the russian red army is suffering. the consequences of this, he wants or really is going to demand that the allies, meaning primarily great britain and the united states, will open up a second front in europe to help his army in the east. that would draw some of hitler's forces from the eastern front and allow his army to gain some momentum, try to drive them out of their country. he wants a western front. another demand that he has or a consequence of this first demand is that when we actually do attack in europe, it's not actually in europe. that's not until 1944. american forces first go into battle in north africa. he doesn't like that at all. he wants a western european front. in his paranoid ways, he is thinking that we do this intentionally. we don't attack in western europe to help him in the east, we actually are attacking in north africa, which is very little of concern or help to him. he thinks we're doing this almost intentionally so that the nazi forces in russia could continue to wear down the russian for

the japanese red army attacked tel aviv's airport on may 30th, 1972. it was the first in a series of strikes committed by the group around the world. red army members staged the attack. 24 people were killed and 76 others wounded. two of the attackers blew themselves up, but okimoto was arrested and served a prison term in israel. he is now 64 years old. he lives in lebanon where authorities granted him political asylum. japanese police believe the a l asylum wasn't granted because palestinians consider him a hero for the attacks in israel. officials suspect they were involved in hijackings and embassy seizures. >>> japanese police are continuing their hunt with a full-time team of investigators. >>> the whistleblower at olympus has reached a settlement with the company over his dismissal. sources say the optical equipmentmaker will pay the former president 10 million pounds, more than $15 million. woodford said it's time for the company to move on and time for him to move on, too. >> in the interest of both parties, it has to be ratified by the main b

the russian red army is pushing the nazis out of their country. we are also in the planning stages of operation overload, d-day. all of this is happening by the time these guys meet in 1943. so it's a pretty friendly meeting. it's a cordial meeting. they are getting to know each other and exchanging pleasantries and telling jokes. it's sort of a very cordial atmosphere. roosevelt even commented, this guy stalin is not bad after all, thinking that, i can cooperate with him. we will be able to get along. so the pror progress of the war really dictates that this is a fairly pleasant meeting.progres really dictates that this is a fairly pleasant meeting.gress o really dictates that this is a fairly pleasant meeting. they want to figure out what peace will look like. one of the things that comes out of tehran is stalin is just operation loeover lord, this insisting this invasion on the western front, i have been asking for is going to happen, right? in exchange for that, stalin informs roosevelt that once hitler is defeated, his nation will declare war

included a grand parade in red square to another red army is i think at that six to seven years ago. and ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has moved to a hospital from her prison in a bid to address concerns over the treatment.

. >> former members of germany's infamous terrorist group the red army faction.after keeping silent for decades, heard testimony was awaited with great anticipation. but in her statement, she denied any involvement in the murder. she told the court she was in the middle east on the day of the attack. the son of the murder prosecutor was disappointed. -- the murder prosecutor was disappointed. >> i know nothing more about the incident. she should know the identities of the other people on the motorcycle. >> in april of 1977, he was shot in a red army faction attacked. six weeks later, police apprehended her. becker see it a life sentence for the -- received a life sentence for the shootout with police. years later, they discovered what they believe to be dna on a letter claiming responsibility. hence the current trial. her lawyer says she will not take the stand again. >> not to change days -- the city of manchester has another elite title to brag about. they won the english first division for the first time since 1968. there were riots in the streets as the team

they had no choice and they had to fire and use the red army and even then they couldn't draft anybodyhere because you live here in your people hide it in the forests and real peace forest brothers which appeared to live here in europe the first it was partisans against germans and only then part of them against soviet lately so so so what you're saying is that. it wasn't it wasn't just a voluntary groups fighting against the russian president ronald not want to live like regular may see trip to the circus so to do yours or you want me do you agree is a. first of all i am not sure on this number five hundred yeah because i know that just two it keeps of chutes months of police voluntary police unions who who are but this is a did and just not let this be that bad as it is acute as in killing of jews when those that seventy thousand led them jews out of the number of a lot of a killed in letter and is the same the same number of people of jews who were brought here from poland lithuania. first actions in the belarusian border and a lot of belarusian villages there liquidated and a man k

of the lead and the story it was fight and fight in the red army and they said no no the prop of thesoviet propaganda is prohibited in our economy right. there he even wanted to prohibit the the decorations the war decorations because they are the real stars are your thoughts you know that would you agree with vladimir that these people the vast and there said some veterans in the in your country that they have public support is that true. yes of course first of all about material support almost all all of these people have this status of repressed politically repressed persons persons repressed by criminals to dream since being in assist legion they have been punished after. world war and resist ages they receive a lot of subsidies from the state a lot of law and says vile zeus' who in soviet army have no state support no any. law and says and. just all claims to grant those being in the hitler coalitions up some states support was. subsidies submitted by opposition in parliament have been constantly refused. in what concerns moral support we know that just disease. sixteen so from

years on the front ranging from the black sea to the baltic from the volga all the way to berlin the red army turned the tide and pushed them all the way back until an armistice was eventually signed and it's that the marking of that achievement and both sacrifices that this is all about tom as you're talking to us we're also showing scenes of those fireworks over the skies of the russian capital of course other events and being taking place to commemorate the day and this display of course is marking the end of this very special day what else has been happening. yes indeed this is this is the finale as it were earlier on in the day here at red square there was a large military parade fourteen thousand troops marched through accompanied by more than tanks aircraft flying flags and nuclear missiles which were paraded through the camp. also veterans came out as well obviously all of this is designed to try and mimic what was what was done in one nine hundred forty five in the victory parade then the veterans were there then and there is a dwindling number of them now those that remember those d

during the war they went to see subzero temperatures in the arctic to deliver arms own food to the red army all in all four million tons of supplies were sent to the eastern front but as i have a bennett reports their epic effort has remained largely unrecognized until now. the worst journey in the world was how winston churchill described it ten day through hell the arctic convoys were a vital lifeline of supplies to the soviet union with britain's east an ally in the grip of a nazi onslaught that just nineteen john c. is was a gunner on board one ship braving fierce seas bitter cold and a treacherous route infested by german u. boats and never been spirited in the can you just imagine. wives come in that. there's a block of flats you just passed the wife say just picked us up picked us up just market or i just. bought perry bond we were fourteen thousand pretty heavy clark and you know we've been lifted out because you could hear the screws turn in at the wall. below and in the water this is the very ship john says his job was to man the end of the guns against the heavy enemy fire from a

sent horrifyingly to the very concentration prison camps that the allies, and in some cases, the red army had liberated it. of course, soviet officials wanted to stop word of these abuses from leaking out and those subjected to paranoia and depression end. the government he set up his anything but representative. in time, the way moskal rewarded the heroic patriots of the polish underground movement, who had fought the entire length of the war against the nazi occupation was by sending them to prison or indeed to their death. russia was a country, let us remember, that sent many of its old soldiers -- own soldiers to death, in case they had been influenced by the propaganda. churchill allowed them to right the wrongs, and it also prevented him from getting to know who truman, who he realized was the one person in the world whose actions could possibly prevent the spread of communism and prevent and avert a third world war. he believed if he could sit down and talk with stalin, which harry truman sitting alongside, he could gain the concessions needed to safeguard democracy. .. for whateve

back in the end of the world war ii, the soviet red army moved into and controlled much of east germany and surrounded berlin. the americans, the british and the french are going to have a presence there because we have to wind up the war and we have to have negotiations and have to have a demille tearization and have a presence in berlin. as a response to containment and as a response to everything truman was doing, what joseph stalin did was drive us out in the summer of 1948. what he is go going to do is cutoff all ground access into and out of west berlin. up until this point, you could freely and easily move from one sector to the other much of a problem or an issue. you show proper identification, you can cross from the american sector to the soviet seccor or back and forth. in june of 1948, stalin puts a stop to that. we are not building a wall yet. that comes later. what stalin will do is to put up a perimeter that separates east from west and around the exterior of west berlin. he is holding west berliners prisoners. nothing is coming in or going out. he is try stog starve west

it rode in on red army tanks. they were maintained in power by soviet bayonets. so nobody in east germany had a chance before the fall of the wall to vote on the government they really wanted. it is a very interesting thing and the german mentality, we go back a few years before east germany, adolf hitler through the years he grew power, many of his closest followers urged him to seize power. they said you have the men, you have the support, why not go through berlin and take you power. why are we going through these elections? and hitler always stood firm, he says when i get to power, i want to be legitimate. because when you have legitimacy, that gives you everything you need to do what you want. anyway, just a small digression. the origins of the wall. there's no doubt that east germany was the earliest and strongest advocate of a building of some barrier between east and west berlin. as early at 1952, he had mentioned to stalin his decision to put up something to stem the flow of refugees. stalin turned him down. he had other ideas at that time, but among tho

that tells you there's something more to the alliance than just the cold war or the red army. >> if there's an enduring presence in afghanistan, i think it's going to be relatively small, keeping a minimum force of troops there is going to run $12 to 15 in the year. that's going hard to justify in the coming years. >> what kind of footprint would it be? >> extremely small. even though the afghanys are welcoming and the iraqis are not, i think you'll see a small footprint. 5,000, 1500, probably not more than that. >>> up next, what the uso is doing for wounded troops. >>> since its founding in 1941, the uso, short for united service organizations, has been best known for helping organize shows for deployed deployed troops like the iconic performances by legendary comedian bob hope and supporting traveling servicemembers. today the uso is expanding its business to service family members and careers including caring for wounded warriors, helping the families of fallen troops and easing the transition to civilian life. joining me is sloan gibson, uso's ceo and president. sir, welcome. >> thank

so this is really difficult for you to comprehend, but back in the end of world war ii the soviet red army moved into and controlled much of east germany and surrounded berlin. the americans, the british, and the french are going to have a presence there simply because we have to wind up the war, we have to have negotiations, we have to have a demilitarization. we're going to have a presence in berlin. as a response to containment, as a response to everything that truman was doing, what joseph stalin did was to try to drive us out of berlin in the summer of 1948. what he's going to do is to cut off all ground access in to and out of west berlin. up until this point you could freely and easily move from one sector to the other without much of a problem or much of an issue. you show proper identification, you can simply cross from the american sector to the soviet sector, back and forth into different sectors. in june of '48 stalin puts a stop to that. now we're not building a wall yet. the berlin wall comes later. what stalin is going to do is to put up a perimeter that separates east from

the great patriotic war that is celebrations into the grand parade in red square to all of the red army's epic efforts sixty seven years ago. the greens former prime minister yulia tymoshenko has moved to hospital from the prison and a bit to address concerns of her treatment. so that brings you up to date for the moment. we'll be back with more on this story in half an hour from now in the meantime let's head to washington d.c. for the early on the show.

victory day last year or cooking eggs and bacon on kiev's eternal flame which commemorates fallen red army soldiers all the previous actions of ukraine's right wing radicals have been mostly acts of hooliganism they have rarely made headlines especially in the global media but with the euro twenty twelve football championship coming to ukraine some pundits in the west believe this is about to change reporter brian flynn from britain sun newspaper disguised himself as a right wing sympathizer to go undercover into a nationalist field cam in western ukraine his food a shows them firing weapons and using explosives this military wing of nationalists has what it takes to wreck some real haversack full in believes their destructive skills could be employed. quite soon with football hooligans being among those trained at the camp with the very clear about a number of of things that their ideology sort of points in the direction of one of them is is a belief that there should be no black players playing for european clubs as one of the generals told me it wouldn't it's not fair it should be engla

including grand parade in red square to on of the red army's epic efforts sixty seven years ago. a brand new russian passenger plane the sukhoi superjet one hundred. goes missing during a demonstration flight in indonesia with fifty people on board it dropped off the radar. as it may have crashed a search operation is underway. ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko was moved to a hospital from a prison to address concerns over her treatment he has already. pulled out in protest over his situation. more on those stories in full in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime his unit with the latest action from the world of sport. head over the next ten minutes including. a head to head in the europa league later tonight. remembering the russian football legend. to pay their respects to those who died during the second world war. and defending champion. opening. a challenging day on court. football first where we have a brand new name on the russian cup being left to celebrate their first ever triumph in the competition following victory over moscow after twelve months of a

we were shooting against the red army during the entire period. here in the united states, in 1919, there was a rising waive tide of violent and uphelve. there was a outbreak of race ray yachts, lynching, shooting, political clash, red flag parades. very violent parades. economy was in turmoil. inflation was out of control. millions of soldiers came home with no jobs. some 3 million workers went on strike that year, and there were general strikes in seattle and win pay. most of the leaders tended to be left-wing socialists. no excuses, no apologies. that's what they were. proud of it. at the time there was nothing illegal about it. there was nothing wrong. it. the head of the socialist party got over million votes of president running multiple times. a appropriate party. you might degree with them. they had the right to say what they want. most americans were the faces of the radicals were. they weren't just imgrants they were -- people who sproak strange languages with unpronounceable last names who lived together in big cities. joined clubs that

years on the front ranging from the black sea to the baltic from the volga all the way to berlin the red army turned the tide and pushed them all the way back until an armistice was eventually signed and it's the marking of that achievement and both sacrifices that this is all about early on in the day here at red square there was a large military parade fourteen thousand troops marched through accompanied by in modern times aircraft flying flags and nuclear missiles which were paraded through the capital that parade watched by president vladimir putin and prime minister dmitri medvedev those two having swaps jobs also veterans came out as well over. all of this is designed to try and mimic what was what was done in one nine hundred forty five in the victory parade then the veterans were there then and there is a dwindling number of them now both that remember those dark days firsthand and there was also the laying of a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier against the kremlin walls there's an awful lot of young people joining in the celebrations and you also see a lawful lot of these aro