the band have travelled on the overnight train from st petersburg and are keen to see some of the moscowearth, home to 142 million people. and it's had a turbulent relationship with the west for a long time. for seven decades, it was a communist country, and russians had very little contact with people outside. communism ended in 1991, but adapting to a capitalist society has not been an easy transition. still now, fewer than a third of russians have a foreign passport and you don't have to look far to find negative stories about russia in the world's media. more is now known about the substance involved in the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. vladimir putin has been the political face of russia either as the president or prime minister for nearly 20 years, and that means for teenagers like katya, he's the only leader they've ever known. katya's day may onlyjust be starting, but forjoy, halfway through the school day, it's break time. i have school six days a week. i would love to do other things on saturdays of course because you'd love to have that break, b

may have changed to st petersburg the horrific memories still run . was. yes. me and my friend went to a store with food stash. there was a huge field and suddenly we saw a plane it dropped a bomb we were taught that if we see a bomb flying towards us you have to run in the direction of the bomb because that way it'll pass over you but we ran away we got away and kept walking and suddenly i realized i'd left her behind she walked towards a fence i came up to check on her realized she was hanging on the fence already dead my friend what could i do i was barely alive myself some people helped me carry her home a good thing we weren't too far away from home or work was. tied up with her and you know when my father died of hunger and we were going to bury him the weather was extremely cold it was about minus 36 or 38 degrees we owed thanks to our neighbor who constructed the casket for him and helped us to carry my father to the cemetery and the cemetery there was a chapel next to the chapel there was a pile of dead bodies higher than the chapel itself and every ti

leningrad known today as st petersburg was a main strategic targets for nazi germany and the fates they prepared for this beautiful city was still laid to waste by bohrman 8 and also starred in its almost 3000000 population to death the horror of the siege was hollow desk became routine when you walk down the street many remember it or rather try to forget you come across dead bodies carried on sledders all the time or dead bodies lying on the streets and at some point those a law they simply stop paying any attention to these horrific sights the appearance reads i remember the 1st time i saw a corpse on the street wrapped in some rags at 1st it was scary but then people got used to it and just walked by i can see the bodies were just randomly dumped in the street eventually they took them away. from kids their childhood was stolen by merciless war wrongs and hunger there was already too much for them there was something maybe even more terrifying as lack of food became too dramatic children as well as many adults often became a target for enough to germany for hungry people so the wors

st. petersburg, florida. wow. they call it saint pete's right? st.e, a nickname nobody has ever given me ever. now, here is the deal. hollywood has their awards shows, right? self-important -- [audience booing] they've got a lot of them. self-important types giving awards to other self-important types. big trophies given to actors who play heroes on tv. tonight we honor the real heroes. [applause] this is the oscars of what really matters. [ applause ] tonight we are honoring inspirational americans who didn't seek the spotlight and never expected to be recognized. everyday patriots who have donet exceptional things for our great nation, because america is the most free, most powerful, and most prosperous country in human history. [applause] amen. because of patriots of every generation who have been willing to step up in ways large and small to fight for her, the patriot awards will showcase powerful examples of patriotism that deserve to be celebrated. please join me now, we are trying real hard, in welcoming our first presenter of the night, count

st. petersburg, home of russia's tsars. this was the last home for nicholas and alexandra and their children. this particular kitchen, at one point, was feeding 2,000 people a day. according to ara records, among the kitchen staff was one of tsar nicholas' former chefs and various servants of the romanovs. the initial plan when the americans went over was to feed one million children. but they quickly realized that the scale of the famine was worse than anticipated. by december, they realize they would have to feed somewhere around 7 million. frank golder, one of the americans sent over was the first to explore the famine zones. he wrote that "the famine is beyond all imagination. it is the most heartbreaking situation i've ever seen. millions of people are doomed to die, and they are looking it calmly in the face. to see russia makes one wish that he were dead." these are the kinds of things that he and the other americans were seeing when they arrived. this is a photograph of a young refugee at a refugee camp in the samar

st. petersburg, putin's hometown.t the time you had soviet jews sharing the fate of non-jewish ofsians in the city leningrad. this is one of the sambol and symbolic moments that putin underscored these shared destinies in a way. you have the cultural side and a political angle with netanyahu and putin as welell. .nchor: behind you a warm hug emmanuel macron has been greeting the leaders attending. there is someone missing from one of those seats. another political dispute politically coming up, something potentially overshadowing the event. president zelenskiy, the ukrainian leader, potentially giving up his seat. he was invited but gave up his seat, offering it to holocaust survivors. in the background of this is a slight controversy about the number of actual holocaust survivors that have been invited . it is not considered to be a great number of people. the organizers of the event said we have reached out to everyone who was potentially interested. obviously, you have to take into account these are very old people

and russia is marking the 76th anniversary of the complete lifting of the siege of leningrad st petersburg as it is now called witness a 30 volley salute in commemoration a decades old tradition. is dedicated to the sea rose to defended the city people also gathered for the annual candle of memory campaign i mean candles reading poems and singing songs from that era the world war 2 blockade that one of the longest in modern history it lasted 872 days as a 1000000 people died mostly due to starvation. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook apps and their reports. and we're going to fulfill that promise is probably to the people i promise you know we've all bots beat you to the. basically. pretty. much. pretty good. now you want to 1st. know. all 5 the. big day. coming. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i actually don't think monopolies per se are the pr

place there as for the summit that will be a jewel in the crowd and it will take place in july in st petersburg and we are working hard to prepare for it. i look something like you. news correspondent. yesterday russia was blamed in the pacific asian of the world war 2 he's story. as is well known choir often their history is falsified by the bellatrix states and the saddest thing about the it says in traditional organisation are listening to them and as a result we have such documents is the. result that puts a blame on the soviet union and toward riot. break out of the world world war 2 and how do the world allowed leaves and how can russia defend and protect its interests with the well. the e.u. sees the rise of neo nazis that is a fact that we can't forcefully change the situation we can of course shame the you into doing something and that's what we do you learn the e.u. they well try to avert. that issue sometimes they say that the freedom of speech should be respected by everyone's good with yours but again the every year refrains from supporting our results on the. have nots isn't and a

and russia is marking the 76th anniversary of the complete lifting of the siege of leningrad st petersburg as it is now called witness a 30 volley salute in commemoration a decades old tradition is dedicated to the heroes who defended the city people also gathered for the annual candle of memory camping in lining candles reading poems and singing songs from that era the world war 2 a blockade at one of the longest in modern history it lasted 872 days more than a 1000000 people died mostly due to starvation. $106.00 people are confirmed dead from the corona virus which started a month ago in china thousands were infected though some have now recovered and all the virus has spread internationally and no one outside china has died from the outbreak the new strain of the virus has symptoms such as cough fever and the monia it's similar to the star's virus another respiratory disease which broke out in china 17 years ago before being contained and find just the corona virus is in its present form is less dangerous than sars we're going to back seen has already star . did the genetic code was id

dedicated to the besieged russian city of london grabbed during world war 2 now of course called st petersburg. russia leaders also set for talks with netanyahu on the escalating crisis in the middle east concerning iran will bring you some more live pictures of those leaders are rivals as and when they happen. meanwhile a poll conducted in the u.s. has shown a significant gap in the holocaust awareness especially among millennial. has more on that. from the ashes of the auschwitz concentration camp emerged to woods never again the echo through the generations as a warning in a few days when it comes from members day will be commemorated around the world the tragedy of $6000000.00 jews who were tortured gassed and burnt in concentration camps will be remembered but for how much longer according to me some for as many as 66 percent of millennia of cannot identify auschwitz and almost often cannot even name one concentration camp some don't even know what the holocaust was these be multiple cases of people disrespecting concentration camps with a sophie's something that's all people named and sh

st. petersburg, who had lost everything in the revolution. she had been reduced to selling matches on the streets to support her and her mother. she had been educated all over europe and spoke fluent english and french and was hired by the ara in petrograd to work in their office there. and it was in that office that a man by the name of jay reeves childs saw georgina, and it was love at first sight at least for him. i am not so sure about georg ina. childs is in the dark suit and hat in the right. he was from lynchburg, virginia. he went on to harvard and then fought in france in world war i. like many of the men who signed up for the ara, he went partially out of the desire for adventure. he felt the united states to boring after the war. he also had dreams of becoming a writer and thought the experience fighting the famine would provide him with a lot of great cereal. he was also a man motivated by assent of service by a sense of service to humanity. he had a certain sympathy for the revolution itself if you was a committed socialist. and

the same time he is a patriot and i think what is important is not which is friend he's not from st petersburg so there is a cliche. that he puts his friends everywhere it's simply not right you know he cares about his friends none of them was betrayed by him but where business is concerned you know makes the right appointments the effective appointments. iran's press t.v. u.k. channel has been blocked on you tube just hours after the initial was lifted. press t v u k youtube account taken down for a 2nd time without explanation after a 1st appeal showed no violations committed so is it a violation of whitey's terms to be an anti war and see racism and anti imperialism outlet as far from the 1st time prosody has faced the ban last month dougal blocked access to the outlets main channel on you tube 1st the 5th time it's happened to the video streaming platform since 2009 and it's left a press t.v. angered as it says no prior notification was given. when while the reigning government squalling for legal action against instagram solved the social media group removed posts supporting the assassina

time he is a parachute and i think what is important he is not which is frowned he's not from st petersburg so there is a cliche fortune that he puts his friends everywhere it's simply not right you know he cares about his friends none of them was betrayed by him but when business is concerned you know pollution makes the right appointments the effective appointments. and other headlines phase one of what's being called a historic trade deal has been hammered out after donald trump met with the chinese vice premier the recent could put an end to a damaging 2 year long economic dispute between the major powers reports from new york. well at the ceremony where the deal was signed launching phase one of the agreement donald trump was rather boastful about this accomplishment this is what he had to say today we take a momentous step one that has never been taken before with china toward a future of fair and reciprocal trade as we saw in phase one of the historic trade deal between the united states and china. together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic ju

and russia is marking the 76th anniversary of the complete lifting of the siege of leningrad st petersburg as it's now called witness a 30 volley salute in commemoration a decades old tradition is dedicated to the heroes who defended the city people also gathered for the annual candle of memory campaign lighting candles reading poems and singing songs from that era the world war 2 blockade of one of the longest in modern history a loss of 872 days more than a 1000000 people died mostly due to starvation. the deadly coronavirus continues to spread across china with the number of victims now more than 100 thousands have been infected and almost 50000 people are now being monitored the virus has moved worldwide with cases uncovered in countries including the u.s. and canada the new strain of the virus has symptoms such as cough fever and ammonia work on a vaccine has already started and the genetic code was identified last month millions of dollars have been invested in its research and scientists say that should allow production of a vaccine to start within months much faster than the usual

prime minister earlier dedicated a memorial in honor of the russian city of london god now called st petersburg the city in jordan $872.00 day siege by the nazis during world war 2 hundreds of thousands of people starved to death. tells us more about the expectations surrounding this holocaust forum. leaders from more than 45 countries are gathering here in jerusalem for israel's largest ever international conference the event however has been marred by kentucky a c.v. polish president is not yet you know instead he would not be attending often he learned that the russian president vladimir putin and other dignitaries were giving a talk and he was not this despite the fact that in the holocaust memorial one of the official organizers of the event said it had offered the president to speak at a separate event the polish prime minister in a scathing op ed accused russia of not being a liberator but rather being a perpetrator and collaborating with nazi germany now the russian foreign ministry has responded saying that this is a blatant lie the fact is that moscow in the way to both the camp of au

russia is marking the 76th anniversary of the complete lifting of the siege of leningrad st petersburg as it is now called witness a 30 avali salute in commemoration a decades old tradition is dedicated to the heroes who defended the city people also gathered for the annual candle of memory campaign not lighting candles reading poems and singing songs from that era the world war 2 blockade one of the longest in modern history class of 872 days more than a 1000000 people died mostly due to starvation. that's a global news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but we're not you know harvey will be taking over and about 30 minutes time thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. the day there's things. we dare to ask. during the great depression which you must remember that was most of my family were working. there wasn't it was bad you know much worse objectively day but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's a

a memorial in honor of the besieged russian city over leningrad during world war 2 now called st petersburg of course for me putin will be joined by heads of state from the 2nd world wars allied nations on will be the fost foreign need to give a speech off to israeli officials on the president of the european jewish congress the government says putin's address will focus on the red tommies liberation of auschwitz and the soviet union's contribution to the victory over nazis and of course the importance of not distorting historical facts through politics portishead tells us more about the exploitation surrounding the forum. well hosts its largest international forum there are more than $45.00 heads of state including the russian president the french president a cron at the same time versions of prince charles and the american vice president mike pence however the event has been somewhat laud by the disagreement between russia and poland polish president and of course our sources in poland has refused to come to this event because he was not given a speaking spot not yet holocaust memorial ha

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international and whether you're watching from st petersburg or in new york this is we're going to have you with us right 1st we're starting with some news that is just coming in multiple blasts have been reported near baghdad international airport the airport is said to be closed as of now with all flights suspended the rockets were apparently targeting a nearby military base local media says 12 iraqi servicemen have been injured in the attack of course our newsroom is keeping up on the situation and we will bring you more updates as the big come in. now donald trump thinks of foreign interference could complicate the situation in libya he raised his concerns during a call with president to one of turkey both leaders agreed to maintain diplomatic cooperation in the conflict this comes after the turkish parliament voted on thursday to back at the un recognized government in libya giving a green light to a troop deployment there and libya has been. in a state of war since protests in 2011 and the ousting of the country's leader moammar gadhafi i

he is not which is frowned he's not from st petersburg so there is a cliche. that he puts his friends everywhere it's simply not right you know he cares about his friends none of them was betrayed by him but when the business is the east concerned you know makes the right appointments the effective appointments you mentioned rather were. addressed to lawmakers today i was only part of the big news is the prime minister today because the political landscape is going to change somewhat that's what i wanted to ask you to what extent do you think these constitutional amendments are going to to alter that more power for the parliament is one what else do you see happening well though the western press more concentrated on the shifts on the shift of power from the president to the bottom of the parliament now will be able basically to choose the prime minister and the president will have to agree with the prime minister before it was certainly the president will do for the president and now the president still appoints of the prime minister can deal with have these

political ties russian president vladimir putin met with his counterpart in alexander last month in st petersburg you may recall to discuss its commitments to belarus and future agreements with melrose relies on russia for more than 80 percent of its overall energy needs and the country's 2 refineries were running on reserves up until this new agreement was reached which bill rose says will allow a nonstop operation of the country's refineries this month the russian pipeline on . trans national confirmed that it would transfer 133000 tons of oil to bellerose and the oil will come at a discounted price while negotiations for resuming regular imports between both countries continues now russia ceased its oil supply developers on december 31st when the 2 countries couldn't renegotiate you know oil prices for 2020 for the new year and on friday officials in the capital means going down snap the country was suspending its own oil exports which contribute to up to 20 percent of its and on g.d.p. before this short term deal was agreed upon so this was definitely a crisis situation for bellerose appears