if. russia holds a minute of silence in tribute of those who fell in the second world war commemoration of and smoking sixty six years since the victory of the nazis take place nationwide. but in western ukraine war veterans are insulted and assaulted by nationalists who disrupt a memorial service and raise fears of a far right. also as nato is ongoing bombing of libya fails to ease fighting over the lifeline for the kids rather the mounting cost of air raids is triggering protests in some coalition countries. and america's

a under scrutiny in the ongoing military intervention in iraq a speculation grows that the u.s. presence there could stretch beyond the withdrawal deadline. for a good evening from australia watching r.t. it's now nine pm my name's kevin owen and first off it is a put a sweet holiday for russia as the country mark sixty six years since defeat of nazi germany twenty seven million soviet people died in a struggle to repel an invasion and secure the eventual liberation of europe and earlier i spoke to our correspondents in this scenario peter all of whom following the day's events here in moscow. people are enjoying this beautiful evening after a day full of celebrations not just here in the capital but across the country really belated commemoration we saw was a moment of silence held at six fifty five pm moscow time across the country but i

think it's fair to say that the biggest event to mark the holiday was the victory day parade it happens every year this year was no different people here on red square gathered to see a spectacular show of russia's military might it included cadets as well as a display of military hardware the fly by was a little bit less than what we saw last year for the sixty fifth anniversary you remember that it just consisted of helicopters this year but nevertheless the emotions on the red square were amazing to see really and of course it's even more incredible to see the veterans who watch this great we had a chance to speak to some of them and heard about some of their memories of the great patriotic war. i was in the infantry so i walk my way through the entire war from starting ground to prague. i was eighteen at the start and twenty two when it finished and i met a beautiful girl while the war and we got married when the war was over.

unlike the courageous losses i participated in the victory parade of nine hundred forty five in moscow people and girls in st screeches us cheat for us they kissed us and expressed their happiness and the rules to drop that we won the completely happy especially as we marched in the carraige. i joined the war nine hundred forty two and starting rides was in a severe but still i was wounded it's and spent over four months in a hospital in the urals area i've been in the army all my life to jay i work with the veterans i am happy with today celebrations parade was grand the weather was sunny and all our people cheer for the victory day people greet us on the streets. everywhere thank you very much. indeed a very solemn holiday here in russia of course some twenty seven million soviet lives were lost but like you just heard from those veterans my joy is today all the

same celebrations are going to continue throughout the night certainly here in moscow people enjoying this weather strolling around carfree streets is something you don't see very often here in the russian capital and the celebrations will culminate this evening out with my fireworks display which will bring you live of course here on our chief yes mr it was looking forward to a party tonight peter i can see you're in a victory there lovely day it is to describe for us what's happening where you are the tens of thousands of people who have come here today. to pay their respects to those days millions of people he said and twenty seven million soviet citizens died during the second world war the great patriotic war they've been here to pay their respects to them but also to celebrate what they accomplished in laying down their lives the victory over nazi germany sixty six years ago well decided to take the crowds here might be able to see the background as a stage that's all this be the musical acts on play music from the time from them

in the forty's popular hits from not day playing out to entertain the crowds and amongst those tens of thousands many many veterans of being sponsored to respond to the medals that they won fighting against fascism what was a very nice touches it's very hot today here in the russian capital some of those veterans taking shelter in the shade under the trees when the we do not see crowds of people families young people all ages coming round talking to them asking them questions about just what they did during the great patriotic war very nice to see that those people not forgotten that they are they have trapped like the heroes that they. will oppose world war two the great patriotic war one of the first conflicts that they didn't just directly involve the. soldiers there were fighting on the side it was one of the first conflicts that openly involved the civilian populations and sarah ferguson referred met with some of those people who lived under nazi occupation because the region. 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 kin and their burning as down it's too hard for me to record the time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded but miller witnessed first hand nazi tallit against civilians but what. i remember of the regional homes for food every last week the could find each family he had someone who either dragged from starvation or was. mean 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 amongst the archives here in killing thousands of thought commenced 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 that 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 sent west to work in the german labor camps. were never called by names just by our numbers each clerical surrounded with barbed wire with bright yellow sand around it and they would throw tourists in the sand the children would reach out for those nice looking to lawyers

and the like translated there were also taken blood from the children use for the treatment of german officers nazi propaganda films praised the friendship meeting and showing locals and germans working hand in hand they see with that witness the reality spawned incredulously and he grew together women and children from nearby villages they were pushed into beast and set on fire a lot of people died not secret balloting will eventually pre-sell 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 kill them kill the enemy. r.t. clique a region. continue into the evening put the parade which began with celebrations the smalling remains the highlight.

of the this march will be remembered for the record number of troops that went through red square almost twice as many as last year you can watch the spectacular in fall in our web site r.t. com also you can hear firsthand accounts of the war veterans have made this holiday possible. the moral events of the time in western ukraine nationalists been violently disrupting a remembrance service as veterans paid tribute to those who perished in the war that is a lecturer jet skis following the clashes in the city of revolt. 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 nationalist parties troubled are gathered in the streets of wolf in particular here and front of the so-called hill of the glory that's where the great pressure for reference usually comes 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 have been there has been lots of verbal abuse saying death to the most rights 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 and now people literally at the veterans and those tearing the wearing those ribbons and ripping off their chest there's a lot 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 offices to the site additional forces to the site and also throwing smoke grenades and sounds and some very aggressive slogans clearly what is happening today in the city of wolf is not something completely unexpected in fact it's it is a 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. let's talk about jordan i was clearly a swatch larry's. austrian holocaust memorial services from the organization thanks for being with us know we witnessed the shocking behavior towards the veterans today in the report what more do you think should be done to stop groups of extremist nationalists from trying to grab progressivity on a day like this today. these images are indeed very disturbing

when i first saw them today i was thinking this is an absolute disgrace and it is very sad. that this is happening again but you know it is this very sentence told myself here we go again this reminded me of importance sobering but also to a certain extent soothing. points we have seen this before we have seen this before in many countries in europe and we should also remember how much time it took us in central europe in western europe to even raise the subject of holocaust and nazi crimes after the world ages and i think from from that point of view we should. be very of the fact that ukraine is certainly in the learning process and ukraine will need time because until now ukraine has only experienced soviet propaganda in this

field so as disgraceful less these events certainly yard as strongly as they need to be condemned we should not forget that it that it takes time in every country. to discuss these things. what exactly is going to say ukraine isn't the only countries are trying to redraw what happened in the second world war significant elements of latvia estonia are reassessing it who they say did what's in that conflict what does it tell us more broadly about europe's attitude towards the far right right now. while this as i said it is very disturbing and is it's worrying how. so your phobia and especially right wing movements are on the rise in all of europe an especially in eastern europe so i think we need to monitor very carefully what is going on and we need to discuss openly and to address the problems in the way this does is something that that shouldn't only come from

above you know from government officials but this is this is something that should be discussed. fundamental fundaments of our society really how can follow i may say aside carry on here. if i may cite a very good example for the snow i had a chat with the chairman of the austrian holocaust memorial service today who. attended a conference in imports them near a building on this very subject you know with say you sponsored conference on different you know memorial cultures in all of europe and how people need to understand you know how all these. things are discussed in other countries because the only way to learn to remember so to speak is to exchange views with with other . countries and. at this conference there were participants from

almost every european country the only few exceptions notable that exceptions where ukraine and russia were not represented so i think for me central and west western european point of view we need to to you know discuss this with with the ukrainians and russians publicly and to address these problems. representing the austrian holocaust memorial service thank you for your thoughts of the program tonight. and you not see violence in western ukraine is the only source of controversy this victory day the legacy of the soviet union's wartime leaders still has the power to ignite both supporters and critics and that star a leading war story in assesses stalin's contribution to sealing victory. there with. his leadership is complementary it's very possible we may be quite probable that the sort of you would have lost the world nazi germany is the symbol that

holds the whole country together simply to a critical early months of war but not only that he's also the mainstay of the soviet war for the whole war effort revolves around him about he's a political as an organizer as a mystery to a coordinator he's the most important figure ortley of the twentieth century and one of the most important people's hopes for you central but also very critical particularly many crimes that were committed by his regime should be criticized for his dictatorial rule. we'll just let you know we're covering the victory day care immigration's across russia this ninth of may for the rest of the evening i hope you can stay with us for the next hour for a moscow spectacular fireworks display to be rounding off the day of remembrance coming up shortly tonight.

so you can have more days news it's sort of pope's carrying up to six hundred libyans trying to flee the violence some call for coast of north africa several people have reportedly drowned it follows an earlier report of sixty one migrants from libya dying from thirst and hunger on another vessel which had been adrift in the mediterranean for over two weeks witnesses say so the liberally ignored the boat's mayday calls for belgian and payload of a nurse to spin out spoken about the treatment of refugees says it shows willful negligence. trying to events are sound hardly surprising to me you're talking about the most sophisticated technological on in the world and they would not be capable of finding some goats at sea while they are have operations chasing pilots on the course of somalia where they can spot one simple crank in a city and they could not do that i highly doubt it so we doubt getting into to details of the specific events these holidays surprise me but it's only logical

humanitarian concerns are not on the agenda of nader as i can tell that these 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 on the country what we could do is help tunisia and help age in the democratic movement there that would send a clear signal to the gravelles in other countries but that is precisely not what we are going to do is read very fast with our armies but when it comes to rescue people be so slow it's not it's not some some law of nature this is willing all it takes. this is our priorities and not the people that sit on boards in the military and. load of a noose there willis news is fierce fighting continues in the libyan city of misrata the rebel stronghold as we know siege for weeks now over two thousand nato coalition airstrikes launched since the beginning of the intervention of so far

failed to topple colonel gadhafi and his either ben it's 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 in 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 that was considered and ups we aren't that many nations that is using fighter planes. test take us for example they're using drones they have had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any i didn't. denmark 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 they initiate force refuses to comment on the money saying it's too political a topic but current 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 believe follow big daddy the. united states in france wants this war in good after it so they go along we're a junior partner the danish parliament was you know. animists in tacking 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 withdrawing 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 a coming election. and also that is 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's more than willing to join america whatever the cost other than it r.t. copenhagen well while estimates of being made on how long nato intervention in libya will last another us mission will not be able to crack its bags as expected

america's planning to keep troops in iraq beyond the deadline set for later this year is out is really important i explained there's more to it than a drive for democracy. she is the country clothed in stars and stripes accessorized 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 to 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 haven't been for it for eight years now it means iraqi 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 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 two days more peaceful iraq critics say the pentagon is stepping up pressure to overstay its welcome and cement its footprint. is pushing for a military presence after the summer to tell the around twenty thousand troops where 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 will 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 of their perceived intentional

rivals control of valuable resources the idea. ingrained in the thinking of all of these new york stress. it is washington d.c. we're still very much an hour is that we must control the middle east be closed for the. experts say the u.s. also wants to remain in the region to keep an eye on syria and contain iran if there were 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 the it'll 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 this is the voice of the people growing up what nine artsy or well a couple of hours' time crosstalk program examines if people power is fighting a losing battle these days when it comes to stopping the countries from starting foreign wars pits and i would say in two hours time tonight it. would bring up their hands for world news now pakistan says it will investigate how some of the large was able to hide in the country for years the country's prime minister rejected claims that pakistani authorities were either incompetent in searching for the al-qaeda leader or complicit in hiding him barack obama urged pakistan to look into what he called a support network that kept bin laden safe for almost a decade before being killed by u.s. commandos a week ago. heavy gunfire has been heard of 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 zone in on protest leaders since the outbreak of violence over eight

hundred people are thought to have died with the road eight thousand believed to be imprisoned missing. footage if you from inside japan's badly damaged focus. react to spain released workers could be seen setting up a new cooling system following the installation of air purifiers that officials say significantly reduced the radiation levels at the facility japan's also shutting the. nuclear plant that's two of course which is west of tokyo because of severe seismic risks. twenty six minutes past nine here in moscow thanks for being with r.t. my name's kevin owen of about the headline shortly for you filibuster pressure will report on the event that for many symbolize the decisive victory of a nazi germany the fall of barely.

a cluster. and inside the computer you have. and you have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds there's a huge market right now for cattle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordnance. and so you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically sprung up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is be go to these places they

will. train the locals how to do the clearance will let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest they're in there and they're putting themselves. at rest every single there when i go out there to clear areas of. a. big. rock. the price of freedom from the most polluted fascist regime in history. those who fought to win the war stand proud. against the tide of history being rewritten. sixty six years of victory

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