by no means a really. spectacular regimen said military hardware parade in the heart of russia's biggest cities as the country commemorates sixty eight years since victory in world war two. in tonight's other headlines 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 to resume in the e.u. four member states take steps to fend off by grants from poorer countries.

if you just joined us this is r.t. my name is kevin knowing it's not just after eleven pm this ninth of may victory day here in russia. so into the last hour on this day that is the sixty eighth anniversary of victory over nazi germany and a day of remembrance and celebration in russia they rounded off a spectacular fireworks in the last hour or two across the capital is pretty those pictures from little bit earlier on the fireworks a traditional way to end victory day celebrations not only in moscow but also in a dozen other cities across russia in moscow will bring those fireworks in a bit of course the biggest displays the biggest celebrations one thousand shots

are being fired into the capital around fourteen locations the main ones being sparrow hills and victory park now those displays traditionally attract crowds of muscovites to move closer to the fireworks let's move on to say we're bringing the fireworks just a little bit later. now it's not just in moscow where the day has been marked thousands of people laid flowers. at the fallen soldiers memorial in the southern city of volgograd formerly known as stalingrad thousands of people lay flowers there as i say involve grad starting grad 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 urals to motorcyclists gathered for a symbolic ve day rally in a round off the day's events followed displays held in every major city in the country the biggest one here in the capital. in our you tube channel you can find more images from victory day celebrations occluded the full video of the parade in

moscow and r.t. dot com you also find the footage of what the veterans went through during the war and hear what they had to say. it was a sobering more coverage a bit late and i would china and japan already have brought in a territorial row over a group of islands in the east china sea a new dispute is flaring up beijing's calling for a view of the canal or 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 toko quickly hit back denouncing the paper as a political tool declaring his ownership of a canal was beyond doubt james corbett is the editor of a chip pan based news website he says china is a mr precious 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 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 making these types of claims it's just

a question of if and when this would to actually spill into a military confrontation what with the huge u.s. military presence in okinawa washington's interests are also at stake in the new territorial dispute between beijing and tokyo to call halibut is a columnist for foreign policy in focus he says china's move may be aimed 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 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 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 think as well there isn't any kind of drive a wedge to a certain extent between japan and the united states only good night state certainly wants a war with china which japanese are being a bit more aggressive on this the 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. come a bit later in the program the u.s. dishes out the dollars for israeli defense spending hundreds of millions on the anti missile and dome system despite criticism it's not as effective as it's being presented also to. these workers in northern greece on dismantling a failed factory others though are taking control of the plants to try and keep them going join me tom bazza nazi for a look inside the crisis in greece in just

a few minutes. is a growing spot within the european union of a so-called benefit tourism for member states are calling for a curb a welfare payments to e.u. citizens making claims outside the country austria germany the netherlands and the u.k. all say this growing pressure on an already crisis it benefits system of his political report. 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 a hundred billion pounds the budget for a national health service and only ten to twenty million pounds where.

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 even sponsor blood made. and publicans like to get some tivo but if we want to have a harmonized economy we want everyone's betterment. then we should want two words not protectionism have be brachman thank you very much for your comments well there you have it the free movement directive one of the pillars 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 luca's also to pressure for its austerity drive branded by trade unions as a lost generation of growth put it put the country roads to the international

monetary fund warnings from the belt thought he must be the national secretary the socialist workers party told me 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 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 he's 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 then more thoughts on economic heart failure in about fifteen minutes is one of the cause report as well as a tip for women on how your skirt may reflect the markets. the girlband and their age 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 their 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 what i mean that's the shock of the day i want to say they are masters of economics you get guys to do silly things like buy the nikkei at inflated prices that's what it all much is all about there they're geniuses they should get a nobel prize. and just say we're sorry we couldn't bring you will pick choose one about the victory day celebrations there's a bit of a technical problem but plenty of pictures we got half an hour's coverage online r.t. dot com if you want to check it out some great shots there from the day i'll be back shortly with more in pakistan's upcoming elections as well as news continues here on the international.

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the u.s. says it plans to push further to get israel and palestine to the negotiating table was set for state john kerry putting 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 that. missile shield and has been hearing for the people who say that defense system just isn't worth it of the day. 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 the point to 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. 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 why do you justify something that has already cost the american taxpayer millions of dollars but for all its hype behind 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 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 mass. 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 runs a makeshift rockets would cost as 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 once you know the money is being well spent but enemies need to be deterred

especially gaza militants firing at israel's southern border city of still a lot it's not very solution even more they develop their own drum to defend the war that was. the only failure the can not defend is they 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 r t tel aviv online for your reporting tonight about an inferno in eastern russia a cargo trains turned into a massive fireball after fifty fuel tankers do rail forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from the area but more and r.t. told also to we shed light from last year's deadly assault on the american envoy in libya after a u.s. official claims of washington rejected desperate calls from its diplomats under fire at the time from angry mobs. greece's fires 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 many communities across the country the outlook far from rosy artie's tom barr visited one factory with a workforce of taken 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 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 movement they guard the stock and the plant seeing it is their only way to start earning money again despite the owner's 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 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 i bet 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. electress and his coworkers didn't see themselves as revolutionaries instead they thought predicament is a result of plane full decisions forced on those on the front two floor and in the boardroom by a crisis that keeps breaking all the norms tom bottom ninety in world news no clashes between police and protesting students erupted in chile the only one hundred thousand people turning out there to demand a fairer education system right 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 eleven a u.s. military base could nine u.s. military bases rather remain in afghanistan after troops pull out in twenty fourteen according to president karzai but he added ever that washington will have to provide security and economic guarantees first is the first such offers since

the beginning of security transfer talks with america neighboring countries see the handover as a safety stress test for kabul and with 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 positions elected now as sharif of the pakistan muslim league believes is the only way to make the region peaceful a general election due on the eleventh of may has been marred by insurgent attacks which 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 after they shot one of his aids research analyst for abuse have told me earlier that the terror will rage on if he is. politicians have already accepted the fact that the moment you don't want to start leading up to the start of the insurgency with. a little aid of getting in and below us in buckets i think the most important aspect of all this would be. buying and planning out of me along

with the one i raised and make a long term man. look and while it is. true that i can go on from as i live on buckets on this is the only. the most influential i'm a little bugger motivation and pockets are not an openly state. yet against the whole. process of elections. democracy anybody can make sure that he did not make the buses successful to make a little i was against the process of politics within congress one of the ones that was the origin of. democracy on islam. when i mentioned but earlier on we got some great coverage of today's victory day celebrations in russia the sixty eighth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany

on our web site more half an hour's coverage their future streaming right now whenever you want to see it but it was a spectacular parade to commemorate those soldiers who led the fight that took place in the very heart of the russian capital earlier on today we want to show you a few those highlights right now so let's take a look. i

. i feel. that. the. great scenes and sounds that i want that head out seize cars are up for pulls no punches as if he continues to probe the banking world's doc aside itself the brick wall.

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 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 a kind of sucker who bought that they were magical mysterious invisible weapons of

mass destruction in iraq and you know what in all honesty they've 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 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 rip killing for the cosmos you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion.

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welcome to the kaiser report i max keiser 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 yeah those are the lyrics of make i call kick up japan which translates to the economic.