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no million dollars pulled from a gold insurgent merely photo the princess in vancouver brothers and three children in cold dream literally going cold so if you show some telegram going cold comes the city code children call remembering who told them cool clothes and some even called a roll meridia. the latest news on the week's top stories here on our team u.s. moves to hold the syrian regime accountable on violent crackdowns on protesters much like they did with colonel gadhafi just before leaving air strides over libya . for libya rabble suffer a crucial setback failing to secure official recognition and get off the couch from washington. and the recent influx of refugees from the arab world brings mistrust between europeans and the e.u. mauls i'm president of border control measures. was russia and the world commemorate sixty six years of victory over the nazis but fascist ball where is
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a new grain tarnished anniversary by attacking the war veterans. who are watching r t coming to you live from moscow one pm here in the russian capital on marina joshua welcome to the program. the unrest in syria may be spilling into neighboring lebanon where over five thousand refugees have fled in the past weeks to skate violence and home reports say one person has been killed and five injured in northern lebanon in gunfire coming from across the border with syria this week in the west mounted pressure on damascus with the state secretary hillary clinton promising to punish the shah's its government over the ongoing brutal crackdown against protesters and european union has already imposed economic sanctions on the regime and ask the u.s. where at least tougher measures many say washington is appetite for intervention is
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inevitably leading to a levy and scenario in syria artie's guy needs to count 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 ourselves 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 deter further violence put in place unprecedented sanctions to hold the gadhafi government accountable when the u.s. says it's going to hold someone responsible expect an action once the u.s. has officially declared the syrian government illegitimate. it
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would open the door. true various steps 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 there's an. arrogant. president. in the government is a generator not worthy in order the americans are saying that it was some of the u.s. long time allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by the zest of the white house to act as the arbiter of who holds power in the world. oh ah are you president of the united states and 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 as the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is
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a smokescreen for the real reason for interference no seriously and no d.n.a. of. it or power and economic were all or three. in the middle east when they. were hardly both. you cross your country and your. 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 weiqi leaks cables trolled the us 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 us sees the opportunity of putting in a friendly pro-american government response of to american interests the coalition efforts in libya have reached a dead end with the country now in military stalemate in the meantime civilian
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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 collapsing more rewards more and serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another recent say son to go after our side relying on iran as your best friend and your only strategic ally is not a viable way forward critics say the us takes on the wall of world policeman not based on its inherent altruism but rather out of self interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have made the wall safer or have to stabilize
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the more i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. games day is low on him based ryder a middle east politics and security issue assessing area needs an inside revolt to stop the violence from within its ranks. the paines the americans are offering president assad one last chance to see if the dictator can dictate so i believe that the syrian regime really has to have more of a silent group from within and from what they call the form of what else to try and prevent essentially greater crowd was happening in cities that are arrested because it seems that the deaths themselves are creating a momentum and if that momentum that the regime is found impossible to stall it's offered a variety of carrots and creating nice famously getting rid imagines a lot but it appears now simply only have sticks left in its cupboard so it is a deeply worrying friend this far as the syrian people are concerned. the libyan rebels have failed to gain official recognition from the us government a top rebel official was even denied an audience with rock obama in washington on
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friday ramu gibril is the first senior member of libya's national transitional council to visit the u.s. after a meeting american officials dear girl said to the rebels we're having trouble getting washington to release colonel gadhafi is frozen assets administration and earlier promise to hand over some of them all to a billion dollar funds also met french president nicolas sarkozy in paris on saturday with no breakthrough there either in the libyan capital tripoli funerals were held for a group of muslim clerics allegedly killed by a nato airstrike because he's involved in a bombing are counting up the cost and trying to justify to their own people are these are valid reports from denmark. for those who join the fight in libya the cost of conflict is quickly taking off denmark's one of just six nato members conducting an strikes to enforce the no fly zone it seeks it's sixteen fighter planes racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars
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a month. is appealing a number that was considered and out bad many nations that is using fighter planes . let's take the u.s. for example they use in grown to have had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any either. denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first four nights of the campaign or each one cost 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 seventeen million dollars four percent of its defense budget the danish air force refuses to comment on the money saying it's too political a topic that parliament says it can afford it these people have come to the american embassy to show their opposition to the war it's not just the conflict they're protesting against though it's also denmark's willingness to follow the
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u.s. it's a battle they do this because. i don't know some people say they have an inferiority complex and they follow big daddy and nell the united states and france wants this war against gadhafi so they go all their junior partners the danish parliament was unanimous in backing a bombing campaign in libya the first time ever on a military action but since then cracks have appeared with a far less red green alliance with during that 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 his presence is an upcoming election. and also that it's the policy of the current government to be as close to the u.s. as possible at the moment the government's against sending ground forces six f.
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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 showed when push comes to shove the country is more than willing to join america whatever the cost other than its. copenhagen also to come this hour here in r t russia honors those who fought in world war two the victory day celebrations commemorating the saudi triumph over an awesome germany marred by filing nationalists attacking veterans lou crane. plus football legend together markdown looms all star team at a friendly match and dance chechnya find out the results just a few minutes. in time the impacts of refugees fleeing the uprisings in the arab world is driving
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a wedge between the states some are calling to reinstate temporary or even permanent internal border controls within the union as daniel 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 it's illiad hundred up residence visas allowing travel in the european union that shuts up the trust of which the e.u. . law is you know as shown a kind of literally mistrust between two partners between france and italy france considering that italy has not implemented you know good with 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 save it on the
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strength but fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for it italy's mistakes we have sponsible of the fact that the tell us just in the sea with people coming from outside and are not able to fix the problem we are not criminals or terrorists madmen we don't want them here has protested to the french embassy for quotes voile asian of european principles france counts as it already takes five times more immigrants than italy and police here in 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 knitted the systems roit for abuse one and the same applicants for asylum can have like seventy seventy five percent chance of being granted asylum in one country of the european union and
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less than one percent with the same reasons in another country states and they'll taking the law into their own hands on wednesday denmark reintroduced border controls for people coming from of the e.u. states build your home of the e.u. headquarters is now calling for the same. immigrants to. back. this is not possible isn't possible for the people in question but it's impossible to do this situation ask for more border. growing numbers in the unions biggest country all the checks to germany today proposed possible restrictions in terms of freedom of travel and this is really something that many people are concerned of rich nations in the. the invasion for the restrictions on working and benefits for citizens from a simple and east european states which joined the union in two thousand and four
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we lifted on the first of may one every people's they'll flood to the u.k. it tracks people from other countries are just joined it attracts people from outside the european union because they know once they get into the european union like country they can cross borders they can work if they want to or take advantage of a generous benefits system in march 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 soiling of the shingle in agreement on visa free travel e.u. leaders moyles the fear now is they've opened the pandora's box that they no longer control the new bush or altie brussels. well the unrest in north africa and the middle east is causing friction between the e.u. members earlier this week european and he's voted in favor of requesting their own permanent representative of the u.n. security council as part of an overall plan. of the fans security and foreign
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powers the move has caused discord 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 european elephant charles taluk things britain will try to fan its influence . there's 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 the need you see because at the end of the day the
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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 really can't see any traction for the u.k. government to want to do so. well check out our t. dot com for more on this story plus to celebrate the legacy of one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century go you know a lot of ballet it's robert and so will take over london get all the details. and check out the cold corners on an ace helicopter pilot who showed off his pinpoint control in the series of storms including on board the
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a bottle and say the man was the top car. on the ninth of may russia commemorated sixty six years since the defeat of nazi germany in the great patriotic war the day kicks off with a traditional parade in red square with twenty thousand troops marching alongside military might the spectacle was attended by a war of veterans and the country's top ranking officials a minute of silence was observed in the memory of the twenty seven million soviet people who died during the war victory day celebrations also to place in cities across russia and in former soviet states however events were marred in western ukraine where violent nationalists attacked veterans are displaced years just your
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reports on how the incidents being seen as part of a far right search your. holiday for millions and still need room for some unlike most of the region on maidan like this ukrainian city became a vicious display of new analysis and. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties look the engines to read all the songs are cemeteries the ones in the war veterans from gives you insight and clean execute some of the start of you claim to see me the ninth as a reason to celebrate leaving the soviet period to be more so than any. your remarks you keep rationing the st george's ribbon is usually worn as a traditional may the ninth to commemorate those who died in the great crash or to war but on this day in the west ukrainian capital city of the wolf putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. if you like you do it without the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading to the grave yards along with the use of
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chances such as death to the mosque right nazi salutes hurling rocks and school boards that is how the forced march to make the knife you know work here in this picture and i break this in like the liberation of this line from the fascists that these people here do not let me come inside the sentry to lay flowers and he's great this is a disgrace. to subsume surprised even the known calls who had gone zeus to protest on victory day these were the scenes from last year on the nationalist movement their feet on the red victory banner the next european if you spent fifteen years in detention in siberia brothers were killed with music could something like this have happened in a new country that. their heroes are people regarded worldwide does not see collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the one nine hundred forty s. inserted on the stick on monday when the most of the rich are breaking it here there are some this freedom fighters even though for
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a while they form alongside the nazi army and kill civilians jews and russians in the in some manner how the mainstream political parties deal with these sorts of movements today encourage them as we're seeing in ukraine lambs that can buy. a ticket and seats is that just a hero not older it was good to be an anti russian protest but really it was a protest of the ukrainian society these days has to deal with and this is only part of the picture the perception of the past is making waves in other former soviet states namely. as s. marches and glorifying nazi legions in the voting states such as last year and the stone age 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 that really in many sense resemble exactly those the merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such behavior is to only applies to the minority
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almost in full in these countries still celebrate history with proper respect of the young you see should definitely alert the cranes leadership especially after demands for a revolution what community voiced by the adult let's see russia reporting from the fourth 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 r.t.c. catarina the trial of mass 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 just streets there was no slave labor people was sent immediately to their death. v.l. suspecting jews were welcomed by a violent and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rattray even won
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applause then came an invitation to shower after the long journey but it was all a deadly deception a quarter of a million jews preceded a long cold payment parched os that was straight to have been assessed manasquan 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 with children a lot of my friends and of course i mean you were seventy reduces your own future i know and before. i had my very first. and i could build of my time or if you have someone who should. or should be read thank you have a good show in her guest and read to you for being sent to work at sobibor all
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guards on to branson tam strange demain you went to the trial viki camp where the s.s. carries out weapons drills and combat training and even taking german language classes it is difficult to say very had. training here during ranges the game against them author of war nobody from them told about the from nothing training or on this a medic training great told me about the soldiers army training here in the camp they were surprised that there was kind of a duty which we had today. had to do in the death camps. 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 so people pushed for the prosecution of demjanjuk she may be in her eighty's but she made it to every court session she
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wants him to admit that he was and what sobibor is it's not it's a war it's not soldiers or concede or it's killing people it in effect summary every war criminal. it's been a part of their narrative remember how many years she's very very good to have to be a good. trial is a sign good but twenty first century is stupid pads to deal with the evils of the try and here's a warning that there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity. r t scibor poland the death of osama bin ladin continues to act around the world president medvedev said that all coddles leaders demise was beneficial to russia's national security system that the war on terror was now over as well kyra continues to send a steady stream of agents to russia's north caucuses the president vowed that
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special forces will continue to take a hard line against extremism and russia's recent as a terror drive has claimed the lives of several high ranking al qaida operatives. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and a half of the international monetary fund has been charged with criminal sexual act attempted rape and a 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 thirty two year old including claims that strauss kahn attacked her when she was cleaning his room is a lawyer says and will plead not guilty is not used in a reaction to the incident involving. a potential french presidential candidate. at least six passengers were killed after a bus was hit by a roadside bomb near a garrison town and he's from pakistan according to the police twenty others were injured it's the second attack in pakistan this week friday two powerful explosions
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killed at least eighty people on a paramilitary base taliban officials have the bombing was to avenge the death of a colorado mother of solomon lauder. because supertaster dad and sixty five injured in cairo when an angry mob attacked a demonstration against recent muslim and christian clashes in egypt police and army troops fired in the air to disperse the crowd after rocks were thrown a vehicle stuart some fifteen point zero died last week when religious unrest began with hundreds injured two christian churches were also burned down during the violence. the united nations has suggested that iran and north korea have been regularly sharing ballistic missile technology in violation of sanctions relief reports admitted to the security council by un experts also hinted that china had been working as a third party and frankly for the weapons sanctions were imposed on yang after it conducted nuclear tests in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine while
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there's been increasing concern over iran's atomic program iran has always maintained its nuclear ambitions are peaceful. isn't exactly famous for its sporting achievements but now the southern russian republic is looking to change that and international group of football superstars came to the capital grozny this week for the opening of a grand new stadium living legend vietnam our daughter was among the guests and the captain for all stars and a friendly match against the home side to have. led the revised team she's seemingly hopeless but even master jones thing. and still is that was enough to save the all-stars from going down five goals to two the stadium designed for up to thirty thousand spectators as a first of its high costs. have risen up to date here in our team coming up we explore the truth behind your visions of wiki leaks in our special report first our
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