to. the latest news on the week's top stories here on our team the u.s. moves to hold the syrian regime accountable for violent crackdowns on protesters it's much like they did with colonel gadhafi just before launching air strikes over libya. the libyan rebels are suffering a crucial setback failing to secure fishel recognition and could actually cash from washington. the recent influx of refugees from the arab world it breeds mistrust between europeans mulls over under president border control measures. plus

russia and the world to commemorate sixty six years of victory over the nazis but fascist followers in ukraine it tarnishes get it worse reply attacking war veterans . we are highlighting of the week's top headlines here on r.t. welcome to the program now the rest in syria may be spilling into neighboring lebanon where over five thousand refugees have fled in the past weeks to escape violence at home reports say one person has been killed and five injured in northern lebanon and gunfire coming from across the border with syria now this week the u.s. mounted pressure on damascus with secretary of state hillary clinton promising to punish bashar al assad's government over the ongoing crackdown against protesters the european union has already imposed economic sanctions on the regime and as the u.s. attorney tougher measures many say washington's appetite for intervention is leading

to a libyan a scenario in syria are things going h catapults. 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 the clear. assad's ruling syria illegitimate and that it would be just the first that 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 when munir united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer 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 action once the u.s. has officially declared the syrian government illegitimate. it it

would open the door. true various steps taken to remove 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. else now against. american president. your government is legitimate or not. even some of the us longtime 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. are you president of the united states and president of the world when can get a government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the us claims the higher moral ground clearing human rights is the basis for its

involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you know threatening in their d.n.a. of us foreign policy it's all hollow and we're going to have a. saudi arabia perhaps the most. he crossed over. 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 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 responsive 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 collapsing or awards or in serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another reason say some to go after all sides relying on iran as your best friend and your only strategic ally is not a viable way forward critics say the u.s. takes on the role of world policeman not things on its inherent out president while they're out of self interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have made the world safer or have

a stabilized more i'm going to stick our reporting from washington are. all the policy of the u.s. and it's in you allies is more about a struggle for world domination rather than protecting civilians the view of some kind of chanda from the group british or civilians for peace in libya. the west would like the syrian regime like the libyan regime like with hizbollah and the palestinian resistance to disappear yesterday now. is a whole different kettle of fish i think where the west is now in this historical moment everyone knows that. the world has finished entering into a multi-polar world and 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 a fight so now is really the historic opportunity for western germany to try to pull back a little bit of domination that they've lost in the last decade. the libyan rebels

have failed to gain official recognition from the u.s. government a top rebel official was even denied an audience with barack obama in washington on friday. is the first senior member of libya's national transitional council to visit the united states and after meeting american officials djibril said the rebels were having trouble getting washington to release colonel gadhafi whose frozen assets you have ministration had earlier comments to hand over some of the multi-billion dollar funds also met with french president nicolas sarkozy in paris on saturday but no breakthrough there either meantime at the libyan capital tripoli funerals were held for a group of muslim clerics allegedly killed by a nato air strike and see what kate hudson says the coalition's intervention is an insult to international law. 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 they

are seeing as it seems more and more civil targets we've heard from a u.n. 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 inviting. those leaders to washington for talks shows that obama is disregarding that aspect of international law it's trampling upon 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 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. well you always see it's good to have your company today and still to come this

hour russia honors those who fought in world war two but victory day celebrations are commemorating but soviet triumph over nazi germany are marked by violent nationalists attacking veterans in ukraine. and it is less than one thousand a days now into one of russia's most anticipated sporting events welcomes athletes and spectators from around the world. the influx of refugees fleeing the uprisings in the arab world is driving a wedge between e.u. states some according to reinstate temporary or even permanent border controls within the union as our teams and i will reports europe may have opened the floodgates for trouble. the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a bit of feud between two of the e.u.'s founders france blocked all train services from italy after finding carriages full of african migrants italy had handed out

residence visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust on which the e.u.'s visa free regime lives it has shown a kind of neutral 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 on the strength but fellow member states they shouldn't have to pay for it italy's mistakes we had something going of the fact that the italians are just on the sea with people coming from outside and they are not able to fix the problem we are not criminals terrorist madmen we don't want them here. protested the french embassy for quotes voile asian of european principles france counts as it 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 just getting pause from one state to another e.u. security chiefs this week held crisis talks a good meeting the system's roig 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 less than one percent with the same reasons in another country states are taking the law into their own hands on wednesday a bit more 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. legal immigrants to give back to each other this is not possible isn't possible for the people in

question but it's not possible to do this situation asked sort of more. like things growing numbers in the unions biggest country wants border checks to germany post 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. also. the invasion from the restrictions on working and benefits for citizens from central and east european states which join the union in two thousand and four lifted on the first of may one. flood to the u.k. attracts people from the countries that have just joined the attract people from outside the european union because they know once they get into your opinion country they can cross borders they can work if they want to or 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 the soiling of the shingled agreements on visa free travel e.u. leaders all smiles the fear now is they've opened the pandora's box that they no longer control then you see brussels. the unrest in north africa and the middle east is causing prichard between a unit was earlier this week european m.p.'s voted in favor of requesting their own permanent representative and seat at the un security council it's part of an overhaul plan of the e.u.'s common defense security and foreign policy the move was created to do school around some of 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 cities m.e.p. trials of things britain will fight to defend its un in its. 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 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 nineteen seventy three over libya so no we would not give up our seat in favor of any use seat because at the end of the day the common the 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 in the un is one of the most important things that we can have as a nuclear power as a founder 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. you all with the live from moscow and you can always check out our website dot com for more on this story and many others including us to celebrate the legacy of one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century in atlanta for a ballet extravaganza will be launched in london it offers details that are seen dot com. and have a look at this why old footage of an ace chopper pilot who's showing off his pinpoint control in a series of stunts including uncorking a bottle but right here thirty shaving a man while flying his helicopter. is

now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital and the ninth russia commemorated sixty six years since the defeat of nazi germany in the great patriotic war the day kicked off with a traditional parade in red square with twenty thousand troops marching alongside the military might but the spectacle was attended by war veterans and the country's top ranking officials a minute of silence was observed in the memory of the twenty seven million soviets who died during the war three days celebrations also took place in cities across russia and its former soviet states however events were mobbed in a western ukraine where violent nationalists attacked the war veterans now these are actually our ships he reports on how the incidents been seen as part of a far right across europe. holiday for millions brule for some unlike most of the post soviet region on may the ninth of this ukrainian city became and this is displayed when you are not says you.

several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties look the ensigns. the red army soldier cemeteries preventing war veterans from getting inside and paying tribute to some in this part of ukraine. as a reason to celebrate leaving the soviet period to be worse than 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 crash or to war but on this day in the western ukrainian capital city of all putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. like you do i think 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 death for the most quite nazi salutes hurling rocks and small bombs that is how involved marked made the ninth. here in this picture and my brothers and my for the liberation of this line from the fascists but these people here did 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 neck you know. i spent thirteen years in detention in siberia my two brothers were killed. could something like this have happened in a new country. their heroes are people regarded worldwide does not see collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the one nine hundred forty s. insurgent army stick on monday and are a big hit here there are seen as freedom fighters even go for a while before alongside the nazi army and kill civilians jews and russians in the new some manner how the mainstream political parties deal with these sort of movements today encourage them as we've seen in case you crane where.

nothing ever a to have been elevated to status of a hero older it appeared to be an anti russian protest but really it was a. the test of the. ukrainian society in these days has to deal with and this is only part of the wider picture of the perception of the past is making waves in other former soviet states and they really as as marches and glorifying nots allegiance in the balkan states such as largely and the story of the danger is that people are beginning forget what we fought for and what the veterans died for as we are seeing the reemergence of far right forces and nationalist forces that really in many sense resemble exactly those that the merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such behavior is still only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect but the army seems and should definitely allergic reigns leadership especially after demands for a revolution were clearly voiced by the angry mob. scene 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. the relatives of those who perished under the nazi regime. you only want through the gates of sobibor once there was no return and like an other concentration camps such as alchemists there was no slave labor people was sent immediately to their death we all suspecting jews were welcomed by a band and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rag trade even one 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 along the chorus part called him and parched ass that was straight to have an s.s. man escorted the victims down the track to the gets chambres only the ukrainian

s.s. guards and the government s.s. officers were allowed to take part in the task they were considered the most well trained and the most reliable among those standing guard was john demjanjuk complicit in nearly twenty eight thousand counts of murder many of those he escorted to the gas chambers where children are not my friend of course i miss them he was seventy recusal deserted i know and before. i had my very first. and i could be out of my refuge and we should go to the lodge that should be read you could have shown her guests in good before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent insan straining demand you went to the trial be counted where the assets carried out weapons drills and combat training and even taking german language classes it is difficult to say very had. training here on food during the

investigations against the author of war nobody from them told them all of the from getting training or under some medical training. soldiers army training carrying the can but they were surprised with them because it was kind of reviewed we had to go. i had to go in the gulf 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 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 so we war is it's not a war it's not soldiers against each it's killing people in a factory every war criminal who served it's removing war there.

will never have never been the how many years to train to there's a mathematical or to have to be punished. there jim a new trial is assigned of the twenty first century is stupor pads to deal with the evils of the twenty a warning that there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity except in aggression of r.t.e. scibor poland. now the death of osama bin laden continues to echo around the world president of certain al qaeda leaders in their minds was beneficial to russia's national security but he did insist that the war on terror is not over as al qaeda continues to send 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 anti terror drive it's claimed the lives of several high ranking al qaeda operatives. according finland has acquitted a prominent journalist of smuggling chechens into the country because the store

ship is the publisher of a helsinki based website that is linked to chechen terrorists is also the chairman of a finnish organisation called pro caucasus that's behind the notorious center website that's a mouthpiece for al-qaeda or its linked to terrorist leader who is on the un's most wanted list so issues the trial has nothing to do with any of his suspected links to international terrorism however when finished passed the law recently try to draw attention to the chechen extremist threat he found himself prosecuted and it defrocked by the authorities finish a human rights activist your highness brockman says it reveals a murky pro terror again a plane filled. court process against me close to shore and if you will and was show trial. charge and the prosecutor didn't want to sentence him a day they wanted to only to give some kind of justification for him for he's

active it is well he's an activist who is actively promoting islamistic terrorism against russia he has several websites he has an office and he's a representing officially. in finland he's an extremely dangerous individual and i'm very sure of that and he has a very strong political support in finland of course not by all finnish politicians but by several influential finnish political figures. now as we are running down the weekly here on r.t. let's get to some of today's news for you the head of the internet monetary fund has been charged with a criminal sexual act attempted rape and under full imprisonment many words arrested minutes before he was due to fly to paris and was questioned on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid the thirty two year old employee claims that strauss kahn attacked her when she was cleaning his room his lawyer says he will plead not guilty in time the i.m.f. was not given

a reaction to the incident involving the potential french presidential candidate. for the let's cross off and live pictures here you can see the violence ongoing at least three people injured now after clashes erupted in east jerusalem neighborhoods during the so-called day deadly stray sions israeli troops by shells and machine gun rounds as published in its approach to gaza's border with the jewish state sunday's march commemorates the operating a palestinian securing the israel's relation in nine hundred forty eight hundred of thousands of palestinians fled all what's been out during the fighting more than six decades ago and part days actually arabic it means that the day of rest or for you can live pictures right there right. now at least six passengers were killed after a bus was hit by a roadside bomb near

a garrison town in eastern pakistan according to police twenty others were injured it's the second attack in pakistan it this week on friday two powerful explosions killed at least eighty people on a para military base taliban officials said it was sure the french the death of allah i can leader osama bin laden. the protesters were injured in cairo when an angry mob attacked a demonstration against a recent muslim and a christian clashes in. police and army troops fired in the air to disperse the crowd after rocks were thrown and vehicles were torched some about fifteen people died last week when the religious unrest began with two hundred being injured two christian churches were also but down during the violence. now russia has kicked off the thousand day countdown to the run up to the two thousand and fourteen sochi winter olympics was celebrated with the events being held all across the country

thousands of runners and roller skaters took part in the fun run this flying the flag of the winter olympics of two thousand and fourteen and in the city of sochi as you can see here an official countdown clock was unveiled by the mayor a lot of construction has already been completed in the host city with much more still ongoing a new roads train that works hotels being filled up all along the russian riviera to welcome millions of visitors from around. and i'll be back with a recap of the headlines in just a few moments. mission

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