day of remembrance rounds off shortly with a fun fair of fireworks in moscow to bring this day's victory day commemorations to a closer report coming up. but also today in western ukraine war veterans are insulted and our soldiers by nationalists who disrupt a memorial service and raise fears of a far right surge. as nato is ongoing bombing of libya fails to ease fighting over the lifeline port of misrata the mounting cost of air raids is triggering protests in some coalition countries. and america's aims under scrutiny of the ongoing

military intervention in iraq speculation grows that the u.s. presence there could stretch beyond the withdrawal deadline. we're going to even you're watching r t it's ten pm monday night and first of all in the spring sunshine it's been a day of remembrance and thanksgiving here in russia victory day now as night falls fireworks of just this last minute started in moscow to mark sixty six years since the defeat of nazi germany let's head across the street to the river to see this and now is going to talk us through it really is a great show piece every year and people expecting a good display tonight as well you know. yes indeed this is the culmination of this celebration this you can probably see behind me hundreds of people have made their way through what's red square onto this bridge just outside the kremlin hundreds if

not thousands are gathered watching at the culmination of commemorates. in the russian capital with this grand fireworks display i'll be quiet and let you tackle . just to give you an idea of how grand this display is some thirty soule goes from almost a hundred launchers and guns are lighting the sky above moscow as we speak they can be seen from almost any point where here on red square they're also seen from victory park where hundreds tens of thousands of people usually gather on this holiday this of course is a tradition that began back in one thousand nine hundred forty five when news reached moscow's that nazi germany had surrendered so people here in the capital found out that this exhausting long arifin war has ended and as you can see it's

a tradition that has carried on. your new so through so it's quite difficult to get the scale of what's happening there looking over your shoulder i was with you last year we did a lot of coverage of some of the fireworks were a bit closer to home a bit closer to the red square on the on the banks of the kremlin learn it really not just here free this the scale of it i can assure of you is spectacular displays are equally good this year is just our cameras aren't quite as close as last year that we can see that we're not quite getting there given you know using sounds from it puts another glass as you say it is a huge display and it's been a big day of celebrations has made just to paint a picture for us of how much muscovite some people across russia get involved in this day. this is a tremendous holiday here in russia kevin some twenty seven million soviet lives were lost during the second world war what russians call the great patriotic war

just to give you an idea of the u.k. in the u.s. combined last some nine hundred. thousand so twenty million twenty seven million is a huge number and that's part of the reason why this holiday is so very close to the hearts of many russians it's usually marked here in moscow the biggest event takes place as you know on red square with the annual victory day parade this year of course was no exception some twenty eight thousand military personnel took part that's a record and it was quite a grand show it's something that the country does every year wasn't as spectacular as the sixty fifth anniversary but that just goes to say that when the seventieth anniversary in homs i'm sure we'll see quite a phenomenon here at red square one of the important things that at least for me that is incredible to see is the better rigs that come to watch this right to see their eyes to see them remember we had a chance to speak to some veterans about their memories of fighting nazi germany.

or you know. i was in the infantry so i walked my way through the entire war from starting ground to prague food i was eighteen at the start and twenty two when it finished and i met a beautiful girl world war and we got married when the war was over. i like the phrase a lot i participated in the picture khorasan one hundred forty five in moscow little girls in st screeches us cheat for us just assume express they haven't. dropped the one that we were completely happy especially as we marched in the parade waiting on natural standing good idea i joined the war nine hundred forty two installing grudge was a most severe battle i was wounded it and spent over a full months in a hospital in the urals area i've been in the army all my life to j. i worked with the veterans i'm happy with today celebration is the parade was drawn the weather was sunny and a lot of people cheered for the victory day people greet us on the streets in metro

everywhere thank you very much. so a very solemn holiday here in russia but like you heard from those veterans a joyous day as well and joy it's certainly the atmosphere that we had here at red square people enjoy this fireworks display celebrations most certainly looking to new into the night on this sixty sixth anniversary i think three over nazi germany in world war two so we saw some of you showed you speak in there and though for you missing out on too much action but there are fireworks well underway and. victory park and also the other television ablaze with. thank you for your input and thank you for your reporting today it's pretty shaded. well victory day commemorations have been held across russia with veterans sharing both painful and joyful memories and this was talking about it there of the struggle to secure the eventual liberation of europe sees peter all of has been following events in moscow has been

three for us. well tens of thousands of people have come here today to picture talk to you to pay their respects of those days millions of people he said and twenty seven million soviet citizens guy cheering 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 that victory over nazi germany sixty six years ago well to set entertain the crowds here might be able to see in the background as a stage sets up the speed of musical acts on playing music from the time from them in the forty's popular hits from not a playing out to entertain the crowds and amongst those tens of thousands many many veterans of being spotted here was splendid and that medals that they they won fighting against fascism what was a very nice touches it's a hot day here in the russian capital some of those veterans taking shelter in the shade under the trees when they would not really seeing i am proud to people

families young people all ages coming round talking to them asking them questions about just what they did during the great patriotic war it's 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 they did it didn't just directly involved the soldiers they were fighting on either side it was one of the first conflicts that openly involved the civilian populations and sarah ferguson sarah first met with some of those people who lived under nazi occupation and they could leave the region well this. it was hell i felt my command of the world everything was on fire burning exploding all around trees were on fire. house was burning and crushing noise was terrible the people running around here in their cue and their voting as down it's too hard for me to record the time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded big miller witnessed

firsthand nazi brutality against civilians because record i remember the read our homes for every last really could find if family here had someone who either drives past a relation but was. known as the barbara 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 placed on racial ideologies carried out with devastating severity monks 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 harrowing accounts from children whose parents had 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 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 . we were never called by names just by our numbers for each barrack or surrounded with barbed 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 showing locals and journalists working hand in hand those who were there to witness the reality respond incredulously the group together women and children from nearby villages they were pushed into beasts and then set on fire

a lot of people died betty in nazi callous he would eventually priest self-defeating creating an attitude of hatred and stubborn resistance among the conquered people the young girl trapped behind german lines writes to her father in the red army their blood thirsty monsters you can't even call them human killed them partner killed the enemy. r.t. the region. we term a moral. in western ukraine nationalists were violent disrupting a remembrance service there as veterans paid tribute to those who perished in the war. the reports from the city of. holiday for millions a street brawl for sun unlike most of the post soviet region on may the ninth of this ukrainian city became a vicious display of neo nazis and. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties block the entrance to red army

soldiers cemeteries preventing war veterans from getting inside and playing tribute some in this part of ukraine do not see me the ninth as a reason to celebrate leaving the soviet period to be nursed an enduring nazi occupation the st george's ribbon is usually worn as a tradition on may the ninth to commemorate those who died in the great pressure arctic war but on this day in the west the ukrainian capital city of new off putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. it's like you don't like that remember the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading to the graveyards along with the views of chance such as death to the most whites nazi salutes hurling rocks and small bones that is how the fourth marched made the nine yeah we're here in this picture are my brothers in life the liberation of this land from the fascists that these people here could not let me come inside this century to lay flowers and he's great this is it is grace. such seeing surprised even the locals who had grown used

to protests on victory day these were the scenes from last year when the nationalist wipe their feet on the red victory banner parañaque your argument we spent thirteen years in detention in siberia brothers were killed with me could something like this have happened in a new country that. their heroes are people regarded worldwide as nazi collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the one nine hundred forty s. insurgent army step on monday and a monstrous leverage our big hit here there are seen as freedom fighters even though for a while they fought alongside the nazi army and killed civilians jews and russians in the new some manner actions like the. only tension right after the sacrifices country made to be liberated from the nazis and the result of professions propaganda like the rehabilitation of nazi collaborators going should be rich in bonn there and this is only part of the right picture the perception of the past is making waves in other former soviet states namely as as marches and glorifying nots

allegiance in the baltic states such as latvia and estonia the danger is that people begin to forget what we fought for what the veterans died for as we're seeing the reemergence of far right forces and nationalist forces it really in many sense resemble exactly those that the merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such behavior is the only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect but the are you seems a little off should definitely alert ukraine's leadership especially after demands for a revolution what leader voiced by the and let's see recessed yatsenyuk reporting from divorce in western ukraine. more than ever now see violence in west ukraine isn't the only source of controversy this big three day the legacy of the soviet union's wartime leader then still has the power to ignite both supporters and critics even now in about twenty minutes time a leading war story in assesses starlin's contribution to sealing victory that. you

know with. his leadership with his contribution it's very possible. maybe quite probable that the saudi would have lost or not is the symbol. that holds the whole country together signature in a critical early months the world will know that he's also a mainstay of the soviet war effort to put the whole of your effort revolves around him about his abilities as an organizer as administrator is according to he's the most important figure of the of for the century and not the most important piece of the twentieth century or so but you know most of the very critical or particularly the many. crimes that were committed by him and his regime criticized for his dictatorial rule. so look some other news now is thought of both caring up to six hundred libyans trying to flee the violence has sunk off the coast of north africa several people have reportedly drowned it follows an earlier

report a sixty one migrants in libya dying from thirst and hunger on board another vessel of delivery from the mediterranean for a fortnight witnesses say nato deliberately ignored the boat's mayday calls from a belgian and payload has been outspoken about the treatment of refugees says it shows willful negligence these kind of events are sound hardly surprising to me you're talking about the most sophisticated technological arm in the world and they would not be capable of finding some boats at sea while they are have operations. under close to somalia where they can stop one simple tank in a city and they could not do that i highly doubt it so we doubt getting into details of the specific events this holiday surprise me but it's only logical humanitarian concerns are not on the agenda of the later 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 on the contrary what we could do is help tunisia and help egypt a democratic movement there that would send a clear signal to the halls in other countries but that is precisely not what we do is very very fast with our armies but when it comes to rescue people it turns resources there's this not is not some sort of nature that this is a willing politics that this is our priorities and not people that i think on in the military and. fierce fighting continues in the libyan city of misrata the rebel stronghold those were under siege for weeks now and there were two thousand nato coalition air strikes have been launched since the beginning of the early intervention of so far failed to topple colonel gadhafi and his other ben it's been discovering how some of those involved in a campaign of 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 a racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month we're anticipating a number that was considered up and down we aren't bad many nations that is using fighter planes. there say u.s. for example they're using drones they had had tomahawk missile but i don't have any i that means all of denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first fortnight of the campaign each one costs on average be 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 of english air force refuses to comment on the money

saying it's too political a topic column and says it can't afford it these people have come to the american embassy to so bare 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 ellie's follow big daddy the. united states in. this war against gadhafi so they go along we're a junior partner the danish parliament was unanimous in backing and 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 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 it's 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 and countries more than willing to join america whatever the cost are bennett r.t. copenhagen while estimates are being made on how long nato intervention in libya will last another u.s. backed mission might not be able to pack his bags as expected america's planning to keep troops in iraq beyond the deadline set for later this year my desire to report explains there's more to it than a drive for democracy. she is the country clothed in stars and stripes

success arised with a nobel peace prize winning president pioneering the gig the 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 they will look at 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 here 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've stayed there for their own good that's not democracy. anger over us occupation gates that is the president i think you were talking you pushed upon his exodus in two thousand eight

hundred ten in 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 thousand troops while the white house is talking about ten thousand troops so actually there is an agreement 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 next in order to deny china or any of their perceived tensional rival control of valuable resources the idea. ingrained in the thinking oh it's these new york. strategists in washington d.c.

we're still very much in our eye is that even must ensure all the middle east closed. experts say the u.s. also wants to remain in the region to keep an eye on syria and iran of the developing in syria go to the extent that there is a fall of the regime we don't know what kind of regime or maybe it will be. us three 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 that's from the perception of american interests meanwhile the perception of america as 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 bring up what niall artsy. interesting point and a bit later in the program stuart program examines that very thing is people power

is fighting a losing battle when it comes to stopping their countries from starting foreign wars we've got more about that than here in our next. let me bring up to date on some top world news stories now first off pakistan saying tonight 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 incompetent in searching for al-qaeda leader was complicit in hiding him but obama urged to stand and look into what he called a support network kept a large and safe for almost a decade before being killed by u.s. commandos a week ago. every gun fire has been heard of the syrian capital as security forces across the country continue to try and break up antigovernment protests comes amid reports of nationwide house to house raids with hundreds allegedly detained as authorities only in on protest leaders since the outbreak of violence began over eight hundred people thought to have died with around eight thousand believed to be imprisoned or missing. footage here for you from inside japan's badly damaged

fukushima reactor this is just been released workers could be seen here setting up a new cooling system a part of that's what it is following the installation of air purifiers that officials say significantly reduced the radiation levels at the facility now japan's also shutting down its have no kurt nuclear plant meantime that's two hundred kilometers west of tokyo they say they do it here because of severe seismic risks. twenty five minutes past ten moscow time in one of those sports on the way just a little later including the latest tough talk between haim klitschko ahead of the world title bout in july as part fifteen minutes ahead four years before then the giving history credit where it's due in ridding the world of nazi aggression that program coming up in a few minutes i'm kevin allen thank you for being with r.t. .

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