the day of the russian people will never forget troops and armor parade through the red square to mark sixty years since the historic victory secured by an enormous sacrifice from soviet soldiers in bringing the nazis to their knees. anger in japan after its ownership of a group of violence is questioned by china threatening to pit the asian giants against each other and yet another a territorial dispute. and immigration to germany hits record levels as four countries take steps to protect themselves against so-called benefits tourism from poorer states.

it has to be am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program a day of end norma's pride and a day of remembrance russia is marking sixty eight anniversary of the defeat over nazi germany today just over two million people living in russia are veterans of that war and their contribution as well as those to separate finds their lives is being remembered with flowers tears salutes and parades are days and farmer was at the main military display on red square. yeah you know that very successful victory day right here on the red square it started with the bomb ten thousand troops in unison across the sky college setting and it is a day that hides unified russia on the field and soviet states is a day that is used to celebrate victory i think it would only take one quick. break

. for the book to write your to around three million vets are still alive and it's a day there are some that even took part in the very first big day right here in red square ninety forty five after they returned from the front line victorious during this bright we will see impressive display of russian military hardware tanks those massive assault will succeed don't put the. jews with you they too would be saving technology money started with a message from president putin to price the courage to tell you to bow to the great country or to pull those who insist it will mostly with the building codes to secure the common security. council to pass a red square step. while victory day celebrations are taking place across russia

artillery salutes are being performed all across the country as well as the numerous concerts and veterans events lot of our stock along with twenty three other russian cities has marked the historic date with its own display of military hardware and there was also an extraordinary commemoration in the euros where motorcyclists gathered for a symbolic the day race. well you can watch moscow's parade in full on our you tube channel which is at youtube dot com slash r t and on our website and also go back in time and see food which of what the veterans went through during the war as well as hear what they have to say that's r.t. dot com and his comments and details about the vehicles that took part in thursday's separate and more. two other stories now japan's ownership of an entire archipelago in the east china

sea may be up for review not by tokyo but by beijing the uk now island chain is home to a sprawling u.s. military base and tens of thousands of american troops the people's daily consider a mouthpiece of china's communist party all but like claim to archipelago in an article written by condemn ics japan quickly bad denouncing the paper as a political tool and declaring its ownership of okinawa beyond doubt it's the latest territorial dispute marring relations between the two asian powers over also locked into contest over another island chain james corbat is the editor of japan based news website says china is a pressure japan into making concessions elsewhere 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 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 the me era back in the eight hundred seventy s. but it's this 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 imperial regime after imperial regime and now it's. very basis 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 making these types of claims it's just a question of if and when this would actually spill into a military confrontation. i doubt a con holiday and a columnist for a foreign policy in focus says china move may be aimed more against washington in

tokyo. i think it's a couple of things going on one is that the chinese are very very disturbed about the the asia pivot on the part of the obama administration knew what they see is that the united states has now moved sixty percent or is in the process of moving sixty percent of their own forces into the pacific region so they find that very disturbing and there was a standoff with the but the clinton administration in the late ninety's in which the chinese had to back down from and they don't want to be in that position again so so part of this is a backdrop is is that this is a way of kind of challenging their asia pivot but they're basically saying to washington is don't push us don't come into our waters i do sing as well there is an act through kind of drive a wedge to a certain extent between japan and the united states only states certainly want to

war with china which japanese are being a bit more aggressive on this to try these are pushing the envelope just a little bit to see if the u.s. will back off a little bit on its support of japan so far that hasn't happened but but possibility in the future. and coming up later this hour here in our key how people under pressure in greece are heading back for survival. the workers in all the greece on dismantling a failed trade others though are taking control of the plans to try and keep going join me tom boston amante for a look inside the crisis in greece in just a few minutes. more immigrants arrive in germany last year than it any other time during the last two decades many of the newcomers are from crisis hit southern and eastern european countries attracted by the new your record levels of a low unemployment in germany and it's one of four countries to have told the

european commission and wants to protect its public education and health systems from being overwhelmed by new arrivals playboy reports on the doubts over whether so-called benefits tourism actually exist. have you had the one about the dutchman the german the austrian and the englishwoman going to the european commission and asking for cabs 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 are lifted and the e.u.'s newest members remain ian 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 wealth 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 suggest otherwise we nor the 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 hundred billion pound the budget for a national health service and only ten to twenty million pounds where on record from european nationals so these are more. backed by evidence the 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 the responsibly. and publicans to get some key vote but if we want to have at home to call me we want everyone's but. then we should. not protectionism habeeb rahman thank you very much for your comments well there you have it the free movement directive one of the pivot is 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. london while the u.k. is also facing tough criticism from another financial quarter of this time the international monetary fund which has warned britain to ease up on the belt tightening the national secretary of the socialist workers party told us the

government needs to rethink its priorities and dragging the country out of the doldrums. it's extraordinary that the international monetary fund which is the high priests of neoliberalism who have imposed a stereotype 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 a heart attack for the economy with no gross 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 richard 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 . now the u.s. dishes out the dollars for israeli defense spending hundreds of millions on anti-missile iron dome system despite criticism that it's not as effective as it's being presented that's still ahead here in our state and. as this for going with the flow of these workers in russia definitely got into the swim of things where they are rather a bizarre method of crossing a river well this is much more than just a couple minutes here on our team. yes super super super super super he's a little bit there's been

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welcome back you're watching our t.v. coming to you live from the russian capital while the u.s. says it plans to push forward to get israel and palestine to the ocean table. with 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 r. and dome anti-missile system party's policy or has been hearing from those who say the complex just isn't worth it the brains behind the iron dome. but the funding is mostly american born the americans. sold the discussion and offered their assistance they have washington recently pledged an additional six hundred eighty million dollars for deployment intercept a system that advocates claim has a success rate of more than eighty percent you know the numbers i've seen the

results and. endorses them quite clear to me 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 that 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 the iron 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 in the united states and even in israel say the i.d.f. has y. be overstated its intercept success rate by a factor of ten or more you can see very clearly that the project like this that it's impossible to get a warhead work. so you've. 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 mass and. militants are assembling these rockets which cost about one hundred dollars to make. which are very little more than than a pipe with an explosive to to propel it forward. and iran don't rockets. actually cost fifty thousand dollars. each pocket 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 stewart is not the right solution even more they develop their own to defend the war with. the only area of the island and 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. we're now down physicist stephen hawking is causing a big bang over his refusal to travel to israel cambridge university first said he wasn't going because of health problems but blair admitted his reasons were political to get the details online. and a cargo train with fifty fuel tankers derailed in southern russia with carriages exploding into fireballs forcing found causes of people to evacuated area r.t.

dot com has more on the accident. now the greek finance minister says he expects the country's economy to be on the op again by two thousand and fourteen but the optimistic view probably isn't being shared by workers or a left to fan for themselves tom barton reports from a factory abandoned by its owner where the laborers have taken control after almost two years of unpaid work. it looks just like another day at the tree in northern greece making building and cleaning products but these workers shouldn't even be here this fragment of the old workforce has taken control of the factory from its owners this is office all of their old office workers left and the owners lock them out of the office block for the moment they run their entire company from this room. the dead pot plants and shuttered windows sit next to the enemy's new philosophy on the war in red self management in huge legal disputes the owning

company fulcrum johnson claims to have no money and wants its factory back. this employer paid these workers for thirty years and paid them well i suggest that the workers now should support their employer at this difficult moment. workers for their part a desperate after twenty two months without pay they receive food aid from unions and solidarity movements they guard the stock and the plant seeing it is their only way to start earning money again despite the threats but with the laws stacked against workers in crisis torn greece few dare try the same this more the general picture i mean i don't think i'm going to see a huge movement to forgive someone to take over the octopus for these workers though this is an economic last stand they're trying nothing less than to change greek law to recognize the concept of self management in order to legally sell

their products and when i ask them they have a message for the owners after myself and about their lives they abandon us here and disappeared so i have nothing to say to them they prefer to pay for these trials instead of paying our salaries that's it. aleck our son his co workers don't see themselves as revolutionaries instead they thought predicament is a result of painful decisions forced on those on the factory floor and in the boardroom by a crisis that keeps breaking all the norms tom barton party next part of how you can rise above anything if you've got to the means and the willpower medina partially explains how a group of russians wave of inspiration got them from a to b. . it really seems like one collab just look at the key 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 mountains and as you can see the area is flooded and it also seems that there is going to be a bridge build 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 seem quite pleased with themselves anyway when this video first appeared on the internet it went viral with so many commons 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 was really hard to argue with that watching this footage. well it's time to go look at some other stories from around the world and further clashes of the between police and students marching for a free education in chile's capital security forces used water cannon to hold back the rioters in santiago tens of thousands of students too far in the nation wide demonstrations as part of an ongoing movement for education reform that began back in two thousand and ten. britain is pushing for the arms embargo against syria to be a man did a war lifted so that weapons can get to the rebels the current sanctions expire at the end of may and will most likely be extended france supports the plan despite widespread and european fears that will only worsen the conflict an independent un report suggests the rebels have most likely used chemical weapons although britain

and the us maintain that it's the regime that's deploying them. pakistan will pull out from the u.s. led war on terror if the man tipped to become the country's next prime minister is elected no washer rid of the pakistan muslim league says it's the only option to bring peace to the central asian nation in general elections do on the eleventh of may it's the run up has been marked by widespread violence in the latest incident today identify gunmen have kidnapped the son of former pakistani pm use of golani and returning to our main story for a few minutes russia is celebrating the sixty eighth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany a spectacular parade to commemorate those soldiers led to fire at a stake in place in the very heart of the russian capital let's have another look now at its highlights.

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that contradict each other i mean j.f.k. could have been killed by the mob the cia the k.g.b. and very secret societies at the same time or could he have been know what you just declare themselves the official conspiracy theories that's silly obviously it isn't good just go around fishing for evil plots to explain every situation the mainstream media sure does lie a lot but i think they're telling the truth about that whole sky being blue thing but on the other hand if you never question what the glowing box in your house tells you that just makes you a sucker the kind of sucker who bought that there were magical mysterious invisible weapons of mass destruction in iraq and you know what in all honesty there's actually been real evil conspiracies that have been exposed like the tuskegee experiment and the fascist coup attempt against president roosevelt in one nine hundred thirty s. over all people think it spirity theories are a matter of belief but actually they're completely a matter of facts and there's a lot of good evidence to support a conspiracy and good arguments that maybe you should consider it but if someone tells you the president is actually

a reptile in from the cosmos you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. please be cool language. for programs and documentaries in arabic in school here on. reporting from the will talks books fifty r.p.m. interviews intriguing stories do you. think trying. to find out more visit are a big don't all teeth don't call. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have

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in the early hours of a hot july dawn a group of unusually dressed people carefully head on to the shore of one of the tributaries they're clad in served military uniform from the days of world war two . in the summer of one nine hundred forty one. crossing the. one hundred thousand people were killed while they were trying to escape the surrounding enemy. eyewitnesses say that the river ran red with blood for several days now candles float down the river. military history club called the division has traveled here to honor the memory of full on russian soldiers but this journey to smolensk is just the beginning now they have three thousand kilometers to cover across the european roads to take part in the legendary war and peace show in ink.