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he watching r.t. parades and military salutes are being held to honor those who contributed to victory in the second world war today just over two million people living in russia are veterans of the conflict artes and are a farmer was of the main military display on red square. it must be another huge precedent victory day right here all right so where you start to be ten tricks marching in unison across is like bonnie setting and it is a day that hides unified russia on the floor where soviet states visit they didn't used to celebrate the victory i think in the middle east one quick. break you. want to write your wall around three million that are still alive and it's a date there are somebody who took part in the very first big day right here in red square nineteen forty five after they returned from the front line victorious

during this parade we will see impressive display of russian military hardware tanks those massive list although he still put the list. below to take you to a place you victuals and i would be time saving technology money started with a message from president putin to price the courage to go to both the great country and to avoid those who insist the world must stay with the building codes to secure the promised security and to barbara boxer red square customs. and commemorations are not just in the capital thousands of people lay flowers of the fallen soldiers memorial in the southern city of volgograd formerly known as stalingrad the scene of a pivotal battle in the second world war and also one of the bloodiest in history there was an extraordinary commemoration in the year olds were motorcyclists gathered for a symbolic day rally as well as numerous concert veterans events artillery shelling

show being held in every major city in the country. hands on our you tube channel you can find more images from the victory day celebrations including the full video of the parade in moscow while an r.t. dot com you will also find a photo of what the veterans went through during the war and hear what they had to say. to other stories now here on our team with china and japan already embroiled in a territorial route over a group of islands in the east china sea and notice putus flaring up 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 laid claim to the archipelago in an

article written by academics tokyo quickly head back denouncing the paper as a political tool declaring its ownership. was beyond doubt james corbat who's the editor of a japan based news website says china has a ways 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 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 making these types of claims it's just a question of if and when this would actually spill into a military confrontation. now with a huge u.s. military presence in washington's interests are also at stake in the new territorial dispute between beijing and tokyo dr codd honan a columnist for a foreign policy in focus says china's move may be aimed 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 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 what they're basically saying to washington is don't push us don't come into our waters i do think as well there isn't any 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 the envelope just a little bit to see if the u.s. will back off a little bit on its support of g.p.m.

so far that hasn't happened but but castilla d. in the future. it was our team coming up later this hour the u.s. dishes out the dollars for israeli defense hundreds of millions of anti-missile iron dome system despite criticism that it's not as effective as it being presented and still ahead here in our team plus. these workers in northern greece are dismantling a failed fracturing others though are taking control of the plants to try and keep going to me tom watson on moxy for a look inside the crisis in greece in just a few minutes. now there is a growing spat with then the european union over so-called benefit tourism for 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 r.t.s.

bullyboy call 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 i didn't suggest otherwise we nor the two million. nationals came to this country and only thirteen thousand of them out of two million claimed job seeker's allowance we know that for the health service that we have got a 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

you dysfunctional. media and public and to get some cheap vote but if we want to have a home ised economy we want everyone's but to many immutable then we should want to words protectionism have the brahman thank you very much for your comments well there you have it the free movement directive one of the pit 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 well the u.k. is also under pressure of four it's a sturdy drive branded by trade unions as the last generation of growth it's put the country at odds with the international monetary fund with warnings that the belt tightening must be a 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 european central bank across the continent even though they are now turning 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 deficit 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 . and more thoughts and economic hard failure next hour in the report as well as a tip for women on how your skirt may reflect the markets. so and they're aged 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 shtick so when the stock market than recently went over thirteen thousand for the first time in a long time they went and got rid of their skirts or 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 oh 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 is all go

out there there are geniuses there you got a nobel prize. it was an article be back with more news in just a couple of minutes. well the british sign. some time right go to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our.

welcome back here with our team on 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 efforts 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 policy or has been hearing from those who say that a failed system just isn't worth it. the brains behind the iron dome. 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 endorsing them quickly to 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 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 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. 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 they aren't going 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 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. even more they develop their own defense though this was the. only failure 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 policy on tell of of while lying for you an inferno in is sure in russia a cargo train turns into a massive fireball when fifty fuel tankers to rail forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from the area are calm has war on the incident. we shared why 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 human nature's best efforts are to has the story. 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 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 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 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 but now take a look at some other stories from around the world and clashes between police and protesting students have a rupture in chile with nearly one hundred thousand people turning out to demand a fair education system drive units in santiago used tear gas water cannons to push back the activists students have been van seeing their anger at the government over on affordable public education since twenty eleven. no u.s. military bases can remain in afghanistan after troops pull out in two thousand and fourteen that's according to president karzai out of however that washington will have to provide security for konami guarantees for us this is the first such offer a 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 for the prime minister position is elected a washer ring of 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 the latest violence the son of former premier galani was kidnapped by gunmen at a rally for the shot one of his a. maurice's finance minister says the country's recession wracked economy should start recovering as soon as next year with the latest figures showing the country's jobless rate hitting record highs for many communities across the country the outlook is far from rosy r.t.

so barton visited the factory where they work for us taking control after almost two years of unpaid wages it looks just like another day 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 v m a 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 war in red self management in huge legal disputes the owning company fulcrum johnson claims to have no money and wants its factory back yet 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 for the 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 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 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 our son 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. at a turning out 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 who led the fire that has taken place in a very heart of the russian capital what's now have another look at the highlights .

and abby martin takes aim at the mainstream media and breaking a set in just a couple of minutes here on our. 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 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 you you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion.

if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less bad luck i got so many i mean. i know that i've seen the same thing really messed up. in the very same person with. the. worst we're going to. find out superman the radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone. i want to quote a good good you've never seen anything like this i'm telling. you guys i'm abby martin and this is going to set so this past weekend the national rifle association held its annual convention in houston and aside from.