it's. important. the restart stories on our t.v. as the u.s. appears ready to denounce the syrian government as unlawful for its brutal crackdowns on protesters but we take a look at what's next for the country. libyan rebels leave washington disappointed in their feet and it after the white house staffers expectations of official recognition and money from gadhafi is frozen assets. and of the international monetary fund detained on charges of sexual assault charge he explores the repercussions of his arrest. a grandiose military victory displays marking victory day across russia while ukrainian veterans face

a new battle against nationalists who assault them on the holiday. eight pm in moscow on match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story thousands are fleeing syria where violence is regime despite the government's promise of dialogue with the opposition international pressure mounting on syria over brutal crackdowns against anti-government protesters with some eight hundred killed and more than a thousand arrested in two months the e.u. and us from meanwhile have imposed sanctions on the country from washington even said to be considering declaring president assad's eleven year rule unlawful as are he's got a shipyard reports many believe the u.s. may be laying the groundwork for drastic action against the regime. who easily

judum an international leader and who is not it seems america will decide the white house source said the obama administration is edging closer to be 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 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 to various steps taken to

remove that governor but the south 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 here and. now against the. president. in government we're getting later not. to 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 will its 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 as the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference and you know sourcing and or do you need. it to or and work amount of how can they.

when they. are homos. 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 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 for all american government response of 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 for any involvement in syria could

trigger a much worse conflict syria's in the heart of the arab world and its it explodes or implodes it will affect all its neighboring countries iraq saudi arabia jordan israel lebanon. they're in they're all likely to get involved in a collapsing or a 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 when you're only scared teacher ally is not a viable way forward critics say the us takes on the wall of the world policeman not pleased on its inherent altruism or rather out of self interest and the bigger question is whether girls increase have made the world safer or have stabilized more i'm going to check our reporting from washington. arrest is already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported at the lebanese and israeli borders as people

are trying to escape violence james denselow a london based writer on middle east politics says only the syrian people can stop the bloodshed and the pins 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 great a bloodbath happening in cities that are arrested because it seems that the deaths and cells are creating a momentum and it's that momentum of the regime is found impossible to stall it's a variety of carrots and peeling most famously getting rid of the emergency law but it appears now simply only have sticks left in its cupboard so it is a deeply worrying trend as far as the syrian people are concerned. this week the u.s. dashed hopes for libyan rebels for official recognition the white house gave this message to a libyan opposition leader during a visit to washington u.s. is also dragging its feet on releasing critical are these frozen assets promised to

aid the rebels but it's not only the opposition that's feeling the cost of the war as r.t.s. i for better or ports. for those who join 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 we were anticipating a number that was considering that we aren't that many nation that is using fighter planes. to take us for example their usual grown ups they have had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any fighter planes involved. denmark dropped one hundred twenty six percent bombs in the first fortnight 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 seventeen 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 some people say they have an inferiority complex they follow big daddy and yell the united states in france wants this war in get out so they go all their junior partners the danish parliament was unanimous in backing and 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 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 has proceeded as a coming election. and also that is the policy of the current government to be as close to 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 are then it's artsy copenhagen. as libya's upper a position it desperately seeks international support the u.s. says a study of unclear on the exact makeup of the rebels patrick is from spike darlyne

magazine says only the libyan people themselves could decide their future propagate the said he's cautious about understanding who makes up the opposition and the extent caution is commendable because this humanitarian intervention by the west in libya wasn't a planned strategy years of war without any real aims it was something of the west jumps into without any real clear sense of who they're doing it on the behalf of who the rebels are and what they want to achieve from a transitional national council of libya now would completely orientated towards the west towards nato it's all of america they want to try and get except from barmer from western leaders they're not looking towards the libyan people it means that self-determination doesn't come from the libyan people it comes from this kind of political elite in libya who are basically just trying to tell the west what it wants to hear recognition has to come from the libyan people it can come from the west it's not just about getting rid of gadhafi it's about bringing about

a democratic libya which is very much a process that has been struggled for by the people of libya you can't bomb libya into democracy the solution doesn't come from the west removing gadhafi and i think it would be absolutely dreadful if this bombing does end up killing gadhafi because the good afy should be removed by libyan hands not by the west. stay with us as we continue wrapping up the week's news here on our t.v. still ahead a man thought to have his supported even children to gas chambers during the second world war the report on the outcome of the trial of john demjanjuk he was there for helping murder of those thirty thousand jews in nazi concentration camps. plus find out why finnish authorities release the man behind a website serving as a mouthpiece for terrorists. for we get to that the head of the international monetary fund has been charged with sexual assault attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment new york police pulled dominic strauss

kahn from a plane only minutes before he was due to fly to paris and questioned him on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid for more on this we're joined by political or journalist john bricmont on the line from brussels so the news of strauss kahn's arrest comes just as a new poll shows him to be a favorite for france's two thousand and twelve election a head of president nicolas sarkozy do you think that time is the timing is significant is there a story behind the story here. i doubt that very much because i don't see how they could be a plot with this made it conceivable of course that they may the self is a bit. of course that's going seen and everybody's innocent until proven guilty but they don't believe that there is a lot behind that i just don't think it's peace and i don't see who would make such a plot and. how likely it would be i don't believe he's controlling the new york police and i very much doubt that he would take the risk of contracting such

a me too i mean what would she do you see i mean you have to wait for the of course for the inquiry to go on that's a different question. i don't believe there is something behind that certainly they do evaluate by the way they support him on french t.v. which you can see on the web where he's been accused of attempted rape many years ago by a french journalist who was doing a book and went to see him in the trade to paper and of course there is name a suitcase but it's well known that it's him that was the one that was in the boat and stevie was surely expected to officially announce his presidential nomination his socialist party has so far refused to comment on the campaign but said that they were astounded by the allegations do you think you'll be running for president now. i doubt it very much i think the only way the only thing that could save. the i.m.f. is that if it turns out that the maid is completely crazy that they dialed the he mentioned that the police in new york would be deplaning for that with their kids

and so i think they're here but that the image in the presidential candidate is finished that's what all of these i can tell you was his form of. comedy and if you can use that will in the socialist party as a way to say that you should. unless indeed the. head of the amen now strengthen our cause i see i mean easy easy easy innocent until proven guilty sure straus card was involved in an extramarital affair before back in two thousand and eight it proved that it was a consensual relationship with this allegation of sexual assault though his career of actively over not only in politics but do you think it's also not true. i mean let's suppose that the sex was consensual do you think it makes a lot of sense for him to have contained consensual sex with a maid in a hotel when he runs as a presidential candidate i mean he would lose it seems to me that that would show

a local not a flap of judgment even if it's consensual with the need to be consensual the relationship is so different between him in the me that nobody's going to believe that. it's you know i don't thing that would at least show lack of judgment and again now we're talking about and that's the accusations about not about sex and as i said there's been a look at the allegation of a soul before and germany's so what do you think this does for his career at the i.m.f. do you think he's effectively done there what do you think. look i see you have to see what how the inquiry proceeds that i don't know but if of course he's suspected of being. assaulted in the clothes i think it's reasonable that they may happen as a presidential candidate he has a presidential candidate even if it's clear of those charities they'll be too much of a speech and i think this is one hundred and there are many other problems with him you see. having a socialist who is the president of the i.m.f. and it's very strange because they're him if he's not a neutral institution to do

a poor capitalist and poor free market institution he's very weighty himself so somebody like that who were present the socialist this opening up of. her eight weeks cleaning at the socialist and the party of suckers the are the same and of course that would give the impression that they are the same because he's very close the circle is in the spirit is in this world so effectively that we open up an avenue to the right and there's another problem with. this graphic to move us along is we're running out of time but as the head of the i.m.f. strauss kahn played a major role in efforts to pick the e.u. out of its financial pit that it's in right now with this arrest how much do you think this was talks for trouble the e.u. members do you think they'll suffer what do you think will happen for the countries involved. here with that's an assumption which i don't see how the whole of school is going i think who can freeze. in public as you see already some flooded their populations i mean almost good blacks and still the problem of those counties that

have no control over their military police easily because they are part of the of the usual and so because they have no control they have no control over the economy police effectively they have lost the seventy's and i don't know i would call that help to counties like portugal spain. so. i think it's an internal affair of the you know i think the whole of school scam has been and there's a hate in you know that but the. another problem as i see if we can is explicitly declared in black in ninety one that he went into politics and he works in political know that to help israel and to support israel he said that he explicitly there's another accusation and that i found very strange when somebody was president runs for president of france if you can i think somebody would be a muslim and say that the president while saying that it's probably exists trying to help. and of saudi arabia and the rest in countering and that place is another

problem i think about so stand by the fact that he's president of the left and he's coming from in full support of israel his problem seems to me and his friends and. to me president of. all right john kerry political writer. on may ninth russia was celebrating victory day one of the most important and memorable occasions in the country's history it marked 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 with military might and minute of silence was observed in memory of the twenty seven million soviets who died during the war in while in western ukraine veterans who fought to free people from the nazi invasion were attacked by violent nationalists or he's like sarah shouts you witness the events. holiday for millions and street brawl for sun unlike most of the post soviet region amazing night this ukrainian

city became visions displayed for the new in the us isn't. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties book the engines the red army soldiers cemeteries preventing war veterans from getting inside and paying tribute some in this part of ukraine do not see may 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 of the wolf putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. if you want you to know that the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading to the graveyards along with the views of chances such as dust to the most whites and nazi salutes hurling rocks and smoke bombs that is how involved martha made the ninth. here in this speech only greatest

in my thought a deliberate show this line from the first shifts to these people here do not let me come inside the century to lay flowers and he's great this is a disgrace. such seeing 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 for a banner. i spent thirteen years in detention in siberia my two brothers were killed at will 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 stuck on london and announced a huge 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 move some manner how the mainstream political parties deal with these sorts of movements today in cairo. as we've seen in case you crane when.

not a collaborator has been elevated to a 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 ass as marches and glorifying nots allegiance in the baltic states such as love to be and the story of the danger is that people begin to forget what we fought for what the veterans died for as we are seeing the reemergence of far right forces a nationalist forces that really in many states resemble exactly the merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such behavior still only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect but the ugly scenes and should definitely allergic lanes leadership especially after demands for revolution were clearly voiced by the and with the let's see russian

ascii art seed reporting from the fourth in western ukraine. a german court has sentenced a ninety one year old man to five years for a 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 he has currently been taken to a nursing facility while he appeals a sentence artie's a catarina grouch over about the relatives of some who perished under the nazi regime. you only went through the gates of subby war once there was no return and like an other concentration camps such as alice ritz there was no slave labor people were sent immediately to their death. we all suspected jews were welcomed by a band and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rapture 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 forest called him

a parched asset wall street to have an s.s. man as quarter of the victims down the track to the gas chambers only be 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 were children most of my friends i remember of course i recently received believe it yourself on the surface i know before. i had my vice marshal. and i could build upon armored vehicles and we certainly can this is the watch the shooter can remove he could have come from her guest in the room before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent intense training jim and you went to the trial vickie 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. training here during the investigations into the mouth of war nobody from what i'm told about the fall getting training or other semitic training great old soldiers army training hearing because they were surprised that there was a worse kind of a duty which we had to down. in the death camps. but victims' relatives believe all those who signed up as a sas man were well aware of the duties they'd be carrying out mariam whose mother was one of the lucky few who survived so people were pushed for the prosecution of demjanjuk she may be in your eighty's but she made it to every court session she wants him to admit that he was here and what sobibor is it's not it's a war it's not soldiers against these it's killing people in effect and we

every war the sooner it's one thing or there. never is never do you know how many years this is a matter of if you're going to have to be sure that. they did a new trial is a sign that the twenty first century is still prepared to deal with the evils of the twentieth and warning that there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity. r t c b board poland. a finnish journalist is believed to be the organizer of an internet now with peace for russia's most wanted terrorist has walked free but the trial of my pal 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 turn of wide eyed distortions activity because he has high profile supporters the website that he set

up and sponsors regularly airs the views of wanted terrorist. when a finnish pastor spoke out against the site he was immediately detained and defrocked johan bachmann who was a pastor mores defender tells arjun the case shows there is a pro terror game at play in finland. whole process against. the feel of the show trial the prosecutor didn't want to send them same movie they wanted to only to give some kind of justification for him for he's actively through his will he's an activist who is actively promoting islamist terrorism against russia he has several websites he has an all fees and he's a reporter sending 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

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lebanese syrian and gaza border clashes broke out not by a day that marks the anniversary of the founding of the jewish state when many palestinians lost their homes security officials said there were injuries as well forces fired at protesters to prevent crowds from crossing the israeli border. the u.s. has opened a massive flood gates in louisiana to do to avert inundation in cities along the mississippi thousands of square miles of land will be engulfed in a 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. will be back with the week's headlines in a few moments stay with us here on r.t. .

repairing a broken thing should. tell you a construction and humanitarian aid. but as shady officials forget the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. afghanistan the job. for some this is just the parliament building in berlin. once again sixty six years ago it was the final targets. and the last major.