a grand should moscow finally holds its delayed world war 2 victory parade marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany correspondents are right at the heart of the action and even on route to red square when it comes to weaponry this machine. for instance that carries. you can see them over there. in other news british health care workers on the front line fear that they simply won't be able to cope if there is a massive inflow of patients due to a 2nd spike coronavirus. biggest leap out of

lock down it's revealed that pubs and restaurants will take the names and details of customers in order to track people down if there are further virus outbreaks. either thanks so much for joining us this is r.t. international. following a delay caused by the global pandemic moscow has finally held its huge military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the soviet victory over nazi germany red square to the sound of thousands of marching feet from those tasked with protecting the motherland and hopped on their heels quite literally came

a procession of military vehicles and equipment before the whole thing was topped off with a spectacular fly past. now tradition of the event was held on the 9th of may but the coronavirus prevented of course that from happening this year so today was chosen for the jubilee instead

and it wasn't just any old date back in 945 the 1st ever victory parade was held on june 24th when many soviet soldiers were able to make it back from the front line and share the celebrations with the whole country. in commemoration of victory over germany in the great patrick wall for june 24th 945 i am scheduling a parade of the active army from the navy and moscow garrison the victory parade in moscow's red square. it was a long anticipated and unfit gettable day some people strongly believed it would

come. we were looking at the pile of wet cloths and thinking that the long expected victory had come and we the war is that how people to free the motherland bring back peace and my contributions.

called winding around and raising the troops i can see the rain trickling from their camps but their spirits were too high to even notice it was a gloomy sunday red squares cobblestones were wet the bunches of flowers that we got off to the parade were away but years on my heart doesn't believe in those memories the 24th of june 1945 has become a part of my life it was the most cheerful and sunny day. our correspondents ragas differences of the parade both on the ground and in the skies above moscow and they shared with us why the celebration holds particular

meaning for them. these parades in 1945 it represented the end of the great patriotic war as this parade today tilts people you know life will go back to normal this is the 1st major event in russia since the beginning of the pandemic you know our british a very interesting statistic is sad but the interesting is that the squirrels behind you the formation is a tree that's about 200 people each yeah that the number of civilians that's 27000000 people killed during the great patriotic war it would take the 2 months to march through the red square moves huge boxes 27000000 people is the number of individuals with their own hoops with their own dreams who died in that war to me actually the most moving part of the day it's all to the present spoken and they say in unison. and that's because i hear history in that sound there are

echoes of these people 75 years ago on red square i think she was celebrated but more importantly so with the people who had fought tooth and nail to bring a power my grandmother for chachi for india 1000000 plautus independent women's battalion and it was an all female unit that was part of the fust post shaunie and that was part of the save you fool says and actually they fought out a pottle in london which is a fan of russia and they actually managed to break through to judgment a friend says take back and hold the talk to strategic area of the bridge that proved to be crucial and not the battle later on i could go up to any single puss on the street asked them what did you write at 6 do you join the war each would keep me 80 tell family story so. when he fought and died at starting price someone who survived the blockade of planning cried so many fought with the participants and so much he won the 24th of june 1945 walked on to that very scrap right behind

me what is about to happen the best part of the break that you know i've always found that the be the best part of the break i've had a soft spot for aircraft in the helicopters and planes for my dialogue but right now out of anybody here i am the clue so that i once had a ride with 70 other people. in the me 26. i think credible site our off the roof bear in mind all of these aircraft the flag completely different speeds at different heights to go from 8 different if you didn't birgitte precisely the right smooth right movement to give us this spectacular view. it's always the russian flag. the brave. new comer needed here. for russia today

is largely about the world war 2 veterans and the survivors who were given thanks for cheating the picture of a nazi germany this year we lost the victory mail project it offers you the chance to deliver messages of thanks to share your stories and feelings or even just to say hello from a different part of the world and i go with me here small selection some of the letters that were sent in to us now 1st of all we have this letter that was sent from ukraine this was to veterans here in russia this was sent back in may just in time for the original date of may the 9th we have one here that was sent from somebody in russia to a member of the french resistance sent here to r.t. we pass it on to the relevant person. this next letter now this if you look at the marking. you'll be able to see that that's got a blue sticker on it which says look post that signifies that there's a sense by airmail all the way from germany the significance does need an explanation somebody in germany expressing their appreciation to veterans here in

russia and finally we got this beautifully handcrafted home made by a young russian girl and if we take a quick look at you you can see how she explains on it in a message that her grandfather fought on the front line during the great patriotic war sadly he died before she was even born but she still remembers she still cares enough to make this and expressed the sentiment that she wants to wish all of the veterans the very best of health from her from all of our family and all of their ads. other of course letters come from all around the wells devoted to world war 2 veterans a contribution to the victory of the nazis and once they arrive in our offices we send them on as i said to the war heroes to just remind them that everybody remembers the acts of bravery nothing's forgotten and there is nothing more touching than seeing some of those letters actually being open. again last.

night when you or i think they're over there clean a at work sherry need. to be put in. place. right. over them you know it's. nice to know. what's in there that way you would just say. with that. they were having with you do you put

a very. big way it will that. was. good to. hear her lines were really good reading. the book to tamworth when you have put your life. today spirit so hard. it's of military hardware units riding through red square correspondence you just on a familiar trend because. this is where it all begins this is where all the military hardware well all military machines are parked station before they roll towards the very heart of moscow and this beast is the one that we are actually going to be riding in.

this tank support unit actually has a catchy name and that's terminator 3 and these machines including this one were tested the hard way in 2017 that was sent to syria to take part in the war and that was how they earned their permanent place in the russian armed forces. well when it comes to weaponry this machine is very tough for instance it carries guided antitank missiles you can see them over there for instance painted red apart from that it has 33 millimeter machine guns and you can see them from over.

here and over there was a massacre in a village and all of this makes its eliminate and will live up to its name and its reputation because. sorts of things from infancy to stomach vehicles and even helicopters and other low flying telling its. people. as early as 6 o'clock in the morning people were lining up along the long long route took this call. to wait to see the goods were sending kisses to the proof of these fees and so i could see i could see people i could see saajan and offices kind that enjoying that oppose they couldn't be overly hopefully obvious and showing the affection back but they still please enjoy those waves they enjoyed people waving the russian flag waving the flags of the military

units where those bystanders when they where they used to sit on this rolling just passed us is exactly the terminator that that would he have this was my who been here if you. if you would let me say so eager called it and over well my over it was a lot of time. and. date this isn't a tank like i said so and it doesn't have a full payload of weapons but they are very useful in battle because they can carry more than a dozen soldiers in there and they can stay safe which is very important on some of these machines on tanks as wall of course and on a.p.c.'s you will see men standing through the hatch with their facts straight i was talking to some of the guys

asking them how they managed to do what they exercise a lot in the gym because they can't because of the problems the rats where it sometimes can get a bit shaky i don't these drivers are professionals so i mean. they keep the speed the same and that's important for the call to be event but really it is tough sometimes for the gas to stand there and also some of them are carrying guns now the team for taking have gone past me i can tell you about some of the stuff that will fall eventually. here somewhere where the dust and the smoke yes it does but. i guess it it should put some say on the war machine what you can see. that straw cost me. i could notice them by the special angles on the tour where the team for take armada tanks it was a different but if

a patient. but what makes them special is the sag goals as far as i know. it makes them almost impossible to detect by circling the detection systems. that were used by the older generation you see some of the bigger vehicles passing by right now and you know once i was able to be in the actual cow with the driver drawing there were hurtful and i can tell you about my feelings because at some point you're there near the ceiling well it just feels like you're riding a regular truck but then you take a glance out the side there and you realize what's behind you and you realize how powerful these war machines are mostly the color of all these vehicles is dark gray which is clearly a sign. of what the environment in russia is like but we know that we have harsh winters winters and. perhaps

a bit earlier or we could see them coming we had. machines that could be deployed in the arctic and. clearly they their colors both the white. what i like is that in the front you can actually say for delivering victory in the 2nd world war completely ignoring the efforts of the soviet union and it's not the only example of brushing the past on the whole cancer polls from victory in moscow. to russians the month of my victory parade. is synonymous with victory day itself from member john revered for decades this year things haven't quite been the same mass celebrations have been perspire and there are a few were guests and cities participating some commemorations have been moved online but the parade is going ahead to symbolically on the 24th of june that's the date of the very 1st ceremony back in 1945 for russia that's even more poignant

given recent historical controversies one as to $945.00 american grief britain had victory over the night in the us president came under fire for ignoring the part played by other allied nations in defeating fascism not least the soviet union which suffered over 25000000 casualties but recent events go beyond just one tweet . on the 23rd of august 1939 the soviet union and nazi germany signed a treaty of nonaggression known as the molotov ribbentrop pact and its secret protocols dividing europe and the territories of independent states between the 2 totalitarian regimes and grouping them into spheres of interest which paved the way for the outbreak of the 2nd world war history is a set of lies agreed upon according to the podium but when former liberators are officially relabeled us occupants and victims as aggressors just with a few strokes of a pen then both truth and agreement become allusive rewriting history

revisionism altering the past to fit with present political paradigms multiple states at the center of those tragic events have been mired in controversy but when it comes to russia controversy turned to something and forgivable all but equating the soviet union's role in world war 2 with that of nazi germany do your president put in his her and stalin colluded to start world war 2 that is a fact part of was a victim of this horrible conflict from the munich pact and partition of czechoslovakia to western business interests in nazi germany many countries at the center of the wars outbreak of skeletons in the closet the key aim is to learn lessons what can be done today to maintain violet of peace the russian president has his own thoughts the historical revisionism where witnessing in the west particularly with regard to the subject of the 2nd world war and its outcome is

dangerous because it grossly cynically distorts the understanding of the principles of peaceful development laid down in 1945 by the conferences in yalta and san francisco. the main historic achievement of fjeld and are the decisions of the time was the agreement to stablish a mechanism that would allow the major powers to stay within a diplomatic framework when we solving their differences the response to russia's position such as passing its own historical laws is telling rather than a debate accusations of deliberate falsified cation and deceit to divide and conquer in pursuit of nefarious motives historians and politicians may argue for years about blame and responsibility but as the memory of conflict fades so does the fear of such tragedy repeating itself they say history is the sum of all things that could have been avoided a vast early warning system and the response to the president's peace may have

missed the main point. what matters is the time we have now the doomsday clock a symbol of the chances of manmade global disaster is closer than ever to midnight the point of no return but for now it remains just a metaphor a warning to humankind by scientists of what could happen. 75 years ago russia celebrated the end of the darkest time in human history and the lessons a clear the move towards midnight and total darkness must be prevented at any cost to your hawkins victory park moscow. professor of history at the american university peter because they could release that knowing the true history of events is important so that past mistakes are repeated. the way we understand history shapes the way we understand the present and shapes how we're going to act in the future if we have a distorted

a corrupt titian of history then we're not going to be able to 1st of all know that a different future is possible but we see history being deployed for nationalistic for propaganda stick for mythological for militaristic purposes all over the world and i mean russia's certainly guilty of that to to some extent i'm not saying that russia is outside of that but on the issues of world war 2 russia is much closer to the truth and to uproot a vision of the world based upon collaboration between the united states russia britain the french resistance forces china back to allow us to begin to reinvention a world in which we can begin to work together again.

i think the biggest danger that has come out education to destroy us is its us highlighted issue inequality that exists and i think one of the things that education and political each that changes access to the internet for educational purposes needs to be added to this is essentially 200 rockets. still seem wrong but we'll just don't hold. any balls to say palin is going to come after all and in again. equals betrayal. when something in mind themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground.

right. back ok let's turn now to the corona virus pandemic and the way that it has been handled in united kingdom with doctors fearing they simply will not be able to cope with a 2nd wave that's according to a new survey of health care workers obviously as we come out of the lock and now that the numbers are manager poll the question is what do we do in terms of protecting the health workforce because i think a lot of people realize that doctors and nurses and clinicians are out there anxious that depressed the latest figures from the b.m.a. survey which is just being carried out show 44 percent are suffering from some sort

of mental health problem. all clinicians are worried about a 2nd pake so of course there may be a concern over a 2nd bots at that point we can look at that and we may then have to implement sort of regional lockdowns rather than a national lockdown for people's mental house for the economy for the united kingdom generally we need to unlock and we need to let people get on with their lives. the survey conducted by the british medical association also shows nearly a 5th of those polled are not at all confident about their ability to cope should there be a 2nd wave and a 3rd of respondents said that they're simply just not very confident it's the 6 survey conducted by the b.m.a. joining the pandemic gives a clear indication about feelings within the national health service and experts say there needs to be more government help put in place in order to support health care workers. it's not just grown i think secondly it's also ate with the fact that we also eat how to pitch treat some of the illnesses that maybe have been pushed to

the background but they do need to come back into the foreground plus a huge element of mental health coming along you know people are losing jobs family members you know financial issues and once you know we might be focusing a lot on the immediate deaths and the immediate health issues with coronavirus the longer term you know the mental health youth suicide rates all of that there is also going to have a huge burden on the n.h.s. and health care systems doctors also need time not just it's also need time off there's no amount of burnout so you know will there be enough staff to cope with it will there be enough beds to cope with it and what about the other sort of illnesses that are sort of been left by the wayside what are the treats that haven't been done so far what about managing cancers health care professionals aren't going to need some support because there is an element of post-traumatic

stress disorder there in that there is an element of their own mental health and well being and if they would like to continue they need you know there needs to be a lot more support and understanding given to them and the jobs that we do. pubs restaurants and hotels will be able to reopen from july 4th in england but while the to meet a social distancing rule that's being eased other so to most is unlikely to be brought in and some of them are not being met with open arms and it was dashed the reports from london. it's nearly 3 months since the u.k. 1st went into lockdown when pubs called last orders and restaurants closed doors but despite non-essential businesses reopening the hospitality sector said it simply couldn't cope with the 2 me to social distancing in place and it seems the government to give. the significant force in the prevalence of the virus so we can change the 2 metre social distancing from the 4th of july the announcement

came through while i was with the ross sea. tina and with the relaxed he thinks the sector is headed in the right direction to finally get back on track this is what we this is what we do for a living for a choice. in the restaurant industry a profound love is not an easy life it's a very challenging and hard life but we live off the people we live off our customers we live off our teams and we're here because we want to open our doors and we want to recreate those magical memories for our customers but the new normal comes with a new set of rules to make sure it's safe enough balls and restaurants will now have to provide a formal register of customers patrons will have to provide their names and their contact details upon arrival or when booking a table to make sure they're able to be contacted if there's an outbreak of the virus all of which makes popping in for a pint slightly more bureaucratic i'd probably give the details but at the same

time you know if i did feel comfortable i probably just would probably have a drink at home instead you know i mean i'll be fine with it according to people's preferences of course some people. from the customer's perspective i feel like it's a bit much but everyone knows the time that we're in and the precautions that we're going to have to take. if we're going to get the pub and then we have to.