we bow to their steadfastness and self—sacrifice. the whole of russia is with you. russia believes in you and is concerned by you and your veterans and feels spiritual compassion for you and your exploits. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, was at the parade in red sqaure. well, as you can see, the big victory day parade has got under way here in the centre of moscow. thousands of military personnel, more than 9,000 people, marching across red square in the snow. i say big parade, but this parade is actually not quite as big as it has been in previous years, before russia's invasion of ukraine. now, in russia, under vladimir putin, victory day has become pretty much the main secular national holiday. a day to remember the soviet defeat of nazi germany, but also the enormous cost of victory, the 27 million soviet citizens who were killed in what's referred to here as the great patriotic war.

so, here comes the hardware. the victory day parade for russia is an opportunity to project russian power. now, i mentioned the second world war. russia today isn'tjust remembering the past. it's weaponising it to try to justify the present. so the authorities want the russian public to view the war in ukraine very much as a continuation of the second world war. they want russians to believe that, once again, external forces are trying to destroy russia — nazi germany then, ukraine and the west today. while in reality, two years ago, it was russia that attacked ukraine, launching a full—scale invasion of its neighbour. from vladimir putin today, a warning to the west. translation: russia will do everything to avoid _ a global confrontation. but, at the same time, we will not allow anyone to threaten us. our strategic forces

are always on combat alert. so a military flypast and the russian tricolour in the sky brings this parade to an end. but there is no end in sight to the war in ukraine, nor to the tension between russia and the west. steve rosenberg fair in moscow. now to the events in the middle east. israel's far—right interior minister has condemned president biden�*s decision not to supply us munitions that could be used in a major israeli assault on the city of rafah. itamar ben—gvir wrote on x, "hamas loves biden." the british foreign secretary, david cameron, says the uk is opposed to a military operation in rafah, but is unlikely to follow america in delaying arms sales to israel. well earlier, i spoke to feda'a murjan —

her eight—year—old daughter, habiba, was killed in an israeli air strike last october at their home in gaza city. the family has now fled via rafah and has now made it to cairo. actually, no words can describe what is happening there in this littlest part of the world. it is beyond imagination. badness, actually. in the first week of war, i was sitting with my daughter, my son and my husband in our house and i was preparing dinnerfor all husband in our house and i was preparing dinner for all of us. husband in our house and i was preparing dinnerfor all of us. and then suddenly we were exposed to, our neighbourhood was exposed to an air strike, our neighbourhood was exposed to an airstrike, israeli our neighbourhood was exposed to an air strike, israeli air strike. our neighbourhood was exposed to an airstrike, israeli airstrike. it destroyed nearly four houses and my little girl, habiba, was killed, and me and my husband and my son, 0mar, also was injured. and then we started a journey of suffering. we were displaced four times. first we were displaced four times. first we were displaced four times. first we were displaced to the middle area

and then the area where we were displaced to was attacked and then we moved to rafah in the south of gaza. and then recently, when they started threatening rafah, that the israeli army will start to invade rafah, so i took the decision, know me and my husband took the decision to provide our son with greater safety and we took the decision to come to cairo. so it is for the sake of our son... come to cairo. so it is for the sake of ourson... it come to cairo. so it is for the sake of our son... it was our only choice because after the invasion of rafah, where to go? we have no place to go. 0ur where to go? we have no place to go. our home was completely destroyed. and also my family home, my sisters, my brothers, my father's homes were completely destroyed. we have no place to go, so our only choice to provide our son with safety was to come to cairo. we provide our son with safety was to come to (aim-—

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obviously repeating the us line that do not want, they do not want israel to go into rafah. and alsojust one other line that the israeli delegation towards the cia director, according to reuters, have left cairo now, after the latest round of talks arranging a truce and to release hostages in gaza, that is according to egyptian security and also reported by reuters there. just an update on the attempts obviously ljy an update on the attempts obviously by many sides to resolve this. here in the uk... here in the uk, in merseyside, a brutal organised crime group has been taken down by its own text messages. more than 30 major criminals have been jailed after £1 million worth of cocaine was stolen from a violent organised crime group. the crime bosses wanted to murder the men they thought were responsible, but police had cracked their encrypted phone app and could see what they were planning. bronagh munro reports. three masked men arrive outside

a drugs stash house in liverpool. a fourth is pretending to deliver a parcel. four minutes later, they escape with the huyton firm's cocaine. police. two men in the house has been attacked with a machete and an axe. what injuries have you got, mate? sit yourself down. are you all right there, mate? yeah. a trail of blood leads to a manhole cover where the cocaine was hidden. are you in dispute with anyone? have you upset anyone lately, or has anyone got a bit of beef with you? any information is better than nothing. no one from the huyton firm talks, but this time the police have a secret weapon. the encryption system the criminals use, called encrochat, has been cracked. detectives can see the messages they are sending each other. the grip they are talking about is the stolen cocaine.

30 kilos are gone. that's £1 million worth. it's clear from the messages i've seen that this is a very effective criminal business, industrial scale trafficking of drugs, tentacles across the uk and internationally and obviously willing to resort to severe violence. it's a place then for me in the upper tiers of organised crime in the uk. crime boss vincent coggins thinks he's identified some of the cocaine robbers and he wants revenge. his enforcer, paul woodford, asks how many he wants killed. coggins replies, "four dead men walking." they do business with violence. it is a world where a bullet in the head isjust literally another way of doing business and that is the brutality of it.

it's a world where there are no laws other than essentially what you could call the laws of the jungle. vincent coggins and paul woodford were arrested before they could carry out their threats. coggins has beenjailed for 28 years for drug trafficking and blackmail. woodford got 2a years and six months. in total, more than 30 serious criminals linked to the cocaine heist has been convicted. they've been sentenced to over 350 years. bronagh munro, bbc news. and you can see more on that story on panorama's the crime bosses who terrorised a city on bbc iplayer this evening. we are going to leave you with pictures now from brazil, which has experienced terrible flooding this week. these are the latest pictures,

you can see there are a horse stranded on a rooftop in a flooded area in the state of rio grande do sul. 0n area in the state of rio grande do sul. on wednesday rescuers were trying to reach it using a helicopter, but we know more than 650,000 people have been displaced ljy 650,000 people have been displaced by those floods in brazil. we are catching up now with the weather here. hello there. temperatures have been creeping up day by day. temperatures have been creeping up day by day. high pressure has brought plenty of sunshine around, but a weather front launching across northern scotland has brought thicker cloud here, some spots of rain and thursday was another grey day here with outbreaks of rain. now, as we move through tonight, it does look like that weather front will eventually move northwards, become confined to the northern isles for a while through the night before it clears away. it becomes drier here, but a dry night to come for most areas. bit of mist and fog here and there, temperatures ranging from 9—12 degrees. friday, then, our area of high pressure continues to bring a lot of fine and settled weather. we lose that weather front from northern scotland, so, apart from a bit of early cloud,

some mist and fog, most places should have a fine dry day. widespread sunshine, particularly for england and wales, into northern ireland, central and southern scotland, but some sunshine into the highlands as well. that'll lift temperatures up to 22 degrees, perhaps, in aberdeen. 23—24, perhaps, in the warmest spots in england and wales. through friday night, it looks like we'll see mist and fog returning in places. a bit of low cloud, sea fog pushing into eastern england, east anglia and the south—east. that could creep a little bit further westwards into the midlands first thing on saturday. but again, those temperatures, 9—12 degrees. now for the weekend. it does stay warm. there will be some good spells of sunshine around, but the shower risk will start to increase, particularly as we head into sunday. that's because we've got a weather front and low pressure developing, pushing towards our shores, particularly by sunday. and into next week, it'll be a lot more unsettled than we've had this week. saturday, though, another warm day to come, a bit of early mist and fog and some low cloud

across eastern england. 0therwise, plenty of sunshine, though we could see a few heavy showers develop across the high ground of northern england, central and southern scotland into the afternoon. that could be thundery as well. but a warm day to come, quite humid too, the low— to mid— 20s quite widely. sunday probably the warmest day of the week across southern areas. it could be up to 26 degrees, plenty of sunshine. but then the showers and thunderstorms could become a bit more widespread through the afternoon. and the temperatures may be coming down a little bit across western areas as the clouds build up in the sky. then as we head into next week low pressure takes over, it will become a lot more unsettled, showers or longer spells of rain at times. but there will still be a little bit of sunshine too, take care.

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the white house has insisted it continues to back israel in its fight with hamas in gaza. the us national security council spokesmanjohn kirby says washington wants to help israel target hamas leaders and stand up an alternative government in gaza. he was speaking after president biden paused the supply of some us munitions to israel amid fears over a major israeli assault on the city of rafah. one of israel's far—right ministers condemned the decision saying it showed �*hamas loves biden�*. in the last few minutes, we've heard the israeli delegation as well as the cia director william burns have left cairo after the latest round of talks aimed at reaching a truce. yolande knell reports from jerusalem. let's speak to our security correspondent frank gardener, injerusalem.