gun books in soldiers historical hotels of escape culture in the city streets in the sky called small mila made their elegant over until close the stroke or missed the topic on the verge of. breaking news this hour a slow down didn't still true war veterans in ukraine are a time buying nationalist disrupting a victory day service before the heroes the defeat of the nazis and raising fears of a drawing so. far across russia the sun rises all remember the massive victory day parade to all of those who gave so much to secure freedom sixty six years ago. as there's ongoing bombing of libya fails to use fire saying over the lifeline for the press rasa a mountain constable raid is triggering protests and song coalition countries.

and the americas aims all the scrutiny in the ongoing military intervention in iraq and speculation grows that the u.s. presence there could stretch beyond the withdrawal that like. a very warm a well can see this is live from moscow breaking news this victory day as memorial events are knowledge in western ukraine nationalist party members have been violently disrupting a remembrance service as veterans pay tribute to those who perished in the war i'd like to get a chef following the clashes in the city of devolve. it looks more like a hotbed of ultra nationalists and even sometimes turning into neo nazis in fact several hundred i would say maybe even more than a thousand supporters of the radical national sponsors sabo together in the streets

of wolf in particular here and front of the so-called hill of glory that's where the great pressure the corrections usually come to lay their flowers and commemorate those who died they gather here to block the entrance of the veterans to the facility to the cemetery where the red army soldiers were buried now there have been has been lots of verbal abuse saying death to the most brides death to the communists and other things like that and even some physical abuse now wearing stand george's ribbons which is something of a traditional sign of this holiday 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 will staring in the wearing gold ribbons and ripping off their chances. 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 in with this crowd turning their rage against the police they were throwing rocks at buses carrying officers to the

site additional forces to the side and also throwing smoke grenades and chanting some very aggressive slogans clearly what is happening today in the city of wolf is not something completely unexpected in fact it's part of a trend which has been going on for several years already and it's only part of a wider picture definitely same scenes can be seen in the baltic states where the history sometimes also being written and seen from the other perspective. well all day the day of remembrance has been modern ukraine widespread commemorations all being held across russia to mark sixty six years since the defeat of nazi germany twenty seven million the height of the struggle to repel an invasion and secure the eventual liberation of europe let's cross live now to correspond i think now we all of us who are following events for us in moscow and he say. the very heart of

festivities are the red square so what do you seem to day. but right now people here are most certainly enjoying this beautiful weather that we're having partly thanks to of course the clouds being dispersed for probably the biggest commemoration i think it's fair to say in all of russia that of course takes place in the capital right here on red square this morning the annual victory day parade a show of the country's military might it started with jets then there's a piece of military hardware display and before i buy this year was a little bit less it only included some helicopters nothing compared to what we saw last year for the sixty fifth anniversary but still the emotions that we saw here on red square incredible and of course among the people watching who are veterans those who took part in this battle against nazi germany some sixty six years ago is when they understood that they had made it we spoke to them about some of their most intense and fondest really memories of what happened. here we were.

i was in the infantry my way through the entire war from starting ground to prague food i was eighteen or twenty two when it finished and i met a beautiful good war and we got married when the war was over. i like the parades a lot like participation in the victory parade of the nation from a phony and a little girl's in st screeches us cheap for us to send a. stress that happens when the rules suit brought that we won the war we were completely happy especially as we march to the great gathering nomads standing i joined the war in one nine hundred forty two and starting grudge was the most severe but still always wounded it's and spent over a full months in a hospital in the urals area i've been in the army all my life to jay i worked with the veterans i am happy with today celebrations the parade was drawn through weather were sunny and all our people cheer for the victory day people greet us on

the streets in metro everywhere thank you very much jeff will go. so incredible some really joyous memories of side horrific more at least for some of those veterans of course some twenty seven billion soviet lives were lost that's compared to a combined casualty toll of nine hundred thousand of the u.k. and the u.s. put together so it gives you an idea of why this important this holiday is so important here in russia even though some sixty six years have passed since victory but now what people are doing are enjoying the empty streets of moscow it's quite a rare thing in the russian capital but it's a beautiful day as i said in the celebrations will culminate this evening with a spectacular fireworks display which we will bring you live here on our t.v. but before that at six fifty five pm moscow time

a moment of silence will be held across the country so do join me live for that in less than an hour right here on our set. he said many thanks for that we would of course be joining you for that attack in a fireworks display as you were saying by the thought of that that's closer to peace and now i can tell you a little bit about the commemorations where you are now. on just a little bit outside of the direct center of moscow in victory park here we seeing huge crowds tens of thousands of people coming here to celebrate. it's in pay tribute to the sacrifices that were made during the second world war now we've so you see many families who also see many many veterans as well what has been a very nice touches people going out to those people thanking them having their pictures taken with them and of course a lot of these veterans very old right now it's a very very hot day here in the russian capital some of those been taking shelter some shade under trees wherever they can there we've seen crowds gathering around them asking them questions telephone store out to you asking for stories about what

went on during the second world war now and it's really receiving the type of attention you usually see these days for rock stars and actors that's been heaped upon those those veterans the force for the victory in world war two of course he'll be remembering those that lost their lives as well so many millions of people dying for the freedoms that we take for granted at times these days now it is not just the soldiers that are being remembered here and those that fought of course the second world war one of the first times that civilians were really directly involved in a major conflict and as my colleague sarah ferguson now reports from the kaluga region she spoke to some of those people who lived through the nazi occupation and survived on the home front. as. 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 crashing noise was terrible people were running around

here in the queue and they're voting as down it's hard for me to look back at the time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded and miller witnessed firsthand not. against civilians but. i remember the regional homes for every last be they could find each family he had someone who either died from starvation but 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 so very silly the most the archives here. are thousands of documents the tailings 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 a german soldier said that they think their telephone lines were cut by one of the citizens and for that twenty people are going to be killed that they wouldn't have known he was guilty but it says that the boss and hear anything sinless tried again but the punishment would be even worse. during the occupation thousands of children were rounded up like cattle sent 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 there was through tourists 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 means and showing locals and germans

working hand in hand those who were that witnessed the reality spawned incredulously and the other women and children from nearby villages they were pushed into basement and then set on fire a lot of people died actually not secret balloting will eventually pretty self-defeating creating an attitude of hatred and stubborn resistance among the conquered people a young girl trapped behind german lines to her father in the red army their blood thirsty monsters you can't even call them human killed them killed and me. r.t. political region. more events are expected to take place for the rest of may the ninth parade which began the celebrations this morning remains the highlight. the parade will be remembered for the right number of troops marching through red

square most whites as many as last year you can watch the spectacular in side dot com also that you can understand simple view from batterings he made it one of a. a libyan boat carrying up to six hundred people trying to flee the violence torn country has reportedly sunk off the coast of north africa follows an earlier report of sixty one like reza from libya dying from first on hunger on another vessel which happened drifting in the mediterranean for over two weeks let's talk to the. former director of the belgium parliament. about the lack of real humanitarian assistance in the region the vendors many thanks for speaking to us here on r.t.l. there are these reports that nato military units of deliberately ignoring the

mayday calls from the boat trying to reach italy's produce our islands and how founded do you think are these claims well i'm not going to comment on the specific events of those days and before all the information is in these kind of events are sound hardly surprising to me you're talking about the most sophisticated technological in the world and they would not be capable of finding some boats at sea while they are have operations which is. across the somalia where they can spot one simple thing in a city and they could not do. it so we don't get into details of. this holiday surprise me but it's only logical humanitarian concerns are not on the agenda of the later later restricting what it can do here is intervention in libya was to protect civilians and it's supposed to enforce a no fly zone so it doesn't have any jurisdiction over fleeing refugee vessels

there is this law of the sea that says if any vessel at sea has to come to do rescue for any of the vessel you need. law of the sea. unfortunately we seem to have lost connection in a specific. story to carry on there is a vanity i thought we lost i was saying i was saying you don't need any special u.n. restriction at c c it's still a lot to see that says it any captain at sea has to consider s.q. or any other vessel at sea you do not do that you are in violation of the international law of the sea. let's see if migration europe is it's widely considered being swamped with north african refugees so is there something of a sense that european nations are now desperate to sort of turn

a blind eye to the refugees to discourage war from trying to cross the feet her place rising trends well if if you will try to block migration. is not the way to do it let's be first on the secondly it's true that the right wing governments that are not predominantly in the european union make migrating a big issue well it is a problem whether it is such a big problem that we need to really stop it and whether it's really flood at the gates of europe that's another matter i mean i hardly see anything changing in the center of europe it's a concern for right wing governments it's the problem that it created partly themselves and it's only a matter of being taking priorities are you. concerned to have my o.t. or our geopolitical concerns your priority that's the main issue and far as i can tell people flee the regimes that we have kept in place in the first place it's

only a human reaction to a desperate situation and by bombing this country is not going to help run the country what we could do is help it tunisia and help egypt a democratic movement there that would see. please sing meant to do revolves in other countries but that is precisely not what we are doing what we do is really very fast with our armies but when it comes to rescue people to be so slow that is does not is not some some law of nature this is willing politics which this are our priorities and not the people that are in the military and well of course they hate us always stress the humanitarian causes driving its intervention in north africa and looking out like area i like to look at the fact while the flight that went on in libya does show no sign of abating as i would not people trying to escape the violence what should europe's leaders be doing to protect the. well of course we

have to be honest enough and this is something that most governments or most leaders do not do not want to concede in a crisis like this there's a little you can do immediately but you can do is as long term effects what you can do is as i just told you supported them across the movement in community and gift economic supported instruments which you know one of the big problem that these people face are the economic they're in total economic straits and they do not see any other way than to flee the country well let's try to make it their own country's livable for their own citizens and you do not do that by bombing and you do that by helping to build roads hospitals schools which is precisely what we're not doing misspending our money on other things like bombing. former deputy speaker of the belgian our many thanks for those thoughts that life thank you very much. well first sighting continues in the libyan city of misrata the

rebel stronghold that has been under siege for weeks a pretty thousand natan coalition airstrikes launched since the beginning of the allied intervention have so far failed soon topple canada there are scenes i bet it is discovering how some of those involved in a campaign are fighting it harder so 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 we were anticipating a number of i was considering that we aren't that many nation that is using blades . let's take us for example they're using drones they have had a tomahawk missile but i don't have any either. but then mark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first fortnight of the campaign each one costs 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 at this rate denmark's annual cost will be one hundred seventy million dollars four percent of its defense budget the danish air force refuses to comment on the money saying it's too political a topic that 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 and the united states and france what's this war against gadhafi so they go all her junior partner the danish parliament was

unanimous in packing a bombing campaign in libya the first time ever on a military action but since then cracks have appeared with the far left red green alliance withdrawing its support it says nato has gone beyond its mandate by taking sides in a civil war now the party is denmark could follow suit again with a ground offensive looming i think it's likely because the prime minister wants to be a strong man is precedes this upcoming election. and also that is the policy of the current government to be as close with the 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 countries more than willing to join america whatever

the cost after bennett's artsy copenhagen. less than minutes are being made on how long natives intervention in libya will last and that big u.s. backed mission might not be able to pack its bags as expected american troops in iraq beyond the deadline is set for later this year it is our report not our explains there's more to it than are drawing the democracy. she is the country clothed in stars and stripes it's just arrived with a 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 from tunisia. 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

a renewed sense of nationalism has united thousands against the us we're not supporting the democratic aspirations of people in iraq we have been in store for eight years now and mean directly people have wanted us out and we stayed there for their own good that's not democracy. anger over u.s. occupation dates back to the president 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 the summer of two thousand and eleven 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 order to deny china or any other forseen extensional rival control of valuable resources the idea. grained in the thank you neal. strategists in washington d.c. we're still very much in our. control of the middle east because that's where the. experts say the u.s. wants to remain in the region to keep an eye on syria and contain iran if the development in syria go to the extent that there is a fall of the regime we don't know what kind of regime or maybe this could be. us really maybe it will 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 interests meanwhile the perception of america's democracy remains somewhat distorted has it been used as a tool to achieve the geo political gains in financial interests who are all washington in the end listening to the voice of the people growing up orton i r t. well in our next hour people are talking salman's of people power is fighting a losing battle when it comes to stopping their countries from starting foreign wars that solution here i see. our pakistan's prime minister is pledging to investigate how was i was able to hide in the country is the u.s. has been pressing pakistan to explain there's also demolishing out faster than larkin's three widows believe they could provide some valuable information r.t. that you contribute as those talking to self has been far more effective but out of what you see with kill god for the sake of political oppression. there were two

ways to take care of some of bin laden political way and special forces way and the special forces option was to snatch osama bin laden alive for the purpose of him to regain and recruiting him. psychological and information operations and to condition osama bin laden to denounce all their terroristic series 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 sure term political benefits in washington d.c. . some news this hour now and heavy gun fire 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 authorities open in protest leaders since the outbreak of violence over eight hundred people thought to have died with around eight thousand believed to be prison door missing. searches from inside japan's badly damaged fukushima nuclear plant has been released work is can be seen setting off a new coalition system or a cooling system rather following the installation of air purifies that significantly reduced radiation levels are up at the lity it's the first time staff have been able to reach the reactor since the earthquake and tsunami in march called the worst nuclear crisis since june mobile japan is also shutting down its one hundred nuclear plant which is two hundred kilometers west of take you because of severe seismic risks. indonesian prosecutors have dropped terror charges against a radical cleric linked to several deadly attacks abu bakar bashir is accused of

being a key figure in the midst of a group that carried out the body bombing which killed two hundred and sixty people mostly western tourists functor lack of evidence means the face charges for funding terrorism which could still see the seventy two year old get a life sentence. but i'll be back with a recap of our made headlines in just a few minutes if you stay with us here on our city.

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