we've got daniel hawkins a coast on off and jacqueline vega joining us now first let's go to daniel holkins than tell us what's in store. for licky as you rightly said russia has a lot of celebrations a lot of festivals from international labor day to women's day learned acquired is cherished revered and respected and indeed so personal as the ninth of may victory day celebrations on the parade here on red square almost every family in russia many of the other former soviet republics were affected somehow as you quite rightly said estimated twenty six twenty seven million citizens died in that great victory which the russians called the great patriotic war it's very much a personal festival for many here my great grandma for one was also a military surgeon and touring the battle of moscow one of the key of battles of the second world war as well everybody in russia has a family story going back a generation or two everybody has family members and sisters that made some sort of contribution here and not all comes to a head at this fantastic parade here on red square we do have many stories g

going to please you to use to program a preview of the video and that's cost our correspondent daniel holkins now he's right outside the kremlin daniel talk us through the impressive view would. be a good i could see you say he seems to be the loudest one i can barely hear you with the lace but it probably. is you can see bought me the color began travelling. head and body look at all so you sang stuff carrying this little red all red mist but i don't think. that's a lot of knowledge. but at least the sun spots all over. our yard believe. it. or it's like having. the same side but it. wasn't all. six up close to. the top. let me. find out it's not just a company talking to some alcoholics is leaving a. lot of blood to solve such. problems that face serious want to. lots of eating all of this all the updates coconuts this all. night to get going to get back to. nothing. much. thanks to that down as our correspondent daniel that is struggling to speak over the sound of those soviet tanks let's go sarees thursday seems a bit quieter way you are rory was happening now oh you could not be more wro

just enjoy the view that we have from this vantage point and check out and check out and i think daniel holkins my colleague will be meeting those tanks those vehicles on monday square as the rumble into the red square. here they come here they come now it is the big boys and that big boys. look at the current. diesel coming off these tanks that's the armada these are the big ones here we m.p.g. right that that's the terminator. the stuff of red square my feet the vibrations it makes you think there's some sort of seismic activity underneath the kremlin. my only question is how on earth does he parked i think. that's a thunderous. many of us have. but you can feel it through your politics. the two ninety five and that is as nato has come to call them i'm not one hundred percent sure whether you get this she has shards of these aircraft through you know a camera lens but they're enormous sometimes defy reason logic the things that the. back to the events of the war that changed the course of humanity the siege of leningrad leningrad apology city she's now st petersburg remains one of the most ho

enjoy the few that we have from this vantage point and check out and check out and i think daniel daniel holkins my colleague will be meeting those tank skills to be close on minish next whereas the rumble into the red square. here they come here they come now it is the big boys and that big toys. look at the plumes of diesel coming off these tanks that's the almost a piece of the back once a man beats a right that that's the terminator. the stones of red square my feet the vibrations it makes you think there's some sort of seismic activity underneath the kremlin. my only question is how on earth does he parked i think. it's a thunderous fooling i don't know if many of you it should be really focused but you could feel it through your party the red the gracious. the two ninety five and this thing is as nato has come to cool them and the one hundred percent sure. the you get this sheer size of these aircraft through you know a camera lens but they're enormously sometimes defies reason logic our the things that be. lost. to reflect camera shops one camera also caught an unusual scene on red square

president trump says he's going to decide next saturday whether or not to drop the agreement daniel holkins explains more tonight i'm here to tell you one thing iran lart the evidence well that lies in this filing cabinet allegedly thousands of documents and c.d.'s half a ton to be precise proven conclusively tehran misled the world about its nuclear plans both before and after the twenty fifteen agreement we've known for years that iran had a secret nuclear weapons program called project them out hailing this as a significant development and a great intelligence achievement that we all who was sure iran has one reason and one reason only to hide this information why would a terrorist regime hide. and meticulously catalogued in secret nuclear files is not to use them in a literary what other country would do such a thing some will remember netanyahu twenty twelve un speech and the cartoon bomb iran's foreign ministry has already called his presentation a propaganda show but the issue here is also a serious one since the onset netanyahu has been an ardent critic of the iran agreement so this

welcomes the weekly here at all to international law daniel holkins wherever you are today thanks for joining us this hour. north korea has taken a highly symbolic step on thursday pyongyang appeared to destroy its only no nuclear test site in front of the world's cameras he goes off was about a select group of journalists invited to witness the closing ceremonies. were in the beijing international airport and as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here goes to go to north korea and now we will be proceeding to check in to our flight. so you walk out of any airport what's the first thing you expect to see it's a bustling crowd people pushing and shoving it's a taxi drivers offering their often overpriced services well check this out nothing of this sort here it's just an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city. this is where i will be spending the next eleven hours or so my very own oriental express i guess to check out the room the first thing to notice about it is the windows the blinds are shot there is some sort of a seal and we're no

already out watching the very final preparations done in holkins a ghost town of ants jacqueline's we're going to join us now first to you daniel can you tell us what's in store. hi nicky good morning to you good morning to all of the viewers julian dad sitting in today for the night of my victory parade you've been here since morning seeing the final preparations taking place as you can see a number of tanks armored vehicles lined up behind me here every year there's new technology being showcased at the night of may victory parade ultimate a low as you said it's a very personal festival a very personal day for most people in russia every family was affected by the great patriotic war as it's known in russia every family has signs the cers family members who made some sort of contribution my great grandma was a military surgeon joined the battle of moscow many people here today the veterans the family members the serving personnel will also have stories of their own to tell we've been catching up with many veterans as well who tell of their stories one of them a woman who went to the front when she was just sixteen years old t