routing of the week's top stories as the u.s. appears ready to denounce the syrian government or us on bravo for its brutal crackdown on protesters we take a look on what's next for the country. libyan rebels leave washington disappointed and he headed up to the white house doctors expectations of official recognition and money from the colonel gadhafi has frozen assets. as the head of the international monetary fund is detained on charges of sexual assault partly explores the repercussions of the arrest. bred in military displays marked victory day across russia while ukrainian veterans battle in the face of

a new battle with nationalist was so long holiday. nine pm in moscow i'm not trying to bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's headlines here on r t thousands are fleeing syria where violence is raising 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 more than a thousand arrested in two months the e.u. and u.s. have imposed sanctions on the country washington has even said if you considering declaring president assad's eleven year rule unlawful as art he's got a check yard of reports many believe the u.s. may be laying the groundwork for action against the regime. who easily international leader and who is not it seems america will decide

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 and we will continue to work with our international partners in the e.u. and elsewhere on it. initial steps to hold syria responsible for its gross human rights abuses sounds familiar and i 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 would open the door to various steps taken to remove that government 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 or not. 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 vaults power in the world. are you president of the united states the president of the world when condemn a 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 and you know sourcing and where do you need. it to or and work amount of how we could.

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 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 early american. government response of american interest the coalition efforts in leap year 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 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 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 strategic ally is not a viable way forward critics say the u.s. takes on the role of world policeman now claims on its inherent altruism or rather 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 r.t. . arrest is already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported at the lebanese and israeli border as people try to escape the violence the director of the

institute of his a lot of political thought as to mimi says sanctions and military intervention are unable to resolve the conflict and could only end up hurting people. i think we've seen the model in libya for intervention has only complicated things. the intervention has not. settled 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 iraq many many years and only though the only people suffered through this time and sanctions with people in syria it is different from the needy and scenario it is on course possible that we'll get there sometime but so long as the open and severely jian are not concluded into using force into use into carrying arms then hopefully we will not and of with another leader because. it started becoming

catastrophic when the revolution turned into an armed conflict. this week the u.s. stifled hopes of libyan rebels for official recognition the white house gave this message to a libyan opposition leader during a visit to washington and u.s. is also dragging its feet on releasing kentucky's frozen assets promised to the aid the rebels that's not the only only the opposition that's feeling the cost of the war as are these i for better ports. 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 six f. sixteen fighter planes are racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month we were anticipating a number that was considering them that we aren't that many nation that is using fighter blades. let's take us for example they're using drones they have had

a tomahawk missile but i don't have any fighter planes involved. denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision 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 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 and the united states in words as

war against it of it so they go all very 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 drawing its support it says nato has gone beyond its mandate by taking sides in a civil war now the party is denmark could follow suit again with a ground offensive looming i think it's likely because the prime minister wants to be a strongman is precedes there's a coming election. and also that is the policy of the current government to be as close with the us as possible at the moment the government's against sending ground forces six f. sixteen s are already costing the same as denmark's troop deployment in afghanistan and they've been there for ten years. but as afghanistan kosovo and iraq all showed

when push comes to shove their countries more than willing to join america whatever the cost are bennett artsy copenhagen. earlier this week european m.p.'s decided to request their own permanent seat at the un security council as part of a planned overhaul of the e.u.'s common defense security and foreign policy but the move has not been met favorably by member states which already have a seat on the council including britain and france the u.k. said it will not give up its own place of the bombing for the sake of putting lady europe there and he charles tannock thinks of britain more like to defend its u.n. influence. there's no way that the british government all the british conservative delegation and i speak for the conservatives in the european powers 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 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 a un security council resolution nineteen seventy three over libya so no we would not give up our seat in favor of an e.u. seat because at the end of the day the common the foreign security policy of the european union is only when we all agree and sometimes we don't all agree as was a case over iraq and has been the case regrettably in some ways over libya when the germans 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 it. may ninth russia celebrating victory day one of the

most important and memorable occasions in the country's history it marked sixty six years in soviet and allied troops defeated nazi soldiers in world war two a spectacular parade in red square aside twenty thousand troops marched. alongside military hardware our minute of silence was observed in memory of the twenty seven million soviets would die during the war in while in western ukraine veterans were fought for free people from that r.c. in beijing were attacked by iowa nationalist parties alexei ourselves witnessed the events. holy day for millions a street brawl for some unlike most of the post soviet region on may the ninth this ukrainian city became a vicious display of neo nazis and. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties block 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 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 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 like it or not 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 most quite nazi salutes hurling rocks and smoke bombs that is how involved martha made the ninth you know who hailed the speech only greatest in life to liberate this line from the fascists 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 protest on the three day these were the scenes from last year when the nationalist and their feet on the red victory banner you know. we spent thirteen years in detention in

siberia which you brothers were killed we could something like this have happened in a new country there. there are heroes are people regarded worldwide. does nasa collaborators replica's sure some of the founders of the nine hundred thirty s. insurgent on the stick on monday and are a big hit 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 halakhah mainstream political parties deal with these sorts of movements today in cairo. as we've seen in place crane when. not to commemorate so has been anything to status of a hero holder it appeared to be an anti russian protest but really it was the protest of the demons that 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 the marches and glorifying nots and

agents in the baltic states such as not 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 and nationalists forces that really in many sense resemble exactly those of the merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such behavior to only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect for the young you seems a little should definitely alert ukraine's leadership especially after demands for a revolution were clearly voiced by the and we more. seed reporting from wörth in western ukraine. that of the international monetary fund has been charged with sexual assault attempted rape at a lawful and present it new york police hold on any extra car from a plane minutes before he was due to fly to paris and question him on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid for more on this we're joined by democratic politics esper expert now

below around dani good to have you with us so mr strauss kahn is a possible socialist candidate for the french presidency polls have been favoring him the latest putting him five percentage points ahead of president sarkozy how significant do you think is the timing of the scandal. well he was indeed going to announce his candidacy for the clinton twelve presidential elections and i think these allegations will come as a huge blow for a french socialist who really saw him as the great hope to succeed president sarkozy in next year's presidential elections and i don't think at this stage of president next close kind will even think of running for president because as it would prove extremely difficult to juggle allegations of sexual assault than and rape with a presidential campaign if he does decide to run how much of a chance to take you straight out. well you know the it has been. a sea

change in france as far as the private life but also the public life of public figures and especially politicians is concerned i think the french press is a much more inquisitive and is holding a public figure's much more county board for their actions and these allegations are not going to go down very well with the french public so it will be pretty damaging for the next course in any case whether he decides to run for the presidency or not time for it if you decide to exit the political scene who do you think benefits from the scandal. well i think president sarkozy is an obvious. personality or an obvious candidate to benefit from from the scandal although he's very low in the poll at the moment the lowest. of the lowest rate in fact for any french president in the history of the fifth republic as he's. going to

send us twenty three percent in the new rating but i think that this will benefit him hugely as he will be able to hoop that he will you know he he will reassure him give you more confidence to tackle the presidential elections. with much more strength than the current situation for him but of course it's very very damaging for the socialist party who saw dominic's tossed around as one of their strongest candidate and indeed he was the most popular one in his role as the head of the i.m.f. astro's carter was deeply involved in efforts to revive the e.u. how much will his arrest impact aid talks for the troubled you members. but we don't expose kind was you know he had a brilliant mind for economics he served in the decisions government in france as finance minister and he was responsible for great achievements for example he was

able to help france recover from its economic recession in the eight nine hundred ninety s. and he also managed to. qualify for the union because of his cuts in public spending for example he showed that he was also a very strong man a very strong leader of the i.m.f. . so he's he definitely has got the brilliant mind for economics and i think these allegations are going to be damaging for the work of the i.m.f. as an institution and he is definitely going to be missed at the e.u. meetings which will plan tomorrow are right now bill around on a journalist specializing in french politics thank you for joining us. a finnish journalist believed to be an organizer of the internet mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist has walked free but the trial had 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 up wide eyed in his activity because he has high profile supporters the website which he set up and sponsors regularly airs views of wanted terrorist. when i finish pastor spoke out against the site and was immediately detained endure frocked johan bachmann who was pastor mohler rees defender tells our t.v. case shows there's a pro terror game at play in finland. the whole process against me close to showing the feel of the was sure troil the prosecutor didn't want to send them see a movie they wanted to only to give some kind of for justification for his for he said t.v. three as well he's an activist who is actively promoting islamist terrorism against russia he has several websites he has on all face and he's the ripper scenting 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 of nordic countries in northern europe. you can follow all of the stories we're covering on our website regular updates and eye catching video with there for you what are. his what's online right now. the u.s. congress proposes to cut funds for controversial body scanners at airports detectors were slammed as an invasion of privacy and some have also questioned their effectiveness plus. classical music. goes underground moscow's metro prepares a treat for a late night commuters as a lucky five hundred when taken to a special concert as part of the hospital's museum night experience all this and more a click away. the operator of japan's

quake at fukushima nuclear plant has agreed to cut costs and allow investigation to return for government help with paying out compensation a car allies facility has been leaking radiation into the sea for more than two months professor roger robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace and security says we still don't know the full extent of the damage fears are much more serious than we were told earlier this plant has been known 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 it leases of radiation certainly employed to many people and many people did say that first week at the plants were melting down so. it definitely is a much more serious situation then we have been will lead to believe there's very good reason to believe that there is much more serious situation going on in reactor number two in 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 will take us it will take us probably years to know the extent and contamination and the extent if you will melting. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least twelve people have been killed as israeli troops shot it propellants dinny and protestors at the lebanese syrian and gaza borders clashes broke out on what the palestinians call a knock the day that marks the anniversary of the founding of the jewish state a day that 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 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 forty years the level of the river has forced the floodgates to open officials say twenty five thousand people and more than ten thousand buildings

could be aversive the affected. 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 wounded as the second major attack in pakistan this week on friday twin blasts targeted a paramilitary base killing almost one hundred taliban officials said the bombing was to avenge the death of osama bin laden. this week russia also netted the right to host and other major sporting event this time around the twenty sixteen world ice hockey championship the country already scored with its bids for the next winter olympics and the twenty eight hundred football growth cup prime minister putin pledged a first class tournament and also shared his own experience of getting on skates. potential deserves the horse to be championship and not just. a glorious each human and not just because we have not been it would that he's former

indicates. because of our great desire to see the great deviant and the ideas of. its sleeve use them where fully. inflict to be we need a new thought and when to revive this beautiful kids and. i do do to learn to ski. and did meet it was not easy and not even flip through some who had been practicing sports with the keys and had even harder time learning to play ice hockey but no i have first hand experience of dealing with these julie grade. russian premier still has time to polish his hockey skills ahead of the tournament if he wants to sparkle but the clock is already taking for the next morning extravaganza in the country twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia has started an official countdown with

less than a thousand days to go before the opening ceremonies hundreds of volunteers took to the streets celebrating a milestone in the capital roller skaters took part in a fun run frying a little bit flags the other celebrations included drawing of a mascot for the games those who wanted to get in shape for the event special outdoor exercises festivities are wrapped up with two concerts held in moscow and so it can simultaneously. coming up we'll explore the truth behind ambitions of wiki leaks in a special report but first a recap of our holiday story stay with us here on our.

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he would hunt me down and kill him. this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about this all james bond. than up all the actual information. but thank you. the whole big ball around the mole. like me. for some this is just a parliament building in birmingham. once again sixty six years ago it was the final target. and the last major offensive for the red army. its capture became the symbol. of the fascist citadel. and the victory for nazi germany. the fall of the berlin r.t.

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