century victory day parade and author of the defeat of the nazis will take place on moscow's red square and it promises to be its usual job dropping spectacle artist peter oliver is following the preparations. the annual military parade to celebrate the sixty seventh of the soviet union's role in the defeat of nazi germany and world war two will take place. on wednesday the new soul of the defeats of the signing of the treaties announced by the soviets authorities. said may in one thousand forty five ligairi took place on the twenty fourth of june operate carried out. straight from the front marching across red square in a column at the rear of which was held the lowered. defeated nazi troops and flowing at the foot of the. red square before being. this year and

since then he said the parade has always taken place on the ninth of may this year pulteney thousands. of military hardware will parade across red square to mark the victory over nazi germany know they'll be watched by veterans who fought in the in the second world war many of which who took part in the original parade in one thousand nine hundred forty five around fifteen hundred veterans already expected to be in attendance the rehearsals for this parade have been going on for weeks now with five residents of moscow. been able to witness tanks and other military hardware making their way into position on red square. the closure of a lot of main roads and some disruption those tanks are now in position there tracked vehicles fitted with special covers over their trucks is to not damage the ancient in historic columns of over great square now helicopters and jets will also take

part in a fly over is possibly a fly by as paul told the celebrations the parades traditionally getting under way at. am and lasting for roughly an hour no celebrations go on for the whole day and those parading across red square would be accompanied by thousands of thousand musicians being directed by russia's leading military conduct celebrations continuing throughout the day culminating in a huge and spectacular fireworks display for its eight pm always something spectacular to see in memory of a historic occasion. i

wasn't just soviet troops that sacrificed everything to stand up against the nazi threat more than sixty thousand british sailors braved subzero temperatures and the arctic to keep supply lines to russia open during the war but their epic efforts have remained largely undermined until now as ivor bat reports the worst journey in the world was how winston churchill described it the ten days through hell the arctic convoys were a vital lifeline of supplies to the soviet union with britain's east an ally in the grip of a nazi onslaught but just nineteen john c. is was a gunner on board one ship braving fierce seas bitter cold and a treacherous route infested by german u. boats and never had a prayer center in the in our county just imagine. wives come in that. there's

a block of flats you just passed the wife say just picked us up picked us up just market or just take it perry bond we were fourteen thousand per year clark at all and you know we've been lifted out because you could hear the screws turn in at the wall. below and in the water this is the very ship john c. is on his job was to man the n.t.a. craft guns against the heavy enemy fire from above but the onslaught came from the sea to the huge icy waves with the wharf even a ship the size just over eight hundred ships were dispatched in total in the convoys but one in eight never made it back britain lost three thousand men in what was known as the most hostile theater of world war two the waters so cold that falling in meant almost certain death yet those behind the mission never on and the men it sent john received medals for other campaign c.

fourteen but he's still missing the one that matters most but our phil discussed that while been trained in a minute only a few of us left now. a more well interactive. how come not frightened now and i mean come on this. way i know i sound we did actually say i got a lengthy burma pacific defense medal i've got all the campaign other campaigns are been in the eye of the mon if i had. one of an english. medal for the russian congress but that could soon change prime minister david cameron's finally ordered the medals review after years of campaigning from veterans they haven't been on it so far because of your a critique red tape limiting war heroes to one medal per campaign medal rules also mean a stint on the convoys wasn't long enough to meet the six month minimum an impossible

targets given the extreme conditions of the arctic it's disgusting and to my mind you know the fact that it's been it's taken so long is really heartbreaking because over the years we've been campaigning for this medal many many of these veterans have have now passed away and the absolute tragedy if this would be if we do get to a situation where the medal really remains the barriers and the up to conway veterans are allowed that medal and there are none of them alive to receive it of the sixty six and a half thousand men who sailed on the arctic convoys just two hundred remain like john they've just been offered another medal by russian government for over in debt to this service on top of the two it's already awarded to john will find out in september if he is to finally receive what he really wants but for other aging war heroes like him it could be too little too late either bennett's london. coming up on r t russian opposition groups continue their protest over

a lot of reporters return to the top job. isolator rallies and syrians are held the process moscow with numerous arrests but the movement's numbers dwindle since massive demonstrations in winter. and what does human lives mean when it comes to the problem of global warming and greenhouse gases and find out how foreign money is being used to cut india's burgeoning population. the u.n. envoy to syria has warned his peace plan is the last chance for the country to avoid civil war kofi annan also accused the massacres of failing to hold violence despite of being nearly a month since the nationwide truce was impose or does get a chicken has the details of serious response. we're purred the syrian ambassador to the united nations say that a number of regional powers are sponsoring terror in syria to undermine kofi annan . he said the syrian government remains committed to the plan but it faces

a surge of terrorist attacks including suicide bombings. d.v.d. and said it has the confessions of dozens of individuals involved in terrorist activities upon the order of thirty countries here's what he said these terrorists did not come into syria. by using partition. they came into syria through the syrian borders with the neighboring countries so it's not a secret anymore who is behind these groups the. who are giving orders and try to work through these terrorist. leave. he also accused turkey of harboring armed groups which are infiltrating syria committing crimes and returning back to turkey because syrian ambassador said what also undermines kofi and his plan is the inflow of arms into syria now both the

syrian ambassador to the u.n. and even the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. noted that there has been a decrease of violence in syria but the international envoy kofi annan said there is still a profound concern that syria is descending into full on civil war up to one hundred international observers are already working there the only said the number will reach three hundred by the end of the month so there's going to be more eyes on the ground as of now he said and i'm going to i'm going to quote here there has been a worrying episodes of violence by the government but we have also seen attacks against government forces troops and installations it's very interesting how the u.s. ambassador susan rice responded to the claims made by the syrian ambassador she brushed off the question about terrorists and then she went on talking about those who took up arms stepped down to fight for their rights a very dubious question arises here is it in a campaign to justify violence on one side while. the other being exclusively the syrian government susan rice confirmed it in

a way with her latest statement by putting all responsibility in the hands of the syrian government and never once mentioning the armed groups in the opposition with this regard and that despite the fact that the u.s. has accepted kofi annan plan which addresses all sides of the conflict not just the syrian government. reporting there and meanwhile washington has declared it stepping up non-lethal aid to the syrian opposition dr yunus from columbia university says the divided rebel groups fighting for power even among its own ranks could be one of the major obstacles in the way of the u.n. backed peace initiative. the best would be to follow the. plan to the end give it a chance this is the best plan we can have we have seen what military intervention and on rebellion does to states a lot of syrians understand that was the start of the as a genuine popular revolt has evolved and something that there could be on control anymore and even the opposition is divided different groups are fighting different

two different wars we have different leaders we don't have one single command so if the shuttle said ses to its troops they can stop because there is a state system dead but who is going to say to these rebel groups to stop if one group stops maybe two others won't stop and some groups are even fighting between themselves for control or because they belong to different factions so it's unfair to say that it's only violence committed by the by the government there are violence from both sides former libyan rebels have stormed the office of the interim prime minister in tripoli killing two security officers armed militia men surrounded the building demanding payment for the role they played and last year's uprising against colonel gadhafi. the editor of the paprika news wire believes the security problems the libyan government's currently facing could lead to foreign intervention. into see rubbles were promised compensation

for their participation in the revolt against moammar gadhafi last year about a month ago payments to many of them were suspended. because they claimed that there were a lot of irregularities in regard to who actually were entitled to these payments and what the payments were actually for there was a lot of problems that exist when the national transitional council they were put in power essentially by the pentagon and nato and if it had not been for the air power the naval blockade the intelligence sharing on the part of the united states government and the various or european governments there's no way that the m.t.c. could have defeated the libyan army last year so these are the dilemmas that the government is facing right now so it actually is creating a situation where there will be a rationale for possible u.s. or nato direct military intervention on the ground in order to poorly stabilize the

situation inside the country. the editor of the pan-african newswire of a human as a q we're talking about the situation in libya. as a live report and settled into his role back at the top of russian politics groups of opposition activists have continued their isolative walks and sit ins across the center of moscow most of these unsanctioned protests were forcibly dispersed when people refused to leave dozens have been detained this includes prominent opposition blogger on the scene of that known for his nationalistic rhetoric protesters have been walking around moscow throughout tuesday and into the night stopping to hold impromptu rallies the action began a day have put an occupation which was held on monday thousands of people arrived for a rally which soon to sanity into clashes as some protesters started throwing stones and trying to provoke the police and he's now and political analyst maybe bob each try to understand who is driving the protests. who is the russian opposition well

of course it depends who you ask but also if you take a look for yourself what you'll see most often are a lot of different colors organizations and parties well to help us kind of decipher who's who in this i think we can call it modern russian opposition is to me through bob h. he's a political analyst for voice of russia radio thanks for being with us i want to start with alexis in the widely and surrogate so just because they're the most well known at the moment they're constantly getting arrested and being released just briefly tell us who they are and why they've become the prominent leaders now harley is not a typical leftist populist like well does he use them more into corruption and nationalist. but let's focus on the flanks for a bit looking at this video this is this is sunday's protest which for the first time turned really ugly you see these there's so and the left front it's called what what are the main focus of that party it's a flag we saw

a lot of on sunday you see the red flags with the red star so this is an image abroad people might think it's you know a communist party because they read russia a communist so what they write because it will do so for recently dick where. he is . left from the all of the communist party a russian federation human being chronically ill participate in all these actions given constantly arrestor that's he style that's like is that they're on i.q. tests where is their traditional. russian i guess what does that mean to be but there are several groups which do not i why themselves with a laugh or with the communist party job you go on a sunday i was there and they were clearly some people who were trying to provoke violence a lot of these so-called anarchists you can see here basically we're running into the riot police and also we're in a lot of these masks. let's talk a little bit more about the nationalist fight that we see some time i believe we don't have pictures here yet. but it's white there it is what's this is what it

means someone you know all of the groups all the nationalist groups. to the current government strung up all white. but who would not like to be associated with communists or leftists what does it mean that. when we see tens of thousands of people on the streets of moscow as opposed to small groups like we see here which we saw after the inauguration sit ins trying to happen why when you see the thousands of people the masses do we see so many different flanks if they are so anti putin can't they just get under that banner all these groups have mutually exclusive view they're not simply. contradictory that's just an excuse of the nationalistic use portion of the liberal secular which would be the nationalist the leftist which you know the sort of social system is a liberal secular revival in the soviet period so they can't agree on anything the

only thing that they can agree on is that they don't like what they want to the current russian state that's about to meet their political analyst from words of russia radio thank you very much for trying to help us understand what's happening with the opposition in russia because certainly people in the country have never been more involved in politics. for more of our t. stories and other news you can go to our website r.t. dot com we can find how politics is casting a shadow over the london olympics some countries are using the events to question britain's foreign policy and accuse it of double standards with the growing the biggest sporting event. and he's a man of pulls the rug out from under the feet of authorities worldwide and has them waking with his latest we can weeks joining us on talks with the very people at the forefront of the revolt in egypt and bahrain including activists not be over job was arrested just. he is

a girl so watch the show. israel's politicians have avoided the need for early elections after the ruling coalition announced it struck a surprise deal whether opposition kadima party but the country's military leadership still isn't seeing eye to eye with lawmakers accusing them of being hysterical over the perceived threat from iran r.t. spotlessly or looks at the growing rift usually it's all secret service that's eavesdropping on others this time it was the other way around in what was supposed to be a closed form of the former security chief was caught saying this maybe i'm saying very difficult things i don't believe in the prime minister and not in the defense minister i've seen them from up close they are not people that i just to leave the state of israel into in advance of this magnitude the strongest criticism so far from someone in the know putting the growing rift between israel's political and military might of whether or not a techie ran out into the open. it's more. and maybe not

polite but i'd prefer that the innocence of the center. for the for. one thing what we're seeing first is that this government doesn't really engage with with the country as a whole that hasn't been a public discussion as to whether israel should launch a strike against iran and there's also a feeling that within the government itself it's only barak committed the of themselves who are making these decisions as we know why did the base among the smaller security cabinet or even the why to copulate the israeli politicians are near hysterical when it comes to iran and they have more than hinted at a military strike is under consideration were determined to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. we leave all options on the table. and containment is definitely not an option.

yet. even. for the first time ever the head of the israeli army was still in office has broken rank and thrown doubt on whether iran is in fact planning to go nuclear. iran is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb it hasn't yet decided whether to go the extra mile but will israel go the extra mile and decide to bomb iran until. the military or the security establishment the stalk the government it's almost all of the leaders of all the military and security establishments were replaced recently the question is what will the presence establishments say and will be on

subi supported by the government will make a divide between the two sides even deeper the temperature is rising ahead of nuclear talks slated to happen later this month in baghdad but also on this point there's disagreement with intel of is in a circle some high ranking israeli officials say pressure against iran is bearing fruit one is also official line is that it won't be can't buy negotiations policy r.t. tel aviv. now a stick look at some other stories from around the world clashes have erupted intimate as well in jail between armed inmates and troops the prisoners opened fire on guards who responded with tear gas the ride followed the government's decision to close the prison over recent escape attempts and complaints of overcrowding at least eight people were injured including the relatives of some of the inmates who gathered outside. there would be suicide attacker in a foil the airliner bomb plot was reportedly a double agent all along the cia operative said to have infiltrated al qaida in

yemen and exposed and explode the plant a bomb concealed in underwear was man's to have blown a u.s. airliner from the skies on the first anniversary of osama bin laden's death a similar scheme was used in december two thousand and nine but failed when the explosives did that probably. they have a left wing series of party said even former new greek government the news comes after the conservatives failed to do just that so the new cabinet will reject this terror the measures imposed by the international bailout deal developments follow sunday's election results which gave no single party enough votes to govern alone and in cabinet must be formed by the seventeenth of may or greece will be forced to hold another election. tens of millions of pounds of u.k. aid money has been spent forcibly sterilizing indian women many have died being mistreated causing outrage from those who suspect britain simply wants to curb the country's population world here motives are just freer shrader has the details of

this controversial program. they've run t.v. be it twenty five year old mother of three is living in one of india's poorest states just a few months ago she went for an operation to be sterilized unable to afford or access other forms of birth control v.v. thought the operation would help her family but it went terribly wrong. given that i gained consciousness around twelve and. and in the night i was made to lie down on a bench i was bleeding heavily on that day i came home without being given any medicine. as mandated by the indian government and its attempt to curb india's growing population around a million women from davey's region are sterilized every year she says around eighty women were operated on at this school in just three hours in january after mr liz ation camp took place at this school the police raided the offices of a local ngo and allegedly found video that proves that mistreatment of these women

a new report also shows that many of the n.g.o.s the indian government uses to run sterilization camps are actually being funded with aid money from the u.k. . britain has donated millions of pounds to india since two thousand and five to fund sterilizations a newly released documents shows that the u.k. is interested in reducing india's population to cut down greenhouse gases and combat global warming. smooths of this. moves of. a. good crew is going to manage your own greenhouse emissions through excessive use of a new g u. i two the reason for. this is this is c b i mix it. up all those woman who having more than it's a reality that anger is women's rights advocates who are determined to stop

improper sterilization they say doctors are under pressure to fill quotas and get bonuses for reaching them but many women are rounded up without proper knowledge of what is going on and are operated on in horrific conditions some have even died from excessive bleeding after the operation they believe. lives so that they can as a skeptic do something society. to look at a lot like that even for four days after four days they're supposed to be sick and . nobody calls for no follow up is done while the campaign is far from over one message here is clear that britain should stay out of it baby will never forget what happened to her that day. and i still suffer from pain and discomfort now there's flooding and a lump has formed i'm unable to do any work for the government its job is done another woman who won't add to india's burgeoning population but for they be the

dehumanizing experience has left her feeling more of a number than a citizen preassure either r t v hard india. or very shortly we discuss what's inflaming the conflict in syria making it impossible to reach a peace deal in the country and that's after a recap of our top stories in a moment.

the a. culture is that so much among the mayors and i mean to see me in a lot of people that area turning to the russian presidency for the third time but a mere putin has pledged to unify the country and continue reforms to expand the economy.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations the day. the lead.

you're watching r.t. live from moscow here's a look at the top stories russia remembers a victory day on the heroic deeds of their grandfathers who put an end to the bloodiest war of the twentieth century celebrations a massive military parade and spectacular fireworks sixty seven years since the end of world war two. the un envoy to syria warned civilians are in danger accusing damascus of failing to curb violence despite a being nearly a month since the nationwide truce was imposed by the regime as it's facing terror threats from armed groups. military aren't buying the politicians threats from iran with some high ranking generals casting doubts to ron is building a nuclear weapon the country's former top spy said he has no trust the prime minister and defense minister. his.