three quarters of a century on it's still a day for people to come together to pay tribute and we've seen them in their hundreds of thousands doing just that this victory day now we would like you to join us for just one minute's a pause to reflect remember and give thanks to all those who gave so much during the darkest days of the twentieth century.

the on the. there by me it's. just. very me. a deeply powerful moment well what not so long ago was a local grass roots tradition in a siberian city is now

a victory did vent held across russia and beyond the immortal regiment march seems people walk holding portraits of their relatives who went through the war this year they reported seven hundred thousand turned out in moscow to remember this is made almost every family in the soviet union was affected by the great patriotic war from losing loved ones in the fighting to enduring unimaginable conditions just to stay alive our correspondents down hawking's on go join the crowds marching in moscow. those who say that this victory parade is just saber rattling displays of believe she might intimidation they need to be here and come in have a look at this because this is very much hard to describe 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 we have to stop guess why because there are just so many people and there is police here around around me they have to direct the flow of the crowd because it is just so immense every time i see this i just don't understand when the flow of the crowd is going to stop it's endless it always it can never stop surprising you and this is why the mortal regiment march and the capital of russia is so important people bearing photographs portrayed scouring metals all of those who for many if you died . in the wall behind each one is a story no family left untouched when people print this portraits out when people

flick through the family archives when there is the grandchildren great grandchildren great great grandchildren look at all that they just can't help wondering what's. what what's the story behind all these portraits this is how families unite all literal people here oval generations of all colors creeds and races i've seen flags here from a cosmic stone kid against the roots moldova and it's also interesting how it unites generations my mother cried when i talked to her on the phone about an hour ago this is her grandfather and what i'm doing right now is very special for my family because three years ago i made a promise to my family that for four consecutive victory days i'm going to carry the portraits of all my great grandfathers all four for the immortal regiment march

and bob will have on here he is this man completes the choir ted so i'm happy to tell you that i kept my promise and this is why it's so heartwarming 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 good and who died in ninety two to defending stalling but that was one of the key bottles of the great patriotic war schools here in russia we did a little bit of digging around in family background family history and we found out that off at the he separated from his family just before the war he actually part of his new family hides a son my grand my grandmother's hoff brother and they to this day had never met now both in their eighty's i thought what better way to pay tribute to could do says memory. all his sacrifice my grandmother and a half brother long lost from russia and from latvia all of that automates together

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you know. one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict in fact right throughout history took place in southern russia installing ground in what is now volgograd it lasted for two hundred days between one hundred forty two and forty three and cost the red army over one million one hundred and thirty thousand soldiers germany's losses were even higher on the using the bottle the nazi leadership declared a day of national mourning many historians see the battle of stirling brown as a watershed moment and one that dramatically altered the course of the war. well

even harling reminders of the trauma inflicted by the war are emerging here's a letter that was uncovered with the remains of too salty at soldiers it never made it home. i was silly me collab each diggin 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.

the venture comrades. in the victory parade on red square is for more than twenty in the signature elements of the celebrations on may the night watched by millions on attended by dignitaries v.i.p.'s most importantly russia's wartime that.

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would. he have also as dawn is known perfectly in step the first victory parade was held on the twenty fourth of june one thousand forty five just over a month after nazi germany's defeat during the soviet era the next celebrations were held on the twentieth fortieth anniversary of the victory but since one thousand nine hundred ninety five military parades have been held year upon year.

over the last number of weeks in the build up to today we've brought you many touching stories like ninety four year old veteran who join the resistance straight after graduating from school becoming a frontline sky now she sustained injuries that prevented her from having children later in life her husband died a few years ago as well she's all alone on there and i asked people to send her letters and postcards to mark victory day the response it appears has been overwhelming. good to you. throughout. the movie theater here that we've. been able to see here version. of the. city. to be sure this is as it was and is it really is either good.

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on. it in minutes past seven pm here in moscow we're back with some world news not pressure is mounting on europe to save the arena nuclear deal as leaders get down to talks of a summit in romania french president of money has admitted the hard fought twenty fifteen agreement need surgery. defeated from the very beginning france has been committed to the deal that was negotiated and signed the deal is not sufficient we would like to add to it to take into account. runs me so i don't have the seasons always been at the tougher end of the scale when it comes to his stance on iran

he's 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 and says that it will assess iran's compliance with the deal what has already imposed fresh sanctions on tehran trump reiterated his need for a fresh deal a fair deal as he called it and his secretary of state mike pompei o 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 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 pomp ayers response to terrans an announcement yesterday that it to 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 sector from u.s. sanctions all this threatens to rival what really was an agreement a diplomatic agreement of historic proportions and 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 i hear very the trumpet ministration pulled out of the deal to the mantra. over the past year has been of much pressure on iran and the europeans have been trying to mitigate this situation throughout the past year and

although the u.s. is sort of thrown in the towel the americans on 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 tried 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 sanctions 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 one moral support 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 is 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 then there will be consequences in terms of european. and so we should be reins to think very long and hard before the 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 on the same side when the side of europe 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 un it says iran has been complying with the terms of the deal so you've got the us helping the ante with yet more sanctions. on 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

a year up some bang in the middle of a toll. and living on a second world war movement in chicago is igniting passions it was erected by the community with cities it was a war hero and resistance fighter but a leading jewish human rights organization so yes he was also a nazi collaborator the sort of morning adolfo. swan's just days after victims of the holocaust where the memory of those around the world lithuanian foreign minister took part in the feeling all of the money meant if you really consider him a national hero i'm going to see did not collaborate with the nazis. paul under the code name nargus rahman was a prominent partisan and one of the baltic countries resistance leaders you oppose

the soviet occupation during and after the second world war a little there is no solid proof that he himself killed anyone when the country was occupied by the nazis the seimone vice until center believes he led a gang of local vigilantes which persecuted the jewish community we heard from the director of the center introduce them frame zeroth who thinks it is an insult to the victims of the war. it's basically spitting in the face of holocaust survivors of the jewish community of any person with any morality who expects a member of the e.u. to preserve certain values and i can promise you that i don't mean people who are collaborators with nazis is not one of the values of the european union or any other normal organization there is no evidence on the other hand because himself killed anybody but the gang that he headed was actively involved in persecution from the top and that the soviet union crumbled and there's been a very systematic attempt to rewrite the narrative of world war two and the

holocaust they trying to hide the role played in the holocaust by local collaborators and in that respect you have to keep in mind that only in eastern europe did collaboration with the nazis include active participation in mass murder a frame zuroff there a well there is no official comment as hear from chicago officials on the monument but rabbi friedman say's he's going to appeal to congress to put pressure on lithuania. public outcry so i can help and contact the members of congress as we're going to do in this case and i want to make that clear that's the next step lobby members of congress it doesn't happen overnight to put pressure on them to win it to speak to representatives of the jewish community to tell them don't go to lithuania until they correct this travesty why we don't to lithuania where they're honoring the murder of thousands and thousands of people so it's going to take time

but that's going to happen so it was with that in mind we decided to begin the process with the rally being the first step and the plan to follow up with the other steps and we would hope that at some point you know the good people went away and you know we're going to start saying why are we honoring a guy that killed lithuanians because of people they killed were lit the way they happen to be of the jewish faith so why are we honoring the guy is the best we have can we find a guy that we should honor as being a little any nero that was not murdering lithuanians of the jewish trait to have any faith i think that's a question they should be asking. it's from me for now on this victory day maybe. in moscow i will do stay with us now for more great programs though starting in moments. this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last twenty one years the forum

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information on his taxes using printouts from mr trump's official internal revenue service tax transcripts the times is reporting that from one nine hundred eighty five to one nine hundred ninety four the numbers show the president trump then real estate developer an icon of one nine hundred eighty s. yuppies decade of greed claimed on his taxes claims taxes losses every year totaling one point seventeen billion in losses for the entire decade one point seventeen billion yowza that is a big number in fact there was so much loser of the times reports that trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual american taxpayer during that time but that he also lost so much money that he was able to avoid paying income taxes for eight of the ten years yes my friends it seems the donald is not big on paying his taxes shocking i know the president responded to the story tweeting.