the some of those are good for her to the ground in period truly the top western hills coromandel you can a listener till till she lived there to see don't need to go and look foolish brenda said the colonel was her child as used to retreat. at four thirty pm moscow time these are the headlines on our team a plane crash in northwest russia claims another life bringing the death toll to forty five experts are investigating the evidence from the site of the soundless the cause of monday's massacre feet early reports suggest a pilot error is to blame. the greek government narrowly wins a vote of confidence and or sing the savage cuts required to secure a new e.u. bailout into the save state stave off i should say that default thousands of angry

greeks protests against new measures saying their voices are not heard. and. possible former soviet republics remember the victims of the war against fascism wednesday march the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion of the u.s.s.r. more than twenty five million people died to bring about victory on the eastern front. next march is laura emmett sits down with british historian dr michael jones who's written extensively about world war two he shared his knowledge about why hitler invaded the u.s.s.r. and how the soviet people managed to win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation barbarossa hitler's code name for germany's invasion helped to save the union it became the largest ever military operation in those things terms of resources deployed and

also in casualties and michael jones's new book tells the story of the reds all major in the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. today now let's start from the beginning of operation barbarossa why did hitler decide to invade the look always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nineteen forty one and slights underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism. and that was what he really put out your that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a menace that needed to be destroyed but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads my. book it's clear that he always

wanted to carve out living space. and youth experience of the people he regarded as racially inferior and when he announced operation that he told himself that it was a war of annihilation and he he he thought in terms of a war of survival. it was going to be the survival of the fittest and it didn't take i'm starting to realize the consequences of that that there would be horrific losses. and that was indeed what happened how unexpected was the invasion i mean hitler and stalin had signs the molotov ribbentrop pact making them allies on. the allies of course but allies nonetheless they were allies and the soviet union was caught by surprise and this was stalin's great. stalin was not naive but he thought that germany would not attack in nineteen forty one he thought would come later and he believed that he could use this product to develop the soviet union's

and sphere of influence and at the same time. the ride on me i'm transfer industry is going to be on your own mountains but in fact he got it very very badly wrong and of course the red army was cool deeply unprepared in nine hundred forty one your book is about the sort of human story behind the how did it develop militarily during the conflicts at the beginning of nine hundred forty one the red army was hunted. by the autumn of one thousand four hundred one of the last between two and three million tons of killed in this thing and captured i think few are the arm is in the world to sustain that level of punishment and still carried on fighting and it was not madness from. its high come on to believe at that point the soviet union caved and what was it that kept the red army fighting that's the sixty four thousand dollar question an extraordinary mix of. brutal leadership tough

leadership from stalin but it was necessary to be tough and new autum of nineteen forty one and stalin result in moscow would be to fund it and they would keep fighting but it was also true to some profound truth to say that the red army recovered from the initial crisis realized it was a battle for survival and what was at stake was not just a communist system but russia as a country and the soviet union i was in a boardroom and without and it really did become a part share of it war it was an unusual time in that developed quite a lot. during a time of calm states what do you think explains the marked difference in its effectiveness from say nine hundred forty one to for example the stalling got in which it secured a stunning victory one of course that technical reasons to the red army in the midst of war is is retraining me. it's the worst possible time to do it but they

are doing it and to give them credit this begins to make a difference they transfer their industry as they get them up and running and certainly by the end astonishing that better trained and better equipped but the germans still from there to both and i believe there to fight was just the science of war the technical side germany could very well have won at either a nine hundred forty run and i'm sure for you to put it with love it was this extraordinary determination to carry on fighting that the germans underestimated to hit once the short sharp shock and quick campaign was crucial but it didn't work out like the told that he thought it would all be over and he was not alone and off to the war the german generals just nonsense we were against it but at the time many of them agreed with hitler they thought he was a very quickly in three months and of course we won't make the same mistake there's no cody and we won't have a winter war because we want to do with them they were carried away by their own

successes their previous successes blitzkrieg lightning war and they believe that if they hum of the road from here it will be. that they are underestimated the red army and the underestimate of the soviet union i was that a turning point or was it just the concepts of the winter in the weather they just left the pipe for well the germans blame the weather. again and you could just prop seen that one coming but they were caught by surprise and they said the weather rolled them that in five i think the weather was part of the. and the other part that was much harder for them to acknowledge was that an army of the same to feed to demoralize them last in a matter of weeks and five days turned itself around and started fighting and resisting with stupendous power and the first turning point was outside moscow the germans expected to take the conflict so they were later than they thought but they

still thought that would on the war and it was the strength and determination of resistance that caught them by surprise how does a campaign hit was repeatedly. taking western russia would in fact be more of a drain on germany's economic resources than it would be beneficial why did he go ahead with the campaign anyway. was motivated by his own sons of leadership he believed he had a mission and almost divine mission a very dark divinity. to lead his people to great success and it was this mission that he was going to follow on on a fundamental level he was never really going to listen to advise that he perceived that the soviet union was the enemy and he also believed its resources could be plundered and used for a great teacher i me at the end of the day he was going to follow. what what were

the consequences of the ultimate failure of operation. well it destroyed the german army it destroyed it throughout the war the majority of its resources were concentrated on the front and even off to d.-day. in freeport it was this division of its military divisions were fighting on the eastern front so it was where the biggest battles took place because casualties took place under. the rug and it's just more casualties we could do with replace those casualties. so it became a war of attrition and also. lee it was and it could be germany that would lose that war and it was this dreaded phrase that war on two fronts wasn't. well hitler believed that a war on two fronts could work if you won the war against the soviet union quickly and of course if anyone quickly and that could well being the case but once the war

started dragging on into nineteen forty two nineteen forty three germany was worst and that marked which had behaved with a deal of decorum on the western front it's behaved in a completely different way in the east didn't it what do you put that down well part of the war the german claimed it was fighting a clean war and it was. the the units behind the army and it was the us that were doing all the unpleasant stuff that was i'm not sure that some soldiers on the eastern front would decently behave decently but many were infected by the race proper conduct towards the smallest was accused and the german army i participate in atrocitus atrocities against the jews against the russian civilian population and we knew they were going on. just a thought and i mean the justification was we were fighting a brutal war of survival. but war with darker than any other war in

the twentieth century and indeed possibly in human history the role played by the union is vastly underappreciated in the west why is. one part it's the legacy of the cold war surprisingly history is normally written they say by the victors but our view of this part of our history is very strongly by the germans because the german view became incorporated into the historical faith thinking in the in with a call. world so there was an underestimation or an unwillingness to recognize what the soviet union and to fully and i think the cold war in part was the reason for that but i think the other reason is the scale is so vast i mean we're talking about twenty seven million and times the civilian and military casualties i think

the other reason is simply it's so big the people the struggle to really comprehend one of the things i wanted to do in my book is to make that story comprehensible account and to give it a human voice so that people can relate so rather than just being a mass of rather overwhelming statistics that's michael james thank you very much thank you. today children play war in the old case to me. nine hundred forty one these walls when the first barrier from another troops on their way to moscow. the funders of breast cancers are dying one by one undersea

says. one. in the last shoulder and on main soldier left a few simple words farewell model and i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. an inflation cluster in the center of siberia one city has revolutionary ideas for the automotive industry you're ok and it is that some of the infections straight out of the software to make three dollars free in the building blocks for russia's first nationwide four g. network homeschooling top line technology optics. please the future

coverage. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand days. of. feel several kilometers long. and now as a result the one person who. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is the most appropriate city signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going

on. history be protected. return to tara with julian cooper story on our cheek. artie's top stories a plane crash northwest russia claims another life pretty good death toll to forty five experts are investigating the evidence from the site without the cause of monday's catastrophe early reports suggest a pilot error to supply. the greek government narrowly wins a vote of confidence indorsing the savage cuts required to secure a new e.u. bow out in order to stave off a debt default but thousands of angry greece protests against new measures say their voices are not to be encouraged. because the former soviet republics remember

the victims of the war against russia. wednesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion of the u.s.s.r. some twenty seven million people died to bring about victory on the eastern front. so those stories coming up in detail in about fifteen minutes next sport with kate . hello welcome to the sports news on a busy day of football and tennis action and here a little story is the new special one under a blush dallas is confirmed as the new chelsea manager after moving from porter on a three year deal. while off to a flier maria sharapova rushes rushing to graduate and check the times they go through to the second round at wimbledon. and he no sevens rugby touches down in moscow this weekend with the european groom create. their first of all i'm chelsea have confirmed and regular us is the club's new manager the former porto head will

start work immediately in west london after signing a three year deal for his departure from portuguese champions on tuesday the thirty three year old who previously worked as a scout on the jersey renia actual seat on the travel with porto last season secure in the domestic league title and half as well as the rightfully crowned lush grass is the youngest ever manager at stamford bridge the same age as frank one part and thirty eight program these sacked their previous coach clients last week last month . now this wednesday there is a packed programme in the russian premier league announcement round before a month long summer break tom have got the ball rolling at home that are stalled and later lost their job is completely just a scar how one fine of the last six games and steve and contact has denied in the lobby the visitors first noticed that a silky charge informs him it's in petersburg kentucky boasts the league's top two scorers and thinks about boulder travel to twice former champions rubin second wasn't really is the better off welcome high flying and i'm confident rock bottom

spot now take on a cross the last take on correct it's paul knew it was any time running out of one more is among the transfer interest this summer we've managed decision saying they will release the togo star if the money runs out of i always thought from asking for twenty five. ten years ago being sixty six the first significant i actually lost on the way up and ready to offer only a maximum of eight million pounds. for me while former tottenham boss martin yalta signed a two year deal to become manager of fellow english premier league side fallen and the fifty five year old dutchman says he is delighted to be going back to work after taking a year long break. i'm going to. change the way of the day. where you would like to come back to me internationally and when i left. you are all sorts of a back. that is now and rain has once again taken its

toll on the proceedings at wimbledon with the only match taking place on the roof covered center court so just one match at a time until the rain clears and person is five time former champion venus williams the american pregnant fourteen year old folk dancing around japan. holiday to maria sharapova who won wimbledon at the age of seventeen in two thousand and four east her way into rancy this year with a comfortable victory over russian troops and a track returns and there were no worries for the on center court sharapova dropped just three games to a six two six one win the russian woman now means that laura robson would have. been again against an opponent that's been the top turn before has an adverse results this year. in don't quite know what to expect because i'm sure she cannot match and have nothing to lose and i thought she could. good match. and there was

an emotional returns wimbledon for so we had williams the defending champion burst into tears following a hard fought victory over frenchwoman amazon when she was back right after nearly three lay off. taking six three three six to twelve so it was four hundred eighty four in one of the thirteen time somewhere. else where it was the best match of the season on grass court caroline wozniacki watched the top ranked game isn't easy six two six one i thank you for your best bet. for extra surf pretty well but anyway three conditions were very tough i think there is one point where you don't hear the ball around most income over. we're going to hear the explosions. so you know i should see about this because i could. well be ready for the next match. however ten seats down the stairs i became the biggest casualty so far off to crashing out to hunger strike to sink right outside

the top two hundred. so all over on the men's side roger federer and novak djokovic has suffered a few difficulties on route to the second round that really he was aiming for a record tying seventh all england crown didn't push himself in hard. thanks chris was always in control seven six six four six two for his friends here. so recording over these it is so nerve wracking because you don't get a chance to practice on the set of course here and so i'm happy i was able to concentrate it so it's just a moment. but also there is no doubt of it the serving was in devastating form against france's jeremy shockey six four six one six one the top of it has never reached the wimbledon final since is it right for me to break that duck. it's true that there is a different approach to this year's wimbledon from my side because i'm playing i think the best areas of my life the last six months and. that's why i called

friends wise. you know i believe in myself which one of the court that i know i have i can perform well but you can do well on the surface as i do on the other ones. well meanwhile michael i don't think that he's on his way home the russian with you know like a strain teenage publicly announced to make however and you want to cruise past germany and play it back russia's highest seat and five usually outlasted one arco tough biceps or. now russia may be busy preparing for their maiden appearance at the rugby world cup in new zealand in september another form of the sport rugby sevens will be in moscow this week on russian capital is once again hosting the second of the four stages of the european one day series russia off this overall after the season ending last week england in the way ahead of spain twelve teams are taking part of making for a patch of matches on saturday sunday and we're on home turf for the young russian team is what they'll be aiming for. goals by further in the future.

a lot is now being done we've worked out a program for the russian national team as they prepare for the twenty sixteen summer olympics in rio these are the first games to feature rights to seven storm and the town main goal now twenty thirty. sees the world cup and the whole country go each of these events in top form and produce the best possible result. having sebastopol now and one of the most highly anticipated news of the year in the n.b.a. spanish hot prospect ricky rubio finally touched down in minneapolis after a two year wait and the twenty year old is aiming to change the fortunes of the team that finished bottom of the league last season. i'm tall happy to hear the most important thing is next year i'm going to play for minnesota. going to try to we try to be a better team i'm so happy to be here. and finally let's finish with

a reminder of all the strides that flow into the nets this past weekend in the russian premier league sixteen efforts found their way past the line ensuring a top of the table so sit back and enjoy the golf rest it's called a little. live . eleven. eleven eleven eleven . eleven

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