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so it's in sky because malls. made their elegant until close in strength or less the tropicana hutto. the week's top stories here on r t syrian troops fired thousands of protesters despite a promise to hold off all of this while the u.s. is seemingly preparing to declare the country's a government that is illegitimate with a military intervention a fear to follow. libyan rebels are fighting colonel gadhafi make the case for official recognition and more money in washington but they leave empty handed. and the massive celebrations are held all across russia small victory day while ukrainian veterans have to fight the nazis once again after a brutal attack by nationalists during the festivities.
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you are watching the weekly here r.t. welcome to it now thousands are fleeing syria where violence is raging despite the government's promise of dialogue with the opposition international pressure is mounting on syria over brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters with some eight hundred killed and pulled out a thousand arrested over the past couple of months the e.u. and the u.s. meantime of imposed sanctions on the country and washington's even said to be considering it declaring it president assad's eleven year rule that lawful authority is a guy in a chicken reports 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 a merry. this side
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a white house source said the obama administration is edging closer to the clearing assad's ruling syria illegitimate and that it would be just the first step we will continue to work with our international partners in the e.u. and elsewhere on additional steps to hold syria responsible for its gross human rights abuses sounds familiar united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer the turf 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. if it would open the door. true or various steps taken to remove government but the self-proclaimed position of the us is the world's
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policeman and judge of which government is legitimate or not doesn't sit well with everyone here and this arrogance the. president. and government 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 falls power in the world. are you president of the united states the president of the world when can damage 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 and their d.n.a. of us. or our and work on our we're all agree how can we. sort of bring in
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a little you read a. story or a greener grass. you cross the 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 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 and nobody gives away money for nothing or arms. seize the opportunity of putting in a friendly pro-american government response of true american interest the coalition efforts in libya have reached a dead end with the country now a military stalemate in the meantime civilian casualties 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 if it explodes or
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implodes it will affect all its neighboring countries iraq saudi arabia jordan israel lebanon. and 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 son to go after us aren't 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 now claims that it's inherent our president while they're out of self interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have made the world safer or have stabilized more i'm going to check our reporting from washington. the russians are already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported at the lebanese and israeli borders as people there are trying to escape the violence the director of the
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institute of islamic political thought to me says that sanctions and military intervention are unable to resolve the conflict and only end up hurting people i think we've seen the mother leave the foreign intervention has only complicated things. intervention has not held. the problem in libya and i don't think it will help settle the problem in syria and we've seen sanctions there's a history of adopting sanctions in various places including we are for many many years and only the ordinary people suffered throughout the time the sanctions were imposed in syria it is different from not the needy and scenario it is all course possible that we'll get there sometime but so long as the opponents of the region are not into using force him to use into carrying arms then hopefully we will not end up with another leader because. it started becoming catastrophic
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when evolution turned into an armed conflict now this week the u.s. dashed the hopes of the libyan rebels for official recognition the white house gave its message to a libyan opposition leader during his visit to washington the u.s. is also dragging its feet on a releasing colonel gadhafi has frozen assets that was promised to the rebels but it's not only the brothers not only the opposition that's feeling the cost of the war others are feeling the pinch as well as artie's out of panic 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 air strikes to enforce the no fly zone it's six f. sixteen fighter planes a racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month we were anticipating a number that was considering them that we aren't bad many nations that is using
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blades. there to take us for example they're using drones they have had tomahawk missile but i don't have any fighter planes involved. 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 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. it's a battle they do this because. i don't know all some people say they have an inferiority
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complex really follow big daddy the n.l. united states and france works as war against that of it so they go on her junior partner 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 during its 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 is proceeds as an upcoming election. and also that this is the policy of the current government to be as close with the u.s. 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
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and they've been there for ten years. but as afghanistan kosovo and iraq all showed when push comes to shove their countries more than willing to join america whatever the cost either bennett r.t. copenhagen. with r.t. live from moscow now let's have a look ahead and see what else is coming your way this hour and storming of the u.n. you b.n. m.p.'s have voted for a permanent seat on the security council and their hopes on shared by all. also find out life finish your thought is released the man behind a website serving as a mouthpiece for terrorists. now the growing number of refugees fleeing the unrest in the arab world is creating a rift between e.u. members some according to temporarily or even a permanently tightening borders between states and bring back passport checks as outings daniel bushell reports european unity could be on the brink of collapse the
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dream of european integration goes off the rails in a beautiful view 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's shattered the trust of which the e used visa free regime lives he does shawn kind of mistrust between two partners between friends any telling friends considering that italy is not implemented you could read 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 argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes we love the fact that the audience are just on the sea with people coming from outside and
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are not able to fix the problem we are not criminals terrorists mad men we don't want them near. protested to the french embassy for quotes voile ation of european principles france comes as it already takes five times more immigrants than italy m.p.'s here of the european parliament say they need to control immigration but with each member state putting its interests first and blaming each other for the problem migrants are just getting calls from one state to another e.u. security chiefs this week held crisis talks admitted the system's roit for abuse one and the same applicant for asylum can have like seventy seventy five percent chance of being granted asylum in one country of the european union and less than one percent with the same reasons in another country states taking the law into their own hands on wednesday they're more reintroduced border controls for people
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coming from of the e.u. states will german home of the e.u. headquarters is now calling for the same thing that. all immigrants to. that. this is not possible isn't possible for the people in question but in some possible to the. situation asked sort of more border control i think 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 nations in the e.u. also. the invasion from within restrictions on working and benefits for citizens from cintra 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 who have just joined the attracts people from
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outside the european union because they know once they get into a european country they can cross borders they can work if they want to or take advantage of a generous benefits system in my eyes 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 shingle agreements on visa free travel e.u. leaders all smiles the fear now is they've opened the pandora's books that they no longer control you bush will see brussels. under the ninth of may russia was celebrating victory day one of the most important and memorable occasions in the country's history it marks sixty six years since soviet and allied soldiers defeated nazi troops in a world war two a spectacular parade in red square saw twenty thousand troops marching alongside biliteral might a minute of silence was observed in memory of the twenty seven million soviets who died during the war but meanwhile in western ukraine veterans who fought to free
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people from the nazi invasion were attacked by violent nationalists parties alexy a witness to the events. holidays for millions and street brawl for sam unlike most of the post soviet region in may the ninth of this ukrainian city became a vicious display of neo nazis in. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties block the entrance to red army soldiers cemeteries preventing war veterans from getting inside and paying 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 and 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 the ukrainian capital city off and off putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you are veteran or not. the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading
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to the grave yards along with abusive chances such as dust to the mosque writes nazi salutes hurling rocks and small guns that is how involved marked me the ninth . here in this picture i am a great this in my life the liberation of this land for in the first place but these people here do not let me come inside this 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 day. these were the scenes from last year when nationalist wipe their feet on the red victory banner. i spent thirteen years in detention in siberia my two brothers were killed. could something like this have happened in a new country that. their heroes are people regarded worldwide as nasa collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the nine hundred forty s. insurgent army staff on monday and are
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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 a move some manner how can mainstream political parties deal with these sorts of movements today in cairo. as we've seen in ukraine where. nothing commemorates or has been elevated to status of a hero holder it appeared to be an anti russian protest but really it was a protest of the. ukrainian society in this case 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 as as marches and glorifying nots allegiance in the baltic states such as largely and the story of the danger is that people are beginning to forget what we fought for what veterans died for as we're seeing the reemergence of far right forces and nationalists forces that really in many sense resemble exactly that but emerge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such
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behavior still only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect but the argue seems and should definitely alert ukraine's leadership especially after demands for a revolution were clearly voiced by the angry mob alexy russian of security reporting from the fourth in western ukraine. now a german court has sentenced a ninety one year old man to five years for nazi war crimes and death camps john demjanjuk was found guilty of helping to murder almost thirty thousand. used during world war two serving as a guard in a polish concentration camp this case was opened over thirty years ago and israel even sentenced him to death but later canceled the verdict insists that he was a victim of the nazis who captured him as a soviet soldier and held him prisoner the man is currently being taken to a nursing facility where he is appealing his conviction. now
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earlier this week european m.p.'s decided to request their own a permanent seat and the u.n. security u.n. security council in spite of a planned overhaul of the use of common defense security and foreign policy but the move has not been met favorably by member states that already have a seat on the council britain and france the u.k. said it will not give up its own place of the body for the sake of putting a united europe there. i mean charles thinks that 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 power that 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
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un security council resolution nineteen seventy three over libya so no we would not give up our seat in favor of any 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 sideways 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 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. you're with r.t. it's good to have your company today as we are how late in the stories that made headlines this week now president medvedev said that this week the killing of osama bin laden by u.s. special forces was beneficial to russia's national security as well but he warned
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that the death of the al qaeda leader was not the end of terrorism as the organization is still sending agents to russia and other countries the president vowed that special forces will continue to take a hard line against extremism russia's anti terror dr who's recently killed two high ranking al qaeda operatives in the north caucuses early finish a journalist believed to be the organizer of an internet mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist has now walked free but the trial of mikhail of store sure has nothing to do with his possible links to terrorism he was accused of smuggling chechens into finland which officials later called a humanitarian action human rights activists believe with already to turn a blind eye to a store she's activity because he has a high profile supporters the website which he set up in sponsors a great goalie as the views of the most wanted terrorist who not off when they finish part of spoke out against the side he was immediately detained and it defrocked now you had back when he was
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a part of the largest offender told us here at r.t. that the case that shows there's a pro terror game at play in finland. the whole process against me close to shore and if you will in the words show trial. the prosecutor didn't want to sentence him of a they wanted only to give some kind of justification for him 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 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 and he's a he's a giving political space for islamist extremism in the north and nordic countries in northern europe. well you can always full of the stories we're
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covering here on our website regular updates eye catching videos are all waiting for you right now r.t. dot com here are a couple of items that you can check out of the moment and the u.s. congress proposes to cut funds for a controversial body scanners of airports the detectors were slammed for an invasion of privacy while some of also questioned their effectiveness also. a school of music that goes underground moscow's a metro but there's a treat for late night commuters as unlucky five hundred win tickets to a special concert as part of the capital's museum experience or more details on that and some much more at the bottom. of the operator of japan's quake hit fukushima nuclear plant has agreed to cut costs and allow an investigation in return for government help with paying out compensation to paralyzed
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a facility has been leaking radiation into the sea for over two months now professor robert jacobs from the peace and security says that we still don't know the full extent of the damage there. affairs are much more serious and we were told earlier this plant has been in meltdown for a while we were not told that for a long time probably because tepco did not even realize it for a long time even though the releases of radiation certainly implied to many people and many people did say that first week that the plants were melting down so. it definitely is a much more serious situation then we have been led to believe there is very good reason to believe that there is much more serious situation going on in reactor number two and reactor number three and also in the spent fuel pool in reactor number four i have a rule of thumb that i tend to go by which is that anything that is publicly stated is probably around ten to twenty percent of what's true so it would take us it would take us probably years to know the extent of the contamination and the extent
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of the fuel melting. all right now let's have a look at some more international news making headlines at this hour and i think we can cross to live pictures right now several people have been injured in some of the scenes we're looking at are clashes in east jerusalem during protests marking the anniversary of the creation of the state of israel again these are live pictures right here on our tape israeli forces that have fired shells and machine guns on palestinians near the gaza border demonstrators holed stones or border police who then responded with tear gas many palestinians lost their homes with the founding of the state of israel in one thousand nine hundred eight which they call nakba or catastrophe. the head of the international monetary fund the i.m.f. has been charged with sexual attack attempted rape and on lawful imprisonment dominique strauss kahn was pulled from a plane and minutes before he was due to fly to paris and questioned on suspicion
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of assaulting a hotel maid and he thirty two year old woman claims he attacked her when she was cleaning his room trust carnes lawyer says he will plead not guilty meantime the i.m.f. head is considered a possible socialist candidate for the french presidency. and the u.s. has opened up massive flood gates in louisiana to avert inundation in cities along the mississippi river valley 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 flood gates to be opened officials say twenty five thousand people and more than ten thousand buildings could be adversely affected. and at least six passengers have been killed after a bus was hit by a roadside bomb near a garrison town in eastern pakistan twenty others were reportedly wounded this is the second major attack in pakistan this week alone on friday twin blasts targeted a paramilitary base killing almost one hundred taliban officials that the bombing
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was to avenge the death of osama bin laden. now a thousand a day countdown has kicked off before the olympic torch comes to russia's sochi in two thousand and fourteen to one of the thousands of volunteers that set the mood all across the country in the black sea host city itself a social club as you can see here was unveiled to come down the days before the next winter games and here in the capital roller skaters took part in a fun run flying the flag for the olympics all the celebrations included enjoying it the mascots for the games for those who wanted to get in shape for the event a special outdoor exercise it also took place the festivities wrapped up with two concerts held in moscow and sochi up a same time. for a while i shortly we explore the deadly legacy of the war in lebanon five years on and off to a recap of the week's top stories in just a few. cluster
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nation. and inside because even if you have a. bomb and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds there's a huge market right now for battle area clear because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. and
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so you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically. rung up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places they will hire local train the locals how to do the clearance let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes and they're putting themselves at risk every single day they go out there to clear areas of these weapons. a bit better. than in big. men.

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