this is all see our recap of the stories that we did post who calls georgia's a resto thirteen alleged russian spies a political sauce aimed at scoring political points back home to believe his mood was also met with mistrust. president obama's policies suffers a defeat in view us make ten elections but many say ordinary americans have really lost count as a big business played a big part in deciding the outcome of. a top level investigation is ordered by russian president dmitry medvedev after the brutal attempted murder of a leading investigative journalist in moscow police say that they called the sun newspaper reporter alec close links to his word. between moscow and talk here over president dmitry medvedev stole to russia's far east korea on its boise's it has eased as japan's ambassador returns to most unexpected after he was recalled while japan lays claim to they on ns russia says that ownership is beyond dispute

and promises more investment in the region. up next we'll hear from both who were liberated from nazi death camps by soviet troops in the spring of nineteen forty five. pissed off. pitch. in the spring like many others in europe looks cherries and nightingales. but those who fold their way across the continent liberating town after town and

village after village remember it differently than one thousand. cherries on the women seemed to be just full. of people and sheep stumped by nate and a russian officer came to the tonight he started a syrian he said you're a life v.a. but there was a dead bodies only before we found you next menashe the body. locum did separates us 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 guns you fit right into the air. welcome to liberate us millions of civilians died in concentration camps and occupied. some soldiers that missed the

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. years ago 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 the soldiers struggle through the snow bound passes on the saffir great in bucharest past vienna and 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 tatters in it was 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. people were sent to auschwitz to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. that they had 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 the 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 martha's friend. she slept in the adjacent bed elgar enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden or images paint a vivid picture of life in terrorism. at the b.b.

and this is where we washed the thought that there was no bathroom just a toy and water the only cold water and even that was spotty. the young girls quarters were here they were kept separate from their parents in the daytime goes 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 a r b a thug life over five the boy that was my transport number. give me a shelf like these were in not that great traction with paint for them in a brant taber yes we gave breath for them to put things under the mattress ace if we needed to sniff them out there was no i or in that area that don't bonk 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 lower bunk all kinds of stuff delany you 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. mother says taro's in was a result 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 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 this is a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to swallow is know that it was published in one thousand nine hundred thirty six one of the songs goes something like this one we want to march on moscow over we want to be moscow or

soon as we can let the bolsheviks feel all strength and let the wildrose is pave 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 launched an offensive on the frontline from the cop 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. i wouldn't suffer dabs the hardest it's history men were executed all set down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for their mouth so just old women were sent to factories or gas chambers.

he was the. one he was nineteen years old or so he was sent here in one thousand four hundred four as a. result i told you i think that you have you had occasion to meet the president will step aside and. that 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 in ski looked at the black smoke billowing from the crime of tory imp's chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term the axons just going to just they were read 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 plod cone through tween the crematorium and the. men in the 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 authority amid. 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 that. meanwhile the editor tells me she's done it on purpose in order to attract more attention 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 new the stories characters personally it would golinski was polish amalia's them a town was a jewish woman the comic is called the romeo and juliet of auschwitz she was twenty six years old names twenty one. the fact they found love of the death factory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s. officer had given it would a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. a couple of you here edward was hanged in.

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 the answer 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 i might 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. teaches help to educating youngsters in secret to try and retain their dignity. and friends helped by composing songs and making jokes but the humor was like this song written by children in terrorism. they see it in the 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 olders 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 and i think i know for sure i'll take these two and just one. of the fifteen thousand children who went through tara's in unknown to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. culture is the same of guardianship for you is your version of the model is the

taliban bad guys republican party has to make itself felt in washington how will this impact us foreign policy in the ongoing war in afghanistan. would be soon which brightened if you knew about someone from funniest impressions . whose phone starts on t.v. dot com. belgrade in one nine hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been fiercely 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 marshall tito who fought back bitterly despite a lack of weapons or the most basic military technology. today the story of the resistance movement struggle as found in the open them in a tribute c m in central about great. work i don't know why i know how you just elvia ended world war two with a few tanks it had bought from france when your best country was modernizing its weaponry at the time. see and hear telltale signs of approaching soviet tanks girl first they had a deafening noise then they saw smoke and dust rising above the horizon finally they saw the enormous monsters of tanks is numbers and capabilities well above any of the tanks that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned by the soviet tanks. forty four.

troops and resistance fighters liberated belgrade street to street. attack 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. eight changed. have no business 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. people still read the street to avoid confusion

the authorities decided to put up signs bearing both names. i hear a total of 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. there was a band playing at the front of the. board .

oh most. veterans say today's belgrade is very different from the city of nine hundred forty four. after the capital was rebuilt like many other european cities but no other city in eastern europe suffered as much as. the polish capital was 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 squares and restored castles now stand they used to be just broken people completely rebuilt their city stone by stone. if. he's deserted the germans are driving. bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and her house buildings are being blown up and burnt all. the c.d.'s being raised to the ground.

trees of all buildings that had survived and blew them up in accordance with it's clear. they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority. prepared a special register just for this purpose. the entire all the castle was in ruins. that's the gist you nineteen forty five could only dream of three men in some small structural elements who are left and that. also is liberation 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 it had not brother effect or is nobody wants to discuss such a 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 alternative date could be the and slows when a national socialist germany not swallowed up austria update. on march the thirteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight hitler triumphantly

entered vienna but the entrance was not as civilised 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 german surrendered in vienna the city of mozart and strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere destroyed traces of the anschluss welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped. 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. was a seventeen year old. eastman so 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. when the un to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves undefined. and 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 general 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 german troops in want to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right here. they

were mocked his 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 and there was scant a fresh troops. soviet troops entered prague made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial marcus. like this hand raised to give an account of the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here the dred army soldiers who died liberating praga buried. in. the sea you've laid flowers this great.

well. i first came here a long time ago a young nurses baret here i don't even know your relatives not that she lives here i simply put a flower on her grave and leave she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from how. many of those who lie here live just long enough to hear the word victory their ranks and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind after the wars and the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. there it's so nice to see your. former chacon soviet scientists meet up sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to talk. i'm going to share her help yourself and i'll tell you please join in.

where you know these men are let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionaries as a keepsake. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know. neither do i you can see i've only got one on and. they show each other newspaper cuttings photos of their children their grandchildren and of course themselves. in these photos they're in their prime. looking at pleasure in the years of the. days of the victory day in such painstaking detail. yesterday. we were given good food just imagine

a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad here the guys are given milk. bones are so fresh you can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast. we stopped a fire a german takes. just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. some. of. them there always happy to. each of them. the veterans insists that the young must. this medal is for valor this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity. by the yugoslav people's army. veterans tell young people of the stories of those who missed victorious. liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the

nightingale singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't walk on the tanks. the liberation soldiers. hundreds of songs in many languages have been dedicated to those they didn't live to see the piece of their memory lives on in. this.

in some petersburg ots available in grown to tell europe grand hotel emerald marco polo full of the club school who turned circles photo olympic gold circus or toll. corinthian if ski pundits say a strong kempinski good twenty two year old kid will come on. now so turn. and look at the week's top stories and also who calls the police arrest of thirteen alleged russian spies a groundless political fost aimed at scoring political points who.