maybe the united states have seized on the revolution to try and bend it to their will and they're using humanitarian intervention as the new reason for sending troops in however humanitarian intervention. resources or strategic geography. you know i would r.t. as we read other top stories of the week now wiki leaks founder julian assange laid into online a social network for helping the united states collect information and spying on citizens and during an interview with us here at r.t. he said that the likes of facebook and google played a significant role as in the arab uprising. facebook in particular is the

most appalling spying machine that has ever been into facebook google yahoo all these major u.s. organizations how it will be interpreting for you if intelligence everyone should understand that. when they add their friends to facebook they are doing free work for the united states and here with me for agencies including this database for that. there you can hear more of what julian assange tries to say when we bring you our tease a full interview that's coming your way next hour here on r.t. . france's leading role in a nato's campaign in libya has as well as other military forces abroad is pushing its defense budget it's a breaking point and while it's the french people who are paying the price for president sarkozy's war ambitions don't you bush all the reports on how it's leading at some of france's most vulnerable on the breadline. heat or eat

that's the choice faced why madam 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 pensioners must tighten their belts it now spends over thirty billion euro a year under france 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 ivory 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 madam kyoto's pension cuts pretty much up for france 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 go on the cheap course 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 a bond closer to losing a status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remit in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin around him now 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 treatment of the united nations costs are reportedly hidden from the public this military advisors back from libya he says for months france has set soldiers on the ground there contrary to its claims we have gone troops and i think by. you know where from that we had.

all of it he called for to. find the targets and so on but it was a little bit weird but says she worked all her life for a decent retirement no politician or her if she wanted the money spent on campaigns abroad cost of war pensioners forced to cover up because they concert for the heating they also call the military campaign is worth it if the government called take care of people for a time friend or bush or party paris and artie's come july from moscow now for most europeans may the eighth marks when a nazi germany surrendered sixty six years ago solemn remembrance ceremonies have been held in several capitals this sunday but also it was also marking the anniversary head of the ground celebrations on monday. russia victory is marked on a major night with

a traditional military parade right through the heart of red square. the country's political elite laid wreaths at the monument to the war victims right by the wall i mean everything set for the parade of monday. all of the reports 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 same puzzles 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 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 tom and circumstance well the reason it is celebrated in the ninth on the ninth of may in russia is the eight 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 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 in fact so nationalists in russia's closest neighbors actually forced alongside the nazis as a legacy of a chef you know reports ukrainian. divided once again over its wartime history

a bitter scandal has a rocketed 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 red flags fly on victory day this year along with the country's national flag it sparked outrage for among some who view the soviet era as a time of oppression yet. those who initiated the slow are against our country they must handle it 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 a new book situated in a region where some nationalist elements collaborated with the invading nazis devolves local council says it would not obey the new parliamentary law and intends

not to celebrate may the night 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. we have. created a group of christian cream who would give people a nation of the constitution which is. gleaned from. really can really. see if you can. moreover a decision of a live off 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 monuments to the red army soldiers every year veterans of the great passion of the corps come here to. 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 is frightened to put on his medals on victory day for fear of being attacked by nationalists the former artillery man fort in the force liberation from fascism but now feels disillusioned. with you three three it's painful that we cannot walk in a big tree march in so-called fame across sixty three and it's painful that we are 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 red 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 to 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 just like the local government and court bans them victory day marches this year activists from the crimea are planning a rather better march through the streets of berlin wall what is a day of glory and soul and commemoration for a million cells where it's still a source of division in a place where the scars of war seem not to have fully healed let's hear a shot ski artsy reporting from wörth in ukraine. the price of freedom from the most fascist in history. those who fought to win the stand proud. against the tide of history be reversed. sixty six years of retreat or

no or unseen. and of course dot com has plenty of victory day coverage and the memories as well there are some moving accounts of living through the second world war plus ways to make the most of celebrating the freedom we now enjoy. cause he's very own mixologist shows us how to raise a glass to the defeat of the nazis. plus two russian billionaires that make it to the top three of a british annual rich list to find out who they are and how they got there. don't come. now a russian nationalist was sentenced to life in prison this week for murdering a human rights lawyer and a journalist two years ago

a jury found intolerance and hatred for the main motives for the killing of a lawyer. who had angered far right groups fight supporting liberal causes his killers nikita i'm his accomplice and you have. links to an outlawed ultra nationalist group to snuff was jailed for life while hostis was given eighteen years they were also found guilty of murdering a journalist. who was with mark a lot of the time a crime sparked outrage in russia and uproar. now to some other stories making headlines around the world on this sunday egypt's fragile interim leadership has now been tested with sectarian clashes overnight that killed at least ten people and injured over one hundred the violence erupted when muslims attacked a church to release a christian woman who they say was being held against her will close she wanted to convert to islam almost two hundred people were arrested and they will now face a military trial simmering religious tensions been growing since egypt's military

rulers assumed control following the ousting of president. did a revolt by inmates turned into a gun battle inside a high security prison in back and leaving at least seventeen dead six of those killed were police officers a government official said the detainees although two al qaeda were being moved to another building when they try to overpower the guards and seize their weapons. at the street fighting in kandahar in southern afghanistan has continued into a second day following the taliban attack on the governor's compound for the shooting broke out after security forces began targeting militants holed up in a hotel in the city center the afghan interior ministry says three civilians and twenty three militants have been killed dozens of other people have been wounded. all right i'll be back with every top of the week's top stories in just a few moments you stick with us.

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