the week's top stories in u.s. special forces are sunken eight osama bin laden in pakistan bringing cheering crowds of nervous street but leaving questions over the contradictory accounts article is under why the world's number one terrorist was killed rather arrested. fighting has intensified in leaving any of the city of misrata as the last and rebel stronghold in the west of the country this comes as nato considers funding the rebels with cash from conduct these frozen assets within russia warning their lives against taking further steps and breach of the u.n. security council motion to protect civilian. courts it's here in time to send

troops or resistant by defiant protested and security forces surging to more cities forcing intense find government suppression of nationwide demonstrations and while washington and the e.u. deployed more sanctions against the regime for the brutal crackdown with human rights groups claiming around eight hundred have been killed. and as most of the pirates who go large they've big guns but there are no ground big day parade routes and why some people in paul was soviet states are siding with a plane instead. and welcome to the program this is our sees it weekly review with me our thanks for joining us so the week has been dominated by the death of the world's most notorious terrorist leader after ten years in hiding and betrayal to. sullivan

finally ended at a heavily fortified compound in pakistan where he was shot dead in a commando raid by u.s. special forces but as anything now and now reports his assassination will not kill off al qaeda at all merely needing global mitter thinking a new torchbearer a terrorist. 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 you can hear some of the cheering going on for others a moment and embarrassing moment president obama is in fact it was a u.s. eyes. but there's one thing an a-list 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 a long run at least for the last two years have been 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 ladin has claimed responsibility for an attack instead it's russia now kind only 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 there doku umarov you for years has been trying to use third the nandrolone as the face of international terrorism. leaders demise is expected to remain a significant symbol while having little or no effect in the fight against terrorism it could create waves elsewhere in two thousand war and right. george 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 little bump from. 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 start you know ben was a russian federation and he was on a billard hussein and the use of. the parallels had been made this week with how the u.s. armed groups that later a golf truck tried to have the taliban because what they're doing now in libya the new public enemy number one is just beginning his journey this time in new york that he's now a heartbeat. the pentagon has released five home videos of a son of bin laden things from his pakistani compound and they offer a glimpse of bin laden's life and present somewhat unfamiliar images of the al qaeda leader despite a public profile as a confident figure has shown rehearsing his speech is reading out and looking to the side as if asking for advice and another video but not in this in sitting on the floor watching

a programme about himself the release of the footage for its criticism of president obama who blocked publication of photos of the al qaeda leader's policy and as journalist action. reports and sad information that obama's order to kill bin laden and not capture some convinced this was done to prevent him from talking they obviously didn't want the embarrassing revelations of how the united states basically created bin laden as it's created so many islam it's because it's funded so when islam is around the world what's so terrible is how the american population is being lied to about how that exactly went on so when you saw those chants of usa around ground zero i think very few people seem joined that bin laden is a creation of america as a nation is 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 we just are all created this al qaeda operation through its foreign policies to make it even less safer place because of what happened is as iran said

you know this forces in iraq in afghanistan all around the world that is what makes the world less stable. pakistan has claimed that sovereignty was violated by have a go at it with russia to eliminate a saladin larger washington that was trying to establish whether that i was sheltering that terri into. a national record is he being more rational and they're already strained relationship. some of bin laden's death couldn't have come at a 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 to pakistanis dad in the road 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 be a presence border be in the interest topics time against in the interest of.

pressure why not western pakistan just one week before i heard as leader was killed and i don't see us joan demonstration united hundreds of protesters furious that another twenty five people were killed in a strike taken the total number of civilian into the handiest. karim had lost his son and a brother in a two thousand and nine attack the drone operator miles away from here pushed a button when it was night in pakistan and careens how family was sleeping in. a real may in may of may may or meant. for. daryl this. will go to the left. and the good comes with many people sharing this opinion pakistani officials are warning the u.s. is fewer than insurgency rather than cooling it they harm more than they help

because of the. damage is there goes your views 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 axes america's drone technology but despite signs of a peace offering and generic and sentiment has continued rising u.s. plans to extend its military presence in khaki stand and ensure its dominance in the region after its troops withdrew from a guy stand seem to have collapsed and he's about bin laden's demise just like us drones came out of the blue delivering a direct hit on you ask critics it's me sam erika's victory will hardly change the life of ordinary people here and it can cheat to spin him in the mails to fact it by the global war on terror. is raging in pakistan was the first to be leader of

the times in two thousand and ninety six and this planet if you take it. easy to see that he needed population to this place they were quite tranquil as you can see people out there are going about their daily lives that we have done less than a hundred corners away from here and with mountains all around safeties it's very fragile. the country's army has always been alert but now more than ever. many fear the death of a summit in london will spark a backlash and the injured pieces. cheap. pakistan. the fight against al qaeda inspired terrorism continues a russian aid minton's were killed on sunday and i am going to tell the ration of the north caucuses one policeman died during the raid earlier this week

a senior al qaeda operative with killed in the southern russian republic of chechnya the turkish born militant learner's abdullah kurd is believed to have been the key financier and organizer of terrorist cells in the region kurt is also said to have played a leading role in major attacks in russia as well as assaults on police he had only recently assume the leading role after his predecessor was killed by security forces. and coming up a grand parade to all of the victors of war. sixty six years on russia is getting ready to celebrate victory over nazi germany we'll have more on that later in the program. let's go to leaving now they're fighting between pro and anti-government forces has intensified near the city of misrata the largest revelled stronghold in the west of the country insurgents have meanwhile backtracked on claims they reached a deal with italy to supply weapons after claiming on saturday that they were expecting a shipment of arms very soon its laden i'd be claims but said it will provide

material and wouldn't with civilian difference supplying weapons to need a fund by embargo the outcome of the ongoing civil war is no clear despite over two thousand nato air strikes which have not had any decisive impact thursday the allied international contact group agreed to set up a cash fund for the rebels but russia's foreign minister says this demonstrates how far the coalition's train from the u.n. resolution and. since on the new group the concept group has established itself and now is trying to do it this means ability foully international communities libya should be not only libya we're hearing voices calling for his group to decide what to do in other states in the region we believe that all sides should be food soon a peaceful resolution of the situation and not supporting one side of the. conflict which is essentially civil war. but fighting to be there has been tried being out

since february that's reportedly claimed thousands of lives and professor. an expert in military intervention that's right things that involvement of the nato led coalition has actually like if there rebels were strong then a little bit of outside assistance to them might have been enough to topple the government but the rebels were extraordinarily we in fact the war would have ended more than a month ago if not for intervention the rebels simply one of the few the killing was stopped. more people would be alive than are alive today so what the intervention really did is just level the playing field this is actually quite common and intervention that is intended to end the violence and sometimes escalates the violence and that's exactly what happened in libya and so cut off so it's secure and in tripoli his forces are more oil large parts of the country support him and so a little bit of intervention is not going to compel him to step down but there are

tribal differences between the west of libya and the east of libya this is mainly a regional war between those regional tribes west and east and that would not change with the killing of one man the ultimate solution in libya is going to be a peace agreement it's going to be a peace agreement between the west and the east power sharing and this part of the world the very familiar with those sorts of deals where tribes that are killing each other one day then share power the next day and so that's really where the effort internationally should be focused. in syria a military ground down on protesters has broadened brothers tanks and troops have stormed the city of homs and three other southern towns this comes just a day out of the country's forces shot to fix the billions in the coastal city of bernie is in the latest violence against anti regime demonstrators according to human rights activists at least eight hundred people have been killed as the brutal suppression of nationwide protests began seven weeks ago meanwhile the u.s. has threatened to impose more sanctions against syria on friday be you also

approved a weapons and bargain as well as a travel by reason i think targeting senior officials but really prospective eric margolis suspect in a terror intervention is just a pretext for western powers to send troops. there's great excitement in washington at the prospect of overthrowing the syrian government it's been on the front burner in washington ever since the bush administration the wiki leaks papers have shown that the u.s. has been funding. ever since the bush administration been funding. some groups in syria along with saudi arabia and israel. overthrowing the regime. this will intensify it we're seeing new broadcasts 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 so i

think the fuse has been lit for changing syrian government and there's a diplomatic coalition forming against syria so it is very very nerve wracking for the syrians right now they're quite isolated and even the saudis are better against them. it's a time when it's surprising that europe is this side of the people 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 a 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 a humanitarian intervention as the new reason for sending troops in however humanitarian aid to. resources or strategic geography. we can exile the children a song which has laid into online social networks for helping the united states

collect information and spy own citizens and during an interview with r.t. likes of facebook and google play to their controls in the arab uprisings. facebook in particular. is the most appalling spying machine remitting facebook google yahoo always made us organizations have built the interfaces for us intelligence everyone should understand up so when they are their friends to facebook they are doing free work for united states intelligence agencies and building is not a very it's well written. piece here more driven assad has to say want to bring you all to his full interview on our stock. of france's leading role in nato as compelling leader as well as other

military authorities abroad is pushing its defense budget to a breaking point meanwhile as the french people who are paying the price of president sarkozy's a war on visions and daniel bushell reports now on how it's leaving some of france's most vulnerable on the breadline. heat or eight that's the choice faced by modern kids so instead of supporting the elderly france's government is accused of using that money for war. francaise it doesn't have enough funds for a time and consciousness tighten their belts but it now spends over thirty billion euro a year on 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 by every coast and afghanistan each french hammam is of course hundreds of thousands of euros so just five months into twenty eleven the forces abroad even with madame

cato's pension that's pretty much up the 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 the poor want to cheap put 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 everyone you shoot is a bomb closer to losing aaa status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping dream it's in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin in 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. and i think. from that we have. already gone. to find the dog and so on but it was not revealed but she worked all her life for a decent retirement no politician or if she wanted money spent on campaigns abroad cost of war pensioners forced to cover up because they can't afford to heating they are all the military campaigns worth it if the government can't take care of people for a time then or bush or r.t. paris. international news in brief for you now egypt's military government has wound down on sectarian violence after twelve people died in clashes between christians and muslims and cairo violence broke out when muslims are trying to

charge believing a christian woman was being held inside against the will because she wanted to convert to islam religious tension has been rising as egypt's military rulers assumed control for doing the asking of president mubarak searching died and into days of violence in march. these seventeen people have been killed during in the terms of the revolt inside the high security prison but six of those killed were prison officers government officials found the detainees all links to al qaida who are being moved to another building by that time to garden seize some of their weapons. of the government forces have defeated taliban insurgents and we've captured areas of kandahar city also today battle and fierce fighting eleven point is were killed and seven suicide bombers blew themselves up at this taliban launched away will alternated at targets and government buildings all started a the algal interior ministry says three civilians and two officers died in the

operation to free the city of its actions. for most europeans made a mark when nazi germany surrendered sixty six years ago solemn remembrance ceremonies have been held in several councils on sunday there's been also marking the anniversary of the grand celebrations here on monday. victories not a ninety nine were the traditional militia parades from red square head of the bands the country's police later released at the turn of the unknown soldier by the crown. monday's parade is out he speaks on of. the huge very 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 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 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 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 ninth however in some of the countries closest neighbors in fact those countries they were liberated by some of your 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. now reports ukraine is divided once again over its wartime history a bitter scandal has erupted in the west of the country over the soviet red banner an exact replica of the one with the reichstag in one thousand nine hundred forty five as the nazi regime collapsed when the ukrainian parliament cost 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 yet the case of. those who initiated the slow are against our country they must hand over their passports and lives to the places where the

soviet red banner is a symbol of goodwill to. 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 the state and red victory flags most but not in the west and ukrainian city of the book situated in a region where some nationalist elements collaborated with the invading nazis evolves local council says it would not obey the new parliamentary laws and intends not to celebrate may deny that all there has been a furious response from anti-fascist groups to say the council should be wound up for failing to commemorate the nazi defeat. and still pretty close to clean so would be nation of the constitution which. is really cool really. effective moreover

a decision over involved 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. but friends of the great passion 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 veteran says he's frightened to put on his medals on victory day for fear of being attacked by nationalists the former artillery man fought in the force liberation from fascism but now feels disillusioned. goodness we three it's painful because we can't walk in a victory march in the so-called stand across lake city it's painful when you're not given the rights to remember the date you mcrae's b.c.

you create i was fighting for revenge complete north york. at these were the scenes last lear when horse nationalist wipe their feet on the rad banner a sacred symbol for those who fought against an option that was with. these people to prove that their lines with hitler against the suv in union was the right thing to do but destroying the must be stopped i sold my new noise house just destroyed symmetries are going to be soldiers in other words you don't you 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 and retreating marches this year activists on the crimea are planning a rather better march through the streets of people 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 let's see russia ascii art see reporting from ukraine.

the price of freedom from the most fascist in history. those who fought to win that stand proud. against. ustream be reburied. sixty six years of featuring more north sheen. and if you want to know more about may the ninth head to our own home from all the tree day coverage and memories there were leaving to listen to the counsel living after the second world war those dozens of pictures and videos of the parade liberation is right what's going on and you can find that among our online pamela green. plus two russian billionaires make it to the top three of a british you'll richness to find out who they are and how they go off the top tito

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