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

its size the am and the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie. a day of remembrance and celebration as russia marks the sixty eighth anniversary of victory over nazi germany saluted 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 our designer farmer was at the main military display on red square.

victory day right here right where it started be ten three marching in unison it crosses like any setting and it is a day that has unified russia on the field of soviet states is a day that is used to celebrate victory i think it would only take one quick. break . if you. look to right field. around me that are still alive and his today there are some that he took part in the very first big day right here in red square going to be followed by comp if they were to the front line victorious during the right we will see impressive display of russian military hardware types those massive risotto says he still put the. bugs do you think if they too would be time saving technology money started with

a message from president putin price the courage of a devoted to great country or to pull those who insist it will close to building codes to secure the planet security entry from a bar to red square. well victory day is set to be rounded off with a spectacular fireworks display across the capital and we'll be bringing you a wife pictures of that 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 lot of us stock is marked a story day with its own display of military hardware there was an extraordinary commemoration in the euros where a motorcycle is he out of a choice symbolic a rally in english concerts and veterans a man's artillery salutes are being held in every major city and the country. of course in 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 call me you also find a food edge of what the veterans went through during the war and hear what they have to say. but you are coming to live from the russian capital now let's take a look at some other stories that we're following for you today 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 tens 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 quickly hit back denouncing the paper as a political tool declaring its ownership was beyond doubt james corbett who is the

editor of a japan based news website says china's am is to pressure japan into making concessions or else we're. 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 a major era back in the eighteenth 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 i want a huge u.s. military presence washington's interests are also at stake in the new territorial dispute between beijing and tokyo now the con held in a columnist for foreign policy in focus says china's move maybe aims to challenge america's asian 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 that very disturbing and there was

a standoff with the that 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 a backdrop is is that this is a way of kind of challenging that 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 through to 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 that's a possibility in the future. you're watching live from moscow and coming up

later this hour the u.s. dishes out the dollars for israeli to fans spending hundreds of millions of anti-missile iron dome system despite criticism that it's not as effective as being presented but still ahead here in r t plus. these workers in northern greece on dismantling a file from a tree others though are taking control of the plants to try and keep them going to join me tom bots on the nazi for a look inside the crisis in greece in just a few minutes. while there is a growing spat between within rather the european union over so. benefits who are ism for a member states are calling for a curb on welfare payments to citizens making claims outside their home country austria germany the netherlands and the u.k. all say there is growing pressure on an already crisis hit benefits system our chief political 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 have 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 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 sponsor me to. and publicans like to get some cheap vote but if we want to

have at home i used to call me we want everyone's betterment in cuba then we should do more protectionism habeeb rahman 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 now the u.k. is also under pressure for its astaire and dr branded by trade unions a lost generation of growth it's put the country at odds with the 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 in 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 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 us born 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 and 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 more thoughts on economic heart failure in today's kaiser report as well as a tip for women on how your skirt may reflect the markets. and their age between seventeen and twenty three if their theme is that if the stock market the nikkei goes lower their skirts go lower towards the ground if the stock market goes higher they shorten their skirts that's their schtick so when the stock market the nikkei i recently went over thirteen thousand for the first time in a long time they went got rid of their skirts and wore shorts as you can see from this photo well the girls themselves say they didn't study economics they don't know anything about what is wrong what i mean that's the shock of the day that what i'm saying are masters of economics you get guys to do silly things like buy at inflated prices that's what it all mixes all the out there there are geniuses there she got a nobel prize. won

we'll be back with more news after a short break don't go away. yes super super super super super these are the most there's a billion u. u . u two who was already

forced to. welcome back 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 planning another trip to the middle east but the peace halfords are not stopping washington from spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the israeli military including funding the iron dome anti-missile shield are just jealous leader has been hearing from those who say that

a fan system just isn't worth it. the brains behind the iron dome is radie but the funding is mostly american born the americans. assistance it solves 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 are you. could pretty even obama has gotten in on the act his first stop at a recent trip to israel was to an iron dome factory 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 why do you justify something that has already cost the american taxpayer millions of dollars but for all its hifi 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 have the destroyed eighty four percent of the incoming orkut 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 there 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 propel it forward. and the iron dome rockets.

actually cost fifty thousand dollars. each bucket so shooting two rockets to intercept one. of the amounts makeshift bombs a makeshift rockets would cost. it's thousand times 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 in a mes need to be deterred especially gaza militants firing at israel's southern border city of stewart. even more. the difference this was the. can no defense is there were 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 paula see r.t. to live. by line for you today an inferno in eastern

russia a cargo train turns into a massive fireball one of fifty fuel tankers derailed forcing thousands of people to be backed away 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 envoy in libya after a u.s. official claims washington rejected desperate calls from its diplomats under fire from angry mobs. as necessity is the mother of invention nothing will stand in the way of some workers endeavor to make a living even at nature's best efforts are these medina caution of us has the story . it really seems like one collab you just look at the queue there are so many people there and amazingly there are not just standing there for a bus right there 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 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 right now you've got one ask evader loaded worth 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 with themselves anyway when this video first appeared on the internet it went viral was 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 well it's really hard to

argue with that watching this footage. at some other stories from 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 failing fairer education system riot units in santiago used tear gas and water cannon to push back the activists students have been venting their anger at the government over an affordable public education since twenty one. nine u.s. military bases can remain in afghanistan after troops pull out in two thousand and fourteen that's according to president karzai he added however that washington will have to provide security and economic guarantees first well this is the first such offer by karzai since the beginning of security transfer talks with america neighboring countries see the handover as a safety stress test for kabul and fear the possible spread of fundamentalism and

terror in the region. pakistan will pull out from the u.s. led war on terror if the front runner for the prime minister position is elected no washer if of the pakistan muslim league believes it's the only way to make the region peaceful a general election do you on the eleventh of may has been marred by insurgent attacks which have left more than one hundred people dead since april now greece is 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 manny communities across the country the outlook is far from rosy artist on bargain visit a factory where the workforce has taken control after almost two years of on paid wages. it looks just like another day at the 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 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 plant plants and shuttered windows sit next to the emmys new philosophy on the war and read self management in huge legal disputes the owning company fulcrum johnston claims to have no money and wants its front 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 movement 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 dead try the same this more the general picture i mean i don't think i'm going to see a 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 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 bottom party. and

we're tearing now to our main story for a few minutes russia celebrating the sixty eighth anniversary of the defeat of the nazi germany a spectacular parade to commemorate those soldiers who led the fires taking place in a very heart of the russian capital let's now have a look at some of the highlights.

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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 very secret societies at the same time or could he have been know what you 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. overall people think that spears the 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 rip tell him from the cosmos yeah you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. good afternoon to welcome to prime interest i'm harry and boring here in washington

d.c. here's the 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 pushing a new bill that would help prevent a u.s. debt default but president obama doesn't agree with the reasoning that any of the follow on promise is not based on debt repayments hurts us credibility he said american families do not get to choose which bills to pay and which ones not to pay but don't tell that to the two hundred thousands to teach defaulters the job not to pay their mortgages in two thousand and eight and who are approaching the three year anniversary of dodd bring in only a third of the bill has been implemented yesterday at a house financial services meeting lawmakers voted to actually go back several provisions one would allow banks to keep trading in the units that enjoy taxpayer protection on the f.b.i. feet we'll talk more.