so the us by saying we don't have a recession anymore and we don't have any any cradle action to defend our currency value in any way they're opening the door in a big big way to extremely violent global conflict. to an international memorial towards twenty nine c. the now open for entries. media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for all terms of media or part of a global news conference to participate in sunday published works and video. go to award dot com and then to now. marks the seventy fourth of the end of the second world war with massive crowds us we're seeing here on live pictures marching through central moscow

tribute to their loved ones who lived through perished in the conflict while on. the victory day parade took center stage there this morning with more than thirteen thousand troops on dozens of vehicles passing through the iconic sites. on the world news this thursday around said solid nuclear deal ultimatum forcing european leaders to maneuver between tehran and washington to save the historic twenty fifteen agreement. of the world this is or to international my names you know neal hello and welcome just come five pm here in the ninth of may a special. day in russia marking the seventy fourth on the first story of the

capitulation of nazi germany and 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 . on precedented ferocity claiming the lives of over twenty five million something that's. what not so long ago was a local grass roots tradition in a siberian city is now in effect held all across russia far beyond the day to be a more so regiment march these people walk holding portraits of their relatives who went through the war to remember for a five hundred. people so far turned in moscow.

is among them from here in the studio the pictures simply do look incredible but to be in the midst of it where you are i imagine is a very special feeling. that definitely is a special feeling because perhaps nothing unites this country more then the more told. again just because there are so many people here to discuss street in central moscow we do have to stop every once in a while and probably there's not a single ok just not a single day on the calendar that can make a million people come to. and come to red square in commemoration of all these people that we can see on the portraits here is my great grandfather. he is barging with me. as well and perhaps this tradition is becoming more important

than the iconic victory day great guess why it's because it is about the people now i asked my mom and my uncle for stories about a great grandfather evolve and i heard so much today and you know when the grandchildren great grandchildren great great grandchildren. when they print these photos out they just can't help wondering what the fate of all these people who took part in the great patchouli war was you know this is a true history lesson for them they start flicking through the archives they start looking for old family photos and this is what makes it very special and what is it if not a perfect recipe for a truly global flash mob that is starting to rain right now but that really won't

drive people away there you have ads there screaming out her a game now going back to the global tradition just see for yourself how it spreads around the world.

who is. it is starting to rain i don't have an umbrella and probably od going to get soaking wet but that doesn't matter because my family is very proud of me and i'll tell you why just a little earlier i talked to my mom on the phone and she couldn't hold her tears because her grandfather even pablo is here with me three years ago i made a promise to walk with the portraits of all my four great grandfathers during four consecutive victory days because they deserve it you know and i've done

it gratis great grandfather eve on completes the quartet so. there's another hurry for you there you have it now as i've said he completes the quartet he got his medal for being very skillful at directing artillery fire at the enemy and he went all the way to berlin to defeat nazi germany just once again take a moment to look at all the portraits that you can see behind me probably the umbrellas are covering some of them but still all these people did something to make sure that naziism is nonexistent in today's world you know yeah i'm going to make a prediction i don't think that rain is going to dampen the spirits of all those people over a million i would say last year and it could be over that and the a great story about your family as well. your mom's very proud i'm sure today

indeed she is thank you very much. what today is all about of course remembering the suffering and sacrifice which ultimately effected every solving it family it's time to honor and celebrate those who survived films still with us of course as well to give everything to end humanity's bloodiest conflict we spoke with some of. the most of those. sure. do still read it is still you know ship a little slow ship a good thing that. is. really cool did. you.

hear. what you just. you're going to go. to school. is toward the word. of the victory parade on red square has for more than twenty years been a signature elements of the celebrations on made been watched by millions attended by dignitaries v.i.p.'s as we just saw there most importantly russia's wartime veterans.

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

. tell us how the. seven. of them are. going to. live . a long history the first victory parade was held on the twenty fourth of june.

nineteen forty five day just over a month or so after nazi germany's defeat during the soviet era the next celebrations weren't held until the twentieth and fortieth anniversary of the victory and then since lighting ninety five military parades have been held in the . quote beyond the military displays victory day is also of course a time to quietly remember the on the margin of suffering enjoyed by soviet families during.

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scenes we can barely even imagine today almost every family in the soviet union was affected by the great patriotic war from losing loved ones in the fighting to entering on their much more conditions just to stay alive i want to bring you back to the immortal regiments march another correspondent daniel hawkins has been speaking to me from further along the cried in that rally let's take a look. those who say that this victory parade is just saber rattling displays of military might intimidation they need to be here and come have a look at this because this is very much hard to describe you can see here behind me the crowd of people is just absolutely analysts those records broken last year every year in fact since this parade has gone on a million or so attended last year it looks like this year it will be at least as

many if not more and it is just in comparable to anything one has ever seen as the biggest to my knowledge remembrance a vent in russia in the world nothing quite like it of this sort the way it unites people there are people here all generations of all colors creeds and races i've seen flags here from kazakhstan kyrgyzstan delarue small dover and it's also interesting how it unites generations because the people in attendance here on just those who may have some memories of the war all their children people of middle aged there are people here much you're going to meet children teenagers who are actually joining in singing the songs of the time that rang out on the victory day of nine hundred forty five it is certainly poignant and as you were saying from the crowd there people bearing photographs portrayed scouring medals of those who fought many of whom died in that war behind each one as. story no family left

untouched in some way or another some came back from the front some did not one person who did not was my great grandfather could do small to go and who died in ninety two to defending stalin right that was one of the key battles of the great patriotic war as it's called here in russia that we did a little bit of digging around in family background family history and we found out that after the he separated from his family just before the war he actually was part of his new family hired a son my grandson and my grandmother's half brother and they to this day had never met now both in their eighty's are full what better way to pay tribute to could do says memory to all his sacrifice out and bring them both to red square for the light of play from thousands of miles apart i added here behind me how the crowd cheering by this goes on politically and i tell you is really sends goosebumps down

your skin listening to this but back to the story we bought my grandmother and a half brother long lost from russia and from latvia all not a lot of money together here this is what happened. to. her for the city to construct a. forward for her for nothing. here here is like you would go on for nearly a quarter worth of. the system i'm going to. the coaching scripts are similar. to when the

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is most certainly not on their parade because people are continuing to march as they have for the past couple of hours we'll be keeping a very close eye and i think you would too as well our team dot com has the parade streaming live and will continue to do until it drops off. of this one that we're going to be but the sheer amount of numbers right there this is the commemoration of may the ninth the three day on the so named. bridge it's.

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back with our to international let's move to some world news now twenty two minutes into the program pressure is mounting on europe to save the nuclear deal as leaders get into talks at a summit in romania french president emanuel admitted the hard fought twenty fifteen 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. well let's cross to london. for more on this story so polly iran said this week it's suspending some of the

perks restrictions in response to u.s. sanctions how do things. yeah you said that the deal needs surgery well that was according to micro and some might say it needs a life support now micron's just the latest to comment he's always been at the tougher end of the scale a bit more trump ian when it comes to iran he says it's time to renegotiate the e.u. has released a statement saying that it strongly urge is iran to continue to implement its commitments as it has done until now it also says it rejects any ultimatums from tehran says that it will assess iran's compliance with the deal and there have been of kind of threats of sanctions from separate european states if tiran doesn't comply with the deal sort of potentially willing to emulate washington which on the anniversary of its withdrawal from the iran deal announced fresh sanctions on

iran this time on tehran's metal trading and trumped trump reiterated that he wants a new deal what he called a fair deal and his secretary of state might prompt a zero has said that it's iran violating international norms take a lesson 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 its 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. well that was. the response to terrans and yesterday that it too would withdraw from certain parts of the iranian nuclear deal saying that china and russia had sixty days to protect

iran's oil and banking sectors as from u.s. sanctions as per the deal and all this threatens to unravel what really was an agreement a diplomatic agreement of historic proportions in twenty fifteen the obama administration the e.u. russia china and iran sort of signed this deal was saw iran holding its nuclear weapons program in exchange for the easing of sanctions i was that was off to countless rounds of negotiations when it was finally signed in vienna this deal it was really a momentous occasion but a year ago the trumpet ministration pulled out of the deal trumps argued that the deal was too soft on terror and in that it still ultimately gave iran the ability to produce a nuclear weapon and then to mount the mantra from washington towards tehran has

been that of maximum pressure so donald trump took away all the carrots in terms of easing sanctions against iran and he replaced them with big sticks and all this time throughout the past year the europeans have been saying that they are committed to the deal that they want to make it work and they really are trying behind the scenes there have been diplomatic efforts but washington is making it very difficult for the europeans who are stuck in the middle here for example the americans on just punishing iran with economic sanctions they're doing something called secondary sanctions that means that threatening any foreign companies that trade with iran effectively saying it's in iran or us and you can imagine. which side the multinational companies are choosing you're trying all sorts of complicated mechanisms to try and work around the sanctions there's one called instead which isn't quite working yet they're trying to protect companies from u.s.

sanctions as well but actually the e.u. also voiced frustrations at the u.s. is kind of impeding that trying to work with iran to make the deal they've said that we call on countries not party to the deal that's washington to refrain from actions that impede everyone else from trying to stick to it so it really was a side over the past year the net result is that the deal has been unraveling and tehran says that all it's had from europe in terms of help has been moral support so evidently there is frustration on the iran side in terms of the u.k.'s position actually its sort of role as in between a rock and a hard place has really been highlighted yesterday the u.s. secretary of state might pompei was visiting he was here for talks with jeremy hunt that's the british foreign secretary and at that meeting afterwards there was

a press conference and jeremy hunt was asked flat out whose side are you on anyway take a listen to his response. if they break the deal then there will be consequences in terms of how european we aren't so we should be reins to think very long and hard before they break 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 we're on the same side on the side of europe. so jeremy hunt that trying to stay diplomatic but might pompei is saying well everybody is on the side of freedom and democracy i think what's surprising here is how far the european side has come out towards tehran there is a sense that there was an elephant in that room and that was that it was the u.s. that unilaterally pulled out of the iranian nuclear deal a year ago if you listen to the opinion of the u.n.

it says that actually iran was complying with all the terms of the deal so we're saying the u.s. are paying the ante with slapping fresh sanctions on iran and we're seeing iran saying well europe's has europe has sixty days to decide you know whether it's going to help us effectively zero or otherwise wear out our selves and you've got europe smack bang in the middle of all of this and what's interesting now to see is how it will play out in terms of whether the u.s. will manage to pull more europeans on to kind of the macro inside of the argument of a to washington side or whether the e.u. is going to keep fighting to try to keep this historic deal going it is fascinating to see how it's going to turn out the ramifications really are huge this story polley boy who live in london thank you. just before we go to break want to bring you back to central moscow where the remains are but the people are

continuing to march musts of numbers continuing to pour into the streets on the seventy fourth. on their first three of victory day they are marching to mark the end of the second world war as you can see there with photos of their relatives. great great great grandparents it goes back many generations this to those who died many survived but many did. well twenty seven million soviets losing their lives by some estimates the war on the eastern front really touching the lives of every family in russia it is a day of sorrow and joy and we will continue to bring you a flavor of it all here on our international right through the day.