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than nine hundred forty. many in russia. in the. international this wednesday the ninety four. russia is celebrating victory day today marking the defeat of nazi germany it is the seventy third anniversary of the end of the great war as it's known in russia which claimed the lives of more than twenty six million soviet pay paul. and there's hardly a family in russia that wasn't affected by the pool almost everybody has grandparents aunts uncles other relatives to do for the nazis and in their own a

a special moment she's now being held of what's called the a move to regiment it's become an annual tradition and is underway in most of them and we can go live now to i think see any pranks in amongst the crowds first taking part in this march and to be as we mentioned before was also holding a picture of one of his relatives india. andrew hello again my question for you as have you ever experienced being a part of an emotional crowd of nearly one million people while if you haven't i can tell you that it is an incredible feeling and again speaking of what's happening right now all around me we're having to stop every once in a while because there are just so many people last year during the same march i remember that about seven hundred thousand people took part and that was almost

in subzero temperatures it was it really a nice day on may ninth with lots of clouds and even a bit of snow but this time it is sunny so i'm going to definitely have to check the numbers very soon because this airports all regiment march could be breaking records really thank you for mentioning my great grandfather and again i want to tell you this story and i'll keep telling this story to my children my grandchildren three years ago i made a promise when i first took part and the immortal right at barge that in the four years to come i'm going to march every year with one of my great grandfathers and memory of those who may. their sacrifice and oh really became the heroes of the war who made it possible for us to be living and peace right now and this is me kaleb evidence of he is the grandfather of my mother's about's why is last name is not

the same as mine he won a medal for liberating konigsberg which is now known ass kaliningrad the westernmost city of russia and i can tell you that behind each single portrait that you can see around me hundreds of thousands of them around me if not more there is a story and back in the days there were no e-mails no wot saps or telegrams and people were writing letters but some of these letters don't get uncovered until today what we want to show you something special called the descendants of the war heroes are reading through their thoughts that they put on paper decades ago and. do much on the chemo we have writing to tell you and your son even looking on as

the best combat in arms we had in on battle. soldiers and commanding officer enough to suit the german invaders like a true russian hero who destroyed many enemies with his gun. the sixty seven thirty am film to an enemy who. died here doing his duty defending. the entire battery buried soldiers commanding officers sworn to his grave that they will use their formidable guns to destroy hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers the owner of the memory of the beloved comrade in arms.

while i believe right now we can cross over to daniel hawkins who has also taken part in the march i believe he's at a different location much closer to the final destination of the more cell wide cement for session that is the right square dan can you hear me hopefully you can and please tell me what's going on around where you are. yes i am very close to the kremlin and the final destination of this march i don't know where you are purely because of the sheer scale issues size of the small ship all the way from the kremlin stretching back all lloyd back down to the sky one of the central streets of moscow really as far as the eye can see how many people here

today it's hard to tell half a million eight hundred thousand to maybe even a million or more this may well be a record you mentioned the weather being a factor i think most of the people here would come to this event rain or shine at this event really mean so much to the russian people. and to many people in the former soviet republics as well beyond just proven simply by the sheer scale of this event the also residents have people here bringing in photographs pictures or even just names of loved ones they lost and all those who just contributed to that great victory this able to regiment dogs begad several years ago quite a small city in siberia just a few thousand people attending in those two years since then. no not often decades it's blue to become a truly international event with dozens of countries and millions of people attending worldwide this week and today there would marches in many european cities in madrid in lisbon in london across the atlantic ocean in america in thailand they

mean israel speaking of israelis israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is here today as well these marching alongside the russian president vladimir putin who's been participating in this event as well since twenty fifteen holding up his own photos unless you are who is holding up the photo all the participants of the going patriotic war hero of the soviet union is somewhere in among the crowd and as you quite rightly mentioned earlier every photo has a story behind it every family here has been affected has the sense that made some contribution i found out my great grandmother. old never was a military surgeon during the second world war that she participated in the battle of moscow saving people's lives my great grandfather could do small to good and was also a soldier you forced the battle of stalingrad out and laid down his life there this

year is that a verse from your top particular battle as well which makes things a lot more poignant a real turning point that was in the eastern front and in world war two. but as i said every person here has a story every found money left touched by some contribution their descendants made and it really the size of this event. the record numbers of this event goes to show just how seriously the russian people take this how much it really does mean to them and this goes as we said beyond the russian borders i believe we have had events which our correspondents will recall saw in other capitals as well back to you and the issues. like a tank stand the hype sunshine continues for the coming back she were later today that was down hawkins there in the center most of them before. we were talking with a deeper trenker was both mentioned the mortar regiments are being held across the globe the march is to honor the memory of those who fell victim to the horrific events of the second world war and the regiment perceptions are being held from new

york for example to tbilisi warsaw and even kuwait city they also gathered down under as those in sydney commemorate the heroic relatives who fought the fascists our correspondent peter oliver was at the event in berlin. the march of the immortal regiment under way. songs from the second world war the great patriotic war play out we see hundreds of people marching from the brandenburg gate up towards the soviet war memorial they're all holding pictures of those that fulton in many cases. during world war two in the defeat of nazi ism and shows them events like this and monument slike the soviet war memorial here and give them a place to go to and to pay their respects and to remember those who gave their lives. when events have been held across russia to mark the day extensively and for many the centerpiece of course was the celebrations on the military parade three

red square in moscow so here are some of the highlights from the small. the marching bands get underway with marching bands from all corners of the vast expanse of the russian federation. which. can smell the fumes from all the engines more than a hundred feet goza taking part in this year's parade now we can finally see some of the vehicles moving just behind me so finally this part of the parade has

officially cape told so let's just enjoy the few that we have from this vantage point and check out and check out and i think daniel daniel holkins my colleague will be meeting those tank skills to be close on minish next whereas the rumble into the red square. here they come here they come now it is the big boys and that big toys. look at the plumes of diesel coming off these tanks that's the almost a piece of the back once a man beats a right that that's the terminator. the stones of red square my feet the vibrations it makes you think there's some sort of seismic activity underneath the kremlin.

my only question is how on earth does he parked i think. it's a thunderous fooling i don't know if many of you it should be really focused but you could feel it through your party the red the gracious. the two ninety five and this thing is as nato has come to cool them and the one hundred percent sure. the you get this sheer size of these aircraft through you know a camera lens but they're enormously sometimes defies reason logic our the things that be. lost.

to reflect camera shops one camera also caught an unusual scene on red square at one point a war hero was seen being forced anxious away by members of the presidential security saying the president saw what was happening he went to the bedroom and invited him to walk to the tune of the unknown soldier to lay flags. ok let's return to the events of the war that changed the course of humanity because the siege of leningrad which is now some pages remains one of its most horrific chapters the city was completely surrounded by germans in one nine hundred forty one the blockade lasted eight hundred seventy days and claimed the lives of up to one and

a half million people all major supply routes were cut off with only one exception the famous road of life running across the frozen lake but don't go. we know that you're hooded so it was june and we blocked out dutch and then my dad appeared with a changed look on his face and said yes swore i'd like to speak but i had never had it before my dad gave me a little slap to stop my joking around just then and actually it's me chips me and .

below we walked we had only a celebration on the truck in the car they satirists on the benches and gave each one of us the commander a woman an amazing fruit i don't think i had ever each and one before even. the your local ones i mean when i grew up did i find out my mandarin was brought to me by a mexican drug doctor it was a hole that was in a church wasn't just holding it was a whole world from a nazi but in school. and

they stay with r.t. for a special coverage of the events and celebrations that continue as russia marks the seventy third anniversary of victory day. now in other news u.s. president donald trump is making good on his threats this time pulling actually you ran you could you do you he's also vowed to reimpose the toughest sanctions on syria i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal the agreement to restrict iran's nuclear energy program the crowning achievement of the obama white house has finally been terminated by the donald today's action sends a critical message the united states no longer makes empty threats when

i make promises i keep them but how much impact is this really having only one country the united states is withdrawing and the riaa doesn't seem particularly worried i have ordered the ministry of foreign affairs to negotiate with and lobby the european countries as well as russia and china and to carry out the necessary qward a nation with them russia and china are ready to keep things going as it is so are key allies of the united states and the european union and european union is the tournament to preserve it we expect the rest of the international community to continue to do its part to that and see that it continues to be fully implemented but the say of our own collective security together with the rest of the international community we will preserve this nuclear deal. if we go under the current circumstances we call on all parties concerned to adopt

a responsible attitude can china will maintain close communication with all relevant parties and stay committed to upholding and implementing the deal in an objective impartial and responsible way. we're deeply concerned over the u.s. president's decision to you know actually abandon its obligations under the join comprehensive plan of action on the iranian nuclear program and reimpose sanctions on iran now this isn't the only global decision the trumpet ministration has made to be met with chirping crickets remember when the usa moved its embassy to jerusalem other than paraguay and guatemala the rest of the world was not exactly clamoring to follow suit and remember one truck pulled out of the paris climate change accords well the other one hundred ninety five countries that have signed on they frowned at washington for a minute and then they moved on as if nothing had happened the accords remain exactly the same so once again we've got a big drum roll and fanfare from the white house but with the rest of the world refusing to go along is washington's global leadership really all it's cracked up

to be everyone now recognizes that it's the united states that is that is unreliable than untrustworthy and they cannot be trusted even to abide by its own commitments the iranians. they're not going to be as much as they would have been if the united states had implemented the agreement so the iranians have been dealing with sanctions on a daily basis for years now and they've learned how to circumvent those sanctions and what the united states is doing is it's basically pushing these countries closer to each other even u.s. allies like european union countries because when crone and the german chancellor merkel go to the united states and are completely ignored. well the rain you know make has met trump decision without rage and found a way to express their fury see quite literally m.p.'s burn us flag right in the chamber with the full support of the members.

besides trump one of those most in favor of scrapping the new can you cream and has been israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who as we heard earlier is currently in moscow he recently gave a rather theatrical powerpoint presentation decrying the deal that he has praised the u.s. president's decision israel is opposed the nuclear deal from the start because we said that rather than blocking the iran spoke to. the deal actually proves you wrong to an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs israeli influence is absolutely key here trump cited netanyahu is kind of used cars the salesman style presentation in order to justify withdrawing from the iran deal and his new policy of rollback and you know first of all we have to recognize netanyahu introduced nothing new in his presentation the intelligence was arguably fabricated that netanyahu it introduced that trump cited it's another intelligence scam driving us to war however the

nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency has confirmed that iran is honoring its commitments to the deal of the signatories are also to fill their obligations to despite the u.s. withdrawal so let's take a quick look back now at how the cream and was put together. it took nine years of talks numerous attempts and was even days of meetings. we're seeing. the e.u. u.s. russia china and iran had to overcome their trust issues. are racist but they believe it was even possible. to be able to. and yet it happened a diplomatic breakthrough a true success after a decade long standoff that.

one country to one happy i think this is a bad. deal for a while he was all on his own until the new guy came to the white house the worst sales i've ever seen and the disaster is still one of the dumbest details one of the worst deals ever heard was the iran deal i'm all for agreements but that was a bad one first came decertifying the day we cannot and will not make this certification the e.u. took it personally president of the united states as many posts not this one from twenty even further threatening to pull out of the deal altogether i fear total terminations that's a very real possibility some would say that's a greater possibility israel was jubilant but they're trying to bamboozle the entire world and i'm very glad that president well enough without the e.u.

tried to knock some sense into trump with france germany and the u.k. sending their top guys to try and change his mind the president has been right to call attention to it but you could do that without just throwing the baby out with the bathwater nine years of talks a diplomatic breakthrough a true success was it all for nothing. international thanks me company this afternoon will be back with more on the latest on these big three day celebrations taking place here in moscow plus other areas around the world saying about how fast time.

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outcome of a meeting between their closest ally in the middle east israeli pm benjamin netanyahu and russia's newly inaugurated leader vladimir putin coming on the show as donald trump slams london for hospitals like war zones we get on says on gangs with chants and corbin winning elections from the former chair of scotland yard operation trident claudio webb now on the national executive of britain's labor party and from former u.k. home office minister on the tories of may to protest rock n roll that we are former live in baker about his new solo album and about his role in the wind drug scandal last from that line how bungling boris was not so foxy on us t.v. the american fleet that's all it see again both the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first what does it say about international human rights and law enforcement the gina hospital is wanted by the old trump and barack obama's espionage bosses to run the notorious cia the world has known about alleged cia

violations of international law around the world for decades from the death squads of central america to assassinations in africa so what is house bill done that is so bad even she saw the merit in withdrawing today's bid to run the organization potential cia director gina half offered to withdraw her nomination to head the spy agency but the president rebuffed her humble offer so how humble is she here is someone who worked with our interviewed here on a gene it has all. over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program that's the take of cia whistleblower john kiriakou but if her spell is confirmed today won't she be winning. rightful place is the people's choice or the u.s. electoral college is choice for running the agency after all it was trump who said this on the campaign trail yes i would bring back waterboarding and make it a hell of a lot worse than what did you have in mind i had in mind going worse than waterboarding it's enough we have right now

a country that's under siege it's under siege from people from like living in medieval times how the cia will function with british law enforcement agencies around the world knows it is led by so-called godmother of illegal us torture her school is open to question trump is there on the record for slamming an unnamed hospital in the british capital for resembling a war zone it comes after sixty two murders in london so far this year well joining me now is the former chair of scotland yard's operation trident she's now on the national executive committee of one of europe's largest socialist movements a british labor party led by jeremy corbyn claudia thanks for coming back on the show aside from torture which presumably you nor the labor party can do and see international has issued a report today criticizing the metropolitan police's gang matrix to tell you what the gang matrix is first of all because it was there when you working at the met i know well at first i didn't work for the mets i was part of the set of people from the community that got together and said enough was enough and set up operation

trident as a partnership with the police to tackle the disproportionate effect of gun crime on essentially young black communities so what we sought to do was create a step change in a male and enable the police to be with a better relationship with the black community based on trust and confidence rather than based on the what they were doing that at that time which was what they called yardie crime and indeed importing criminals from overseas in order to help them solve what was largely a particular problem affecting men in five minutes you see in guns to protect the crack cocaine industry for scotland you know him. porter of the criminals who oversees yes they did that in the in the in the sense of what they call what they called police informants what we would core criminals informants essentially they have a better relationship with people overseas than they did with the black community in britain mood.