celebrates 76 the anniversary of the red army's victory over in germany in the great war. troops parade on the red square flying overhead commemorates victory day our correspondents were there and the hearts of the couple. of so.

also this hour of retail to the week's big stories including the u.s. government marks world press freedom today by focusing on the rights of journalists in other countries we look at america's own record on media freedom. today we mark victory day in russia commemorating the surrender of nazi germany welcome to our special coverage of. the defeat of the 3rd reich exactly 76 years ago came to an enormous call. for the

soviet union almost 27000000 soviet citizens and civilian cell soldiers lost their lives in the eastern front of world war 2 about 4 year conflict with nazi germany is known to russians as the great patriotic war for the occasion r t has brought to life archive footage of some of the salvi its soldiers who made the victory.

on russian troops and military vehicles home paraded through moscow's red square for the capital of a new all ve day per it's the biggest of dozens of processions taking place across russia to celebrate the defeat of nazi germany saskia taylor. take us through the highlights. today at this day there will be no dignitaries in attendance or 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. a slightly

smaller audience for this year's edition of saddam a position flanked by a number of sessions as well who are attending today's. visit.

so they're saying oh my goodness me i think i'm 90 years old playing with my toys all over again absolutely remarkable display of russian aerospace technology here right above rows square. serene. he's. trying to put the final break that's not funny let's face it. but trail. glad to be anything. on the night they get today is a very powerful tale selected for. this country's trying to you know 5000 tyneside

the 146000067 russia comes together as one and it reminds itself of how much it owes those 27000000 who died for this. at the same time us being a very show republic national holiday it was also an intense week 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 play 80 i know for myself on this day more than most i think of my grandmother. houston's 15 years old when she lied about her age and she signed up to fight and she was an immediate proxy independent women's i was the foster female coalition infantry unit in the red army and something unbelievably beautiful about the fact that decades after she stepped up to see young child really to fight i'm standing here to try to ration 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 who were courageous and belief and who saw things that belief so they could know that years and years have cost much fewer and fewer have got generations to the light but still to this day we live faithfully by them up so that inversion goes. no one is forgotten nothing is forgotten. soviet soldiers stormed berlin then later april 19th 45 by may 2nd very red flag was raised over the reichstag nazi germany formally capitulated a week later veterans who took part in the operation still a vivid memories of those days though some never saw the german couple again after the war ended among them someone whose image would become known the world over.

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well the immortal regiment march honoring veterans of world war 2 is to take place virtually for the 2nd straight year due to the coronavirus 4 months relatives have been uploading photos of themselves with their relatives and today the 76th anniversary of the great patriotic war the images will be broadcast on t.v. media screens other platforms on the line as well it is hoped a rearranged event can take place on june 24th covert restrictions permitting. sunday may 9th 2021 it is victory day here in russia the main parade have occurred but our special coverage is continuing with more commemorative events taking place

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what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us and live. for a mate in the shallows. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic bad to follow believe me i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. hello again the stage is set for another showdown between scotland and westminster

now for pro independence parties won a majority in the scottish parliament on saturday after results came in scotland's 1st minister velo to push for a 2nd referendum a prospect that was quickly dismissed by the conservative government once the crisis is over i also said in this election i wanted to get people's vote in the choice of independents and i intend to do that if we end up in court which is not something i want to see that would only be because we the u.k. government that refused to accept scottish democracy and i think that would be an absurd i read just a completely unacceptable position for them to be and if you get sucked into a conversation about referenda constitutions and all the rest of it then we're diverting attention from the issues that are most important to people in scotland and across the united kingdom we acknowledge the people who've spent months out of school with learning lost and with their opportunities as a result occluded joining the people are really going to say what we really really

want is legislation on a referendum it's to my mind. gently a slightly skewed set of priorities to imagine but that is the most important issue . well the scottish national party won 64 out of 129 seats just short of a majority but the greens who also support an independence referendum want 8 seats in 2014 the country voted to stay in the united kingdom pulls i'm sure stronger support for independence since the present boat in which 62 percent of scots built it in favor of staying in the e.u. . i'm delighted to welcome all to the program now i guess mcneil a senior scottish national party lawmaker welcome to you. much not exactly a clearer picture here i guess your party did fall short of majority independence parties in all got over that 50 percent mark 'd but how significantly those that

initial what i said does that weaken your case for a 2nd referendum much of the independent. some of the 2 seats in the parliament on that union article 57 as well as a majority of 15 and these things are decided and parliament. let's face it our parliamentary democracy works and some of the figures leading up to that it was 48 percent for the. in the election in the 1st part of the course as to which gives each 5 percent of the seats know nor cocky in westminster and 48 percent since 1906 a new party has ever been westminster cheap 85 percent of the 1st possible seats so early monday just longer than any moment it anywhere in the u.k. at the moment and it's from the people who voted for us and so we will hope that democracy means exactly that but the problem being of course is that the conservative government has made it pretty clear that

a referendum isn't on the cards approval is needed on the 1980 scotland act boris johnson it indeed said a few days ago there is no case for such a thing so where do you go from here. well what we do is we move forward and we legislate and we expect that democracy gets respected meaning of us johnson wants to be in the charity of god plant in the united states are looking in there bella loose. he he can do that but he will be it will be in difficult and difficult situation internationally if you start student to do that also and back in scotland will be clear that the union then is not a union that is voluntary it's a union that's going to understand it's going to do. and if you know there's enough and more to do to sort of denude the support of the union then to make it seem like it's an unfair situation so one of johnson carries on like this we would get 5050 or 5149 in favor of independence which will be in 7030 very soon so ok you can

count it carry on without a get closer the whole though do scots the working man and woman in the street do they actually want a referendum right now chaos managed or otherwise that it would bring with it in the midst of a pandemic other big issues affect every day. well how the election that's happened this week would be nice to read and we don't want it on all the cones in the votes for independents went ahead and if you can run an election you can run and independence referendum or notice the dollars johnson moved out and made scots and so you know we should concentrate look at it but on the scene we can send some gunboats to the channel islands to deal with a minor skirmish that wasn't concentrating on the recovery that was idiotic diversion from bottles johnson and so on we in scotland are quite confident that if we get to ask people we will it but as johnson gave us a phone stop is asking the minute the people who answer that question get to answer the question i'm very confident who vote for solution depends but the the question

didn't they just some years ago and said they wanted to stay in the union things have changed of course but do you just keep having referendum every few years until you get your way. and if that happens doesn't not end up being fair again the opposite way they can vote in a couple of years to leave. scotland that is independent you know what i'm saying that that if you haven't been asking it's not a really for thing for the other side there's it's not a it's not an equality is about well to do things or the people decide when we're going to put in the people of this election should. that should happen the other thing about the measure of the 2014 different. almost. routine just in the u.k. would be get into you know listen your opinion yet even months later we were taken out of the. their arguments of fall into dust on the nova and that's why the medical unit was

a moment asked in the. new film well we're just going to do that. all right the thoughts of august mcneil senior member of the scottish national party thanks very much for speaking to us on a sunday as well. ok moving on the world press freedom day was marked this week by u.s. authorities who mainly focused on journalists rights in other countries the day arrived is was revealed that the united states had witnessed more than 400 assaults on journalists over the past year there are also a 139 arrests and over 100 cases of reporters equipment being damaged on the 2021 tracker shows more and more incidents every day. has been taking 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 asunder 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. government to pursue journalists and publishers around the world if their reports and annoys the washington establishment that essential remains in prison underlies

the grievous threat to unfettered journalese that these u.s. 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 bam to help deter

threatening behavior against the media i beg your pardon all this. is it 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 hypocrisy is this promise of joe biden who showed he was in fact murdered and dismembered and i believe in the order of the crown prince and i would make it very clear we were not going to interact sell war weapons to them we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are the ban is cosmetic. we know or the murder

and and the person who did order their murders not going to be eligible 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. the red army instrumental role in defeating the nazis in world war 2 is quietly but demonstrably being wiped from western history books but there is some resistance it's called the cold and just ahead.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person of those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. for more than 30 years 6 or so.