breaking news this hour a soul sit down and insulted all veterans in ukraine are attacks flying nationalists disrupting a service of the world and here you see defeated the nazis and raising fears of the . russian remembers the sacrifices with a massive victory day parade to honor those who gave so much to secure freedom sixty six years off. as nato is only going filming in libya failed to ease find seeing over the lifeline port of misrata the mounting constant rate is triggering protests in solving coalition countries. under american.

scrutiny in the ongoing military intervention in iraq and speculation grows that the u.s. presence there can stretch beyond the withdrawal deadline that. very well most into this is r.t. live from moscow well some breaking news this tree day is memorial events knowledge in western ukraine nationalist party members is involuntarily disrupting a remembrance service is veterans pay tribute to those who perished in the war or clashes with police continue on the streets of laval and lazy it is just is therefore arty leg say veterans being humiliated it sounds as shocking as it is disrespectful to tell us what's going on. clearly this doesn't look like

a holiday at all here in the west in ukraine in the capital city of. definitely not like in moscow and the rest of the former course soviet space it looks more like a hotbed of ultra nationalists and even sometimes turning into neo nazis and in fact several hundred i would say maybe even more than a thousand supporters of the radical nationalist party struggle to gather in the streets of wolf in particular here in front of the so-called hill of the glory that's where the great pressure usually come to lay their flowers and commemorate those who died they gathered here to block the entrance of the veterans to the facility to the cemetery where the red army soldiers were buried now there had been there has been lots of verbal abuse saying death to the muscovites death to the communists and other things like that and even some physical abuse now wearing some georges ribbons which is something of a traditional sign of this whole day everywhere across the coast a form of over the former soviet space this has been very risky here now people literally attacked the veterans and those tearing the wearing those ribbons and

ripped them off their chest now has been lots of pushing and shoving and screaming all the way through since early morning now the crowd has more or less calmed down but shortly a short while ago we've seen some violent scenes with this crowd turning their rage against the police they were throwing rocks at buses carrying offices to the site additional forces to the site and also throwing small grenades and chanting some very aggressive slogans sometimes even showing some nuances. signs gestures like the one which hitler used to used to do in one thousand forty's so this clearly is the scene which shows that this day in the west of ukraine is still a source of major division and a different perception of the past still something which gives a lot of headache to the country's leadership at the moment and ukraine elect is not the only country used to fostering and still sympathy towards narcism is this

part of the growing trend. clearly what is happening today in the city of divorce is not something completely unexpected in fact it's a part of a trend which has been going on for several years already and it's part of a wider picture definitely we've seen lots of statements in the past decade in the west of ukraine concerning the may the ninth that some people here do not see this as a whole in fact they believe that the soviet time was worse than the nazi occupation so they did not celebrate this holiday but it's the first time we've seen sort so much violence here in the streets of life that is for sure that something many locals have told me same scenes can be seen in the baltic states where the history sometimes also being written and seen from the other perspective. in particular here in the west of ukraine the people glorify the. founders of the insurgent army. the t.

shirts and banners and flags with their with their faces is one of the most commercial hits on sale here in the west of ukraine so these people are stating and saying every every year that they would not celebrate this that they see it as a bad day for their history and they will never celebrate this but this is of course only a small part of the ukrainian society of the ukrainian people because most of the country is now celebrating this whole day with wide scale celebrations in the streets of ukraine in cities ukraine as i might to our viewers was one of the most suffered parts of the soviet union and many many people millions died here liberating this country from the fascism. and actually many thanks from the vote in western ukraine will of course be crossing back if that story continues to develop . ok well although there are widespread events to remember those who sacrificed so much for liberation for nelson there are still those whose version of

events tell a different inaccurate story all season isa now is in the heart of moscow to hear more about this at least thirty sixty six years ago it was hailed as a common victory in defeating the nazis but times change for some people day in day . that's correct it's a tremendous holiday here in russia and obviously because of the so many millions of lives that were lost fighting nazi germany but again we have this breaking news today these trends these nationalistic trends and transfer of rewriting history as it's being called not just in ukraine but across the baltics whether it's not going down the morial zz to those who lost their lives in the second world war what russia cost the great patriotic war or to comparing our stalin to hitler or to bitterly telling history in another way well joining me to speak more about that is the record that he's historian thank you very much for being with us on this holiday tell us more about why these travels this this attempt to be right history

is happening. across the wall the fact of history is that the millions of ukrainians g.r.i.z. . heroically fighting. as a part of the real the army begins and not since they during the second world war great patriotic war. a lot of baltics did the see saw this is the history of the same time the fact of life was there the lot of ukrainians experience only from western ukraine. is an experience only last three years the baltics they were the part of that sense of the. lots of better leads a special. baltic mission the least to detail yes under the can mandell nazis. who did massacres and fight it

against the red army and begins the civilians during the great opportunity of cool interrupt you in the twenty first century our european government allowing this to happen when they certainly know the atrocities of. the the problem is that they during the soviet years after the second war all this mission the least dick movements there was suppressed. during the guard which of years is explicitly on the break of the soviet union. at the at the west it was a great. cry for the independence from russia of ukrainians of baltics in another former soviet republics so. called independence war fools support it from the united states government and the

governments of the western european and eastern european countries. and now the fact is there in the baltic states and in the west ukraine of this is the only and clubs in the world where there are all open men if his station of not so slogans and the practice of the here demonstrations marches slow those writings books t.v. and the radio broadcast are practically is not so big grow but there are no criticism against it from the united states congress the white house and the government over. and western european countries police still believe. there are zero close allies for example the baltics these are the

members of need to. be in the unions their very close allies their steel touchable going to have to soften up a notice to thank you very much for joining us on this holiday and certainly many russians won't let this terrible news from ukraine destroy what has become a holiday full of glory and pride for russia very much of course some twenty seven million people lost their lives in the fight the battle to bring down nazi germany just to give you an idea of that number the u.k. and the u.s. put together a boss told me some nine hundred thousand archies sarra first met with some veterans who first hand saw the atrocities of bringing down nazi germany. it was hell i felt like an end of the world everything was on fire burning exploding all around trees were on fire and weapons were house was burning and

crushing noise was terrible people were running around here in their q. and their burning as down it's hard for me to back at the time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded good miller witnessed firsthand nazi brutality against civilians. i remember the regional homes for food every last me they could find each family he had someone who either died from starvation or was. known as the barber also jurisdiction decree nazi soldiers were exempted from prosecution if they committed a crime against the savior people and were encouraged in the murders of the jewish and slavic civilians it is war of annihilation and his instructions based on racial ideologies carried out with devastating severity among the archives here. are thousands of documents the telling some of the atrocities carried out by german

occupiers against the citizens we've read some hiring accounts from children whose parents have been killed we also found an advertisement that went up in the city the german soldiers said that they think the telephone lines were cut by one of the citizens and for that twenty people are going to be killed or they wouldn't have known he was guilty but it says at the bottom here anything similar is tried again for the punishment would be even worse. during the occupation thousands of children were rounded up like cattle and west to work in the german labor camps. were never called by names just by our numbers each barrack or surrounded with four wire with bright yellow sand around it and there were through tours in the sand the children would reach out for those nice looking to lawyers and be electrocuted there were also taking blood from the children to use for the treatment of german officers nazi propaganda films praised the friendship meeting and showing locals and germans

working hand in hand with that and witness the reality spawned incredulously and together women and children from nearby villages they were pushed into beast mode and set on fire and out of people died actually the nazi callous he would eventually priest self-defeating creating an attitude of hatred and stubborn resistance among the conquered people a young girl shot behind german lines writes to her father in the red. blood thirsty monsters you can't even call them human killed them killed and me. are three colleagues region. so you can see why this is a very solemn holiday here in russia but at the same time quite a joyous one commemorations taking place across the country the main one of course the biggest one here at red square with a fabulous parade this morning and now it's time that russians go out and muscovites especially enjoy the empty roads it's a day that usually ends with

a kind of strolling around the city enjoying the beautiful weather and wrap up with a fire show that we will bring you here on our team looking forward to ok anything now in many day life from the very heart of. well more events are expected to take place is a nice way of saying for the rest of may the ninth but the parade which become a celebration this morning remains the highlight. of this trade will be remembered for the record number of troops marching through red square always twice as many as last year you can watch the spectacular info on our website atif dot com also that you can hear firsthand accounts of the war from veterans who made this holiday possible upper. class

coming up later this hour the story of one of the bloodiest battle zones the second world war r.t. travels what was then stunning grab a city whose history is still being honor that which refuses to bury its past that's in a few minutes from now. we've got some other news now and in libya fierce fighting continues in the city of misrata the rebel stronghold that have been under siege for weeks if the tea towels and nato coalition airstrikes launched since the beginning of the allied intervention have so far failed to topple colonel gadhafi. that it has been discovering how some of those involved in the campaign are finding it harder to justify the cost. for those who joined the fight in libya the cost of conflict is quickly taking off denmark's one of just six nato members conducting air strikes to enforce the no fly zone it's six f.

sixteen fighter planes racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month but we're anticipating a number of i was considering europe and that we aren't that many nation that is using fighter planes. there to take us for example they're using drones they have had tomahawk missile but i don't have any financing or. denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first fortnight of the campaign each one cost on average fifty thousand dollars on top of that there's one point six million a month the station the jets in sicily along with one hundred thirty personnel but this rate denmark's annual cost will be one hundred seventy million dollars four percent of its defense budget that they initiate force refuses to comment on the money saying it's too political a topic parliament says it can afford it these people have come to the american embassy to show their opposition to the war it's not just the conflict they're

protesting against though it's also denmark's willingness to follow the u.s. into battle. they do this because. i don't know some people say they have an inferiority complex and they follow big daddy the. united states france wants this war in laughing so they go along her junior partner the danish parliament was unanimous in packing a bombing campaign in libya the first time ever on military action but since then cracks have appeared with the far left red green alliance with drawing its support it says nato has gone beyond its mandate by taking sides in a civil war and now the party fears denmark could follow suit again with a ground offensive looming i think it's likely because the prime minister wants to be a strongman is precedes there's an upcoming election. and also that it's the policy

of the current government to be as close to us as possible at the moment the government's against sending ground forces six f. sixteen s are already costing the same as denmark's troop deployment in afghanistan and they've been there for ten years. but as afghanistan kosovo and iraq all showed when push comes to shove the country is more than willing to join america whatever the cost other than its artsy copenhagen world one last image being made on how long later his intervention in libya will last i know the u.s. backed mission like not being able to pack it as expected america is planning to keep troops in iraq beyond the third line set for later this year and as artists we're in a port now explains there's more to it than a drive for democracy. she is the country clothed in stars and stripes accessorized with the nobel peace prize winning president pioneering the big d.

around the world let us be clear the united states of america stands with the people of tunisia and supports the democratic aspirations of all people continue. to egypt to libya. washington has said the will of the people must determine the fate of their country. but in iraq where america claims to be transplanting democracy our renewed sense of nationalism has united thousands against the us we're not supporting the democratic aspirations of people in iraq we haven't been for it for eight years now i mean iraqi people have wanted us out and we stay there for their own good that's not democracy. anger over u.s. occupation dates back to the presidency of george w. bush upon his exodus in two thousand a washington drafted an agreement promising all american troops would withdraw from

iraq by the end of this here in today's more peaceful iraq critics say the pentagon is stepping up pressure to overstay its welcome and cement its footprint the pentagon is pushing for a military presence after this summer to tell the level around twenty two thousand troops while the white house is talking about ten thousand troops so actually there is an agreement there is a tacit agreement that the u.s. will stay in iraq forty seven thousand u.s. troops still remain in iraq where america's embassy looms large and control over iraq's oil sector is perceived to be the ultimate trophy prize in this eight year war at the very least in order to deny china or any of their perceived intentional rivals control of valuable resources the idea. grained in the thinking of these new york. strategists in washington d.c. we're still very much in the north is that we must intro all the middle east

because that's where the construct experts say the u.s. also wants to remain in the region to keep an eye on syria and continue right there with the develop in syria go to the extent that there is a fall of the regime we don't know what kind of regime or maybe even there could be . us room really could be something even worse you cannot withdraw at this juncture you cannot leave the vacuum iran will just take advantage of it but from the perception of american interest meanwhile the perception of america's democracy remains somewhat distorted has it been used as a tool to achieve a geo political gains in financial interests who are all washington in the end listening to the voice of the people growing up at nine r.t. . when around two hours time people bells consul examines of people with power responds in a losing battle when it comes to stopping their countries from starting foreign wars translators say here on r.t. . well the u.s.

is pressing pakistan to explain how a thumb of bin laden with able to hide their years washington is also demanding access to his three widows believing they could be valuable sources of intelligence to contribute or says talking to bin laden himself could have been a far more effective battle but she was killed on the stake on political and question. there were two ways to take care of osama bin laden political way and special forces way this special forces option was to snatch osama bin laden alive for the purpose of enter a gating and recruiting him to follow up psychological and information operations and to condition osama bin laden to denounce all their terroristic activities and that could be the most important long term benefit of taking him

alive instead of open for political option he authorized to waste some of bin laden in pakistan on the spot to reap off shoring term political benefits in washington d.c. . well some more world news this hour now into heavy gunfire has been heard in the syrian capital as security forces across the country continue to try and break up anti-government protests it comes amid reports of nationwide house to house raids with hundreds allegedly detained as well fourteen zero near the protest leaders well since the outbreak of violence over eight hundred people died with around eight thousand believed to be imprisoned or missing. footage from inside japan's badly damaged fukushima nuclear plant has been released workers can be seen setting up a new cooling system following the installation of the air purifiers that significantly reduced radiation levels in the facility it's the first time staff have been able

to reach the reactors since the earthquake and tsunami in march calls the worst nuclear crisis since jan lokpal japan is also shutting down its nuclear plant which is a two hundred kilometers west of take it because of severe size that risks. indonesian prosecutors have dropped terror charges against a radical cleric linked to several deadly attacks. by shear is accused of being a key figure of the militant group that carried out the bali bombing which killed two hundred sixty people mostly best interests but a lack of evidence means he will only face charges of funding terrorism which could still see the server to cheer old get a license so. we continue our coverage of the victory day celebrations by heading to riches we're known for its many monuments which evoke is what time passed under some made by soviet soldiers but over

a million people lost their allies during a bloody six month battle against the nazis artie's tom barton explores a city that will never forget what it means to fight for freedom. today this city is called volgograd but sixty eight years ago it was called starling grass and it was the scene of one of the largest battles in military history and even today i've left its mark spoke physical and spiritual on the city here and its population and its that famous tribe in examining in my report. dragged back from the past this old soviet light tankers lay under the mud for sixty eight years it proved too late to stop the nazi invaders reaching the city of starving ground. drivers called a mass grave its arm of a small thin it could be pierced by machine gun bullets it was part of the soviet armies which bolton nine hundred forty two were desperately trying to protect

stalin city on the volga from a vast access offensive peter was an eighteen year old cadet as the germans closed in he was read stalin's infamous order not to retreat one step back whatever the cost. in our first combat we were bombs in our offices and were killed that was our baptism of fire. over the next six months the valor and determination of soviet soldiers saved the city and trap the invading germans in and circumvent which destroyed hitler's biggest army since that great victory much has changed stalin grad changed its name to volgograd the soviet union itself collapsed and those who remember the battle and now old. but when it comes to monuments well god made sure the heroism of the moment was set in stone so. we're going up you have to be careful here this is the most dangerous part we could be inside

a military bunker a metal and concrete certainly make it look like one but we emerged from a panoramic view of the city of volgograd far beneath we've just popped down to the head of the city's eye. conic mother russia statue in some ways this statue was a metaphor for the war itself a rough and ready construction as practical as the soviet soldiers who fought here a strength as defiant as the soviet army clung to the banks of the volga. and her size as vast as the battle that raged around here but many more in mind is a bound which are a lot less stylized and a lot more poignant these soldiers weren't buried in solemn ceremony they lie where they fell unseen till now these teams of volunteers have been researching in excavating the battle site for years but also. because relatives so soldiers are getting very old themselves the documents we find will decompose we don't pick them

up the quicker we do without the better for both the historians and the soldiers or our troops. they want to try and recall the human stories of the stalingrad battle which claimed as many as two million lives many generals say the war isn't over until the large body is buried that's the moto of every church group survey reckons there are enough bullets and bones left for even his grandchildren to find the terror and tragedy of these ultimate sacrifice is yet to be revealed this miracle is one of the more concrete reminders of what happened here sixty eight years ago but what they really digging up isn't just metal and gunpowder it's memories tom watson r.t. bugout region. and it all special report in just a few minutes also explores the longest minute shopper ational the second world war involving millions of people the battle of but it before then i'll update you on all of our top stories that's in just a few minutes here on r.t.c. .

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