all. the week's top stories here on r.g.p. the deadly repression of the demonstrators continues in syria despite government promises to end the violence while the u.s. looks ready to condemn president assad as illegitimate. washout in washington for libyan rebel on voice as they depart without diplomatic recognition and the promised financial aid from gadhafi frozen assets. the head of the international monetary fund is charged with sexual assault in new york after allegedly attacking a hotel maid. and in russia a nationwide military displays mark sixty six years since the defeat of nazi

germany but similar commemorations in ukraine were marred by nationalists attacking veterans. and broadcasting direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories thousands of 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 sun eight hundred killed and more than a thousand the rest of it for months meanwhile the e.u. and u.s. have imposed sanctions on the country washington is even said to be considering declaring president assad's eleven year rule on lawful and as artie's going to church a candid comments many believe the u.s. is laying the foundations for drastic action against the regime. who easily jeered

him an international leader and who is not it seems america will decide a white house source said the obama admin. gratian is edging closer to declaring assad's ruling syria illegitimate and that it will be just the first that 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 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. two various steps taken to

remove the governor but the south proclaims position of the us as the world's policeman and judge of which government is legitimate or not doesn't sit well with everyone here in the us arrogance if you want. your government or not to be in the world of the americans. given some of the us longtime allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by those zest of the white house to act as the arbiter of who holds power in the world. are you president of the united states or president of the world when condemning government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the us claims the higher moral ground declaring human rights as the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you know searching and your

d.n.a. . or two or more and the canonical were all agree. with a. story. of how he rose. you cross the country and your time. your support of 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 already 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 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. 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 are silent 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 are from the wall some for or have to stabilize the more i'm going to shift our reporting from washington r.t. this week the u.s.

dash the hopes of the libyan rebels for official recognition the white house broke the news to a libyan opposition leader during his visit to washington the u.s. is also dragging its feet on releasing colonel gadhafi has frozen assets promised to aid the rebels but it's not only the opposition that's feeling the cost of this war as ivor bennett 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 were anticipating a number that was considering and that we aren't that many nations that is using a place. to take us for example they're using drones they have had tomahawk missile but i don't have any fire that means a lot. denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first four

nights of the campaign all 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 and they follow big daddy the. united states in words as war against that of it so they go on 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 fears denmark could follow suit again with a ground offensive looming i think it's likely because the prime minister wants to be a strongman is precedes there's an upcoming 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 the country's more than willing to join america whatever

the cost other than its artsy copenhagen as the libyan opposition desperately seeks international support anti-war activist john a recent 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 doing any real life of its own or any capacity to actually alter the situation in libya in the way that the trinity and egypt and revolutions the the object of the us is to to keep the libyan rebels on a very short lead not to allow them any real independence autonomy to use them for us foreign policy ends the rebels were naive if they ever believe that the west was going to have an open hand towards them there 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 the people would see western intervention as a reason to support the guy who perhaps that absolutely no other reason to do so you can see now the people who even protest the gadhafi regime detest the western intervention even more what he's clear is that the west is now engaged on regime change is now in gauged on raids whose aim is to kill gadhafi but revolutions either succeed by mobilizing their own people against the hated popular regime or they don't succeed at all there's no easy route to the revolution using the assistance of the western powers. well let's now take a quick look at what lies ahead for you in the program he's thought to have us courted even children into the gas chambers during the second world war. we report on the outcome of the trial of john. was accused of helping to murder almost thirty

thousand jews in nazi concentration camps. also find out why finnish authorities are releasing the man behind the website serving as a mouthpiece for terrorists. the head of the international monetary fund has been charged with sexual attack attempted rape and on lawful prison and president new york police pulled dominique strauss kahn from a plane minutes before he was due to fly to paris and questioned him on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid political writer john breach mild says strauss kahn's a career in politics is now effectively over. the only thing that can save this bullet at the i.m.f. is that if it turns out that the girl the maid is completely crazy that i doubt very much that the police in new york would arrest him in the plane if that was the is and so i thing is scary here but the. presidential candidate is finished that's

what all of these i can tell you was his former. marine if you can use that word when the socialist party is already saying that he should. canada and us and the. head of the math there is a program on french t.v. which you can see on the web where he's been accused of attempted the many years ago by a friend germany's. doing a book and went to see him in the trade to paper and then of course there is name was replaced but it's well known that it's him that was the that was in the broadcast and still being used as a presidential candidate even in the spirit of charities there'd be too much inspiration i think the socialist won when it and there are many other problems with him you see. having a socialist with a president of their math is very strange because there is not a neutral institution with very poor capitalists and poor free market institution. on the ninth of may russia celebrated victory day one of the most important and memorable events in the country's history it marks sixty six years since its soviet

and allied soldiers defeated nineteen troops in world war two a spectacular parade in red square saw twenty thousand troops marching alongside military hardware a minute of silence was observed in memory of the twenty seven million soviet who died during the war meanwhile in western ukraine veterans who fought to free people from the nazi invasion were attacked by violent nationalist parties alexie a chance to witness the events. for holiday for millions and street brawl for some unlike most of the posts of the region on may the ninth of 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 made in one thousand reason to celebrate believing the soviet period to be worse than enduring nazi occupation the st

george's ribbon is usually worn as a tradition on 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 new off putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. quite sure you got 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 right nazi salutes hurling rocks and small bombs that is how involved martha made the ninth you know who killed her speech oh my brothers and my liberation of this land from the fascists and these people here did not let me come inside the sentry to lay flowers and he's great this is a disgrace. such seeing surprised even the locals who had grown used to protest some victory day these were. scenes from last year when the nationalist wipe their feet on the red victory banner the day. i spent thirteen years in detention in

siberia brothers were killed. could something like this have happened in a new country. their heroes are people regarded worldwide as nasa collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the nine hundred forty s. insurgent army. our 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 a new some manner how the mainstream political parties deal with these sorts of movements today encourage them as we've seen in case you crane where step among the to collaborate so has been elevated to status of a hero holding 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 it and this is only part of the wider picture the perception of the past is making waves in other former soviet states namely as as marches and glorifying nots allegiance in the

baltic states such as last year and the stone here the danger is that people are beginning to forget what we fought for and what the veterans died for as we're seeing the reemergence of far right forces and nationalist forces that really in many senses resemble exactly those that merge with hitler in the one eight hundred thirty such behavior to only applies to the minority most people in this country still celebrate history with proper respect but the army seems definitely allergic crean's leadership especially after demands for a revolution were clearly voiced by the and with more police see russia reporting from the fourth in western ukraine. a german court has sentenced a ninety one year old man to five years in prison for nazi war crimes john demjanjuk was found guilty of helping to murder almost thirty thousand jews during world war two while serving as a guard he has currently been taken to a nursing facility while he appeals the sentence for you know. the relatives of

some who perished under the nazi regime. you only went through the gates of sobibor once there was no return and like in other concentration camps such as alice ritz there was no slave labor people were sent immediately to their death. b.l. suspecting jews were welcomed by a band and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rattray even won applause then came an invitation to shower after the long journey but it was all a deadly deception that a quarter of a million jews proceeded along this chorus called him and parched ass that was straight to have an s.s. man escorted 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 scores had to the gas chambers were children carlos my friend of course i recently received in the refusal to surrender i know him before. i had to rely on my vice marshal. i could build up my refuge and would receive can this is the last i should think you could have come from her yes the group before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent in town straining demand you can to the trial be camp where the s.s. carried out weapons drills and combat training and even taking german language classes it is difficult to say very had. training here and grew reinvestigation together and after a war nobody from graham told about the full. training or of his semitic training recalled only about the soldier's army training here in the camp they were

surprised that there's a worse kind of you do it 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 sobibor pushed for the persecution of demjanjuk she may be in her eighty's but she made it to every court session she wants him to admit that you will see him and what soviet war is it's not a war it's not soldiers second season it's killing people in a factory every war criminal you served is screaming thing or. we'll never leave never knew how many years a trace of this is. going to have to be rushed. the demeanor of trial is assigned of the twenty first century is still propounds to deal with the

evils of the twentieth a warning but there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity except in the gretsch of r r t scibor poland. and of course you can follow the stories we're covering here on our website regular updates and eye catching videos are waiting for you at archie dot com here's some of what's online right now. and unsigned ruben's painting bought for less than ten thousand euros resells for your million and hard to believe well you can get more information on our website. looking for a sensation at the cannes film festival a documentary about the controversial death of diana princess of wales will give you something to talk about. a finnish journalist believed to be the organizer of an internet mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist as want free but the trial of me kyle store shall have 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 distortion is activity because he has a high profile supporters website which he set out and which sponsors regularly areas the views of the wanted terrorist of when he finishes pastorate you how memory spoke out against the site he was immediately detained and the frog. was pastor free from always defender toller to the case shows there's approach here again play in finland. the whole process against torture and if you learned was trial. charge and the prosecutor didn't want to sentence him they want to talk only to give some kind of justification for you for his activities well he's an activist who is actively promoting islamistic terrorism against russia he has several websites he has an office and he's

a representative officially. 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 islamist extremism in the north of nordic countries in northern europe. president did have said this week that the killing of osama bin laden by u.s. special forces was beneficial to russia's national security too but he warned that the death of the al qaeda leader was if not he end of terrorism as the organization is still sending agents to russia and other countries the president vowed that special forces will continue to take a hard line against extremism russia's anti-terrorist has recently killed a two high ranking al qaida operatives in the north caucasus. a day of violence in the middle east has seen israeli troops fire on protesters along three hostile

borders as demonstrators attempted to cross into the country prime minister netanyahu said he hoped calm would return but warned the country is determined to protect its territorial integrity sixteen people were killed when troops opened fire near the lebanese syrian and gaza borders the clashes that broke out on a day that marks the anniversary of the founding of the jewish state where many palestinians lost their homes security officials said they sustained injuries as well tear gas and rubber bullets were used in an attempt to stop the protesters crossing into israel and listen right of steve in london and says such actions will not serve the israeli image abroad. is no self experience where israel in terror acts peaceful protesters these are peaceful protesters but this serious national this is merely one christian there put the commemoration. nearly nearly tens of thousands every joy in the commemorating the mysterious is usually on the syrian

plane the lebanese borders lebanon was as usual your matter anywhere from sixty to one hundred thousand people maybe more key into the experience hundreds of buses grow them there this is near it happened before same thing and syria he came to the go all out right. syrian territory busily occupied by israel since nine hundred sixty seven many thousands of people protesting peacefully israel. virally the whole world is watching this is seen a real face of israel attacking peaceful group their spirit is. well as have a look at some more international news making the headlines at this hour. the u.s. has opened massive flood gates in louisiana to avert inundation in cities along the mississippi thousands of square miles of land will be engulfed in the flow this is

the first time in four decades the level of the river has forced the flood gates to be opened official say twenty five thousand people and more than ten thousand buildings could be adverse to be affected. at least six passengers have been killed after a bus was killed by a roadside bomb near a garrison town in eastern pakistan twenty others were wounded it is the second major attack in pakistan this week on friday twin blasts targeted a pearl military base killing almost one hundred taliban officials said the morning was to avenge the death of a son of a. newsweek russian netted the right to host yet another major sporting event this time the two thousand and sixteen a world ice hockey championship the country has already scored with its bid for the next winter olympics and the twenty eight hundred football world cup prime minister vladimir putin pledged a first class tournament and also shared his own experience of getting on skates.

but i should deserves the horse through the championship and not just. go away glorious it humans and not just because we have. his former indicates but because of our great. great and from the ideas of. its lead to use them fully. in effect will be we need a new start and we're into this. and i took time to learn to ski. and meet it was not easy and not even for a person who had been practicing sports with the keats and even harder time learning to play ice with hit by a no i have first hand experience of late that is truly great. where the russian premier still has plenty

of time to polish his heart and skills if he wants to sparkle ahead of the world tournament but the clock is already ticking for the next sporting extravaganza in the country b. twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia has started an official count down with less than a thousand days to go before the grand opening hundreds of volunteers took to the streets to celebrate the milestone here in the capital roller skaters who took part in a fun run flying the flag for the olympics other celebrations included drawing mascots for the games and for those who wanted to get in shape for the event a special outdoor exercise is a festival easer wrapped up with two concerts held in moscow and searching simultaneously. i'll be back with a recap of the headlines after just a short break.

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