russia holds a minute of silence in tribute to those who fell in the second world war commemoration of events marking sixty six years since the victory over the nazis take place nationwide. but in western ukraine war veterans are insulted assaulted by nationalist superstruct a memorial service and raise fears of a far right search. as nato is ongoing bombing of libya fails to ease fighting over the lifeline port of misrata the counting the cost of air raids is triggering protests in some coalition countries as we report tonight. and america's aims under

scrutiny in the ongoing military intervention in iraq is speculation grows that the u.s. presence there stretched beyond the withdrawal deadline. you're watching out the welcome it's eight pm monday evening kevin zero eight and first of all tonight it's a bittersweet holiday for russia as the country marks sixty six years since defeat of nazi germany twenty seven million soviet people died in the struggle to repel an invasion and secure the eventual liberation of europe let's cross live to our correspondents on this now and the people all over the following events for us in moscow evening both here at the very heart of the festivities in red square papers if you would a picture of what's going on. well now kevin people are enjoying this beautiful evening after. day full of the celebrations not just here in the capital but across

the country really big latest commemoration we saw was a moment of silence held at six fifty five pm moscow time across the country but i think it's fair to say that the biggest event to mark the holiday was the victory day for a it happens every year this year was no different people here on red square to see a spectacular show of russia's military might include cadets as well as a display of military hardware the fly by was a little bit less than what we saw last year for the sixty fifth anniversary you remember that it just consisted of helicopters this year but nevertheless the emotions on red square were amazing to see really and of course it's even more incredible to see the veterans watch this great we had a chance to speak to some of them and heard about some of their memories of the great patriotic war. i was in the infantry so i walk my way through the

entire war from starting ground to prague. i was eighteen at the start and twenty two when it finished and i met a beautiful girl while the war and we got married when the war was over. i like the phrase and i participated in the victory parade of nine hundred forty five in moscow people and girls in st screeches us cheat for us and express the happiness. that we. were completely happy especially as we marched in the parade yeah when. i joined the war ninety forty two and starting grudge it was the most severe but still i was wounded it and spent over four months in a hospital in the urals area i've been in the army all my life today i work with the veterans i'm happy with today celebrations the parade was drawn the weather was sunny and all our people cheer for the victory day people greet us on the streets in metro everywhere thank you very much there. indeed

a very solemn holiday here in russia of course some twenty seven million soviet lives were lost but like you just heard from those veterans a joyous day all the same celebrations are going to continue throughout the night certainly here in moscow people enjoying this weather strolling around carfree streets is something you don't see very often here in the russian capital and the celebrations will culminate this evening out with my fireworks display which we will bring you live of course here on our chief yes in a sort of i was looking for as well as close to a piece in our paper i can see here in a victory part their lovely day it is to describe for us what's happening where you are the. tens of thousands of people who have come here today to talk to you to pay their respects to those days millions of people he said and twenty seven million soviet citizens die during the second world war the great patriotic war they've been here to pay their respects to them but also to celebrate what they accomplished in laying down their lives the victory over nazi germany sixty six

years ago well to say it's attained the crowds here might be able to see in the background as the stage sets up there's been a musical acts on play music from the time from the forty's popular hits from not day playing out to entertain the crowds and amongst those tens of thousands many many veterans of being spotted here with splendid and the medals that they they won fighting against fascism what wasn't very nice touches it's a hot day here in the russian capital some of those veterans taking shelter in the shade under the trees but the we do not really see crowds of people families young people all ages coming round talking to them asking them questions about just what they did during the great patriotic war it's very nice to see that those people not forgotten that they are they are trapped like the heroes that they. will oppose world war two the great patriotic war one of the first conflicts that it didn't just directly involved the soldiers they were fighting on. this side is one of the

first conflicts that openly involve the civilian populations and sarah ferguson sarah first met with some of those people who lived under nazi occupation in the khalifa region. when this. was on fire burning exploding all around trees were on fire. house was burning and crushing noise was terrible people running around here in their kin and their voting as down it's too hard for me to look back at that time. just eleven years old when the germans invaded miller witnessed first hand nazi preach against civilians because of the quote that i remember the regional homes for food every last we did could find its family he had someone who are the times to reship. then is the barber also jurisdiction decree not seat 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 amongst 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 soldier 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 anything sinless tried again 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 pair of course surrounded with barbed wire with bright yellow sand around it and there were through torrents in the sand the children would reach out for those nice looking toys and the like tricky to there were also taking blood from. children cheese for the treatment of german officers nazi propaganda films praised the friendship meeting and showing locals in journey and working hand in hand these who were there to witness the reality respond incredulously the group together women and children from nearby villages they were pushed into beast and then set on fire a lot of people died that way nazi tallaght would eventually priest self-defeating creating an attitude if he chose instead to 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 kill them part kill the enemy

sarah r.t. clique region well bones continuing to leave me with a parade which began the may the ninth celebrations the smaller remains the high like. the good for the record number of troops marching through red square today almost twice as many as last year if you didn't catch the earlier on you could watch the spectacular in full on our website at our dot com also you can hear firsthand accounts of the war from veterans who've made this holiday possible the. fish fish. fish. fish. become a moral events have turned sour and western ukraine nationalists have been

violently disrupting a remember and services veterans paid for beauty of those who perished in a war that is an experience of skis following the clashes in the city of war. it looks more like a hotbed of ultra nationalists and even sometimes turning into neo nazis and in fact several hundred i would say maybe even more than a thousand supporters of the radical left responses are both together in the streets of wolf in particular here and front of the so-called hill of the glory that's where these great rhetoric or actions usually come to lay their flowers and commemorate those who died they gather here to block the entrance of the veterans to the facility to the cemetery where the red army soldiers were buried now there have been there's been lots of verbal abuse saying death to the most brides death to the communists and other things like that and even some physical abuse now wearing st george's ribbons which is something of a traditional sign of this holding everywhere across the post form over the former soviet space this has been very risky here and now people literally. the veterans

and will staring in the wearing ribbons and ripping off their chest. pushing and shoving and screaming all the way through since early morning now the crowd has more or less calmed down but shortly a short while ago we've seen some violent scenes with this crowd turning their rage against the police they were throwing rocks at buses carrying officers to the site additional forces to the site and also throwing small grenades and chance of some very aggressive slogans clearly what is happening today in the city is not something completely unexpected in fact it's part of a trend which has been going on for several years already and it's only part of a wider picture definitely same scenes can be seen in the baltic states where the history sometimes also being rewritten and seen from the other perspective well to discuss the controversial events in the hall today let's bring into the conversation going full of national treasure of the athlete from stress for gregory

vinci of scenes of nationalists assaulting veterans displaying nothing salutes on the streets as you sit in that report what's your view about this disturbing spectacle. it's all too common across europe space the danger is that people are beginning to forget what we fought for and what the veterans died for as we are seeing the reemergence of far right forces and nationalist forces that really in many sense resemble exactly those that merge with hitler in the one hundred thirty how serious is the situation and how dangerous is its spread across europe. i'm not going expert on russia but it's certainly across the european union there are calls for concern your party is liable from nothing now in france or. is forecast at the moment to finish first or second in the presidential the first round of the presidential elections you had the election in the united kingdom of members of the british national party you senior merchants of

far right parties almost all the way across the european union apart from those countries that have been inoculated a little by their own experiences in in spain and in spain of course of taking what you said that you're a not quite the expert on my next question but i wanted to ask you what your take was on the the bigger picture here as far as russia was concerned what we witnessed today in ukraine and also several marches of s.s. veterans in some other states in recent years i'm thinking the baltics why are they doing this and defying the facts in the history books well when they're trying to rewrite history i mean there's far too much revisionism going on at the moment as people you know deny the holocaust if you want trying to trying to equate if you want. the soviet union with nazi germany there were problems with the soviet union but it was exactly not the same thing. is the situation likely to get worse when every year there are fewer people with a living memory of the horrors that there are wasn't close to europe in the world

you know it's going to be ever harder to reinforce those lessons as time goes on but a lot absolutely we must we must ensure that people do not forget both the sacrifices . that remained by the only thirty million people who who died in russia and the tens of billions we died elsewhere actually actually fighting the this vicious regime the danger is if we forget we're likely to if you want to replicate it again in the future. going forward national treasure of the answer now silly for member of european parliament as well thank you. for the new nazi violence in western ukraine isn't the only source of controversy this victory day the legacy of the soviet union's wartime leader there still lies the power to ignite both supporters and critics but if the when it's not on the program a leading war story it assesses starlin's contre big ship it's a ceiling victory. no doubt start with his leadership with his contribution it's very possible we may be quite probable that the sort you would have lost. is the

symbol that holds the whole country together simply to uncritically the world but not only that he's also the star of the soviet war but the whole war effort revolves around here about ranching his abilities as a little bit eyes as a mystery to the poor benighted he's the most important or the soviets were instantly one of the most important committees of the twentieth century or so but you know most of the very critical or particularly many crimes that were committed . in this regime you know should be criticized for his dictatorial rule. and we'll be continuing to cover the victory day commemorations across russia this may the ninth we can stay with this in two hours time when the spectacular fireworks display of my school round off the day of remembrance to.

some of the day's news now a libyan boat carrying up to six hundred people trying to flee the violence torn countries reportedly some of the coast of north africa follows an early report of sixty one migrants from libya dying from hunger on another vessel which had been drifted about a trade in for of it's a week's witnesses say nato deliberately ignored the boat mayday calls from a well general payload of a no still has been outspoken on the treatment of refugee says it shows willful negligence. trying to events are sound the only surprising to me you talking about the most sophisticated technological arm in the world and they would not be capable of finding some boats at sea while they are have operations that chasing privates on the coast of somalia where they can spot one simple tank in a city and they could not do that i highly doubt it so we doubt getting to the heirs of the specific events this holiday surprise me but it's only logical

humanitarian concerns are not on the agenda of nader as i can tell that he's going to flee the regimes that we have kept in place in the first place it's only a human reaction to a desperate situation and by bombing this country is not going to help on the contrary what we could do is help tunisia and help egypt the democratic move and that would send. precisely not what we're going to do is really very fast with our armies but when it comes to rescue people to be so slow there's no it's not it's not some some law of nature that this is a willing politics that this is our prayers and not people that are in the military and. his fighting meantime continues in the libyan city of misrata the rebel stronghold of spin under siege for weeks over two thousand nato coalition air strikes launched into the beginning of the allied intervention and so far failed to topple colonel gadhafi and his other ben it's been discovering how some of those

involved in the campaign are finding it harder to justify the cost. 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 air 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 but we're anticipating a number that was considering. that we aren't that many nation that is using fighter planes. let's take us for example they're using grownups they have had result but i don't have any. then mark 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 but parliament says it can afford it 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 really follow big daddy the. united states for its words as war against gadhafi so they go all junior partner the danish parliament was unanimous in backing a bombing campaign in libya the first time ever on 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 denmark good for. sooty again with a ground offensive looming i think it's likely because the prime minister wants to be a strongman is precedes there's a coming election. and also that is the policy of the current government to be as close with the u.s. 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 are then it r.t. copenhagen well estimates being made on how long nato intervention in libya will last another u.s. backed mission might not be able to pack its bags as expected america's planning to keep troops in iraq beyond the deadline set for later this year and is out is meant

to put an air explains there's more to it than a drive for democracy. 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. 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 it for eight years now i mean you reckon people have wanted us out and we stayed there for

their own good that's not democracy. anger over u.s. 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 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 this summer to 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 the ultimate trophy prize in this eight year war at the very least in order to deny china or any of their perceived intentional rival control of valuable resources the idea. ingrained in the thing

he holds these new york fun. our strategists in washington d.c. who are still very much in power is that we must control the middle east because that's where the. experts say the u.s. also wants to remain in the region keep an eye on syria and contain iraq if there were developed in syria go to the extent that there is a fall of the regime we don't know what kind of regime or maybe they could be. us through 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 but from the perception of american interests meanwhile the perception of america as democracy remains somewhat distorted has it been used as a tool to achieve a geo political gains in financial interests who are all washington in the end listening to the voice of the people growing up or nine r.t.

. we want to know that later in the program people of us cross-talk examines of people power is fighting a losing battle when it comes to stopping the countries from starting foreign wars joyous more of that here on our t.v. than in three hours time. around the world tonight heavy gunfire. across the country continue to try and break up anti-government protests it comes amid reports of nationwide house to house raids with hundreds allegedly detained as authorities zone in on protest leaders since the outbreak of violence over eight hundred people are thought to have died with around eight thousand believed to be imprisoned or missing. footage here 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 officials are saying will significantly reduce radiation levels at the facility japan's also shutting down its nuclear plant which is two hundred kilometers west of tokyo

because of severe seismic risks. it's uneasy and prosecutors have brought sterrett charges against a radical cleric linked to several deadly attacks abu bakar bashir is accused of being a key figure in the militant group that carried out the bali bombing which killed two hundred sixty people mostly western tourists but a lack of evidence means he will only face charges of funding terrorism which could see the seventy two year old get a life sentence. on the small way surely unions got more on the rise and rise of novak djokovic that's in fifteen minutes than before more storable detail about the great patriotic war in our latest interview my name is kevin other than that so the next hour looks them here on r t from moscow.

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