to. the latest news and the week's top stories here in r.c. the u.s. moves to hold the syrian regime accountable for violent crackdowns on protesters much like it did with pearl that avi just before leaving airstrikes overly via. the libyan rebels suffer a crucial said battle failing to secure official recognition and could obvious hash from washington. the recent influx of refugees from the arab world breeds mistrust between the peons as the e.u. mauls i'm president of border control measures. plus russia and the world

commemorate sixty six year is a victory over the nazis but stashes followers in ukraine's harness the anniversary by attacking more veterans. want to argue live from moscow i'm marina josh and this week the u.s. mounted pressure on syria where the state secretary hillary clinton promising to punish bashar assad's government over the ongoing violence against protesters some eight hundred people have been killed since the beginning of anti-government demonstrations in the country european union has already impose economic sanctions on the regime and as the u.s. threatens tougher measures many say washington's appetite for intervention is inevitably leading to a libyan scenario in syria or he's going to check our reports. who is a legitimate international leader and who is not it seems america will decide

a white house source said the obama administration is edging closer to declaring assad's ruling syria illegitimate and that it would be just the first step we will continue to work with our international partners in the e.u. and elsewhere on additional steps to hold syria responsible for its gross human rights abuses sounds familiar united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer deter further violence put in place sanctions. government help when the u.s. says it's going to hold someone responsible expect action once the u.s. has officially declared the syrian government illegitimate. it would open the door. true various steps are taken to remove that government but the south proclaimed position of the us as the world's

policeman and judge of which government is legitimate or not doesn't sit well with everyone here in the us arrogance if you want. your government you gentlemen are not to be in the world of the americans. even some of the u.s. long time allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by those that's the white house to act as the arbiter of who holds power in the world. are you president of the united states a president of the world when condemning government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the us claims the higher moral ground declaring human rights is the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you know hurts me and your d.n.a. . it's all hollow and we're going to have a we're obviously. in

a movie when day or so are you. rock n roll. you cross the country and your. program america's self-proclaimed humanitarian involvement has led it to take sides in the libyan civil war the us has pledged extensive support for the rebels newly released wiki leaks cables show the u.s. had been funneling money to syria's opposition for several years now but some say the help comes with strings attached and nobody gives away money for nothing or arms and the u.s. sees the opportunity of putting in a friendly pro-american. government responsible to american interests the coalition efforts in libya have reached a dead end with the country now in military stalemate in the meantime civilian casualties there continue to grow analysts say foreign involvement in syria could

trigger a much worse conflict serious in the heart of the arab world and if it explodes or implodes it will affect all its neighboring countries iraq saudi arabia jordan israel lebanon. they're in they're all likely to get involved in a collapse similar or a war torn serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another recent say some to go after are silent relying on iran as your best friend and your own lease for teaching ally is not a viable way forward critics say the us takes on the role of world policeman not things on its inherent altruism but rather out of self-interest and the bigger question is whether those interests are from the wall some for or have to stabilize the more i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. the policy of the u.s. and its allies is more about a struggle for world dominance than protecting civilians that's the view

subconscious down from the british civilians for peace in the media group. the west would like the syrian regime like the libyan regime like with hizbollah and the palestinian resistance to disappear yesterday now achieving that is a whole different kettle of fish i think where the west is now in this historical moment everyone knows that. the uni polar world has finished entering into a multi-polar world on the west is panicking about that they can't sit back and allow the break nations of the global south just to rise up or for them to just go without go without a fight so now is really the historic opportunity for western germany to try to hold back a little bit of world domination that they've lost in the last decade. the libyan rebels have failed to gain official recognition from the us government a top rebel of facial was even denied an audience with barack obama in washington on friday but brill is the first senior member of libya's national transitional

council to visit the u.s. after meeting american officials djibril said the rebels were having trouble getting washington to release colonel could obvious frozen assets administration earlier promise to hand over some of them also a billion dollar funds to be also met french president nicolas sarkozy in paris on saturday with no breakthrough there either is a leading capital tripoli funerals were held for a group of muslim clerics allegedly killed by nato airstrikes as a war activist kate hudson says the coalition's intervention is an insult to international law. when the un 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 they are hitting as it seems more and more civilian targets we've heard from a un agency 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 this again raises the question of international law 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 it's trampling on the very legal structure that our states have built up over decades it is a regime change war that's absolutely apparent that of course again it's illegal under international law but they will do that. and frankly it does look as though now that may intend to talk to the execute. so can the sour here in our russia honors those who fought in world war two. but. victory day celebrations commemorating the salvia triumph over nazi germany are barred by violent nationalists attacking veterans in ukraine. and sless

then a thousand days until lot of russia's most anticipated sporting event welcomes athletes and spectators from around the world. the influx of refugees fleeing the uprisings in the arab world is driving a wedge between the e.u. states some are calling to reinstate temporary or even permanent internal border controls within the union and as archie's dana bushell reports europe may have opened the floodgates for trouble. the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a pizza feud between two of the e.u.'s founders france blocked train services from italy after finding carriages full of african migrants italy had handed out presidents visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust on which the e.u. visa free regime relies it has shown a kind of literally mistrust between two partners between france and italy france

considering that italy has not implemented in a good way the rules. for thousands fleeing the violence in north africa italy is the nearest e.u. border security experts who've studied the country's patrols say they're on the strings but fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes. of the thug. just on the city with people coming from outside and not not able to fix the problem we are not criminals there are madmen we don't want them here. protested to the french embassy for courts voile ation of european principles france counts as it's already takes five times more immigrants than italy and peace here of the european parliament say they need to control immigration but with each member state putting its interests first and blaming each other for the problem migrants are just getting calls from one state to another

e.u. security chiefs this week held crisis talks and did muted the system's roy for abuse one and the same applicant for asylum can have like seventy seventy five percent chance of being granted asylum in one country of the european union and less than one percent with the same reasons in another country states and they're taking the law into their own hands on wednesday denmark and reintroduced border controls for people coming from. of the e.u. states. home of the e.u. headquarters is now calling for the same. illegal immigrants to. back to each other this is not possible isn't possible for the people in question but it's not possible to the. situation asked for more internal border. growing numbers in the union's biggest country will be to change to germany today proposed

possible restrictions in terms of freedom of travel and this is really something that many people are concerned of richer nations in the e.u. in beijing with the restrictions on working and benefits for citizens from a central and east european states which join the union in two thousand and four when lifted on the first of may one peoples will flock to the u.k. attracts people from the countries that have just joined the attracts people from outside the european union because they know once they get into your opinion country they can cross borders they can work if i want to take advantage of the generous benefits system in most european or some european countries like britain for example and actually attracts more migration which is what we're seeing now from north africa at the signing of the shingled agreements on visa free travel e.u. leaders. the fear now is they've opened the pandora's box that they no longer control then you see brussels while the unrest in north africa and the middle east

is causing friction between even members earlier this week european m.p.'s voted in favor of requesting their own permanent representative and see the u.n. security council that's part of any overhaul plan of events common to fancy kury and foreign policy of the move has caused the score among some member states the u.k. has already said that it will not give up its permanent seat on the council for the sake of a single euro. and charles tag thanks. to you is no way that the british government or the british conservative delegation i speak for the conservatives in the european parliament we would support any move which weakened our ability to project our foreign policy interests and clearly being founding members of the un security council with a veto as a permanent member this is a major plank in being able to project our foreign policy interests and indeed we

were so successful recently in collaboration with our french colleagues in securing un security council resolution and nineteen seventy three over libya so no we would not give up our seat in favor of a new use seat because at the end of the day the common foreign security policy of the european union is only when we all agree and sometimes we don't all agree as was the case over iraq and has been the case regrettably in some ways over libya when the germans abstained so now it's essential as a defining characteristic of a nation's foreign policy the ability to speak when they want to in their national interest and clearly the seat on the u.n. is one of the most important things that we can have as a nuclear power as a founding member of the security council that is the united kingdom and i can really can't see any traction for the u.k. government to want to do so check out our web site r.t. dot com for more on this story plus to celebrate the legacy of one of the greatest

ballerinas of the twentieth century. ballet extravaganza will take over a one day gather all the details on our website. check out the call for example a helicopter pilot has shown artist and control a series of stunts including. shaving a man topper. on the lines of may russia commemorated sixty six years since the defeat of nazi germany in the great patriotic war the day kotov with a traditional parade in red square with twenty thousand troops marching alongside military might the spectacle was attended by more of barons and the country's top ranking officials a minute of silence was observed in the memory of the twenty seven million people

who died during the war that three day celebrations also took place in cities across the country and former soviet states however events were marred and western ukraine for violent nationalist tapped veterans are the life here cesky reports on how the incidents being seen as part of a far right surge in view of. the holiday for millions and still need rules for some unlike most of the amazing life they see created since he became a vicious display of neo nazis and. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties book the engines the red army soldiers cemeteries conventional war veterans from getting inside and playing tributes some in this part of ukraine do not see me tonight as a reason to celebrate leaving the soviet period to be worse than enduring nazi occupation the same georgists ribbon is usually worn as a traditional by the ninth to commemorate those who died in the great pressure to

war but on this day in the west the ukrainian capital secure from both putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. if you like it you know that the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading to the grave yards along with abuse of chances such as just to the most whites nazi salutes hurling rocks and smoke bombs that's how involved marks made the ninth. here in this picture and they draw. this unlike the liberation of this line from the fascists that these people here do not let me come inside the sentry to lay flowers or he's great this is a disgrace. it's such seeing surprised even the locals who had gone to used to protest when he predicted these were the scenes from last year when the nationalist wipe their feet on the red victory banner in a q. document i spent thirteen years in detention in siberia my two brothers were killed with. something like this it happened in

a new country that. their heroes our people regarded worldwide does not see collaborates as replica shirts with the founders of the nine hundred forty s. insurgent army staff on monday and on our security our big hit here person this freedom fighters even though for a while before alongside the nazi army and kill civilians jews and russians in a gruesome manner how the mainstream political parties deal with the thoughts of movements today in cairo. as we've seen in the case of crane when amber step on my . way to meet me and suits and just act as a hero holding it clear to the end and russian protests but really it was a protest of the. ukrainian society has to deal with and this is only part of why the picture the perception of the past is making waves in other former soviet states namely ass as marches and glorifying nots indigence in the baltic states such as last year and the stonier the danger is that people are beginning to forget

what we fought for what veterans died for as we're seeing the reemergence of far right forces and nationalist forces that really in many sense resemble exactly those of the merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such behavior still only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect but the ugly seems a little off should definitely allergic lanes leadership especially after demands for revolution were clearly voiced by the and when. reporting from vault in western ukraine. a german court has convicted a ninety one year old for his actions in a nazi death camp john demjanjuk was found guilty of helping to kill thousands of jews during world war two while serving as a guard are. the relatives of those who perished under the nazi regime you only want through the gates of sobibor once there was no return unlike in other

concentration camps so just minutes there was no slave labor people were sent immediately to their death. he also expecting jews were welcomed by a violent and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rattray even want to pause then came an invitation to shower after the long journey but it was all a deadly deception a quarter of a million jews preceded along this forest park called him and parched street to have been assessed man a school said the victims down the track to the gas chambers only 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 schools had to the gas chambers were children a lot my friend and of course you were so busy with your sins and history i know

and before. i had my very first. and i could build of my refusal to save. should be ruined they could have come to show me her gas and bread before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent and sound strange dim and you crunch of the traveling camp where the s.s. carries out weapons drills and combat training and even taking german language classes it is difficult to say of a had. training here on food during the investigations against them off of war nobody from the from. training or antisemitic training great. soldiers army training carrying the count they were surprised that there's a risk kind of a duty which we had put down. had to go in the death camps. but victims' relatives believe all those who signs out 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 so people pushed for the persecution 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 soviet war is it's not a war it's not soldiers against these it's killing people in a factory every war criminal they served three will. never have never how many years should this matter are they have to be crushed. the jimmy neutron i lose a son but the twenty first century is still prepackaged to deal with the evils of the twenty a warning that there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity. r t c b board poland

the death of osama bin laden continues to alcoa around the world president of the have said that al qaida leader is the maist was beneficial to russia's national security but he insisted got a war on terror was not over as al qaida continues to say on a steady stream of agents to russia's north caucasus the president vowed that special forces will continue to take a hard line against extremism russia's recent as a terror of rive has claimed the lives of several high ranking al qaida operatives . a court in finland has acquitted a prominent journalist of smuggling chechens and to the country michael store she is the publisher of a helsinki based website linked to chechen terrorists he's also the chairman of a financial organisation called pro caucuses that's behind it a tory of center website it's a known mouthpiece for all coddling terrorist leader maher who is on the ones most wanted list stories trial had nothing to do with any of his suspected links to international terrorism however one thing is passed for you on the are you recently

try to draw attention to the chatter extremists the radicals like you saw himself prosecuted and the fraud by the authorities on his human rights activist joe batmen says it reveals a murky protel again after my last. book called proses against me close to show in finland was trial the prosecutor didn't want to send them seem to be they wanted to only to give some kind of for justification for your forty second t.v. things well he's an activist who is actively promoting islamist terrorism against russia he has several websites he has on all face and he's a representative all through surely. he's an extremely dangerous individual and i'm very sure of that and he has a very strong political support in with him and of course not by anything useful he does and it's what's why several influential finnish political figures. let's take

a look at some other stories from around the world now the head of the international monetary fund has been charged with criminal sexual act attempted rape and lawful imprisonment dominic strauss kahn was arrested minutes before he was due to fly to paris and was questioned on suspicion of assault involving a hotel maid the thirty two year old employer we claims that strauss kahn and tapped her when she was cleaning his room his lawyer says he will plead not guilty the i.m.f. has not yet given a reaction to the incident involving the potential french presidential candidate. at least six passengers were killed after a bus was hit by a roadside bomb near a garrison town in eastern pakistan according to the police twenty others were injured it's the second attack in pakistan this week on friday two powerful explosions killed at least eighty people on a paramilitary base about officials the bombing was to avenge the death of a quiet leader osama bin ladin. two protesters were shot dad and

sixty five injured in cairo with an angry mob attacked a demonstration against recent muslim christian clashes in a chip police and army troops fired in the air to disperse the crowd after rocks were thrown and vehicles torched some fifteen people died last week and religious unrest began with hundreds injured two christian churches were also burned down during the violence. russia has kicked off a thousand day countdown of the run up to the two thousand and fourteen sochi winter olympics the countdown was celebrated with events held across the country thousands of runners and roller skaters to hard and fine bronze flying the flag of the winter olympics two thousand and fourteen and the city of sochi official countdown clock was unveiled by the mayor a lot of construction has already been completed and host city was much more still on the way you were train networks and hotels are being built in the russian we're

a to welcome millions of visitors all around the world. you can find out how a new educational standards will help stop the brain drain from russia and that's an interview with the country's education and science minister that's on the way right after the headlines stay with us.

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