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russian literature as we know it now. regiments today some of them are as old as a hundred years old as for instance russian marines like the great seventeenth. invention the s. and p. so this is a baby this one hundred because he said this is a good grade tell him that if you have. to go to the people. see those words from the ranks so generals and admirals along with them so they contribute to the war after the war we see so many of them end up for so this war

the young boys are ready they devote all their life to little so the sea is most of this for your vision from them those are the letters of the second goal was with a contribution is a great little in the years of. the see those hirings the generals and the. well it's an amazing scenes there at red square and that is to say thanks very much indeed for your call for the trades unions people a fellow workers a commentator and in fact i think we can get back to. you catching who's at red square or whatever you know what was the view like from where you are kerry was thrilling to say the least to be here on ratt square on the very day the ninth of may the sixty sixth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany in that war and the victory of the soviet union in the great patrick war as these holy day is known in

russia millions of people both in russia and across the world have been watching this sandra piece of rushes to make sure they can operation the military parade the show approaches military might some twenty thousand troops that is more than twice last year's number two party in today's arrests cooperate their companies over a hundred pieces of mechanized amare first there was a great call them something that will followed by military hardware i'm trying to leave there was a stunning display of russia's air force and i hate helicopters but all over the kremlin's over at square. carrying russia's flags russian national flag and russia's flags well these days you can see these red display of force in the skies and also inspecting russia's military much worse some of russia's high ranking officials ministers and o. course the supreme. general in chico brushes will says president dmitri medvedev

he's giving a speech and open the soul of the procession of the troops later to be beamed today bilby traditional fireworks that will paint moskos sky different colors and not only in the capital of russia elsewhere across the country military parades will be taking place and fireworks will eat up the skies in the evening but of course six to six years on the sekret for twenty six million saw the people which resonates a bit more loudly than any gun salute thought it was displayed and of course in the first place it is a holy day of those people those heroes the world war two veterans who fought and lost their lives too in that war and it was very touching to see so many veterans here and also younger people who came to say thank you to the. country thank you

very much indeed for joining us from red square and of course if you missed any of that you can get it on t.v. dot com and more stories now assists and pictures of veterans in the parades that. well the war claimed the lives of twenty seven million people across the soviet union more than any other country and not seen visions soar towns and cities. subjected to conditions and salties surface reports. include one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of moscow the city an important strategic point in the german forces attempt to conquer moscow in the great patriotic war. it was hell i felt my command of the world everything was on fire exploding all around trees were on fire. house was burning and the crushing noise was terrible people running around here and there burning as down hard for me to look back at

the time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded the witnessed first hand not. against civilians because of records as i remember the retail homes for every last bit the confined family he had someone who are the drugs prostitution was. known as the barber also jurisdiction decree nazi soldiers were exempted from prosecution if they committed a crime against the savior people were encouraged in the murders of the jewish and slavic civilians it is war of annihilation and his instructions based on racial ideologies carried out with devastating severity monks the archives here. are thousands of documents detailing some of the atrocities carried out by german occupiers against the citizens we've heard some hiring accounts from children whose

parents have been killed we also found an advertisement that went up in the city the german soldiers said that they think their 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 at the bottom here for 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 cance. who were never called by names just by our numbers for each barrack or surrounded with barbed wire with bright yellow sand around it there were throw its horns in the sand the children would reach out for those nice looking tourers and be electrocuted there were also taken blood from the children to use for the treatment of german officers nazi propaganda films praised the friendship mean and 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 be set on fire a lot of people died that way but 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 the sins made allies to conform extraordinary efforts to drive out the enemy russia 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 in white for a white camouflage guns it was cooled minus forty degrees and they walked on christmas you know with the extra lizzie and they were smiling and looking like angels. if not secret tallahassee will eventually prove 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 monsters you can't even call them human kill them kill the enemy sarah for r.t. kleagle region. was one of the. history of humankind stalin grug remains a byword with great courage and sacrifice so that soldiers died fighting the nazis some bottom people who are trying to make sure that the sacrifice is then forgotten . today the city is called volgograd but sixty eight years ago it was called starling grad 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 its that image i've been examining in my report. dragged back from the past this old soviet like tankers lay under the mud for sixty

eight years it proved to leap to stop the nazi invaders reaching the city of starting ground. drivers called the mass grave it's arm of the south in it could be pierced by machine gun bullets it was part of the soviet armies which biota nine hundred forty two were desperately trying to protect stalin's city on the volga 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 our first combat we were bombed in our offices and commissar were killed that was our baptism of fire. over the next six months the valor 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 much as changed stalin grab changed its name to vulgar ground the soviet union itself collapsed and

those who remember the battle and now old. when it comes to monuments 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 we could be inside a military bunker the metal and concrete certainly make it look like one is here but we emerge to a kind of running view of the city of volgograd far beneath we've just popped out of the head of the city's iconic mother russia statue in some ways the statue is a metaphor for the war it's. 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 battle that raged around here but many more in mind is abound which are a lot less stylized and a lot more poignant these soldiers weren't buried in solemn ceremony they lie where they fell unseen till now these teams of volunteers have been researching in

excavating the battle site for years. to close relatives of soldiers are getting very old themselves the documents we find will decompose we don't dig them up the quicker the better for both the historians under 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 and so the law abiding is very that's the moto of every surgical survey reckons 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 vehicle is one of the more concrete reminders of what happened here sixty eight years ago but what they really digging up isn't just metal and gunpowder it's memories tom barton r.c. bugs region. the reception of the soviet contribution to world war two diff is in

russia that's a western countries now interview later this hour professor jeffrey roberts from investing college cork in ireland is this is how much of what happened is misunderstood. but i think probably in the case of the united states there's probably more ignorance of the general picture of the war then there is in other countries so it's probably got hold of the other countries in the war in iraq starts then elsewhere not doesn't just work on the for the complex in britain the holy war those ocean of war presenting it as it was the americans to wonder about having said that of course united states did play a very important role in the war was the subject of my support supply in the spot i was so i would people say that they should recognise our country's role as well tickles the russian contribution the sort of contribution to the.

to some other news in libya nato jets have attacked the government weapons dept just southwest of the capital tripoli came as forces loyal to moammar gadhafi launched a wave of attacks on mental health care is across the country this fighting has been reported in the city of misrata the last rebel stronghold in western. says it's critically low on food and supplies one sort of interim military in crisis despite almost daily bombing runs the russian jets have been lightly raked the duffys siege of the city and artie's either bennett reports some nato nations are finding it hard to justify the cost of the campaign. for those who joined the fight in libya the cost of conflict is quickly taking off denmark's one of just six nato members conducting an strikes to enforce the no fly zone it's six f. sixteen fighter planes a racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and

a half million dollars a month to anticipate in a numbered i was considering them doubt we aren't that many nation that is using fighter planes. this take us for example they're using drones they have had tomahawk missile but i don't have any. and that means that the british are friends and also the danged have actually had so many sorties that we were perhaps it is a big game when we started your version of denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first fortnight of a campaign each one costs on average fifty thousand dollars on top of that there's 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 aren't putting their money where their mouth is. well i think there is quite a few people who are excited this point. gratian because. president obama has said that he want to promote 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 though it's also denmark's willingness to follow the u.s. into battle. they do this because. i don't know all some people say they have an inferiority complex. they follow big daddy and the united states. wants this war against a good outfit so they go along her junior partner the danish parliament was unanimous in packing a bombing campaign in libya the first time ever on

a military action but since then cracks have appeared with the far left red green alliance with drawing 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 i think it's likely because the brennan is the ones to be a strongman 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 iraq all showed when push comes to shove the country's more than willing to join america whatever the cost other than it r.t. copenhagen. publicly u.s.

backing for the pro-democracy uprising in the middle east after consists of a statement saying that people must determine the future of the hind seems though it's widely known that there's a lot more interference but now reports washington's desire to promote its ideology sometimes leads to unexpected results. she is the country clothed in stars and stripes accessorized with a nobel peace prize winning president pioneering good big t.v. 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 for him to need. to egypt to libya. washington has said the will of the people must determine their 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 are not

supporting the democratic aspirations of people in iraq we haven't been for years now mean directly people have wanted us out and we stayed there for their own book that's not democracy. anger over u.s. occupation dates that the president george w. bush upon his exodus in two thousand a washington drafted 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 footprint. is pushing for a military presence after the summer of 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 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 ultimate trophy prize in this eight year war at the very least in order to deny china or any of their perceived tensional rivals control of valuable resource the idea. grained in the thinking of these new york sun. strategists in washington d.c. who are still very much in our eye is that intro the middle east be closed 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 contain iran of the with the develop in syria go to the extent that there is and follow the regime we don't know what kind of regime or maybe that will be. us three 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 a chill political gains in financial interests who are all washington in the end listening to the voice of the people growing up or not i r.t. new york. they faced it this is not a provocation but one. thing that you should see everybody you should it's a quick victory because they have no idea about the hardships the face. plate one this is a lot of them to these things. really are made to life so they use the is the most precious thing in the world. of self-sacrifice and heroism but those who

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getting big. some other world news stories this hour egypt's minister of justice says the one threatening country's security will be dealt with by an iron fist it comes after one hundred ninety people were detained following deadly clashes between christians and muslims and a group of conservative muslims torched two churches after reports of christian. was being held the clashes that left twelve people dead more than two hundred wounded the knowledge of since the ousting of former president hosni mubarak. in syria thirteen army personnel have been killed in an ambush in the central city of

homs officials say the attack was carried out by an armed terrorist group on sunday twelve civilians were caught in the cables during clashes with the army in the same city since the outbreak of violence in the country of eight hundred people died with around eight thousand reported in prison and the city. footage from inside japan's badly damaged fukushima nuclear plant has been released workers can be seen setting up a new cooling system for only installation of air purifiers that significantly reduced radiation levels at the facility is the first time starter been able to reach the reactor since march earthquake and tsunami was the worst crisis since. the u.s. is pressing pakistan to explain how bin gardener was able to hide their worst seven years washington is also demanding access to his three wood is the thing they could be valuable sources of intelligence as artie's wintery honest explains that the bin

garden could have been far more effective. nitrate against the u b l in pakistan. demonstrate to what extent they u.s. foreign policy he's driven by their political agenda not by the in this says city that is dictated by counterterrorism there were two ways to deal with some of the ludden when actionable intelligence were reported to the white house they were political way and special forces way and this special forces option was to snatch osama bin laden alive for the purpose of interrogating and recruiting him we had to follow up psychological and information operations and to condition osama bin laden to denounce all very terroristic activities that's going to be the most important

long term benefit both taking him alive and step a bomb up to for political action he authorized to waste osama bin laden in pakistan on the spot to reap sure term political benefits small wonder that a security and intelligence community in the united states is saving the anger and that's why the former national security adviser u.s. marine general james jones used to call the white house keep it sears the water box now you know why. that a lot in back of the headlines in just a few moments stay with us here about.

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