russia marks the seventy fourth anniversary of the end of the second world war as massive crowds marched through some from moscow in a tribute to their loved ones who lived through and perished in the conflict. the victory day parade took center stage very thursday morning with more than thirteen thousand troops and dozens of armored vehicles passing through the iconic site. another. nuclear. forcing

european leaders to maneuver between tehran and washington to save the two thousand and fifteen agreements. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international thomas to have you with us. a victory day has now drawn to a close at least here in the russian capital to mark the culmination of a day of high emotion and national pride fireworks displays like the skies in dozens of cities nation wide earlier in the traditional and mortal regiment marches saw more than ten million turn out carrying portraits of relatives who endured the great patriotic war more than seven hundred thousand turned out in moscow alone to remember the sacrifices made almost every family in the soviet union was affected by the conflict from losing loved ones in the fighting to suffering unimaginable.

addition this just to stay alive and correspondence down hawkins and trent go join the crowds marching in moscow. nothing unites this country more then the immortal regiment march those who say that this victory parade is just saber rattling displays of military martin simulation they need to be here i'm coming have a look at this because this is very much hard to describe the crowd of people is just absolutely analysts there was records broken last year every year in fact since this parade has gone on 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 and 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 in the capital of russia is so important people bearing photographs portrayed scouring metals of those who fought many of whom died in that war behind each one is a story no family left untouched when people print this portraits out when people flick through the family archives when they're 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 litteral people here over all generations of all colors creeds and races i've seen flags here from a cosmic stand kid against belarus 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 i promise to my family that for four consecutive victory days i'm going to carry the portraits of all my great grandfathers all for for the and more to wedge them in 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 gulu who died in ninety two to defending stalin right that was one of the key battles 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 hired a son my gran's my grandmother's hoff brother 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 to all his sacrifice he bought my grandmother and a half brother long lost from russia and from latvia all know that automates together here this is what happened. to. her for the city to be stricken for her to overcome. the furthest enough.

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although it has been a day for millions of people all over russia to publicly pay tribute to the red army soldiers victory day is also time to quietly remember the unimaginable suffering and doored by soviet families during the war.

the ninth of may is about remembering all of that suffering and sacrifice which ultimately affected everyone in the u.s. . that's our we spoke to some of those who gave everything to and manatees

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you right. now would you say i see where you can see the school saying you are going to be actors are going to use something that you and i when you were on the street yesterday. recently what's the standard you're going to feel. feel the love that he said that suited me and it. still. knowing that you mean stood out in the media should need ziplock you said it's serving as you know what. one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict and in fact throughout history took place in southern russia and stalingrad what is now volgograd lasted for two hundred days between one thousand nine hundred two and one thousand nine hundred three cost in the red army over one million one hundred and thirty thousand soldiers yemenis losses were even higher on a losing the battle not. leadership declared

a day of national mourning many historians see the battle of stalingrad as a watershed moment in the one that dramatically altered the course or. even now harrowing reminders of the trauma inflicted by the war are emerging here is a letter that was uncovered within the remains of two soviet soldiers it never made it home. i was still in the collab each day 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. eventually comrades. the victory parade on the red square has more than twenty years been a signature element of the celebrations on may the ninth watched by millions and attended by dignitaries v.i.p.'s and most importantly russia's wartime veterans.

it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere. it's. electric. but this site but the excitement just released during the parade itself.

the first victory parade was held on the twenty fourth of june at nine hundred forty five just over a month after nazi germany's that defeat during the soviet era the next celebrations were held on the twentieth and the fortieth anniversary is of the victory since one thousand nine hundred five military parades have been held annually. over the last few weeks we have brought you many touching stories from the war like ninety four year old veteran ana who join the resistance straight

after graduating from school becoming a frontline scout she sustained injuries that prevented her from having children later in life her husband died a few years ago so now she is all alone and i ask people to send her letters and postcards to mark victory day and they're sponsored seems has been overwhelming. bush refused to finish. the book and he just threw it at me to be needed ever had to remove this page you could see it that we. needed to see because we were soon led to. believe that maybe you suggest the preacher the leader through the roof and he said if you believe you believe a good. man. pushing a big fish fish. fish here then he encourages the force you to name

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welcome back this is our team international pressure is mounting on europe to save the iranian nuclear deal as leaders get down to talks at the summit in romania and french president emmanuel micron's stressed it would be washington to blame for tehran's decision to leave the treaty even though he believes that hard fought two thousand and fifteen agreement needs surgery. in 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 and 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 washington 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 iran that is 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 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 pomp ayers response to terrans and 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 on the 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 kerry the trumpet ministration pulled out of the deal to the mantra over the. she is has been a similar pressure on iran the europeans have been trying to mitigate this situation throughout the past year and although the u.s. is sort of throwing in the towel the americans on just punishing iran with 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 more also paul 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 we aren't so we should be arranged 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 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's been complying with the terms of the deal so you've got the us upping the ante with yet more sanctions iran's. well we're going to give you sixty days or we stop complying on our side say both sides becoming increasingly polarized and you have your up some bang in the middle of it all. already english football's not feeling on top of the world right now or at least to europe after causing two major upsets of this week in the continent's most prestigious tournament dutch giant

killers i aks of london's tottenham hotspur while liverpool staged an incredible comeback to send mighty barcelona packing on r t on friday former manchester united supreme josee marino goes over the twists and turns in on the touchline i will be back of the top of the next hour with more news but here's a quick preview of the show for. one of them the first trophy that he gets is the biggest one the biggest one of all so one of them will get that the cope with the two big hears and we'll have you in his hand i have more of the. sinking that one of them is going to lose means more

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by the way what is it that. this is café around the world and covering the world of business and finance and impact upon it. in washington we're glad you're on board straight ahead on today's program the u.s. keep shaping shaking up what gets the world over and we hit on the impact on the nation's iran sanctions with our chief correspondent boyko who'll be here to break down the reaction from european countries as they try to salvage the international nuclear deal. officials are in the states today talking trade on the eve of more major tariffs but can they strike a deal. as they'll get lenses and to get to the bottom of the bluster why is this.

technology. joins us from thing up or to break it all down all of that directly ahead but first we have some headlines. new u.s. sanctions on iran lead our globe report today is president trying targets iranian exports the precious metals mr trump signed an executive order to that effect on wednesday and issued a statement boasting that the sanctions imposed on iran's aluminum copper steel and iron would apply to ten percent of iran's export economy the administration also pointed out that precious metals are iran's largest non-petroleum related source of export revenue. an assessment supported by expert analysts u.s. national security advisor john bolton has led efforts to isolate iran and the wall street journal reported this week the mr bolton had pentagon planners to present options for an attack on iran to get a closer look at how individual european nations are reacting to the increased sanctions on iran we've got a.