the big day here in russia as it celebrates the 76th anniversary off the red army is victory over nazi germany and the great patriotic war. troops marched through red square and actually after flying overhead just moscow witnessed as a stunning military parade commemorating victory day our correspondents were following it for us on the ground so as not so mr single detail will give you a taste of their emotions later on in the program then coming.

to the full of some of the constant updates. so this is a recap of some of our other big stories from the week we brought you the u.s. government's mark to world press freedom day by focusing on the rights of journalists in other countries we look at america's own record on media freedom. and the power of facebook was again up to question amid accusations of censorship and stifling free speech as its oversight board up held a ban on donald trump. a very warm welcome from our team here in moscow today we're bringing to you our special coverage of the annual victory day commemorations from across russia it's great to have you with us.

grade marks the 76th anniversary of the soviet victory in the great patriotic war it lasted 4 years and claimed the lives of millions of soviet people prove decisive in defeating the 3rd reich and for the occasional r.t. has brought to life the archive footage of some of the soviet soldiers who makes that victory possible.

russian troops and military vehicles have paraded through most goes right square for the capital's annual v. day parade is the biggest of dozens of processions taking place across russia to celebrate the defeat of nazi germany. will research a bring us the highlights. today there will be no dignitaries in attendance so the

kremlin basically wanted to say that we would like to err on the side of caution so although we're going to have the big guns the big jets the big tanks and all the different regiments and battalions marching across red square it will be a slightly smaller audience for this year's edition of lot of the putin flanked by a number of veterans as well who are attending today. to.

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this trail. black going to be anything more patriotic on the night made it today is a very powerful day of collective remembrance this country stretching over $5000.00 tyneside to the $146000006.00 is a russia comes together as one and it reminds itself of how much it owes those $27000000.00 who died for this hour with few at the same time whilst being a very showy public national holiday and also also in intensity costs and all of that every single russian will dive into his family archive and his photo album and think of his ancestors and what role they played oh i know for myself on this day more than most i think of my grandmother. she was just 15 years old when she lied about her age and she signed up to fight and she was an immediate thoughts to

independent women's taddeo that was the fust all female polish infantry unit in the red army and something on the eve of the future for about the fact that decades of she stepped up to say young goal a child really to fight i'm standing here to try to ration slate quite literally as a symbol of the future that she won for me i would have loved to hear me talk about the millions of heroes like us who are courageous and belief and who sold things back to police so that they could know that years and years have cost a few and few of got generations to live but still to this day we live a city by the motto that inversion goes next on us up to no one is forgotten nothing is forgotten. soviet soldiers stormed in late april 945 and by may 2nd the red flag was raised. over the reichstag nazi germany formally capitulated

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2021 it's a victory day here in russia the main parade has happened we've brought it to you live but we have so much more special coverage all day to come too with more commemorative events taking place including a huge fireworks display in the east. is you'll be via reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation

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welcome back now to some of the top stories from the past 7 days starting in the united states where world press freedom day was marked by u.s. authorities who maybe focused on journalists rights and of the countries the day arrived as it was revealed the united states had. witness more than 400 assaults on journalists over the past year there were also 139 arrests and over 100 cases of reporters equipment being damaged on the 2021 trackers shows more and more incidents every day and the we caught easy enough took a closer look at press freedom in america. if there's one thing entrenched in the d.n.a. of us democracy that would be putting america on the pedestal of righteousness at every given opportunity like here we're seeing every day. the work that journalists

are doing around the world in increasingly difficult and challenging conditions nothing is more fundamental to the good functioning of our democracies they advocate they seek safety they celebrate the u.s. knows how to throw one hell of a party for a truth teller look no further than julian a son he's published so many u.s. secrets america's justice department is captivated by the man they just won't take no for an answer if extradited a son will be celebrating his accomplishments like the guantanamo bay files or the iraq war logs for up to 175 years likely in a maximum security prison the ruling in his case leaves open the possibility for the u.s. governments to pursue journalists and publishers around the world if their report and noise the washington establishment that is santa remains in prison underlies

the grievous threats to unfettered journalism that the serious legislation poses and of course there's no bigger custodian of journalist safety than the modern day america it is incumbent on all of us to counter these threats to a free and independent media including physical risk and arbitrary detention for one saudi journalist physical risk and arbitrary detention escalated into horrible suffering and death in a matter of minutes jamal khashoggi fell out of favor with the saudi royal family and in 2018 was killed inside their consulate in istanbul reports suggest he was tortured before meeting his death beheaded and dismembered. as his killers got away on private jets the u.s. could not stand idle in the face of such an atrocity that's one reason we announced in response to the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi the shoji bam to help deter

threatening behavior against the media i beg your pardon all this. is is a visa restriction policy that doesn't even target the saudi crown prince despite the cia itself saying he personally ordered the hit we held accountable all the people in that organization but not the crown prince because we have never that i'm aware of when we have an alliance with a country gone to the acting head of state and punished that person and ostracized him and a cherry on top of this towering pile of a ball kristie is this promise of joe biden to show he was in fact murdered and dismembered but i believe in the order of the crown prince and i would make it very clear we were not going to interact more weapons to them we were going in fact to make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are the bin is cosmetic. we know or the murder and then the person who did order that murders

not going to be held accountable it remains untouched because washington doesn't want to disrupt that relationship as politicians love to float amid the smoke of virtue and mirrors of morality but then things come into sharp focus and we see just how little integrity there is left. to it has suspended a new account that was sharing donald trump posts just a day after it was created it was made by the former president's communications team to promote his statements champus also discovered he won't be posting on instagram or facebook any time soon the oversight board upheld a ban imposed after the capitol hill riots in january triggering quite an outburst from the former president. the boards fall into the 2 posed by mr trump on general with the 6th so you leave violet to facebook's community standards and the instagram's community guidelines given the seriousness of the violations and the

ongoing risk of violence facebook was justified in suspending mr trump's accounts on jenner of the 6 and extended that suspension on generally the 7th however it was not appropriate for facebook to impose an indefinite suspension what facebook twitter and google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment told country these corrupt social media companies must pay a political price and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate electoral processes. to take giant skating trunk violated bearing siteman to violence policy we discuss the implications of this with former trump campaign adviser karen. should actually terrify every single american in any single citizen in the free world because we're looking at. a private for ration who is upgrading as a platform and one day and

a publisher the next day we can have have it both ways but apparently we are right now these individuals whether they are the c.e.o. of the company or a burder were representative of of the company itself to make these decisions to silence americans or elected officials and only becomes. a question of free speech we have a corporation an american corporation that is arguably more important and more powerful than elected representatives. dozens dead and missing and hundreds injured in colombia after a week of tax reforms the proposal has now been scraps by the government's crackdown only 3rd on the protest a candlelight vigil was held at the. capitol on thursday night with fountains gathering to pay tribute to the dead while voicing to moans for the killings to stop the final reply to the protests has been globally condemned however there was

only a carefully measured response from the united states a country known for pulling out all the stops to support activists in other countries our senior correspondent mark gasnier looked at why colombia is a warning to everyone a warning of what happens when people have had enough. millions of colombians of form of income poverty because of the pandemic and economic woes

maybe it means that the government plat must hike be 80 taxes so taxes on the already impoverished when the people rebuild the state attempted to crush them saying the police had new choices but that to them senseless. nothing justifies people who protected by the legitimate desires of citizens to march go out to shoot defenseless citizens and cruel attack police. varying degrees of outrage poured in from around the world from concern to shock to lip service in fact you could even get away with condemning the protest of all over the world citizens in democratic countries have the unquestionable right to protest peacefully violence and vandalism is an abuse of that right at the same time we urge the utmost restraint by public forces to prevent additional loss of life yes you naughty policeman killing all those silly protesters but then again colombia is

very friendly with the us america regularly sends troops there so why ruin a good thing but just for reference listen to how the united states to combat the protests in hong kong we will continue to stand with hong kong years as they respond to beijing's assault on these freedoms and autonomy and we will not stop calling for the release of those detained or imprisoned for exercising their fundamental freedoms you know how many protesters were killed by police in hong kong 00 take their days well in neighboring colombia the u.s. tells brutus the behave themselves in venezuela they supported unarmed coup led by a man described as washington's lapdog we will continue to work with our partners across the region both to alleviate the suffering of the venezuelan people and to exert pressure on the regime so the country can peacefully return to democracy no

mention of the fact that of the suffering in venezuela is jus 2 american sanctions but hey it's just how politics works how much those in power care about the suffering of other people is directly related to what those in power have to gave why let the peasants and the disaffected destabilize colombia when the president is such a good friend. tell washington colombia plays a very strategic role for the matted states in latin america where there are several united states bases in colombia colombia for many years has been headed by governments and presidents that had been successfully into u.s. interests in the region so you see a lot of geo political strategy being used in the united states of course they would turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in colombia because it doesn't pay their medical janda just is ignoring human rights abuses in saudi arabia or anywhere else in the

world by a u.s. ally but they tend to do they tend to overlook things line it doesn't serve their interests. thanks for choosing not to enter national way back with law at the top of the. i.