anger in japan after its ownership of a group of islands is questioned by china threatening to put the age of giants against each other in yet another territorial dispute. a day the russian people will never forget the country marks sixty eighty as well since their historic victory secured why it all was sacrificed from soviet soldiers in bringing the losses to their means. and immigration to germany has record levels as well for e.u. countries take steps to protect themselves against the so-called benefits of tourism from poorer states.

it's aid to in the morning here in the russian capital you're watching are to live with me tell them what they say japan's ownership of an entire i can go in the east china sea may be up for review by tokyo but by beijing the okinawa island chain is home to sprawling u.s. military bases and tens of thousands of american troops the people's daily considered a piece of china's communist party all badly claim to the i.q. peleg in an article written by academics japan quickly bagged denouncing the paper as a political tool and declaring its ownership of our beyond doubt it's the latest oratorial dispute to marry relations of between the two agent powers both also locked into contest over another island chain. right let's get more perspective on what time is hoping to achieve here with the op ed

added to japan news a web site mr colbert a bold move on. china's part but realistically what it does beijing hope to gain here well i think we have to keep this in perspective in terms of a political in terms of actual political movement from this type of statement i don't think much is going to happen basically as you point out this is a study that's been released by some some academics and it has been published on the people's daily but i don't think we can say it's necessarily coming from the beijing government or that we would expect anything to to come of this from the internet on the international level but it is at the very least an interesting new development in the territorial dispute and obviously meant to at least increase pressure on japan over the the disputed senkaku islands which is another part of this territorial dispute that's going on but in terms of okinawa itself it's been within the japanese sphere of influence for at least the last four hundred years

now and has been formally ceded by china in the treaty as she went to seche back in one thousand nine hundred five so i think we it's well embedded by now in international politics that it is part of japanese territory so we've seen kind of this ping pong thing happening between japan and china how will japanese patients laws it's been for going to approach it by these last few years and what they would also territorial disputes. well i don't think that's something that's really up to japan to decide to because i think that china is basically just asserting itself internationally on in more different areas not only within its own backyard for example we saw the big china recently cutting off the foreign national bank of north korea but we see it venturing into other types of diplomatic forays that we haven't seen before with both of us and netanyahu visiting china this week and beijing and she jinping coming out and saying that there is a chinese idea for an israeli palestinian peace plan so china really does seem to

be starting to flex its international muscles a little bit more right now and i think we have to see that within that broader development and japan i think is going to be more or less a spectator in this i don't think that they have the ability to really stop china from from making these types of claims it's just a question of if and when this would to actually spill into a military confrontation one of the you as a base is a station they do is that is it something to worry about in terms of that. well i think that's what basically solidifies this as as being japanese territory is that that u.s. military presence there which means that barring some sort of direct military confrontation with japan nothing's going to change in in the foreseeable future at least not within the current relations but of course this brings up the fundamental issue of all of this which is china is trying to argue that it has historical claims over the okinawa islands japan has these formal claims that it's set up in a major era back in the seventy's but it's this group completely excluded from this

is the fact that of course there is an ethnic indigenous population in okinawa who are the ones who are completely forgotten in all of this and are being used as pawns as they have had to suffer through basically impure real regime after imperial regime and now it's basically a site for u.s. military bases and on the okinawan people are the ones who are used as political. pawns in this game it's also worth noting that japan has total disputes with almost every neighbor a nation i mean i they not all the setting themselves. well obviously this is a remnant of the old japanese imperial days and i think that they have they certainly did try to extend themselves as much as possible and and i think now they have to bear the bitter fruits of that of that sowing of the seed to that they did back in in their imperial days and i think it's just another testament to the fact that japan really has a lot of ill will against it from

a lot of the countries around in the asia pacific region because of its its imperialist the past the other topic that's being talked about is japan rethinking its a pacifist a minute she policy are we getting closer to that to do you think. we certainly are we've seen this building up for years now and quit and concerted political attempt to reassert japanese nationalism and some sort of patriotism where that has been really denigrated in the post-war era but we feel we've seen a concerted attempt to try to bring that back everything from trying to make teachers salute to the japanese flag during school set ceremonies and things like this that have a few other tubin been really looked down upon so we've seen a complete societal shift taking place over the last several years and now with albion power we have once again the specter of the change to the constitution to make it possible for japan to actually deploy a military so we'll see of how this develops it will still probably still take quite a while to achieve that fundamental shift in japanese public consciousness but it

really does seem to be taking place let's talk about let's go back to china that washington would really it's a report to a legend the chinese are gathering gearing up for a show about high intensity territorial conflict that is posing posturing will i be preparing do we know so we won't. well i think it has to be a mixture of all of those i think the that some of this is posturing bravado for example the release of this that this claim to you know i think has to be seen in that regard but there is no doubt that they are gearing up technologically militarily with some of their aircraft carrier muster weapons and other things that they're now deploying in the region quite openly and they're at their own aircraft carrier for example i mean there are some big technological developments that the the chinese navy and an armed forces are making right now and is still quite a ways away from being able to i think assert itself with anything like what the

u.s. for example could assert in the region but it is building up right now and and i think that that analysts have to take that at least somewhat seriously given the incredible amount of expense that china is pumping into its armed forces right now how do we see this all keep our dispute unfolding. i guess i have to see this as basically just a pawn in this chess game i don't think it's going to be a central piece of this just game and again this is only coming from some academics who've written in a paper it's not coming from the government the beijing government itself i think there is a sort of arm's length nature to this but once again i think it's important that this does bring to the front and center the fact that this is again this type of imperialistic conquest that's going on between imperialist powers whether that's japan or china or the us or any of the proxies in the region and it in some ways it's like saying perhaps we should return south america to the spanish or something like that i mean again it's is a completely ridiculous idea based on the idea that there aren't indigenous

populations with their own culture and i think that's the excluded middle that has to be really taken into account in this and hopefully it might actually help to serve to change people's opinions of the u.s. military bases that are there in will get on in that are deeply unpopular with the local population james cobbett added to the japan base of public reporting is a website thank you always a for your time and and that assists. under the u.s. the dishes out of the dollars for israeli defense are spending hundreds of millions on the anti missile iron dome system despite criticism that it's not as effective as it is it being presented that's still ahead. and how's this for going with the flow of these workers in russia definitely got into the swim of things with the a rather bizarre method of crossing a river find out what's on the other side later in the program.

more immigrants arrived in the germany last year than in any other during the last two decades many of the newcomers are from crisis had saw the rain in eastern european countries attracted by the near record levels of low unemployment in germany and it's one of four even countries to have told the european commission it wants to protect its public education and health systems from being overwhelmed by new arrivals probably going to report on the doubts over whether so-called benefits tourism actually exists. have you had the one about the dutchman the german the austrian and the englishwoman going to the european commission and asking for cubs on migration within the e.u. it's not a joke it actually happened holland germany austria and the u.k. say that they're concerned about the pressure being put on their public services as a result of so-called benefits terrorism so they've written a letter to the european commission asking for help in making it harder for freshly arrived e.u.

migrants to access public services such as schools hospitals and accommodation the move comes just seven months before labor restrictions a lifted and the e.u.'s newest members remain e.-n. ball garia are allowed to live and work freely anywhere within the european union brussels response to the letter has been lukewarm they want to see evidence that this so-called benefits terrorism actually exists to talk about the issue i'm joined by her be brockman from the joint council for the welfare of immigrants thank you very much for joining us do you think there is the threat of all this pressure being put on public services in the u.k. let me tell you first this isn't a phobia on share mad because evidence suggests otherwise we know that two million . nationals came to this country and only thirteen thousand of them out of two million claimed job seekers allowance we know that for the health service that we

have got a hundred billion pounds the budget for a national health service and only ten to twenty million pounds where. from european nationals so this is a more. backed by evidence evidence is there if this is a myth propagated by the media then why are the politicians over four key western european countries so concerned about it you see the politicians are pandering to even sponsor to meet. yeah and publicans like to get some tivo but if we want to have a harmonized economy we want everyone betterment in then we should one more protectionism habeeb ruckman thank you very much for your comments well there you have it the free movement directive one of the pillars the founding pillars of the european union but it looks like at the moment some key western countries are uniting together against a united europe. r.t. london. the u.k.

is also facing tough criticism from another financial quarter this time the international monetary fund which has warned britain to ease up on the tell'd belt tightening national secretary of the socialist workers party childers the government needs to rethink its priorities in dragging the country out of the children's. it's extraordinary that the international monetary fund which is the high priests of neoliberalism who have imposed a stare at a as part of the troika along with the european union in the earthian central bank across the continent even though they are now telling osborne that his economic policies are a complete failure and they're causing heart attack for the economy with no growth with unemployment rising and with social chaos caused by these policies and there are more and more people who are completely fed up with these a stereotype policies which are attacking people's living standards while at the

same time at the other pole of society the very very rich grow ever richer the reality is that the attempts to cut the deficits have caused the economy to come to a halt and what we need is to completely change the priorities we need to stop the imperial adventures in afghanistan and the talk of more involvement in syria we need to stop the trident nuclear program and we need to take the power away from the wealthy people at the top of society and start putting people first not profits . i. a day of enormous pride on a day of remembrance russia is marking sixtieth anniversary of the defeat of the nazi germany after getting almost the entire european continent under their control hitler troops in crashed into the soviet union the waters or was every soviet

family uniting the nation against a common enemy massive soviet resistance secured victory after the red army pushed the nazis back to germany until their total surrender the u.s.s.r. suffered astonishingly high casualties an estimated twenty seven million people died most of them civilians today just over two million people living in russia are veterans all over that wall and to their contribution as well as those who sacrificed their lives will be remembered with flowers tears salutes and parades the largest commemoration will be in moscow in a couple of hours join me and reforma live from red square for the spectacular victory day parade which will commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany after many rehearsals everything is now in place for this event and it will see thousands of troops march through the heart of russia's capital over one hundred vehicles will roll across its kabul's and dozens of aircraft will decorate

the skies above moscow you can watch it all along with our expert analysis here on r.t. this thursday. so i got r.t. dot com for a look at the preparations for the upcoming victory day spectacle there are images from the parade full rehearsal lined up for you in the photo section. i. the u.s. says it plans to push further to get israel and palestine to the negotiation table or secretary of state john kerry planning a trip to the middle east even so washington continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the israeli army including funding the iron dome anti missile system or his policy has been hearing from those who say the complex just isn't worth it the brains behind the iron dome the israeli but the funding is mostly american born there are no guns assistance it solves the discussion and

offered their assistance they have washington recently pledged an additional six hundred eighty million dollars for the point intercept a system that advocates claim has a success rate of more than eighty percent you know the numbers have seen the results and. even obama has gotten in on the act his first stop at a recent trip to israel was to an iron dome battery where he told soldiers they're doing an amazing job because so much money has been spent on this defense missile system it now needs to be marketed and sold otherwise how do you justify something that has already cost the american taxpayer millions of dollars but for all its hype behind dome which is designed to intercept and destroy short range rockets aimed at populated areas is not foolproof i have a lot of question marks questions that include the system's effectiveness weapons experts lee united states and even in israel say the idea of has y. be overstated its intercept success rate by

a factor of ten more you can see very clearly the project like this that it's impossible to get a warhead work. so you do see the destroyed eighty four percent of the incoming look at. the celebrated technological wonder exploded onto the international stage after last year's israel gaza war but the math did not add up it proved disproportionately expensive as a defense against crude homemade palestinian rockets and. militants there are assembling these rockets which cost about one hundred dollars to make. which is very little more than than a pipe with an explosive to propel it forward. and the iron dome rockets. actually cost fifty thousand dollars. each bucket so shooting two rockets to intercept one of the of the finance makeshift bombs

a makeshift rockets would cost a thousand times more than the cost of the rocket that is being intercepted but the i.d.f. has good reason to mislead the world about its effectiveness not only to taxpayers want to know the money is being well spent but enemies need to be deterred especially gaza militants firing at israel's southern border city of stuart is not very aloof even more developed. to defend the war this was. the only area the cannot defend is the given the history of missile defense deception and the strong israeli incentive to deceive the people who pay for the system should be asking hard questions about how well it really works policy r.t. to level of. training where the fifteen fuel tank is has derailed insall the way in a russia half a dozen carriages exploded into flying delta and black smoke into the ad forcing

thousands of people to evacuate the area i did outcome has more on the accident. and the world famous physicist stephen hawking out of causes. big bag over his refusal to travel to israel get the details on a website. the american civil liberties union is on a mission to educate the public about the dangers of accumulating too much debt and softer they revealed figures showing a rising number of people who fail to pay their debts are being thrown in jail marian up my has been to the state of ohio where the practices of fairly common

even though it's criticize as unconstitutional a midwestern u.s. state. internationally recognized for being the battleground where america's next president is decided let's talk about the importance of ohio and in the battle for ohio state's eighteen electoral votes mean so much elbows paid a lot of attention ohio ohio. you're probably going to decide the next president of united states for the past thirty six years no candidate has entered the white house without winning this swing state while ohio undoubtedly wields an enormous influence in the arena of u.s. presidential politics the state is currently garnering headlines for its presence specifically the medieval type punishment being imposed on countless citizens who are drowning in debt according to a report released by the a.c.l.u. of ohio thousands of citizens are being locked behind bars because they are too

poor to pay their debt and we saw some really troubling numbers one case that we looked at out of mansfield ohio there was a gentleman his crime against the community was he let his dog walk in his mobile home park without a leash he was fined thirty dollars and he ended up being found in contempt of court and was sent to jail for not paying for a thirty dollars fifty five year old jackdaw lee was incarcerated three times for failing to pay nine hundred dollars in fines every ninety days you had a jail date. and if you weren't working well you're going to jail. violate the u.s. and ohio constitutions according to the a.c.l.u. most of the defendants weren't given hearings before being jailed for outstanding fines if the court had taken any time to ask whether or not they couldn't afford to pay that they would see that these were people who just simply cannot pay they were

individuals who are homeless many who haven't worked for months if not years people who are disabled people who are taking care of disabled family members these are people who are working and just don't feel like spending the money these are people who literally have no money people like dante stiles who is unemployed and says he often has to choose between feeding his two children or paying his fines a far more so back and forth back and forth in court back before a concert here fifteen days here and while the cash strapped citizens are incarcerated in debtors prisons. there are fines keep growing like credit card interest it's described as a vicious circle it was seven hundred thirty thirty seven dollars ok at the levin days when i went back to court at the court course and paranoid the public defended it went up actually two hundred dollars more than one point eight million ohioans

reportedly live in poverty i want to get it behind me dolly lost his job last year after missing work for a ten day sentence in debtors prison i had just started the job i was probably there not quite a month. i was expecting a paycheck so i'd gone in early to get a paycheck so i could go in and pay on my find my release i was terminated from my job dollie has received a fifty dollars credit for each of the sixteen days he was illegally imprisoned but most like styles have not and the state revered for predicting america's presidents has garnered a new reputation for how it punishes the poor. archie ohio. for some more of today's world headlines for you now further clashes have erupted between police and students watching for free education in the chile's capital as security forces use water cannon to hold back the writers in santiago tens of thousands of students who took part in the nationwide demonstrations as part of an

ongoing movement for education reform that began back in twenty term. britain is pushing for the e.u. arms embargo against a serial to be amended or lifted so that weapons can get to the rebels the current us sanctions expire at the end of may and will most likely be extended friends or supports the plan despite widespread european fears that it will only worsen the conflict and independently un report suggests the rebels have most likely used chemical weapons although britain and the us maintain that it's the regime that's deployment them. pakistan will pull out from the u.s. led war on terror if the men tipped it should become the country's next prime minister is elected now was a sorry for all of the pundits on muslim leaders says it's the only option to bring peace to the central asian nation general elections are due on the eleventh of may

after a campaigning season marred by violence and attacks which underline the country's disparate security situation. next proves how you can rise above anything if you've got the means and the willpower my dear caution of i explains how a group of russians a wave of inspiration got them from a to b. . it really seems like one collab commute look at the q there are so many people there and amazingly they're not just standing there for a bus right they're actually crossing the river using these to ask invaders so for some it can be have a traffic and for others to have a way now let me give you some details on what is actually happening that this video was shot at the end of march in the north of the world mountains and as you can see the area is flooded and it also seems that there's going to be a bridge built there in the future but for now people still have to cross it

somehow and it seems they've found a way better call it an adrenaline draw and now you've got one ask evader loaded with three sometimes even more people now it means the other one half way people climb from one ask a vader to be other it all looks rather dangerous but look at the people they seemed quite pleased to with themselves anyway when this video first appeared on the internet it went viral was so many comments and very few people were actually concerned about the fate of the passengers some even labeled this video as another example of how russians can be resilient and resourceful well it's really hard to argue with that watching this footage well necessity is definitely about the whole innovations coming up or it is a money issue a prime interest of logs onto the future of online shopping.

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so you know you. really really do you know what he was doing if you think you know who it was or where he was so. good afternoon a welcome to prime interest i'm perry and boring here in washington d.c. to hear stories that we're tracking today. the u.s. will pay china ahead of veterans and medicare recipients that's what house speaker boehner said yesterday he's pushing a new bill that would help prevent a u.s. debt being.