long. with. the we start stories as the u.s. appears ready to denounce the syrian government doesn't lawful for its brutal crackdowns on protesters we take a look at what's next for the country. libyan rebels leave washington disappointed empty handed after the white house dashes expectations of official recognition and money from colonel gadhafi stauffer. as that of international monetary fund is detained on charges of sexual assault charge he explores the repercussions of the arrest. and grandiose military displays marking victory day across russia while ukrainian veterans face a new battle against nationalists who assaulted them on the holiday.

midnight in moscow bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t thousands are fleeing syria where violence is a regime despite the government's promise of dialogue with the opposition international pressure mounting on syria over brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters were some of eight hundred killed and more than a thousand arrested in two months e.u. and u.s. have imposed sanctions on the country washington even said to be considering it clearly and president assad a living your unlawful sarkies guys check your reports many believe the u.s. is 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

out sounds 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. if 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 in the us now against if you want. your government you 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 those that's 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 the government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the u.s. claims the higher moral ground and clearing human rights as the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you know sourcing in their d.n.a. . and. in a movie. or so are you. perhaps the most. 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 and the u.s. sees the opportunity of putting in a friendly pro-american government responsive to american interests the coalition efforts in libya have reached a dead end with the country now a 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. it and they're all likely to get involved in the collapsing world war torn serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another recent say some to go after our side relying on iran as your best friend and your only strategic ally is not a viable way forward critics say the us takes on the role of world policeman not based on its inherent altruism but rather out of self-interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have made the world safer or have to stabilize the more i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . on arrest already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported on lebanese and israeli borders as people try to escape the violence james cancellara london based writer on middle east politics says only the syrian people can stop the bloodshed.

the peons 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 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 and it's that momentum that the regime is found impossible to stall it's offered 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 that is a deeply worrying trend as far as the syrian people are concerned. this week the u.s. dashed hopes of libyan rebels for official recognition the white house gave this message to a libyan opposition leader during a visit to the capital u.s. is also dragging its feet on releasing credit archy's frozen assets promised to aid the rebels but it's not only the opposition that's feeling

a part of the war as are better 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 racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month we're anticipating a number that was considerably lower than gaps we aren't that many nations that is using. us for example they're using grownups they have had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any other point. 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 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. into battle they do this because. i don't know some people say they have an inferiority complex really follow big daddy and the united states and france what's this war in guess the good of it so they go all her junior partner the danish parliament was unanimous in backing and 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 this upcoming election. and also that it's 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 iran all showed up when push comes to shove the country's more than willing to join america whatever the cost other than its artsy copenhagen they were first as we continue wrapping up the week's news here on our team still ahead he's thought to have a scored even children to the gas chambers during the second world war. we were poor in the outcome of the trial of john demjanjuk who was accused of helping of

murder almost thirty thousand views in nazi death camps. before we get to that may ninth russia was celebrating victory day one of the most important and memorable occasions in the country's history it marks sixty six years in the soviet and allied soldiers defeated not nazi troops in the second world war a spectacular parade in red square saw twenty thousand troops marched alongside military hardware a minute of silence was observed the memory of the twenty seven million soviets during the war meanwhile in western ukraine veterans who fought to free people nazi in beijing were attacked by a violent national parties lets their shirts and witness the events. for millions and street brawl for sun unlike most of the post soviet region amazing night this ukrainian city became a vicious display of the new nazis in. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties block the entrance to red army soldiers

cemeteries preventing war veterans from gives you insight and plain tributes 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 georgia war but on this day in the west the ukrainian capital city of all putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. if you like it or you doubt that the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading to the grave yards along with abusive chances such as just to the most whites nazi salutes hurling rocks and small bombs that is how involved marks made the ninth hero who hailed this picture in my greatest american literature this line from the fascists but these people here do not let me come inside this century to. 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 nationalist my their feet on the red victory banner. i spent fifteen years in detention in siberia my two brothers were killed we could something like this have happened in a new country. there are heroes are people regarded worldwide as nasa collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the nine hundred forty s. insurgent army staff on monday when i was a kid which are a big hit here there are seen as freedom fighters even though for a while they fought alongside the nazi army and kill civilians jews and russians in the middle some manner how the mainstream political parties deal with these sorts of movements today encourage them as we've seen in case you crane when. not a collaborator 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 of the perception of the past is making waves in the other former soviet states namely ass as marches and glorifying nazi genes in the baltic states such as last year and the story here the danger is that people are beginning to forget what we fought for what the veterans died for as we are seeing the reemergence of far right forces and nationalist forces that really in many sense resemble exactly those of the merge with hitler in the one eight hundred thirty s. such behavior still only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect but the ugly scenes in the wolf should definitely allergic lanes leadership especially after demands for a revolution were clearly voiced by the angry mob alexy rush ascii art scene reporting from vault in western ukraine. at least sixteen people have been killed as. really troops shot at pro palestinian supporters at the lebanese syrian and

gaza border as clashes broke out on what the palestinians call nakba day marking the anniversary of the founding of the jewish state when many palestinians lost their homes for more on this we're joined by analyst and writer stephen lemon joining me from surrey goes so israel is explaining its actions as defending its sovereign borders but do you think there was actions can be justified more than a dozen killed oh absolutely it. is noticeable to stand with israel in terror acts peaceful protest because these were peaceful protesters but this status mission this is very special this is been an unchristian did it. commemoration. maybe tens of thousands. in the commemorating of this theory is spatially along the syrian. borders lebanon was this nation with your magic from fifty to one hundred thousand people maybe more keen to look at

the areas hundreds of buses grow them near this is newer it happened before seething out in syria he came to the goal out of nice. syrian territory his leave occupied by israel since nine hundred sixty seven many thousands of people protesting peacefully israel attacked him violently the whole world is watching this is seen a real piece of israel of what i always state to take in peaceful protests that is all you are doing is expressing the legal right so you can memory. you don't see any kind of are you going to see any kind of provocation there with them bussing in thousands of people throwing rocks chanting anti israel slogans there. nothing whatsoever here expressing their free rights to say when people leave israel is a belligerent state israel has occupied palestine for forty four years

they took the barest in your whole life and is very keen for years where usury will cause if they've independent. palestinian scotto if it's disaster during their whole world was taken away from him in a nine hundred forty eight again in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven as many as eight hundred thousand palestinians who are either ethnically cleansed of the massacre is operated directly accounts of people affected by it i wish i wish i had family had to read a couple of them they are absolutely to read this people were dying people being shot under is resistance children people who people had no food people had no water they were dropping dead on the road to being pushed out of the country by israeli troops so why do you think western powers including the us are condemning this violence. because west imposes

a special you america i call america israel's a mess the. america. everything israel is phones in israel billions of dollars every year gives israel the latest weapons and. interest free loans needed which are never repeat israel in washington it really is really one of the you know america. can get really the entire congress to go on with israel wants including illegal wars including violence including towards europe. america does the same thing worse the economy so yes all right well it's i'm sorry we're after wrap it up there thanks very much stephen lemon joining us from chicago. growing 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 planned guilty of helping murder almost thirty thousand jews during world war two while serving as a guard he is currently been taken to a nursing facility run his sentence gets appealed artie's a catarina batch of a meth or relatives of some who perished under the nazi regime. he only wants through the gates of people or once there was no return unlike an other concentration camps so just minutes there was no slave labor people was sent immediately to their death. we also expecting jews were welcomed by a band and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the ratrace 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 receded along this chorus part called him and parched ass at wall street to have an s.s. man escorted the victims down the track to the gets chambres only the ukrainian

s.s. guards and the german s.s. officers were allowed to take out the task they were considered the most throw 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 into the gas chambers were children of motion for and of course i mistook you for sympathy reduces your own destruction i know and before. i had my vice marshal. i could go after crime or to those who were interested in this is watched for sure thinking they could have shown her guess the ingredients of before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent intense training jim a nuke went to the travelling camp where the s.s. carried out robins drills and combat training and even taking german language

classes it is difficult to say very had. training here during re-investigation so many of them off to war nobody from them told her about her from the team training or antisemitic training. soldiers army training carrying account that they were surprised that i think this was kind of a duty which we had to go. ahead to do all of the death camps. but victims' relatives believe all those who signs out as a sas man were well aware of the duties they'd be carrying out mariam his mother was one of the lucky few who survived so people 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 and what so we war is that it's not it's a war it's not soldiers against these it's killing people in effect and we every war you soon have to think or. never never

see how many years this is really going to have to be. the demand of trial is assigned of the twenty first century is still prepared to deal with the evils of the twentieth and warning that there is no expiring date for crimes against humanity except in the direction of our t.v. scibor poland. the head of the international monetary fund has been charged with sexual assault attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment new york police pulled dominic straus car from a plane just minutes before he was due to depart for paris to question him on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid her perspective on this we're joined from gerald so wendy director of the trends research institute in new york so the news of strauss khan's arrest comes just as a new poll shows him to be the favorite for the french twenty twelve presidential race five points ahead of a nicolas sarkozy do you think the timing of this is significant. well first of all

you know we have to maintain that he's innocent until proven guilty but having said that. has reported that it may be some dirty tricks from his political rivalry and we hear so our cozy of course say that this is very you milly hating for the i.m.f. chief to be you know dropping his his pants like this so to speak as they're dropping bombs on libya and also let us not forget that he's caused strauss kahn has a lot of uproar in the united states recently when he announced that the united states has lost its is losing its supremacy as the economic world power and china will be taking over so he has a lot of enemies here strauss kahn was expected to decide soon whether or not to run for the french presidency that would mean giving up his post as i have met

chief and i think both those careers are finished now. oh yes most highly highly likely but you know these politicians you know the very rich a mad are different than you or me they live by different rules and there's no level of humiliation too low for them to scoop to before they bounce back i mean just look at the cast of presidential characters senators congressmen and governor it was you that have also been quote with their pants down get rewarded like for example the guy that's the host on c.n.n. eliot spitzer he passed a john law in new york if you got caught with a hooker you'd get you know you get busted he got quote with thousand dollar a night ochers and he has his own show on c.n.n. so really what the i.m.f. chief is doing is basically what the i.m.f. does which they rate countries and in this case he they have rate the person so it

was just business as usual for the i.m.f. now we are for our previous guest on strauss kahn highly praised him for pulling france out of its financial troubles he said he will be sorely missed at the head of the i.m.f. and he's been instrumental in their efforts to revive crisis hit portions of the e.u. do you think with him missing from the conversation those other countries will suffer . no he hasn't done anything to help them look at the crisis in portugal greece is about to go fault well the i.m.f. does they have a lovely language these white hugh boids they call it privatization yeah that's taking expensive them very valuable national resources and selling them cheaply to they have friends now they're just put in another. crime so to speak to do that. it was thrown out of the picture in french politics does this give an edge to nicolas sarkozy yes it does because royale as we know it doesn't

have much of a chance and she's proved they were her weakness and it's like that virtually in every country by the way and which they call it democracies you have these two parties that you know they they change positions back and forth it's kind of like here in the states you know having the presidential battle coming up in two thousand and twelve what kind of battle will it be so yes are cozies chances even though he's way down in the polls will be improved by the absence if he is that of the strauss kahn all right thanks for a comment charles holland a director of the trans research institute. finished journalist believed to be the organizer of an internet mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist has walked free. has nothing to do with his possible links to terrorism he was accused of smuggling chechens into fenlon which officials later called a humanitarian action human rights activists believe authorities turn a blind eye the stories activity because he has high profile supporters and website

he set up and sponsors regularly airs the views of wanted terrorists. what a fetish pastor spoke out against the site he was immediately detained in for froch johann bachmann who was pastor mohler is defender tells our t.v. case shows there is a pro terror game at play in federal. court process against me because to show in finland was show trial the judge the prosecutor didn't want to sentence him of a one to two only to give some kind of justification for it for he said clearly through his will he's an activist who is actively promoting islamist terrorism against russia he has several websites he has on all face and he's a representative of surely not only in finland he's an extremely dangerous individual and i'm very sure of that and he has very strong political support in finland and he's a he's

a giving political space for. extremism in the north and nordic countries in all of europe. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe and u.s. has opened a massive flood gates in louisiana to avert inundation it in cities along the mississippi thousands of square miles of land will be engulfed in the flow it's the first time in four decades the level of the river is fourth floodgates open official say twenty five thousand people and more than ten thousand buildings could be 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 wounded it's the second major attack in pakistan this week friday twin blasts targeted a paramilitary base killing almost one hundred taliban official said the bombing was aimed at avenging the death of osama bin laden. the united nations has suggested north korea and iran have been exchanging ballistic missile technology in

violation of sanctions the leaked report said regular transfers have been happening through a third country most likely china sanctions were imposed on pyongyang after it conducted nuclear tests in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine and there's been increasing western concern over iran as atomic program tehran has always maintained its nuclear ambitions are peaceful. i'll be back with headlines after a short break stay with us here on r.t. . the.

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