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room welcome to you this is our scene live from moscow now russia is marking victory day sixty six years since nazi germany was defeated in world war two events of commemoration and celebration have been taking place across the country capped by the traditional ground parades on red square a little earlier last year is bringing you special coverage throughout the day. we begin right here in central moscow a from where the speech on the joins us live he said hello good to see you can you rounds up for us now what you've seen today in the significance behind it. but we're really at the middle part of the day celebrations this is where we've seen

a lot of families just wandering around looking at it has been sort of been going on i'm here at victory park just in the center of moscow where there's lots of people enjoying the summer sunshine the start of summer sunshine here and we also see many many veterans of world war two walking around with their medals some of them taking a bit of shade under a tree that we've seen groups of families gathering around them giving them the kind of attention you usually see reserved for a rock star or an actor these days people listening to their tales of what went on during the second world war and how they got underway of course with the huge parades on the red square parades elsewhere around russia as well i want to red square though the big one over twenty thousand around twenty thousand soldiers taking part over one hundred bits of military hardware as well as an aircraft fly by making it a really spectacular event now the people who are here getting ready and waiting for the evening celebrations taking part taking place in the form of

a huge so you expect ocular which is really something to see if you've never seen it before you know the reason this world war two stories up there stirs up this kind of outcry of celebration it ended in remembrance of those who gave their lives as it was a war that affected not just the soldiers that forced in not in those battles but also on the home front and my colleagues said of good spoke to some people in the kaluga region of russia who lived under occupied not nazi occupied parts of the soviet union. do you know i mean look i don't doubt. or miss. it was hell i felt my command of the world everything was on fire burning exploding all around trees were on fire and weapons were house was burning and crushing noise was terrible people were running around here in their kin and their burning as down it's too hard for me to look back at the time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded and miller witnessed firsthand not. against

civilians but. i remember the regional homes for food every last we could find if family here had someone who either judge comes to reship or was shot dead you know 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 were carried out with devastating severity among the archives here. are thousands of documents telling 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 the telephone lines were cut by one of the

citizens and for that twenty people are going to be killed or they wouldn't have known he was guilty but it says at the bottom here anything similar. but the punishment would be even worse. during the occupation thousands of children were rounded up like cattle and west to work in the german labor camps. who were never called by names just by our numbers each clerical surrounded with four wire with bright yellow sand around it and there were through tours in the sand the children would reach out for those nice looking toys and be. heated there were also taken blood from the children to use for the treatment of german officers nazi propaganda films praised the friendship movement showing locals and germans working hand in hand they say were that to witness the reality spawned incredulously and he grew together women and children trying nearby villages they were pushed into beast and

then set on fire a lot of people died actually 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 he sits in his neighbor lies to conform extraordinary efforts to drive out the enemy. i remember it's clear isn't it was yesterday room our troopers and to the city some were just eighteen nineteen year old boys they were wearing right from course in right camouflage guns it was cool to minus forty degrees and he worked on christmas you know with. and he was smiling and looking like angels. the nazi palace he would eventually priest self-defeating creating 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 kill them kill the enemy

sarah r.t. clinker region. well for more on the victory day celebrations are not a joy and if i could a short break story in the course of thanks very much for talking to us well we're certainly had some to hear it's a beautiful spring sunshine for the people enjoying it sixty six years on why do those events of world war two and me a celebration of the end of the still so important and what it still draw in these kind of crowds. i mean it's pretty easy to explain because russia suffered tremendous losses during the the. hoarded the ninth of may it was always celebrated as the big call of duty in the soviet union and now in russia and imagine being tile losses i mean the people of it of the soviet union and russia was slightly less than thirty million people i mean imagine it's almost a given type of britain just disappeared i mean. i mean i'm going to go back and

that's why i mean base holder has a lot of bitter taste in it at the same time i mean all people very much proud of it and well it is but you saying it's. it's there to remember those that lay down their lives but it's more of a celebration as well it's quite unique in that way that it celebrates a picture that also celebrates the sacrifice that was laid down if you believe it's a unique holiday in that way while it is unique and it was always very common in old soviet days i mean in time of the cold war the soviet union wanted to demonstrate its strength and it was all a lot of politics and was all luck here today we have got less and less politics and walthers it's a whole day which actually cannot steeple become free i mean times you actually it was an incredible results together with the british and americans we got to read the entire of europe and the wall of nazi for it so i mean that's a lot of to celebrate it is a lot to celebrate indeed and they do a great job of celebrating it here in russia victory day celebrations continue. the

trial over many thanks to you and get that live from central moscow. often more on the international thing if we can for the picture taker radio now joined by dennis nick shameful minister of state figure he joins me now live from london this makes a man there being with us here on r.t. now it makes a great spectacle doesn't it of course but in a broader sense how important are events like victory day do you think in parades like the one we've seen today on red square. very important for the russian people because huge massive manner of sacrifices were made in your caption it said the wall from like in forty one and like in forty five in britain last year we were celebrating the battle of britain when britain was alone and russia was a different. but it was polish pilots who fought chucked out the most german planes while their brother officers would be executed at katty so it's

a problematic question is that it we salute the sacrifice the heroism the achievement of why he got rushes and we also never let the new extreme right wingers in europe deadly great the russian soldiers of the russian people achieve but historically if your polish if your beard if. he died i could forty part of forty broadwood britain was a low before russia joined the war but this is like historical dogs we talked about the rise is the nationalist movements across the continent well there is that is she. movement gaining popularity around the world why do you think that that's happening particularly across parts of europe. i think because populist identity politics why bother the strong leader has appeal i think people

also want to play the role of the left after the war building such a democratic society there's also this very worrying new tendency what's called the double genocide theory that is the show of the holocaust the bringing of jews from every corner of europe using good transport me putting them to death by using high tech you just your every call beads that was the same as exactly the same about as the starvations and you created what stalin did before dark thirty one of the great terror of what stalin did was a huge crime against humanity but the shoah stands a load the holocaust adds a load all the d.c. rights the islamists the people in syria and libya and other countries that hate jews like israel to try to get us to think of the second world war simply the quality of evil hitler will say will start jobs will say with russians that is wrong that has to be called back to all the parades that we saw today on red square

is intended to preserve history and it really does not the sacrifices by both the allies and the u.s.s.r. in overcoming that fashion said but there is growing concern as you've alluded to in some ways about history being rewritten for political purposes really do you think that that's tree. yes i do very very much so as i say it's attempt to break an equivalence between the crimes of nazi germany of the crimes of stalin soviet union well you could keep your head in russia you could hide away you would survive if you're a jew you'd be hunted darted the ball curves and yugoslavia greece and hungry belgium the netherlands take a lot of logistics the money of taking people to the death camps a polish soil put to death in

a very structured high tech way this is unique history the lots of horrible genocides of lots of terrible death and suffering some of which the russian i think mr putin does accept that did happen under started after the decades of denial but nothing is the same as hitler zob which is to tire you wipe out all the jewish people not just kill saddam just as today we look at some of the islamist ideologues we look at dissolve a bit larger when we look at the language of syria and ideologues of people in egypt cold look at that free above all the rug and this talk about exterminating jews and wiping israel off the back of the earth frankly while just shivers but these people can get any political support anywhere in the world but sadly they do well let's talk about some of those rising trends that you talk about us again going back to that the rise of popularity of nationalist movements particularly in

. what about the e.u.'s role in all this do you think it's somehow condoning such movements by not adopting a tougher stance really on nationalism and profound. i think that there's always a conflict to believe in my country there are very people who don't like europe and think that britain should asserted itself as a nation state and let's be honest the national movement in russia and some of the expressions we see of russian nationalism there that could be very healthy americans are profoundly proud of being america you sort of the crowds there in new york would suffer the terrible loss that i did levelled after the use of as of a bit larger killing surface but i think the european union as a whole seeks to challenge this it's adopted a very powerful code for call back to its aware of it in the european union these situations of brussels can't pick tait say to the government of that feel the

judicial authorities of latvia who are putting on trial to jewish parties people fought with the party sides against the dark she's putting them on trial for war crimes alleged bartsch there is a march every year it will be as to celebrate the b s s the prophet s s division the people who fought with the large seas and helped the dark seas to fight and the jews in latvia and simply lithuania and hungry the other countries because it openly actually submitting party gargle you carry parliament called your break we just need to expose this and expose this exposes but it would also help if we had a cobbled policy of cut back to hatred against israel or jews right around the world. said dennis shane paul minister didn't have to speak on today the day that russia is marking it today and. it was one of the

bloodiest battles in the history of humankind starting grad remains up by both the great courage and the great sacrifice of the solvent soldiers who died fighting the nazis told boston has been meeting the people who are trying to make sure that the sacrifice is never forgotten. today the city is called volgograd but sixty eight years ago it was called starling grat 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 being with i've been examining in my report. dragged back from the past this old so the light tankers lay under the mud for sixty eight years and proof too weak to stop the nazi invaders reaching the city of starving grandma in the tank drivers called the mass grave it's arm of a sloth in it could be pierced by a machine gun bullets it was part of the soviet armies which by all to nine hundred

forty two were desperately trying to protect stalin's city on the volga from a vast access offensive the author was an eighteen year old cadet as the germans closed in what was read stalin's infamous order not to retreat one step back whatever the cost. in our first combat we were bombs in our offices and commissar were killed that was our pact ism 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 has changed stalin graduates name to volgograd the soviet union itself collapsed and those who remember the battle and now old. when it comes to monuments belgrade made sure the heroism of the moment was set in stone somewhere we're going up you have to be careful here this is the most dangerous part of what we could be

inside a military bunker the metal and concrete certainly make it look like one 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 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. size as vast as the battle that raged around here but many more reminders abound into a lot less stylized and a lot more pleasant these soldiers weren't buried in solemn ceremony they lie where they fell and seen. these teams of volunteers have been researching and excavating the battle site for years but also. because relatives of soldiers are getting very old themselves the documents we find will decompose if we don't come up with

a 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 and many generals say the war isn't over and. that's the moto of every insurgent group so they reconcile or enough bullets and bones left but even his grandchildren find the terror and tragedy of these ultimate sacrifice is yet to be revealed this vehicle is one of the more concrete reminders of what happened here sixty eight years ago but what they're really digging up isn't just metal and gunpowder it's memories in r.c. bugs that region. more than an hour and involved. a hundred roll through red square during the. flying look back an hour.

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website it's got a lot to watch as a series that is about world war two and l.z. dot com. all the news now and in libya and they say jets have attacked a dozen weapons depot just southwest of the capital tripoli it came as forces loyal to moammar gadhafi launched a wave of attacks on rebel held areas across the country a fair slicing has been reported in the city that's rasa the last rebel stronghold in the west the opposition that says it's critically low on food and supplies and warns of an imminent humanitarian crisis but despite almost daily bombing runs coalition jets have been unable to break down the poor old city and its aussies michael bennett reports on the nation's are finding it harder to justify the call salt lake 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 air strikes to enforce the no fly zone it's six f. sixteen fighter planes are racking up a hefty bill of thirteen and a half million dollars a month who are anticipating a number that was considering them that we aren't bad many nations that is using fighter blades. test us for example for use in ground they had had a tomahawk missile but i don't have any fighter planes and what that means that the british are friends and also the danged have actually had so many soldiers standing we were perhaps anticipating when we started your version of denmark dropped one hundred twenty six precision bombs in the first fortnight 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 saying it's too political a topic parliament says it can afford it nevertheless it's disappointed others aren't putting their money where their mouth feeds. well i think there is quite a few people who are disappointed about your bomb and creation 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 all some people say they have an inferiority complex. they follow big daddy the. united states and france wants this

war. so they go all her junior partners 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 is then not could follow suit again with a ground offensive looming 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 with 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 their countries more than willing to join america whatever the cost are then it's not seen copenhagen. publicly u.s. backing for the pro-democracy uprisings in the middle east opting consists of a statement saying that people must determine their future behind the scenes though it's widely acknowledged there's a lot more interference it is very important i reports washington's desired ideology sometimes unexpected results. she is the country clothed in stars and stripes accessorized with a nobel peace prize winning president pioneering 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 from tunisia. to egypt to libya to 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 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 for eight years now it means iraqi people have wanted us out and we stayed there for their own good that's not democracy. anger over us occupation dates back to the presidency of george w. bush upon his exodus in two thousand and eight washington drafted an agreement promising all american troops would withdraw from iraq by the end of this year 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 two thousand

troops where 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 the ultimate trophy prize 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 things he told these new strength. washington d.c. we're still very much in ours is that we must intro all the middle east be closed for 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 balkans syria go to the extent that there is and follow the regime we don't know what kind of regime or maybe the it will be. us or any maybe it will be something

even worse you cannot withdraw at this juncture you cannot leave the vacuum iran will just take advantage of a 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 geo political gains and financial interests who are all of washington in the end listening to the voice of the people growing up or not i r t new york. and other authors of the headlines in just a few moments they would authorize. the

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