in the headlines this morning polls show former u.s. vice president joe biden leading against bernie sanders in the race for the twenty twenty democratic presidential nomination evoking memories that have twenty six being contests to tell you all about it also ahead hiking up market but in restaurant refuses to serve the leaders of germany is a big party because if they're on the migrant politics. big day here in russia the country celebrating victory day today marking the seventy fourth anniversary of

nazi germany's capitulation with military parades and smoke morial ceremony. good morning live from russia around the world this is out international with me kevin knowing good to have you company it's not i am here now this ninth of may and as i said in the headlines there a special day we'll bring you the start of our coverage of the victory day celebrations in commemorations later in the program but first those news headlines in more detail former u.s. vice president joe biden has a clear lead it seems over socialist bernie sanders in the contest for the twenty twenty democratic presidential nomination according to the latest polls and it seems many of the media and the party's leadership are already throwing their weight firmly behind the centrist front runner as they did with hillary clinton kind of hope it explains. a new poll shows that joe biden has surged ahead in the race for the democratic nomination in two thousand and twenty the poll shows that

forty six percent of democrats are backing joe biden as the potential nominee with only fourteen percent backing bernie sanders and despite a lot of other polls telling a very different story the media has jumped on this one voices are now telling us why he's the best choice for the democrats and this is a guy who doesn't hate republicans like you see some of the folks on the website you mean for joe biden is that he's the most electable candidate for democrats to beat donald trump i think joe biden best chance of success is this sudden coronation remind you of anything hillary clinton is the best candidate democrats can put forward a take on donald trump voters in wisconsin think hillary clinton is the best candidate hillary clinton is the best candidate the media tells us that joe biden is the most experienced candidate biden is certainly the most experienced candidate i think hillary clinton is the single most experienced and prepared person who has ever run for president of the united states furthermore it stresses the point that

biden is a centrist he's actually kind of a centrist which is one of the reasons why i think republicans fear him more than the others hillary clinton is not threatened in terms of the nomination because she is a pretty moderate centrist democrat and in fact biden's first campaign fundraiser happened at the home of the exact same guy his name is david cohen he's the chief lobbyist for the media conglomerate known as comcast now both biden and clinton voted for the iraq war both biden and clinton have lots of wall street donors and both biden and clinton screamed to lock him up in the one nine hundred ninety s. driving america's incarceration rate sky high for those who may have forgotten hillary clinton was trump's victory in the twenty sixteen election was interpreted largely as a rebuke of a failing political establishment now hillary clinton's husband got some interesting advice you. ago my wife gave me a psychology book several months ago in which the author defined insanity is doing

the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result perhaps it's time to revisit that book polls are often a reflection of media coverage and the corporate media in the united states low suman gives him lots of coverage and that can give him support in polls and they often poll likely democratic voters which is not the same thing as who actually ends up voting in a general election even jest who answers polls is not the same thing as who votes clinton she was the most experienced and the most right wing of the democrats and the media loves turd but it didn't mean she could get elected in fact the polls were overwhelmingly clear time and time again media appreciate that there are massive purchases of advertising by twenty twenty has already engaged in of what their media like someone telling everyone they are the leading candidate as they did overwhelmingly with hillary clinton does not in any way obvious mean that

that is a candidate who is going to win the election. the leaders of the anti-microbial to germany puffy partly been turned away from the top but in restaurant restaurant said it would not serve politicians who show hostility towards ethnic and religious minorities our europe correspondent peter all of us got more on the controversy this morning. what's not to love about a spot of fine dining at the end of the day we're getting a table can always be a bit of a pain of course but it seems with some opposition politicians here in berlin it's got a bit more difficult members of the on the immigration alternative to germany party including the national figurehead salix on the gallon good morning and alison vital to be sitting down for dinner at been swimming pool cody bunco italian restaurant just behind me however the owners. said the way the reached out to the restaurant and ask them why this message since two thousand and one team is welcome guests

from all over the world they're of different sex descent and race and speak different languages belong to different religions and have different political opinions in our opinion if he does not share this cosmopolitanism tolerance and acceptance that we live by it without guests every day this is why we've exercised our right to refuse service we do not welcome guests whose attitude is not shared by our establishment a response was sent out on social media by a party spokesman who called the move undemocratic and stupid perhaps as an act of revenge and a campaign poster currently stands front and center outside of the restaurant. the response from supporters was to flood the restaurant tripled by the page with. comments some criticize the pricing some the portions others said should we bring along our membership cards to the parties we support every time we go for dinner

the website trip advisor actually suspended comments on that page because there were so many messages it's currently trying to work out which ones are genuine one of the reasons given by the restaurant is that they have staff and guests from all over the world and it pushes hard on an antique multiculturalism agenda but should a business be able to deny service based on political persuasion i asked people on the streets of berlin what they thought to spare own business they should have the right to. turn away anybody they should respect other private opinions. and restaurants should stay neutral there shouldn't be any political restrictions it is not a. part of something who works in a cafe to for. a political statement also should be independent from the body system. these places should be for everyone at the end of the day everybody comes out of this essentially is

a winner book good tobacco free advertising and they get to appeal to their base as a party outside of the mainstream ahead of coming parliamentary elections peter all of our people in. the world is counting down to when south africa which is held what's been described as its most crucial election in over twenty years and at this stage the african national congress looks on course to extend its rule to record forty eight parties through the house in the ring this time is three considered front runners polls published last month suggested the african national congress would continue governing the country the centrist democratic alliance despite a strong fight is expected to fall well short while the far left the economic freedom fighters are expected to double their vote since the last election the co-founder of the champion south africa movement predicts incumbent presidents will indeed be given a second chance. it could well be the first time the ruling party this one in every election since one thousand nine hundred four may well lose hold of the election

that means either gets below fifty and be voted out of power or get very close to that and have to form a coalition with another party to stay in power so that is the is the key significant point if the former president of the a.n.c. or the government of south africa president zuma at the time was still in power i would tell you now i'm almost certain they would fall below fifty percent we've had now the deputy former deputy president as the president he was the choice i want to clear nelson mandela to be the person of the country all those years ago this is a sense that people are going to give him a chance to see if we can fix up the problems of the party now the point you've raised is not something being silently discussed is being openly discussed from within the a.n.c. there's an a.n.c. that needs massive reformation and the sense they selling is that. is your main. the. ruling party's popularity seems to be waning over a perceived failure to address key issues has come under fire for failure to combat

high unemployment which currently stands around twenty seven percent or so the fight against crime has been a key issue in the campaign with theft and murder rates on the rise and probably the most contentious issue has been land reform seventy one percent of farm land is still in the hands of white farmers and some parties and that suggesting they've been removed from the land without compensation hugely controversial to this day as we talk about over the years one of those calling for such reform is julius malema let's talk about him he's the leader of the far left economic freedom fighters party or f.-f. malema has previously been convicted of hate speech and inciting violence against the country's white minority he was also expelled from the income with a n c for selling racial division back in twenty twelve but he's been brought back in the spotlight again in recent months with some fiery rhetoric. you will remember. oh we are currently. do you know what. does.

that do you know. why this occurred to. me if i have. why i really want to know. why not. why don't. you i'm saying to you we're not called for the killing of white people at least for now. the future. but i was also come under fire first stoking racial tensions or his campaign to shove god there again says the candidates charged slogans are crossing a line. of course speaks of very non racial lines on the one hand but he makes no bones about the fact that he is there to serve the black masses the black this and french ice masses that i think that's absolutely understandable but he feels very close to the wind in making certain comments of the latest one about the seat at the front table i understand the imagery the reality is it could well drum up

people to believe literally that's what he means if we don't sit with you we destroy the table and that in a racially charged environment is unacceptable more so as we know on election day. authorities in a fuller northern israel are apparently making good on a promise to quote preserve the city's character in a highly controversial step mother decided to ban arabs from visiting a local artist paul asli has got the story for you. this is the northern israeli town of afula home to around sixty thousand people most of whom are jewish the town and particularly this park women use recently because of its citizens to maintain what they call the character of the place and the way to do this according to the town's mayor is to shut out so-called minority members that say arab citizens of nearby villages that's just a euphemism for keeping arabs out and. the book is a police open german it is not the police only for jews. only for residents of.

an increase is discrimination they do not directly say that is against arabs but not a lot of arabs and even our food and who feel like it is forbidden for us to. sit ins here disagree they say that people who don't live in the town should not be allowed into the park the official word from the municipality is that we must safeguard. it insists that because. closure of the park to nonresidents has nothing to do with jews and arabs they'd rather it's a way of exposing the town's residents to a host of activities that they can participate in when they would like the people all the jews come here one arabs come here they just cause problems if you care that is at least belongs to the city and it's just in the interest of their residents to look after its place so people from the outside don't have that interest but i'm not a visit entend i'm here this matter will now forward into the lap of the interior

ministry to decide later this month. a fuller northern israel starts international lives collapse nine fourteen thursday morning visa live pictures as well from just outside red square big focus on there today of course the big victory day celebrations and commemorations massive televised around the world is now a military parade is going to happen so you can see the tanks there that's nearby first sky ready to roll into red square will be covering it bring it all parade in the coming hours this is our two international. and twenty first century both of these. elements of the day and at the moment do it isn't a table people would like to see interactive t.v. which is happening to individuals are using their judges through facebook from me

to another interacting with me but it's going to think it's going to. from the people's seeing the results. so the currencies are free for all there is no gold standard and there's no way to reconcile this and that and the world's every other country is competing as a race to the bottom at the same time it's fair to say. that there is now several countries that. i think characterized as being on a war footing so the u.s. by saying well we don't have a recession anymore and we don't have any credo action to defend our currencies value in any way they're opening the door in a big big way to extremely violent global conflict.

again very good morning my name is kevin knowing this is international so this thursday russia marks the seventy fourth anniversary of the surrender of nazi germany and the end of the great patriotic war as it's known here and while the years have passed by and the horrors of the conflict become increasingly distant for a lot of people maybe around the world not here every possible effort is made to remember the suffering and the sacrifice of almost every solve it family. it's hard to convey how much victory day holds a special place in popular culture here because of the incredibly high price paid by the peoples of the soviet union and over the course of the gruelling war on the eastern front which was unparalleled in its over twenty five million servicemen and civilians perished. one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict in fact in history

took place in stalingrad it lasted for two hundred days between one hundred forty two and one hundred forty three and cost the red army over one million one hundred thirty thousand soldiers germany's losses were even higher on the losing the battle the nazi leadership declared national mourning many historians see the battle of stalingrad as a watershed moment too one that dramatically altered the course of the wall. even now. harrowing reminders of the ferocity of the fighting and being uncovered next we bring you a letter that was uncovered with the remains of two soviet soldiers in never made it home. i was still in the collaborates digging and the last one left i've been injured and will not last long.

but i will stay here i will die when i refused to give in to the enemy tell my wife that i was defending the motherland. we will win no matter what. was. a venture comrades. traditionally military parades of course a key component of the victory day celebrations some of the country state of the art military hard will be on display in moscow too in a display strength that is how it will prevent any future conflict crucially an offer of russians a sense of security is at its beauty it the first victory parade was held on the

twenty fourth of june nine hundred forty five over a month after nazi germany's capitulation during the soviet era celebrations were also held on the twentieth of the fortieth anniversary of the victory since one thousand nine hundred five military parades have been held annually with each one generally having some unique features about the last big one was in twenty fifteen we brought you that course we'll bring it to every year is the course in store well in just about twenty forty minutes time there when this pray kicks off at ten in the morning just before moscow time. you. know what's in front of me here our graphics department extremely pretty good

excuse for as mentioned almost every victory day parade in the passes and defining feature this year no exception we got this brand new russian made executive car called an aura switch will be carrying russia's defense minister sergei show a good bit later but the first time this car's appeared in such a setting it's the open top version of it not seen that before a slightly different version of the vehicle the saloon car made its debut back in may twenty eighth injuring vladimir putin's presidential inauguration you may recall the russian leader also used norris limo during his meeting with the in the hell sink in helsinki last summer with donald trump of course ago you may remember those well fine looking thing isn't it now we're going to be bringing a rolling coverage of today's parade to get sent away almost because red square just over half an hour from now the let's go there close by any way now to moscow for us morning. we've been asking all the staff who may have been caught up in this and their families over the years to try and contribute as well to get our viewers a bigger picture of what's happening it's going to be a poignant day for you as well and your family your relations your grandmama i

believe tell us about that later but what are you doing down there today what's happening behind you right now. you know good morning from miners and their square cabin just a stone's throw from the red square all the action is going to be taking place and whatever day can you see what other day moscow's history could you see thousands of troops hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles marching through central moscow of course that is the ninth of may victory day parade and moscow undefeated moscow victorious and all those tanks are. just behind me here dozens of those armored vehicles preparing for those final final finishing touches polishing up before driving through two red square and of course it's a very dramatic sight besides of the thirty five military formations all these tanks the fly over of course that's what people have come to see it all makes for quite an important site but the second part of the parade is just as important it's the so-called immortal regiment it's a tradition of began and twenty twelve in a small city in siberia it's now gone global it's estimated at around ten million

people in russia take part a million here in moscow and also around the world one hundred ten different countries around five hundred different cities relatives relations all of those who died who gave their lives fighting and defeating fascism marching out with photos with portraits of those relatives through their cities that could be taking place a little later here in central moscow something that really does bring people together and quite literally in some cases as you mentioned there kevin we did some digging around in family history and found out that my grandma whose father died defending stalingrad back in one thousand nine hundred eighty two has a brother who she had never previously met he lives in khazan in central russia and we decided what. better day what better day what better place and time to bring them together to meet for the first time and share all of that memory of their father who died instead of god they met for the first time yesterday here next to

red square this is what happened. after. closest the streets is looking. over to the furthest enough. i'd review your ears to hear what the line for your stick was or was a. lot of the system i think will need to look at the options cuts and it's similar to the exits when the preview show them was the first system you identifying.

with impartial get over the falls out of feet if he were more than. a huge city for a very big on the. scene by yeah did. he have a lot of us with of the evil of. sperm in there at the will of this conserve them give them. a solution that called analysis with agents of the week to you which england scuzz almost all of you have in the idea that. even the full by nelson. group in the now would it's a. true theme to do kids even if you come violet soon the ballasts me unless you

have a new mine is sufficient to do. a rather. than a thing or three for. the word destroy your do most of would i jump all the way to it but deletes it gets to me most bits responding then you know about say that i knew this when they knew. you the most to move over with them about the. the it's. just one small story of many thousands of stories are going to be told throughout the day kevin and of course there's a lot of public holidays in russia a lot of celebrations women as they may day defined or the fatherland day and you're quite right in saying none of the old piling of barrison to this main holiday this main celebration of the year bringing together people from the whole

country all the time zones color craig creed race religion the country on this day is very much you know it's it we've got correspondents here multiple positions on the red square to bring you coverage from all angles throughout the day. will come but you just a bit looking forward to the parade and then you can talk us through along with the rest of the team down there today thanks dan for now well talking of poignant moments we previously had the story of a ninety four year old veteran who joined the resistance straight after she graduated from school become a frontline scout but then she sustained injuries that prevented her from having children later in life husband died a few years ago too nice alone her name is anna ivanova. people to send her letters and postcards to mark victory day and the response it seems has been overwhelming. pressure treated. just to get to the end user the rumor that if you could

hear. your. p.c. hear the preacher. and you think. you'd be very. fair . question here very interesting because for sure. you're a really good people who are barely getting where you were. if you were going to. the world. were were there. you were. there with. her that

i yes indeed take care and i would just leave her those shots have to first nearby red square those tanks will be rumbling in for the big parade shortly in about half an hour will bring it to life here this may the ninth on r.t. international. welcome to the alex salmond show and to the first of an occasional see these on the new kid on the block of political communication we live in a world where newspaper circulations i mean a fraction of what they once were and by the press that survive are hardly papers of political record in fact relatively few people under the age of thirty even buy

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