week's top stories here on r.g.p. the deadly repression of demonstrators continues in syria despite government promises to end of the violence while the u.s. looks ready to condemn president assad as illegitimate. washout in washington for libyan rebels on voice as they depart without diplomatic recognition and of the promised financial aid from gadhafi has 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 nationwide military displays marks sixty

six years since the defeat of nazi germany but similar coming relations in ukraine were marred by nationalists attacking veteran. ten pm on a sunday evening in richmond indiana and six am here in moscow where we're broadcasting live this is r.t. taking a look at your week's top stories now thousands are fleeing syria where violence is raging despite the government's promise of dialogue with the opposition and international pressure is mounting on syria over a brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters with some eight hundred killed and more than a thousand arrested in two 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 bankrupt you can comments many believe the u.s. is laying the foundations for drastic action against the regime. who easily judum

an international leader and who is not it seems america will decide a white house source said the obama administration is edging closer to declaring all 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 and united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer the turf 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. else now against the. president. you're going to remember is we gentlemen are not. saying that it was some of the u.s. long time allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by those that have 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 can get a government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the u.s. claims the higher moral ground the clearing human rights is the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you know sourcing in their

d.n.a. . if you or our and work on our. perhaps the most. you cross the country and your. america's self-proclaimed humanitarian involvement has led it to take sides in the levy and civil war the u.s. has pledged extensive support for the rebels muley 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 url american. government response of american interest the coalition efforts in libya have reached a dead end with the country now in military stalemate in the meantime civilian

casualties there continue to grow. analysts say foreign involvement in syria could trigger a much worse conflict syria's in the heart of the arab world and if it explodes or implodes it will affect all its neighboring countries iraq saudi arabia jordan israel lebannon. and they're all likely to get involved in a collapsing or awards or in serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another recent 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 on its inherent alferez mcquire out of self interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have made the wall safer or have to stabilize the more i'm going to check our reporting from washington. the unrest is already spreading

beyond syria with casualties reported at the lebanese and israeli borders as people are trying to escape the violence the director of the institute of islamic political thought. says that sanctions and military intervention are able to resolve the conflict and only end up hurting people i think we've seen the model in libya foreign intervention has only complicated things. intervention has not held settle 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 for many many years and only the ordinary people suffered throughout the time when sanctions were imposed in syria it is different from not believe ian scenario it is also course possible that we'll get there sometime but so long as the zero points of the region

are not polluted into using force into use into carrying arms then hopefully we will not end up with another leader because in libya it started becoming catastrophic when the revolution turned into an armed conflict. this week the u.s. dashed of the hopes of the libyan rebels for official recognition the white house a broke the news that to a libyan opposition leader during his a visit to washington the u.s. is also dragging its feet on at releasing colonel gadhafi frozen assets promised to aid the rebels but it's not only the opposition that's feeling the cost of this war as i have a better report. for those who join the fight in libya the cost of conflict is quickly taking off their marks one of just six nato members conducting air strikes to enforce the no fly zone it's six f. sixteen fighter planes a racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month we're anticipating a number that was considered

a go up and out we aren't that many nation that is using find a place. to take us for example they're using grownups they have had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any fire that means a lot. then mark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first four nights of the campaign for each one cost 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 column and 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 yell the united states and france what's this war against gadhafi so they go on her junior partner the danish parliament was unanimous in backing and bombing campaign in libya the first time ever on a military action since then cracks have appeared with the far left red green alliance withdrawing 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 strong man is precedes there's a coming election. and also there 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 iran who showed up when push comes to shove the country's more than willing to join america whatever the cost other than its nazi copenhagen let's now take a quick look at what lies ahead for you in the program he's a father of a sport even children gas chambers during the second world war. report on the outcome of the trial of john timoney young girl who was accused of helping to murder almost thirty thousand jews in nazi concentration camps. also find out why finnish authorities released of 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 unlawful imprisonment in new york

a police appalled that dominique strauss kahn from a plane minutes before he was due to fly to paris and question him on a suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid political writer john rich not says that strauss kahn's career in politics is now effectively over. the only thing that can seem like they're a match is that if it turns out that the girl of the maid is completely crazy but i doubt very much the police in new york with the plane if that was ok is. so i think this. is a presidential candidate is finished that's what i can tell you was his form of. comedy and if you can use that word i mean this is actually spot is a way to say that. unless. there is a program on french t.v. which you can see on the web where he's been accused of attempted rape many years ago by a friend germany's who was doing

a book and went to see him in the trade and of course there is name was replaced but it's well known that it's him. that was in the book and the reason this is a presidential candidate even if it's clear the journalist will be too much especially i think this is just one hundred and there are many other problems with him you see. having a socialist with a president. is very strange because their image is not a neutral institution with very poor capitalism and market institutions but 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 soviet allied soldiers defeated not in truth in world war two a spectacular parade in red square saw twenty thousand troops marching alongside military hardware a minute of silence was averted in memory of the twenty seven million soviets and died during the war meanwhile in western ukraine veterans who fought to free people from the ballot in beijing were tracked by violent nationalist alexy shirts with

stephens. a holy day for millions a street brawl for song and like most of the post soviet region on may the ninth this ukrainian city became a vicious display of anyone else's. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties book the engines to red army soldiers cemeteries preventing war veterans from getting inside and paying tribute to some in this part of ukraine do not see me the ninth as a reason to celebrate leaving the soviet period to be nursed an enduring marci 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 western ukrainian capital city of involved putting this on your lapel would have meant serious risk regardless of whether you're a veteran or not. like you to look up let the ribbons were forcibly ripped from the chests of those who were heading to the grave yards along with abuse of chances

such as death to the mosque right nazi salutes hurling rocks and small bombs that is how divorce marked made the ninth year of work here in this picture and my brothers in life the liberation of this line from the fascists but these people here did not let me come inside the century to lay flowers and he's great this is it is grace. such seemed surprised even the locals who had grown as used to protests on victory day these were the scenes from last year when the nationalist wipe their feet on the red lake street banner could make you look i spent thirteen years in detention in siberia my two brothers were killed. could something like this have happened in a new country that. their heroes are people regarded worldwide does not see collaborators replica shirts with the founders of the one nine hundred forty s. insurgent on the stick on london in the months ahead 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

a gruesome manner how the mainstream political parties deal with these sort of movements today encourage them as with seeing in case kramer step in when nothing is going to have anything to stop. sort of hero although it appeared to be an anti russian protest but really it was a protest of the. ukrainian society these days has to deal with and this is only part of a brighter picture the perception of the past is making waves in other former soviet states namely as as marches and glorifying nots allegiance in the briefing states such as largely and the stone age 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 national forces that really in many sense resemble exactly those to the merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty such behaviors the 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 a revolution were clearly voiced by the and well let's see russia reporting from divorce in western ukraine. a german court has sentenced to ninety one year old mansion 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 it currently been taken to a nursing facility while he appeals the sentence actually. the relatives of some perished under the nazi regime. you only want through the gates of sobibor once there was no return and like an other concentration camps just alchemists there was no slave labor people were sent immediately to their death. we'll suspecting jews were welcomed by a violent and fiery speeches from the nazi commander sometimes the rattray even one

applause then came an invitation to shower after the long journey but it was all that sadly deception a quarter of a million jews preceded along this course part called him of parched all straight to have an s.s. man a score said the victims down the track to the gas chambers only the ukrainian s.s. guards and the german s.s. officers were allowed to take up the task they were considered the most well trained and the most reliable among those standing guard was john demjanjuk completed in nearly twenty eight thousand counts of murder many of those he scores into the gas chambers were children and not my friend of course recently he was seventy the recusal desert i know before. i had relied on my very first. and i could build up my memory from the children should watch them should be read

they could have shown her guests and groom before being sent to work at sobibor all guards underwent intense training demjanjuk went to the trial viki county where the s.s. carried out the happens drills and combat training and even taking german language classes it was difficult to save they had. training here on food during the investigations against their will for war nobody from them told about us on the team training or antisemitic training great told me about the soldiers army training here in the camp they were surprised that there was a worse kind of a duty which we had to go. to war 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 his mother was one of the lucky few who survived so people pushed for the prosecution of demjanjuk she may be in her eighty's but she made it to every court session she

wants him to admit that he was here and what so we war is it's not war it's not soldiers against the shah it's killing people in a factory every war criminal they served it's really think. it will never of never be how many years it takes that this is. going to have to be punished. the jimmy neutron i was assigned of the twenty first century is still prepared to deal with the evils of the twenty a warning that there is no expire a date for crimes against humanity exceeding the gretsch of our t.v. scibor poland. and you can follow the stories we're covering here on our website as well regular updates and eye catching videos are waiting for you at our three dot com here's some of what's online for. an unsigned rubin's painting bought for less

than ten thousand euros or resells for nearly a million hard to believe got more information on our website. if you're looking for a sensation of a concert film festival a documentary about the controversial death of diana princess of wales gives you something to talk about. a finnish journalist believed to be the organizer of an internet mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist as well free but the trial of stores has nothing to do with his possible links to terrorism he was accused of smuggling chechens into finland which officials later called a humanitarian action human rights activists believe authorities turned a blind eye to store sales activity because he has high profile supporters and website which he set up and sponsors regularly airs the views of the wanted a terrorist doku umarov when he finished pastor you how mullally spoke out against the site he was immediately detained and the frog buckman water who was plastered

defender told r.t. the case shows that there is a pro terror game at play in finland. the court process against torture and if you will and worse show trial. charge the prosecutor didn't want to sentence him of a they wanted to only to give some kind of justification for him for his activities well he's an activist who is actively promoting islamist terrorism against russia he has several websites he has an office and he's a representing officially. in finland he's an extremely dangerous individual and i'm very sure of that and he has the very strong political support in finland and he's a he's a giving political space for islamistic extremism in the north and nordic countries in northern europe president medvedev said this week the killing

of osama bin laden by u.s. special forces was beneficial to russia's national security to. work but he wanted the death of the outer leader was not the 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 terror drive has recently killed two high ranking al qaeda 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 would hope that calm would return but once 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 broke out on the day that marks the anniversary of the founding of the jewish state when many palestinians lost their homes security official said that they sustained injuries as well gas and

rubber bullets were used in an attempt to stop the protesters crossing into israel analyst and writer stephen london says such actions will not serve the israel image abroad is no self-defense where israel and terrorists peaceful protesters these are peaceful protesters but this is special this is bill and i'm krista did not play the commemoration. clearly tens of thousands have joy every commemorating your biggest fear it was specially on syrian and the lebanese borders lebanon was spatially grammatic he weird from fifty to one hundred thousand people maybe more key into the work myriads hundreds of buses were open near this is near it happened before same thing at noon syria he came to the go all out and right order syrian territory is no blocky partner israel since nine hundred sixty seven

many thousands of people protesting peacefully israel attacked him but i am a lady the whole world is watching this has seen a real peace of israel attacking the school protesters. now let's have a look at some more international news making the headlines this hour. the u.s. has opened a 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 officials say twenty five thousand people and more than ten thousand buildings could be adversely 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 it is the second major attack in pakistan this week on friday twenty last 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 that had the right to host yet another major sporting event this time for two thousand and sixteen a world ice hockey championship country has already scored with its bid for the next winter olympics and two thousand and eighteen football world cup prime minister vladimir putin pledged a first class tournament and also shared his own experience of getting on skates russia deserves to be championship not just to commemorate oh we're glorious. and not just because we have not been good at it he's all man indicates. because of our great. great a.b.m. and for more the ideas of sportsmanship absolutely use them where. in fact to be we need a new start and when we buy this beautiful kid and i took time to

learn to skate. i must admit it was not easy nor even for a person who had been practicing sports for decades and even harder i am learning to play ice hockey but now i have first hand experience of playing truly great. the russian prime minister still has plenty of time to polish as hockey skills if he wants to sparkle ahead of the world tournaments but the clock is already taking for the next a sporting extravaganza in the country the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia has started in official countdown with less than a thousand days to go before the grand opening hundreds of volunteers are took to the streets to celebrate the milestone here in the capital polish leaders took part in a fun run for fun rolled under the flying of a flag for the olympics other celebrations included drawing the mascots for the

games and for those who want to get in shape for the special event outdoor exercises with first of these are wrapped up with two concerts held in moscow and sochi simultaneously. not be back with a recap of the headlines after a short break.

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