a recent report from the u.k.'s foreign office highlights in detail the persecution of christians around the world in the middle east the cradle of christianity christians. why is that deve politically incorrect in the west foundational religion. marks the seventy fourth the end of the second world war. marched through central moscow these are live pictures right now from the russian capital but there are also. people are continuing to take to the streets. really in a tribute to their loved ones who lived through perished in the conflict while on red square. yeah that's where the victory day parade took center stage this morning with more

than thirteen thousand troops dozens of. forcing european leaders to maneuver between tehran and washington to save the historic twenty fifth. your company. pm here in the ninth of may a special day in russia marking the seventy fourth. many on 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 bundle of attrition. twenty five million things.

what not so long ago was a local grass roots tradition in a siberian city is known a friend held all across russia far beyond the mortal regiment march sees people walk holding portraits of their relatives who went through the war to remember their sacrifice almost every family in this salvi union also affected by the great patriotic war from losing loved ones in the fighting to ensuring on the margin a bowl conditions simply to stay alive daniel hawkins spoke to me earlier from the cronkite near the end where people were just making their way right through that day. those who say that this victory parade is just saber rattling

displays of baluchi marked intimidation they need to be here and come in 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 is the biggest to my knowledge remembrance a vent in russia in the world nothing quite like it all of this sort the way it unites people literal people here all generations of all colors creeds and races i've seen flags here from kazakhstan kids belarus 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 who are 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 azalea was saying from the crowd there people bearing photographs. traits carrying medals of those who fought many of whom died in that war behind each one is a 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 my grandmother's half brother and they to this day had never met

now both in their eighties i thought what better way to pay tribute to could boost his memory to all his sacrifice out than bring them both to red square for the night of play from thousands of miles apart i could hear behind me how the crowd cheering by this goes on politically and i tell you is that 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 and this is what happened. to. her for the city to be slackening for her to work for her for nothing.

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and what a story for correspondents being directly involved with their well a mortal regiment marches are taking place nation. they began in far east russia on the coastal ports of lobby for stock there are more than forty thousand walk through the city in central russia despite the rain more than one hundred fifty thousand turned out in the central russian city of you catherine burg to remember the fall and beyond russia's borders families marched in cities worldwide to.

leak. i. know. a victory day is also a time to quietly remember the on the marginal suffering insured by solving it families during the war.

well the victory parade on the red square house for more than twenty years now been a signature yearly element of the celebrations on may the night watch by millions attended by dignitaries v.i.p.'s and most important russia's wartime if.

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turn out the. seven. of them are. going to please. please please please . we have to go back to the twenty fourth of june for when the first victory parade was held in nineteen forty five just over a month after nazi germany's the feet during this. i'll be at your event the next

celebrations were not held so on to look twentieth on fortieth anniversary of the victory but since nineteen ninety five military parades have been held year on year. yeah some great pictures of times gone by there is there indeed over the last few weeks in the build up to today we brought you many touching stories like ninety four year old veteran who joined the resistance traits after graduating from school becoming a front line scott she sustained injuries that prevented her from having children later in life her husband died a few years ago so now she's all of us people the central letters on postcards to mark victory day and the response it seems has been overwhelming. push it through to. the book and he just threw

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they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president one should. want to. have to go right to be cross with the bible before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. with more world news here in our international pressure is mounting to save the iranian nuclear deal. talks on a summit in romania french president. admitted the hard fought twenty fifteen agreement need surgery. from the very beginning front has been committed to the

deal that was negotiated and signed the deal is no sufficient we would like to have to take into account iran's missile activities macaroons always been at the tougher end of the scale when it comes to a stall and so on iran is kind of more trump in his approach but he says it's time to renegotiate nevertheless 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 as even been for the tool can stretch of sanctions if iran doesn't stick to its commitments from sort of separate european states washington has already imposed fresh sanctions on tehran they use the anniversary of its withdrawal from the deal to kind of slap fresh sanctions this time on iran's metal trading a trump reiterated his need for a fresh deal

a fair deal as he called it and his secretary of state might form peo said that it's in iran that violating international norms. 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 because 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 all this threatens to ravel what really was an agreement a diplomatic agreement of historic proportions in twenty fifteen the obama administration the e.u. russia china and iran finally signed this historic deal that had taken years of negotiation but it led to iran holding its nuclear weapons production in exchange for the easing of sanctions a year ago the trumpet ministration pulled out of the deal always said that the

deal would be so if they were on it they will ultimately around the ability to develop a nuclear weapon but trump over the past year has been of much similar pressure on iran and the europeans have been trying to mitigate this situation throughout the past year and although the u.s. has sort of thrown in the towel the e.u. has said that it still wants to make this deal work and they are trying behind the scenes it seems that there is sort of diplomatic pressure being applied but washington is making it very difficult for example the americans aren't just punishing iran with the economic sanctions they are doing what so called these secondary sanctions that means they're threatening to target any foreign companies that deal with tehran and guess which side many multinationals are choosing europe side all sorts of complicated mechanisms to circumvent these new realities there is

a system called instead that's not yet operational but they're trying to kind of block the sites. from european companies that are still up holding their side of the deal but really this deal has taken a big hit the net result is that tehran says that all they've had from europe for the past year has been more also paul it's the fact that europe's in the middle of it was felt most keenly i think in the u.k. yesterday it really was rather awkward because the u.s. secretary of state might pompei was in london on a visit visiting his u.k. counterpart jeremy hunt and jeremy hunt was asked flat out whose side are you on anyway take a listen to his response if they break the deal and there will be consequences in terms of european we aren't so we should be arranged to think very long and hard before they break the deal that 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 we're on the side of europe so you see that jeremy hunt trying to stay diplomatic and might say well you're on the side of freedom and democracy and i think what's surprising here is how far europe sounds in relation to its stance towards terror on there is a sense that there was an elephant in that room where you just heard those two foreign secretaries talking because it was the u.s. that unilaterally pulled out of this agreement now over a year ago if it even if you listen to the opinion of the u.n. it says iran has been complying with the terms of the deal so you've got the u.s. helping the ante with yet more sanctions iran saying well we're going to give you sixty days or we stop complying on our side so both sides becoming increasingly polarized and you have your up. in the middle of it all.

disproportionate to the crime the united nations the u.k.'s sentencing of wiki. leaks founder julian assange and hundred fifty week jail term for skipping bail back in twenty twelve in a high security london prison something the united nations sais is a deep concern. the working group on arbitrary detention is deeply concerned about the disproportionate sentence imposed on mr a sandwich it is of the view that violating bail is a minor violation the working group is further concerned that mr sanjay has been detained since eleventh april twenty ninth seen in belmarsh prison a high security prison as if he were convicted for a serious criminal offense. guilty by a british court earlier in may given just short of the maximum sentence of twelve months for skipping bail after nearly seven years being called off in the

ecuadorian embassy in london he was then sensationally drug from the building by u.k. police. the wiki leaks founder is also facing the possibility of extradition to america and washington accuses the whistleblower of conspiring to hook a government computer a charge which could land him five years in prison the u.s. alleges a song released classified information which undermined national security your swat was released. i want to.

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happy to say we can get some more insight into this now live on the program from a member of the u.n. working group an arbitrary detention rule and jovi you're very welcome to the program wiki leaks has called a son just sentenced vindictive do you agree considering a songe actively skipped bail for seven years he was wanted in sweden should he not have got the maximum sentence. your working group has. said tests has some or that he did an element because first the sentence was not justify because under violation he's. but more importantly if one read in you're not a walking group properly d. sentence should never have occurred because the what can group has already decided that did the attention of the stepson to was abby cadabby in group didn't when he

was on beat. finally the working group also took into account the fact that the street dish prosecutor had to turn an end to the case in sweden mean mr s. son was on their bail so that he could be transferred to st and for investigation and that investigation has been close saw the big deal was related to a situation in sudan which has does that here why you are against him to. fifteen weeks of jail you don't see consensus that's why you walk you consider that it was disproportionate reserve you what he's been accused of bear in mind i was the consensus in the united nations statement on reported medical records suggesting innocent has been unfairly treated in prison both mentally and physically if a songe had health risks which was known in fact why send him to

a maximum security prison like belmarsh. we could not comment on the health situation but here is our cost said that prison is a maximum security prison for the was screaming out mr ass down is not of that category especially barry remains that he's convicted for viral eating bait and if he has health issues then he needs a different treatment and the treatments he's had been now we've be british. the next big legal hurdle of course for mr assad is this potential extradition to the united states how do you see the playing out does it raise any concerns for the united nations. we did not address the issue of the

possible extradition to the united states in our decision and i'm not going to comment on any. substantive bent that. mr sanchez had already when he came to be walking blue because if you rebuild clearly he states the case in sweden is weak and it's a he damage and that would be a s. try date me to the united states for treason and what we have now. seven years later he took off the mission of the interests of the west to hold him accountable for what they can see there as a grain and the negril we have seen so far allege something may know we each do allow industry i did as i did as i did this tradition we don't know if he's transferred to the us he would face some more serious charges so we didn't address

it but that's the situation just. how things unfold now yeah appreciate you fleshing out that just finally for some julian assange just case is equated to being a battle for press freedom how fair is that comparison in terms of the crimes he's accused of so tendre do you think. in the case of julian assange and indeed it is made better now look piñon one has to sympatric finks. if he face allegation of crime and street he messed his just he's there justice must be seen to be done the fairness of the procedure is the session that's what the working group that sanction. the publication of information which governments want to hang .