russian mob's victory day as the grand parade prepares to kick off in the capital we look back at some of the historic battles of the second world war and the modern day efforts to make sure they are not forgotten. as nato stages new attacks against covert office forces in libya the leaders of the coalition of finding the country's cost increasingly hard to bear plus. iraqi people that wanted us out and we stayed there for their own good that's nothing. and democratic in a job america's actions in the middle east are distorted by its continued presence in iraq despite promises over through.

the area watching our t.v. broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program. is marking victory day sixty six years since nazi germany was defeated in world war two but events of commemoration and celebration will be taking place across the country including a traditional ground military parade on red square you can watch it all unfold here on our team real special coverage throughout the day. of the war claimed the lives of around twenty seven million russians leaving a lasting scar across the entire country. reports now from the colluder region. and killed thousands. include go one hundred and fifty kilometers southwest of most

k the city an important strategic point in the german forces attempts to conquer most in the great patriotic war and as he remembers who fought and died in the war we remember also the devastating number of civilians he's suffered at the hands of german occupying forces and the sometimes for right efforts to fight back against the enemy. it was hell i felt like an end of the world was on fire exploding all round trees were on fire when your house was burning and the crushing noise was terrible people running around. their building as down hard for me to look back at the time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded miller witnessed firsthand nazi preach against civilians because of the recorded i remember the retail homes for

every last bit the could find his family he had someone who are the judge comes to reship. the barber also jurisdiction decree nazi soldiers were exempted from prosecution they committed a crime against the safety of people and were encouraged in the murders of the jewish and slavic civilians it is war of annihilation and his instructions based on racial ideology carried out with devastating severity mongst the archives here. are thousands of documents the tailings some of the atrocities carried out by german occupiers against the citizens we've read some hiring accounts from children whose parents have been killed we also found an advertisement that went up in the city the german soldier said that they think that telephone lines were cut by one of the citizens and for that twenty people are going to be killed now they wouldn't

have known he was guilty but it says that the person have anything so let's try it again the punishment would be even worse. during the occupation thousands of children were rounded up like cattle sent west to work in the german labor camps. we were not told by aliens just by our numbers each pair of course surrounded with barbed wire with great yellow sand around it there were throats wounds in the sand the children would reach out for those nice looking foolish and the electrocuted there were also they can't load from the children she was for the treatment of german officers nazi propaganda films praised the friendship showing locals and germans working hand in hand those who were there to witness the reality respond incredulously. together women and children from nearby villages they were pushed into certain fire a lot of people died that way it in response to the terror many citizens took up

arms and engaged in guerrilla warfare against the invaders beyond the limits of the german advance say gets its sins nato allies to conform extraordinary efforts to drive out the enemy. i remember it's clear isn't it was yesterday when our troopers and to the city some were just eighteen nineteen year old boys wearing white from white camouflage it was cooled minus forty degrees and they walked on christmas you know with the chiefs and they were smiling and looking like angels. not secret hallett's he would eventually preach self-defeating creating an attitude of hatred and stubborn resistance among the conquered people a young girl shot behind german lines writes to her father in the red army their blood thirsty monsters you can't even call them human killed them part killed and sarah r.t.

police region. was one of the bloodiest battles in the history of humankind stalingrad remains. great courage great sacrifice soldiers died fighting the nazis combatant people who are trying to make sure that sacrifice is never forgotten. today the city is called volgograd but sixty eight years ago it was called starling grass and it was the scene of one of the largest battles in military history and even today its left its mark spoke physical and spiritual on the city here and its population and it's that theme that i've been examining in my report. dragged back from the past this old soviet light tankers lay under the mud for sixty eight years it proved too weak to stop the nazi invaders reaching the city of stunning growth. drivers called it a mass grave its own militia often it could be pierced by machine gun bullets it

was part of the soviet armies which biota nine hundred forty two but desperately trying to protect stalin city from a vast axis offensive the author was an eighteen year old cadet as the germans closed in he was read stalin's infamous order not to retreat one step back whatever the cost. in the first combat we were bombs in our offices and were killed and that was our baptism of fire. over the next six months the bomb and determination of soviet soldiers saved the city and trapped the invading germans and encirclement which destroyed hitler's biggest army since that great victory not just changed stalin grad changed its name to volgograd as soviet union itself collapsed and those who remember the battle and now all. but when it comes to monuments all god made sure the heroism of the moment was set in stone. were going up you have to be careful here this is the most dangerous part of us we could be

inside a military bunker but metal and concrete certainly make it look like one issue but we emerged deal with the city of volgograd thought at least we just pop down to the head of the city's iconic mother russia statue in some ways the statue is a metaphor for the war itself. a rough and ready construction as practical as the soviet soldiers who fought here a strength as defiant as the soviet army clung to the banks of the volga and her size as vast as the black hole that raged around here for many more in mind as a pound which for a lot less stylized and a lot more pleasant these soldiers went very solemn ceremony a lie where they fell unseen to. these teams of volunteers have been researching and excavating the battle site for years but also. a close relative so soldiers are getting very old themselves the documents we find will decompose we don't pick them

up the quicker we do without the better for both the historians and the soldiers relatives. they want to try and recall the human stories of the stalingrad battle which claimed as many as two million lives many generals say the war isn't over until the last body is the that's the moto of every church group so they reckon there are enough bullets and bones left for even his grandchildren to find the terror and tragedy of these ultimate sacrifice has yet to be revealed this miracle is one of the more concrete reminders of what happened here sixty eight years ago what they really digging up isn't just metal and gunpowder it's memories tom watson r.t. the graduation. rather perception of the soviet contribution to world war two differs in russia so that's a western conference interview coming up later professor geoffrey robinson discusses how much of what happened is misunderstood. but i think probably in the case of the united states this is probably more ignorant the general picture of the

war than there is another country so story yet all of the other countries in the united states than elsewhere not doesn't just in the world and this very complex in britain the as you say the holy war does a show of war presenting it as a it was the americans that took one of them out having said that of course united states to play a very important role in the world was the sort of unions nineteen support for main supply. i would say i would people say that they should recognize our country's roles as well i think of course the russian contribution the sort of contradiction . well the picture you over hitler's germany is remembered so well think about. emmett's i met one british man who might not see bones and a lost child. a trip down memory lane for seventy nine year old james frothy it was the street where he was born and where his family lived until war

breakouts frightened and forced to evacuate to the countryside. when his life with changed forever you were sent to school every morning with things you are proud to try with. enough sandwiches and things to last you for the day. that was i don't need to get to school. today. because i am sure one day one guy i didn't say that we went to school. different started. with hundreds of others including a sister and brother he walked from school to his local station their parents weren't allowed to walk with them parents were issued with a list of the things that their children could take with them when they were

evacuated they all had a little suitcase like this and in it they were only allowed to put a spare pair of shoes for inside the house soon toiletries a toothbrush comb a handkerchief and a towel they also had to take their own cutlery and a plate and a mug with them they also took their can charm. and of course a change of underwear and with a label tied around their neck and the because it's gas mask they made their journey into the unknown neither they nor their parents knew where they were going they had a stamped postcard to send when they got there to let their parents know they were safe but james that place was a village of around two thousand people near the south coast here and in other reception areas villagers were legally required to take the children in although some more thought from welcoming. knocked on the door and the woman outside.

turned up yet another fierce woman. as we try to go out and. back. door a not the second time. she. put his foot in a door such and couldn't charlie push. said you've got to take a really rad race car driver it was an unhappy but short lived placement and start living comfortably here in what was then a sweet shop his four year is actuation became a positive experience but that wasn't the case for everyone some of these people were not very nice to these children some of them had their own agenda which is just another person to work the farm or work. i want to work in the bakery as some of these people were very cruel according to some of the evacuees often it was such a wrench that the children couldn't stand it many went home to london and accounted

for one in every ten deaths during the play its schools were closed and they ran wild those who stayed were terribly homesick but when they did get home they felt there was little to come back for most evacuees if they really are. sleep well a separate. side i should leave i was. probably back to work for a look at the gaps where bombs fall in and houses. but there are few out how am i was how. but after about four days. james finished school in london but never settled after the war he moved back to pull as soon as he could evacuation changed not only the lives of the children but also the communities they went to hit in pull evacuees erected

a plaque in the local church thanking the villages for taking them in it did tear families apart but it also brought people who would never ordinarily have met steve gather in a city poverty drug shoulders with rural affluence and vice versa and the school which from the time still remains today in the memories of those given kindness and shelter far from home in war time lure emmett's r.t.e. pull west sussex county will be reports from the victory day celebrations all day and bring forth and died in world war two of course stay with us for full coverage of the victory parade for red square that destined to last. to other news now in libya and they tell you jets have attacked a government weapons that are just southwest of the terminal tripoli came as forces

the world watched a wave of attacks on rebel held areas across the country fierce fighting has been reported in the city of misrata the last rebel stronghold in the western part of the country a position there says it's critical no one can supply and warns of an imminent humanitarian crisis but despite almost daily bombing runs for the jets when unable to break the awful siege on the port city and there's a lot since then it reports some nato nations are finding it harder to justify the war. for those who joined the fight in libya the cost of conflict is quickly taking off their marks one of just six nato members conducting air strikes to enforce the no fly zone it six f. sixteen fighter planes are racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month granted to creating an arm but i was considering their work and we aren't that many nation that is using fighter planes. let's take us for example they're

using drones they have had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any fighter planes involved and that means that the british air france and also the danged have actually had so many sources that we were perhaps anticipating when we started your operation but then mark drugs one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first four nights of a campaign each one costs on average fifty thousand dollars on top of that is one point six million a month the station the jets in sicily along with one hundred thirty personnel at this rate denmark's annual cost will be one hundred seventeen million dollars four percent of its defense budget the danish air force refuses to comment on money saying it's too political a topic that parliament says it can afford it nevertheless it's disappointed others on putting their money where their mouth eats. well i think there is quite

a few people who are excited as a partner about your balanced ration because. president obama has said that he wants to promote you know human rights and there is a violation of human rights in libya right now these people have come to the american embassy to show their opposition to the war it's not just the conflict they're protesting against it's also denmark's willingness to follow the u.s. it's a battle. they do this because. i don't know some people say they have an inferiority complex and they follow big daddy and now the united states and france wants this war against gadhafi so they go along her junior partner the danish parliament was unanimous in backing a bombing campaign in libya the first time ever only literally action since then cracks have appeared with the far left red green alliance withdrawing its support it says nato has gone beyond its mandate by taking sides in

a civil war now the party fears denmark could follow suit again with a ground offensive looming but i think it's likely because the prime minister wants to be a strong man is precedes this upcoming election. and also that it's the policy of the current government to be as close to the us as possible at the moment the government's against sending ground forces six f. sixteen s are already costing the same as denmark's troop deployment in afghanistan and they've been there for ten years but as afghanistan kosovo and iran who showed up when push comes to shove the countries more than willing to join america whatever the cost other bennett artsy copenhagen. publicly u.s. backing for the pro-democracy uprising in the middle east consists of a statement saying that people must determine their own future behind the scenes

that it's widely acknowledged there's a lot more interference but as a report now reports washington's desire to promote its ideology sometimes leads to unexpected results. she is the country clothed in stars and stripes success arised with a nobel peace prize winning president high in nearing the big d. around the world let us be clear the united states of america stands with the people of tunisia and supports the democratic aspirations of all people. to egypt to libya. washington has said the will of people must determine the fate of their country. but in iraq where america claims to be transplanting democracy a renewed sense of nationalism has united thousands against the us we're not supporting the democratic aspirations of people in iraq we haven't been for this for eight years now i mean the iraqi people have wanted us out and we've stayed

there for their own good that's not democracy. anger over your life that he can take back. to work you put upon your kids in two thousand eight hundred get an agreement promising all american troops would withdraw from iraq by the end of this here in today's more peaceful iraq critics say the pentagon is stepping up pressure to overstay its welcome and cement its percent the pentagon is pushing for a military presence after the summer two thousand and eleven around twenty two thousand troops while the white house is talking about ten thousand troops so actually there is an agreement there is a tacit agreement that the u.s. will stay in iraq forty seven thousand u.s. troops still remain in iraq where america's embassy looms large and control over iraq's oil sector is perceived to be over the trophy price in this eight year war at the very least in order to deny china or any of their perceived intentional

rivals control of valuable resources the idea. ingrained in the thinking of olds these new york strategists in washington d.c. who are still very much in our it is that we must control in the middle east the close that's where the power comes from experts say the u.s. also wants to remain in the region to keep an eye on syria and iraq if the develop in syria goes. to the extent that there is a fall of the regime we don't know what kind of regime or maybe the it will be. us marine maybe it will be something even worse you cannot withdraw at this juncture you cannot leave the vacuum iran will just take advantage of it that's from the perception of american interest meanwhile the perception of america's democracy remains somewhat distorted has it been used as a tool to achieve its geo political gains and financial interests who are all

washington in the end listening to the voice of the people growing up or niall artsy new york. the price of freedom from the most elite precious people in history. those who fought to win that stand proud. against the tide of history the green river. sixty six years of victory on our cheap. wealthy british soil. the time to explain the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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the. awesome all that well news stories this hour egypt's minister of justice says anyone threatening the country's security has been dealt with by an iron fist it comes after one hundred nineteen people that attain a deadly clashes with some christians and muslims and tom read a group of conservative muslims two churches. in congress is now being held across from us that left twelve people more than two hundred wounded with the knowledge just since the ousting of former president hosni mubarak. footage from inside japan's badly damaged nuclear plant released workers can be seen setting up a new cooling system for them in the installation of air purifiers that significant radiation levels that were facility is the first time starter been able to reach the reactor since march is earthquake and tsunami was the worst crisis since. the.

afghan government forces have defeated tell about insurgents and we kept there is a from the house city after a two day battle eleven fighters were killed and seven suicide bombers blew themselves up as the taliban forced a wave of coordinated attacks on government buildings afghani terry ministry says three civilians and two officers don't like when you see. the u.s. is pressing pakistan to explain how bin laden was able to hide there for almost seven years washington is also demanding access to his three kids believing they could be valuable sources of intelligence. things which i missed explains it all to bin laden in far more effective in the trade against your b.l. in pakistan. demonstrate to what extent they u.s.

foreign policy he's driven by the political agenda not by the necessity that is dictated by counterterrorism there were two ways to deal with some of the ludden when actionable intelligence were reported to go white house they were political way and special forces agree this special forces option was to snatch osama bin laden alive for that purpose health interrogating and recruiting him we have to follow up psychological and information operations and to condition some of bin laden to denounce all their terrorist activities that could be the most important long term benefit all for taking him alive and step above opted for political options he authorized to waste osama bin laden in pakistan on the spot to repass short term political benefits small wonder that this security intelligence

community in the united states is saving we have anger and that's why the former national security adviser u.s. marine general james jones used to call the lighthouse keep it serious the water box now you know why. i'll be back in a few moments for the headlines they mishandled.

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