the russian prime minister may have been looking to become with the fastest politician in the world for filling his need for speed in some petersburg where he took to the track go on four wheels he reached speeds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour in a formula one car after a full safety rundown from trained professionals this sudden interest in racing comes after russia's successful bid to hold an f one event after the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen a deal for a professional race in sochi was signed just three weeks ago in what would be a first for russia putin did joke afterwards saying that the small formula one race crap his style and that he's more at home in his soviet vintage car and i'll be back in a few moments that with the weekly headlines. it's

now here we're running down the top stories over the weekend. many georgians fear the russian paranoia could find them next accused espionage. obama called it a shellacking critics say it was just a good old meeting but something. public comes to victory in this week's u.s. midterm elections. go out for a tokyo's goodbye president. switch japan claims as its own moscow says it will keep investing in its remote. a well known investigative journalist is brutally beaten in the center of moscow police say his professional activity was most likely the cool. when next we hear from those who were liberated from the nazi death camp spy soviet troops in the spring of one nine hundred forty

five stay with us. pissed off. pitch. it was a spring like many of those in europe looks cherries and nightingales. but those who fold their way across the country liberating town after town and village after village remember it differently than one thousand. cherries and the women seem to enjoy the full. of people and sheep

stumped by nate and a russian officer came to the tonight he started hastily and he said you're a life v.a. but there was a dead bodies only before we found you next menashe the body the stimulus welcomed its liberators including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national ami's with bread and milk flowers and the woman braces. rushed to me and hugged me so hard. i was so happy when she finally like oh just a different day everybody shot from any kind of weapon signal pistols to machine don't see fit right into the air. to welcome the liberates us millions of civilians caught in concentration camps and occupied. some soldiers had missed their victory day but those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five women more realized and some still to this day.

the spring of one nine hundred forty four still a year to go before the end of the second world war the red army has freed soviet territory from nazi occupation and is now pushing across the combination mountains . through the snow bound passes on the saffir great in bucharest past the enter prague. by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation. of a check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tent as in it was called a town but it was actually more of a concentration camp. one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to see in their fate more often than not people were sent to auschwitz to

face execution meanwhile television children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. that. at our health sector. excuse me. nothing he read has the lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in a space and the s.s. men like to say they juice in a requiem for themselves thank you. this is how the secret music lessons were held in ted as in. these drawings belong to monsters friend of ace of a she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden or images paint a vivid picture of life in terror as it. had to be and this is where we washed the thought that there was no bathroom just a tub and water only cold water and even that it was spotty.

the young girls quarters were here they were kept separate from their parents in the daytime the girls worked in the fields in the evening they got together in a small room to read aloud to each other in a camp like this a book was a prized possession. a r b a five ofo knife. that was my transport number. you dish me shelf like these were in another great traction with paint for them when a bread teddy yes we can have bread for them we put things under the mattress ace if we needed to sniff them out there was no irony that the top bunk was the best place to sleep true most of the bucks for them but at least nothing felons you while you were asleep but on the level of bunk all kinds of stuff in the year whenever the want to secure two people slept in the space and terrorising but as many as ten people shared the same space it in auschwitz. says taro's

in was a resort compared to auschwitz martyr her brother and parents and her friend helga was sent to auschwitz in the autumn of one nine hundred forty four. while czech polish jewish or gypsy children were being murdered in gas chambers german children live normal lives going to school learning to draw can't sing the songs they sang were not charmed last. show of pneumonia mother sees a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to the war was know that it was published in nineteen thirty six one of the songs goes something like this one we want to march on moscow we want to be moscow or soon as we can or let the bolsheviks fuel all strength and let the wildrose has paved the way of hitler's men dating for russia with love. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly

anyone sang this song anymore. it was military chiefs had just won a touchdown teams to the red army goldstone offensive on the frontline from the cup a few mountains to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to be released from its nazi nightmare. then soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffered arabs the hardest did it history men were executed all set down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for their mosque so just older women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the boy. when he was nineteen years old he was sent here in one thousand four hundred four as

a political prisoner i told you i think that you have you had occasion to meet in the present and. even the best guide in the world would be clueless about conditions here compared to a man who survived the ordeal for two years each day. look to the black smoke billowing from the crime atory imp's chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his turn. just they were it out the list of people who was supposed to go where he went to the gas chambers. there were only thirteen of us left. and the man who went to the guest chamber was the one who had occupied the bunk below me. he had been a teacher before. poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber. i was fitz was operated like a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles even

human teeth everything was put to use toys were sent to german children german women it was sold weeks made from the hair of the dead. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone through tween the crematorium and the. men in this service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and the danger would be performance knowing full well that people were being burned in a crime a tory a myth. some might find it all the polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz its aim to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books added that. the editor tells me she has done it on purpose in order to attract more attention here you

know people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again the ground on the. penus if knew the stories characters personally it would golinski was polish amalia's him a town was a jewish woman the comic is called the romeo and juliet of auschwitz she was twenty six years old and he was twenty one. the fact they found love at the death factory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s. officer had given at would a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. a couple of you hear edwards was hanged in big canal. if he also wanted to hang. but she didn't let them. she cut her veins with a piece of irony that happened to be at hand. when an s.s.

man was about to put the noose around her neck she has him. own story is unique he was one of the first to arrive at auschwitz as inmate number one hundred twenty one and he was lucky enough to leave the camp alive on top of that each day he had to resist an excruciating temptation he was serving as the personal barber of the camp's commander rudolf hess for years people have wanted to just one question. they say ok you service has always had a razor in your hand you might have taken him by the head and cut his throat. to that i respond yes. they have been the result. they would have killed all my family in the camps people. these people

survived the concentration camps but they still don't understand how they made it through. teachers help to educating youngsters in secret to try and retain their dignity. and my friends helped by composing songs and making jokes but the humor was dark like this song written by children in terrorism. they see it in a national whole cold terrorising very with three quarters of the bread no one can win just to survive who can ask the more it stinks it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children have vowed to wear butterfly pins on their jackets and dresses for as long as they live this is because they never saw butterflies in the concentration camps instead just fleas and bed bugs and even today when martha goes to a restaurant she told us

a lot of food she has still not yet overcome her fear of hunger. but she certainly still has a sweet tooth. abbie please give me that. these are nice as if i know for sure i'll take these two and just one. of the fifteen thousand children who went through tara's in a gnome to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. this is just a parliament building in. them. sixty five years ago. it was the final target on the last major offensive from an army.

that's captured became the symbol on the fall of the fascists. and the victory over nazi germany. the fall of the. wealthy british stock. markets finance scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy. financial headline news to cause a report on our. belgrade in one hundred forty four if you see the sufi's capital the country had already in june three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been facing resisting

the nazi regime and its collaborators from the inside. the germans often send their best divisions to overpower the freedom fighters who were under the command of marshal tito who despite a lack of weapons or the most basic military technology. today the story of the resistance movement struggle is found in the open air. in central great. i don't know why no how do you get selfie entered world war two with a few tanks it had bought from france i mean you know this country was modernizing its weaponry at the time. the locals could see and hear telltale signs of approaching soviet tanks in the girl first they had a deafening noise then they saw smoke and dust rising above the horizon and finally they sold enormous monsters of tanks and his numbers and capability is well above any of the tanks that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply

stunned by the soviet tanks. in october one thousand forty four troops and the stuff resistance fighters liberated belgrade street off the street. at times to freedom. these veterans strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for their health but they enjoy it because it makes them feel through the streets where they used to fight the germans. are popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one thousand nine hundred. businesses changing names history shouldn't be changed. there are quite a few streets of belgrade bearing two names it so happens that one of the streets is officially known as southern. but people still call it the street to avoid

confusion the authorities decided to put up signs bearing both names. i hear a total eight thousand russians died in serbia. all the. troops were buried in a very large pit dug here between this monument this place that was two days after the liberation of belgrade. twenty four tanks went through the streets. with a body of a soviet tanks. there was a band playing at the front of the. veterans

say today's belgrade is very different from the city of nine hundred forty four. capital was rebuilt like many other european cities but no other city in eastern europe suffered. the polish capital to be razed to the ground those instructions were carried out with cruel determination. today it's hard to imagine that here where these beautiful streets restored castles now stand they used to be just broken people completely rebuilt their city stone by stone. is deserted i. the germans are driving people thought over the left bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and

it also after house buildings are being blown up and burnt all its ability plainly all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that had survived damn raids and blew them up in accordance with it's clear cut chad duell they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority not psy-ops experts prepared a special register just for this purpose. is an acquittal of the entire old castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five zero three and some small structural elements were left open and that. also separation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five the red army drove the occupiers out and entered warsaw but unlike elsewhere the

local population didn't line the streets to welcome soviet soldiers the polish capital was a deserted city only a day after the german retreat the first refugees began returning to what was left of their capital poland suffered much more than any other european country it was also a keyboard longer than others here the second world war started when the nazis attacked on september the first nine hundred thirty nine but many historians onto the war began much. to shift the way of not probably were fairly sure is nobody wants to discuss your morning about my dominik agreement for instance when it was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war god another old son. could be the. national socialist germany not swallowed up austria.

almost the thirteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight hitler triumphantly entered vienna but the un truce was not a civilized action it was a powerful military absorption. the war came to an end for many european towns in the spring of one thousand nine hundred five on april the thirteenth the germans surrendered in vienna the city of mozart and strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere destroy the traces of the and welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped waltz's in the town squares. the fighting continued in neighboring czechoslovakia all made a face people in prague staged an uprising they flew the national flag from windows and built barricades. radio prog called on the city's residents to stand up to the hardships of the wars last hours.

of that time slot a fourth of a was a seventeen year old. eastman said we were targeted even when we went out to pick up the wounded for example although we were wearing armbands with the red cross on them three living. when where you went to collect some metson for the wounded we found ourselves undefined to. there were many dead and wounded people that we had to. play with the final casualties of the war days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal generals were gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance gena knew that the red army was approaching. and he had no desire to surrender to soviet troops. there were a german troops in what to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right

here. they were mocked as hospital trains but in fact they were not but are now the germans had weapons with them. they were not going to surrender even though the war was over. they wanted to get to the americans at any cost they were scared of fresh troops. soviet troops entered prague and made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given. the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here the dreaded army soldiers who died liberating praga buried. the body now. i see you've laid flowers so that is great.

may i ask why. i first came here a long time ago a young nurse's beret here i don't even know your relatives now that she lives here so i simply put a flower on her grave and leave she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from. many of those who lie here live just long enough to hear the word victory by ranks and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind after the floors and the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get to. it's so nice to see your. former checker. sometimes. simply to.

help yourself. when you know these men let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia. as a keepsake. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them. neither do i you can see. they show each other newspaper cuttings children their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos they're in their prime. looking at pleasure. they were. victory day in such painstaking detail. today.

we were given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad here the guys are given milk. there are so fresh you could squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast. we stopped a fire a german takes. the earth of my country and it's stuck to my lips. some. of. their always happy to. each of them. the veterans insists that the young. this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity. by the yugoslav peoples. army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed their victorious shot of vodka about those who died liberating

cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the my to gail singing in the spring of one nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the line it's full on the tanks to see those who kissed the liberating soldiers. hundreds of songs in many languages have been dedicated to these war heroes they didn't live to see the piece of their memory lives on and use it. i'm. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.