russia remembers victory day celebrations a massive military parade and spectacular fireworks will mark sixty seven years since the end of world war two. the u.n. envoy to syria war in civilians are in danger accusing damascus of failing to curb violence while the regime says it's facing a terror threat. and israel's military aren't buying the politicians threats from iran with some high ranking generals casting doubts to iran is building a nuclear weapon.

in the russian capital you're watching marina josh welcome to the program today's the day when millions of russians once again remember the heroic deeds of millions support an end to the bloodiest war of the twentieth century victory day parade in honor of the defeat of the nazis will take place on moscow's red square and it promises to be its usual jaw dropping spectacle participate all over 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 news over the defeats of the signing of the treaties announced by the soviets authorities. said may in nineteen forty five. took place on the twenty fourth of june operate carried out by soldiers some of which are straight from the front marching across red square in a column at the rear of which was held the low it. defeated nazi troops and

slow in at the foot of the. red square before being. this year and since then the said the parade is always taking place on the ninth of may this year pulteney thousand soldiers as well as 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 nine hundred forty five around fifteen hundred veterans are 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 rubber covers over their tracks is to not damage the agent in his story. over red square no helicopters and jets will also take part in a fly over is possibly a fly by as paul told the celebrations the parade traditionally getting under way at. am and lasting for roughly an hour now celebrations go on for the whole day and there was parading across red square would be accompanied by thousands of thousand musicians being directed by russia's leading military conduct or celebrations continuing throughout the day culminating in a huge and spectacular fireworks display always something spectacular to see in memory of a historic occasion. but

it wasn't just saw the troops that sacrificed everything to stand up against the nazi threat more than sixty thousand british sailors braved subzero temperatures in the arctic to keep supplying lines to russia open during the war but their attic efforts have remained largely undermined until now as ivor bad 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 that 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 paper thin in the in our can you just imagine. wives come in natur there's a block of flats you just passed the wife say just picked us up picked us up just market. just take it perry mind we were fourteen thousand pretty heavy clark at all and you know we've been lifted out because you could hear the screws turn in the war. below and in the water this is the very ship john c. is on his job was to man the end of the guns against the heavy enemy fire from above but the onslaught came from the sea to the huge icy waves with the warmth even a ship this 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 of world war two the waters so cold that falling in meant

almost certain death yet those behind the mission never ordered the men it sent john received medals for other campaign c. fourteen but he's still missing the one that matters most discussed here while being trained in a minute only a few of us left now. more were interested to see how come not frightened now and i mean come on this. way i know. we did i didn't say i got a lent burma pacific defense medal i've got all the campaigns are the campaigns are been in a pair of them only five to. one of an english. medal for their ration cards 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 and impossible targets given the extreme conditions of the arctic this is the thing and to my mind it is the fact that it's it's taken so long it's really heartbreaking because over the years we've been campaigning for this medal many many of these veterans have and have now passed away and the absolute tragedy of this would be if we do get to a situation where the medal really remains the barriers and the article with 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 ever in debt to this service on top of the two it's already awarded 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 r.t. london. and coming up on r.t. russian opposition groups continue their protest over vladimir putin's return to the top job isolate rallies and sit ins are held across moscow with numerous arrests but the movement's numbers dwindle as massive demonstrations in winter. and why does human life mean when it comes to the problem of global warming and greenhouse gases find out how foreign money is being used to cut india's burgeoning population. the u.n. and boy to syria has warned his peace plan is the last chance for the country to avoid civil war kofi annan also accused umask is of failing to hold violence despite being nearly a month since a nationwide truce was imposed our just got it she can has the details of serious response. heard 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 bomb bombings the ambassador shows a d.v.d. and said it has the confessions of dozens of individuals involved in terrorist activities upon the order of gulf countries here's what he said these terrorists did not come into syria. by using. they came into syria through the syrian borders with the neighboring countries so it's not a secret anymore who is behind these. the. who are giving orders and try to work through these terrorist. believe. 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 annan 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 have 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 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 their own ranks could be one of the major obstacles in the way of the u.n. back peace initiative. the best would be to follow the. plan to the and give it a chance this is the best plan we can have we have seen what military intervention and the rebellion does to states a lot of syrians understand what 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 by different groups are fighting different different wars we have different leaders we don't have one single command so if bashar al assad say's to its troops stop they can stop because there is a state system there but who is going to say to these rebel groups 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 by the government there are violence from both sides former libyan rebels have stormed the office of the interim prime minister intuitively killing two security officers armed militia men surrounded the building demanding payment for the role he played in last year's uprising against colonel gadhafi but you know as a killer who's the editor of the pan-african newswire but leaves the security problems the libyan government's currently facing could lead to foreign

intervention. the into the sea rebels 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 claim 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's a lot of problems that exist when the national transitional council they were put in power essentially by the pentagon and they took that 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. and as the editor of the pan-african newswire i'm a human as a q we're talking about the situation in libya. as like a report in saddles in two years raul back at the top of russian politics groups of opposition activists have continued their isolated 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 and we've seen a volley known for his nationalistic ratter e protestors have been walking around moscow for tuesday and t.v. night stopping to hold impromptu rallies the action began a day had of jordan's inauguration which was held on monday thousands of people arrived for a rally which soon descended into clashes and some protesters started throwing

stones and trying to provide. i guess any so now in political analysts retrieve bodies have try to understand who's 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 which 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 self 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 of our name is not a typical leftist populist like well does he use the morning to 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 because. he is. left from the he's an ally of the communist party a russian federation human being chronically ill but dissipating all the sections get him constantly arrested that's his style but so i guess that they're on ikea's where he is their traditional. russian i guess what does that mean in terms of the world there are several groups which do not i why themselves with the left or with the communist party if you go on the sunday i was there and there were clearly some people who were trying to provoke violence a lot of these so-called anarchists you can see here basically were running into

the riot police and also were wearing a lot of these masks. let's talk a little bit more about the nationalist side that we see some time i believe we don't have pictures here yet but it's white there it is yes what's this if it means someone you know all of the groups all the nationalist groups that are strongly opposed to the current government strong of course white. and red. 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 don't we 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 a mutually exclusive view they're not simply i think in his degree not simply contradictory there just in the school of the nationalistic he was put in of being a liberal the liberal secular wouldn't be the nationalist the leftist think he was

which you know in the soviet social system is the liberal secular splintering of reviving the soviet imperialist so they can't agree on anything the only thing that they can agree on is that they don't like what they want the current russian state to collapse that's about it to me bob rich political analyst from wastes 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. now for more i can always go to our website r.t. dot com where you can find how politics is casting a shadow over the london olympics some countries are using the event to question britain's foreign policy and accuse it of double standards with fears it could ruin the year's biggest sporting event. and he's a man who gets governments around the world sweating as to whether his latest leaks will expose the earth secrets to now join us on she has his own show to do it and

today find out its the truth behind the arab spring watch the show on air and online. and speak to two leading revolutionaries one from the rain where the revolution was that egypt where the revolution is now into them all what makes a revolution and where. going to go. is rouse politicians have avoided the need for early elections after the ruling coalition announced it struck a surprise deal where the opposition could name a party the country's military leadership still isn't see eye to eye with lawmakers accusing them of being hysterical over the perceived threat from iran or disposal here 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 in the form of 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 trust to lead the state of israel into an event 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 not. the way we're not polite but i prefer the innocence of the center for those who speak the truth. where. i think what we're saying first was 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 has been no why did the base among the smaller security cabinet or even the white a couple of 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 decision in life. even. if you. use it for the first time ever the head of the israeli army while still in office has broken bank and thrown doubt on whether iran is in fact planning to go nuclear. iran is going step by step to the police 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 almost all of the leaders of all the military and security establishments were replaced recently the question is what will their presence establishments say and will be on subi supported by the government or make the 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 while it's also official line is that it won't be can't buy negotiations policy r.t. tel aviv. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world clashes have erupted in a venezuelan jail between armed inmates and troops the prisoners opened fire on guards who responded with tear gas the riot 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. now there will be suicide attacker in a foil there liar bomb plot was reportedly a double agent all along the cia operative a set down of infiltrated al qaida in yemen and expose a planned a bomb concealed in underwear was meant 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 on the explosives didn't detonate properly. they have a left wing party saudi can form a new greek government the news comes after the conservatives failed to do just that so the new cabinet will reject mr universe imposed by the international bailout deal developments follow sunday's election result which gave no single party enough votes to govern alone

a new cabinet must be formed by the seventeenth of may or greece will be forced to hold another election. tens of 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 for all to hear your motives are just british leader has the details of this controversial program. they vonte the 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 davy thought the operation would help her family but it went terribly wrong. given that i gained consciousness around twelve or one 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 the 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. smooths of. good news so to

guard your own greenhouse emissions through excessive use of energy you. the poor and to the reason for. this is this is a mix it. up all those woman who having more than it's a reality that angers women's rights advocates who are determined to stop improper sterilization they say do. 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 do believe. in dignity all through life so that they give as a skeptic something societies that we look at a lot like that even for four days after four days they're supposed to be sick and . nobody calls for no one up is dead 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. bihar india. well shortly on our tails joining us on the way is edition of his program which focuses this time on the arab spring but first operate the headlines in just a moment. playing

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