Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
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I'm James Menendez.
I'm coming up later in the programme.
Well, black smoke again.
There is black smoke coming out of the Sistine Chapel.
That means that the two votes this morning have been unsuccessful.
Not finding somebody who commands a two-thirds majority.
So we are three votes now into the conclave and they've not yet got a Pope.
More from Mark Lohan in Rome in 15 minutes.
But we are going to begin today with events marking 80 years
since the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe.
After a conflagration that had lasted nearly six years and cost the lives of perhaps 15 or 20 million people in Europe alone,
May the 8th, 1945 was a day of exhausted relief for the Allies and celebrations.
Here's the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with the news that everyone in Britain had been waiting for.
Yesterday morning at 2.41 a.m. at General Eisenhower's headquarters, General Jodl,
the representative of the German high command and of Grand Admiral Dönitz,
the designated head of the German state, signed the act of unconditional surrender.
We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing.
Today is Victory in Europe Day.