Extended there is even talk of lockdowns happening into the summer here and the United States in the meantime were getting a lot of vitamin d. Were hanging out in the sun outside we have a new little image here and let us know if you like that but there is something that was in the news a remarkable screen grab from c. N. N. B. B. C. Jim cramer show mad money and it was the epitome of it was basically just one. Were interrupting that episode of the kaiser report to welcome you back to our studio here and moscow taking over for a bit from our colleagues at our 2 k. To cover the breaking news coming out of russia about that moscow 75th victory day parade on the 9th of may has been officially postponed has just been announced by Vladimir Putin at a Security Council meeting were going to take a listen to exactly what he did have to say. Technical difficulty were going to play that tack clip that we have from vladimir put that night in to me but i have these radicals who are going to be threatening were going to do anything he mean this is a liberation for our country and for each russian family has always been the most sacred and here to me so look to the many and i would like to address molded citizens of russia. It will be 70. 3 grade victory we have started preparing for a big bad in and babs. On federal level and on the regional level to hear from you know that the entire country is participating in a celebration of india to redate and will be home. Heroes who defended the country but who separate bias in their lives to save the lives of others the deep truths through my dad veterans that are sad the high moral or interview they defended in the balance in the barely begun and we must and then you wouldnt. Care for these failures and raise the next generation based on the spell that actually would have them we must remember what they fought for leisure. And are the fathers mothers our grandfathers and grandmothers and entire people they bought for the future of their country to see their Children Family us and you and the player who brought your community they fought against nazism for life at the National Anthem this is our main value and we must remember it the idea that. Its less than a month you and your bigotry day at work and we are facing a difficult choice of and the moment you. And the 9 made that sacred day for us and every life is priceless you are going to conduct and everything that you would if you can and we must prepare for the parade of the 9th of may right now. In the pandemic that hasnt reached its peak yet there are reasons are too high whatever we can and. Thats like i can scar preparations for the parade by another massive debt so thats why. I and the minister of defense were going there and he leaders saw the low in person day agency is in all the regional leaders in the movement to dispel the preparations for the military parade and direct work and her rates in the region that we do. Or the public and mass events seem that her plan to celebrate the 70 people and 1st street all the big ridicule going to the communion in this regard i would like to address milind said a lot of people will perk disciplines of all russian but the most with them if theyre immortal overengineer i share your feelings are you going to care as im walking in the same lines with you. All these years we have been protests abating in impressive one of a kind in the procession line i understand all of us have a 9th of may that is an important date and it will stay with us forever and yet meaning the guest in you to state can be counsellor it can be prosperity going grow not going to do this with a net average family of these d. People will be omitted to do better in the war and will do Everything Possible absolved of the veterans failing our support and our gratitude we can do we will do everything we can were going to as the 9th of may get a big piece here like all the. Zeer its not to unite our society our people and an entire country it will give us strength to overcome any difficulties. And it will make that thread that you are placing to retrieve the body and then holding all that land planned for the 9th of may and will encourage you only in solemn do you. Agree especially it will be done in the survey showed that this year where a student came in common recently here. And there will be main parade at the red square and the procession of the merkel regiment. For more on this we go live now to our Senior Correspondent now this is a huge event here and russia how significant is this postponement. Well its the 1st time this is happened in a quarter of a century since 995. 00 that the victory day parade. Be happening that its its been postponed. Unspecified date but leading up to this speculation had been rife with regards to the pandemic what would the authorities do what they. Would they go ahead but they somehow modified the public perhaps that to keep the stands empty but how have the parade happened anyway at the end. That the risks were just too great the pandemic risks that the situation that russia has gotten worse there are now 28000 people that have been confirmed to be infected with the quote a virus more than 200 people dead and obviously the president the president ial administration the government they they had a look at the situation and they decided that but it will be better. Irregardless of the fact that how important these specific especially this. Victory day parade is the 75th anniversary of the completed nation of nazi germany to the top of that midnight on the 9th of may in 95. 00. This is the Diamond Jubilee obviously its not middleton said that its a huge event for russians of political stripes is one of the one of the rare occasions where everybody comes together regardless of political inclinations and political affiliation because so Many Russians have lost relatives of those ancestors radom others during the 2nd world will because of the huge sacrifice that the u. S. Of the Russian Federation made which is incredible incredible for you know Good Government to have to make these tough decisions but as you said that there were. The celebration perhaps. Special but all Public Events have been. May be televised events that definitely will be speeches the silence of the. Media and the russians that lost their lives fighting the. Nevertheless the event itself the main event at the march of the regiment have been related they are now. We do not know when that later date is going to be at this point in time but thats something of course were all looking forward to understanding when thats going to be and when the situation is going to calm down president putin did make the point of saying that it should be done and this here now it is hard to get across the point to an International Audience how important this day is in russia i know that for myself ive covered a couple times and being a part of that immortal what regiment and seeing the massive response in the city is really something to see how do you think the people here in russia are going to react to this announcement story as theyve theyve reacted to things like this always this is something that. Remarked on during the speech what russia the u. S. Is and its citizens food food. Was the fuel that the food for the future of the children of liberty we are now fighting as well except this time it isnt the nazis this time its a pandemic it is a pandemic that is. The biggest crisis this country has faced since the 2nd world war and. There wouldnt be any widespread outrage about them postponing this event as a matter of fact i would say the russians understand the severity of the crisis. Is empty compared to what are these. The usual a problem like this today. At home there have been penalties introduced but the idea that this is an incredibly serious situation if his it is saturated public consciousness the people understand that the you know you this is the time to mess about why and about a parade being counseled on the red square that you know people will take this as something that is commonsense that is that is veterans groups had called for this to happen i mean there had been so much speculation that this was going to happen but the authorities left it obviously to the last moment given how important this how close are these to the hearts of ordinary russians almost every russian family has a relative who died in world war 2 i mean thats thats how thats how big this event is for russians many many people in the west simply simply are incapable of understanding from a historic perspective from a personal even perspective how how close it is to russian the russian hearts but never that this year theyve taken that theyve made the decision to postpone it for the safety of citizens but they they did remark they did stress during his speech Gladney Putin said that we will commemorate and we will pay whom which to the sacrifice of those who fought and died in world war 2. 00 on the 9th of may but without the parade. Exactly and we can only assume at this point that there will be some sort of celebration on the actual day itself given president putins comments to the effect that it does still need to be remembered better and still need to be you know appreciated for their service on that day and we do know that for a while now theyve already recommended that anyone over the age of 65 stay at home here in moscow as you said that the streets in the city are quite empty at this point but i do believe that this sort of announcement just 3 weeks just over 3 weeks before the may 9th celebrations are supposed to happen having this announcement that is being postponed really will drive home for people how serious the situation is and as you mentioned earlier on wednesday russian war veterans did also call for this event to go ahead and be postponed so do you think were going to see some support from them this announcement coming from president putin. Well obviously i mean no one in their right mind would say that millions of people marching through moscow you know including the immortal regiment hundreds upon hundreds of thousands as well as as well as military units thousands of troops with with armor all of them marching through the red square in the midst of a pandemic i dont think anyone would say that that that makes any sort of sense. The public the wide the moost of them i would say that there are of course not about everybody will google take this you know as the understand why this decision was made and obviously 3 the government the government didnt want to do this this is this is why they left it soon late it wanted to see how the situation with the pandemic would develop because in the early days in march for example the confirm the number of confirmed cases infections in russia was very low and there were hopes that we would follow in the footsteps of singapore for example which was south korea which initially after a small outbreak managed to sort of control the infection and limit the spread here were seeing unfortunately an increase day after day an increase in the number of cases like me putin himself said that the peak for russia the infection hasnt been reached yet it is still to come and frankly it would have been irresponsible completely irresponsible to let the parade the immortal the immortal regiment hundreds of thousands of civilians bearing the portraits of their grandfathers and their grandmothers grandmothers who died in world war 2 march shoulder to shoulder through the red square would have made absolutely no sense from from any perspective you know putting peoples lives in danger like that when you could very well to spoon the event of a laser to a safer days have it that. But again as you mentioned commemorate the event on the 9th of may so pay who mage remember the sacrifice and remember what the country had to have to guth through to maintain its independence to maintain. The ability to decide its own future ive got to mention here ive got to mention again how important the victory day parade festivities. For russians this is one of the few times where they couldnt regardless of political affiliation come together under a common bond and it is a joyous event it is a joyous event there are sober woods sober memories but it is a joyous event it is a celebration of their courage it is a celebration of the sacrifice what what has this have to guth route to make sure that we were free we were independent and still happen it will still happen but for now it will happen inside peoples home. Rod right now were showing pictures on the screens of the celebration from last year i know that you yourself have found yourself on red square just you know in the area during this parade can you tell us a little bit of how that feels you were talking about how theres so much respect and celebration and yes somber but theres a bit of a hard balance there that is found can you tell us a little bit of what its like being at the center of this celebration in the russian capital. Its overwhelming honestly its overwhelming perhaps ive had a privileged position during pos parades i was one of the towers one of the kremlin towers overlooking the red square for a number of years now and it is it is indescribable specially when the jets and the planes rue overhead just a few 100 meters above the red square and we up on the tower closest to it and it is honestly. The 1st half of the president s speech and then you have the the march the march by military units that the military vehicles parade over the best in the league of russias military hardware rolling down the red square as a symbol a symbol that the country if you know the government has anything to do with it the country will never ever have to go what it went through during the 2nd world war it will never have to make the sacrifice that it made fighting nazi germany that it made during world war 2 and it is about reassuring russian citizens russian people that you know we are now prepared whatever happens in the future if we are prepared and we will repel any invade that is at 1st at 1st that is something that completely swamps you the sheer magnitude last years parade was the largest by the way terms of military vehicles in terms of personnel involved and a new well meaning feeling of how ground use it its out how grabbing the entire affair is but that is in the sheen the next part is the much of the immortal regiment which is attracted hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people more every year for the past several years has. 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Arties Senior Correspondent more on gods way of staying across this breaking news for us now we do want to bring you a quick reminder at this point and thats that Vladimir Putin has postponed moscows 75th victory day parade on the 9th of may as well as other mass events to honor the victory over the nazi regime and thats due to the high risk still posed by the coronavirus pandemic the 75th anniversary of victory day parade has been much anticipated by russians and the veterans themselves of course some who are now in their ninetys or even older and some of them share their stories with us and the battle of stalingrad was one of the deadliest encounters in Human HistoryGerman Forces stormed the city in august 1902 and the conflict that followed claimed up to 2000000 lives as the battle dragged on through the winter the mark was forced to pull vast numbers of troops away from the western front to fight in style and grab and the eventual victory for the red army changed the entire direction of the war boris shop lunching called was one of the soldiers who defended the city and he shared his memories with us. 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Our minder of our breaking news here on R T International law to report has postponed moscows 75th a victory day parade on the 9th of may as well as other mass about us to honor the victory over the nazi regime as due to the high risk posed by the crown of our spend and this is what the president had to say. Were now facing a tough choice the 9th of may is a special day for us but the life of every Single Person is priceless too to hold the parade on the 9th of may we need to start rehearsals now but the risks posed by the epidemic as well as its peak which we havent posed yet still high thats why i cannot start the rehearsals for the parade and other public gatherings therefore i ordered to change the shed door and postpone the rehearsal for the military march on red square and postpone all other Mass Gatherings to celebrate 75 years since the great victory. Youre watching r. T. 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