spectacular regiments a military hardware parade in the heart of russia's biggest cities as a country commemorates sixty eight years since a victory in world war two. cracks widen between china and japan with questioning the ownership of a group of violence piling pressure on an already sensitive territorial dispute. and growing worries over so-called benefits tourism and the e.u. four member states take steps to protect themselves against migrants from poor countries.

you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh and it's victory day in russia. a day of remembrance and celebration as russia marks the sixty eighth anniversary a victory over nazi germany salute some parades across the country are honoring the veterans of the bloodiest war in history as well as those who sacrificed their lives to liberate the world r.t. center a farmer was at the main military display on red square. it has been another precedent

victory day parade here on red square it started with ten three marching in unison across his mind body setting and it is a day that has unified russia on the full blown soviet states busy day that is used to celebrate victory i'd like to tell but also one. of the last to right field wall around three million that are still a long way it's a date there are somebody who took part in the very first big day right here in red square ninety five after they returned from the frontlines victorious during the bribee of the slicing and impressive display of russian military hardware types those massive this although it is also a guy largely about how james webb played the official name would be life saving technology money started with a message from president putin price the courage of values to bolster the great

obstacle to war i don't wish it was this the world must be with the likud to secure the kind of security under fire by bart's a red square for saddam. well victory day is set to be rounded off with a spectacular fireworks display across the capital and we'll be bringing you live pictures of it starting at six pm g.m.t. so don't miss that but celebrations are not just held in moscow the far eastern city of liable stock is marked the historic date with its own display of military hardware and there was an extraordinary commemoration of the your work motorcyclist gatherer choice d.-day rally his humorous concerts and veterans of bands artillery salutes are being held in every major city in the country. and on our you tube channel you can find more images from the victory day celebrations including the full video of the parade and moscow while on our tito

com you will also find a food which of what the veterans went through during the war and hear what they have to say. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow now it's turn to some other stories that we're following for you today well with china and japan already embroiled in a territorial route over a group of islands in the east china sea a new dispute is flaring up beijing is calling for a review of the islands which are home to major u.s. military bases and tans of thousands of american troops the people's daily considered a mouthpiece of china's communist party all but lay claim to the archipelago in an article written by academics tokyo quickly head back to announcing the paper as a political tool declaring its ownership of okinawa was beyond doubt james corbett who is the editor of a japan based news website says china's aim is to 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 meiji era back in the eight hundred 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 imperial regime after imperial regime and now it's basically a site for u.s. military bases 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 now with a huge u.s. military presence in okinawa washington's interests are also at stake in the new territorial dispute between beijing and tokyo con holland a columnist for a foreign policy in focus says china has moved may be able to challenge america's age and focus. 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 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 their average disturbed and there was a standoff with the with the clinton administration in the late ninety's and 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 that drop is is that this is a way of kind of challenging their asia pivot what they're basically saying washington is don't push us don't come into our waters i do think as well there is an act to kind of drive a wedge to a certain extent between japan and the united states only states certainly wants a war with china which japanese are being a bit more aggressive on this to trainees 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 she forgot and soon to happen but that's a possibility in the future. and watching our team coming up later this hour the u.s. dishes out the dollars for israeli defense spending hundreds of millions on the anti-missile

iron dome system despite criticism that it's not as effective as it's being presented but still ahead here in r t plus. these workers in northern greece on dismantling a failed to treat others though a taking control of the plans to try and keep them going join me tom box on the nazi for a look inside the crisis in greece in just a few minutes. there's a growing spat between the european union over so-called benefit tourism for member states are calling for curb on welfare payments to e.u. citizens making claims outside their home country austria germany the netherlands and the u.k. all three there's growing pressure on already crisis hit benefits system artist billy boy who reports. 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 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 suggests otherwise we know that two million

. eight 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 recouped from european nationals so there's 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 sponsible blood made. and publicans i need to get some key vote but if we want to have a home ised economy we want everyone but to men in utah then we should want to. protectionism have the brockman thank you very much for your comments well there

you have it the free movement directive one of the pillar 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 under pressure for it to stare at a drive branded by trade unions as the last generation of growth it's for the country at odds with international monetary fund with warnings that the belt tightening must be eased 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 us belong 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 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 unpaired 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 but i'll be back shortly with more in the is including a story proving that with a little ingenuity and determination you get overcome any obstacles.

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welcome back you're watching our team going to live from the russian capital now the u.s. says it plans to push further to get israel and palestine to the negotiating table with secretary of state john kerry plenty another trip to the middle east where the peace afterwards are not stopping washington from spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the israeli military including funding the iron dome anti-missile shield artie's closely or has been hearing from those who say that a fan system 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 i've seen the results and are you and those of them completely 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 high fee high end 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 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 it's impossible to get a warhead work so the destroyed eighty four percent of the incoming or. the celebrated technological wonder exploded onto the international stage often last israel gaza war but the math did not add up it proved disproportionately expensive as a defense against crude homemade palestinian rockets. and militants are assembling these rockets which cost about one hundred dollars to make. which are very little more than than a pilot with an explosive to 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 amounts makeshift bronze

a makeshift rockets would cost. it sounds sometimes more than the cost of the rockets 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 mobile right to move even more they developed. the defense this was. the only. the. defense is they were given the history of missile defense to step shouldn and the strong news radio incentive to deceive the people who pay for the system should be asking hard questions about how well it really works put a city on t.v. tell of. an online for you today no fur or no in eastern russia a car a train turns into a massive fireball when fifty people tankers there were ale forcing thousands of

people to be evacuated from the area r.t. dot com has more on the incident. plus we shed light on last year's deadly assault on the american amboy levy after a u.s. official claims washington rejected desperate calls from its diplomats on a fire from angry mobs. is the. now as necessity is the mother of invention not nothing will stand in the way of some workers were to make a living in mother nature is best efforts. as

a story. it really seems like one collab commute just look at the queue 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 a vader's so for some it can be have a traffic and for others to have the 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 you will mountains and as you can see the area is flooded and it also seems that there is 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 of aid are 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 labelled 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. i'll stick with some of the stories making news around the world and clashes between police and protesting students have erupted in chile with nearly one hundred thousand people turning out to demand a fair education system drive units in santiago use tear gas and water cannon to push back the activists students have been venting their anger at the government over affordable public education since twenty eleven. the stand will pull out from the u.s. led war on terror if the front runner for the prime minister of position is elected

in a washer a from the pakistan muslim league believes it's the only way to make the region peaceful a general election day on the eleventh of may has been marred by insurgent attacks which have left more than one hundred people dead since april in a way to violence the son of former premier or galani was kidnapped by gunmen at a rally after they shot one of his aides. a five and bangladesh has claimed at least eight lives it's not yet clear wat caused the blaze at a clothing factory but the latest incident comes amid a dispute over the country's industrial safety standards two weeks ago a fire at a garment factory in the capital killed more than nine hundred people were he says finance minister says the country's recession wracked economy should start recovering as soon as next year but with the latest figures showing the country's jobless rate hitting record highs for manic communities across the

country the outlook is far from rosy artie's tom gardner visited a factory where the work force have taken control after almost two years of unpaid wages it looks just like another day at the me factory 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 via a maze central 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 pull plants and shuttered windows sit next to me is new philosophy on the wall and read self management in huge legal disputes the owning company fluker and johnson claims to have no money and wants its from tree 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 huge movement to forgive something to take over the doctors 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 that if they abandon us here it disappeared so i have nothing to say to them they prefer to pay for these trials instead of paying our salaries. aleck us and his coworkers 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. and returning now to our main story for a few minutes russia is celebrating the sixty eight out of her story of the defeat of nazi germany a spectacular parade to commemorate those soldiers who led the fight us taking place in a very heart of the russian capital let's have another look at the highlights.

the hattie's kaiser report pulls no punches as a probe of the banking world's dark side. you know i've been asked a few times if i believe in conspiracy theories which is kind of an odd question i mean just in general believe in conspiracy theories like all of them even the ones that contradict each other i mean j.f.k. could have been killed by the mob the cia the k.g.b. and various secret societies at the same time or could he have been no it's just declare themselves 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 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 rip to lead from the cosmos you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can 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 a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's

a step forward for all of the lucky carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent on. this bill's. welcome to the kaiser report i max kaiser. there's a new viral head band hit song in japan it goes like this fix the ends appreciation quantitative easing don't forget public investment monetary easing construction bonds let's just revise the bank of japan law even those of the lair.