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a very warm welcome from moscow you're watching r t international with me you know neal three pm here now and this day ninth of may a special day in russia to mark the seventy fourth anniversary of the capitulation of nutsy germany in the end of world war two known here as the great patriotic war the conflict on the eastern front which lasted just under four years was a bottle of attrition with precedented ferocity on that claimed the lives of over twenty five million salvi it's. well what's not so long ago was simply a local grass roots tradition in a siberian city is now on the fence held all across russia and far beyond what we're seeing is the so named and more coal regiment march where people walk holding

the portraits of their relatives who went through the war remembering their sacrifice hundreds of thousands of people if not more will be on the streets of moscow for the offense which officially started just minutes ago well let's go live now to their teas i think. it's an event to the enjoys overwhelming support we know from the russian public and brings people indeed from all walks of life together give us a sense of what you're seeing there now are just a few moments into the official start. you don't hello again to have the victory day and we were just still walking in a couple of minutes ago but we had to stop just because there are so many people here as usual there is a god i think a lot of folks my hand just listen to all the the rays around me that something that happens every two minutes by the way i would say that there's not

a single call vote my head i watched the forecast last night and it was supposed to rain but maybe it's a miracle of nature maybe it's. the russian air force doing something with it but right now the sky is absolutely clear and that is why obviously there are so many people around me but in the previous years even when it was raining even it was when it was only five degrees above zero this march was. setting records just imagine a crowd of tens of thousands of people live leaving massive very important football game now you can multiply that by at least a hundred and this is what you'll get this is what this looks like and this is what it feels but while i'm here and the center of moscow we experiencing probably the biggest and mortal regiment march ever as you've said it's dow and event

that's happening in all corners of our planet from ag her to new zealand and this is what i want to show you.

now unit and i'm just trying very hard to keep a distance from a camera because otherwise you won't see me but i can tell you it is absolutely packed around me there you have it my cameraman tell me to stay back a little bit there is a story behind every portrait that you can see behind my shoulder and i can tell you that. i just talked to my mother about twenty minutes ago she was crying guess why because who can you see right here my great grandfather bible of college on my mother's side three years ago i made a promise that year on year i'm going to be carrying the portraits of all my great grandfathers now this year four of them have made it to the immortal regiment

march now live on the hollow which is here with me this is the man who got two medals for liberating warsaw and for going all the way to berlin is well he's here with me as i've said this already also every family as i've said again this is what happens every minute someone just goes horribly and then the whole crowd does it as well it is much louder then at a football game as well and there's more of it to come because there are probably hundreds of thousands of people behind me there walking all the way along to the skies street and then all the way to red square by the way where my correspondent daniel hall kids as standing with his grandmother i thought well anyway you will talk to him a bit later i'll be joining you live many more times from here from the biggest and

mortal regiment march and the russian capital happy victory day union the very same do you have thanks very much for the personal touch as well giving us a sense of what it means to you and your family and all those people who run to you as you're seeing with stories as well as you thanks very much well today is all about it's remembering the suffering and sacrifice which ultimately effected every soviet family it's a time to honor the celebrate those who survived there was still at with this of course who gave everything to. end humankind's bloodiest conflict we spoke with some of. most of those since really right now should be able to feel really. sure they'll hold would. just you're still read it is still a year old. little slow ship we're going to get older more. if we. didn't the world that we're here.

you feel. the need. to do for her to share the view with dr lucy really here to boulder she will. show us the nature of the actual stores just luck. you're going to go. to school of. used. the word. to look incredible some of those fighting decades and decades ago in the one nine hundred forty s. we met some of those veterans at this year's victory parade which for over twenty years now really has been a key component of the celebrations on the night of may and red square this morning

welcome the. theme. liz it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere it's it's electric is intense but there's so much bigger side but the upside was just released during the parade itself please

. just the. seven. of them are. going to. live . well the first victory parade was held on the twenty fourth of june nineteen

forty five just over a month after nazi germany's defeat during the euro the next celebrations were held in the twentieth fortieth anniversary of the victory it's become much more commonplace since one thousand nine hundred ninety five though military parades held annually. a victory day does hold a very special place in the popular consciousness here and it's not just the time for many military displays it's also a time for quietly remembering the suffering endured by families during the war.

well almost every family in russia and other post savia countries were affected by the great patriotic war losing loved ones many people as well gather to spend time with relatives who perhaps leave their homes on this occasion one person who is on the streets right now as our chorus woman hawkins he is in the hearts of moscow big kreutzer there. we were talking daily of a tranquil year a fellow correspondent earlier they're making their way dying towards you don you are near the end i believe of where the march is finishing up but it's going to be going on for many hours or i. certainly as you know and i think i covered this march last year from this very same position our thought it would be

last towards this year but it's quite hard not to be isn't there i suppose when you when you see said something like this i think every country celebrates the end of conflict the end of the war entering a time of peace and owners is for the soldiers it's full of warriors i suppose the closest thing i've seen in the u.k. is remember a sunday the tradition of copies of the moment of silence all very poignant but it's nothing like this scale correct me if i'm wrong there's nothing like this probably in the entire world i mean last year there was estimated a million people showed up to this march of the malta regiment how many there are this year i just don't know the crowd beyond me i can't see the end of it is just going endlessly and endlessly and it's supposed long day for people many of whom of come from outside of moscow outside the moscow region some perhaps even from different countries. there is of course a side of the story that the month of may is just about a show of military strength to show off new weaponry etc i mean to put that into

perspective i've been here since seven o'clock in the morning when we did see the tanks on the armored vehicles rumbling past that it was all very impressive there were a few thousand people a lot in the streets here but just read according to latest news nearly fifty percent of all russians today will be attending some sort of remembrance ceremony twenty percent will be visiting veterans others perhaps watching on television and as many as they can of course participating in this immortal resident march and in other countries as well other cities and capitals across the whole world out it is a time of course to. member these sacrifices the struggles that that generation of people went through to honor the great difficulties they went through either on the front line behind enemy lines or indeed on the home front as well. as easier said in the crowd there every portrait every photograph carries some sort of story every

family was affected in some way and this alter president marchers really served as something to bring people together that no other event that i can think of and recent times has and in terms of possible stories of course as we've mentioned we've covered a lot of them we did some family digging around into my family background i always knew that my grandmother had a father who fought under stalin right where he was killed in nineteen forty two. we we know that he had another family a new family wants that family separated and she had a half brother who lived in russia in his ad who they'd never actually met before both now in their eighty's and i thought what better time to bring them together to people that had never seen each other but shared this common memory this common. sacrifice than on the ninth of may here on red square on victory day so we managed to get them all the way from because out of russia rieger in latvia to meet up on

that day this is what happened. after. the. first incidence of instruction for forward for their fair share of. right here here is right here. what were the lines realistic when it was over the. level of the system i think it will need to look at the coaching scripts and it's similar to the exits when you do sell the more stable pristine system you

had in the wings. and never. let them push all get over the both of feet if he would or the. critics treated to a very big on the. team by the media did. he have a lot of us with of the evil of. sperm in there at the will of this concept to give them. a solution that called analysis with agents of the week to you which england could discuss all the store. 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 while it's still in the ballasts me

unless you have a new mine is sufficient to do. a rather upper limit on your peripheral. that are going to throw. you have the most of wouldn't i jump all the way to. put elites idiots can you most bits of especially the one you know about said that i knew the spinning. even the most the move over them about the b.c. of the woods. i knew hawkins. and ng us report well if you'd like to continue watching the immortal regiment march it is streaming live on our t.v. dot com we'll also be back with our correspondents in central moscow right thruout the night.

when the first century both of these. elements of the and at the moment do it isn't to the people who would like to interact to which is happening to individuals are using their judges through facebook through to another we're interacting with the good think it's going to. be seeing the results. so the currency is in freefall there is no gold standard and there's no way to reconcile this and that in the world every other country is competing it's a race to the bottom at the same time it's fair to say that there is now several

countries that you could i think characterize 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 any trade election to defend our currency value in any way they're opening the door in a big big way to extremely violent global conflict. let's get a check in some world news this hour pressure is mounting on europe to save the iranian nuclear deal those leaders get down to talks at a summit in romania the french president in my. the agreement need surgery. from the very beginning france has been committed to the deal that was negotiated and signed the deal is no sufficient we would like to take into account iran's missile activities. let's go live now probably boyko for more on this story

probably europe with a struggle ahead it seems very much in the middle in this instance. and emanuel he's the latest to comment on iran's announcement that it's going to suspend some of its commitments as part of that twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal otherwise known as the j c p a now always been at the tougher and the scale when it comes to his stance on the iran deal but he's essentially saying yeah we're going to have to renegotiate or negotiate some more this is a story that is getting increasingly complicated increasingly muddled but i think there's a metaphor that can sum up europe's position in all of this imagine a voice that's being tightened and squeezed increasingly from both sides to the point where it's getting very difficult for whatever is inside it that is in europe right now in relation to the iran deal it's stark between the u.s.

which has pulled out of the deal and iran which is now saying that it won't stick to the terms of the deal because it doesn't want to play according to the rules of the game that no one else is playing let me take you through a bit of history and how we got here in twenty fifty the obama administration the e.u. russia china and iran managed after years of painstaking negotiations to put together this deal that saw iran hold to its nuclear weapons program in exchange for the easing of sanctions i was there actually a countless rounds of negotiations and when the deal was finally signed in vienna in the summer of twenty fifteen it was really hailed as a momentous occasion and something a magnificent achievement for sort of well diplomacy but a year ago the trumpet ministration tore up the deal it was something that trump had said that he'd wanted to do for

a while he argued that the deal was too soft on iran it still allowed it to make nuclear weapons. eventually tirana blackmailed the world into getting what it wanted a year ago in twenty eighteen washington simply pulled out of the deal unilaterally and since then the trump mantra towards iran has been that of simone precious so donald trump took away all the carrots that were given to iran as part of that deal energy replace with big standing and the europeans have said throughout this past year where they've been in this increasingly awkward position that the u.s. has thrown in the towel put on the boxing gloves you could even say that the e.u. still wants to make this deal work and they're trying behind the scenes that is big diplomatic efforts and washington is making it very difficult for example the americans on just punishing iran with sanctions they've installed secondary

sanctions that means they're threatening to target any foreign enterprises that deal and trade with iran effectively they're saying you you work with the u.s. or you were with iran and guess what multinationals that have a bit of business with iran and a lot of business with america choosing to do so europe's tried all sorts of ways and complicated mechanisms to get around and circumvent washington style that is complicated systems to financial sanctions they're trying to protect european companies but really this is all made the deal a little bit impotent it slid into real difficulties and to iran has said that effectively europe support this year has amounted to simply moral support and evidently there is frustration in toronto which is why it's in tehran has announced that it will resume high level enrichment of uranium if world powers keep their

promises to stick to the deal. the e.u.'s reacted with a statement that kind of criticizes the u.s. saying that they regret the imposition and the reimposition of more sanctions from washington which we've just heard about and the e.u. powers also say that they call on countries not to party to the deal to refrain from taking any actions that impede the remaining parties ability to perform so they're saying at least let us carry out our side of the deal but the awkward position that the u.k. finds itself in was really highlighted yesterday when the u.s. secretary of state might pompei was in london and jeremy hunt was meeting with him that's the u.k.'s foreign secretary and jeremy hunt was asked by reporter what side are you on in this take a listen to his response. if they break that deal and there will be consequences in

terms of how european powers react so we should be rains to think very long and hard before they break the church or war rooms where a leader of this great country stared evil in the face and recognized the threat which would put evil presented to the entire world we're working together to push back against that to your question about whose side are you on. this is a parlor game that gets played on the same side or on the side of europe so jeremy hunt they're trying to stay comfortable in that u.s. iran vice and pompei oh well pompei are talking about everyone being on the side of freedom and democracy i think what's surprising is how far jeremy haun sounds telling iran to be cautious and to think about the consequences when that really does ignore the elephant in the room which is that it was the u.s. that unilaterally pulled out of the deal in the first place now over

a year ago never the you never the less washington is saying that it's that iran's decision is in defiance of international norms take a listen to a separate statement from pompei zero about iran. the iranian regime's announcement that it intends to expand its nuclear program is in defiance of international norms and a blatant attempt to hold the world hostage is threat to renew nucular work that could shorten the time to develop a nuclear weapon on the schools the continuing challenge the iranian regime poses to peace and security worldwide. and in keeping with that maximum pressure mantra from donald trump he has unveiled yet more fresh sanctions against tehran this time targeting iran's mettle trailing tump spoke at a rally saying that it was a horrible deal and so you've got really europe in the middle of this in between

a rock and a hard place with iran on the one side and the u.s. on the other. parco bring this right up to date on the thank you very much. without her news for this hour but let's just before we go take a look at some live images from dawn tall and scope the immortal regiment march bringing hundreds of thousands just look at that scene right. now one of the main thoroughfares on the capital streets making their way to red square this is the seventy fourth anniversary of victory day marking the end of the second world war remembering their relatives with photos with other items their grandparents and great grandparents as well of course what have worn through the war so many people not coming back twenty seven.