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. for member states to take steps to fan off migrants from poorer countries.

at a six pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie and it's mixer day in russia. a day of remembrance and celebration as russia marks the sixty eighth anniversary of victory over a nazi germany salutes and the raids 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 parties and a farmer of was of the main military displayed on bret's where. you press it

victory day right here right where it started with ten. in unison crosses my setting and it is a day that has unified russia on the full of soviet states is a day that is used to celebrate the victory i went into the battle to. break. the. law to right field wall around saying we are still a long and it's a date there are some that even took part in the very first day right here in red square ninety four to five after they returned from the front line victorious during this her. impressive display of russian military hardware types those massive missile will also. likely load jews with plates which would be hard saving technology started with

a message from president putin to price the courage of those involved in the great council to pull those who insist the world must stay with the building codes to secure the common security interests but also a red square. well the third day is said to be rattled off with. spectacular fireworks display across the capital and we'll be bringing you live pictures of that starting at six pm g.m.t. so don't miss that but commemorations are not just in moscow as thousands of people lay flowers of the fallen soldiers memorial in the southern city of volgograd former known as stalingrad the scene of a pivotal battle in the second world war and also one of the bloodiest in history while there was an extraordinary commemoration in the world motorcyclists gathered for a symbolic day rally as well as numerous concerts and veterans of bands are tillery salutes are being held in every major city in the country.

and in our you tube channel you can find more images from the victory day celebrations including the full video of the parade in moscow while on r.t. dot com you also find the food edge of what the veterans went through during the war and hear what they have to say. now to other stories with china and japan already embroiled in a territorial rao over a group of islands in the east china sea a new dispute is flaring up beijing is calling for a review of the occupy our 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 laid claim to the archipelago in an article written by academics tokyo quickly hit back denouncing the paper as a political tool declaring its ownership of akiyama was beyond doubt james corbett

who's 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 me back in the eighteenth seventy's but it's 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 making these types of claims it's just a question of if and when this would actually spill into a military confrontation. well with a huge a u.s. military presence in aka now washington's interests are also at stake in the new territorial dispute between beijing and tokyo dr cataldie and a columnist for foreign policy in focus says china's move may be a 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 you what they see is that the united states has now moved sixty percent or is in the process of moving sixty percent of their armed 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 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 to washington is don't push us don't come into our waters i do think as well there is an effort to kind of drive a wedge to a certain extent between japan and the united states only good night states certainly want to war with china the japanese are being a bit more aggressive on this i think to trainees are pushing the 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. it wasn't aren't you coming to you live from moscow and coming up later in the program 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 all that still ahead here in r t plus. these workers in northern greece are dismantling a failed treat others though are taking control of their plans to try and keep going join me. for a look inside the crisis in greece in just a few minutes. well there's a growing spat between within the european union over the so-called benefit tourism for member states are calling for curbs 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 are just bully boy go 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 . 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 this is a 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 response. and publicans to get some key vote but if we want to have a home ised economy we want everyone's bottom and then we should walk towards

protectionism habeeb raman thank you very much for your comments while 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 and 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. girlband between seventeen and twenty three 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 short in their skirts that's their stick 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 wait a minute that's the shock of the day 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 much is all about there they're geniuses there's you got a nobel prize. and breaking news just in here on r t a blast is heavily damaged abbas and the north of moscow well witnesses say the roof was partially torn to from the vehicle all the explosion to place near a metro station so far there's no information of casualties and we are keeping our want to ring the situation keeping our eyes closely on the wires there so we'll be bringing you more details on this as we get it here on our team and i'll be back with more news shortly.

i think going down of the song and good morning we will remember that we will be very. welcome back you're watching our team and breaking news this hour a blast have only damaged a bus in the north of the russian capital what witnesses are saying at this point of the roof was partially torn from the vehicle the explosion took place near a metro station there's no information of the casualties so far this is developing story here on r.t. and we'll be bringing you more on this as we get it. meantime though let's take a look at other stories that we're following for you today the u.s. says it plans to push further or 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 afterwards are not stopping washington from spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the israeli military including funding the anti-missile shield our disposal here 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 and. endorse them completely 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 how 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 widely 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 orchids. 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 masts 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 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 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 will develop 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 some of the very solution even more they develop their own them to defend their 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 pulis the ati tell of of what greece as finance minister says the country's recession rock economy should start a recovery as soon as next year where the latest figures showing the country's jobless rate hitting record highs for a manic communities across the country the outlook is far from rosy artist and martin visited a factory aware of the work for us taking control after almost two years of unpaid wages. it looks just like another day at the vo 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 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 pot plants and shuttered windows sit next to the emmys new philosophy on the wall and read 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 he could be mother 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 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 fucked upness 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 of the myself and that if 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. a letter from his coworkers don't see themselves as revolutionaries instead their 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 marty. and back now to our developing story here on r t a blast has heavily damaged a bus in the north of moscow where this is at this point say that the roof was partially torn from the vehicle the explosion took place near a matter of station apparently there is no information so far of the casualties but

we know at this point that one person is wanted well we'll bring you more on this as we get it. now coming up here on our team east meets west in a war time victory technology status. 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 could 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 spears the theories are matter of belief but in actuality 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 rep to lead from the cosmos you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion.

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 me up as tributaries their clad in servant military uniform from the days of world war two. in the summer of nine hundred forty one on the sort of deal the crossing the a small landscape 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. moscow's military history club called the division has traveled here to honor the memory of full in 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 england. last. in the village of. the old hopf surrounded by a huge park today it attracts collectors of military vehicles and others with an interest in reenacting great battles of the past century the thirtieth war and peace is about to take place. since the beginning of summer has turned the festival venue into a swamp. military enthusiasm began arriving long before the beginning of the show

for them not even bad weather can overshadow the event they've been waiting a whole year for one after another festivals open up offering everything from uniform buttons to tanks. number two over. gas station one hundred. is a third of a tank left do you copy i copy. the next four wheeler improve my spine. for that i was a physician a surgeon suddenly i was bedridden. six months i started walking slowly recovering . was going to do when my friend told me he restored an old soviet. also had a sixty nine jeep it was me here stored it i did it in a. uniform to match started.

on the next day in the rain passes by the campground and. historical reflectors from a soviet afghan war paratroopers club keenly digging away. in accordance with military protocol the soldiers are preparing shelters in case of an enemy attack the most amazing thing is not one of these soldiers speak russian these people hail from belgium britain sweden france and holland. well we're digging a trench and we're trying to dig a trench we're doing it by hand so. see how far we get an attorney for going to finish it reenacting soviet union and afghanistan because well. because no one else was there were basically it's nothing political over enough for communism or something it's just out of interest it was quite. interesting to research also quite hard. to

convoy left moscow with four heavily loaded cars with trailers to cross seven european countries. and there's little time for rest. we had a pretty interesting trip to the war history show. to my friends. be friends with fascists. but there is no ideology in it whatsoever but there's no difference between those dressed as the red army was. you can uniforms only serve to you know it is very nice when you pass a german camp in a soviet uniform and the germans stand to greet you. at the camp the festival goers are doing the chores and preparing equipment despite

grim conditions many have come here together with their families trying to involve those relatives and friends in the. many years ago british police officer neil cullen. an old soviet t. thirty four tank. and then became a driver. living in. england. so. i think. tanks. to test.

driving skills test drive. his family. practice. together with his crew members. just. trying to demonstrate equipment and weapons. of the russian trip. only a few stops in the most important places connected with. one of them is the best fortress on the polish border. and plan to conquer it in the first hours of the war. garrison demonstrated outstanding bravery and resilience. having found themselves behind the advancing german troops to defend. most.