if you move from france to. start on t.v. dot com. the latest news on the week's top stories here on our team and u.s. moves to hold the syrian regime accountable for violent crackdown on protesters hurt like it did with colonel gadhafi just before launching air strikes over libya . the libyan rebels meantime suffered a crucial setback failing to secure official recognition and catch from washington . the recent influx of refugees from the arab world breeds of mistrust between europeans as the balls over unprecedented border control measures. plus russia and the world to commemorate sixty six years of

a victory over the nazis but fascist followers in ukraine tanisha the story by attacking a war veterans. watching the weekly here in r.t. you're welcome to it now the unrest in syria may be spilling into neighboring lebanon where over five thousand refugees have fled in past weeks just to escape the violence at home reports say one person has been killed five injured in northern lebanon amid 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 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. threatens tough. measures many say washington's top high for intervention is

leading to a libyan a scenario in syria. has their story. 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 there 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 unprecedented sanctions or get off the government account 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 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. now against the american president. in government we 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 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 a president of the world when condemning government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the u.s. 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 certainly in their d.n.a. or us foreign policy or two or more and economically we're already out. in the middle east with a. story of. how he rose. you cross the country and. 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 and 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 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 syria's in the heart of the arab world and 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 a war torn serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another reason say some to go after are silent relying on iran as your best friend and your own least pretty chick ally is not a viable way forward critics say the u.s. takes on the role of world policeman not things that it's inherent altruism but rather out of self-interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have made the world safer or have to stabilize the more i'm going to check our reporting

from washington our key. role meantime james attends away london based writer on the middle east politics issues of security says that syria needs inside revolt to stop the violence from within its own ranks. 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 coup from within from whether you call them reformers or what else to try and prevent essentially greater blood what's happening in cities that are restive because it seems that the deaths and cells are creating a momentum and it's that momentum that the regime is now an impossible to stall it's offered a variety of carrots and creating a supreme is that getting rid of the emergency law but it appears now it's simply only have states left in its cards so it is a deeply worrying trend as far as the syrian people are concerned. turning attention from syria to libya now where the rebels are fail to gain official

recognition from the u.s. government a top rebel official was even denied an audience with brack obama in washington on friday. is the first senior member of libya's national transitional council to visit the united states after the meeting with american officials jabril said the rebels were having trouble getting washington to release about these frozen assets the administration had earlier promised to hand over some of the multi billion dollar funds if you could also met with the french president nicolas sarkozy in paris on saturday and no breakthrough there either when the libyan capital tripoli funerals were held for a group of muslim clerics allegedly killed by a nato airstrike the countries involved in the bombings are counting up the cost and trying to justify it to their own people carter's other benefit from them. for those who joined the fight in libya the cost of conflict is quickly taking off denmark's one of just six nato members conducting its strikes to enforce the no fly

zone it six f. sixteen fighter planes are racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month we were anticipating a number that was considerably lower than that we aren't that many nations that is using if i don't play. to take us for example they're using drones they had had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any fighter planes and lots. denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first four nights of the campaign each one costs 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 seventy 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 u.s. into battle they do this because. i don't know all some people say they have an inferiority complex really follow big daddy and the united states and france wants this war against gadhafi so they go all her junior partner 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 the far left red green alliance with drawing its support it says nato has gone beyond its mandate by taking sides in a civil war now the party is denmark could follow suit again with a ground offensive looming i think it's likely because the prime minister wants to be a strongman is precedes there's

a coming election. and also that is the policy of the current government to be as close with the us as possible at the moment the government's against sending ground forces six f. sixteen s are already costing the same as denmark's troop deployment in afghanistan and they've been there for ten years. but as afghanistan kosovo and iraq all showed when push comes to shove the country's more than willing to join america whatever the cost other than its artsy copenhagen and are still to come for you this hour here on r.t. russia honors those who fought in world war two but three days celebrate commemorating the soviet triumph over nazi germany marred by violent nationalists attacking veterans in ukraine. plus a football legend diego maradona leads an all star team in a friendly match against chechnya but other results in just a few minutes right here on our team. now the influx of refugees

fleeing the uprisings in the arab world is driving a wedge between the e.u. states some according to reinstate a temporary or permanent border controls within the union as artists 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 all train services from italy after finding carriages full of african migrants italy had handed out resistance visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust of which the e.u. he's a free regime relies. shawn kind of mutual 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 there on the strength but fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes are we responsible 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 to the french embassy for quotes voile asian of european principles france counts as it already takes five times more immigrants than italy in 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 reports from one state to another e.u. security chiefs this week held crisis talks and dignity 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 less than one percent with the same reasons in another country states and they are taking the law into their own hands on wednesday bear 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. intensity you call immigrants two thousand giving back to each other this is not possible isn't possible for the people in question but it's impossible to do this situation asks for more border. 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 rich nations in the e.u. also. the invasion from. restrictions on working and benefits for citizens from

simple and east european states which joined the union in two thousand and four were lifted on the first of may one. flood to the u.k. attracts people from the countries that have just joined it tracks 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 at the signing of the shingles 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 will see brussels. while the unrest in north africa and the middle east is causing friction between e.u. members earlier this week european m.p.'s voted in favor of requesting their own

a permanent representative and seat at the u.n. security council it's part of an overall plan of the e.u.'s common defense security and foreign policy with the move has created discord among some of the states the u.k. has already said it will not give up its permanent seat on the council for the sake of a single european seat. charles thinks britain will fight to defend its u.n. influence. there's no way that the british government or the british can serve the delegation and 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 a case over iraq and has been the case regrettably in some ways over libya when the germans of stained so know 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 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 then you can check out our team dot com for more on that story plus to celebrate the legacy of one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century. by. stop the guns it will be launched in london get all those details over dot com. and check out this wild footage of an ace

pilot who's showing off his pinpoint control in a series of stunts including uncorking a bottle and shaving a man with an evening out. becoming to live from moscow this is artsy on the ninth of may russia commemorated sixty six years since the defeat of nazi germany in the great patriotic war that they kicked off with their traditional parade in a red square with twenty thousand troops marching alongside the military by their spectacles attended by war veterans on the country's top ranking officials a minute of silence was observed in the memory of the twenty seven million that soviets who died during the war but three day celebrations also took place in

cities all across russia under former soviet states however events were mobbed in the western ukraine where violent nationalists attacked veterans and algiers alexia cesky reports on how the incidents being seen as part of a far right in europe. a holiday for millions and street brawl for some unlike most of the post soviet union made the life of this ukrainian city became a vicious display of new nazis and. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties look at the entrance to red army soldiers cemeteries events in war veterans from getting inside and playing tribute some in this part of ukraine do not see me the ninth as a reason to celebrate leaving the soviet period to be worse than enduring nazi occupation the st george's ribbon is usually worn as a tradition on may the night. to commemorate those who died in the great crash or to war but on this day in the western ukrainian capital city of the north putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're

a veteran or not. likely to look up at the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading to the grave yards along with abusive chances such as death to the most nazi salutes hurling rocks and small bombs that is how involved marked may the ninth. here in this picture i am my brothers and my for the liberation of this land from the fascists but these people here do not let me come inside this century to lay flowers and he's great this is it is great. such seemed surprised even the locals who had grown used to protests on victory day but these were the scenes from last year when the nationalist wipe their feet on the red victory banner. which been 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 regarding why does nasa collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the one nine hundred forty s.

insurgent army still on monday and there are some here which are a big hit here there are seen as freedom fighters even though for a while before alongside the nazi army until civilians jews and russians in the us and manner how the mainstream political parties deal with the sort of movements today encroached as we've seen in case crane where. every to has been elevated to status of a hero older it appeared to be an anti russian protest but really it was a protest of the day ukrainian society in this case 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 namely as as marches and glorifying nots allegiance in the baltic states such as love and the stone age. the danger is that people are beginning to forget what we fought for what veterans died for as we are seeing the reemergence of far right forces the national forces that really in many sense

resemble exactly those the 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 ugly scenes in the north should definitely allergic rains leadership especially after demands for a revolution were clearly voiced by the end of the let's see rushes to artsy 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 join a demand was found guilty of helping to kill thousands of jews during world war two while serving as a guard. went to meet some of 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 our streets there was no slave labor people were sons immediately to their death. the answer is thirteen jews were

welcomed by a band and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rhetoric even won applause then came an invitation to shower after the long journey but it was all that sadly deception a quarter of a million jews preceded along this poorest part called him a parched ass that was straight to have been at best man a score said the victims down the track so the guests chambres 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 scores had to the gas chambers with children a lot of my friends and i remember of course i recently received a deliberate years old destructive i know eighty four. i had my vice marshal.

and i could build of mine armored vehicles and we should be. sure you can read they could have shown her guests and. before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent intense training jim and you went to the trial viki camp where the s.s. carried out weapons drills and combat training and even taking german language classes it was difficult to say very had i go logical training here and during the investigations against the author of war nobody from them told us from getting training or at the semitic training great total knew about the soldier army training here in the camp they were surprised that there was a worse kind of a duty which we had to down. had to do in the death camps. but victims' relatives believe all those who signed up as assassin were well aware of the duties they'd be carrying out mariam whose mother was one of the lucky few who survived so

people who for the persecution of demjanjuk she may be here eighties but she made it to every court session she wants him to admit that you will see him and what sobibor is it's not a war it's not soldiers against each order it's killing people in a factory every war you served is think. never is never how many years this is a matter of going to have to be honest. they did a new trial is assigned to the twenty first century is still prepared to deal with the evils of the try and hear a warning but there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity exceeding the gretsch of a r t c b board poland. and watching the weekly here on its he now the death of osama bin laden continues to echo around the world president would be

a disservice to the leaders demise was beneficial to russia's national security but he insisted that the war on terror it was not over continues to send a steady stream of agents to russia's north caucasus president valve the special forces will continue to take a hard line against extremism russia's recent and he territory has claimed the lives of several high ranking al qaeda operatives. are as we are running down the top stories of the week let's get to some of the top stories today there are at the head of the international monetary fund has been charged with a criminal sexual act attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment dominique strauss card was arrested minutes before he was trying 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 meantime has not given any reaction to the incident involving the potential that french

president presidential candidate rather. let's have a live pictures now here we go coming from the palestinian autonomy over a dozen people so far have been injured after clashes erupted in east jerusalem neighborhoods we had some of technical glitches there with those live pictures but it's not about me it's not the day demonstrations that the israeli troops so far have been trying to hold down the fort they've been firing back tank shells and machine guns as the palestinian youth approached gaza's border with the jewish state demonstrators told stones a border policeman who responded tear gas some days march commemorates the upbringing of palestinians during the war over israel's creation and listen for hundreds of thousands of palestinians fled or were driven out during the fighting more than six decades ago. 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 on a para military base taliban officials said the bombing was to avenge the death of al qaeda leader osama bin laden. dozens of protesters were injured in cairo when an angry mob attacked a demonstration against recent muslim christian clashes in egypt police and army troops fired in the air to disperse the crowd after rocks were thrown in vehicles which some fifteen people died last week when the religious on rest began with hundreds injured and a two christian churches were also burned down during the violence. well the chechnya isn't exactly famous for its sporting achievements but now the russian republic is looking to change that an international group of football superstars came to the capital grozny this week for the opening of

a brand new stadium and living aleck. captain all stars in a friendly match against the home side the head of chechnya comes on part of the improvised team focuses in a seemingly hopeless heaven but even the mustering of merit on a new leaf ego and steve mcmanaman was not enough to save fuel sauce from going down the five goals to suit the stadium design five hundred thirty thousand spectators is the first of its kind and the courses. track well i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments. wealthy

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