whizzed up a dozen using methods and there were no passenger trains so we walked to let a grat. we couldn't recognize it though will take was crisscrossed over all the windows all the shop windows were blocked with sandbags. but they left some of the statues like the bronze horseman that is the middle east and even that was also covered with sandbags. so we could recognize our own city in a day the whole city was locked in. this streets emptied my

last friend left leningrad. at least mom and dad are with me we're not going anywhere we will stay until the end. i know this war will be over soon they said on the radio that it won't be for long. we are a big and strong country. i know it will be over soon i will see him. he will be back and we will be happy. to get over that bush but the love and the first bombs hit house number one hundred nine on the ski prospect of those though and my dad's factory took the germans wanted to bomb everything the most costly railway station and the train tracks leading to moscow. they were dropping bombs everywhere there were so many casualties when i heard about it i rushed to my dad's factory and met my geography teacher the head of the dead. one.

he knew my dad well voodoo they had served in the imperial army together he told me recently your father's alive don't worry about him but yeah so you. told me there was no place to escape to so he just had to carry all those bombay exams but lost their legs or arms or just more little. he's somewhere on the front no fighting the fascists he must be really close the germans are already in the outskirts of leningrad and i haven't got a single letter from him how was he is he wounded i still dream about the. three of them when i was a fishmonger next to us on rubenstein street for word of world war from the break up several times of stood there trying to fare who were aboard the shoe pyramids or virtually every hour or on display motors in the woods the shops were always full of goods only do for the one we pay you one day mum went and saw that all the

shelves were empty all your. things disappeared like that in a flash. but after that they started the food rationing. this is terrible were threatened with starvation we only have a hundred and twenty five grams of bread but soon we'll only have bread crumbs a famine is coming a real one. there hasn't been a single day that i felt full you leave the table still feeling as though you want to eat. mom asks me are you full i say of course i am. because i don't want to upset or. i don't think we can survive we will never eat properly again. at least we still have.

mom makes flat bread from it it's not very filling but at least you feel as though you have something in your stomach for a little while at least. dad brought us to rad that it's what's left over from making some flour oil spill they used it to feed it to cattle to. say it was very difficult to chew but mom tried to make it edible. jell in she boiled it as much as she could tell it even adding charcoal. it was still tred full to eat but there was nothing else so that's what we had. on walking along rubenstein street. we all have russian cards to be given these bottles of syrup they called it was sort of like sweetened water with real cool would you well someone dropped the bottle you threw up out of the smashed i'm also into the ground

and she will swear this happened i saw it with my own eyes lord the people were crawling around trying to make what they could off the ground with the words used to warm. the seeds did people feel the fear. in the vampire they bombed the diet ski warehouses the fire lasted for a few days it was awful the fire was huge the whole of living grad could see it if it was the main storage place for all the food in the city. so much that the entire storage facility was leveled to the ground zero the people who were eating the earth because it had small traces of should. granit yep i tried to eat it as well

but i couldn't it was nothing else to eat so many people ate that oh dad brought home some glue were afraid at first but then mom boiled that healing and it turned into jelly we ate it with vinegar that's what saved us. i just want to cry cry and cry some more i have such a heavy heart i'm sick of everything. even of life. starvation and famine everywhere and people keep dying sleds carry the dead through the streets from morning to night leningrad population has decreased dramatically almost two million people have already died. i visited our neighbor today her father died yesterday she was wrapped in a sheet and taken away in a sled. my only distraction now is my books.

but we delivered books that the wards had quite often i would read to the wounded soldiers. knitted up a little as there's a bill once i went to one ward and said well what should i read which they said anything but nothing about war yet you still have it so i decided to read pushkin see if getting any get into them at that was a good he writes about a duel and that you are one of the soldiers said you promised to read nothing about war but these two have just shot each other up well that was quite awkward. and the hospital today i wounded soldier told me that if you had died they would have told me by now. neither food nor letters can get through this siege just be sure to survive i will wait for you i have all your pictures my most treasured

possessions. i did my first royal from a window with arctic air to me and this is where the sphinx is can be same. here in my sketch pad which. we had to cover the sphinx as with wooden boards. to a sketch about that but then we had called the view from the article to me window. today is my birthday today i thought full dad brought two small frozen any ends and a hundred grams of raisins his whole ration. mom cooked noodles and mixed oil and bull down eons with. the noodles were lovely and grease. the ne and completely had the taste of grease the first course was jelly made from. mom brought home one

hundred fifty grams of meat today what a pleasure it was to eat just a little meat i tried to make it last as long as i possibly could it was such bliss i just want to eat eat and eat but most importantly we are still all together and on my mom dad and me. another spring in leningrad i used to love it and now i hate it so much it brings no love anymore only death. starlit nights just look like a mass grave. another summer without you. for a whole year i haven't received a single letter from you. i know you cannot be alive anymore i will never be happy again. the spring is my last.

in april all the people of leningrad went out to clean the city streets we were expecting an epidemic because the dead were everywhere and there was a roll sewage flowing past houses because the sewage system was not working. so they told everybody to go out and clean up the city and everybody did. that even those who could barely hold a tool in their hands went out to break up the ice serious gullible you. need. leningrad became so clean it was a real joy to see it. in may the tram started working again. i will never forget this day i can't believe dad is gone. news of his death was

too sad and. even today this morning we talked about him thinking he was alive remembering different things about him and we were happy that he looked relatively well. it turned out though that by then he was already gone. i cannot believe he's gone it can't be how i wanted to be a mistake it's hard it's terrible we didn't even say goodbye. a few days ago i broke my mare into pieces i was waiting for a disaster and my fears came true in the most horrible way. i cry all the time. there was nobody with it was buried in a mass grave. to china for example they're growing exactly the way the west screwed it creating

multithreaded in the system they creating more debt in the system and the rich are getting richer and the poor poor eight hundred million people live less than fifteen dollars a day in china and that doesn't seem to be changing it's the number one problem the chinese government has right now you know it seems to me that with what the rich have done is that you know they made themselves so comfortable but in the process of destroying the entire process of where they got their wealth from the first place the government stood me to look at people's wealth to worry about things into generational things that. i think if you were a billionaire as i say this is a real society that these people were going to be sort of like sitting there at the top of the telling both majority what to do. there's a media leave us so we need to be. part of the scene to the other part of the musical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that deserve answers from.

politics. to. write the scene. first street. and i think pictures. on our reporters. can still. be in the. home. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albums. in

fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our crusted like oh we've been a hydrogen lying handful of friends dash all corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have on the front row ready to join the movement then walk away from the big picture. if you need to with these economic up and downs in the find out all month long the

deal sang i and the rest because i was doing the case you will be everywhere on me . my mom was very ill. that one day your dad said we would not be going to the bomb show into. the third night there was incredibly heavy bombing where it was a direct hit on the very shelter of the boat and everyone was buried underneath here nobody survived more than. you people were too exhausted to even to remove the row. and it was so cold. the temperature was still certain degrees below zero. and it didn't get any better but if you were dome of the entire month of january february and march it was so cold thirty to forty degrees below should we could never even at the fire go out water

would freeze instantly. we took the sleds over to but couldn't prospect we put little buckets on to the sleds there was a hole in the ice close to the riverbank. although sometimes we went there to get water here throughout that it was easy to lose the buckets when we climbed back up the embankment but i q the water would splash over the rim of the buckets will be pulling those sleds was very difficult because the ground was completely frozen yell a lot but still it kept going and taking those two buckets back home that we drank that water and use it to wash there was nowhere else to get it and. the bombing is not as bad as the starvation and. i'm so then

starvation has caused mom stomach to swell she's in the hospital. i will not see her again. the doctors say she won't survive. my dear mom i can't leave you i don't want to live without you i'm all alone. mommy. cellists i spent new year's eve of nine hundred forty three alone it was very difficult. we had three separate apartments joined by a long corridor but all of them were empty because everyone had. an evacuated is it so i was alone in three apartments yet you said we will pull out c e o as to that it was dark because we had no electricity. no electricity no water. there was no heat. and we had no firewood either you will for. the worst has

happened i am sick i can't stand up and i'm freezing they're breaking up wooden houses and leningrad outside it is thirty degrees below inside it's only minus ten . water freezes in doors every day go by tram to the demolished houses i just have the energy to carry a single small plank i'm not using the firewood just in case mom suddenly comes back. out of the issues of course they let me see her in hospital yeah but i went expecting to see her round puffy face which for you but i just saw a skinny woman in the my mom i wish my dear mom that she looked so thin like there. i'm so happy i have recovered i've been back on my feet for two days when i saw myself in the mirror i was scared

i saw a completely unfamiliar old and skeletal face i now look at least thirty but that doesn't matter even if i do look like a skeleton the most important thing is i'm not sick. comrades people of leningrad this siege of leningrad has been broken by the heroic red army soldiers have built all railway across our liberated country deval destroyers the railway workers will be arriving today with the first train from a high. heartlands. january seventeenth one thousand nine hundred forty three the focus of the day the siege finally ended when we heard the noise from our soldiers guns we were so happy.

the siege took millions of lives. even now we don't know exactly how many. was. when the blockade was over what club will people started sending in food from all over the country. i'm feeling better now i go to the alexander nevsky monastery to pick grass my make soup with it it's a pity there are no nettles in leningrad they're quite tasty we have bread now the only thing that upsets me still is the bomb it's more frequent now. will we stay alive. i even want to play my guitar again i just wish the bombing of leningrad would stop. it on the ship i was really scared by the air raid sirens isn't it that they were lots of them but each of the anti aircraft guns fired

a planes were flying with them and there was a lot who are all over the sea or it was terrifying and the sirens carried on and one after the other i have no idea how our soldiers and officers cope with all that . when the bombing is over a look to the sky i don't know if god does exist but i feel he's up there somewhere . they say he doesn't exist but if you do please let my love come back down here to . look why i spent most of the seats on the rooftops. bus one leg. nobody told us to do that. but they were always dropping fire bombs though so we had no choice but to get up there to save our hosts fergus would go.

mom says i'm crying in my sleep i said that i was scared of the bomb. i saw him in a dream wounded and then dead i saw his pale face and his blue eyes looking at me his lips were white he's begging help me save me i'm waiting for him here the genius cut short by a bomb. didn't you go to the germans were shelling the city that way you see us they knew the location of every tram stop i deal with so we had to move them every single day and yesterday well they don't they in the last battle they were firing at the trams tops you know for people who were going to work when the attack started there was no way to escape that is different is that the shelling was quite far from the buildings around in the void and a sound. but that the view there was no cover to hide under a rock so there were plenty of casualties. they were firing at maternity homesick

he was just. trying to target crowded places. they did that it were quite a long time. from leningrad today is the twenty seventh of january nineteen forty four our moment of triumph has already. frayed the blockade is over we won we have survived i want to cry to cry of joy. mama survive to i miss my dad so much my dear dad we are alive how great it is to feel like i think and. today there will be fireworks people are exhausted but they will still to. to the streets my dear dear diary he's alive he's returned from the front he's lost weight i have not been this happy since before the war for the first time in my life i want to cry because i'm so happy.

we will walk along the river spring will come to leningrad again. now i know that we will have a long and happy life. i am certain of. you

know my guitar is here i can get it but if you imagine please watch even help me with my guitar. and when i thank you your welcome. oh sorry well you know how to treat it better than i do sorry i can play. home.

if we are going to reach an agreement with with the israelis israelis have to accept the fact that you know patient has to. put your money well good publicity and a future must focus and they have to realize that you know they have to do it. the kobe should of the notion of hittleman and i don't allow the palestinians to have feet in old life to plant it all the future i still have so pretty loaded on to the

city but you know i had conditions and vicious conditions to me and most of those to state this and this so it is under the control of the of stimulus this is look i'm i'm just not going to help. us nor the israelis nor the medic and it works all of us a bit he doth distribution build up to the conflict. to speak your language such. as programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world's hot spots to feel at peace interviews intriguing stories for you to. see them trying. to find out more visit arabic all teeth don't call.

live. live live live live live. live . wealthy british scientists are. time to.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kinds of reports. right from the street. first street. and i think picture. on our reporter's twitter. instagram.

could be in the cold. and to ukraine russia has claimed they have left ukraine's justice ministry building but the barricades and the blockade outside remain radical say they'll stay until the demands. hope for the syrian peace talks moved towards allowing civilians out of the embattled city and to get humanitarian aid in. the sun the british coaches who have to board for the ballots as any one in ten young people say they'll be bolted to tell it out for the next election. this is also international live from.