a, with tremendous fireworks display celebrating the historic defeat of naziism are held across in the dumbass where russian forces have taken control. victory day celebrations in the dawn baths are freely held for the 1st time since the crew of 8 years ago. we hear from an american journalist who describes how things were during that time in the city of the gods. ever since my down happened, they've had free reign and they've been murdering raping, robbing people and quick thankfully, russia. ukraine is president zalinski and it's a military post,

a photo on social media. the soldier probably displaying a not the symbol in a message about victory de commemorations and missiles reportedly strike ukrainian port, the city of death destroying several buildings, allegedly used by the opinion military. a direct mar studios in monica. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us now as peaceful life is starting to be restored in ukrainian and done by cities taken by joint russian done yet scan. lucas forces fireworks for world war 2 victory day celebrations. have replaced the front lines showing ah, the southern ukrainian cities have been johnston and enter go dar, where russian forces are currently position for the 1st time in many years have joined in on the may 9th celebrations, residents of the dumbass cities of done yet,

scandal, ganske also took part in the festivities, and all across russia, fireworks illuminated the sky lines of dozens of major cities. take a look. ah mm. with with the who's

the ah. ah. the $77.00 anniversary of the victory over nazi germany was commemorated in russia not only with brilliant fireworks, but also military parades and widespread civilian celebrations, all across the country. huge crowds turn out for the annual immortal regiments march in moscow and other cities with people carrying photos of relatives and loved ones who took part in world war 2. now, collaboration was also held in the southern ukrainian seat of harrison. now they haven't been able to take part in a parade for quite some time, and the russian forces now have established control in that area about a month ago. but the event almost took a deadly turn as the russian military says, ukrainian missile of time on the procession was sorted by a russian defense system. and a city in eastern ukraine also held its 1st immortal regiment procession for the

1st time since the 2014 coo and kear locals with many children and world war 2 veterans among them, flooded the streets of multiple carrying portraits of relatives who fought in the historic conflict residents also brought flowers to the brother's grave memorial, where the eternal flame has been lit relief. after a 7 year absence of the city has been under the control of new administration since the 3rd week of the ukraine war and in the dumbass city. of variable recently retaken by russian lead forces. victory de is also being celebrated with a massive 300 meter long st. george ribbon unfurled in the city, and an eternal flame solemnly lit people carried portraits of their relatives and flowers at a monument to those fallen in the world. war 2 in many locals, said that they are happy to be able to openly celebrate victory day for the 1st time in 8 years. has variable had been under the control of ukraine's military since 2014. it drives me. it's a holiday. it's not even a longing, this is

a joy that overwhelms the soul because for all 8 years, all this was forbidden, here. and there is a holiday in my soul now because we have been waiting for all 8 years. we were waiting for victory day when we wouldn't be afraid to go to the monument and lay flowers. ukraine had been dismissing of the viewpoints of people in don. yes, ken logan's cr regions for years. archie heard from george less on an american journalist who moved to the don back in 2012. he says, the start of the russian military operation has been a huge relief for the people of don bass, who had been oppressed by neo nazi groups integrated into the ukranian armed forces . ukraine was coming across the grey line in mass, and the people of dumbass would've just been devastated. and what i'm talking about them murdering everybody where they stood wherever they found people. that

was a plan and quite thankfully, russia acted and it's been ah, unbelievable for both the morale and just the fact that everybody here knows that it was russia that save their lives. so what's going on right now, and the fact that russia recognized, i'm looking on the people's republic and honest people's republic. this is a great thing. and everybody here celebrated that. how do i feel about as of and the other national battalions and what they've done over the last 8 years? it will, it makes me very angry. ever since my down happened, they've had free reign and they've been murdering raping robbing people across

ukraine, across dumbass wherever they're allowed to, to stand. they're involved in criminal activity. these people need to be brought to justice one way or the other. and the people that have suffered under them and by them need closure, they need resolution so they can get on with their lives. this is important because of all the people that as a lot of skills and they just talk to people just disappeared. the families right now don't how that closure. the good spirit of victory day was not reciprocated all across ukraine. however, kiev presidents lensky and the national defense ministry posted a picture on social media of a soldier, probably displaying enough use symbol. but later the photo was actually deleted from both accounts on twitter and telegram. this symbol was used by an elite nazi german pans or division and other fascist forces during world war 2. we heard from

serbian american journalist and historian, new butcher mileage, who says it's not hard to find some symbols throughout ukraine's agenda. considering that you can't find of a photo anywhere from ukraine in recent months, that doesn't contain some kind of nazi insignia be at the top and cops from the, from the 3rd assets that was in question. in today's post or the black son used by as of all develop sagal also used by as of which seems to be integrated into just about every aspect of ukraine's military. it's just a single unit. unfortunately, in trying to prove that they are not nazis, d ukrainian ski proving over and over that well yes, actually they are. and it's, it's only baffling to people who have been wilfully pretending that this is not the case. it doesn't matter that these very same outlets in some cases, very same journalists just a couple of years ago, were writing about us off being this problematic nest of white supremacists,

racist fascists who aim to spread their toxic ideology in europe and linked them to the new zealand mosque shooter as well as other terrorists around the world. and now do the same. i was like, no, no, no, that's fine. you know, they were different. they're basically eating their own words because the narrative is changed. because right now and as of and ukraine are useful to the geo politics of the west. and if you know, if truth gets in the way of that will too bad. it's despicable. russian president vladimir putin in a solemn speech in honor of victory de thank to allied forces for their contribution to the defeat of fascism in the 2nd world war, such as american veterans who wanted to come to the parade. and moscow were essentially prohibited from doing so, but i want them to know that we are proud to view exploits and your heroic deeds of your contribution to the victory. we all know all soldiers of the allied armies, no country,

and use not britain defense. secretary ben wallace was quick to criticize, put in speech accusing russia of dishonoring its military past with the war in ukraine, in which, while as claims the russian army will be defeated through the invasion of ukraine. put in his inner circle in his generals and i'm marrying fascism and tyranny 7070 years ago. repeating the errors of the last century is to tell terry and regimes and for them. and for person, there can be no victory day, only dishonor and surely defeat and ukraine. what's interesting is the, it's very inappropriate for this day for victory day. i mean, if you look at president putin's remarks, even, he thanked the allied forces. he actually specifically pointed out the american involvement and how lot of veterans are not able to come for that would have liked to come. i mean, he actually embraced the whole allied movement to defeat naziism and then to have

the, you and the u. k. politicians stating this very, very bad, very bad message is very poor example, especially on this, on this day on the celebration. because this is not about the war and ukraine. it's about what was done 70 some years ago and the defeat of nazi germany and their their countries would not be where they are today. it was not for russia. when i listen to mr. wallace it's i don't know if he's in a different world. if he's delusional and definitely it's not describing rush at all. if anything he's actually describing what you know the, the alter nationalists are doing. and the, and what many would, if you're going to look at fascist, i mean and fascism. it's essentially what ukraine is actually evolving into with the alternation, controlling so many things. i mean, the definition is right there,

definitely not russia. and i think mr. wallace is poorly very badly misplaced. and some of the verbage was very unprofessional. and, and, you know, uncalled for by any type of diplomat. all of this, against the backdrop of a current military conflict. several missiles have reportedly hit the ukrainian port city of desa on the black sea, destroying a number of buildings allegedly used by the ukrainian military. this on verified video, purportedly shows the targeted area, some unconfirmed sources say this was a hotel which had allegedly been occupied by ukrainian troops. that's after another resort, allegedly housing foreign mercenaries was fired upon. another huge explosion was also caught on video in odessa now reports a shopping mall and warehouse with ammunition inside were hit. you can see the graphic images there seems explosions continued for some time after the initial strike suggesting the buildings could have indeed been used to store military

arsenals. meanwhile, us president joe biden has signed the lend lease act for ukraine to make it easier to send a lot more military supplies to kia. that's after the u. s. has already given over $3000000000.00 in a ukraine and has sold an additional $165000000.00 worth of weaponry to the country . here's what biden had to say about that. i'm sorry to build. it provides another important tool to support the government of ukraine in the cranium. people will fight to defend their country where democracy against recruiter war and is brutal president by then just signed off on the return of the lend lease act for the 1st time since world war 2 program will allow the binding administration to increase the number of weapons it's sending over to its allies without the typical government oversight and with the promise that they will submit payment at a later date. now historically,

the lend lease act has been used to give supplies to u. s. allies who are specifically acting in defense of us national security. now this legislation did pass with overwhelming support from the u. s. congress. however, there were a few members who spoke out and warned of the new and unprecedented powers that the us will be giving to you. crane congress just authorized biden, to transfer virtually any weapon of war, other than a nuclear weapon to ukraine. insane. here is the link to the bill and the statutory definition of defensive article, the bill references i voted no. now this all comes as the by an administration is already signed off on more than $3700000000.00 and funding for ukraine is calling on congress for an additional $3320000000000.00 of that will be given directly to the ukrainian military. now this legal aid is new and unprecedented, and it's also reason concerns about whether the u. s. will still have weapons to

defend itself here at home after it's done sending off supplies to ukraine. we just burned through 7 years worth of javelin, and that's not only important as we continue to try and help ukrainians when in ukraine. that's important as we try to simultaneously defend taiwan from aggression from the chinese communist party. they're going to need access to some of these same weapon systems, and we simply don't have the stockpiles at present in order to backfill what we've spent in ukraine. now all of this comes as reports have noted that it's estimated that the u. s. is already sent over a 3rd of its stock pile of javelin missiles to ukraine, with defense contractors like lockheed martin pledging to double their production this year. as the lend lease act goes into effect. however, u. s. a visuals have already admitted that when they send those weapons over to ukraine, they don't quite know where they go. exactly, raising even more concerns. as the u. s. sends,

it's only supplies into unknown hands. civil rights attorney, robert patillo thinks that sending more weaponry to ukraine will further escalate the conflict as this continues to brag on, a continuous support from the west escalate. the situation where may break out into football, which only benefit american defense contractors and not be creamy people. what we're seeing right now is a proxy war similar to what we saw on the vietnam war once on the korean war. where we would be nice to be using this as the, as an opportunity to test you, russian military readiness, equipment, tactics, hardware, etc. so there is a battle going for and they will be able to determine exactly what weapons attempt to be best to be when seeing the policy of regime change, the route, the rapid middle east and the last decade. so biting his recently said that he will be putting on putting can not stay in power in russia. so they're making very clear what they are attempting to do. they want to find out exactly what the strengths and weaknesses are working military arch and how us weaponry will react to such

e u foreign policy. chief justice burrell says the block should consider using, seized russian assets to pay for the reconstruction of ukraine. western powers have already frozen the bulk of the russian and central banks, foreign currency reserves as punishment for the conflict in ukraine. but you shall depend skiing, explains how to make russia, hey, that is the burning question in many western countries and with sanctions, not perhaps hitting as hard as russia's economy as they may have hoped. what next? now the use top diplomat wants to donate into rushes, frozen foreign exchange reserves a method already used by the us with afghan funds in afghanistan. i would be very much in favor because it is full of logic. we have the money in our pocket and someone has to explain to me why it is good for the afghan money and not good for the russian money. if they did this,

that you would have access to hundreds of billions of dollars to use as they wish to now, under barrels plan, not money would be used to rebuild ukraine is sort of war compensation scheme, all reparations of sort without choice. other ideas muted include selling the seas, property of russian oligarchs. the u. s. is already pushing for this and the idea hasn't gain traction in brussels to personally, i'm absolutely convinced that it is extremely important to not only freeze assets, but also to make it possible to confiscate them to make them available for rebuilding the country. now he went on to say that he's already instructed the use legal team to find a way to make this possible, but he may come unstuck. some experts suggest, at least if he wants the you to continue to respect international law. suddenly it

is a threat that in this day and age where the rule of law and its national laws seem to have receded quite a lot, particularly or by the us and its allies, want us to take that thread seriously. however, it would be a dramatic departure from a so norms and standards and such. so perhaps piracy might spike alarming up at quotas. the u. m. b u. s. have fruit relations with some countries, not just russia idea that they could just know fees, but also in the funds would be a traumatic move. if china seas, this is us thing will hang on actually these europeans that americans are not trustworthy. they could just decide that we're now an enemy, and in fact, you know, we do find various statements from various politicians that seem to suggest such an idea. then china and also many of the countries could start to

withdraw their assets from. what essentially is the u. s. c of influence and that could precipitate a dramatic collapse in the use of the us dollar and also the euro. now such a decision could also back for, for the e. u. sanctions of course, can be challenged in court in you court and the book doesn't have a great record of winning such cases. ukraine's former president janet cove rich and egypt fuller. president mubarak both won sanction related lou seats against the new meaning the idea of spending rushes seized money could be just a lot of hot air show that even sky all t paris with 90 percent of the votes counted ferdinand marcos has taken the lead. the philippines presidential election,

he is the son of an ousted former president who had come to power more than 50 years ago. the elder ford and marcos was president for more than 2 decades from 1965 until he was deposed in 1986. for nearly a decade. he ruled under martial law until millions of filipinos rose up in protest against his government. now 3 decades later, the marcos family appears set to return to power with a margin of victory of over then 15000000 votes. the current election is of great interest to both china and the u. s. as washington struggles to maintain influence in manila to challenge beijing's authority in the indo pacific region, the philippines was long, a traditional military ally of the u. s. but 6 years ago, it shifted ties in china's favor and dramatically declared a separation from washington. once we can cross lives, joseph gregory mahoney,

a professor of politics and international relations at east china normal university . thanks for being with us here on our international so thank you. if we get right down to it, the analysts predict that marcos junior will win in a landslide. what's your opinion? is it too early to call? no, i think at this point it's clear that if you certainly are near certainly that marcos will win. now if marcos junior does win, what impact could that have on the country and the asia pacific region in general? well, you know, i think the high question of course is what are the implications with philippines relations with china. and on this matter, we've seen mixed signals from arkansas. he's indicated he favors continuing bilateral ism, which many interpret is a win for china. and so much that means manila and beijing will deal with each other directly and not through other organizations or international partners. primarily, it's largely assumed you'll continue the policies of outgoing president and turkey

given their political alliance, which includes to turn to his daughter, sarah, as marco's vice presidential running mate. marcos is acknowledged oper concerns of those of the military that the philippines should stand. tough with china on some points. but he's also sensitive to the popular desire not need for more economic cooperation with china. now, manila isn't naive, it knows china won't be the grand solution to its development needs, but it also knows that china is not a significant danger to philip and security if relations are manage well. so ultimately, i don't see marco's enthusiastically joining a sheet and things recent call for level security initiative, which raging has promoted as being led by china and starting in asia. but i also don't see him following the u. s. into a new cold war. and many will be too young to get the reference, but more than his mom's shoes, how much of his image as a politician has been shaped by his father's presidency? well i think that, you know, there's this clearly, so

a lot of people in the philippines who were victimized by that period. and we know that there is a lawsuit ongoing in the united states seeking compensation. that will continue to be a source of embarrassment and quite a number of people talking. so i've been horrified with the prospect of his election, but clearly an overwhelming majority. voters are happy to see the markets family returned the power. now do, terry was devices himself. so if he is aligned partially with due territory, why are some experts saying that this election is such an historic moment for the country? well, you know, i think the primary reason here is twofold. on the one hand, what we are seeing as a kind of a strange political alliance between the 2 families and the marcos family.

and if this proved durable then then who knows how long it will last, what sort of antiquity, whether will see marcos carry forward and then pass power to deter daughter or whether there will be some sort of factionalism whether or not certain tensions will erupt in this alliance, and whether or not philippines will, will fall into the polarization as we've seen in other countries recently. now, are you talking clearly? go ahead. yeah, go ahead. no, i was just gonna say, i think it's live tv. it happens sometimes. go ahead. i defer to you i think i think the main point is, you know, anytime we've had a change in elected officials, it offers an opportunity for unexpected outcomes and resets. and i think some in the us, we're hoping for that, but they know that that's not realistic. at this point, you touch on this a little bit further. i want to kind of go back to the philippines are often seen within the context of regional tensions between the us and china, east versus west. how could a new president change that situation?

well, you know, i don't think i don't think that we're going to see much change, at least not in the short term. clearly from what we're seeing from the candidates themselves. their initial concerns are looking at domestic issues within the philippines. they know that china is distracted right now. they know the united states is distracted right now, both with it or recovering from that or with the war and ukraine in the case united states. so from all the news that i'm saying they're focus right now on domestic affairs and trying to restart a number of major development projects in the philippines themselves in terms of the, the broader affairs, i think i've already touched. exactly. all right, joseph gregory mahoney, a professor of politics and international relations at east china normal university . you're the person we want to talk to when it comes to topics like this.

appreciate it. thanks. thank you. i now, amid the ukraine conflict, thousands of people have sought refuge in neighboring russia. that is, despite intimidation by the key government echoed in western mainstream media saying that move could be dangerous. we asked some of those refugees, how they feel about their new lives in russia. or is he going to start off comments? nothing good awaits you. in russia, the message sent to ordinary ukrainians couldn't have been clearer. i appeal to our citizens who are preparing for the evacuation. today. we have just received information that the occupiers may be trying to organize their own corridor for evacuation to russia. so please be careful and vigilant. do not succumb to deceit and provocation for the ukrainian troops. it was much better if they could mingle among civilians. dozens of witnesses have been describing how the zones battalion gives house trained neo nazis,

have been actively holding them hostage done when it, if we knew about the humanitarian corridors we knew about the evacuation, but they just didn't let us out since i think and they were hiding in a 73rd house in the basement on the 1st floor. who was hiding their group of not he's not, he's her. as off the cbo, they said maryville is a separate a city that we should have got what we deserved. well, sorry to little girl said the, this is my house as of militants burnt it when didn't ask, forces advanced, some did manage to escape key of control territories and the flea to rush up like a lorna here while she wasn't held back in ukraine at gunpoint like many, she says the authorities were deliberately keeping them in the dark about evacuation options. we arkansas until 2nd week, the when the conflict begin on february 24th, we did not leave until the last moment since they did not let us out. there was no vacation, and there was no information about evacuations. luckily, we did not understand that we could evacuate at all,

and then it became clear that there was an opportunity to move somewhere when some kind of communication was restored. him. we didn't have that communication at all before. i contacted a friend and she cried with joy that we were alive. so she took matters into her own hands and headed to russia. a place ukrainian major cools literally nothing else than more do itself. but she found something else there entirely. no ukrainian troops held them, but we did not see a single ukrainian volunteer. and the 1st aid we received was from the next volunteers. we didn't need help with evacuation. we arrived to the russian refugee center ourselves, volunteers medicine the border and offered us water and food, even our animals. and while there's no place like home alone, i can definitely see a future in the small russian port city. she is in right now. although i would like to return to see the city restored, i would return to normal life, but maybe here in talking to rogue, i can find something of value for myself and feel at home. i now wonder if i should

go back on that as a for me. i will be back in one say 30 minutes with another film. fresh look at your new say with such inflectional ah 77 years ago, fascism in europe was bank which the price paid for this victory was staggering. that experience remains part of russia's political and historical dna to this day. on this addition of the program, we discuss why fi fi day is honored in russia and largely forgotten in the west. ah, yeah, the sale of.