we've talked stories here on the syrian troops fired thousands of protesters despite a promise to hold off all of this while the u.s. is simulated preparing to declare the country's a government illegitimate with a military intervention a fear that some follow next. libyan rebels fighting a colonel gadhafi make the case for official recognition down of more money in washington but they leave empty handed. and massive celebrations are held all across russia some are victory while ukrainian veterans have to fight the nazis once again after a brutal attack by nationalists during the festivities. here

with r.t. as we highlight the stories that made headlines this week now thousands of fleeing syria where violence is raging despite the government's promise of dialogue with the opposition international pressure news mounting on syria over brutal crackdowns on antigovernment protesters with some eight hundred killed more than a thousand arrested over the past couple of months but the e.u. and u.s. meantime have imposed sanctions on the country washington is even said to be considering declaring a president assad's eleven year rule illegitimate and he's also he's a guy nature can reform so many believe the u.s. is laying the foundations for drastic action against the regime. 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

all sons 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 a response. for its gross human rights abuses sounds familiar and i states is helping to lead an international effort to defer the target of 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 would open the door to various steps taken to remove that government but the self-proclaimed position of the u.s. as the world's policeman and judge of which government is legitimate or not doesn't

sit well with everyone. in american president. you gentlemen are not. being rude to the americans. even some of the u.s. long time allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by those arrests of the white house to act as the arbiter of who holds power in the world. are you president of the united states 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 in clearing human rights as the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you know certainly and your d.n.a. or. if you or your and work on our. intimate . story your. heart. you crossed

a 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 and. explodes or implodes

it will affect all its neighboring countries iraq saudi arabia jordan israel lebannon. they're in they're all likely to get involved in a collapsing more war torn serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another recent say some 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 role of world policeman not based on its inherent altruism but rather out of self interest and the bigger question is whether belsen chris have made the wall safer or have to stabilize the more i'm going to check our reporting from washington. well for you and rest is already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported at the lebanese and israeli borders as people are trying to escape the violence james or denselow a london based writer on middle east politics only says that the syrian people

they're the ones who can only stop the bloodshed. 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 arrested 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 pleading famously getting rid of the emergency law but it appears now it's simply only have sticks left in its cupboard so that is a deeply worrying trend as far as the syrian people are concerned. now this week the u.s. national the hopes of the libyan rebels for official recognition the white house gave this message to a libyan opposition leader during his visit to washington the u.s. is also dragging its feet on and releasing colonel gadhafi use of frozen assets

promised to aid the rebels earlier but it's not the only the fact that the opposition feels that the cost of the war others are feeling the pinch as well as other bennett reports. 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 in strikes to enforce the no fly zone it's six f. sixteen fighter planes racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month but we're anticipating a number that i was considering and that we aren't that many nation that is using if i don't blades. let's take us for example they're using. where they have had tomahawk missile but i don't have any fighter planes and. denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first fortnight of the campaign all 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 but 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 some people say they have an inferiority complex and they follow big daddy the n.l. the united states in france so what's this war against the good of it so they go all virgin you're part of the danish parliament was unanimous in backing a bombing campaign in libya the first time ever on 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 and 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 strong man is preserved 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 up when push comes to shove the country's more than willing to join america whatever the cost other than its arty copenhagen. while the head of britain's armed forces says the nato must intensify its military campaign in libya with direct

attacks against targets supporting colonel gadhafi regime becomes just days after reports of eleven muslim clerics killed in the alliance of strikes on the country but antiwar activist kate hudson says that 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 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 the civil wars and i think inviting. those leaders to washington for talks shows that obama is disregarding that aspect of international law is trampling upon the very legal structure there are states of 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 the their ends and frankly it does look as though now that they may intend to target and execute the. now let's look at what else have you in the program here on our c he's thought to have even escorted children to gas chambers during the second world war report on the outcome of the trial of john a democrat who was accused of helping to murder almost thirty eight thousand jews in nazi concentration camps. also find out why finish both parties released of the man behind a website that serves as a mouthpiece for terrorists. but the growing number of refugees fleeing the unrest in the arab world is creating a rift between some members few of them according to temporarily or even to

permanently tighten borders between states and bring back passport checks and i thought he's i don't know who should report dream of european unity could be on the brink of collapse. the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a pit 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 visitors visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust on which the a used piece of free regime lives it has shown a kind of mutual mistrust between two partners between france and italy france considering that italy has not implemented in a good way to 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 strings but

fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes we have something of the fact that. just from the sea with people coming from outside and are not able to fix the problem we are not criminals terrorists mad men we don't want them here. protested to the french embassy for quotes voile ation of european principles france counters it already takes five times more immigrants than italy in peace here and 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 i did muted the systems roit for abuse one and the same applicants for asylum can have like seventy seventy five percent chance of being granted as i live in my country of the european union and less than

one percent with the same reasons in another country states taking the law into their own hands on wednesday denmark reintroduced border controls for people coming . of the e.u. states build your home of the e.u. headquarters is now calling for the same. immigrants to give in so each other this is not possible isn't possible for people in question but it's impossible to. ask for more border. growing numbers in the union's biggest country wants border chips to germany post possible restrictions in terms of freedom of travel and this is really something that many people are concerned enough richard nations in the e.u. also the invasion from the restrictions on working and benefits for citizens from central and east european states which joined the union in two thousand and four

were lifted on the first of may one a b.p. was they'll flood to the u.k. it tracks people from the countries that just joined it 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 they want to take advantage of a 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 signing of the shingle agreements on visa free travel e.u. leaders were all smiles the fear now is they've opened the pandora's box that they no longer control. brussels. all right you are with r.t. live from moscow worse now a quarter past the hour on the ninth of may russia was celebrating victory day one of the most important memorable occasions in the country's history it marks sixty six years since soviet soldiers defeated nazi troops in world war two

a spectacular parade in red square saw twenty thousand troops marching along with the military might a minute of silence was observed in memory of the twenty seven million of us who died during the war but meanwhile in western ukraine veterans who fought to free people from the nazi invasion were attacked by violent nationalists. witnessed the events. holiday for millions and street brawl for some unlike most of the post soviet region on may the ninth of this ukrainian city became vicious display of new analysis and. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties block the entrance to red army soldiers cemeteries preventing war veterans from getting inside and bringing tribute sun in this part of ukraine to not see may 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 traditional may the ninth to commemorate those who died in the great crash or to war but on this day in the west and ukrainian capital city of the war putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. you know the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading to the grave yards along with abusive chances such as just to the mosque right nazi salutes hurling rocks and small arms that is how divorce marked me the ninth. here in this picture and my brothers and money for the liberation of this land from the first shifts but these people here do not let me come inside the century to lay flowers and he's great this is a disgrace. such seemed surprised even the locals who had grown used to protests on the three day these were the scenes from last year when nationalist wipe their feet on the red lake three banner. i spent thirteen years in detention in siberia my two

brothers were killed at war could something like this have happened in a normal country they're all. their heroes are people regarded worldwide as nasa collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the nine hundred forty s. insurgent army stood on london and there are a big hit here there are seen as freedom fighters even though for a while before alongside the nazi army and kill civilians jews and russians in the gruesome manner how the mainstream political parties deal with these sort of movements today encroached as we've seen in crane when. not a collaborator has been elevated to the status of a hero holder it appeared to be an anti russian protest but really it was a protest of the. ukrainian society in the east is has to deal with and this is only part of the wider picture the perception of the past is making waves in other former soviet states namely ass as marches and glorifying nazi legions in the

baltic states such as loudly and the story of 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 natural forces that really in many sense resemble exactly what the merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such behavior is to only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect but the ugly seems unusual for should definitely alert ukraine's leadership especially after demands for a revolution were clearly voiced by the end of the mob the russian ascii art scene reporting from wörth in western ukraine. germany courters set in stone like the one year old man for five years for nazi war crimes in a death camp john demjanjuk was found guilty of helping to murder almost thirty thousand jews during world war two serving as a guard is currently being taken to a nursing facility right here appeals the sentence now lottery ticket integrator of the world 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 alice ritz there was no slave labor people was sent immediately to their death the el suspecting 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 a deadly deception a quarter of a million jews preceded along this porous hold him and parched ass that was straight to have an s.s. man a score to 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's

quarter to the gas chambers were children the most i've heard of course are mr reserve and reduces old richard i know he did for me i had revived myself. and i could go get mine armor if you can still receive the largest ship you can think you have given her here actually and good before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent intense training demain you went to the trial viki county 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 and the investigations against them after war and nobody from them told about us on that team training or on the semitic training great total knew about the soldiers army training here in recount but they were surprised that i think there's

a risk kind of a duty which we had today. had to do and the death camps. but victims' relatives believe all those who signed up as a sas man were well aware of the duties they would be carrying out mariam whose mother was one of the lucky few who survived so before it pushed for the prosecution of demjanjuk she may be in your eighty's but she made it to every court session because she wants him to admit that he was here and what sobibor is it's not so war it's not soldiers against each other it's killing people in a factory every war criminal the it's one thing war. never ended never how many years is very few this is a matter of if you're going to have to be punished. there jim a new trial is assigned to the twenty first century is still prepared to deal with the evils of the twentieth a warning that there is no expire

a date for crimes against humanity it's a democrat r t c b board poland. you're watching in the weekly here on our team president f. said this week that the killing of osama bin laden by u.s. special forces was beneficial to russia's national security but he warned that the death of the al qaeda leader rather was not the end of terrorism i thought it was action is still sending agents to russia and other countries president balbus special forces will continue to take a hard line against extremists and russia's anti terror drivers recently killed two high ranking al qaeda operatives in the north caucasus. well the finnish journalist believed to be the organizer of an internet mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist has walked free but the trial of mikhail the store sure has nothing to do with his possible links to terrorism he was accused of smuggling chechens a defendant which officials later called

a humanitarian action human rights activists believe authorities turn a blind eye to store shelves activity because he has high profile supporters the website which he set up and sponsors regularly as the views of the wanted terrorist not off when a fish finish pastor spoke out against the site he was immediately detained and defrocked you'll have bachmann who was it was pastoral arias defender told r.t. the case shows there's a crude terror game at play in family. court process against me cause to show and feel of the show trial the charge of the prosecutor didn't want to sentence him of a they wanted to only to give some kind of justification for you for his activities well he's an activist who is actively promoting islamist terrorism against russia he has several websites he has an office and he's a representative officially. in finland he's only extremely dangerous individual

and i'm very sure of that and he has the very strong political support in finland of course not weigh all finished political support by several influential finnish political figures. well you can always are full of the stories we're covering here on our web site regular updates and eye catching videos are waiting for you at r.t. dot com let's check out something items right now that you can have a look at and the u.s. congress proposes to cut funds for controversial body scanners at airports detectors work slam for an invasion of privacy while some have also question that their effectiveness of. classical music goes underground moscow's metro prepares a treat for late night commuters as a lucky five hundred with tickets to a special concert as part of the capital's museum of lightning series small he goes on about our three daughters. now let's have

a look at some of more international news headlines this hour for you right here on our c and we're crossing in our life to live pictures here on our t.v. and the latest news coming out of the palace to you know people tell me is that several people have been injured in clashes in east jerusalem protests marking the anniversary of the creation of the state of israel once again these are live pictures here israeli forces fired shells and machine gun rounds on palestinians near the gaza border i demonstrate was told stones a border police who responded then with tear gas many palestinians are lost their homes with the founding of israel in one thousand nine hundred forty eight which they called me which is our pick for disaster or task and. in other news the head of the international monetary fund has been charged with a sexual attack attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment dominique strauss kahn was pulled from a plane minutes before he was due to fly to paris and he was then are questioned on

suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid the thirty two year old woman claims he attacked her while she was cleaning his room strasse collins lawyer says he will plead not guilty meantime the i.m.f. head is considered a possible socialist candidate for the french presidency. the u.s. has opened a massive growth floodgates in louisiana to avert inundation in cities along the mississippi river thousands of square miles of land will be engulfed in the flow this is the first time in four decades the level of the river has forced the floodgates to be opened officials say twenty five thousand people in more than it ten thousand buildings could be a by grossly affected. by the star six passengers have been killed after a bus was hit by a roadside bomb near a garrison town in eastern pakistan twenty others but we did it is the second major attack in pakistan this week from friday twin blasts targeted

a para military base killing almost one hundred taliban officials at the bombing was to avenge the death of osama bin laden. while sitting high in the caucasus mountains chechnya has high ambitions to prove itself as a sports loving republic and it's already made rather a lot of headway a brand new football stadium capable of holding thirty thousand people has opened in the capital grozny with a truly all star match the head of the republican runs on the idea of played against football legend diego maradona and his team of world famous players despite having superstars like a loose and steve mcmanaman at his side marijuana was defeated by team caucuses five two to. an impressive debut there the new stadium well shortly here on r.t. we talked to rushers education minister about changes in the country's school and university system that will be after a recap of our stories in just a few minutes. damn

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