tonight's thought see the u.s. bills pressure on syria as the state department slams the violent crackdown on protests there and promises washington will hold president assad's government accountable for the bloodshed. the time in libya fresh made so airstrikes at the capital tripoli reportedly damaging the north korean embassy and get duffy's calm and leading to more civilian deaths we've got the latest. also crime a no expire a date a german court finds a ninety one year old woman not suggest guilty of accessory to murder and sentences him to five years in jail.

torching i'll see live from moscow it's eight pm here now welcome to you if you just joined this it's kevin zero in with a top story in first tonight the u.s. is ramping up the pressure on syria with the secretary of state hillary clinton vying bashar al assad's government will be held accountable for the violence this comes on top of the economic sanctions from the european union many say the situation is mirroring now the build up to the military intervention in libya that is going to teach it can as more she joins us live from washington d.c. got a very good evening to you so more pressure is a mention from the u.s. today for some more flesh on the bones what more a way her. well kavin the u.s. secretary of state called the syrian government's reprisals brutal and said they were responsible for hundreds of deaths earlier clinton also said the u.s.

is looking to raise international pressure on the syrian government although she stopped short of saying that bush assad has lost his legitimacy as a leader but a white house source said the obama administration is edging actually closer to declaring a solid rule in syria illegitimate now the source said it will be the first step what will be the second step or where those steps are leading is unclear now the european union has already made some moves to oppose the package of sanctions on syria which include asset freezes and travel bans for certain individuals but stop sure adding the syrian president to their black leaders from what we're getting here in washington the u.s. could be adding assad to their blacklist at any time and start calling for the syrian leader to step down it usually starts with sanctions as we've seen in levy also from the case of we've you know we remember that the road from sanctions to active military intervention can be very short and very prompt the possibility of

adding a new front to america's war so there's not a fuel to most americans we know that the majority of americans oppose the intervention in libya although the u.s. involvement is is the politically covered up by the larger role of nato which many understand here is that for us it is the biggest contributor in nato and therefore they are no less involved also listening to what people say here and about the possibility of getting involved in syria many find it outrageous that the president that they elected to pull them out of all these inconclusive wars could take on another one going to a lot of sure that this is looking like the situation unfolding before the invasion of libya. oh kevin one thing. and syria have in common both regimes cracked down on the protesters in syria we're getting reports that government tanks are shelling protesters in the country's third biggest city that's about it one of the big differences though is colonel gadhafi didn't have many friends in the region with syria it's much more complex

syria is iran's closest ally in the region some say it's very unlikely that iran is going to just stand by and watch regime change in the neighboring syria this could trigger and major conflict we're standing here in libya a coalition for forces now are dealing with a stalemate there is little progress bill little sign of progress for either side in the conflict with the aerial bombardment of leave years which they bear and now they're talking about a mandate for ground troops to be sent into alleviating the meantime the number of civilian casualties there is growing support from a humanitarian point of view it's been a disaster and many analysts say again from a humanitarian point of view nothing suggest that syria could be in a better situation with a leader style intervention going on in washington d.c. thank you for your input on the program tonight. well meanwhile in libya nato bombs have hit central tripoli reportedly killing six civilians.

at least for a struggle reportedly targeted the north korean embassy and gadhafi compound coming just hours after you've made a t.v. appearance it was the first time he's been seen in public since they too attack killed his youngest son and three grandchildren more than a week ago. reportedly invited rebel leaders for talks in washington on friday and discuss these latest events in the region and to talk to kate hudson and also to become part of the nuclear disarmament in london thanks for being on the program for the start of the week how do explain why it hit gadhafi compound in tripoli let's before we just take a listen to the response. meter is not targeting individuals it's not in our among the our monday is to protect civilian population from attacks from the threat of a. few regime forces now just last night after gadhafi t.v. appearance at that compound was hit yet again reportedly killing six people including two libyan journalist. is redefining the hospital these days as a as

a military target. i think is a pretty shocking well yes i've been watching the coverage as everyone has and there was a mention there that they too is going beyond its remit are absolutely when the u.n. security council voted to take action against libya it was designed as they said to protect civilians and now it seems that with the escalation of the air attacks i think they've flown around about six thousand missions now they are hitting as it seems more and more civilian targets and this is of great concern and i very much hope that the international community takes a strong stand against this otherwise more and more civilians will be killed and of course we've heard from a u.n. agency today expressing concern to the security council that civilians are suffering in a number of ways shortages of food and so on as a result of the airstrikes all of this news today the ministrations reportedly

invited libyan rebel leaders to bring to the white house friday on top of course of wednesday's announcement of an e.u. mission in benghazi is the worst you think now officially part of this civil war. well it seems so it's been looking increasingly like that for a number of weeks and of course this again raises the question of international law which is one of our greatest concerns as we understand it it's not legal to intervene within civil wars and i think in voicing. those leaders to washington for talks shows that obama is disregarding that aspect of international law where these things will then lead who knows but it's trampling upon the very legal structure that our states have built up over decades but how far do you think the goal. of the u.n. resolution but i think they'll go there really go as far as they need to in

their view to get rid of gadhafi i think it's now it is a regime change war that's absolutely apparent that of course again is illegal under international law but they will do that until they achieve their ends and frankly it does look as though now that they may intend to target and execute these afi let's focus now for a while on syria if you can pressure mounting on the syrian leadership today with the u.s. condemning the violence and you adopting sanctions just a couple of days ago is this a problem do you think the intervention the same kind of thing we saw in libya. well that does seem to be what a number of observers are saying obviously i would hope very much not because i don't believe that military intervention is going to solve any of the complex problems of those countries all their regions but it may well be that that is the road down which the united states is going but they're still engaged in iraq there's to the gate in afghanistan they're engaged in libya their economy is in

a disaster situation how far can they go with these military intervention while hillary clinton is reported to have stopped short of calling the bashar assad regime illegitimate but you know where is the line drawn here who decides whether a regime is legitimate or not. well i think that's that's a very difficult difficult question but certainly it's not down to individual states to do that and i think that obviously in an ideal situation it is the people of that country which come to that decision and one would aspire to a situation where all peoples are entitled to vote to decide on the legitimate governments of their countries what we don't need is foreign powers intervening militarily to try and impose or change a regime that doesn't suit them you know we've seen we've heard rhetoric from the united states and others over the past few weeks about the need for democracy and so on we've seen them backing some movements that they like we've seen them helping

to suppress popular is this dissent in places like bahrain you know there is not a level playing field here there is not even handed approach to principles of self-determination and human rights and i think the west needs to take a hard look at itself and stop intervening in what are essentially what can essentially it is as its own interests. and should losers well in the west supported revolutions there. clashes in both countries more clashes in should measure as well recently show i guess that the states are still far from stable as the west and the wrong horse. well i think it interesting really the west came to support the people in most countries having initially. well calm and even handedness i think mr blair our former prime minister mr. mubarak with

a good ally of the west it's not been a one way street in the west supporting democracy movements or popular movements democracy and i think this is something that people need to be very aware of and if the us and the west are going to go into other countries for their motivations this is an important question dr kate hudson general through the campaign for nuclear summit in london thanks for being on r.t. . news today german courts convicted a former nazi death camp guard of accessory to murder during world war two children in new york was found guilty of helping to kill thousands of jews and was sentenced to five years in prison. reports. john demjanjuk has been released from court because his defense filed an appeal against this decision by the munich court and clearly the man can walk for now until the appeal has been revised the ninety one year old ukrainian has been on trial for the last eighteen months or so this may sound very little this this official from especially given the fact that john

demjanjuk association with the murder of more than twenty eight thousand jews in the sobibor process in full and was was established so this prison term of five years happens only because john demjanjuk has already spent and eight years in an israeli prison and according to german legislators the usual prison term for the people who used to work in concentration in nazi concentration camps is about fifteen years now our correspondent ok to integrate those who remember of the atrocities of the soviet war concentration camp in poland. and you only once through the gates of sobibor once there was no return unlike in other concentration camps such as alice ritz there was no slave labor people was sent immediately to their death the answers that seemed jews were welcomed by a band and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rapture even won

applause then came an invitation to shower after the long journey but it was all a deadly deception a quarter of a million jews proceeded along this forest called pavement parched ass that was straight to have an s.s. man escorted the victims down the track to the gas chambers the ukrainian s.s. guards and the german s.s. officers were allowed to take up the task they were considered the most well trained and the most reliable among those standing guard was john demjanjuk completed in nearly twenty eight thousand counts of murder many of those he scored had to the gas chambers were children most of my friends are and of course i recently received a believe in yourself that's right i know and before. i had a vice marshal. and i could build up my own armored vehicles it wouldn't suit me to the last i should think you could have shown her guests in the room before being

sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent in town straining demand you want to the traveling camp where the asset is carried out weapons drills and combat training and even taking german language classes it is difficult to say very had. training here on the investigations are given after war and nobody from them told the sun i'm getting training or antisemitic training. soldiers army training here in the camp they were surprised that there was a worse kind of a duty which we had could. have to go into death comes. but victims' relatives believe all those who signed up as a sas man were well aware of the duties they'd be carrying out mariam whose mother was one of the lucky few who survived sobibor pushed for the prosecution of demjanjuk she may be in her eighty's but she made it to every court session she

wants him to admit that he was here and what sobibor is it's not a war it's not soldiers against each other it's killing people in a factory every war criminal you served it's one thing war there will never have never you how many years thanks to this rhetoric or do you have to be matched. the d.n.a. a new trial is a sign that the twenty first century is still prepared to deal with the evils of the twentieth a warning that there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity exceeding the gretsch of a r t c b bor poland. well if we're talking about john demjanjuk case alone here in ukraine for all the eighteen months of his trial he has had very strong support from some political forces here in this post office they say particular the border

movement i'd like to remind to our viewers that this party the suborder is the very same movement which organized the street riots in the west ukrainian city of people from a the night just less than a week ago on the victory day celebrations and despite me saying that under some saying in ukraine that this was a purely nationalist rally were people chanting slogans about the freedom of ukraine well i saw for myself or my own with my own eyes that these people were using nazi gestures not you nazi slogans and nazi style propaganda in the crowd that is a part of course of course from the physical and verbal abuse of the great virtues it were better in school came to lay flowers a different cemeteries across town well this is not the sole case we've seen many cases of many similar cases across the some of the post soviet space some countries of course obvious space like the baltic states between in latvia where s.s. marches and glorification of the former s.s. legions has been taking place for the last decade. or more the story of john

demjanjuk to include an interview with his lawyer on our website that stream and if you'd like to catch it if you want to. the story it's at r.t. dot com tonight. the two biggest boys on wall street reportedly planning to set a pretty one dominated private equity fund set up in china goldman sachs wants to raise up to five billion one which she calls about almost eight hundred million u.s. dollars and morgan stanleys to follow suit next week let's talk about this and its implications for the american economy with the economic research or an author with the. very good even she thinks when a program or you sing the first real signs of a shift from the dollar dominated world economy to other countries talk about long enough. well the problem is goldman sachs morgan stanley it all have destroyed their whole market with these securitization. scheme if you want to call it back in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight two thousand and nine they've done a good job of destroying much of the european market with the greek crisis the

portugal and so wide and so now they're desperately looking for new sources to kind of suck out the capital in china and the bric countries are one of the prime plums are left to pick when the world economy as they see it but the chinese are no fools although of course i guess they're playing along hoping to hell they did mess get called on me a private sector you say the american guys don't have those same interests in mind . well everywhere the american banks go they may wreak havoc i mean just look at the track record over the over the last years so to let let goldman sachs in with a private equity fund for the city of beijing is simply inviting the fox to guard the chicken coop the i don't know what transpired between goldman sachs and beijing officials i can only speculate but. i've seen also indications that the chinese authorities are being very very guarded in what they're going to going to allow

these these foreign investors to do inside china raising private equity from chinese or sources trying to sign it but wealthy individuals and others so it remains to be seen how massive a shift this is but i think from the side of goldman sachs and the wall street gobs of money they simply want to get in into brazil they're doing similar things there into russia you had this project announced by president medvedev recently where goldman sachs bank of america very morgan chase had been invited to present a proposal to make moscow a world financial center the wisdom of that i think is worth a question in perhaps there is a double game of deception going on to appear open and friendly to wall street in hopes of getting some capital i don't know. wall street is going after all of these bric markets in order to get a good new source of profit and that's not necessarily true but as you say with all

this looking at brule it's hardly a ringing endorsement of wall street is it. and there were not a lot i mean you only have to look at what's happened since two thousand and seven when the extra money goldman sachs hundred paulson created the. bankrupted layman in september two thousand and eight actually bankrupted lehman brothers bailed out g.e. the world's largest insurance group because goldman sachs is former bank was up to their neck in. the news with the. various securitization assets and the tarp fund seven hundred billion dollars of taxpayer money was given to henry paulson carte blanche after the lehman bankruptcy so they have more or less destroyed the domestic u.s. economy the real estate debacle rolls on rolls on rolls on the unemployment grows in the u.s. there is no recovery there's not even a green shoots of recovery going on europe outside of germany in a few bright spots is is floundering in the after effects of this. financial bubble

that goldman and company helped create were in there are loath or and the economic research is the one from germany today i think you're in for an r.t.s. appreciate it. colin threats are about to get a joint response to terrorism and drug trafficking of being tackled by president very different his pakistani counterpart to see feliz adare was in moscow on a four day visit the two men met in the kremlin acknowledging that both countries are suffering from international islamist terror networks and the drug flow from afghanistan economic ties also came up with moscow in islamabad agreeing to boost the energy sector during the next three days the pakistani leader plans to meet with the russian business community and visit. other new world news in briefs from the state has been hit by its biggest earthquake in fifty years that's left at least eight people dead and dozens injured the quake measured five point two would make and shoot it came several hours after nearly a tremor and forced thousands to stay outdoors overnight major damage has been

caused to buildings in the southern city of la at the worst affected area but on throughout teach you tube channel more footage from the shake quake in the region. quite shaken now in japan the operator of the trouble fukushima nuclear plant has revealed the damage to one of the reactors is worse than the previously thought tepco said it's discovered moltz a nuclear fuel burnt through the walls of that we have to number one very early on of the crisis and this news coming in with concerns over a new radiation leak into the sea efforts to stabilize the situation at the site has been going on for two months now. cicely's witnessed a brief ruction of maldef know that spewed lover of ash no damage or casualties been reported so far an airport in a nearby town to be closed to strong winds hundred cleanup of ash from the runways and is considered europe's most active volcano its last major up should was two.

it was a night in russia so for the stars came out to play find out i was celebrity eleven headed by legend three d. i got out of donna no less last friendly against a team of russian stars including the leader of the chechen republic it was a culmination of a night of high drama and spectacular fireworks able to go with bradley stadium huge place all the action all pictures coming your way in the sport would take twenty minutes to. talk business right now the root of the tree. just two weeks ago there was talk of a commodity super spike precious and not precious metals soft commodities or well they were all posting various records but two weeks is a long time another talk is of bubbles bursting and the end of the boom cycle only slowed handsome from the secular greg tells us what he thinks is happening. what we having right now is a bit of a reality check from investors with the spec and surveillance in these markets think come to levels which one sustainable so we're seeing back from investors

a moment and generally seen the economic statistics over the last couple weeks starting to turn a little bit negative and my has been cautious about these high energy prices and how long it will happen before it starts to have an impact on the general activity level and there are still worries about chinese inflation is still rising and they're still tightening their monetary policies out there so so there is a generally the shift from the supply side to now a worry about the demand is slowing down. russia will not sell foreign bonds and will cut its domestic goring this year i'm expected prices have been pumping extra cash into the state budget and the g exports will add an extra forty billion dollars this year to cut the deficit to one g.d.p. they will also axe domestic boring by twenty percent or just see billion dollars some economists claim russia should have taken advantage of the low cost of borrowing abroad and stored up the extra oil revenue over all those points out that . the states still worries about unnecessary for and it. look at the

markets we start with commodities going to be with oil crude prices have been coming back slightly off the fooling deeply today there's a bounce back from wednesday's heavy sell off you're seeing on the brant just fourteen cents three hundred twelve dollars seventy two cents light sweet is down slightly though. precious metals are losing ground even though there's a better of course that even though there was a few hours ago gold is bouncing point four percent silver is continuing its trajectory of the previous session lost eight percent down another four percent right now. it's moved through stock markets now in the valley jones is down despite jobless claims dropping by forty four thousand all sales retail sales and also off but this isn't helping the market much nasdaq is up just a notch in europe this is the closing picture from things down how if you say next point seven percent of towns are one of the few stocks trading high on the day

actually much all session long as our lines and travel stocks mostly got a boost from foreign oil prices. here in russia this is the closing picture of thursday's session yasi is down two point three percent nice six one and a half a sense to see why and not surprisingly energy and metals majors were having a bad day down more than three percent no but one point seven five percent service they'll ever manage the balance. back. there was news reporter that was buying into minarik house nine or company in brazil obviously going to sound out of mind sentiments for the day. straight from the. local governments the same sort of process that was going on elsewhere in the emerging markets that is the big concern for exploratorium what's more it's like russia you . should read a book you. of course inflation which is associated with low prices i thought well

this is prices course for producers and. it's another thing all this. sort of for market growth prospects for emerging markets pollution markets where this has been but investors despite that will force a super. you know. sort of you know. sort of. the other news now the world's top aluminum producer roussel has tripled net profits almost seven hundred fifty million dollars in the first quarter the figure beats forecasts by sixty percent and stronger demand in china. russian helicopters will most likely hold its initial public offering in a year's time that's according to parent company about on product as they run out of hope the manufacturer adds hope to get the five hundred million dollar i.p.o.

off the ground this may help the company announced last week that it would not go ahead citing unfavorable market conditions. and appraisal was made and we believe it is not in this respect the decision was made to postpone the i.p.o. we're waiting for the right price however this is not affected the government's privatisation program this from i mean all right kevin thanks for the headline to say without saying it again.

is my name is daniel smith this is julian assange we're here to make a short presentation about the we can fix project. the first step in the fourth grade is to get information out about the real world. through the war on syria and the major. difference is the biggest. going to be in the market. if i ever put any sources in danger he would hunt me down and kill. this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become a war a cult.