today. life for you in moscow today is the day when millions of russians once again to remember the heroic deeds of their grandfathers to put an end to the bloodiest war of the twentieth century the victory day parade in honor of the defeat of the nazis has taken place on moscow's red square it was a the usual impressive display of military might. he was that witnessed the event. this year's big parade has come to a close on red square in the center of moscow celebrating the sixty seventh anniversary of the role played by the soviet union and the victory over nazi germany during the second world war now the parade was started off by the newly elected president vladimir putin he paid homage to all of those who helped to win victory all of those years ago this year fourteen thousand troops marched across red square to the iconic center of the russian capital and they were followed by

some pretty serious military hardware armored vehicles high tech tanks and followed up by again by strategic missiles the parade was closed out with a flyby from military helicopters bearing the flag of the russian federation as well as the banners of the defense ministry and the army the navy and the air force around fourteen hundred veterans were in attendance to to witness this year's parade many of them had actually taken part in the first parade to commemorate the victory in world war two back in one thousand nine hundred forty five some of those coming straight back from the front to march across red square that day now the celebrations here in russia and in moscow continue throughout the day here in the capital they come to a conclusion with a fantastic spectacular fireworks display at ten pm local time just making

sure that this day is a celebration as well as a commemoration of the sacrifice pace for the freedoms we have today. not is pretty or all of our reporting right there well of course it wasn't just our soviet troops that sacrificed everything to stand up against the nazi threat and more than sixty thousand british sailors braved subzero temperatures in the arctic in order to keep supply lines open to russia during the war however the epic efforts of remained largely ignored until now that is now with us reporters r.t. as ivor bennett the worst journey in the world was how we churchill described it the ten day through hell the arctic convoys were a vital lifeline of supplies to the soviet union with britain's eastern allies 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 never they are thin in the can you just imagine. wife's come in that. is the block of flats you just passed the wife say just picked us up picked us up just market i just. bought perry bond we were fourteen thousand per year very clark and you know we've been lifted out because you could hear the screws turn in at the war. below and in the water this is the very ship john says served 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 warmth 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 of world war two the waters so cold that fall in

meant almost certain death yet those behind the mission never ordered the men it sent john received medals for other campaign see fourteen but he's still missing the one that matters most allow phil discussed it while being trained i mean there's only a few of us left now. a more well interactive. not frightened now and i mean come on we are not a sound we did as you say got a lengthy burma pacific defense measure up got all the campaigns are the campaigns are been in the eye 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 bureaucratic red tape limiting

war heroes to one medal per campaign medal rules also mean a stint on the convoys wasn't long enough to make the six month minimum an impossible targets given the extreme conditions of the arctic it's disgusting 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 if this would be if we did get to a situation where the medal really remains the barriers and the outcome with veterans are allowed that medal and there are none of them alive to say that 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 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 r.t. london. now artie is coming to you live from the heart of moscow is good to have you with us today we are going straight to breaking news here on the program authorities in indonesia are searching for a russian built sukhoi superjet one hundred airplane which has lost contact with the airport it's reported there were forty four people on board the plane which has yet to go into service had been on a demonstration to a number of countries that have been returning to an airport contact was lost we will bring you more on this story on this breaking news as soon as we get it here on arts. now ukraine's jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko has been moved from prison to a local hospital the opposition leader had been on a hunger strike for nineteen days claiming abuse in an earlier attempt to move

a concern over her treatment has caused diplomatic tension with ukraine postponing a regional e.u. summit after several states pulled out in protest with the latest from kiev is r.t. is our next year to ski. you could see michelle ukraine's former prime minister now serving seven years in prison for abuse of power has been transferred to a clinic where she will be observed her spinal hemorrhage which has been reported for the last several months will be observed by a german doctor she insisted that this must be a german doctor and that no ukrainian doctor will have access to her treatment now certainly this comes after a great deal of controversy surrounding this hospital is ation of tymoshenko in fact on april the twentieth she was meant to be transferred to a hospital but back then she claimed the prison guards physically abused her punch ernest almost landed several punches on her body and the photos of her bruises were made public on the internet now we understand that she has finally agreed for this treatment for how long this will last and whether the doctors would be able to

finally cue her off for spinal which is certainly remains unknown but definitely this is a big development in the story well those physical abuse reported physical abuse by prison guards on timoshenko certainly cause lots of controversy abroad with some politicians on the highest levels and european countries saying that they will boycott the euro twenty twelve championship which is starting in a little more than a month from now and those politicians include the german chancellor angela merkel the highest ranking politicians in the netherlands in the czech republic in germany so it is unclear whether whether this development in the story whether the fact of tymoshenko hospitalisation will ease the tension whether those politicians who are willing to boycott the euro twenty twelve will decide to come here eventually but certainly this is something of a big step forward in this story because for up to this moment. the authorities have been saying that they will not allow you to machine go to be treated by any

foreign doctors on the ukrainian soil or anywhere abroad we even heard an offer from to put in which you have to michigan treated in russia but the authorities in ukraine denounce that such possibility could even happen so certainly we waiting to see for any reactions from europe but hopefully most of the politicians will change their opinion and will be able to come to the euro twenty twelve period in month time. ati's alexy out of the reporting right there from kiev now as of letting me have putin settles into his role back at the top of russian politics groups of opposition activists have continued their isolated walks and sit ins across the center of moscow they've been going on now for the past three days protesters have joined a sanctioned communist rally in the city and marching along with them at the scene of graves. officially this rally has been targeting the company's sake of course it has got a story about boxing champion of the great victories so you can hear but it also

is a very normal day party with foreign affairs woman being standing against the two more lections at some place back in december ms allegations of the total fraud and then not the only ones who do this are almost in the crowd at the moment so using this day and this site should be running for a sponsor already i go so close charlie i'm down there goes by white women so i was associated for free and fair elections have a sleep out there that's partly because i've been struggling on the back of the presidential elections in march to bring together a number. of i've watched it all so i want to see the change in its action on the force that is presently against you know gratian of blood i'm a person as president it's something i stood against for a while now we have seen the stage in these talks they say it was just yesterday

but people amassed near a local square in central moscow and therefore any political slogans is this risk arrest these are sites and demonstrations that what they do is they sing and like other mass now the number rests on the back of this two hundred is the official figure for just yesterday alone for the protesters put the figure much higher than that you know among them they have so the head of the left from the left from the government he has been detained on a number of occasions he stood tension and he say he may go on hunger strike also alexina bounty and seek russian oh you know for some he's not you people are very active and we think you know you guys you know say see why yes he has been now speaking to some of those in the crowd associated with the what remove for free and fair let. it seems they want off this friday to do to another and again play this cat and mouse game with police they sit down and if they get moved on and they go

elsewhere over this action comes on the back of quite a muscular violent demonstration that took place on sunday just ahead of the no gration of that of a person as president so clashes the release of protesters injuries being staged. with the high level of the rest of the protesters and police say some of the demonstrators both quite far out i you know as they try to rip off their right yeah . this is our back to our breaking news for you this hour reports that contact has been lost with a russian built super jet aircraft. joins us live on the program with more details on this developing breaking news situation tom good to see you what else do you know about this that we haven't already covered here. well the jet was on its way back to an airfield in indonesia as part of a demo tours it was making of a number of asian and southeast asian countries the last minutes the lot of the

flight that we know about the jet reportedly asked for a lowering of its altitude it was an amount in this region that permission was granted and then shortly afterwards in a very mountainous area of indonesia with one mountain over six thousand feet the plane disappeared off the radar that's all that's known at the moment the search is out to try and find what may have happened to the plane the soakaway one hundred super jet was part of a revamping of the russian aircraft industry and it was a flagship model to try and sell to many new markets it was russia's first fly by wire plane a very modern model that was hoped to try and break into a very competitive world market forty four people were on board the whereabouts of those people on the plane are currently are known as are what may have happened to this aircraft all right at his or tom bottom there live for us in moscow thank you . more at a quarter past the hour here in moscow a bomb has detonated in syria just moments after a u.n.

observers team which included the bodies chief monitor passed by six soldiers are scored in the convoy were said to be an injured it comes after envoy kofi annan said damascus was failing to hold the violence and war is peace plan is the last chance for the country to avoid civil war with details of syria's response artie's guy in a church you can't. 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 plan he said the syrian government remains committed to the plan but it faces a surge of terrorist attacks including suicide bombings that have 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. the

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 the syrian ambassador said what also undermines kofi annan 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 to fight for their rights very dubious question arises here is it in a campaign to justify violence on one side while. there are some of the other being exclusively of 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 not 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. right there in just a moment the world but for now israel's politicians have voided the need for

elections after the ruling coalition announced it had struck a surprise deal with the opposition party but the country's military leadership still isn't seeing eye to eye with lawmakers of being hysterical over the perceived threat of iran. a closer look. usually it's all secret service that's eavesdropping on others but 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 a whether or not a techie ran out into the open. it's not. polite

but i'd prefer an innocence of the sense of those who speak the truth. to our fourth story. where i think what we're saying first was that this government doesn't really engage with with the country as a whole this 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 cop in the israeli politicians on your 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.

yet. even. if he. is. 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 establishment 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 while israel's official line is that it won't be can't buy negotiations policy are to tell of of. in just a moment we'll get back to our breaking news on r.t. about a missing airliner somewhere near jakarta and more on that in just a sec for now though where we'll start with venezuela for the world update the clashes have erupted in a venezuelan jail between inmates and troops the prisoners opened fire on guards who then responded with tear gas the riot follows the government's decision to close the prison over recent. complaints of overcrowding at least eight were injured including the relatives of some of the inmates who had gathered outside.

the would be suicide attacker in a. bomb plot was reportedly a double agent all along a cia operative who is said to have in full trade to al qaeda in yemen and expose the plan 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 when the explosives did not detonate properly. all right back to our breaking news this hour here on our reports that contact has been lost with a russian built sukhoi superjet aircraft. joins us on the program with more on this developing story tom can you enlighten us what exactly do we know so far. the jet was returning to an indonesian airfield it was over a very mountainous area when the in the last moments of the flight the pilots were

reported to have asked to lower their altitude from ten thousand down to six thousand feet that was granted they were in the process of turning and of lowering altitude when the plane disappeared from the radar it was a very mountainous area and authorities at the airport now say that the plane would now have run out of fuel it's on know the whereabouts of the plane the so-called one hundred superjet was an attempt to try and revamp the russian aircraft industry is a very new model it's been marketed in a very competitive place and this aircraft was on the demo top of lots of asian and southeast asian countries that had already been to pakistan and my own mark some of those prospectively countries looking at placing orders however the feet the fate of this aircraft is currently unknown and the search has started to try and find what may have happened to the second or i to art is our top bottom there with the latest on the breaking news of a missing russian airliner somewhere near jakarta tabard thank you. tens

of millions of pounds of u.k. aid money has been spend forcibly sterilizing indian women many of died being mistreated causing outrage from those who suspect britain simply wants to curb the country's population for tyria motives. as the details of this controversial program. they have on t.v. be a 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 baby thought the operation would help her family but it went terribly wrong. given that the 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 the region are sterilized every year she says around eighty women were operated on at this school in just three hours in january after mr realisation 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 for me smooths of this. moves of. the back of your. soon to guard my moods your own greenhouse emissions through excessive use of a new g.

you see that the poor are to be the reason for. this is this is unacceptable. because 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 do believe. in dignity all through life so that it begins as a skeptic something societies that would look at a lot like that even for four days after four days they're supposed to be sick and all those stooges 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 clotting 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. order to stay with us or we're not seeing just about what i will update you on our top story.

the issues that so much about that experience i mean we're going to see a lot of people are very happy to. into the russian presidency for the third time by a mere putin has pledged to unify the country and continue reforms to expand the economy . he. says.

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if you're just joining us welcome to the program here on r.t. straight to breaking news for you it. has been lost with the russian sukhoi superjet. being forty four people oh oh. the airline which has been on a sales road show in the region disappeared from radar after and asked for permission to lower its altitude local authorities say by now the plane would have run out of fuel a search operation is underway certainly more on this breaking news story as we get it here on. next hour we turn to syria where reports of violence continue despite the u.n. backed peace plan historian and political analyst pisin who has recently been to the country says the same powers who backed the un initiative are also the ones fueling the conflict.