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victory day with respect time to look arrayed in moscow follow through and the soldiers marched through the red square joined by all the hundred military vehicles in a car. second thoughts there's public anger in denmark and the country's involvement in the libyan conflict saying it's being done for the wrong reasons and it too high a price spots for. iraqi people that want to live and we've stayed there for their own good that's not democracy the democratic game is of america's policy in the middle east has distorted pi's continued presence in iraq
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despite promises all through. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow russia is marking victory day sixty six years since nazi germany was defeated in world war two events of commemoration is the liberation happened taking place across the country caps by the traditional ground village sheep raised on a red square in last year's bringing you special coverage throughout the day. all the main parade on red square to pace amid spectacular scenes of military pomp and pageantry and watching it for us was. it was absolutely stunning to be here in these iconic location on red square the heart of brush on this very
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important day the ninth of may which this year marks the sixty sixth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany and a victory in the great paciorek war as these holy days known in russia were still thousands of troops marching through red square here and companies over one hundred pieces of military hard hardware the pride of russia's armed forces some of the new stump most powerful weapons in the world will still sore in the end of the parade which lost it and were padlocked helicopters semis helicopters flying very low over the ground and in the evening traditional thought words will paint skies of the president is different colors of course the biggest was the biggest fireworks reserved for moscow the red square party will be bringing you live pictures of those fireworks of course but being here on this day in red square you realize that
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sixty six euro zone is the separate bodies of twenty six million people the lives of the soviet people and the tree in that war that is still resonating molavi that many many gun salutes all by words display and of course if they're holding in the first place the holy day of the world war two veterans and it's was very touching to see so many young people who came to the red square today not just to see the parade but to say thank you percy to those people in that. sorrow but for some hope close the enemy came to moscow to stop them in its tracks were hit include or a hundred and fifty kilometers southwest of moscow the city an important strategic point in the german forces attempt to conquer mosco in the great patriotic war. it was hell i felt like an end of the world everything was on fire burning exploding all around trees were on fire and weapons were house was burning and the
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crushing noise was terrible people were running around here in their acumen their building as down it's hard for me to back at the time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded but miller witnessed firsthand not seek retallack against civilians because. i remember the regional homes for every last media could find them of the he had someone who either died from starvation or was shot. then as the barber also jurisdiction decree nazi soldiers were exempted from prosecution if they committed a crime against the savior people and 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 among the archives here and killing of thousands of documents the telling some of the atrocities carried out by
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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 soldiers said that they think the telephone lines were cut by one of the citizens of for that twenty people are going to be killed but they wouldn't have known he was guilty but it says at the bottom here for anything similar to 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. were never called by names just by our numbers each barrack or surrounded with the wire with bright yellow sand around it they would throw tools in the sand the children would reach out for those nice looking to lawyers and be electrocuted there were also taking blood from the children used for the treatment of german officers nazi propaganda films praised their friendship mean and showing locals and
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germans working hand in hand with that and witness the reality despond incredulously. who could hear the women and children from nearby villages they were pushed into beast and set on fire a lot of people died that way. but in response to the terror many citizens take up arms. in guerrilla warfare against the invaders beyond the limits of the german advance save us citizens nato allies to conform extraordinary efforts to drive out the enemy nasha 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 they were wearing right for course in iraq camouflage guns it was cool to minus forty degrees and you worked on the snow with the chicks truly and they were smiling and looking like angels. but not secret tallahassee would eventually priest self-defeating creating
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an attitude of hatred and stubborn resistance among the conquered people a young girl trapped behind german lines writes to her father in the red army their blood thirsty monsters you can't even call them human killed them parker killed the enemy sarah r.t. clinker region. was not only culpable for as many cities played their part in stopping the nazi wave standing rock remains the by word for the courage and called the great sacrifice of the soviet soldiers who died fighting against the nazis stalingrad saw one of the bloodiest battles in the history of humankind some barton went to meet those people who were trying to make sure it today that the sacrifice is never forgotten. today this city is called volgograd but sixty eight years ago it was called stalin 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
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the city here and its population and it's that famous i've been examining in my report. dragged back from the past this old soviet like time has lay under the mud for sixty eight years and proof to leap to stop the nazi invaders reaching the. city of starting ground. drivers called the mass grave it's arm of a sloth 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 i'm told from a vast access 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 a commissar were killed that was our baptism of fire. over the next six months the bomber and determination of soviet soldiers saved the city and trapped the invading
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germans an encirclement which destroyed hitler's biggest army since that great victory much has changed stalin graduates name to vulgar ground the soviet union itself collapsed and those who remember the battle and now old. but when it comes to monuments volgograd made sure the heroism of the moment was set in stone so. we're going up you have to be careful here this is the most dangerous part we could be inside a military bunker a metal and concrete certainly make it look like one issue but we emerged from a panoramic 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 this statue was 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
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size as vast as the battle that raged around here but many more in mind as 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 an excavating the battle sign. for years. because relatives of soldiers are getting very old themselves the documents we find will decompose we don't dig them up the quicker we do that for both the historians and the soldiers relatives. they want to try and recall the human stories of the stolen ground battle which claimed as many as two million lives many generals say the war isn't over until the allies biting is burying that's the moto of every research group so they reckons there are enough bullets and bones left for even his grandchildren to find the terror and tragedy of these ultimate sacrifice is yet to be revealed this vehicle is one of the more
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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 tamasin r.c. bugs region. of course richard a e remains a deeply emotional holiday for everyone but it is their holy day the world war two batches in the first place every year there are fewer and fewer of these people or these heroes left alive and it is their car reach the sec replies their insurance which defines the soviet union as a superpower and even today no other advanced feels russians with so much prize for their country. well the perceptional of the soviet contribution to world war two dishes in russia as the western countries now instigated the south west the geoffrey robertson university college and island discusses how much of it is misunderstood. i think probably in the case of the united states this is probably more ignorant of the general picture of the war and there is another country so for
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the old with other countries in the war in iraq starts there and elsewhere not doesn't just in the war on district be complacent britain about holy war does of the war on resenting it was that it was the americans the one having said that of course you know states are going to pull the role in the world was the soviet union in support of the main supply. i would say i would people say that they should recognize our country's roles as well tickles the russian contribution the soviet confirmation. today parade lasted for more than an hour and involved a rack or number of troops more than a hundred military vehicles rolled through red square jury in the event so we've aircraft flying overhead so you can look back at out some of the highlights.
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other news now and in libya nato jets have attacked a government weapons depot just southwest of the capital tripoli it came as forces loyal to. the wave of attacks on rebel held areas across the country fierce fighting have been reported in the city of misrata the last couple stronghold in the west the opposition there says it's critically low on food and supplies and warns of an imminent humanitarian crisis but despite almost day bombing runs coalition ejects been are able to break adapting scenes of proportionality and desire scenes either bennett records some nato nations are finding it harder to justify the cost of the campaign. for those who join the fight in libya the cost of conflict is quickly taking off denmark's one of just six nato members conducting in strikes to enforce the no fly zone it's six if sixteen fighter planes are racking
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up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month oh it is appealing a number of i was considering them that we aren't that many nation that is using fighter blades. to save us for example they're using drones they have had tomahawk missiles but i don't have any fire that means a lot and that means that the british are friends and also the big change have actually had so many soldiers that we were perhaps it is a big when we started your bridge but then mark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first four nights of the 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 seventy million dollars four percent of its defense. budget the danish air force refuses to comment on the money
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saying it's too political a topic of 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 was disappointed about your balanced ration because. president obama has said that he wants 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 some people say they have an inferiority complex and they follow big daddy the. united states and france wants this war in guess they get out of it so they go along her junior partner the danish parliament was unanimous in packing a bombing campaign in libya the first time ever on
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a military action but 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 i think it's likely because the prime minister wants to be a strongman is precedes there's an upcoming election. and also that it's the policy of the current government to be as close to 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 up when push comes to shove the countries more than willing to join america
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whatever the cost are given its artsy copenhagen publicly u.s. backing for the pro-democracy uprisings in the middle east often they consist of a statement saying that people must determine their own future behind the scenes though it's widely acknowledged there's a lot more interference passes or not i 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 high an earring that 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 from tunisia. to egypt to libya. washington has said the will of the people must determine the fate of their country. but in iraq where america claims to be transplanting democracy
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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 in store for eight years now and the new iraqi people have wanted us out and we stayed there for their own good that's not democracy. anger over us occupation dates that the president george w. bush upon his exodus into any washington drap in 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 the pentagon is pushing for a military presence after the summer. around twenty two thousand troops while the white house is talking about ten thousand troops so actually there is an agreement is tacit agreement that the u.s. will stay in iraq forty seven thousand u.s.
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troops still remain in iraq where america's embassy looms large and control over iraq's oil sector is perceived to be the ultimate chalky problem in this eight year war at the very it's the order to deny china or any of their perceived intentional rivals control of valuable resources the idea. ingrained in the thing he holds these. stress. washington d.c. we're still very much in. the middle east close that's where the power comes from experts say the u.s. wants to remain in the region to keep an eye on syria and contain iran of the developers to the extent that there is a fall of the regime we don't know what kind of regime we're really didn't it will be. us really really it will be something even worse you cannot withdraw at this juncture you cannot leave the vacuum iran will just take advantage of it but from
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the perception of american interests meanwhile the perception of america's democracy remains somewhat distorted has it been used as a tool to achieve the geo political gains in financial interests who are all washington in the end listening to the voice of the people growing up ny r.t. new york. and a lot of stories making headlines around the world the sour and in syria. being killed in an ambush in the central city of homs i fishel see the attack was carried out by an armed terrorist group on sunday twelve civilians were reportedly killed during clashes with the army in the same city since the outbreak of violence in the country over eight hundred people died with around eighty pounds of reported imprisoned or missing. which is from inside japan's badly damaged fukushima nuclear plant has been released workers could be seen setting up a new cooling system following the installation of air purifiers that significantly
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reduced radiation levels out the facility it's the first time staff have been able to reach the reactor since not as earthquake and tsunami caused the worst nuclear crisis since chernobyl japan is also shutting down. a nuclear plant located two hundred kilometers west of tokyo due to fears that are coming our way. indonesian prosecutors the drops terrorism charges against radical cleric abu bakar bashir come to a lack of evidence there's seventy two year old could still face a life sentence on charges of funding terrorism will now escape the death penalty she was accused of pay founding the al qaeda linked movement jemaah islamiah fruits to be responsible for a series of suicide attacks that have left group of two hundred sixty that. now the u.s. is pressing pakistan to explain how bin laden was able to hide there for almost
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seven years washington is also demanding access to his three videos and even they could be valuable sources of intelligence but there's also news that military analyst explains talking to bin ladin could have been far more effective. and the trade against you b l in pakistan. demonstrate to what extent the us 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 this special forces option was to snatch osama bin laden alive for the purpose of encourage giving and recruiting him we had to follow up psychological and information operations and
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to condition will some of bin laden to denounce all very terroristic activities that could be the most important long term benefit of taking him alive and step above for political options he authorized to waste osama bin laden in pakistan on the spot to rebuff short term political benefits small wonder that his security and intelligence community in the united states is ceding we have anger and that's why the former national security adviser u.s. marine general james jones used to call the right house keep it serious the water box now you know why. the headlines that got the.
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culture is the so much i was about to feed into it i think if i'm going to give a real anti-reform what has happened to the war movement there are plenty of wars being fought though with far fewer protesters was the anti-war movement just read. the price of freedom from the most money fascist regime in history.
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those who fought to win the standing around. against the tide of history being written. sixty six years of victory on our genes. yes my name is daniel smith this is julian assange we're here to make a short presentation of all the wiki leaks projects. the first. in the for the fake anything to get information out about the real world. join him walk on and on. because he was the biggest. i'm going to be a good marker for you. if i ever put any source of this in danger he would hunt me down and kill. this is exactly one of the reasons why we
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