the. week's top stories here on r.t. and syrian troops firing thousands of protesters despite a promise to hold off meantime the u.s. is seemingly preparing to declare the country's government illegitimate with a military intervention for you to follow the. libyan rebels fighting colonel gadhafi make their case for official recognition more money while in washington but they end up leaving empty handed. but massive celebrations are held all across russia are marking victory day while ukrainian veterans had to fight the nazis once again after a brutal attack by nationalists during the festivities. we

are highlighting the top stories of the week here on our team welcome to the program well thousands are fleeing syria where violence is raging despite the government's promise of a dialogue with the opposition international pressure is mounting on syria over brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters with some eight hundred killed and more than a thousand arrested over the past couple of months the e.u. and u.s. meantime have imposed sanctions on the country washington even said to be considering declaring president assad's eleven year rule on more full and its artie's a guy nature can report so many believe the u.s. is laying the foundations for drastic action against the regime. who easily international leader and who is not it seems america will this. i align 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 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 that government but the self 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 is it unfair of us now against. american president to do so. in government or not to be in or to be americans saying that 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 condemning government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the u.s. claims the higher moral ground the clearing human rights is the basis for its involvement at the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you know certainly in their d.n.a. of. it or are and were already out. in the

middle you read a. story. where he wrote. you cross your country and your. america's self-proclaimed humanitarian involvement has led it to take sides in the libyan civil war the us has pledged extensive support for the rebels newly released 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 and the u.s. sees the opportunity of putting in a friendly pro-american government response of some american interest 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 if it explodes or

implodes it will affect all its neighboring countries iraq saudi arabia jordan israel lebanon. there and 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 reason say some to go after our side relying on iran as your best friend and your only script egypt ally is not a viable way forward critics say the us takes on the role of world policeman not things on its 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. well the rest is already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported at the lebanese and israeli borders

as people try to escape the violence james a don't slow a london based writer on middle east politics says only the syrian people can 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 create a bloodbath happening in cities that are arrested because it seems that the deaths and cells are creating a momentum that is that momentum that the regime is found impossible to stall it's a variety of carrots and most 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. this week the u.s. dashed the hopes of the libyan rebels for official recognition the white house gave this message to a libyan opposition leader during his visit in washington for us meantime is also dragging its feet on releasing frozen assets that were promised earlier to the

rebels but it's not only the opposition that's fueling the cost of the war. and it reports. for those who join the fight in libya the cost of conflict is quickly taking off their marks one of just six nato members conducting in strikes would force 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 we were anticipating a number that was considerably lower than that we aren't that many nations that is using fighter plates. let's take us for example they're using drones they have had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any fighter planes and what. denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first fortnight of the campaign or 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. it's a battle they do this because. i don't know some people say they have an inferiority complex and they follow big daddy and the united states and france what's 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 the 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 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 this 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 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 are bennett artsy copenhagen. now as the libyan opposition desperately seeks international support antiwar activist john reese says any revolution is on

shaky ground when it turns to western countries for help the us are interested in stopping the revolution but not helping the revolution i think the intervention was meant to corrupt and control the revolution for us ends and not to give any real life of its own or any capacity to actually alter the situation in libya in the way that the train is you know in egypt and revolutions did the object of the u.s. is to to keep the libyan rebels on a very short lead not to allow them any real independence or autonomy and to use them for u.s. foreign policy ends the rebels were naive if they ever believed that the west was going to have an open hand towards them but it was going to help them freely assist them in completing their revolution as soon as you start appealing to the imperial powers for assistance they are going to demand a price for that assistance i was always going to be the case that once the west intervened the logic which was running before that people would see western

intervention as a reason to support who perhaps had absolutely no other reason to do so you can see you know the people who even protest to get out the regime the western intervention even more what is clear is that the west is now engaged on regime change is no engaged on raids whose aim is to kill gadhafi but revolutions either succeed by mobilizing their own people against the hated and popular regime or they don't succeed at all there's no easy route to the revolution using the assistance of the western powers. you are with r t it's good to have your company today let's have a quick look at what lies ahead for you in the program here and he's a thought to have escorted even children to gas chambers during the second world war the report on the outcome of the trial of john examined york who was accused of helping tonight almost thirty thousand jews in nazi concentration camps can. also find out why finish what already is a relief to the man behind

a website serving as a mouthpiece for terrorists. a growing number of refugees fleeing the youngest in the arab world is creating a rift between some members a few of them according to temporarily or even permanently tightened borders between states and bring back passport checks as r.t. as it down your bushel reports european unity could be on the brink of collapse the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a 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's shots of the trust on which the e used visa free regime relies he does shawn kind of mistrust between two partners between france and italy france considering that italy is 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 leave it on the strength but fellow member states they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes we responsible 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 madam and we don't want them here. protested to the french embassy for quotes voile ation of european principles france counts as it's already takes five times more immigrants than italy okies 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 polls 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 are taking the law into their own hands on wednesday there are more reintroduced border controls for people coming from of the e.u. states will german home of the e.u. headquarters is now calling for the same. immigrants and illegal immigrants to give back to each other this is not possible isn't possible for the people in question but in some possible to the new situation asked for more border control i think growing numbers in the union's 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 joined the union in two thousand and four were lifted on the first of may want a.b.p. walls they'll 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 a european union country they can cross borders they can work if they want to or 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 to 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. or see russell's. you are watching the weekly here on r.t. on the ninth of may russia was celebrating victory day it's one of the most

important and memorable locations in the country's history it marks sixty six years since soviet and allied soldiers defeated nazi troops in world war two a spectacular parade in red square saw twenty thousand troops marching alongside military might a minute of silence was observed in a memory that would be twenty seven million a soviet died during the war meantime in western ukraine veterans who fought to free people from the nazi invasion were tapped by violent nationalist parties and i feel as if we witnessed violence. the whole day for millions and street brawl for some unlike most of the posts i made the night this ukrainian city became a vicious display of neo nazis and. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties block the entrance to red army soldiers cemeteries preventing war veterans from getting inside and playing tribute

some in this part of ukraine do not see me tonight 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 perhaps shorter war but on this day in the west the ukrainian capital city of off putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. it's what you do what you don't let 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 to the mosque right nazi salutes hurling rocks and small bribes that is how involved martha made the ninth year of work here in this picture all my brothers and like to liberate this one 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 grace. it's such seemed surprised even to. locals who had gone zeus to protest on victory day these were the scenes from last year when the nationalist

annoyed at their feet on the red victory banner. i spent thirteen years in detention in siberia my two brothers were killed. something like this it happened in a new country that. their heroes are people regarded worldwide does not see collaborates as replica shirts with the founders of the 1930's insurgent on the stick on monday and in the months ahead which are big here here there are seen as freedom fighters even though for a while they thought along side the nazi army and kill civilians jews and russians in the middle of some manner how the mainstream political parties deal with these sorts of movements today in cairo. as we've seen it in case you crane where. nothing major has. just the older it appeared to be an anti russian protest but really it was a protest the. ukrainian society in this case has to deal with and this is only

part of the way the picture of the perception of the past is making waves in other former soviet states and they really as as marches and glories tying knots and agents in the baltic states such as last year and the stone age the danger is that people begin to forget what we fought for what veterans died for as we're seeing the reemergence of far right forces and nationalist forces that really in many sense resemble exactly. the merge with hitler in the one eight hundred thirty s. such behavior still only applies to the minority when most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect for the ugly scenes and should definitely alert the plane's leadership especially after demands for revolution were clearly voiced by the end when more let's see russia reporting from divorce in western ukraine. meantime a german court has sentenced a ninety one year old man to five years nazi war crimes in a death camp joined by. new york was found guilty of helping to murder almost thirty thousand jews during world war two while serving as

a guard he is currently being taken to a nursing facility where he appeals a sentence artie's you're going to retrofit are met the relatives of some of those who perished under the nazi regime you only want through the gates of sabi war once there was no return unlike in other concentration camps so just there was no slave labor people was sans immediately to their death. the all suspecting jews were welcomed by a band and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rapture and even one applause then came an invitation to shower after the long journey and it was all a deadly deception a quarter of a million jews preceded along this poorest called him and parched that wall street to have an s.s. man a score said the victims down the track to the gas chambers only the ukrainian s.s. guards and the german s.s. officers were allowed to take up the task they were considered the most well

trained and the most reliable among those standing guard was john demjanjuk completed in nearly twenty eight thousand counts of murder many of those he schools had to the gas chambers but children are not my friend and i am of course in recent years have been in the producers and directors i know and before. i hear my vice marshal. and i could build of my own armored vehicles i would ensure this is the ship you can take you have to show your guests in good before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent intense training demain you went to the travelling counter where the s.s. carried out ripens drills and combat training and even taking german language classes it has little to say very had. training here and your

investigations against them off of war nobody from them told us all got to training or anti-semitic training great cultural newbold soldiers army training here in the camp they were surprised that there was a worse kind of duty which we had done. in the death camps. simone were well aware of the duties they'd be carrying out mariam whose mother was one of the lucky few who survived so before for the prosecution of demjanjuk she may be in her eighty's but she made it to every court session and she wants him to admit that you will see him and what sobibor is it's not it's war it's not soldiers against each order it's killing people in a factory every war criminal who served in a thing or. never learned never knew how many years it takes is this really going to have to be punished. they did

a new trial is assigned of the twenty first century is still prepared to deal with the evils of the try and hit a warning but there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity external aggression r t scibor poland we are highlighting the top stories of the week here on out say now president medvedev said this week that the killing of osama bin ladin by u.s. special forces was beneficial to russia's national security as well but he warned that the death of any with what's called the end of terrorism as the organization is still sending agents to russia and other countries the president baldock special forces will continue to take a hard line against extremism russia's anti terror try this was actually killed two high ranking al qaeda operatives in the north caucuses. well i finished a journalist believed to be the organizer of an internet ralph piece for russia's most wanted terrorist has just walked free but the trial of mikhail

a story 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 authorities turned a blind eye to store she's activity because he has a high profile supporters website which he set up and sponsors regularly as the views of the wanted terrorist doc who are not of. finnish pastor spoke out against the site he was immediately detained and the frocked johana back right here with them larry's defender told us here at r.t. that the case that shows there's a pro terror game at play in finland the court process against also if you will in the words short trial the charge of the prosecutor didn't want to sentence him maybe they wanted to only to give some kind of for 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 representative of surely. of in finland he's an extremely dangerous individual and i'm very sure of that and he has served very strong political support in finland and he's a he's a giving political space for islamistic extremism in the north and nordic countries in northern europe. if you would r.t. live from moscow and you can always follow the stories we're covering here on our website regular updates eye catching videos waiting for you at our seat dot com let's check out some of the items that are waiting for you at the moment and u.s. congress proposes to cut funds for controversial body scanners at airports the detectives were slammed for an invasion of privacy also question their effectiveness also.

classical music that goes underground metro prepares a treat for late night commuters as a lucky five hundred win tickets to a special concert as part of the capital's museum experience more for you party dot com. right as we run into other top stories of the week let's check out some of today's international headlines now and at least eight people have been killed as israeli troops shot up pro palestinian protesters at the lebanese syrian and gaza borders the clashes broke out on a day that marks the anniversary of the founding of the jewish state when many palestinians lost their homes security officials say there were injuries as well the forces of fired protesters to prevent crowds from crossing the israeli people. the head of the international monetary fund has been charged with a sexual attack attempted rape and imprisonment dominique strauss was pulled from

a plane minutes before he was due to fly to paris and question on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid the thirty two year old woman claims he attacked her when she was cleaning his room. lawyer says he will plead not guilty the i.m.f. head is considered meantime a possible socialist candidate for the french presidency. the u.s. has opened massive flood gates in louisiana to avert inundation in cities along the mississippi river. thousands of square miles of land it will be a gulf 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 and more than ten thousand buildings could be adversely affected. while this week russia netted the right to host another major sporting event this time two thousand and sixteen a world ice hockey championship the country has already scored with its bids for

the next winter olympics and the two thousand and eighteen world cup going to have a lot of it put in a pledge a first class tournament and also shared his own experience of getting on skates for should deserves the course through the chimp in chief not just. where glory was . and not just because we have not been his former indicates. but because of our great. great for more than eight years of them and shoot us live use them where believe in fate to be neat in youth to revive this beautiful cute and i do to learn to ski. did meet it was not easy and not even for a person who had been practicing sports with the kids and

even harder i am learning the ice work but now i have first hand experience of truly great. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments. if. it was.